Here's how you measure whether the card really has that much value:

1. Victim claims on insurance for card.
2. Insurance pays out $8,000.

What does the victim now do? If he doesn't replace his card, but instead buys himself a nice overseas holiday or a second hand car it similar, we know the card isn't really worth $8,000.

Personally, I'd be surprised if he spent the $8,000 on a replacement card.

Ooh! Thanks for reminding me. The school was calling for sausage volunteers on Saturday and I forgot to reply.

To make matters worse: blokes are totally oblivious to it all. I wouldn't notice or care what makeup you had on (or didn't) so long as you are happy.

As a suburban footy game, it's likely pretty separated from school. They also don't really get too embarrassed at that age.

I'd be super embarrassed as a parent though. Imagine caring that much over your six year old's footy game. At that age, they literally hand kids the ball in front of the goal and tell them to have a kick. There's no score, there's no stakes. Girls and boys play together and it's all very cute. Watching the mass of kids running around after the ball is like what 30 cats chasing a laser pointer looks like. All chase and no real idea of what to do if you actually catch it.

Same here. That's how I managed to completely miss that she was now in her 70's until she was literally in front of me.

Ran into Pauline Hanson this morning. She's aged, which I suppose stands to reason. I just hadn't considered that she's 70, now. She's clearly dying her hair bright red these days. I hope she does that for herself and not from some unspoken need to fit a certain look for women in politics. Men are allowed to age and go grey. Parliament is not Hollywood.

Yep. With the generous help from the admin at lemmy.ca sharing his code, I implemented a few layers of defense that blocked the bulk of the DMs. It got to the point where the spam would just be an image (because of our spam filters). That was harder to block and I'm still not sure I managed it, but the DMs have stopped.

Does CBA not add a virtual card to the phone's wallet? I don't need to actually open my bank's app to make a purchase swiping my phone. I only need to unlock the phone (and you can configure it to make small purchases with the phone locked if you like).

It's been a good week now since I have had to deal with any people receiving DM spam. I don't want to jinx it, but we may have weathered that particular storm.

Does he hear himself? I thought this bloke used to be a cop?

Imagine hearing "I have grave concerns about the conduct of the magistrate's court. I would welcome a fugitive I've never met to my home and not turn him over to the authorities".

I'd sound like a criminal. Because at that point I would be. Australia is a signatory to the ICC. We are bound by its rulings.

Peter Dutton's misgivings are irrelevant. Either the world can take Australia at its word when it comes to treaties or it can't. It would not go well for us as a nation if we told the world that we no longer honour our treaties when our (possible) PM doesn't feel like it.

I loved this teeny bit: "best of Howard"

Mr Howard is remembered for three things:

1. Getting rid of guns.
2. Introducing the GST.
3. Tampa/children overboard.

And I nearly said "two things", as 1 & 2 are far bigger points; though you could argue that 3 had a lasting impact on Australian politics and outright lying to the faces of Australians being permitted.

I am curious as to what this MAGA-Lite group thinks is "the best of Howard", because I don't think that means what they think it means.

That headline is backwards. The Leeuwin was moored. It did not collide with anything.

I don't know how on earth I missed this when it happened. My family has roots in Freo; people in my family have lived there for over a century.

Somehow nobody spoke of the incident. It should have been a talking point for at least a week.

Ok that picture is wonderful.

Let me guess: it did fine for a few years until everyone had tried it once?

Now I'm torn between wanting to get it once before it closes to see what it is like and just not because apparently it is crap.

On reddit's military forum, there are stories there of some ANZAC day memorial services themselves were excluding modern veterans, claiming the day isn't about them.

As the son of a Vietnam vet, and grandson of an OG Anzac, I say that's the stupidest take I've ever heard. And I've heard people say Anzac day is dumb for glorifying war.

Imagine if WWII vets were excluded because they were never a part of the original Anzac campaign? It's unfathomable. There has never been an exclusion of any veterans in the Anzac movement. Even post Vietnam when returning vets were unpopular, they were a part of Anzac marches (it was controversial at first because it was a very unpopular war).

I'm in a cast. This sucks. Only silver lining is I get tomorrow off. Imagine getting a 5-day medical certificate, but four of those days are public holidays already. 😢

I agree with your first statement, but disagree with the rest. I am not their target market. I enjoy playing their games, but primarily because I am spending time with the kids as I do. Not many of their games are targeted to my demographic.

I disagree that they focus only on digital. Every single Nintendo game comes out on a physical chip. And sales on digital copies are rare and minor (30% off maybe). It is often cheaper to get a physical copy on sale cheaper than digital. And you can then sell it / buy it second-hand. I've read that with Switch 2, even the digital codes can be transferred to a new owner. Nintendo for all their faults have never forced you to lock in a digital library you can never resell.

The problem is the standard apps are just that - standard. I can hop onto any Redhat, Debian or Solaris 10 box at work and use ls, cat etc.

If I went all-in on some bespoke alternatives on my special snowflake machine, I'd constantly be going nuts entering incorrect commands on remote machines and losing efficiency. Then, I'd go back to just using the standard commands everywhere.

I bought it second hand. Nintendo got $0 from the sale. In fact, two thirds of our physical games have been purchased second hand.