Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Omg thanks for linking that thread. The amount of removed and deleted content on Lemmy is so frustrating. I hate the fact that removed or deleted posts also completely nuke all the comments on it.

    Reddit’s approach is so much better in this respect. A removed post removed the OP’s text, but if it’s a link post the link remains, and all the comments remain.




  • Comments from the original post on !australia@aussie.zone:

    there have been a series of lies from our Lord Mayor and his council over this. Starting by blaming the pedestrian path closure on ex-cyclone Alfred, and then saying they needed a couple of days for inspections before it could be opened. We know now that the closure had nothing to do with Alfred, and was in fact damage that they’ve known about since at least 2016.

    We haven’t been given any timeline for when it will reopen, so our best guess is not until next year.

    they claim it’s impossible to close a lane because one lane wouldn’t be wide enough, so they would need two. If that were true, then fine; the answer is to do that, close two lanes. There’d still be 4 for cars. But it’s not true. In fact, while the pedestrian paths on the bridge are wider than what would be left of one lane after water-filled safety barriers are installed, the paths on the on-ramps up to the bridge are already narrower than that.

    they lied to the press and public by claiming the protests are linked to the Greens, that they’re related to Extinction Rebellion, and that they’re illegal. None are true. Every protest has gone through the accepted process of declaring intent. Instead, BCC & QPS have wasted their resources fighting the protests in court with multiple expensive Silks, against the self-repped organisers. And they lie, inventing nonsensical security risks, in order to get the court to block the protest.

    (the protest pictured here is a different one to the one that BCC and QPS lied to get blocked. A weekend march through the CBD streets that make up the official detour. Instead of the originally-planned peak-hour block of the Story Bridge)

    For context, “silks” is a term used by lawyers in Australia to refer to experienced barristers who can command the highest prices.



  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSheeple
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    6 days ago

    fyi you can put alt text on an image by putting it between the square brackets

    ![alt text here](url here)

    Might not be a great option for long and detailed alt texts describing all the text in a comic, but for something simple like this it’s much more convenient for people with screen readers.








  • Bit of a misleading title, considering the majority of the article deals with Brisbane’s 50 cent (i.e., very cheap, but not free) fares, and other examples include “free only on Friday” (i.e., the day work from home is most popular) and “free only for children”. Still, the system rolled out in Queensland is an extremely welcome one. Everyone benefits from it. No complications around “do you qualify, do you have proof of qualification” or needing to plan your trips around limited locations or times the cheap fare applies. Just a blanket, easily-affordable option.

    Some context that people might find interesting. The trial was begun about 2 months before an election, in a desperate attempt to win back votes from the centrist party who was flailing in the polls with a right-wing party about to win. It didn’t work, but the trial was so successful and popular, the right-wing party had no choice but to keep it. A delicious turnaround from the last time the right-wing party was in power in Queensland (2013–2016), when they rolled out a system that required you to carry three different cards with you to get the student discount on the extremely expensive public transport. Your Go Card as proof of payment. Your student ID to prove you were a student. And your “Tertiary Transport Concession Card” or TTCC to…further prove that you’re a student, I guess? Universities were forced to create systems to verify students when applying for a TTCC. To this day I genuinely have no idea what purpose the TTCC was supposed to fulfil other than to increase the rate at which they could fine students.




  • Zagorath@aussie.zonetomemes@lemmy.worldNo arguments here
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    10 days ago

    drawing a square in thr corner doesn’t make it 90°

    No, it doesn’t, but it does mean that, for the purposes of your 6th grade geometry question, you can assume the angle is a right angle. Even if it visible looks like 45°, if they put a square there, that’s 90.

    More to the point though, a radius of a circle always meets the circumference at 90 degrees. All the squares in this problem are doing is telling you “this line, if it were continued, would be the radius of the incomplete circle”.