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  • The palace papers revealed the royals knew and had discussed the possibility on a handful of occasions well before the sacking, even going so far as to discuss preemptively that the monarch would not wish to take the advice of the prime minister in replacing the governor general “If such an approach was made you may be sure that The Queen would take most unkindly to it” as written by her personal secretary.

    Further, the vice regal is an extension of the regal. Nek minnit you’re gonna say, oh the US president only ordered drone strikes, it was actually the drone operators who did the killing!

    Monarchy being non-political my arse. And this isn’t the only time the royals have been seen to favour the conservatives. No surprise there of course, there is no struggle other than the class struggle.

    Fuck the Queen, fuck the monarchy, fuck the conservatives for withholding supply, and fuck the governor general.

    (Not fuck you, though, even if you do like the royals)



  • Remember in Australia, if you’re persistent enough, you could get this replaced under Australian Consumer Law, if something breaks in an unreasonable amount of time (outside of warranty, even). Considering fridges can easily last for 10 years, anything well within that should be fairly easy (but require many, many emails and threatening to taken them to your local small claims) to get replaced.

    That is if you can do without a fridge in the meantime 😅

    This is not legal advice.





  • It’s the M/D/Y that sneaks up on me as someone from the rest of the world.

    Whenever you’re in the first 12 days of the month, you just don’t know :/

    At least with feet and inches I’m quickly prompted to fix it.

    Although sometimes, in all the developers wisdom that the only place in the world is the USA, you can’t change it.




  • The drawbacks are many and the benefits are few.

    Watching foreign films would be a pain, where is this in the world again, what does 19:00 mean for them? More exposition, or you just have to guess based on languag and accent.

    I need this work done by our team in XYZ country, what are their working hours? (wow, look at that, still using timezones?)

    When you arrive somewhere on holiday, now you have to get a sense of the time there. Or continually be thinking “what’s that in my home time?/what’s that in solar time”, which is why solar time just makes more sense.

    People aren’t going to stop thinking in solar time, ever. We’re hard-wired to be awake with the sun. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are, you will associate them with the sun. The question then becomes, would we rather all use roughly the same numbers (timezones, what we currently have), or different numbers (everyone using UTC).

    Using UTC solves only 1 problem, you can say verbally to someone across the world, let’s make the meeting 15:00 - but this is already easily solved by using a calendar which converts for you…

    There’s a reason we have never used a single non-solar time, it’s just worse and I think there’s a reason these posts always end up on programmer focused places on the internet. Yes, I’m sure their job is annoying, and it would be easier to not have to solve time conversion problems, but the time conversion problems wouldn’t even go away if you forced everyone to use UTC. You’d just start having to do conversions to solar time, or looking up waking hours (which is just timezones)

    This is a solved problem.






  • MisterFrog@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzPSI
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    The rest of the world would like a word. Do you really think only you people in the US exist?

    Also the equivalent for psi is Pa (=N/m²), usually as kPa or bar (100 kPa).

    Most people don’t really understand either to a great extent, and are just familiar with one or the other.

    As always though, metric wins because of its interoperability with all the other metric units.