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Cake day: December 9th, 2023
  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldtoAustralia@aussie.zone•Australia Post parcel lockers are eligible to be installed in private apartment/office complexes!English
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    2 days ago

    Mandate parcel locker interoperability,

    or dO iT liKe FiNlanD dOes:

    • In my building, there are lockers from Company 1, who prefers placing them inside. Nice.
    • In front of a building 40 meters away, lockers from Company 2, who prefers the outside. Okay, more people have access, but sometimes it rains there. Such a short distance between lockers seems redundant.
    • Not all shops I order from use Company 1 that I prefer most of the year, when it’s wet and/or cold and/or icy slipping hazard.
    • When I order using Company 3, 4, or 5, and I’m not home receiving, neither locker is used and I’ll have to fetch the parcel from the nearest branch or locker of Company 3, 4, or 5. This is stupid. I wanted to pay a dime to Company 1 locker for receiving the parcel and holding it for a few hours. That’s impossible in this lack of a system.
    • Walking outside, I see many lockers in different Company colours not matched to the buildings they obscure.
    • You have to install each Company app to receive a parcel. To declutter your phone, you need a folder to hold all the parcel receiving apps. Each locker opens differently, you can’t remember exactly how, so you fumble with the various apps and doors year after year.
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    Similarly, when ordering a taxi: Which app or phone number for the nearest taxi? Nobody knows.

    Similarly, when trying to find a shared-use e-scooter or e-bike: Which app for the nearest wheels? Nobody knows.

    Similarly, when ordering food: Which app for the quickest-delivered gluten-free, milk-free, egg-free meal? Nobody knows, and the apps probably don’t even have the filters, because who has time for that when you have to develop 15 redundant apps doing the same job poorly.

    Free market economy - isn’t it great!

  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?English
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    2 days ago

    My bank’s mutual fund let me buy and sell at yesterday’s price, so every time the stock market went up, I bought, and when it went down, I sold. I talked to a teller about it, wondering how much money the mutual fund rule designer had pumped out of the bank by then. They quickly changed the rule into a non-insane form: today’s price.

    I should have just shut up and kept pumping money out of the idiot bank, but I was young and stupid. The bank was in the game, the bank was fair game.

  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldtoWikipedia@lemmy.world•Stinky tofuEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I ate lots of deep fried mild beige stinky tofu in Taiwan, like the one pictured in the thumbnail. Once I had a meal with a bit of old grey stinky tofu - the smell of summer garbage was disturbing. Try the slightly aged mild beige stuff first.

    While we’re at it, try a translucent thousand year egg too, preferably as part of a dessert. Not bad, just weird.

  • Tehdastehdas@lemmy.worldtoLemmy.World Announcements@lemmy.world•Moderation Policy Change - Respectful DissentEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Let’s say every community allows one lunatic post. It’s downvoted to hell and thoroughly refuted in the comments.

    Every time someone tries to say the same thing again under a different post, the comment gets a reply “[lunatic opinion] was refuted under [lunatic post link] - you may comment there” and then the stray lunatic comment is removed. Only the reply stays to inform other lunatics. Other comments saying the same lunatic opinion again are removed, because the canonical reply linking the canonical lunatic post is already in the comments. All discussion about the lunatic opinion will be contained under the canonical lunatic post.

    Would this work?