An image of two blocks of butter, side by side on a counter in New Zealand. The butter on the left is a pale cream colour and bears the mark of a US import to New Zealand. The butter on the right is a dandelion yellow colour and is Pams (plain packaged) made from non-imported ingredients.

Terrible butter or good butter? Because that makes a huge difference as well, See below (the pale stuff being the terrible butter)

That's how it's aways been though (Source: having been single, childless, and poor most of my adult life). If you aim a tax break at couples with kids, in theory that should help out the most amount of people. Amazingly, this Government has also avoided doing that.

til, after 20 odd years, you can heal your water elemental in classic WoW with your own frostbolt on a mage >.>

I just saw someone refer (unintentionally) to Simeon Brown as the "Miniature of Health" and I had a good chuckle at that >.>

Forget the Nexus Torment, this is The Goose That Laid The Golden Eggs made real.

I miss old school capitalists that realised it made more money (and sense) to take small amounts of money from people over their entire lifetimes.

As opposed to the new ultra capitalists that seem incapable of thinking long term.

Modern WoW is like a point and click adventure outside of dungeons. I never have to worry about mana and the burst damage on my mage is crazy compared with Classic,

It is the year 2076. The sky is dark with the onset of another- oil storm. I have finally saved up the six million X-Dogers I need to buy a second hand GoogleMetaBook, so I can get back on the Interweb and bathe in the light of a million ads for fremium AI agents to do all my browsing for me.

In the same way that Fallout Shelter is on Steam I would assume.

I think the only way the AI bubble will burst now is when people finally realise that they can't afford an entry level phone for less than $1000. No point to AI anything if no one can afford a device to access it with.

It's super "amusing" that the prices jump so quickly, but then we're told they go down slowly because there are months of lead time in converting oil to petroleum.

Windows 14 rumored to have a free trial with no limit on playtime all the way up to level 70, including the award winning expansions "Heavensward" and "Stormblood," sources say.

Despite the Windows 12 "news" being an AI scraped hallucination of a speculative article elsewhere, I'm now annoyed I didn't get to use the term "sloperating system" more. Oh well, I guess the year is still young.

I guess one of the advantages of not playing for 5 years and running entirely solo is that I don't feel the need to get home and immediately jump on and play the WoW: Midnight expac.

There are literally 100s of quests I haven't done, so no rush.

Week 2 of being unable to use my WoW transfer to move original Baneus back to Kel'thuzad.

I always have to double check my spelling when logging tickets for "dock issues" >.>

Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think

Honestly, even though it's pretty easy to set up these days, I'm at the "I can't be arsed working on my own gear" stage of my IT career.

The first major egregious thing Microsoft did in the modern era was the creation of the Quick access menu.

People unable to find a file after it gets pushed from the quick access list accounts for a good portion of support requests.

“Did you know that the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV has a free trial, and includes the entirety of A Realm Reborn AND the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 with no restrictions on playtime?” Copypasta with a little Avatar of me pointing to it and saying “I will draw your characters from it!” With examples of @DIYFerret’s bunny boy Athven for Headshots, Busts, and Full Bodies priced at $30, $75, and $100

Hello all, my big fat stupid motorcycle that I love has racked up a $2000 vet bill, but since FanFest season is rapidly approaching I figure I can cushion a bit of the blow by perhaps doing art for folks looking to get stickers & stuff made, I set up a commissions page over at ko-fi.com/coelasquid

I read one a while back that didn't follow the person who left the party. It followed the fall of the original party, and their redemption. Though they weren't terrible people, just concerned that the weakest party member would be hurt. And bad at coordinating themselves. I think it got axed.

I will go to my grave screaming about how Pennywise being a clown hits completely different for anyone under 40 or 50, because the original intent was that Pennywise LOOKED HARMLESS, because “IT” predates scary clowns, & if the story were modern, Pennywise would manifest as a ninja turtle or Luffy

Looking forward to the mysterious increase in VPN use in Australia.

Brainrot is simply a formal name for everything the Internet has always been. We were always going here.

Just like starving to death while working for a supermarket chain is the ultimate end state of capitalism.

Time to roll back to self hosted forums >.>

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

As Promised:

part 1

Least functional kitchen ever !

Cybertruck stuck nearly vertically on a utility pole's support wire

nose down ass up
that's the way we cyberstuck

I get that. There are so many games I'll never touch because a bunch of people made them their entire identity.

Low bid contractors. Who'll end up costing twice as much as hey do in hiring "savings". Because this Government is completely incapable (or unwilling) of learning from the past.