Second most taught foreign language in European secondary schools
  • blendedracer blendedracer 9mo ago 100%

    Glad I read the small print note BEFORE I posted my original comment!!

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  • You teleport into the last game world you played. What happens next?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Press F for all those swimming around Planet 4546B

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  • Have any of you found Kindle unlimited worth it for science fiction?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    If you like Space Opera, try the Kris Longknife series (starting with Kris Longknife: Mutineer) and the Aeon 14 books by M D Cooper (starting with The Complete Intrepid Saga) - all of which are on Kindle. Also on Kindle: Columbus Day (Expeditionary Force Book 1) All books in the series John Ringo's Empire of Man series starting with March Upcountry

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  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    As someone whose eye sight is shit, websites with grey text on an off-white page piss me right off.

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    British Cusine Rule
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    We (Aussies from Melbourne) tried to find decent Chinese food in England and gave up. Most of it was worse than Australian Chinese from the 1970's! The Indian and Turkish restaurants however, were amazing.

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  • What's your favorite spaceship?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Yay! The Nostromo finally gets a mention. The attention to detail in the ship is amazing and a whole new set of warning symbols were designed for it.

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  • Daniel Andrews resigns as premier of Victoria
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Lurch doesn't look happy that her favourite punching bag will soon be off limits!

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  • Don't ask
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    And the Kenyans. The English developed concentration camps in South African and used them in Kenya during the Mau Mau rebellion.

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  • Seriously, though. How often do you think of the Roman Empire?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Pullo and Vorenus were great characters!

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  • Daily Discussion Thread: Sun 24 Sep 2023
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Maybe . . . just maybe, if neo-nazi's are coming out to support your side of the debate . . . you might actually be one of the baddies.

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  • Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 80%

    Oh No! . . . . . . . . Anyway!

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  • how is Lemmy going for you?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 85%

    Lemmy is great. Altho now it's full of Linus apologists so it sucks atm. Also Memmy is fantastic!

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  • Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    I migrated from Digg to Reddit in Dec 2009. I've gone through several accounts since then. I've deleted the most recent accounts and have tried to delete the older ones - although Reddit won't let me delete one account for some reason (delete keeps failing). I joined the Aussie Zone Lemmy instance and love it here. One thing I think redditfugees need to remember is that Lemmy instances are not ad supported, so WE NEED TO FINANCIALLY SUPPORT OUR HOME INSTANCES!

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  • ‘Project 2025’: plan to dismantle US climate policy for next Republican president
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Those clowns want a return to the dark ages. Theocracy with indentured workers and total control over people’s thoughts and actions.

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  • With seemingly at least one new app announced per day....
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Very happy to see this was added!!

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  • FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies, lawsuit says
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    Let me guess, his 'ubermensch' plans involve him impregnating young women gag

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  • Aussie Zone 2023/07/23 Usage still growing but slowing. 539 Active users in the last month
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 92%

    I'm part of that Jun/Jul bump, as I, along with many others fled the tyranny of Reddit during the aborted mod protests! One thing I'm starting to understand is that most (all?) Lemmy instances are self-funded and are supported by donations and not ad revenue. I think that users need to get into the mindset of supporting their home instance financially.

    • Lodion posted the costs involved in running this instance here. Call it A$60/month (which will cover the 'at this point' yearly costs as well). If more people join this instance then the hardware and storage costs could increase significantly (from Lodion's post).
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  • What app is so useful, you can’t believe it’s free?
  • blendedracer blendedracer 1y ago 100%

    QGIS (https://qgis.org/en/site/). A Free and Open Source Geographic Information System. There are also free basemaps available - I use the same basemaps as I use at work in ArcGIS Pro.

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  • Like Gotye and Kimbra sang: Reddit is "someone that I used to know"! Browsing Lemmy, with some subscribed Kbin magazines, fills that need and I haven't thought about going and checking out Reddit at all. The one subreddit I still do miss is r/BORU - the (probably fake) stories with updates was great reading! Thanks Lemmy (and Kbin).

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    I've tried signing into Memmy using: - Server: aussie.zone - Username: @blendedracer (as shows on my profile page) - Password: blah blah And it throws an error, saying it "couldn't_find_that_user-name_or_email". Should I be formatting the server and/or username differently?

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    Another bloody myGov scam

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