I've written a bot for Lemmy before. You can see it on !dailygames@lemmy.zip if you're interested. I agree completely re the messaging being as nonthreatening as possible.

TIL the ANCAP safety rating of a car isn't a global thing.

Anyway, here it means anarcho-capitalist. Libertarianism taken to the extreme. Zero government, just businesses, rich people, and private hired security imposing whatever they want on anyone who can't afford to stop them.

Hi!

Also, in response to Nath’s advice, I’m considering if the group name should change to Overseas Tidings, yes because of the pun, but admittedly I didn’t even know that word so I won’t go forth with that unless there’s community backing.

I actually don't know how much that will help. I think the problem comes from the fact that its ID is !worldnews, and no change to the display name can change that.

But I do kinda like the implications of it. The dictionary says tidings just means news, but at least to me it feels like it connotes a greater degree of relevance than "news" alone does. Like "what tidings do you bring‽" seems like a request for "what news that is relevant for me to know?"

Rare?

Dang. Shame.

Arthur Dent was obviously not a Brisbanite.

G'day!

I found out the problem. My plan was supposed to renew today but I hadn't updated to my new card. They decided to tell me that this had caused an issue by text at 8am, 30 mins after I left home and started encountering the problem, and presumably more like 8 hours after the problem started…

Anyway, all resolved now.

You get 2.5x pay, at least?

Eek, I've got no mobile data this morning. No idea why, my plan isn't anywhere near used up. Now relying on QR wifi for my commute. Which I'm pretty sure gives you like 10 MB before it cuts you off for the day.

It's cos a significant majority of the population is on the east coast. 50% in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne alone, before you add the rest of those states. So for economic reasons, it's convenient for the central states to be a bit closer in time to the eastern states.

Or could it be that bone preserves better than textiles?