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9 October 2020
Happy Burnout to Me
We're all familiar with the concept of burnout - the emotional, mental, and physical exhaustion we feel when we've been under prolonged stress. And now scientists have predicted when it's most likely to hit you. When you feel overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to meet the demands being made of you, you're likely facing burnout. According to a new study, it's most likely to happen to you at age 32, reports Metro UK. A UK study commissioned by The Office Group found that this age group, who form 50 per cent of the British workforce, are experiencing burnout triggered by the second economic recession they've faced in their adult lifetime. There's a number of reasons why people in their early thirties are feeling so stressed and exhausted - whether that's working longer hours from home, not being able to separate work from personal life, or dealing with an increasingly uncertain and competitive job market. Those under 30 are also experiencing higher stress levels, with 59 per cent of Gen Z workers also feeling the strain of "always on" working culture, according to the study. Nearly half of those surveyed have quit their job due to stress, and 29 per cent of them said they would take unpaid leave if faced with burnout. And I wouldn’t blame them. 2020 has already been a dumpster fire, both figuratively with the COVID-1984 plandemic and the current wave of election-year race riots (the latter of which started over a US$20 bill believed to be counterfeit), and literally with wildfires in Australia and in California. We still have 3 months to go, and if you’re on the verge of burnout, you should quit and join my quest to turn it around.
The Swapping of X and O
Sony confirmed PlayStation 5's DualSense controllers in Japan will be different than former generations since they're changing the action and cancel button to match its global model. Although PlayStation traditionally used the circle button as the action button in Japan since its 1994 original console, they no longer want to support making a controller specific to one region. "The decision was made to avoid different button settings across countries, as well as easing the burden for developers," a Sony spokesperson recently said, as reported by Kotaku. Japan's PlayStation controllers uniquely used the circle button as the action button, unlike the rest of the globe that uses the X button as the action button. The reason for this button change initially was due to a cultural difference to what the circle symbol represents. In Japan, the circle symbol or "maru means ok or correct" whereas the X symbol or "batsu botan" translates to "no" or "not available," leading Japan gamers to see the X button as one that means cancel and the circle as one which means accept, as explained by Kotaku. After the announcement, early feedback from Japanese gamers was mixed, with some gamers being happy to have some clarity when they play non-Japanese games and others being upset by having to reframe how they've always played games on the PlayStation console. I’m not from Japan, though, so this doesn’t really concern me.
6 October 2020
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3 October 2020
Bread, to be unsure, to be unsure
Ireland’s Supreme Court has ruled that bread sold by the fast food chain Subway contains so much sugar that it cannot be legally defined as bread. The ruling came in a tax dispute brought by Bookfinders Ltd., an Irish Subway franchisee, which argued that some of its takeaway products – including teas, coffees, and heated sandwiches – were not liable for value-added tax. A panel of judges rejected the appeal on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT), ruling that the bread sold by Subway contains too much sugar to be categorised as a “staple food,” which is not taxed. “There is no dispute that the bread supplied by Subway in its heated sandwiches has a sugar content of 10 per cent of the weight of the flour included in the dough, and thus exceeds the 2 per cent specified,” the judgement read. They could always reduce the sugar content - after all, Subway is supposed to be a healthy option. But they probably won’t because doing so would alter the taste of the product and this would not go over well with customers.
1 October 2020
GaN they pull the stacking game off?
Hyper, a gadget maker known best for its small and ultra-fast gallium nitride (GaN) chargers under the HyperJuice brand, is back on Kickstarter with a new plug that’s even more impressive than its last: a stackable GaN charger that can support an eye-popping 1600W of passthrough power. This follows Hyper’s first 100W GaN charger released via Kickstarter last fall and made available for purchase back in July. The charger, which comes in a 65W option with three plugs (two USB-C and one USB-A) and a 100W option with four plugs (three USB-C and one USB-A), has a built-in plug of its own rated at 1500W, so the charger can be plugged into a second unit to multiply the passthrough power available and double the ports. (Or in the event you just don’t want to lose an outlet.) Hyper says you can actually stack 16 of the 100W model on top of one another for a max of 1600W, 48 USB-C ports, and 16 USB-A ports. But think about this for a minute: are you sure you want to piggyback 16 plugs into one socket? I’m not saying not to do it but just be careful because it’s bad enough they have power boards with multiple plugs in them where all the appliances have to share one socket and risk drawing too much current (the maximum load on a socket can vary from 10-16 amps depending on where you live). I think 16 piggybacked outlets is just asking for trouble.
30 September 2020
Have yourselves an isolated Christmas
And that’s something I hope the All Blacks don’t end up doing due to the actions of our September 2020 inductees to the Sick Phoque Club, Rugby Australia. New Zealand Rugby is fuming after last week’s announcement of the Rugby Championship schedule that has the All Blacks playing their last match in Australia on Saturday, December 12, which is a change from original planning. The last scheduled clash against the Wallabies means players and staff will be stuck in 14-day managed isolation over Christmas, a situation NZR were hoping to avoid. This shit has been going on in trans-Tasman sport since Trevor Chappell bowled underarm in 1981, and unless NZR take a stand, then this bullying on the part of the green and gold will just continue. I would be more than happy to just forfeit the last game to get the boys home for Christmas if it comes to that.
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25 September 2020
Plenty of water, yeah I got it
The accoutrements required for examining fossilised tardigrades include healthy fpssehidins, a gigantic tank, and plenty of dihydrogen monoxide.
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5 September 2020
Cluck-up over expiry dates
Pak’n Save in Dunedin is recalling a specific batch of its Pak’n Save brand Skinless Chicken Breast Fillet (Brinks – Cage Free) as the product has an incorrect best-before date on its label. The Ministry of Primary Industries announced the recall at lunchtime yesterday. The product had been labelled with a best-before date of October 13 instead of September 3. The affected product should not be eaten, MPI said.
It was only sold at Pak’n Save Dunedin and had not been exported. Customers were asked to check the date marking on the label. There had been no reports of associated illness; however, anyone who had consumed any of the chicken and had any health concerns should seek medical advice. Customers should return the product to Pak’n Save Dunedin for a full refund, but as long as it’s in the freezer, it should be OK. An incorrect expiry date doesn’t always mean it’s bad.
2 September 2020
Further development in the name change saga
OK so you can’t just put brackets in your screen name but you can put down an alternate name and have it displayed at the top alongside the name you use on Facebook.
Oh, and be sure to follow me on Twitter as I’m the only trusted source of vaccine information!
We got one hell of a Sick Phoque for the Club
This month, it’s Kellyanne Conway. Early this month, her daughter Claudia had claimed that her mother recently had her ‘arrested for fake assault charges’ during a live video on her TikTok page, before insisting that she now needs a lawyer. The video is no longer available to view on the 15-year-old’s TikTok page, but one viewer of the reported live stream tweeted details allegedly shared by Claudia in the video – a post the teen later retweeted.
‘Claudia Conway just went live on tiktok and talked about how her mother has physically and emotionally abused her for years and had her arrested for fake assault charges a few weeks ago.......someone get this girl emancipated STAT,’ the post shared by Claudia read.
In the first post, titled ‘Story Time’, Claudia acts out her apparent arrest in a musical parody, with one caption in the clip reading ‘sing the lyrics or we arrest your daughter for something she didn’t do.’ Claudia, impersonating her mother, refuses to sing the lyrics and her daughter is taken away.
The second video shows the teen smiling in bed with subtitles displayed about her head reading: ‘Kellyanne just called me and said I’m putting her life in danger by speaking out and how I’m gonna get arrested again for making “false allegations”.’
A third video appears to show Claudia lying in bed crying. While the song ‘Bulletproof’ plays in the background, text appears on the video that reads, ‘You think you can hurt my feelings? lol my mom is Kellyanne Conway.’
The series of short clips were followed by a post uploaded to Twitter, in which Claudia asked her 175,000 followers, ‘How do I get in touch with pro bono lawyers.’ When quizzed by one respondent about what type of lawyer she needed, Claudia responded, ‘Family [lawyer]’.
I hope that bitch loses her kids and never gets to see them again.
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