Play Nice Random Chat Thread VII

[Hojuman]

$14,700 in my ATO account apparently.

Gotta love scammers.

 

[blackshadow]

$14,700 in my ATO account apparently.

Gotta love scammers.

I love that you have an ATO account

 

[goalieboy82]

Scamper from this morning...

 

[por_please_ya]

5021 now.

Race to find quake survivors – as it happened

At least 5,894 people have died in Turkey while 2,032 have died in Syria; WHO officials warn the total could be as high as 20,000

www.theguardian.com

Tip of the iceberg unfortunately. Some of the towns levelled have excess of 300,000 people living in them. This is going to be worse than the 1999 Izmit earthquake.
I have a Turkish friend who lives in Samsun on the Black Sea coast. He said it's the worst thing he's ever experienced as a Turkish citizen. He's fortunate he didn't know anyone personally from the area, but friends of friends do (someone's parents from Hatay, haven't heard a word and they're assuming they're dead and buried). Rescue efforts have been too slow. Govt too slow. Roads destroyed, airports ripped up. Bitter winter with snow. No food or water. People will die of exposure if they didn't die before.

This Turkish-American Youtuber did a great video about the situation and explained why it was so bad. He talks about the poor infrastructure ('poor infrastructure kills people, not the quake') criticises the Govt for their slowness and not deploying the military to help, how the Govt have lined their pockets with funds that should have gone to creating quake-proof structures... it's unbelievable the scale of corruption. Officials are DOWNPLAYING how many people have died... There's an election looming and Erdoğan might lose and he's probably afraid of that happening. My Turkish mate was saying now the Govt has restricted Twitter access which thousands of people were using to try and get rescuers to help find them as they are buried under the rubble. What kind of country DOES that to their people?

 

[giantroo]

Tip of the iceberg unfortunately. Some of the towns levelled have excess of 300,000 people living in them. This is going to be worse than the 1999 Izmit earthquake.
I have a Turkish friend who lives in Samsun on the Black Sea coast. He said it's the worst thing he's ever experienced as a Turkish citizen. He's fortunate he didn't know anyone personally from the area, but friends of friends do (someone's parents from Hatay, haven't heard a word and they're assuming they're dead and buried). Rescue efforts have been too slow. Govt too slow. Roads destroyed, airports ripped up. Bitter winter with snow. No food or water. People will die of exposure if they didn't die before.

This Turkish-American Youtuber did a great video about the situation and explained why it was so bad. He talks about the poor infrastructure ('poor infrastructure kills people, not the quake') criticises the Govt for their slowness and not deploying the military to help, how the Govt have lined their pockets with funds that should have gone to creating quake-proof structures... it's unbelievable the scale of corruption. Officials are DOWNPLAYING how many people have died... There's an election looming and Erdoğan might lose and he's probably afraid of that happening. My Turkish mate was saying now the Govt has restricted Twitter access which thousands of people were using to try and get rescuers to help find them as they are buried under the rubble. What kind of country DOES that to their people?

Yep, it's very sad. My mate has relatives helping at the moment. We've sent some funds through him and they've managed to buy some jackhammers and generators. They've pulled out 9 bodies already.

 

[giantroo]

The main highway between Hatay and Aleppo

https://www.facebook. com/reel/1255258455201051?s=yWDuG2&fs=e&mibextid=Nif5oz

 

[por_please_ya]

Lol I just realised I am on the North board, I was searching for people talking about the earthquake and assumed this was GD haha...
My partner is a North supporter so I guess I am a North fan by extension

 

[por_please_ya]

I just created a thread about it btw, in the GD forum

Asia - Turkey-Syria earthquake Feb 2023

Couldn't find a thread about this and people might like to share their thoughts and talk about it. I know the Turkish community in Melbourne is huge. Also apparently 4 Australians are unaccounted for in the region. Some of the towns levelled have excess of 300,000 people living in them. This is...

www.bigfooty.com

 

[Ligma]

Lol I just realised I am on the North board, I was searching for people talking about the earthquake and assumed this was GD haha...
My partner is a North supporter so I guess I am a North fan by extension

Porps you are welcome here!!!

 

[por_please_ya]

Porps you are welcome here!!!

Thank you friend

 

[giantroo]

Family of Sydney man feared dead in Türkiye-Syria earthquake travel to disaster zone

The nephew of Can Pahali has travelled to the disaster zone in the hopes of returning with the body of his uncle killed in the catastrophic earthquake.

www.abc.net.au

 

[Val Keating]

 

[Val Keating]

I don’t know if it’s just me or the lack of suppression, but since Musk took over twitter my algorithm has taken a hard turn right.

 

[Makeshift Park]

I don’t know if it’s just me or the lack of suppression, but since Musk took over twitter my algorithm has taken a hard turn right.

I find twitter's native algorithm unusable, so if I really need to go on that platform I just use tweetdeck, which at least gives you a decent level of control over how stuff appears.

 

[Val Keating]

I find twitter's native algorithm unusable, so if I really need to go on that platform I just use tweetdeck, which at least gives you a decent level of control over how stuff appears.

What’s tweetdeck?

 

[Makeshift Park]

What’s tweetdeck?

twitter but with added controls over how stuff is presented. you create columns with categories of stuff you're interested in. it orders the tweets by reverse chronological order by default, but there are more controls if you need them.

for example (not mine)

 

[Val Keating]

twitter but with added controls over how stuff is presented. you create columns with categories of stuff you're interested in. it orders the tweets by reverse chronological order by default, but there are more controls if you need them.

for example (not mine)

I’ll have a muck around with the settings. I only use it on my phone.

At the moment almost every tweet I see that isn’t from anyone I actually follow leans right, when it used to be left.

I don’t know if that’s because they have changed anything or if it’s from me… what I’m clicking on.

 

[Makeshift Park]

I’ll have a muck around with the settings. I only use it on my phone.

At the moment almost every tweet I see that isn’t from anyone I actually follow leans right, when it used to be left.

I don’t know if that’s because they have changed anything or if it’s from me… what I’m clicking on.

Yeah could be a bit from column a and a bit from column b, but no doubt Elon's ****ed it

 

[Val Keating]

Yeah could be a bit from column a and a bit from column b, but no doubt Elon's ****ed it

It’s terrible. I hope they fix it up quick.

 

[Dan]

*en hell, when it rains it pours.

Past, present & emerging

 

[Val Keating]

Past, present & emerging

Please tell me you’re not hinting that there’s more to come?

 

[Val Keating]

That’s a lotta Charlie

NZ authorities find more than half a billion dollars' worth of cocaine found floating in the ocean

New Zealand authorities have found 3.2 tonnes of cocaine floating in the Pacific Ocean, with the drugs beli...

www.9news.com.au

The cops are definitely on top right now. That has to be tied to some of the heads going down recently, not suggesting it’s them flapping.

I know the cops did that phone app thing and tricked people into believing they could message freely and not get tracked but that got busted ages ago. No one throws that much money in the ocean, it’s not the 80’s when they’d do that from planes and then everyone races to pick them up in speed boats….least I don’t think they still do that.

 

[Dan]

Please tell me you’re not hinting that there’s more to come?

I Hope not

 

[giantroo]

Our spam problem could be 90 million texts worse

Getting a lot of spam texts? It could be worse – Australian telcos blocked more than 90 million suspected scam texts in just over half a year, the communications regulator reveals.

www.abc.net.au

 

[blackshadow]

Our spam problem could be 90 million texts worse

Getting a lot of spam texts? It could be worse – Australian telcos blocked more than 90 million suspected scam texts in just over half a year, the communications regulator reveals.

www.abc.net.au

I’d estimate I block an average of 2 spam callers/texts per day