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@Heterokromia@aus.social
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Few discernible talents, bionic eyes, one with unusual iris (ibid).
I like weird people, especially the nice ones.
I block when you post unattributed LLM generated material.
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Joined November 08, 2022
Save the planet:
Fluids, stat!:
Gigadeath's bad:
Home:
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"suggested up to 50,000 solar panels may enter landfill by 2030, equating to around 1 million tonnes of waste."
In an article riddled with misinformation and opinion this bit irked me hardest. Mathsing it up, that "equating to" means each panel weighs 20 tonnes. I don't know what kind of panels the ABC is buying, but they're not the kind I have.
Proselytizing for the #Greens I met a man who believes that many people are on the dole and are happy. "They get 6,7 or more family members on it, all share a house and live well doing nothing."
I asked where he had seen this, and he said he had worked for a job seeker provider, and it was "common".
I said I had never met anyone happy to be living on the dole.
He said "you need to get out more"
Have you ever met someone
Proselytizing for the #Greens I met a man who believes that many people are on the dole and are happy. "They get 6,7 or more family members on it, all share a house and live well doing nothing." I asked where he had seen this, and he said he had worked for a job seeker provider, and it was "common"
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@dramypsyd@ohai.social when you get to 51 and discover you're not in your prime as you'd blythely hoped to be.
Damn you 17 year olds.
I remember reading Peter Mason's Cauchu, the weeping wood: a history of rubber, years ago.
Belgium, slavery, environmental destruction. Then there's my drug, coffee - Indonesian and Vietnamese invasion, slavery and ecocide.
It is chocolate today:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-03/chocolate-industry-child-labour-in-ghana-despite-promises/106970782
Everything we do, everything we don't do, affects others. Your freedom, your comfort? You get it by harming others.
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@emmadavidson
Gah yes yes and more yes.
I am amazed that, ever since Hezbollah pagers exploded, that all security-minded professionals didn't get the message: If you carry *any* piece of radio receiving or transmitting gear, you become a target.
I am *boggled* that managers of security people did not immediately suspend all gear other than those units that had been forensically disassembled to guarantee the absence of transmitter and receiver.
Apart from the Kafka of it (which you have to adore, really) there's a massive bucket of omnishambles incompetence too.
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@kentparkstreet1@mastodon.online he has not apologized for supporting killing Iranians. Only said "you've killed enough of them now".
I have personal experience with a compulsive liar, #fantasist, shyster, fabulist ... whatever term you prefer. He can tell me it is 3pm and I'll ignore it completely until I see a clock.
It helps to look only, determinedly, solely at what such people DO, not at all what they SAY they're doing..
The correct reporting is:
The President appeared at a press conference and said words.
Not:
The #President said "winkle purtle foo Iran blurk dorb Melania many people say flibbert pling"
"I am pleased to hear the president and the first lady, along with all attendees at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, are safe," Albanese said in a statement.
To misquote a far far better Labor PM:
#Australia; just shoelaces dangling out America's arsehole.
#Albo, you dummy, 85% of Australians hate #trump. Of those, few care how he leaves office. In a box? Yeah whatevs. Stick to your "not going to give a running commentary of the president" rather than race for the orange chocolate starfish.
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@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz I do not know, yet.
I'd love a masto gut ecologist to teach me all about it. Google is not my friend on this one (and more generally of course, more and more)
#microbiome #archaea #inOurTime #statins
My trip back from the shop is:
1km flat village roads. 50kph SAFEISH
4km flatish highway. 100kmph DANGEROUS
1.5km hard climb 160m limit 80kph NOT-SO-SAFE
1.6km flat limit 80kmph low-traffic SAFEISH
0.8km dirt road climb 60m SAFE
I have been looking and looking for something that will do the job, not get me dead, and be less than the default answer: 'a car'.
So far, I have 'a wheelbarrow, and your legs, and four hours unpleasant walking beside a 100kmph highway'
There is surely a better answer?
I restarted #foomuuri, it kept logging that it was banning addresses - on and on and on, one or two per second. All of them in the ssh jail. I've not really set it up well, just out-of-the box settings. I don't run a homneypot, nor a bank. It's just me, some photos and the bullshit I do for work.
I wonder how many devices are out there trying standard passwords all day, every day?
People; get a hobby, go outside. Anything that is as neutrally harmless as you can manage. Anything.
Frinstance, today I looked at some wrens and a pair of eagles, and picked up some rubbish and put it in the bin. No-one was harmed.
Trying ssh credentials? #yeahnah.
#Trump versus the #Pope.
A compulsive liar vs a delusionist. One believing in a god, the other believing he is god.
What a world.
But, the plot of this reality is a bit threadbare.
Please can someone send me streaming deets for #Godzilla vs #Kong? If I am going to indulge in fictional battles, then I deserve good animation.
Oooh, good point, there's #Alien vs #Predator too. That's a valid candidate.
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@brianbilston yes. Just yes.
And tell your Mum - thanks for the holibobs.
(No, I have no idea what an holibob is.
Sounds like an intestinal parasite, but I don't know if we get them in Australia.)
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@MrAndrewD Yes, it has been 'corrected' in that the most egregious fantasy maths has been removed. Still uncorrected is the absence of context.
An edit of the 'story' would yield:
We throw away megatonnes of stuff. Solar panels are, and will be, a teeny-weeny part of that waste.
The ABC apologises for previously publishing a beat-up that misrepresented this fact. It was meaningless drivel, propaganda, or both. We are disciplining the staff involved, and have removed their access to press releases and AI.
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@warkolm Rush of blood to the head. I regretted it almost straight away. I was hoping for some kind of ironic 'Straya!' vibe, but oh well, regrets expand to fill the time since the mistake. Sorry all. Ignore that one.
With 'feta' on the block, what new name should #Australians use for a white soft sheep / goat milk cheese, stored in briney solution, that's good in a frittata and a rocket salad?
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@joannejacobs@aus.social I've not seen the ringtail possum carbocoma mini danishes one before. It is WONDERFUL.
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@stephenfry@mastodonapp.uk
I'm hoping it is an Ogdenism.
Amid the mastodonic wassail,
I caught the eye of one small fossil.
Cheer up, sad world, he said,
and winked.
It’s kind of fun to be
extinct.
I'd happily be in a wassail, never tried that before....
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@mjd@mathstodon.xyz @johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz Very definitely archaea != bacteria.
I fart incessantly and voluminously, thank Husqvarna be it silently though.
Same before and since statins. I'm completely in the dark about the pros and cons of the situation.
N = 1 uncontrolled citation free anecdata
See your doctor for professional yaddayadda
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@NickSchwanck There a new free trade deal with the EU. I was going to post a link to an article, but nothing in-depth has passed me by yet.
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@ejstacey I'd go there. At least once, like I'd go to Disneyland. Probably best to do it alone to maintain plausible deniability.
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net Right. I think I understand. I speculate this js something like:
- Taking advantage, pushing, mangling, understanding, systems - is a talent.
- Doing it makes me feel better than the system, or better than those others falling into that system.
- Feeling that way is fun, so
- I am happy.
Did your friend ever really get to 4. though? Or was it a nett sadness?
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@MercG You'd be "a dangerous radical who's peddling grievance politics, typical of the Greens political party".
Why do you ask?
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@cyclicautomata These #dumbfucks honestly believe they've invented the 'transaction'.
They almost certainly also believe they invented #sex when they were teenagers. #Wheels will be next, for sure, or maybe #fire?
They probably smoke the data? I don't know. I am beyond caring. Physical cluestick applications are required.
#DoThingTakePayment
With so many men behaving badly, choosing a boy's name can be, well fraught, to say the least. I like these ones, but can't quite decide. Your fave?
Prof Sam Lawler pointed me to this.
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations”
I'd liken it to tetra-ethyl lead, (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraethyllead) it is doing harm the moment it starts, making everyone who breathes stupider.
At least with asbestos, you can leave it alone and it stays put. LLMs seem far more self-exciting self-combusting.
Pluralistic gave us "enshittification" (IRC).
I like "stupidation" for this one.
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@BobDendry@masto.fediverse.games Peculiar, at the least. I wonder to what end, do you think? I am struggling on understanding their motivation.
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz Orgone energy dome
Obvs, OK boomer.
https://youtu.be/j_QLzthSkfM?si=zMUKJBlip7kYbHIt
Devo - Whip It (Official Music Video) | Warner Vault
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Oh god. I should have added 5. NO, do not paint over the electrical contacts, no, do not paint over the card reader. Actually, I regret mentioning the paint. It was a mistake. Don't do that, you can't be trusted with tech.
Back at #lifebloodau for plasmaphoretic fun!
In Our Time on Archaea.
Did you know that #statins, (thanks yes, I'll have mine now) kill #methanogenic #archaea in your gut?
Who knew:
That there are methanogenic archaea?
That archaea live in you as well as on mid ocean vents and in madsalty Lake Eyre?
That statins kill them while leaving eukaryotic beasties unharmed?
I am amazed.
And, does anyone know what my gut will do now without its farty archaea? Do I need them? Are they helpers, freeloaders or baddies?
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@KiwiEV@mastodon.nz has taken the gumboots choice between the two available NZ footwears. Safety conscious. She'll go for that.
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@gleick@mas.to "because apparently the universe was running low on irony and needed to top up." cannot read through the tears. Incredible writing.