NaevaTheRat

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

How many actually will vs how many innocents you just abandon. Like how many people actually presented to doctors or hospital after getting vaxxed, missed work etc.

I think this fear of other human beings behaving in ways you probably would never dream of, nor would you expect of almost everyone you know, is misguided.

Society can afford a few mooches if it's the price of helping the needy. We support an entire class of mooches with stuff like CGT discounting and that doesn't help anyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I agree, part of keeping trust in collective health measures is trusting people when they say they are hurt by them and trying to help.

These people did a prosocial and sensible thing, they got hurt in freak accidents, they deserve respect and compassion.

 

Interesting and rather tragic.

The part about supressing the cause of death was especially gutwrenching. Silencing hurt people out of fear of encouraging nutters is a horrible thing to do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

CSIRO hastening the trend in culture by explicitly making us a nation of fart huffers.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

she's living up to the paramedic tradition of being completely awesome and down to earth.

 

Sure looks like the sort of life-or-death scenario that possibly justifies deploying a torture device from that cctv footage.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

I’ve not made the time to get all up in my fungals, but i know a lot more understanding is coming out. Whats the deal?

So I might be wrong here, I have no formal training in the carbon cycle and am not nor have ever been a biologist but I was under the impression that coal basically no longer can be made as it comes from a time before lignin (the stuff what makes plants woody) could be broken down by organisms. Now, barring unusual geological events, plants die and fall into the soil where the vast majority of their substance is metabolised by fungi which use it for energy emitting co2 in the process.

So if you take some area and forest it, there is now a mass of carbon bound into plant stuff, but since it reaches a steady state quickly it isn't really sequestering any after that. This is why carbon capture is sort of a farce, as captured carbon in its ideal form is coal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I'm actually curious, given that forests don't actually fix carbon anymore (yay fungi) is there any amortised effect on co2 levels? or just a peak then increased uptake during regrowth.

Of course, smoke is bad

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The sluiced fragments (some of) hairtie for scale.

Not practical, but I want a tiny 3d printed chest of gem rough so for now I'm collecting it all.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Uh tiny fragments of zircon and saph I haven't sorted yet. A single flec of gold and a metric tonne of magnetite.

Gonna dry the cons and strip out the magnetite and look for more gold, it's not an area where you expect it though. This was the sand from classifying a few buckets for sapphire. Photo of sieve finds attached, the sluice found similar stuff but smaller.

 

There's uselessly tiny gem fragments in them thar ancient alluvial gravel beds.

Model is bought from: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/gold-sluice-box-v2-modular-expandible-included-4-mats-classifier although easy enough to design yourself. It works great though and the price is fair if you do want one.

Sluice body is petg, mats are tpu as I thought it would make cleaning easier. TBH petg would probably be a better candidate as long as you did a high contrast material. The flex doesn't add much as it's short sections that fit in a pan anyway.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Labor is certainly trying to stop the rise of the greens.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

A) you don't know it was sold with one B) Being arrested is a massive escalation that is humiliating and dangerous C) absolutely nobody was hurt or threatened

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Yeah I assume some wowser panicked and called the cops on the scary brown man with a gun. I shoot 22s, am not exactly a gun nut but am also astounded at general fear and ignorance of firearms in city dwellers despite their actual massive presence there.

Like fair cop OK, he's an idiot for bringing it out in public but nothing indicates he was trying to scare people or do anything nefarious. Hang me for this if you like but I reckon we should be a bit forgiving of people doing silly things if alls well and they understand that the forgiveness is conditional on doing better going forwards.

 

lmfao the language "discharged a replica firearm" certainly sounds scarier than squirted a waterpistol at the ground.

Given rideshare driver (is this relevant?) this smacks of driving while black type discrimination.

Obviously the toy looks a bit real, but it seems to me all this needed was "hey we had a complaint, that looked real, why not hand it over and go home for a bit?" Although even so Queensland allows very realistic toy guns and AFAIK it's not some lawless hellscape of fake holdups.

BTW bonus fact. A spud gun, like fires a fragment of potato via a spring, is almost certainly an illegal firearm in nsw. Heaps cool.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Kinda neat, a bit weasely in a few places. Our Lords and Masters stance has always been Palestinian sovereignty under a two state, but usually they vote against or abstain from any UN resolution iirc.

Sign that the anglosphere is turning against the USA on this issue?

 

Interesting, certainly runs counter to prevailing narrative.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08174-6

 

Vile oily rag of a man. Australia has a large problem with Nazis, they're not hugely widespread but they're extremely bold and violent.

Unfortunately half of Parliament is highly sympathetic to them and if there's anything your average Aussie hates more than a Nazi it's any sort of leftist organising.

 

Cool and Good.

 

:( NSW once again demonstrating it's place as the most conservative state.

 

The title has youtube face but the story is lovely.

 

It's a hat. It shouldn't cost hundreds of dollars. I just want something like a semi-fashionable floppy sunhat and a straw hat. I've only seen them in bougie a.f. places or the straw hats from bunnings that don't fit my comically large head.

Please, save me from melanoma or bankruptcy. Where can I find nice hats without leather/animal glues in sydney? Ideally western sydney.

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