QuoteA man who (https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/qld-man-dies-after-trying-to-save-another-man-from-a-snake-20230910-p5e3fo.html) tried to save another man from a snake that had coiled around his ankle has died after being bitten multiple times at a centenary event at a central Queensland school.
That's weird, they aren't supposed to do that.
Has Trump expressed any sympathy for European leaders dealing with Storm Daniel?
There's Kim's train trip and his new nuclear missile toting submarine.
I have one. There were local elections in Norway and I'm now in a "blue bubble" since a few nearby districts flipped colours. Mostly, the voters rejected Labour, the Centre Party (Politically, sort-of "greens." Like to see themselves as a block-indepoendent "countryside party," though they do lean Socialist-ish) and the more unhinged environmentalists while the blue-blue constellation (Conservatives and Progress Party) did very well.
I'm quite content with the outcome.
Apple's new iPhone (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/iphone-usb-c-charger-cable-change-explained/102851468) has a different charging port, having ditched the Lightning cable
I've never bought Apple stuff anyway.
Why are Republicans (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/joe-biden-impeachment-inquiry-explained/102848554) launching an impeachment inquiry into US President Joe Biden
A rhinoceros attacks (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/a-rhino-at-an-austrian-zoo-kills-a-zookeeper-in-salzburg/102848280) a married couple working as zookeepers in Austria, killing the woman and seriously injuring the man.
Brisbane Festival seeks (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/brisbane-festival-seeking-kazoo-performers-world-record-attempt/102847462) 10,001 kazoo performers to help break Melbourne's world record
Vladimir Putin says (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/vladimir-putin-speech-vladivostok-donald-trump-trials/102847470) prosecution of Donald Trump shows US political system is 'rotten'
The science is clear (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-13/small-island-nations-law-of-the-sea-court-climate-change/102844236) and undisputed': Pacific nations bring climate change case at international court
The European Union told Apple they couldn't sell the lightning connector as it lead to necessary electronic waste. The USB C connector can be used on multiple devices and can thus be considered universal.
Quote from: Tank on September 13, 2023, 12:14:55 PMThe European Union told Apple they couldn't sell the lightning connector as it lead to necessary electronic waste. The USB C connector can be used on multiple devices and can thus be considered universal.
I do like a hole to plug headphones/audio jack into though.
I'll second that motion. Minijack is woefully underutilized these days. On a iPhone, if you have a corded headset, you get to choose between charging or listening. Well, some of them longer podcasts I'm into tend to necessitate both.
I rented a Tesla (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-16/rented-a-tesla-for-a-month-experience-opinion-730/102833718) for a month. It was a giant pain in the a***
QuoteYouTube also provided the location of the hazard lights button. Not on the dash like a regular car. On the roof. Of course.
Of course.
Numbat comeback on Eyre Peninsula (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-18/successful-reintroduction-numbats-eyre-peninsula/102862928) after first juvenile animals spotted at Secret Rocks
(https://live-production.wcms.abc-cdn.net.au/d0d9a7b46fab5d37ad4cc77b41ae187f?impolicy=wcms_crop_resize&cropH=934&cropW=1401&xPos=365&yPos=37&width=862&height=575)
Climate scientists say they have "never seen anything" like this year's emerging El Niño, (https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-17/unusual-el-nino-development-bureau-of-meteorology-iod/102861886) as the major climatic event inches closer to development.
Great
oh shit!
...So hang on, El Niño contributes to drying up Australia? Some reach on that thing! (Though I suppose it may be somewhat indirect and butterfly-effect-y..?)
I have no reason to believe the climate change claims. I see no significant difference from my yute to today. Where I am it's been a normal summer. And now I'm supposed to accept global boiling.
I think climate change is real enough, though it's a matter of scale. Looking at it from my house, it's mostly within normal parameters as well.
That's not to say that I'm about to join the unwashed teenagers (all the love in the world) in chaining myself to heavy machinery - I have almost nothing but beef with the political side of handling of any potential issues, but I do find the science (Well... Statistics, really) interesting enough.
Quote from: Asmodean on September 18, 2023, 02:13:41 PM...So hang on, El Niño contributes to drying up Australia? Some reach on that thing! (Though I suppose it may be somewhat indirect and butterfly-effect-y..?)
Here ya go
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/about/australian-climate-influences.shtml?bookmark=enso (http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/about/australian-climate-influences.shtml?bookmark=enso)
...So wait, El Niño is not a weather system, but a condition of warming over an area..? That... Actually explains quite a bit.
Works so much better when talking about it in other terms than more-or-less-arbitrary names. At least in my mind, it does. Other minds may disagree.
Quote from: Old Seer on September 18, 2023, 02:34:10 PMI have no reason to believe the climate change claims. I see no significant difference from my yute to today. Where I am it's been a normal summer. And now I'm supposed to accept global boiling.
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry
Speaking of Oz, Puds, what be the deal with that Voice of Parliament referendum thing? I really ought to just look it up, but... Keep forgetting. What's going on?
Quote from: Asmodean on October 19, 2023, 02:58:20 PMSpeaking of Oz, Puds, what be the deal with that Voice of Parliament referendum thing? I really ought to just look it up, but... Keep forgetting. What's going on?
That's often the way isn't it?
Why ask the forum when you can just Google it?
Since you've asked I'll give you my bigoted take on it.
There was a gathering of indigenous people (ip) who reached a conclusion.
They wanted it put into the constitution that a Voice of ip would
BE and they could advise the government on laws effecting the ip.
The government wouldn't be obliged to listen.
It's not really a big ask.
There was nasty racist crap going on, as you'd expect.
The constitutional change would be vague, the government would legislate the details.
The details the government had in mind were never mentioned.
A future government could change the details.
Of course you have to vote yes, if you think right.
I listen to the government funded radio, they took a tally of listeners, 80% said I should.
What's wrong with the no voters?
They must be victims of misinformation.
Emotion, the ip have been done wrong, you can't say no.
What's the detail?
Will it be cost effective?
The last ip body was disbanded 'cause it was corrupt.
Not all ip want it.
Is the "all people should be treated equally" principle worthy of consideration?
More government money is spent on ip already
But the voice will know how to spend it better
Maybe
I think the result was 60% No
Hmmmph! The IPs were there long before those British criminals were exiled there.
Sounds a bit like the way we kindly christian Americans came to North America and displaced our own IPs. We have treated them as savages, stolen their land, violated treaties we made with them, and forced them to live on reservations isolated from the mainstream.
Oh! I see. Sorta-kinda-analogous to our own Sami Parliament.
Personally, I don't see the need - a Sami person's concerns are a
Norwegian person's concerns. The rest is interest groups. This may or may not apply to Oz though. Oh well, curiosity satisfied. Much obliged.
Quote from: Icarus on October 23, 2023, 01:18:17 AMHmmmph! The IPs were there long before those British criminals were exiled there.
I tend to find this line of argument very thin indeed, but then I may just be being all European about it.
Yes, I suppose whoever was somewhere first may have a casus belli against those who came after, but unless they are ready and willing to act on it, what does it even matter? Your passport says what your passport says.
EDIT: This may require a tiny bit of expanding on; your great-great-grandfather's land, wherever it may be, is not
your land unless you inherit it, buy it or othherwise acquire it in a socieally-acceptable way at the time of acquisition. So, if you want to lay claim to, say, Luxembourg because of your Luxemburger genees, you ought to be prepared to conquer it. OR, you can start a political separatist movement and try to convince enough Luxemburgers to join your cause. Generations later, you may get somewhere.
Oh well, a new satellite is born. :eyebrow:
"Dropped Tool Bag in Space Becomes Accidental Satellite, Visible From Earth" |
Science Alert (https://www.sciencealert.com/dropped-tool-bag-in-space-becomes-accidental-satellite-visible-from-earth)
QuoteAccidents can happen: during a November 1 spacewalk, US astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O'Hara "inadvertently lost" a tool bag, according to NASA. That tool bag is now in orbit, and can even be viewed from Earth.
The bag has been given its own satellite catalog number, and has also been caught on video by stargazers.
According to the website EarthSky, the dropped item is as bright as a 6th-magnitude star – not quite bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, though it should be visible through binoculars.
That visibility is due to the bag being white and reflective. If you want to try and spot it, your best bet is to first find the ISS. The object was roughly five minutes ahead of the space station on November 11, a timing that should stretch as the days pass.
Luckily, the astronauts were not hindered in completing their spacewalk tasks, which included adjusting a cable and replacing a bearing on a solar panel, and the toolbag was not needed for the rest of the mission.
After assessing the bag's trajectory, NASA doesn't deem it to be a threat to the ISS or its occupants.
Over the next few months, the tool bag is expected to circle closer to Earth before eventually disintegrating in the atmosphere – so catch it while you can, if you want to see a unique bit of space junk.
[Continues . . . (https://www.sciencealert.com/dropped-tool-bag-in-space-becomes-accidental-satellite-visible-from-earth)]
12 pounds of Craftsman wrenches de-orbits and strikes SpaceX's largest rocket during launch and ascent, destroying it- The Onion. J/K, SpaceX had to destroy it because of a faulty separation...and then called it a success :D Musk has proven his Republican roots before this. #lyingsonofabitch
The Asmo hereby proudly inserts a current-year-inappropriate joke about women wielding wrenches. ;D
"Wenches with Wrenches"? :-[ I didn't know that it was a female astronaut.
Quote from: Dark Lightning on November 21, 2023, 02:49:18 PMI didn't know that it was a female astronaut.
2.
Also, The Asmo welcomes you onto His cancellation train. :smilenod:
What is a "cancellation train"?
Eh... Nothing, really. It only applies if you find yourself in a place where the wrong joke can cause real problems.
If you are not a media personality, work for yourself or have a sane employer and/or reside outside the anglosphere, that goes a long way towards cancel-proofing your butt when you point out that what is worse than a woman spaceship driver is, in fact, two women spaseship drivers with a space flat and a toolbox. ;D
Quote from: Asmodean on November 21, 2023, 07:20:31 PMEh... Nothing, really. It only applies if you find yourself in a place where the wrong joke can cause real problems.
being from oklahoma, it was common not too many years ago for racial jokes to be normative.
i cringe when i recall the stuff that used to casually come out of mouth before i learned some stuff.
back in the heartland it hasnt changed all that much. i experience it here in ohio still.
Yeah, growing up in small-town southern California, where I didn't a black person in a class until I was in middle school, we had a vast array of racist jokes. :-[
As long as it's in good fun, I don't really cringe at jokes unless they are designed to induce cringe.
As long as stereotypes are understood as such, having a bit of a chuckle over some is... OK. :smilenod:
For instance, in this case, something tells me that the two ladies what did the spacewalk and hastened our Kessler Effect related doom may themselves think that some light-hearted yet most righteous mockery of their satellite-spawning fuckup is well-deserved - and if they don't, then I propose that they should.
the town i went to university in had been a sundown town.
if you were black and were caught within city limits after dark, you were lucky just to spend the night in jail. if the wrong people spotted you first, you coukd end up dead.
the racist jokes arent intended to be funny for black people. theyre warnings.
that was oklahoma. texas was an order of magnitude worse. tennessee where my sister lived was similar.
Well, that's different. The warning part, that is. A joke having its audience is "nothing special."
I suppose there is a darker side of humor, and at the end of the day, it's the context that defines it - like so much else.
Race-related whatnots are far removed from my European daily matters, but I've heard of kids being arrested over jokes about planned school shootings, for example. One could argue that the authorities can't easily distinguish a kid being edgy from one being on the murderous side, and so they overreact - or do they? I think the broader context of what's been expressed can usually tell.
A threat to shoot up a school, given the astonishingly high rate here in the US, is alone enough to terrorize. Too many have been ignored.
I do maintain that whether or not it is a threat depends on the circumstances surrounding it being expressed.
A somewhat different sort of scenario from real life, but it demonstrates the issue, I think; it has been known to happen that the chastity of my own precious bottom was "threatened" with rape and murder, though in the broader context, the person making the "threat" invariably a. was unaware of my identity or location, b. lived on a different continent and c. actually liked me. So, pure shit-talk, and received as such. Bottom remains virgin for some lucky proctologist to violate at a later date. :smilenod:
There are jokes, there is shit-talk and then there are threats. The difference can be nothing more than contextual. That does not make the jokes and the shit-talk dangerous, however - or even undesirable, again depending on that whole context theme I have going.
^ Agreed.
https://cyberbeer.tesla.com/
elon is branching out.
for $150 you can get two beer mugs and two bottles of cyberbeer modelled after his ugly electric truck.
the future is here
Apparently electric cars are giving fire departments a growing headache. The battery fires are virtually impossible to extinguish until the last erg has been exhausted in the battery. Lithium is highly flammable. The combustion gases are extremely toxic. All this and the battery packs themselves are on the underside of the car and thus inaccessible when exploding. They are making a good old petrol fire look positively benign. Here is bus just minding its own business that goes up in flames.
im re-thinking the lithium batteries i use in my motorcycles
The current American craze for electric bicycles and scooters has its' downside. Way too many fires while charging the batteries. Apartments and houses aflame as a result. The drill is to plug in the charger at days end. The fire breaks out while you/we are in the arms of Morpheus. Best recharge batteries while the scooter is out of doors. Impractical however.
Seems like there are some Tesla cars who exhibit unplanned pyrotechnic displays.............the better to stay warm on these frigid days?
There have been numerous cases of electric scooter batteries exploding during charging. Many if not most of these scooters and their chargers are built down to a price in Asia. It may only be a small percentage but with over a million in the UK a 1:1000 failure rate gives 1000 explosions. Again these explosions are becoming a regular feature of local news reports all over the country. My eldest grandson got one for Christmas. Fortunately his is kept and charged in a garden shed separate to the house.
I've seen some videos of those things ablaze in the streets of our cities as well. One should respect the "greek fire" potential of a lithium ion battery. :smilenod:
Imagine when the streets are full of lithium battery powered an hydrogen powered vehicles! I pile up could end up looking like Hiroshima!
oh the humanity!
...Or the explosively-sudden lack thereof ;D