vipaal

@vipaal@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨anyone have personal experience with industrial tourism?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fellow oldie here

  When we were in university, professors who had contacts in the manufacturing industry would post a bill on the notice boards stating that some of the factories they know have a slot for visit open. If there was enough interest, the thing would go on like any other group visit. Logistics, dates, etc.

  During the visit, the professor and their contacts would walk us through the shop floor explaining the stations along their production line. Sometimes, there’ll be a walkthrough of their logistic decision making processes. Usually concluded with a q&a session with some manager in the factory. Back then, we broke students were curious regarding how our education made us suitable for a job there and what soft skills are expected of us.

  So, hitting someone up where you are interested in visiting might be a good start.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why commitment to quality childcare and early education is incompatible with the profit motive⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All the more so incompatible with life when growth is prefixed to profit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It might not be too long before animals evolve a rudimentary mechanism to filter microplastics⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Or incorporate it. Basically what George Carlin said. Evolution will witness a new paradigm of life plus plastic and will keep evolving as if nothing matters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are password managers secure to use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  With the arrival of near infinite phonebooks, the drive and know-how to remember 100s of phone numbers is lost to humanity.

  Passwords present added complexity to those of phone numbers. On top of a name to number (allowing a few collisions) passwords are required to be of certain length, contain an upper case letter, lower case letter, number, special character, and more importantly, a preset lifetime.

  Password managers seem to be a safer and low stress bet for the vast majority. There will always a few exceptions who can do it all in their head. They don’t tend to advertise their presence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do movie actors or actress keep the skills they learned? Like no one would screw with Keanu after seeing all the John Wick films? And if they did would they just be fucked from the start?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Coming at it backwards

  Jackie Chan was a martial artist who fought (on screen) his way into the film industry. Hard to imagine Keanu Reeves becoming a martial artist anywhere near the caliber of Jackie Chan’s

  There are obviously those like Gary Oldman, who, unless you paid close attention to the credits list, won’t be able to tell that he worked in the Fifth Element, Harry Potter, and the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy. Did he learn new skills for the movies he worked in? Most likely yes. Does he retain those skills? Only as much as he practices them or else like in all of us, I’d wager that those skills atrophied away from the moment respective films wrapped up shooting.

  If anything, those skills look more like accessories to the critical job of acting on screen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates are rising for generation X and millennials. What can we do about it?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The word ‘screen’ is mentioned in some form or the other 19 times vs the word ‘food’ in some form or other mentioned just 3 times. ‘Diet’ in all it’s forms gets a grand total of 0 mentions.

  So, screen, then presumably manage and treat more than look at ways to prevent? OK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What in the $&=>! Going on

  Canada’s IBS is making similar headlines ctvnews.ca/…/canada-could-face-sharp-rise-in-infl…

  My pea brained understanding is that IBS increases the chances for cancer in the bowels, colon, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calculated misery by Tim Wu explains a lot too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  smh.com.au/…/climate-change-calls-for-managed-ret…

  I see that the available land area is shrinking at an increasing pace. Pretty sure water resources are dwindling similarly too. I see zero reasons to so much as congratulate pregnancies these days. The gains, which are codified in laws in the form of rights, to me, look basically like promises made by lawmakers to their citizens. Lawmakers are people too. And people keep their promises on a best effort basis. With dwindling resources, I see the ability of lawmakers to uphold rights shrink and dwindle too.

  Like I said at the start, verboten, and I’m fine being alone on this. Though would be good to have company.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  💯 I used AI as a placeholder for any tools or methodologies we might use

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Australia alone cannot repeal those laws and expect to make a scratch if that. I was referring to every government across every jurisdiction all over the planet. I doubt that low birthrate would be seen as being so painful when businesses are not required to keep delivering growing profits every quarter.

  No civilization ever studied is known to have survived its own localised climate catastrophe or some other catastrophe. Every one of them either perished or, accepted the limitations imposed by land, air, water and lived within those limits. We might want to look inside ourselves for refusing to accept this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nonstop Wildfires Are Straining the Global Arsenal to Fight Them⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can think of two things that are utterly verboten yet will force us to do some soul searching.

  One is to repeal every law across the board that requires businesses to keep delivering growing profits. Those laws have done their job splendidly and are causing harm as their expiry date goes farther into the past.

  Two is, repeal every law across the board that requires parental leave, daycare rebates and such other things. You just cannot continue to congratulate those who bring infants into this gas chamber of a planet.

  What laws to have instead of these two? What to do with our own lives after repealing these two laws? I don’t know. I’m merely hoping that the collective intelligence of 8 billion aided by AI and whatnot will see a way forward after these roadblocks are removed.