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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Athletics Australia becomes Australian Athletics in 'bold new' rebrand⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In ten years there will be a bold imitative to embrace history, return to the roots and past culture of excellence. It will be re-branded to Athletics Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU grocery shoppers 'fooled' by 'maze' of food labels: audit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems very similar to the “health star” system we have here…it is next to useless.

  Situation:
  Say I want to pick up a snack, do I go for a small bag of potato chips or a yogurt? Which is healthier?
  Who the fuck knows, you can’t compare two snack foods, that is a logical and reasonable idea, and we can’t have that.

  But it can also be deceptive, because the yogurt may have 2 stars and the chips have 4 stars, because they are only rated against their own categories.

  There should be a simple system. Where everything is compared to a “standard”; like steamed broccoli, with no sauce.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turkey Temptation⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All I read was “natural hangi pit”

  We have those all around where I live.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's pretty cruel, particularly for non-native English speakers, that 'lose' and 'loose' seemingly switched spellings, meanings and pronunciations with each other when no one was looking⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, I am teaching my second son to read.

  I am having the same conversations as when I taught my first to read.

  “ok, this word is a ‘sight word’ because it doesn’t make the sounds you expect. It says won, but it looks like it says on-e”

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Examination you say? What kind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well it is nice to have a sign to tell me where to go. Weird that it is in the OB ward though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frog's Gift⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Drag has a point, I bet gun control laws would follow quickly.

  (said from the safety of New Zealand)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It was rigged?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can happen, but statistically adult man vs adult woman is not a fair fight.

  I knew a guy at university; started going out with this smoking hot girl. She was a regional champ in jujitsu; it didn’t last long, turns out she was a violent piece of shit. Beat him up twice, he left after the second one. She had major anger management issues.

  But you turn that story around a little, similar situation, girl has same anger management issues, but without the training etc, she is unlikely to be a threat to any adult guy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just because you are all out of fucks, doesn’t really have anything to do with the finite/infinite nature of all fucks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨fuckery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  (thank|fuck)you, this is going to waste my whole weekend. A visual representation of etymology, that is awesome, I guess I am one of the 10,000 today

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Me_irl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am quite specific about who I share this kind of stuff!!!

  NSFW

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fungi using gamma radiation for energy in Chernobyl⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is really interesting.

  So we have fungi growing on the outside of the ISS, and we have fungi growing were there is very little available moisture.

  So hard vacuum and almost no moisture doesn’t kill off fungi. It can evolve to take advantage of extremely high energy radiation.

  I wonder if fungi could grow on asteroids?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Look at this Kinder toy I got. What? How? Who?!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I read that as scro-TU-mass, took me a second to figure out what you were saying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was reminded of the same thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is one of the many things I use Syncthing for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Syncthing Android app discontinued⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is not “Syncthing users” it is the others that we bring along with us.

  I already have F-Droid on my phone, but the dozen others that I have promoted Syncthing to over the years do not. This is going to cause a bunch of problems.

  This is much more important than what you portray here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOTY⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you miss the opportunity to use “correspond-ass chess”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed thieves are terrible.

  Not many better options if you are getting robbed though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty much; then get the police to deal with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wildlife Photography⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, but he can also rip your arm off and beat you to death with it…

  When wrestling with a toddler, your stance doesn’t really matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed.

  And the causes are probably broadly similar; lack of education about how to cook, lack of time to cook, lack of education on healthy food, too much food advertising, ultra-processed foods are too common, healthy foods are expensive…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but your weird obsession with ridiculously unhealthy food is somewhat interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So the answer is to not visit the US then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oxygen⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In one of their multitude of inter-nation conflicts; two cities were consumed in nuclear fire. On any sane world; these areas would be abandoned and the area around them a quarantine zone; the humans obviously not being fully sane, rebuilt and flourish.

  This is related to the fact that humans along with most of the inhabitants of Sol3, are highly resilient to damage; of all kinds.

  Humans reproduce slowly; but even though they generally reproduce not far above replacement rate, their resilience means their population still grows at an exponential rate. And on top of that; their advances in medical technology are on the verge of massive life extension. Soon they will have to move out into space; the galaxy better get ready for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I am really trying here, ok?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t be.

  I who don’t care for sport at all, am now aware more about breaking then I would be; I saw some other matches 100% because of her actions. I would not have bothered otherwise.

  She brings more interest to the sport; I only saw three events, the rock climbing (I climb); some of the kayak (kayak cross is awesome) and some of the breaking.

  So there you have it; of the very small amount of the Olympics I watched, breaking was part of it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Make this thread look like it's your first day on the internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Acid Burn and Crash Override, such a classic coupe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just want to make cookies :(⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, everything in weight. It works so well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We Got You⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah the old prison wallet. Classic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨August 30th 2024. America adopts the metric system. Never forget.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Delay it until January, kill two birds with one stone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Centipedes Don't Fuck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …unless you are a leg man…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Automation engineer here: alarm management is a hugely important part of making a plant operable.

  It is also a project that is never done, you must always review alarms that come in and see if they are providing useful information and what the operators are supposed to do with said information.

  If the operators are not supposed to do anything with the information, then what is the point of having the alarm?