NaevaTheRat [she/her] @ NaevaTheRat @vegantheoryclub.org

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I mean I can some stuff but aside from fowlers canning jars have low availability since ball stopped selling in aus, the more usaian standard with disposable middle rings and seals are not found anywhere atm. Also jars just aren't a good solution to leftovers or portions like cake and stuff.

I'd have a better time scrounging old dessicators with ground mating surfaces etc. Or old casserole dishes. The issue is that those aren't widely available affordabily anymore.

God damned. LLMs are just the rapture for hopeless dorks.

Yeah I just mean their furniture.

I know why it doesn't happen but I'd like to see gov legislate standard jar mouth dimensions. So everything is interoperable using ground glass surfaces like scientific glassware.

Make whatever shape jar you like or whatever but if it's a "cold food low volume" or whatever it should just have a standard lid/thread/mating surface.

There's not really any good reasons to allow companies to make things that don't work together.

I'll have a look. Most IKEA is complete junk but sometimes their products are ok. I hate MDF so much I basically never look at them, awful carcinogenic material with all of the disadvantages of wood and none of the benefits.

Got any hot tips on high quality affordable glass containers without plastic components? Standard gaskets, or ones which can be cut from silicone and replaced as needed are ok.

Ideally should survive small drops and boiling water.

There are expensive junk ones at my IGA but something like old Pyrex would be good.

Do you think that somewhere underground is a big evil witch who feeds on the groans of teens?

Imagine valuing your own opinions so little you invite random people with zero accountability to manipulate you.

If that is your desire read my snippy dissection of the transcript.

Le Guin was a real one.

There's also a transcript at the bottom.

Unfortunately all the witty repartee in the world won't alter the fundamental logic of capital. These ghouls are bought and paid for, they profit from our misery. Why would they fix it?

If they're lucky one, maybe two idealistically motivate policies survive a career in party politics.

Shorty calling people against gambling ads "anti gambling zealots" I guess me, a homebrew is also an "anti drinking zealot" since I don't want that advertised. I also love acid and don't want that advertised so I guess I'm an anti LSD zealot too.

I HATE our lords and masters so much. Their spineless doublespeak, their beady-eyed bean counting. It's so incredibly civilised to measure out acceptable allotments of misery.

we've always had a strong outdoors and sporting culture 8<

Yeah sure I guess

8 and that tends to lend itself to betting and to gambling

say again? Playing cricket at the beach lends itself to betting how? Gambling industry defs tries to push this hard but I dunno if it falls out.

Australians lose an estimated $25 billion a year from gambling [...]. And the majority of that is lost through poker machines, but certainly sports betting has been growing in recent years.

So... outdoors and sports doesn't lend itself to gambling? Actually most gambling is indoors and not sports?

John, gambling victim: I think at the moment, the whole online gambling system is broken in regards to offering the vulnerable punters levels of safety and avoiding gambling harm. Because from my experience, these gambling companies are just there to try and extract every cent out of you.

John is close to realising the fundamental problem of corporations here. We'll welcome you when you come round comrade.

Bill Shorten spoke out both on Q&A and on Radio National Breakfast about what he thought were the risks if you brought in a blanket ban on gambling advertising. He was worried that if you got rid of the gambling ads and had a blanket ban, that would see the demise of particularly regional TV, journalism in these areas.

So uh gambling is a tax on the vulnerable to fund sports? Sounds like an argument to nationalise the industry shorten, limit harms and so forth? I mean if sports in regional towns needs subsidies lets do it at least. I care more about that than pay rises for pollies and nuclear subs eh?

Steve Cannane: Now, I'm not sure what Bill Shorten was relying on for those figures. He's never actually told us what the evidence is that suddenly that industry would all fall apart.

lol, lmao even

Steve Cannane: We spoke to Kai Cantwell on Radio National Breakfast. He's the CEO of Responsible Wagering Australia, and they represent five of the largest sports betting companies in Australia. And he was particularly opposed to an online ban on gambling advertising. And what he was saying was that if you brought something like that in, you would then see an increase of illegal offshore providers and Australians gambling with those offshore providers.

Right, again someone making a strong argument for nationalising the industry then?

Steve Cannane: After that interview, I emailed his office and asked for a source for that Norway study. His office never got back to me about that. So we spoke to Stein Langberget, who worked for the state monopoly, because in Norway, it's a state monopoly that runs gambling. It's not private enterprise. And he said that it was only 6% of the market there was offshore. And he said they had decided themselves as the state-run monopoly to stop marketing publicly and stop advertising on TV because they believed it was harming children. And so they took that decision themselves.

Yeah ok so the above mate lies and evidence suggests nationalising it and banning ads?

You seem familiar with this looking at the instance you run.

I'm keen to hear your thoughts on why these subsidies are harmful. What do you think is a better approach for pre-school aged childcare? Or do you not want it?

The state steralised me so I've no personal stake, by sister who's quite wealthy and very uh unradical feminist (more women as bank ceos type) seems very keen on this stuff for gender equality reasons given childcare often falls to mothers. Keen to hear the other side if you don't mind writing up your thoughts?

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4593645

chemists live longer because all the poisons are fighting each other.

Payoff is longer than 3 years so it won't happen.

I think sometimes when I try to point out that political violence underpins much of society people hear "violence is good actually".

It's frustrating because what I'm trying to point out is actually the opposite. Prostrating yourself lets other people use violence with no checks.

Used to ride before arthritis took it. Fuck loud pipes, they don't help you enough to justify the social burden if they ever help you at all.

you usually work up grits. In general for edges that should end shaving sharp (e.g. kitchen, whirling) below 1k is rough work, profiling work, 1k or so is basic small chip repair etc, 3k is standard sharpen, and higher is polishing wank. You get what you pay for in general: cheap stones need soaking, the wear out fast (needing truing). Shapton makes some great splash and go stones.

However, there is one cheap 2 sided diamond stone that is actually quality. The sharpal one. Be aware diamond cuts extremely fast (good and bad), it doesn't need truing or soaking. I recommend if you're getting one stone get that. Learn proper bur minimisation technique and that'll cover chip repair and get your knives sharp enough to cut seethrough sheets of tomato.

If you feel fancy add 1 micron stropping compound and a sheet of balsa wood to strop on.

I'm not them but tying loads/things down during fierce winds, temp gardening structures, carrying stuff (weaving nets is useful knowledge), lifting stuff/holding suspended.

Idk even stuff like if crossing a stream it's handy to have one person go first and make a temp hand rail by hanging a rope across so people slip less.

I'm not disagreeing with the goal but we have some pretty fucked working conditions here. Picking stands out, fucking messed up industry.