absGeekNZ @ absGeekNZ @lemmy.nz

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But why are the rainbow rollers crushing etcetera?

Are there additional unspecified things just out of frame....that is kinda ominous.

Climate change.

In the mid 90's when the data was becoming more mainstream, I felt that there wasn't enough info to make a decision on it, looking back from now there was but the O&G lobby was muddying the waters as much as possible.

A few years later, ~97/98; I had read enough studies and seen enough data to accept that, yes; we were changing the climate, and yes; we need to do something about it.

It has shaped a lot of the decisions I have made in the last 25+ years.

BTW electric power tools kick arse.

I was literally going to say this.

Except I was going to phrase it:
This is going to become depressingly common, like school shootings. Soon it wont even make the news.

The pictures don't show any reason why this should be closed.

It looks like a huge gap between the cycleway and the tracks. If the level crossing needs work, why close 1.5km of cycleway?

I have a boox note 3. It's great, ReadEra is my default reading app, syncthing and Netguard are the main things I use.

Random ass-memory; donkey walks past and remembers something random.

A non-vote is exactly the same as voting for the winner.

If you would have voted for the winner, then not voting didn't matter because your candidate won anyway.

If you would have voted for the loser, then your non-vote reduced the chance for your candidate to win; which mathematically in a FPTP system means it increased the chance for your opponent to win.

Though, it is one way to always be on the winning team. /s

I once long ago worked in the incoming mail department for are insurance company. It was basically data entry.

Thing was, there wasn't enough work.

There were two teams of five, plus a supervisor for each team, and a manager above them.

So what would happen was, we would arrive in and go to our spots, a few minutes later the main would arrive. Most days there was 100 pieces of mail to process, a really busy day may have twice this amount.

Even the most complex items would take me 10 minutes to process. The bulk was around 3 minutes, given the above, could personally have processed all the mail on an average day, with 3hrs to spare for complications.

On an average day, I got in the order of 30-40 minutes of work.

On slow days, it was more like 20.

I started coming in late, sleeping at my desk. Wandering around, going up to the upper management offices and the roof.

I eventually got fired, after months of this behaviour. Not because I was underperforming, no! I got fired, because I was "effecting the moral of the team"

I can see the point of why I was fired. I was an arse, I wasn't suitable for the role.

This fucks me off sooooooooo much; in NZ there are a lot of (a fuck of a lot) of roads that don't have overtaking zones for a long way.

Getting an opportunity to overtake the slow prick you have been following for 20 minutes, just to have them speed up....forcing me to go faster than I'm comfortable with, then being in front and have them sitting on your arse for the next 10km, even though you are going faster than before you overtook them.......FUCK OFF!!!!!

This is the only correct answer

That is exactly the same for your kids, it is not until their world expands a bit when they are 3-5YO; before that you are literally everything to them.

Another take:

The happy rider, is a conspiracy theory enjoyer. Happy in the "knowledge" that someone (anyone) is at the controls of the world, it gives comfort in a perverse way. Even though they know that the "controllers" are doing bad things.
The sad rider, is a realist. Can see that they are stuck on a trolley that is currently plowing through people, their personal actions mean nothing in the aggregate of all other actions in the world. They saw that the person at the leaver chose to keep themselves pure, rather than reduce the suffering in the world and taint themselves in the process.

Even though it is an Australian movie The Castle is pretty good

You have to remember these are just simple farmers.
These are people of the land.
The common clay of the new west.
You know....
Morons

There was a really big popular movie last year, I think it was called "The Barbie Movie"

That doesn't make much sense.

How, specifically, would he be destroyed. He's literally the most wealthy person in the world (sometimes second). What does Tucker think that Harris (the US govt) have on Musk....that they wouldn't have already used?

If he is such a giant criminal; why would the government not already be prosecuting this case?

Stupid dates....initial thought was 11th of June..

Well if it makes you feel better (probably not); the right wing government here is tanking the economy....for reasons.

It seems to be hell bent on giving tax cuts to the already wealthy; but usually when they have done this in the past, the kept the rest of the economy relatively stable. But this time it is one terrible decision after another, and rather then the "soft landing" we were on target for when they were elected, is looking like a full recession that didn't need to happen.

How would that make him a non-billionare?

He paid $44B for Twitter, even if it completely failed and he could realize no value from any of the assets. $44B is a small portion of his wealth.

You could have most people in a relatively small area with the rest for farming.

There would be little need for the equivalent of roads, almost all travel would be walk or bike. The longest distance between two points is less than 34km. If the main settlement is in a ring around the middle of the cylinder, it is less than 17km to any point.