Get some denture tablets, unflavoured or a flavour you don’t mind, put two in the camel back and fill it up. Let it sit for a day and rinse out. Repeat a few times if needed. Helps strip a lot of the residue manufacturing solvents out. It won’t be perfect but it will be a lot better.

Not defending the lack of updates in any way. But you can fix this if you login with a browser and enable all languages in your account settings.

Watch the media turn on anyone that tries such sensible shit. And then watch the voters lap it up.

Even with 2 sigma confidence lines there is barely a correlation in a lot of this data. If we looked at the 3 sigma confidence lines there would be nothing here.

I remember one study had such a small sample size that a single man having a heart attack on his way to work was the bulk of evidence used to criticize the time switch. A scientist with an agenda can usually get their position published even if it’s questionable.

The overall evidence weakly suggests there are negative health effects here when we make a time switch. But if it was truly a large statistical shift with high confidence values then we probably would have a much stronger scientific case to address time shifts in our society cycles. We would also have to include a much wider study. Are there papers looking at the possible beneficial effects of these time switches out there? And lastly, is this even worth the research time and potential implementation cost?

As it stands now, it’s basically just a bunch of people’s personal preference of when they want more light relative to the standard work day. Personally I would be happy to use UTC worldwide and just shift the hours appropriately with location, but that won’t fly with most people.

It’s crazy. I’m expecting a bunch of forced academic redundancies in April/May. I don’t expect her to last a full term, but she will take a lot of others out on the way.

Currently at the Australian National University.

This is too real.

I assumed these are small fpv drones? They have kind of broken the traditional warfare dynamics and are more like ground force+ without the traditional air to air susceptibility.

But I like the tannins!

Whilst trace lithium is important for many biological functions, it seems unlikely to me that a particular tree would require significant quantities of lithium to thrive.

Having a quick google it seems the issue is a particular forest that exists in a place that companies wished to prospect for lithium. I couldn’t find any evidence of a high lithium dependence for Jarrah trees.

I would be very surprised if it’s not possible for us to mine lithium deposits and also have healthy forests. Though typically companies just care less about flattening acers to get to the money making rocks.

Yep. Doesn’t matter if you’re the biggest redneck or the greenest hippy on the street the common factor is everyone wants the lights to stay on and they don’t want to pay through the nose for it. Solar has already won, we can’t even come close to touching it with any other tech.

Yep. Great idea and seemingly decent implementation. Even with some hiccups the net benefits will be unmatched to any other energy policy for the price.

Haha that’s amazing. I hope you enjoyed them, the entire concept of never questioning authority (in all meanings) seems to have pitfalls that have trapped too many of today’s society into polarising views with no concept of nuance. If more people had read these books the world would probably be a better place.

Now let’s just hope Pullman can get the last book out this decade! He better not pull a Robert Jourdan on us!

I assume they disliked the source material. Which is a shame because they are amazing books.

I installed fedora to replace windows on the 31/12/2023. I wasn’t a complete Linux noob by any measure but haven’t run it as a main OS before. Thank you proton for getting me over the edge.

The whole repo situation on fedora is honestly pretty meh, things are out of date or broken too often. Or they just don’t exist. I have put arch on a number of machines since and find it significantly better. My main box will move away from fedora next time I’m enthused to mess with it and this is the primary reason.

Some interesting tidbits from one of the staff.

The actual flowers are hidden down in the base of the opening and it has both male and female flowers but cannot self pollinate.

They didn’t want to pollinate this one as they were worried the plant was not strong enough. But they will keep pollen from the male flowers to give to other gardens.

They had a bunch of Australian native relatives of this plant there too. They have a similar life cycle but are much smaller.

Rather fascinating plants. I can only wonder what makes them all want to flower at a similar time after years of dormancy.

Agreed. Have smelt far worse on the farm. We were there at 2ish and one of the staff was saying it was a lot more potent in the morning and yesterday evening.

Went to see it today. Had to book free tickets but it was accessible.

“We have film footage where we can see a wave hitting the lock and the anchor drops,”

A wave, at sea? Chance in a million.

How can we reduce paracetamol poisoning? Better access to mental health services? Nah. Let’s make them buy two boxes instead of one. That will do it.

What a joke.

I had heard this was happening. Probably relatively low risk for a lot of them, plenty of other private work around. Good on them for pushing back though.

The bus drivers in the ACT also took unprotected action last year. It was not as big of a news story. But it is definitely happening more often. I don’t think any of them lost their jobs.

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/104603964

If the Sydney government (aka NSW government) wants people to work for cheap in Sydney. Perhaps they should have focused on making it a more affordable place to live.

I wonder how quickly they would change tact if the rail drivers just took 1 week of unprotected industrial action. But for them, there is not as much private industry to switch to. They would have to be willing to work in another state in the event that the government fires them.