AIs are eagerly scooping up this as a source lol

It’s insanity. Rechargeable batteries were the default. You could switch out for a better battery. The whole vape scene looked to be a big win for decreasing smoking and reducing costs.

Then big tobacco and the government got involved.

It’s literally buying rechargeable batteries and throwing them away after the first use. (Yes, I have also yelled at someone when they did that with some AA Eneloops 🙄).

As an aside, I don’t smoke or vape, but had an interest in batteries, and some of the info that would come from some of the vape sites was fantastic.

It staggers me that in reality so much of the operation of various countries democracies have relied upon good people acting in good faith.

Was Scomo making himself anything less than a king by secretly appointing himself as the minister in charge for every key portfolio? Role out martial law, and congratulations, you have a new dictator. Surely, he could have done it with the panic around covid.

I always thought that looking back through history, with the lessons from ancient Egypt, Greece, the Roman Empire and even the rise of Stalin, Hitler etc we would be aware of what to look for and wouldn’t fall for the same thing over and over.

But it still seems to be so incredibly easy to achieve. It doesn’t seem to matter how ‘democratic’ you are, or how democratic you think your society is.

I am disappoint…

FYI, Aldi had a Special Buy on the Lite Racer 3.0 for $50 a couple of weeks ago.

You can use the Special Buys Stock Availability to see if there are any available near you. The most popular sizes/colours are probably gone, though.

Swannies need to sort out their slow starts.

Can’t keep giving teams 20 point starts.

• Excitedly get new machine. Install Debian.

• Not so excitedly search error messages.

• Dejectedly find need kernel/drivers that’s 18 months later than the Debian versions

• boot sysrescuecd to find next distro to write to USB drive …

• kick self for buying shiny, latest hardware without checking for linux support. Again…😡

The simple way is to dual boot or even simpler, set up a Linux distro in a Windows VM.

Let’s you play/see if the distro works for you.

TBH, I’ve got 1 machine where Windows is more problematic than the Ubuntu that is setup to dual boot… Can’t bring myself to do a fresh install of Windows lol…

K to the N to the O-P-E
She’s the dopest little shorty in all Pawnee… Indiana

But Joe Biden was Leslie’s hero. She’d never run against him.

Also, IIRC one of the key points for introducing the sin bin was to penalize foul play and make it easier for refs to apply it because everyone was too scared to send someone off, and everyone whinged that having 12 players for all or most of the match was too harsh.

I’m for sendoffs and sin bins. If those aren’t in place you are going to have professional hit men out there to take out the opponents best players. And their team will get the 2 points, or they win the GF or SoO then they get suspended.

Consistency is what’s needed. And you see the lack of it in plenty of decisions, sometimes even within the same game.

Overall, I like the review system and challenge system. There are plenty of sports where it’s an absolute shitshow. EPL and NBA come to mind. The issue is only around consistency of decisions.

Yeah, when so many of the elected have investment properties, there’s no incentive to change the way things are 😔

It really feels like a ‘Do something, anything!’ situation.

To use a cricket analogy, take any easy singles now, and you can hit the boundaries when(if?) they come.

A good engineer prepares for every use case.

What normally happens is that the engineer will raise the corner cases and then be told that will never happen and they must not prepare for those use cases. Also, they can now deliver a week earlier.

I’m dubious this will have any effect, but at least it’s trying something. I’m sure other cities & states will be watching…

With the nation wide housing issues, it can’t be solved with one silver bullet, it needs many policies to work together. Every little thing helps.

I can’t help feeling kinda sorry for most reality tv contestants now.

The latest one that really got to me was Alone. I watched a couple of different countries versions. It basically is leaving people in the middle of nowhere until they have a mental breakdown. I bailed out part way through a season. I just couldn’t watch any more, it was so depressing.

To want to be on any of these reality shows, I just keep feeling bad for them.

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record scratch

Narrator: It isn’t.

Told them where the water pipes were. They used some sort of pipe finder to confirm.

Then, of course, they put the conduit drill straight through the water pipe under the concreted driveway. Turned off all the water and disappeared to Bunnings -allegedly- for hours. Cut up the driveway to get to the pipe to fix it. It still looks like shit. And is sinking…,

Next week, the guy to do the internal cabling shows up. Everything is too hard for him to do properly. So he drills a hole in the eaves, runs the cable through the roof, then a hole in the ceiling and drops the cable down the wall. No covering inside or out, just a black cable running up and down walls. And here was I stupidly thinking it would just be a nice faceplate on the wall inside.

I’ve never seen such a shitshow.

Time to get Arfur of the Peaky fookin’ Blinders to sort it!

Yeah, I realised that, but couldn’t resist it for the lols.

I think it could score a perfect zero by both not correctly comprehending and being offensive to whoever had the misfortune of marking it.

Artificial satellites? I’m interpreting that as fake communication satellites, so:

'Unlike traditional communication satellites, artificial communication satellites are not launched into space via costly rockets using environmentally unfriendly propellents.

Instead, Artificial Satellite Systems (or ASS) make use of artificial intelligence to communicate via Frequency Adjusted Radio Tower Systems (known as FARTS).’