Activity from Fiasco da Gama

Hey ladies in the place I’m callin out to ya / never was a tree dweller ever marsupialler [more]
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MeFi comment - 5 months ago

[it's also I would note one of the most common criticisms of modern prison practice that inmates are required to do work for for-profit enterprises, which when it's behind bars and in a green tracksuit uniform, is seen for the forced labour that it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

What element of this exactly counts as restorative, and where is the proper denunciation of a crime by the law? If this is an example of it it confirms my view of 'restorative' justice being basically incoherent. Being 'sentenced' to a job that other… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

It really does come down to the generals in the end, same as in any other unstable limited democracy. If he loses and attempts a coup, it’s a challenge to the generals; if he wins and forces a purge, it’s a challenge to the generals, if the Supreme… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

This is funny but also reflects the common error, the one my bosses used to make, when the manager would wander around the kitchen shouting ‘productivity! Productivity!’ Did he mean that he was going to innovate his kitchen processes, allocate… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

The mysterious creature with bizarre anatomy that once roamed Australia This is a lot of people I’ve worked with, to be fair [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Article witha great line about not having been convicted of murder
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Ask MeFi post - 6 months ago

I am absolutely certain that The Wiggles have investigated this model [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I will come in and really recommend Kushner’s Masters of Doom, which is superficially a journalist survey of ID software and about these two dickheads, but is a much broader look at pop culture shifts. It’s a rare bit of writing, in that it’s about… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Miturgopelma rangerstaceya This is a huge thing for Australian television watchers of my childhood cohort [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Also I would take it to mean ‘stores please take these off the shelves and stop selling them’, before 31 Dec 2023 [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I will echo The River Ivel and recommend subscribing to the LRB for the joy of its archives. It's more than 40 years of topical essays and reviews by some of the English language's best writers. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

I have experience with this or any disability, but I do have experience with unemployment and job searching, which is that it’s left me with an unpleasant chip on my shoulder about work. It’s very easy and very common to become very embittered, very… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Pat Cummins seems like an incredible rarity in Australian men’s cricket, a genuinely nice and rounded human being. Afghanistan’s inclusion in international cricket at all seems to be in pretty poor taste. That country opposes women’s cricket to… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

In the late 1990s I popped out of my job for a break with the smokers (as was the custom, 10 mins break morning and afternoon). It was about 10.30am on a weekday. A man ran by, absolutely sprinting for his life, barefoot and completely naked except… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

I have mentioned before the Sprinting Handcuffed Nude Bloke of Surry Hills. Like Roland in Warren Zevon's song I imagine him still sprinting, sprinting through the night. [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 6 months ago

Interstitium? Hell it damn near killed 'im [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Everything said about the fediverse is true, yet I stay on my instance for two things: first, that it’s local to my country and society with all the good and bad that goes along with that. Second, that the lack of discoverability effectively… [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

Has a band ever put out an album as different from their debut just three years later? I submit Alanis Morissette who in four years went from this to this. [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

You can use the Roberts Rules (or any other variation) but the critical thing is to appoint someone as a chair. It doesn't really matter who, and you can have a rotating chair, but that person is there to take responsibility for the conduct of… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 6 months ago

when I say "healthy" I mean from a strictly physical Eastern Medicine point of view, not a moralistic Christian one. Ahaha get your hand off it mate [more]
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MeFi comment - 6 months ago

When I was at uni my job was a stocktaker, and we'd go into lots of warehouses and shops and count, sometimes because an accountant said they needed an independent count (to track capital T Theft and fraud), but mostly because the job is just… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I've read that thread a number of times, and I honestly can't see that any of the commenters who use variations on the phrase or sentiment (which as MollyRealized says is being used in its broader sense of general physical autonomy) are using it as… [more]
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MetaTalk comment - 7 months ago

I still can't get over the hump of paying a subscription for each individual site I visit Back in the [cough] magazine era there were very successful distribution deals, where you'd pay a fee to an intermediary who'd arrange with individual… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I think this is only definitional (in the sense of 'aid workers' being classed as such as a category of persons, and 'humanitarian aid' being considered as an activity). There were attacks like this throughout the 20thC—both the German and Allied air… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

[listens to Doritos and Fritos] we must prepare ourselves, for the Fourth Wave of Ska is upon us, as was foretold in the prophecy [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

4DAY / WEEK [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Coming in to say I work with chainsaws, and that's an very clean fell for anyone, let alone a child. There has to be more to come on this. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Tired: always thinking about the Roman Empire Wired: always thinking about cats Inspired: always thinking about Roman cats [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

FWIW the problem of generational dominance, and managing the problem of handing on power, is actually completely central to the problem of the original article, and when you think about it, in no sense a derail. A Martian or other off-Earth… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Exactly, dg, the suspension of disbelief problem is the thing, isn't it. Can I believe I'm watching a movie about a galaxy far far away, with battles in space and alien creatures? Sure, I suspended that disbelief even when the effects were made back… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

‘G’DAY MATE yeah good to talk to you glad you got my email. Need some details from you and you just need to go through the list and get me the responses. Looks long but it isn’t, no worries yeah you’ll be good ay. Anyway cheers mate thanks… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

I'll come in to defend 'no CGI' as a marketing movement since I, as an uneducated moviegoer, do associate it with the use of generated scenes in lieu of plot or character, and sometimes literally in lieu of characters. The tendency to substitute in… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

For what it's worth—about the 'legacy of a generation' that Albini & others are grappling with—the existence of 'generational' markers such as we're discussing really came into being only with and because of the baby boom of the… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Mars as an environment sounds so very hostile that the only people who could conceivably by successful there are people with a particular desire to leave present society, or people sent without a choice. The examples of kibbutzes and monasteries and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Advice I received from an electrician and mechanic which is, IMO, more broadly applicable: If you use a tool every day, buy the best kind there is, even if you think you can't afford it. For all the other jobs, get cheap tools on the internet, and… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

This seems like the exact niche that the R.L. Stine Goosebumps series filled. (You're absolutely going to have to cut off reading It before you finish, by the way). [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Dishwasher cleaner tablets or fluid are pretty good for cleaning out machines. You run them either in a cycle of their own, or with an ordinary cycle. The bad news is that your dishwasher almost certainly doesn't depend on the hot water from the… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Beethoven's Symphony no. 9 (AKA the Ode to Joy) has lyrics in both German and English, likely good translations for all the other languages of the EU of which it is the anthem, and is incredibly recognisable and pretty much universally known. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 7 months ago

You know, it’s ok for a field of human knowledge and work to be not formally ‘scientific’, and yet still offer true and even useful insights. That something isn’t ‘science’ makes it no less difficult, and no less a discipline. [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

creatures have a right to exist in accordance with their nature Well that's the thing isn't it, 'their nature' does a lot of work here. Rats and people exist in a fundamentally altered natural world, of cities and of complex food and waste… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

The fascinating thing is that the question in all of these (which is a philosophy-of-science question) isn't really about whether psychology works, it's about what psychology is. And as a way of understanding human behaviour it does work, it… [more]
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MeFi comment - 7 months ago

Last comment and then I'll leave it, as I recognise I'm here a lot. The social relationship of domination and of inequality is obvious to everyone, and inherent in the owning of the dwelling: the medieval origins of the term 'landlord' is the clue… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

FWIW all the things xdvesper describes are, if a bit landlord-biased, also reflective of the Australian context (I am a renter in it). But it's as I described earlier---this is a hell of a way to run a financial system, where residential property is… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

The thing that jumps out at you from this are a few things. First, that these people exist, and that they’re not always what you want as a tenant, or as someone with a broader interest in good housing for cities, since they’re usually… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

This is amazing, I will always read Hatherley. Great post. [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Also Melville had it: Bildad laid down his book, and turning solemnly towards him said, “Captain Peleg, thou hast a generous heart; but thou must consider the duty thou owest to the other owners of this ship—widows and orphans, many of them—and… [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

To me the issue is that you’d be bringing amounts of moderately flammable fuel inside the house, so the issue becomes isolating it, in its storage, away from the actual fire. [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

Alcohol isn’t going to help you alas. Only splashing. Here’s what I do when I, a huge softie of cold water, go swimming in the surf: get in up to my knees, then splash lots of the cold water on my head, hair, neck, back, underarms. Then again… [more]
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Ask MeFi comment - 8 months ago

I parsed this whole stink as him tweeting in a knowing, tongue-in-cheek way (or else why include a picture of the scotch?) and being taken for sincerity, but it’s the then having to deadpan apologise for it that far more humiliating [more]
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MeFi comment - 8 months ago

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