psud

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

I really need to watch Donny Darko. It's like a hole in my soul that I'm missing it. Two holes. That and reservoir dogs.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

Trainspotting was great, but it wasn't a storm film

Have you seen lock, stock and two smoking barrels? (Also not a storm film and not a heroin film)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I recommend against being an early adopter. I'm a bit worried being a slightly late adopter of folding phones – I waited for pixel 9 – since I have already warranty replaced the two month old phone once for a complete failure of the internal screen (they said it was water damage, I replied with their water resistance rating)

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

You lost a bracket in your link

[–] psud@aussie.zone -1 points 6 months ago

Literally literally

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

I think we need dumb phones for kids. Good for emergency contact and not much else. Maybe snake.

I don't know when we should cripple them with smartphones

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

They're in orbits at different distances from the sun and so take different times to complete an orbit. Also we're closer to the sun than most, so circling faster, and further than Venus and Mercury so circling slower, so sometimes some planets appear to be going the wrong way along the ecliptic

Some planets are in resonance with others (for example orbiting 3 times for the other's 4)

So sometimes other planets are on the other side of the sun, sometimes they're on this side of the sun but the opposite side of the sky

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The song is called life on Mars, but it's all about Earthly things, so I reckon he was singing about Earth problems and only contrasting it to the highbrow idea of life on Mars

Looking at the lyrics again it seems to mostly be about a film, or films in general

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

I live in a valley so the Earth rises in the north and south

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I saw Saturn from a suburban street a week or two ago just after sunset, near the moon and Venus, and it was visible, though my elderly mother in law couldn't see it

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

They grow, build themselves out of carbon from the air. Live for a while (300 years for my local trees). Die, rot, release the carbon into the air; or they burn and release the carbon into the air

At best you replace forests we have destroyed and pull the same amount of CO2 out of the air as destroying those forests put in a hundred or more years ago. The main cause of carbon in the air is burning fossil fuels, so it won't help much.

If you're growing trees somewhere they could grow without special help (extra water, fertilizer) you're definitely growing trees humans removed in the past

You can do it by cutting down the forests you've grown, and regrow them over and over again and storing or processing the wood so it never rots

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 6 months ago

Expensive or not, the cheapest option is renewables. Coal plants in Australia have closed down, unable to compete with solar and wind. We now export our coal to China

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