thanksforallthefish

joined 2 years ago

If you want to purchase ethically then buy European owned and made as far as possible.

If not, then European made by foreign companies that weren't actively working against the transition to EVs (yes I'm looking at you Toyota) such as Nissan Volvo and Stellantis (the latter 2 are part Euro but not fully).

Only if you can't do that buy Toyota or Korean. Chinese as a last resort.

EU governments migrating off Amazon/Microsoft/Google and onto EU providers would go a long way towards supporting them...

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I could be wrong but I think you've misread it. In context they're saying it's crazy to exclude a microwaved caesar salad (the section about hot vs cold). I.e they think a microwaved salad SHOULD be included.

Now realistically what I assume they meant was microwaving the chicken before putting it in the caesar shouldn't make it not a salad (fair enough) but it's not what they actually said.

Edit to paste in the full section

"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes.

While people might object to serving a hot salad, it certainly seems bizarre and objectionable to exclude it from the definition simply based on temperature.

We conclude that this definition does not meet the necessary rigor for a proper salad definition, "

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 51 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If you google Tankard-Reist you'll find it's not a conspiracy theory - she has actively tried to block queer representation at every level in every way for decades

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I stopped at the line where they said

"This is actually a pretty strange definition. It includes things like a plate of mixed nuts, but excludes a caesar salad which you stuck in the microwave for two minutes."

Anyone who puts lettuce in a microwave is an abomination - you will end up with a slurry of slimy fibre and some hot water. I'd rather eat pond scum.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

A product recall has a specific legal meaning in Australia (and the US).

A recall means the manufacturer and the distributer have a legal obligation to promptly make available a fix and to do so at no charge.

Tesla in the US has also addressed 99% of their recalls with over the air fixes. They're still federally mandated recalls

Edit to add - and failure to promptly provide a fix in Australia means the customer is entitled to a full refund of orginal purchase price - even on many year old goods - which gives the manufacturer a strong incentive to not faff around

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

TL;DR meme is wrong. It's not the communication of information but the invention of specific technologies that allowed it

Space tech was well and truly developed decades before the internet was anything more than a curiousity.

Rockets are the primary underpinning tech of space exploration - invented centuries earlier but refined enough in the 1930s and 1940s for the Germans to put them into space en route to blowing shit up.

If you'd said "computers" it might be a better argument: while the first peacetime spaceflights were calculated by humans with pen paper & slide rule / log tables, primitive computers were soon brought in and helped in accelerating progress.

Same with exploration, it wasnt printing press in 1500s that expanded exploration (books had been around for several millenia before 1500AD), but the invention and widespread use of the sextant and accurate clocks allowed more precise navigation

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yep VZV or HSV is most likely culprit (although there's a few others)

Edit Not likely toxoplasmosis because it's not usually necrotising, it's retinitising and lesions, but also not an opthamologist so what do I know either lol :-)

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can strike off toxoplasmosis as well.

Most likely a virus although fungal infections could also do it

https://eyewiki.org/Acute_Retinal_Necrosis

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ahh righto, I sit corrected

Just looked at the pictures again, yeah sorry utter brain fade they're not even similar - lol - sorry.

[–] thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The top one is the fasces that the name fascism is derived from in Italian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces

The bottom one is the sonnenrad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sun_(symbol)

Lol yeah that's been done. Someone also shat a big jobbie in several of the holes a few years back iirc

 

Aukus had a less than immaculate conception. It was conceived in secrecy and born in haste, a tribute to political opportunism and a travesty of disciplined planning. The enthusiasm of theatrical announcements notwithstanding, it was in trouble from the beginning. The US Navy had serious doubts about both the ability of US shipbuilders to deliver submarines in any workable timeframe and the ability of the Royal Australian Navy to integrate and operate them. That was not a question of trust but of capacity – on both sides.

And, of course, experienced and well-informed Australian defence planners rang the warning bells from the beginning.

 

Hey all, I know a lot of people are migrating to private torrent sites, and OK, that's a choice. However there are still a lot of people on the public torrents who are just leeching and not seeding.

I have several popular (old/classic) movies in my feed that I have uploaded (literally) 1000x the original and many more in the several hundred times. That's fine, I choose to support the community, but it's pretty depressing when I look at the seeders count and those movies have 2 or 3 other seeders.

This only works if you share. Please don't cut off as soon as you've downloaded.

And on a personal note, if anyone has audio or video files for "Machine Gun Fellatio" also listed as MGF could you please start seeding in particular

"MGF Pack 1"

"MGF+Pack+2"

"MGF+Pack+3"

If I can get the download completed I'll keep them up permanently, but unfortunately as they are obscure/rare I'm getting nowhere.

Rules don't permit me showing the torrent link of course. DM if that would help

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