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Tesla battery on fire at Bouldercombe energy storage site, Genex confirms(abc.net.au)
2 points by bjowen 3y ago|0 comments
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by bjowen 3y ago
The microplastics in a product don’t have to originate in a product’s final packaging. Things like airborne particles on the production line, filaments from filters and cleaning equipment, manufacturing swarf, and cleaning processes that
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by bjowen 3y ago
Without resorting to abolishing the family kitchen altogether (many years of church morning teas give me the heebie jeebies about foodborne illnesses around community food prep) - there are ways to avoid some plastic packaging. Depending wh
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by bjowen 3y ago
Has there been any serious proposal for hydrogen to replace reticulated gas in domestic supply? The cost to refit existing infra would surely make it less attractive than something like power-to-methane.
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by bjowen 4y ago
I just came across the article and came here to see whether it had been posted and I’d just missed it. Glad someone did, amazed it didn’t get same the traction. Amazed!
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by bjowen 4y ago
Yes. You might call the emergence of ownership that is contingent on the whims of a megacorporation rent-seeking.
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by bjowen 4y ago
Syllabic notation is harder to understand, someone talked about it above, syntactical boundaries are harder to parse, and the language’s functional parts - things like tenses and inflections, are mostly written in kana, the rest mostly in k
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by bjowen 4y ago
Vague memories of there being some more up to date one, henkan-something, about the same time as the “nazeka henkan dekinai” thing
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by bjowen 4y ago
Dated put probably not outdated - Japanese also retains パソコン (pasokon, short for “personal computer), which shows its age. I recall a Japanese friend explaining it in 2003, at which time the IME for kanji in Windows had had at least a decad
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by bjowen 4y ago
Downvotes, hilarious. If Mark Twain is more to your taste, go have a browse of an early 20th centry edition and see how you feel about teaching the language in that to your kids.
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by bjowen 4y ago
Encourage you to have a look at the number of different English-language translations exist of biblical texts and the kinds of debate that goes into discerning what those words mean.
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by bjowen 4y ago
Children aren’t exactly reading as literary historians. The tropes that have been lightened up in these changes are things like equating disfigurement with evilness, fatness with moral failure, femininity (in women) with virtue. Kids will a
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by bjowen 4y ago
The article is written from experience in one paediatric centre, when the pratice between different centres - and laws in different states - differ vastly. Information about people seeking gender affirming care in different places and stage
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by bjowen 4y ago
Will be interesting to see how this interacts with the ecology. Normally a complete shading like this would kill off everything underneath, which will mean it’ll produce loose soil and dust. In some hot environments it may produce a bunch o
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by bjowen 4y ago
Love that you’ve named it after an utterly charming little bird
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Deliveroo quits Australia citing ‘challenging economic conditions’(theguardian.com)
2 points by bjowen 4y ago|0 comments
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by bjowen 4y ago
Just. No. Leaving aside the massive pastoral leases, that is the ancestral land of the oldest continuing cultures on the planet. Mabo vs Qld was handed down in 1992 and the idea that “nobody is out there” was formally and legally abolished
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by bjowen 4y ago
> The environmental damage of open pit mining operations is nothing compared to the environmental damage and visual pollution of a large city Eh? These processes liberate vast amounts of heavy metals, arsenic and other environmental cont
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by bjowen 4y ago
Important advice is to be that amazing father. Breastfeeding is a huge time/energy drain. And if one of you is full-time working, the other is full-time parenting during work hours. When working parent gets home, that’s when their pare
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by bjowen 4y ago
No need to hypothesize, a perfectly anagolous situation occurred, ten years ago, in the US. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jan/23/lethal-injecti...
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by bjowen 4y ago
The reliance on using OTP by SMS has become worse in that time, if anything. Although these days they prefer to set up a fake Linkt website and phish the OTPs since Facebook leaked everyone’s mobile numbers.
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LG shuts down solar module manufacturing operations(pv-magazine-australia.com)
7 points by bjowen 5y ago|1 comments
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by bjowen 5y ago
Okay, you’re using that word in an unconventional sense. In your usage, the US Congress would be an “offshoot” of the British Crown. Movements that stand in opposition to a prior established manner of thought are usually referred to as some
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by bjowen 5y ago
The article makes this point and the headline which several have objected to does not mention rates of infection in the two populations. New infection volumes are also affected by the population infection rate in the respective groups and
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by bjowen 5y ago
Since someone’s done Hofstadter — Italo Calvino Le Città Invisibili or Invisible Cities. It’s a novel about complexity and civilisation and the difficulty and intangibility of memories, history and storytelling. It’s told in a series of 5
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by bjowen 5y ago
Others have said it already - it’s harder in your thirties, your existing friends have children or move for work, everyone’s busy. A couple of things I’d add - there are things like night classes in trades that can super fun as a skill to l
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by bjowen 5y ago
This is a weird way of talking about feeling. Do you correlate your sensations of happiness or impatience or satisfaction against normative models using objective indicia, or do you just, you know, feel them? When someone tells you that t
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by bjowen 5y ago
There are of course also people whose identity is non-binary, whose experience may be more difficult for cis people to understand, but are a better example of a gender identity that is not easily relatable to sex characteristics. I found le
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by bjowen 5y ago
There’s a lesson here in what “value” means. But - try to handle some fine gold one day. It is lustrous, but also incredibly easy to dent - drop it and it’ll scratch like a 2010s-era phone. It is easy to work, but won’t hold its shape. If w
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by bjowen 5y ago
There are occasional headstones with recipes on them. I love to imagine those aliens trying to figure out Aunt Naomi’s Spritz Cookies.

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