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- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 9 hours ago:
I thought my memory was failing me but it really was low key at the start eh?
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 9 hours ago:
TIL Tungsten is represented as W on the periodic table. But you lost me with the rest…
The “J” stood for statinum, as in, right the fuck now, playing off tungsten being W on the periodic table.
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 10 hours ago:
Well played :)
- Comment on How One Company Secretly Poisoned The Planet 12 hours ago:
Makes me more likely to watch. Maybe OP isn’t aware of Veritasium’s reputation.
- Comment on Machetes to be banned from sale in Victoria the wake of Northland Shopping Centre brawl 2 days ago:
Hackers IRL
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 2 days ago:
Firstly: regardless of the Nakba, the reality is that neither Jews (despite Hamas & Hezbollah efforts) nor Palestinians (despite Trump fantasies which Netanyahu/Likud seems to be unfortunately leveraging) are going anywhere.
But since I have Covid and have time on my hands I decided to read into some detail about the Nakba. I found this article which you may agree with except that you may not agree that Israel should exist in any form at all (in which case we should just end our discussion). I also found this article which you would find challenging I am sure but if you do read it I am interested in your criticism of it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🐞 Sunday 25 May 2025 3 days ago:
From the rabbit hole…
Both structures are created by cyanobacteria.
The name “cyanobacteria” (from Ancient Greek κύανος (kúanos) ‘blue’) refers to their bluish green (cyan) color,[5][6] which forms the basis of cyanobacteria’s informal common name, blue-green algae.[7][8][9][note 2]
Common blue-green algae has magic properties!
- Comment on Google's new AI video tool floods internet with real-looking clips 4 days ago:
Selling prosthetic 6th fingers will be where the money is at.
- Comment on Brian Eno, creator of the Windows 95 startup sound, calls on Microsoft to sever ties with Israel 4 days ago:
Is he calling for Hamas to surrender?
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
I will endure your thuggish language. West Bank settlers is another story and I agree there is much injustice there which even left wing Israelis are opposed to. Jewish settlers in Gaza were ejected in 2005.
I am not going searching that website for examples of violence which was not in retaliation for a Palestinian rocket attack or storming of the border. If you can point me to examples I will read.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
Anti Semitism can arise again. Conspiracy theorists have been scapegoating Jews for centuries.
Only racists promote ethno-states, there is no need for a state for every ethnicity.
I fail to see how Israel no longer existing affects the living conditions of a Jew in Melbourne
There are literally Nazis in Melbourne. That is why there was a law made a couple of years ago to prevent Nazi salutes. It is contained for now but it is not guaranteed as safe in the future. Jews in Melbourne would gladly use Israel as sanctuary if their life depended on it.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
Zionism is the belief that Jews should have a self governing state in the Levant. Not all Zionists are expansionist.
Where would you expect Jews to go?
Jews aren’t going anywhere, neither are Palestinians. That is our starting point. Wishing it was otherwise is pointless.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
Jews in Warsaw didn’t have international aid like Gazans did. Gazans did not not go hungry. They had peace except for retaliation when they fired rockets into Israel. What other disruptions of peace were there?
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
I said no children were burned by Hamas on October 7.
Some of us have balanced views.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
I don’t think children are burned to death. That was a false claim by some old Israeli guy which was debunked.
However your approval of burning children is disturbing.
- Comment on First Nations writer speaks out after being stripped of $15,000 State Library of Queensland award over Gaza tweet 5 days ago:
Are you talking about Hamas or Israel? Because Gaza had peace before Oct 7, although heavily policed border control because of suicide bombers coming out and rocket parts going in.
- Comment on Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use 2 weeks ago:
As explained by Brian Eno in this 3 minute video.
- Comment on Do you know the answer? 3 weeks ago:
It was only the next day that I returned to this post realising that “this question” isn’t even defined.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 3 weeks ago:
No different to most pop music.
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 3 weeks ago:
The gun was drawn. Why would a cop wait for the kid to take the first shot?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 weeks ago:
Not all tree species destroy sidewalks.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 weeks ago:
In Australian temperate climate areas we have the brush box whose roots do not cause these problems. Unfortunately evergreen, casting shade in winter.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives | MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs 3 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Musk called it a weakness.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives | MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs 3 weeks ago:
The Left appropriate the term “woke” from black jive talk off 90 years ago. That’s a smug term and it definitely is a major gripe by MAGA against the Left.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
I was asking about Senate but it is good to know about Reps too. Mind you, it isn’t hard to fill all the boxes on that tiny ballot.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
Like the last missing?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
You champion! That makes sense. Sorry, I didn’t think the video would backtrack to correct their initial simplifiction.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
If an Independent senate candidate (eg Liz) reaches a quota after counting of first preferences and she is 129 votes in excess. Which 129 ballots get preferences distributed?
Not explained in this video.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
Your faith in bureaucracy being sensible was correct…
this time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 3 weeks ago:
Thanks a lot. I am just one insignificant vote but it has bothered me disproportionately all afternoon.