teslekova
@teslekova@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 1 week ago:
Yep, reading your other posts about it, this is definitely one circumstance when someone needs to pick up the damn phone. I was falsely limiting my thoughts on the subject to casual situations, not serious projects like the ones you work on.
- Comment on pc port 1 week ago:
Yeah, I am gonna play it. Sounds great. Played halo when it first came out but only a bit.
- Comment on pc port 1 week ago:
Indeed. If you have an espresso machine you just pull a shot or two and top it up with hot water instead of milk.
Fucken coffee, black, straight up.
- Comment on pc port 1 week ago:
Because you like coffee and don’t want to carry a thermos all day?
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 1 week ago:
You think the person taking a pic deliberately lured the donkey/camel in there?
- Comment on Don't Call Me. Ever. 1 week ago:
Sounds like a you problem.
- Comment on "Don't unionize, just get a better job." When you unionize, you ARE getting a better job. 2 weeks ago:
Unionisation as a company upgrade is exactly how we in Australia achieved a huge productivity boom in the 90s without wages growing too fast or stagnating. Howard fucked that up in the 2000s in the name of business and both wages and productivity growth stalled.
- Comment on Languages 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like Australian. Or strayn, as I would say to a fellow denizen of this beloved wonderhell.
- Comment on A third so far! 2 weeks ago:
Also, putting society above the individual is not quite right. It is recognition that you should put the majority of individuals above the minority, instead of protecting an individual’s absolute rights above the interests of the majority. It’s not like society isn’t made up of individuals, after all.
- Comment on A third so far! 2 weeks ago:
The studies can be biased. But you are absolutely right on the main point. Leftists are just as susceptible to group thinking as anyone. However, nobody else in a collective group is any different.
- Comment on A third so far! 2 weeks ago:
Most of those guys are aging out. That’s what the stats show on generational polling.
- Comment on Everybody gangsta until the fbi bust in 2 weeks ago:
Do all this while being unfailingly polite and friendly, and the cops won’t even see you as a problem. Especially if white.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Just down there suckin that green furry Oscar dong all day. Every time we see Oscar, his lower half is being serviced in ways you cannot believe.
- Comment on They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. 2 weeks ago:
Some people fucking love self checkout. If you ban it, you’ll have disability advocacy groups up your arse on behalf of autistic people and others with social anxiety.
- Comment on The best salmon in 65 years 3 weeks ago:
When those lines hit your eye and the text is awry, that’s a moire…
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. You can tell yourself it’s a drug dealer, but it’s mostly a paranoid, slightly senile old person who’s been carrying their retirement around in their pocket because they don’t trust banks.
I would return it too.
- Comment on This Is Why I Sit Down To Pee Pee 3 weeks ago:
Who wouldn’t?
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 3 weeks ago:
The system. Is down. The system. Is down.
- Comment on Civic duty 3 weeks ago:
It’s like putting a lit m-80 in a durian and taking it into the jury room.
- Comment on Civic duty 3 weeks ago:
Jesus. No, man. That is not the right way to think. The consequences of finding an innocent person guilty are not just bad for that person, they are bad for the entire justice system, and the society that it serves.
I get that you are partly saying that to get off jury duty, but I just don’t want to let that slide. The courts are a vital barrier against corrupt cops, sure, but even upstanding honest cops could easily see someone as guilty because of their own unconscious biases or just the bad luck of circumstance making someone look guilty. It happens all the time.
My friend’s dad, now a retired judge, was the second lawyer who defended Lindy Chamberlain, and actually got her released from the bullshit charge of murder.
She was the famous case in Australia where her baby got eaten by a dingo. The cops thought she’d killed her baby, because she was “cold and unemotional” while being questioned. So they just did not look at the evidence properly, her first defence team sucked, and she got found guilty, even though there was tons of evidence that a dingo had indeed just come and grabbed her baby from her tent and dragged it off.
If the cops look at you and get a feeling you are guilty, they will act on that feeling. You need a court, with a process, to try and detach all that human gut instinct away from the actual facts, to find the truth of the matter.
- Comment on Civic duty 3 weeks ago:
Nice one! That’s like one of the optimal outcomes for jury duty.
- Comment on Update on the fate of Loki and Thor 3 weeks ago:
Advice is always welcome, thanks very much. This one likes to make a mess too, throws seed husks at me while feeding. 😄
- Comment on Update on the fate of Loki and Thor 3 weeks ago:
That was a temporary cage, to keep him in while I cleaned the big cage.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 3 weeks ago:
Certainly the politically active ones, yeah. Agreed entirely.
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- Comment on Thor and Loki aren't making any more eggs. 3 weeks ago:
Update: I thoroughly cleaned out the cage in the backyard with a hose, after transferring Loki to a small budgie cage for an hour and a half. He was quite pissed off about the whole process, as you’d expect, but is keenly inspecting the new rearranged interior of his big cage after I coaxed him back in.
I still feel rotten about how bad it got, and how Thor died because I let it get that bad. There were significant layers of old shit mixed with seed husks in the tray under the cage, and it would have been harbouring bacteria, mold, etc, and drifting through the air, increasing infection risk for those poor birds.
I have extensive mental health issues, and they cause me to neglect large parts of my life, but as others here have rightly pointed out, that does not in any way justify the neglect of someone else whose welfare is my responsibility.
I’ve cleaned the cage properly, and also rearranged things to make it easier to maintain that cleanliness. There’s butcher’s paper lining the tray now, easy to remove and replace every week. I have moved the water bath, the seed tray, and the water bottle around so that they are less likely to get fouled, but still easy to access and clean.
I don’t have a pic of Loki in the new cage, since I’ve given him some quiet time to recover from the stress of moving back and forth, but here is one of him in the budgie cage, looking like some sort of giant.
- Comment on Years ago I heard an Australian man say "vajoiner" and it has had a lasting, negative impact on my mental health 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Vagoinah is more like it. We sound a bit like a Bostonian got into a teleportation accident with a Cockney newsboy.
- Comment on Got er 3 weeks ago:
Do bearings have to be round? Or in one piece? I say we chuck it back in and see what happens. Machine operators are so close-minded these days.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 3 weeks ago:
Nah, man. Conservatives are the basic irritation of an old man like myself not wanting to change, because it’s fine. I finally understand the world and then these transes come along and want me to change the way I talk? Can’t they just pick a lane? Booo!
(I try not to listen to that urge in me, btw, and as a result I have accepted my bisexual self, got a cool trans-masc boyfriend at age 46 after a 20 year drought, had some seriously good sex, and gained a lot of fun new ideas. I understand conservatism, and I can respect it in some contexts, but I prefer progress.)
Reactionaries, though, they are spoiled brats. Instead of just refusing to change, they actively try to destroy what they fear. They try to control other people because they cannot accept that anyone else has rights. They are sociopaths, and they control the USA.
They call themselves conservatives, and they hide amomgst conservatives, but they are different.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, people always confuse reactionaries with conservatives. They are different philosophies entirely.
