teslekova
@teslekova@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on The best salmon in 65 years 1 day ago:
When those lines hit your eye and the text is awry, that’s a moire…
- Comment on Don’t you lie to me 1 day 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 1 day ago:
Who wouldn’t?
- Comment on *landbastard intensifies at the right of replacing a 2 dollar light switch". 2 days ago:
The system. Is down. The system. Is down.
- Comment on Civic duty 3 days ago:
It’s like putting a lit m-80 in a durian and taking it into the jury room.
- Comment on Civic duty 3 days 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 days 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 days 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 days ago:
That was a temporary cage, to keep him in while I cleaned the big cage.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 4 days ago:
Certainly the politically active ones, yeah. Agreed entirely.
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- Comment on Thor and Loki aren't making any more eggs. 4 days 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 4 days 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 4 days 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 🌈 4 days 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 🌈 4 days ago:
Yeah, people always confuse reactionaries with conservatives. They are different philosophies entirely.
- Comment on Utopia 🌈 4 days ago:
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, this is exactly what AdmiralPatrick had in his mind.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Not necessarily. Haven’t seen them say that. They’re attacking state communism, sure, but that’s not necessarily a defence of liberalism.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yeah? How? Can we help?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
This is why I like sortition as an everyday working mechanism for voluntary associations, with direct democracy as a backup for when the randomly picked people screw up.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
It’s imperfect in both, but it’s actually pretty straightforward that the first three have more of the means of production owned by the state. So they are more socialist, even if they aren’t syndicalist, or another flavour of anarchist communism.
I praise socialism even when it’s just government ownership, because it is more accountable to the people than if it was in private hands.
You are right to criticise both systems for not being more communist than they are, but don’t be blind to actual socialism when it exists just because it’s flawed.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You might as well ask which societies aren’t some variety of feudalism before liberalism was invented. It’s not an eternal unbreakable system.
- Comment on I made the Tesseract shitlist! 5 days ago:
🎉
- Comment on Teserract may be opensource, but adding myself would feel disingenuous 1 week ago:
Liberal gun owner? Yeah, he hates that shit for some reason. I think he’s basically all “if you don’t agree with every decision made by the good guys on the West Wing, you’re toxcick!”
- Comment on Can anyone confirm? 1 week ago:
Well, it contained batteries.
- Comment on Thor and Loki aren't making any more eggs. 1 week ago:
Couldn’t think of any others. Thought you guys would appreciate the Thor and Loki slash cage.
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- Comment on Why do older files tend to have file extensions in all caps? 1 week ago:
It was good enough for the Kaiser!
- Comment on Anon notices a problem 1 week ago:
Yeah, but we’re not supposed to tell the humans.
- Comment on Saab or Your mom 1 week ago:
Whoa. That’s very impressive. A proper little sleeper!
