Ok rat sniffer, don’t you have gums than need bleeding?

Just regulate it.

you wanna be a bank over a certain size? cover 99% of the pop with atms within 15 minutes or w/e

You mistake conflict for confusion.

If someone’s terminal values are opposed to yours you cannot convince them. Sometimes people change core opinions slowly, but almost always by interaction with people close to them (i.e. where they have conflicting drives to uphold or reject an opinion). Internet debate me bro shit is pointless and just poisons spaces.

~11.5 m² for most readers.

I chose 2 spots in the yard that had awful, compacted soil and consequently shitty growth anyway. My reasoning being if I was going to so work somewhere may as well make it somewhere that needed it anyway.

I initially choked the lawn with black plastic, then tilled it a bit, scattered compost and seeds atop. I ringed it in non specific mulch from the local tree lopers, as many trees release growth inhibiting chemicals that might have helped slow the encroaching grass.

After it was established I stopped watering it, and it’s been left alone. I’ll probably need to spread some more compost, and we haven’t had a drought yet where it will likely need life support to save that cycle of seeds.

I mostly wanted to see how low effort unmanaged patches of garden replacing lawn could be. Turns out pretty, if you don’t mind scruffiness.

It’s worth keeping in mind though, if you want to feed people: we can just do that, we have the food and we have the infrastructure. Every person going hungry in a city with edible food in bins, produce discarded for not looking right and so on is going hungry because of policy decisions.

It is cheaper, healthier, and more successful to just distribute the food we already grow, make and transport than trying to turn everything into an orchid.

Let us return to the proud tradition of walled cities.

Aside from the obvious don’t zone floodplains I don’t really know what we’re supposed to do about this. Australians significantly resist densification of cities and don’t plan cities well at all which reenforces that resistance. We’re absurdly highly urbanised but in a sprawling manner.

We can’t really reduce bushfire danger much without massive deforestation so let’s not do that. It’s not really plausible to like build underground and stuff in the regions/rural areas.

There’s stuff we can procedurally get better at but floods and fires aren’t like earthquakes where you can build structures that are basically untouched.

Are we just fucked?

Yes I know what they are. I don’t see what this has to do with fruit.

I think people are thinking more that if you want to feed people just give them food you buy is more cost effective.

I don’t understand sorry

Lol lmao. The right to the fruit of something is literally one of the kinds of Roman property law that informs European ideas of property rights.

Fruit trees are mostly just expensive to grow vs other kinds and can be unappealing if fruit spoils or attracts other animals. E.g. you probably wouldn’t want to play on the grass underneath an orange tree on all the little bits of orange after possums have at it.

I think his portraits are legit amazing. Seeing powerful people portrayed in a very folky and crude but accurate way is quite thought provoking, a far cry from the usual imperious and dignified portraits.

It’s a bit ridiculous to throw such a tantrum over something that is basically just an unflattering image. Bog standard for photos used in articles in the news etc when the editor has a slant. It really highlights just how fragile her self concept is, how much she needs power over others. It’s also been fascinating to see people siding with her outside of the owner class.

Before doing anything, it’s important to establish the minimum amount of effort we’re allowed to get away with.

https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries ;)

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/covid-19/Documents/respiratory-surveillance-20240928.pdf pretty low levels rn mortality in normal ranges. In urban centers you probably should, but that’s also true in a world without sars-2.

the usa is an astonishing minority of legal jurisdictions in the world

Basically no Australian wildlife can or will seriously hurt you. There are some snakes which if you try really hard you might run into (for reference I’ve had 2 encounters with dangerous snakes in my life), a couple of spiders one of which is extremely common but not at all aggressive and does not roam, kangaroos if you hit them with your car you will be fucked up, emus and cassowaries if you go where they are and try really hard to make them angry, crocs up north if you approach them can be dangerous, box jellies up north will kill you if you swim when they’re about, dingoes in the centre are wild dogs so if they’re hungry they could harm you.

you can go bush walking with no plan and just some water. Wander off the track all day, and your biggest danger is getting lost. Avoid that and it’s dehydration or falls. If you stick your hands into dark crevices and overturn bark and stuff I guess spiders and snakes?

While I go about in public similarly to this because I just hate tracking, in certain situations or places obscuring your face with a mask may be illegal.

Also neat sunnies. For a while I’ve wanted to make a necklace with IR LEDs to just blast out cameras. Never considered reflective stuff for privacy. Obviously this makes you highly visible on cameras, but it’s a great tool for privacy from machines and mass surveillance.

I am wrong! There is hope comrades

https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle

It appears there are newer looks (some of which are featured in the image above) which worked in early 2023.

This whole thing is a bureaucratic farce but I’ll take what I can get. It is absolutely disgusting that the body didn’t investigate the referrals. People died over a scheme which was at least strongly suspected to be illegal by it’s architects.

But I guess people down on their luck don’t get human rights or something. Digusting episode in auspol.