MüThyme

Propaganda.

I’ll only celebrate AI when someone makes one without stealing all the training data

If you’re in a currently cold place, then it’s a reasonably good way to heat a room and make the energy do something useful along the way, instead of just running a space heater.

Ffs NZ. You were supposed to be my sane backup country for when Australia collapses

Pretty much any halo has the best menu music to me (I haven’t played 5 though).

There’s a lot of variety between them all too

I picked the worst time to get into print media…

I fully expect most of them in my country are too…

If there was actually some technicality that meant they were trying them in the wrong type of court or whatever, wouldn’t they just end that trial and go and do it properly?

I swear I’ve heard this sort of nonsense strategy before…

This is 100% anecdotal of course, but I’ve noticed weirdly inconsistent behaviour. I have one tab I permanently keep open for YouTube and that one loads videos really fast. If I open a second tab by following a link from that main tab, then it partly loads the site and sits there for a weirdly long time before any content even appears.

I’ve got a really fast connection too, and nothing else was having issues. This whole thing is bizarre.

Thanks for posting this OP, it actually means a lot to see someone talking about this.

I’ve been very lucky in that my pain has responded really well to medication, but I’ll never forget how absolutely awful it felt to be physically unable to play the games I love. I hope we continue to push for accessible features in games more and more, this is a great hobby and when you’re trapped at home it can have an enormous impact on your quality of life. Even just the social aspect of gaming is a huge benefit.

That’s literally the opposite of what it needs to be. I wanted to check out threads out of curiosity but I don’t want to have an Instagram account, so I won’t.

It’s hard to find first hand sources tbh, but here’s as close as you can get from the guy who invented it. They decided to keep it exclusive because of how difficult it is to work with, and because they just aren’t actually in the art business.

We can’t work with hundreds of artists. We don’t have that scale - it’s just not our business. Our business is to create engineering components for satellites.

Is Kapoor a dick? Idk, probably, that’s not my call to make. I just know that Stuart Semple is probably just as much of a dick.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/vantablack-anish-kapoor

No. I’m reasonably sure it’s a massive misconception. He’s the only person “using” it because it’s fragile, dangerous and requires some stupidly expensive and difficult process to apply it. It’s controlled by an aerospace manufacturing company who only lets him use it. It’s not something that can be bought. It’s not even paint, it’s a process to bind carbon nanotubes to surfaces. Kapoor has absolutely no say in who uses the stuff, and he sure as hell doesn’t own it.

Apparently the whole thing started because another artist (Stuart Semple, a known grifter) realised he could lie about Kapoor and sell his own paints if everyone thought he was the douche.

Long article if you care to read it, guy who actually made the stuff just doesn’t want to work with a bunch of different artists when he’s meant to be putting it in satellites: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/vantablack-anish-kapoor

For a lot of countries, immigrants are the only thing that will save them from demographic collapse

Yeah but I can’t lug my tower around on a train, now can I?

Again, it’s not dividing race at all.

There are two good reasons for putting it in the constitution. One, it stops it being repealed by the opposition who have a history of that sort of thing, thus it won’t be limited to the term of a specific government.

Secondly, Australia’s history is 100% built on disenfranchisement of our first people. Slavery, being defined as fauna, voting rights younger than a lifetime etc. Our national identity built this problem, our constitution should recognise who this country belongs to, it should recognise who this country has murdered, abducted and generally hated for it’s entire history. This definitely belongs in our constitution, colonialism stole Australia and it’s only fair to recognise that.

Solving systemic racial injustice is an inherently one sided thing, and that isn’t racist or divisive.

What is racist and divisive is allowing the traditional owners of the land to be trapped in perpetual poverty, with significantly shorter lives and with next to no hope of help. Setting up something to address an imbalance like this, to bring actual equality, is not racist.

There’s a fairly well known saying “when you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.” Things aren’t getting worse for you, we’re just trying to pull other people out of a hole so they can stand beside you.

Nothing.

The no and yes sides to a referendum prepare an informational pamphlet that everyone receives but there’s absolutely no requirement that any of it be truthful, so the opposition just openly lied until the whole thing died.

Actual information was obscured, fear mongering was rampant, the voice was harmless at worst, but could have been the spark that changed Australia for the better.

The point is that this would have given them a path toward voicing those sorts of things, directly to the people who can actually do something about it.

It could have been the start to a lot of great change, it was a simple easy thing to do

Generic “USB media players” used to be a big thing back before they were integrated into every TV, I’m fairly sure you can easily find one with a remote still.

It seems like a lot of DVD/bluray players still take USB too, we used to play off of an external HDD and USB thumb drives using our Blu-ray player when I was a kid. You can probably get something really good second hand too.

They aren’t only hair, there’s a regular tail in there. If not, they wouldn’t be able to use it to swat flies away