This is eerily similar to the disinformation campaigns that ran during Australia’s bushfires. So many people were parroting the lie that somehow the Greens with no majority in government sneakily introduced “green tape” that prevented the firefighters from their usual hazard reduction burns. In reality, firefighters were prevented from doing hazard reduction burns due to the increasingly small window to safely do so due to climate change. The situation was so frustrating that the Rural Fire Service had to specifically address all the “bUt whAt aBouT HaZarD REduCtiOn bUrNs” during a press conference

Disinformation and lies are spreading faster than Australia’s bushfires | Bushfires | The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jan/12/disinformation-and-lies-are-spreading-faster-than-australias-bushfires

No representation without taxation

Disenchantment’s plot felt like a D&D campaign where the DM winged it every week.

There’s a reason why most D&D campaigns aren’t adapted into TV shows

Their voting system is somehow the worst of both worlds. It’s FPTP for rural seats, but proportional for inner city seats. So conservatives end up sweeping the rural seats, and also steal seats from inner city seats that would have gone to progressives if they have an FPTP system across the whole country.

If it makes you feel better many green index funds aren’t green at all, and simply manipulate their holdings around audit and reporting times, in a phenomenon known as green window dressing.

Green Window Dressing by Gianpaolo Parise, Mirco Rubin :: SSRN - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4459352

To add even further confusion, in Australia some stores have eggs in the fridge, and some don’t

boingboing.net 💀

Check if your state government offers any upgrade incentives. Most of them offer rebates for upgrading appliances, e.g. for upgrades to heat pump water heaters.

Broke: carcinisation is evidence that crab bodies are peak performance

Woke: carcinisation is evidence that crab bodies are a noob trap, because no crabs are top tier predators despite being so widespread

Microsoft sofficial “Bing Wallpaper app” does some nasty, malware-like things to Windows

Nothing weird about making sure people don’t accidentally fertilise their eggs

The dodgy western knock off of nendoroids

Power metal is more traditional metal but with clean vocals (no growls). Bands include DragonForce, Angra, Helloween, Stratovarius

There’s also progressive metal, where the emphasis is more on the intricate instrumentals, so some banda don’t do growls. It is usually less heavier than traditional metal. Bands include Dream Theatre, Liquid Tension Experiment, Symphony X, Tessaract, Haken, frost*, Porcupine Tree

If you want a good job just learn how to code!

Travodes

Well duh it detects AI generated images that are at scale and that snail cat is way too small for it

Sadly a lot of people unironically think that these captions should be reversed, because revenge = violence and that’s Chad af and helping others is for wusses, or something

Wake up babe new dolphin fucker copyoasta just dropped

Seems similar to factory mechanics using Google Glass to look up schematics etc.

Of course, Google being allergic to commitments discontinued it anyway, despite its successes in industrial applications.