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• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  The whole point of the existence of grimoires tells us that a spell, once known to work, will always work Or at least that whatever is captured in the grimoire will generally do the same thing again if the grimoire...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  Seems weird to ask for a non-Christian imagining of a Christian concept. But I suppose Ratana managed it with the Christian god so why not have an Australian conception of hell (other than "English weather and an English Prime Minister")....
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  "Hell is other demons" For some reason I thought no, hell is for children. And then I looked at the lyrics for that song and I thought... what the hell did I do that for. Sigh. I share the generalised...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Where I grew up water meters were seen as the alternative to gangs of university students roaming the streets negotiating with residents and arranging the issue of fines. There were real problems with the water supply, and it was going...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Are you saying the weight of the evidence is biased to one side?...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  what about polarizing it into intelligence (heaven) vs. stupidity (hell). Surely you mean heaven: unimaginative people happy to just be somewhere pleasant. Hell: surrounded by whiners, complainers, people who want to speak to management RIGHT NOW, and ... people who...
• Commented on Go away, Muse, you're drunk (again)
  https://what3words.com/ gets a lot more fun in a world like that. Sort of like a memory palace but with more unexpected exits involving terms like {arrrrggh} and {crunch}....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Was the original article written by ChatGPT? "it sounds plausible, all the right words are there, what more do you want?"...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCmlM7ho9s4 "Extractions and Ire" has a new video out. He's very Australian but quite funny to watch kind of backyard chemistry in action "if boiling it in concentrated sulphuric acid doesn't work apparently hydrofluoric acid might"... good, good, you do...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Australia has an awful lot of 3 TEU wagons, leading to increasing numbers of wagons carrying a 40 foot container and some air. It looks silly. http://nswgoodsrollingstock.com/NQAY.htm for example. http://nswgoodsrollingstock.com/ has way more details. I'm pretty sure I've seen a...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Inclusive or is a thing in English. Even if you're annoyed or angry about that, it's still true. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/95624/use-of-or-inclusive-or-exclusive...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Oregonians will have to pay $18 to $110 more per year Yeah, that's not right. If you're funding roads you need a weight-distance formula, not a "where does the fuel come from" question. That would also help deal with the...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  the need to acquire a vast amount of land from private hands. First get the supreme court to declare that the owners of that land are legally considered black, after that the whole process is a doddle. Or just leak...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I don't understand that three-wheel bicycle. If you mean the linked image, that's a tall bike being carried on a long bike. The frames are different colours. Thing A being the yellow tall bike, and thing B being the brown-ish...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  It was Pigeon made the machine for aerosolising flies, not me. I use locally made insect trapping widgets, there's one that uses a fan + UV light + fluorescent plastic that allegedly produces CO2 as well as a blue glow....
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  they had a much, much longer time to work it out There's a lot of circularity there though. They were able to live in one place doing much the same thing for a long time because they have a long...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  any part of the planet that doesn't have killer insects that have a special appetite for human flesh. Aotearoa comes close. Sandflies are the worst of the common encounters and they're mild by comparison with mosquitoes (which NZ also has,...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  (I meant ectotherm, I realised after posting. I even started with that then thought... that doesn't sound right, people are endotherms. Yeah, well, except that one particular specimen)...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  Someone who could suck the heat out of an ice cube. I have no idea how she managed to be so consistently colder than her surroundings but it's an amazing talent... if you live somewhere really hot. She could sleep...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  My understanding is that many older homes can't be heated much. So the bed either four post or cupboard style means you have a smaller space that's easier to seal and insulate. When I lived in Melbourne with the queen...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  ban short haul domestic flights where there's an alternative train journey 2.5 hours or less? In some ways purely decorative because the fast trains have already made the air routes unviable. But at the same time there's a difference between...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Thank you whichever moderator added my < :)...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  The point of those laws is to enable oppression. Or defend the privileged against the less privileged, depending on your degree of wokeness. There's blatant examples like the FBI and NRA being violently opposed to black people having gun rights...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  raw garlic doesn't keep mosquitoes away Apparently coconut oil might. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/10/soap-can-make-humans-more-attractive-mosquitoes-study...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  J Draper "Why We Can't Do Plays Like Shakespeare Anymore" One more < and we have an actual link. (and one of Jill Bearup's armour review grades/taglines is "just stab me now")...
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  Cornish pasties are the boring type of pasties. I was thinking less pastry, more nipple type pasties. I strongly suspect that the UK is going hard on "get rid of stupid EU regulations" without bothering too much about what they...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I have clothes for playing dress-ups, but the "business suit" thing is hopefully passed for me. My current boss wears polo shirts at best unless he's meeting with very important customers (or, I assume, attending weddings or funerals) and that...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I fear my "suit" is much like Charlies... I hung it in the wardrobe some years ago and last time I remember seeing it the jacket was dusty on top. This discussion has prompted me to go and inhume it....
• Commented on Fuck the Monarchy
  I prefer Freedom Pasties. Although if you're doing that #freeTheNipple is probably more fun. And definitely more fun that what JohnS is going through. "wow, bus tickets from 1985! I wonder why I kept those?"...
• Commented on Shrinking the world
  I assume it was likely one way for the South Americans unless they persuaded the nice Polynesians to take them home in a proper boat. They didn't need to make it back to leave a "genetic signature"* in the islands....