ephemeral_gibbon

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[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

They're little sea puppies that are perfectly happy to cruise around while you swim with them. At least that's the grey nurse sharks we get in aus. The ones you're describing sound more like wobbegongs or similar. The grey nurses need to be in highly oxygenated water.

Grey nurses also used to have a rep as "man eaters" but that was just because of how they looked,not any actual attacks

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 4 points 2 months ago

That's often the point of riding two abreast. If you are riding one at a time and on the edge of the lane then cars will often try and overtake you without leaving the lane, or at least a minimal amount. That leads to very dangerous close passes.

If you ride side by side or in the middle of the lane if alone, then generally the times you get passed by cars are much safer as if going fully into the other lane already they tend to give you enough space.

This would depend on the drivers in your area, but with the shitty Sydney drivers I learnt quickly to hold the lane unless it was a safe place for them to pass.

Also, because traffic is a thing it's very rare that I don't end up right behind whatever car passed me at the next traffic light, safer passes don't really cost much time for the driver once traffic is accounted for

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago

It's also better than v and much much better than 2042. It's a pretty fun arcadey shooter, with a very non toxic player base

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 13 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm kinda with you. If you're becoming filthy rich off selling access to content others made then you're fair game. If you're just doing it for yourself / not profiting it's a very different ball game though

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think the current thing is quite likely an organic uprising. Things have been very very broken in Venezuela for a while now and the people there aren't happy. Lots of people have been fleeing to Colombia for a while now and there are solid signs the election results were made up.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 7 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Over the past 5 years the monthly road deaths here in aus have been going up, because of the prevalence of those massive cars

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Not mostly, mostly consumer preferences. You wouldn't be able to sell them and it'd just be wasteful

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

In this case it's because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

The simple fact is that people don't want to buy that, so it'd just be wasteful to grow them out.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago

Nah, it's mostly because all the tech reviewers trashed phones with plastic backs saying they felt cheap. If you look at any of those reviews they always talk about the premium feel.

It also changed from aluminium to glass backs mostly for wireless charging.

Plastic backs are better, but the tech reviewers did a lot of damage there. If they'd tried to influence people and explained why particular made sense instead of trashing it we may have more plastic phones.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago

If they aren't absolutely essential for some important societal function the aircraft should just be grounded rather than be allowed to fly on leaded. No one's toy or joy ride should be giving thousands of people lead poisoning

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

If it's just passing the fire over the nest it shouldn't catch the wood on fire, but it could damage the paint. You don't need the heat under the nest for long though, just long enough to burn the wings of the adult wasps

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Get a newspaper, roll/scrunch up a bit, light it on fire and hold it beneath the nest. Then when they try to fly out their wings immediately singe and they drop to the ground. Then you can step on them with boots. I don't know yellow jackets but that's what I use in Australia for paper wasps (which are very aggressive).

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