Yes, as a motorcyclist I’m always aghast at the speed cyclists can attain in relation to the protective clothing they don’t wear. I can understand why it’s not practical to wear abrasion-resistant clothing and a full-face helmet, but still.
Yes, additive colour theory is based on red, green and blue (RGB). These are the colours you see if you look at your TV screen very closely.
Subtractive colour theory uses cyan, magenta and yellow. In printing black, abbreviated ‘K’, is added for contrast—CMYK. These are the inks used to print the dots you see if you look closely at a magazine photo.
I think people are confused by this because they’re taught a bastardised version of subtractive colour theory, using red, blue and yellow, at a very early age.
I think the Easter Billy thing may have been a fund raiser for the Save the Bilby Fund, though I’m not sure. Did some work with them in Charleville some time back, as part of a student field trip looking at design concepts for what eventually became the Bilby Experience. Great people.
From what I can remember they’ve had good success in rebuilding the bilby population.
I could see this degeneration happing about 5 years back when our vice chancellor started calling herself ‘president’. They gave up on it after a few years but it’s very clear where their priorities lie.
I managed to get through the first book but it was embedded cultural mores like that that made it tough going for me. That’s probably a shortcoming in me more than any fault of the book—science fiction should take you to places that challenge you—but it wasn’t worth it for me personally.
Re: dickie for car boot (what Americans would call the ‘trunk’); some old two-seater cars had a third seat in the boot, known as a ‘dickie-seat’, at least in the UK, so perhaps it’s an old term that still survives in Indian English.
Does anyone know of any helpful tutorials? He clearly practices certain drills to be able to wing it. It’s not just a matter of learning one pattern....
It’s highly variable. They can do solid investigative journalism or shallow sensationalism. I used to think highly of them until I saw an episode on a topic that I was quite well informed on.
I read quite some time ago the foundation trilogy and “prelude to foundation”, and I was evaluating buying an ebook with the 7 books, (the trilogy plus the 2 prequels and the 2 sequels.)...
I re-read the trilogy and progressed through them at a good pace but got bogged down on the later books (which I haven’t read before). I think the writing shows its age and are a little longwinded at times.
Groundbreaking story in concept and scope, that hasn’t changed for me.
Some protestors I saw interviewed on TV wanted to abolish Australia Day entirely which doesn’t seem right to me. Many countries have a date that celebrates nationhood. Also, good luck convincing Australians to have one fewer public holidays.
How about we have a public holiday for ‘Arrival Day’ and another for ‘Survival Day’? Two public holidays are better than one.
Dunno what happened with that other user’s post, but I figured I’d post the correct article for them. Not really the sort of article I’d usually post or even read.
All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....
I’m not a coffee drinker but my partner is. She says she had two decent cups of coffee in Italy (two weeks in Rome, Bolzano, and Venice) but every day in Australia she has better. Australians are complete coffee snobs.
I remember marching against this stupid war and naturally the Howard government ignored public sentiment in favour of boot licking.
It’s so embarrassing how Australian governments appear to be so obsequious to US administrations. Surely you’d earn more brownie points by holding out for a while than being first to tow the line.
A few year back, there was a Netflix documentary about flat earther. They’ve done a couple of experiment to prove that the earth is flat which (Spoiler alert) demonstrated that the earth is round....
I’d also point out that dehumanising a subgroup is a powerful technique used to manipulate people. Tell people who to hate and you can get them to go along with anything while they’re focused on the scapegoats. Popular scapegoats include:
immigrants (taking our jobs while, paradoxically, being a welfare burden)
religious groups (Jews, Muslims, etc.)
welfare recipients (dole bludgers, a burden on society)
criminals (war on drugs, tough on crime)
Any time someone is demonising a group theres a good chance they’re just trying to manipulate you.
Nah, your just use your increased intellect to get other people to push the button for themselves, increasing the pool of intelligent potential friends available to you.
Actually this reminds me of a story I read last year where two people are in a race to massively increase their intelligence. Neither can tolerate the potential threat the existence of another hyper-intelligent person holds so it’s a struggle to the death. If I remember correctly they gain there ability to effectively read people’s minds by reading body language, micro expressions, etc., develop new systems of logic and hyper-efficient language to think in and have an entirely mental showdown at the end.
Unfortunately I’m too stupid to remember the title.
Punters are switching off the Melbourne Cup, with a majority of Australians reporting they have little or no interest in what was once “the race that stops the nation”....
Donald Trump removes video on Truth Social with ‘unified reich’ reference (www.theguardian.com)
Trump campaign said video using Nazi-era language was posted by staffer who didn’t see wording, yet it stayed up for 15 hours...
‘This doesn’t make sense. How much shopping can you really carry on a bicycle?’ (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
Archive/non-paywall link.
Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)
lmao imagine that
What did you get told as a child that you realised was a lie as you got older?
animals you need to know (mander.xyz)
The government ordered an investigation into last year's Optus outage. Now its findings are in (www.abc.net.au)
The report found a key cause of the outage was a problem with Optus’s 3G network....
Inside the plan that could rein in vice chancellor salaries and overhaul uni boards (www.smh.com.au)
When your iRobot finally achieve teleportation (programming.dev)
Bondi Junction attacker's interactions with Queensland Police 'forensically' examined amid debate over stop-and-search laws (www.abc.net.au)
QLD Premier Steven Miles said the attack gives “added weight” to the argument to expand police stop and search powers....
What's inside the London Tower Bridge? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
To clarify, I mean what’s inside these towers circled in the picture?
Chinese Science Fiction Before The Three Body Problem - JSTOR Daily (daily.jstor.org)
I notice Indians speaking English tend to speak very fast. Are the Indian languages simply spoken faster?
Do they just speak faster? Do the Indian words/pronunciation flow better/faster than English does? And they are simply trying to match the cadence?
How can I learn to dance/glide like this guy? (www.youtube.com)
Does anyone know of any helpful tutorials? He clearly practices certain drills to be able to wing it. It’s not just a matter of learning one pattern....
The cost of living with Coles and Woolworths | Four Corners (www.youtube.com)
Peter Dutton says Coalition will repeal 'right to disconnect' laws if it wins government (www.abc.net.au)
What a winner.
How are the "other'" books in the Foundation series by Asimov?
I read quite some time ago the foundation trilogy and “prelude to foundation”, and I was evaluating buying an ebook with the 7 books, (the trilogy plus the 2 prequels and the 2 sequels.)...
My thoughts on the Australia Day date
So, Australia Day. Here’s how I think the whole debate can be settled. We swap King’s Birthday and Australia Day....
There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article] (www.theguardian.com)
Dunno what happened with that other user’s post, but I figured I’d post the correct article for them. Not really the sort of article I’d usually post or even read.
People who order "a decaff coffee with an extra shot" - why?
All our coffee is served with two shots by default. We’re not some fancy coffee shop, just a motorway service station that makes coffee to go. We have some regulars who order a decaff with an extra shot. I explain thats going to have three shots total, and they’re happy with it....
Australia went to war in Iraq based on ‘oral reports’ to cabinet from John Howard (www.theguardian.com)
“The Marvels” and the Paradox of the Superhero Franchise (www.newyorker.com)
How did a genre rooted in weirdness and wonder become a byword for the normative, the familiar, and the mundane?
'Xi Jinping is loving this': Is a US senator's abortion protest threatening America's national security? (www.abc.net.au)
What happened to the flat earthers who demonstrated that the earth is round in the netfilx documentary ?
A few year back, there was a Netflix documentary about flat earther. They’ve done a couple of experiment to prove that the earth is flat which (Spoiler alert) demonstrated that the earth is round....
Assuming a button that, every time you push it, your intelligence goes up. The obvious and sane thing to do is to push the button all day. Yes? No? Maybe? Is there something that I'm missing here?
Melbourne Cup: most Australians have little or no interest in ‘race that stops the nation’, Essential poll finds (www.theguardian.com)
Punters are switching off the Melbourne Cup, with a majority of Australians reporting they have little or no interest in what was once “the race that stops the nation”....