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PeterLG

@PeterLG@theblower.au

Australian : Married, Nomad, Sarcast, Pyrrhonist, Irreligious Unbeliever, Democratic Socialist : Info/Comms Tech & Management, Fire fighter, Educator : He/Him : Born @ 316 ppm CO₂

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PeterLG, to space
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There is some sad news for space fans today.

The little rotorcraft that could, Ingenuity, has completed its last flight after an emergency landing caused damage to its rotors. 😥

Having far exceeded expectations—5 flights over 30 days turned into 72 flights over 3 years—it will now go down in history, albeit only the history remembered by space fans.

"Over an extended mission that lasted for almost 1,000 Martian days, more than 33 times longer than originally planned, Ingenuity was upgraded with the ability to autonomously choose landing sites in treacherous terrain, dealt with a dead sensor, cleaned itself after dust storms, operated from 48 different airfields, performed three emergency landings, and survived a frigid Martian winter."

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/…🧵

Let’s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern . I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:

https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803

PeterLG,
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@GottaLaff

Laffy, thank you for doing this; we greatly appreciate it. Your sense of humour shines through while helping us slobs out here get an idea of what's happening. 😊

TonyStark, (edited ) to random
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I've been very fortunate to find myself in a nice career.

I know many people who haven’t had the same path and the weight of student loans is financially drowning them. I'm truly happy that this will do something to give back to people who put so much in, but can’t break out from underneath the system.

This kind of policy won’t be coming from Republicans. Joe Biden has my vote.

150,000 more student loan borrowers to receive debt relief beginning Wednesday:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/150000-student-loan-borrowers-receive-debt-relief-beginning/story?id=107395007

PeterLG,
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@floating

That's the part a lot of unthinking people don't get: "Student loans" don't affect students—aka kids going to university—they affect adults trying to exist in a world where everything is just out of reach financially. They hold back families and force intelligent, educated people into work that doesn't match their abilities just to survive. If they didn't have that debt dragging them down, they would be able to achieve so much more.

@TonyStark @Barbramon1

Ulrich_the_Elder, to random
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According to the "Bible" life begins at first breath. First breath occurs very shortly after birth. There is no biblical justification for banning abortion. They just made that up.

PeterLG,
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@Ulrich_the_Elder

That's neither accurate nor relevant. 🤷‍♂️

"First breath" refers to the Abrahamic origin story, that of Adam. The control freaks can point to multiple passages that refer to life commencing at conception and claiming that personhood starts at that point.

It's all irrelevant, however. The bible is just an anthology of tribal stories, nothing more; stories developed by and for the benefit of the patriarchal society in which the tellers existed.

We don't use Grimm's Tales to dictate our life rules.

What IS relevant is what women want.

benroyce, to Ukraine
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For those worried about escalation in , recognize that if wins, it is emboldened to go further. You aren't dealing with a rational actor in the leadership of Russia, you are dealing with . The best way to minimize the chance of WWIII is for Russia to lose the .

I won't tell you the chance of nuclear conflagration is zero. But I will tell you that yielding to nuclear threats only ensures more threats. Bullying only learns when it loses.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/02/27/war-in-ukraine-president-macron-doesn-t-exclude-sending-troops-on-the-ground-announces-missile-coalition_6562295_4.html

PeterLG,
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@benroyce

And, as has been noted elsewhere, Russia has already lost.

They'll never rule Ukraine again. If they had won in that 1st three days, actually beheaded the Ukrainian government, it would have been the end of it. Russia now needs to not only win a ground war but also permanently occupy and suppress a highly motivated population who have seen that the "mighty Russian war machine" is no such thing. They also know that European nations are strongly behind them, even if the USA is too weak to stand up straight. Nations who understand with crystal clarity that Russia must be taught that they are a part of the region, not its ruler.

@Uair

PeterLG, to random
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OK, so the child in me can't resist...

Mrfunkedude, to random
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The other day I read someone’s post who said that people on Mastodon are pompous, always going on about how great it is here.

Well duh.

PeterLG,
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@Mrfunkedude

Typical of the birds who escape the cage: always singing the praises of freedom, while those still in the cage fear flying out through the open door.

PeterLG, to religion
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It's That Simple.

My daughter, T, rang to vent the other day. Her 5-year-old, C, had come home from public school pre-Easter and proceeded to tell T all about Jesus being persecuted and crucified, dying, and then being alive again.
Now, T takes after us; thoroughly atheist; to say that she was taken aback would be an understatement. In essence, C now believed in the resurrection and thought that anybody who died could come back to life. It took a weekq to convince her of the truth (dead is dead and the bible is a storybook), but as we know, that shit sticks.

The same afternoon as the revelation, before the steam had dissipated, T rang the school to enquire, mostly politely, 𝙒𝙏𝘼𝙁?? C had not been to any religion-based classes and should not have been exposed to this rubbish/nonsense/garbage. The school apologised and said they would look into it. Apparently, other parents had complained, too...

Cont...

PeterLG,
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... cont.

The teacher, in all innocence (apparently) had been telling the story of Easter from the Christian point of view without realising (apparently) that children are sponges, especially at that age and in a situation where they have been told repeatedly that 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩.

Now, to my mind, any teacher who doesn't understand that shouldn't be a teacher. Or it was quite deliberate, in which case they shouldn't be a teacher in a government school.

The teacher apologised and the school closed the case but T is still dealing with the fallout, with C occasionally coming out with comments about people dying and coming back to life. Like I said, this shit sticks, often for life.

We're all born atheist; the real indoctrination is religion.

#Religion #School #Atheist #Rant

thesquirrelfish, to random
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Increasing equality & empowerment is the best way to get a better world. The next best way is to eliminate the rich.

Through taxes! I'm not a barbarian.

PeterLG,
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@thesquirrelfish

I, however, AM a barbarian. People who do not wish to contribute to the society in which they live through the medium of fair and equitable taxation do not deserve to live in that society.

That means elimination from that society.

That could involve simple expulsion, exile if you will, but where's the sport in that?

PeterLG, to LGBTQ
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Right wing conservatives: Homosexuality? It ain't natural!
The animal world: Ummm...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/feb/28/humpback-whales-sex-photographed-homosexual-behavior

TechBean, (edited ) to food
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Ok, this one is important. It's for science and posterity so please vote and boost liberally. Who has the best in the US?

PeterLG,
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@TechBean

Any vendor seiing them outside a nightclub at 3AM.

Can guarantee it from experience 🌭

PeterLG, to random
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Wow! No wonder the is going off!

The Kp index has topped out and indications show a G4 geomagnetic storm. Might be time to extend the scales?

Not a good time to be caught halfway to Mars.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/planetary-k-index

PeterLG, to Medicine
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One woman in the Bronx; millions of lives changed.

Doctor Gottsman, once a Professor at Albert Einstein School of Medicine in the Bronx, now Chairperson of the Board of Trustees, inherited $1 billion from her husband, with the only stipulation being "Do what you think is right."

So she did. She set up a perpetual trust that will pay for ALL tuition for EVERY student attending the college from August this year. Forever. A tuition that runs to about $240,000 for the 4-year course.

Just think: one person has, in one step, changed the lives of tens of millions of people.

The students will study debt free.
They will graduate debt free.
They won't have to work stupid jobs just to pay off that debt.
They will be able to concentrate on their profession.
They'll be able to move into research.
They'll be able to take on further study.
They'll be able to work for clinics and community medicine.

The USA has over 900 billionaires...

https://youtu.be/dFcVLyA2DTw

BenCisco, to random
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https://www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03/our-trump-reporting-upsets-some-readers-but-there-arent-two-sides-to-facts-letter-from-the-editor.html

PeterLG,
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@Blinxeto

"How do they not see it?" They do! The MAGA cannon fodder accept that Trump wants to be a dictator and endorse it. Numerous interviews with them at their gatherings show it time and time again. They 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 Trump to be a dictator, on the understanding that he will do right by 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

@BenCisco

DrALJONES, to random
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    PeterLG,
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    @DrALJONES

    No wonder Israel have gone on the warpath against Al Jazeera.

    PeterLG, to australia
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    Here we are, another ANZAC Day.

    I refuse to praise the "glory" of war, though understand its occasional need. I decry the utter waste of human life and potential in the pursuit of power or glory. I spit on the leaders, politicians, and diplomats who would rather stand on "honour" than seek peace. I revile the media, which publish stories of "glorious" battles and lie about reality to appease their political and financial masters. I hate, truly hate, the military financial machine that seeks profit from death. I weep in memory of those who died for another man's glory.

    Those who fell are not our "glorious" dead; they simply are our dead. Nothing more. Lost to us through other men's folly and hate.

    I praise the bravery of men and women placed in untenable situations by those who have the power to not do so. I praise the protesters who stand up for truth against the machinations of their country's powerful.

    That is my ANZAC Day.

    https://www.smh.com.au/national/the-missing-emotion-that-needs-to-be-articulated-on-anzac-day-20240424-p5fmac.html

    PeterLG, to scifi
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    Why I'm not an author, Part LXXVII:

    Reading a simple sci-fi space opera, humans against space spiders, mindless fun, and then ...

    The protagonist's spaceship has to rendezvous with a space station orbiting Mercury. Fair enough. The narrator talks about how the station has to stay in the planet's shadow. OK, that makes sense. Summer's a bitch that close to good old Sol.

    They then go on to say that Mercury is tidally-locked to the Sun. ARGH!

    It's not. It's rotation period is ⅔ of it's orbit period (88 days), meaning the planet slowly turns to toast it's whole surface. That's been known since the 1960's. Frown.

    Then, more egregiously, states that the station orbits at around 1,000 km from the planet's surface. WTAF?

    A geostationary orbit for Mercury (needed to stay in shadow) given it's mass and rotation period, would be 240,420 km from the surface. Angry grimace.

    Anyway, 🤣

    PeterLG, to Israel
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    No matter what your thoughts on the Palestine/Israel conflict, I think we can all agree at this point that this strike was NOT an accident, taking into consideration that World Central Kitchen had publically complained 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘣𝘦𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦 about IDF snipers targeting aid workers.

    This smacks of retribution.

    We have all, by now, seen what a small commercial drone "sees" when it is being flown as a weapon. This was a military drone. Israel is lying.

    Wen, to UKpolitics
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    Sunak's Election strategy writ large

    PeterLG,
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    @Wen

    A small modification ...

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    Why are foods so delicious* ... Giggles

    Hugz & xXx

    • Not tripe
    PeterLG,
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    @melissabeartrix

    Tripe? Tripe is the food of the gods.*

    *And they can bloody well keep it!

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    Choices, choices ... Which one for tomorrow

    Hugz & xXx

    PeterLG,
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    @melissabeartrix

    Frogs. Always.

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    Hugz & xXx

    https://au.news.yahoo.com/drivers-entitled-act-on-wet-road-reignites-call-for-major-licence-change-235521424.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=YW5kcm9pZC1hcHA6Ly9jb20uZ29vZ2xlLmFuZHJvaWQuZ29vZ2xlcXVpY2tzZWFyY2hib3gv&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAIibpNM9I2zZqeJQQgtZ_FZFQ5fHuHENpWXVHaDsTJP58k6HyN9KUdHhjWAMegjx64aU1QMTmUFWDdBpoCSlgv8UYcMZjkCQlWTv9uxIqZVxH3-5PtQPOBH-Vl4Sn4Cqv_jq89pCv5p8cEks3ZJ462QzzXsNYlBD2EmYWX-LW-bF

    PeterLG,
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    @melissabeartrix

    Speaking as a heavy-vehicle driver: Yes, absolutely, anyone towing a trailer over 16' in length or 2 tonne in weight should undergo extra training and a licence upgrade. That includes caravans larger than the "teardrop" type. There is so much that can go wrong really quickly, and learning what to do from a book or video doesn't cut it.

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    Just went out {Sydney} to get lunch ... Too bloody hot out there

    Stay cool

    Hugz & xXx

    PeterLG,
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    @melissabeartrix Penrith reached the limit for human survivability at 11 AM today – 35°C wet-bulb temp. Definitely, overwhelmingly, yuk!

    melissabeartrix, to random
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    I tell myself never yuck someone's yum ... This is testing me ... Giggles

    Hugz & xXx

    https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/creme-egg-easter-toasties-recipe-b2517841.html

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    @melissabeartrix

    I could have a go at that. Bit of a sweet tooth, I have. 😁

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