At a hospital again. I woke up to stinky meat next to me. They told me they don’t have vegan food. They’re very ostensibly rude about this. Had to listen to a long tirade from the room"mate" about how carnism is natural....
Tell your doctors you can’t eat the food that’s being given to you because you don’t eat meat. The doctors should instruct them to accommodate you. Failing that order a vegetarian food for delivery to your room. There is no need to force you to eat meat if you are vegetarian. Not everybody eats meat. Don’t tell them it’s “moral”, tell them it’s “religious”. If they absolutely refuse to serve you at least vegetarian food then throw what they bring on the floor and let the rude staff clean it up. You need to be committed to not eating anything they serve you by that point though and have established a way to get your own food.
Nah. Hospitals cater to vegetarians all the time. If you want your dietary needs accommodated then you need to be respectfully assertive and not act like you’re being victimized. Maybe don’t throw the food on the floor (that’s a last resort), but hospitals should - and will - accommodate vegetarian diets, you just have to find the right way and person to make the request.
Here are some snippets to save you reading the whole thing…
“Within months of becoming premier, Bjelke-Petersen encountered his first controversy over allegations of conflict of interest”
"three weeks after becoming premier, Bjelke-Petersen’s government gave two companies, Exoil NL and Transoil NL—in both of which he was a major shareholder—six-year leases to prospect for oil on the Great Barrier Reef "
“Plans by Country Party members to support a Labor Party vote of no confidence in parliament were quashed after the intervention of party president Robert Sparkes, who warned that anyone who voted against Bjelke-Petersen would lose their status as the party’s candidate at the next election.”
“Bjelke-Petersen seized on the controversial visit of the Springboks, the South African rugby union team, in 1971 to consolidate his position as leader with a display of force.”
“A crowd of demonstrators also mounted a peaceful protest outside the Springboks’ Wickham Terrace motel and were chased on foot by police moments after being ordered to retreat, with many police attacking the crowd with batons, boots and fists. It was one of a series of violent attacks by police on demonstrators during the Springboks’ visit to Queensland”
“Bjelke-Petersen praised police for their ‘restraint’ during the demonstrations and rewarded the police union for its support with an extra week’s leave for every officer in the state. He described the tension over the Springboks’ tour as ‘great fun’, ‘a game of chess in the political arena’. The crisis, he said, ‘put me on the map’.”
“Bjelke-Petersen began regular media and parliamentary attacks on the Whitlam Labor government, vowing to have it defeated, and he and Whitlam exchanged frequent verbal barbs, culminating in the prime minister’s 1975 description of the Queensland premier as ‘a Bible-bashing bastard … a paranoic, a bigot and fanatical’”
“Bjelke-Petersen also vehemently opposed the Whitlam government’s proposal for Medicare, a publicly funded universal health care system.”
“In 1975, Bjelke-Petersen played what turned out to be a key role in the political crisis that brought down the Whitlam government. Bjelke-Petersen alleged that Queensland police investigations had uncovered damaging documentation in relation to the Loans Affair. This documentation was never made public and these allegations remained unsubstantiated”
“television cameras captured an incident during the confrontation in which a police inspector struck a 20-year-old female protester over the head with his baton, injuring her. When Police Commissioner Ray Whitrod announced he would hold an inquiry, a move supported by Police Minister Max Hodges, Bjelke-Petersen declared there would be no inquiry. He told reporters he was tired of radical groups believing they could take over the streets.”
“In 1977, Bjelke-Petersen announced that ‘the day of street marches is over’, warning protesters, ‘Don’t bother applying for a march permit. You won’t get one. That’s government policy now!’”
“When, after two ugly street battles between police and right-to-march protesters, the Uniting Church Synod called on the government to change the march law, Bjelke-Petersen accused the clergy of ‘supporting communists’”
"The government’s increasingly hardline approach to civil liberties prompted Queensland National Party president Robert Sparkes to warn the party that it was developing a dangerous ‘propaganda-created, ultra-conservative, almost fascist image.’ "
“Florence Bjelke-Petersen (his wife) was elected to the Senate in October 1980 as a National Party member and six weeks later Joh was successful for a fifth time as premier at the 1980 Queensland election, with the Nationals converting a 27.9 percent primary vote—their highest ever—into 35 of the parliament’s 82 seats, or 43 percent of seats.”
“In 1984 Bjelke-Petersen was created a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) for ‘services to parliamentary democracy’. Author Evan Whitton suggests the premier had made the nomination himself.”
“A ‘Joh for PM’ campaign was conceived in late 1985, driven largely by a group of Gold Coast property developers, promoting Bjelke-Petersen as the most effective conservative challenger to Labor Prime Minister Bob Hawke, and at the 1986 Queensland election he recorded his biggest electoral win ever, winning 49 of the state’s 89 seats with 39.6 percent of the primary vote.”
Published Feb 19, 2023 12:37 PM by The Maritime Executive
Sailing cargo ships are making a genuine comeback. Japanese bulk carrier MOL is operating a wind-assisted ship. American food giant Cargill is working with Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie to deploy WindWings on its routes. Swedish shipping company Wallenius is aiming for Oceanbird to cut emissions by up to 90%. The French start-up Zephyr & Borée has built the Canopée, which will transport parts of European Space Agency’s Ariane 6 rocket this year.
Nup to YouTube videos so didn’t watch - but you cannot possibly hate vim if you started with vi.
Edited to add that Edlin was even worse than vi, but apparently Microsoft is still shipping it. It was released 44 years ago. Now I shall return to contemplation of the great void that lies ahead. Have a nice day.
I think the ‘1973’ is supposed to be ‘1937’, even though that is the title at this web page: www.max-ernst.com/the-triumph-of-surrealism.jsp - the text describes it as 1937 - and this style was a response to rising fascism, which presumably seemed disorienting and surreal - just as it does today.
Two male bodies have been recovered from the River Thames as police search for a suspect who severely injured a “vulnerable” woman and her two young daughters in a chemical assault....
I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I’ve mainly dealt with Windows. I’ve worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able...
I find myself writing many pieces of documentation, justifications, emails, and notes. I’m just wondering what other people’s experience is with writing in a professional setting.
<span style="color:#323232;">Alas! The backups failed, so now
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">The system's down, the password's wrong
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">And all the mounts are also hung
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">It used to work - I don't know how
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Vegan at a hospital: not respected
At a hospital again. I woke up to stinky meat next to me. They told me they don’t have vegan food. They’re very ostensibly rude about this. Had to listen to a long tirade from the room"mate" about how carnism is natural....
Dutch firm Meatable can turn pig stem cells into sausages 60 times faster than farmers can rear pigs. (tech.eu)
Windows Notepad’s midlife renaissance continues with spellcheck and autocorrect (arstechnica.com)
Now Windows' only built-in text editor, there's more room for Notepad to grow.
Australia will never elect a Donald Trump – and it’s due to one national trait[: our culture of not getting too big for your boots] (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
Archive/non-paywall link.
Tampa man wrongfully imprisoned for nearly four decades to receive $14m (www.theguardian.com)
Robert DuBoise, sentenced over a 1983 rape and murder he did not commit, says he hopes others in his position now ‘get justice’...
Could it be that I just have horrible taste? No, it's the market that's wrong! (lemmy.today)
Normal people at the pool (i.redd.it)
Israeli rappers call for death of Dua Lipa, Bella Hadid and Mia Khalifa in chart-topping anthem (www.independent.co.uk)
The headline has been altered by independent....
To keep trade flowing, the US is now using aircraft carriers to move containers around the globe (sh.itjust.works)
The Making of VIM: The Most Beloved and Hated Text Editor of All Time (youtu.be)
Bit of Amiga in that history!
“I will be damned if I’m going to give another nickel to the Netanyahu government” - Bernie Sanders (www.thenation.com)
I need a Fediverse slogan
I’m working on a presentation about the Fediverse, and would like to end the presentation with a slogan. Any ideas?...
Jordan Klepper Interviewing Trump and Haley Supporters (fascinating as always) (www.youtube.com)
Pro-Palestinian protesters block traffic on Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (www.cbsnews.com)
A pro-Palestinian protest action briefly blocked all traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco Wednesday morning....
Argentinian President calls for destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque (www.jordannews.jo)
The Triumph of Surrealism - Max Ernst (1937) (www.max-ernst.com)
Two ‘unexpected’ bodies recovered from Thames in search for Abdul Ezedi (www.theguardian.com)
Two male bodies have been recovered from the River Thames as police search for a suspect who severely injured a “vulnerable” woman and her two young daughters in a chemical assault....
I tried, I really did
I’ve been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I’ve mainly dealt with Windows. I’ve worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able...
How much do you write?
I find myself writing many pieces of documentation, justifications, emails, and notes. I’m just wondering what other people’s experience is with writing in a professional setting.
The probability of losing your life to a cosmic ray bit-flip is increasing daily
Everest Climbers To Bring Poop Down With Them As Mountain Starts To Stink (www.iflscience.com)