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kudra

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I like beets.

#UBI techno-#Georgist #4dayworkweek #ev #ebikes #parent #embryoadoption #auspol #health

Allergic to Friendface. Hoping fellow allergy holders & #Twatters decamp here (I was here in 2018! see: https://mastodon.social/@kudra 😅)

Let's decouple our ideas of innate human value from jobs, mmk?

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@wscholermann @Seagoon_ my sinuses cleared up when I stopped living in Melbourne most of the time - I still visit very regularly, but I live rurally and the difference has been dramatic. Not tropical, far from it - but I'm originally from Perth, and I developed a few different health issues when I moved to Melbourne. I think it's unfortunately got pretty poor air quality generally compared to many other places in Australia.

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@ajsadauskas @wscholermann @Seagoon_ I think it's a combination of different things, pollen, dust, weather, pollution: all of which may be somewhat more localised?

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@danwritesbooks @CEOofmyhouse56 my tip is: clothes dryer lint! Save it and you guarantee a fast start.

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@Baku comments/replies just come through like regular posts in my feed, so yeah it's a bit janky but I like not having to look at different places, and if stuff comes up that I can comment on, it's quite easy to do =) I love social network interoperability, even if it is imperfect!

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@RustyRaven I WANT SLIDES

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@Mittens_meow @Aradina correct, current radar shows more incoming shortly

timrichards, to tv
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Hilarious, I love a good debunking. Apparently those hallowed areas where people routinely live over 100 are explained by... pension fraud! So much for the breathless Netflix doco about 'blue zones'.

Blue zones: The myth of the paradise for 100-year-olds

(maybe paywalled) https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/blue-zones-the-myth-of-the-paradise-that-makes-people-live-to-100-20240229-p5f8mb.html

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@timrichards

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/audio/2018708179/dr-saul-newman-debunking-the-blue-zone-longevity-myth

and

https://www.salon.com/2023/10/01/blue-zones-have-captivated-health-and-longevity-experts-but-are-they-real-or-statistical-grift/

are two non-paywalled articles on the same subject.

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@Nath @CEOofmyhouse56 tempted to change mine to that, would be quite fun watching ppls reactions.

I've had the same ring tone for a very, very long time, for there has never been a better one created:

https://youtu.be/dJ0zGZ2t7xE?si=AiKAOhOW8BIn-Se2

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@Seagoon_ @TinyBreak very sage advice.

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@TinyBreak @Taleya I live half an hour from Moe up in the BawBaw Ranges and it's lovely. Don't have a battery sorted yet, but it is also on the list, as we get regular shortish outages.

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@Duenan @CEOofmyhouse56 haha chuckles in decaf moccona

kudra,
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@Reonn @CEOofmyhouse56 crap, what area are you in? I checked the outages list and it was still huge yesterday. I'm in a rural area that gets regular outages, but they are usually resolved within about 12 hours. But the amount of trees down, damaged or basically exploded on the drive out from the city today was... exceptional. I'm not surprised it's taking them quite a while to rectify all the issues.

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BEVs are functionally unfixable if the battery dies. The cost of battery replacement exceeds the cost of the car itself. As a result, they are going to lead a huge shortfall in available transportation options for the lower class. In reality, BEVs are toys for the rich. They are not serious transportation ideas.

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/02/bmw-i3-owners-asked-to-pay-over-30k-for-battery-replacement-and-one-gets-quoted-71k/

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@Hypx I am a relatively poor person in Australia, but I've been into electric bicycles and following BEV developments for years, and while I'm poor I'm still reasonably good at saving money. I imported a second hand 10yo EV from Japan. The battery it came with still had years of life in it, but I upgraded for range and will use the old battery in an offgrid home system. Overall my investment beyond the cost of an equivalent ICE vehicle will pay itself back in about 5 years, and beyond then I'm continuing to benefit from massively cheaper "fuel" and the vehicle will likely last another decade and beyond (an Aussie owned Tesla recently broke 700,000km, with a battery swap at 666,666km).

A brand new BEV from a different Japanese auto co is slated for this year with a brand new battery, which will be about 2/3 the cost of my 10yo BEV + upgraded battery. I'm considering upgrading to that.

Keep trying to tell people BEVs are not for poor people... I'm proof that is absolutely not true.

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@Hypx which part(s) of the above do you claim are gaslighting? Are you saying I can't possibly be poor simply because I own a BEV? In global terms, sure, but compared to the average Australian, I'm in the bottom quarter.

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@Hypx correct. Anyone below that isn't in the market for a hydrogen car either you know.

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@Hypx no, they probably won't. The chemists who work in this area absolutely disagree. Hydrogen may yet have breakthroughs, and in that case, I'll definitely be promoting them. But not at this stage. The new tech that Toyota recently unveiled where you just fill the car with water and the hydrogen is created onboard is may have potential, for example. It reminds me a bit of the Delorean powered by garbage in Back To The Future, haha. But the way hydrogen cars work currently, they are not cheaper, and they are nowhere near as practical as a BEV you can charge at home. You can get a BEV and be completely fairly independent even in a country without infrastructure, which is why Ethiopia has already banned import of ICE vehicles. Hydrogen vehicle tech and infrastructure as it is currently will continue to have the same (& worse) issues as ICE tech & infrastructure.

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@wscholermann @melbaboutown I usually have my AC cooling at 22 as well.

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@PeelerSheila @melbaboutown oh this is me too, I have the excuse of only just finishing renovations when I got an excruciating herniated disc, which took about 3 months to almost heal... and then promptly another disc popped. Am only now starting to feel like the surfaces might get cleared again as the post-reno reorganising is only just in the last week really starting to resolve.

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@Thornburywitch @wscholermann there are several other GLP-1 agonists available. They are just as effective for weight loss and actually work better for some people. Chemists are generally only filling ozempic scripts if they are not being prescribed off-label, at least until the shortage eases. There are also compounding pharmacies that can create bioidentical product during the shortage, but Novo don't like them.

The GLP-1 agonists are also proving very effective at helping people quit smoking, alcohol, and a whole range of addictions. They are truly an amazing class of drug and generics will be available in upcoming years, which will make them much more affordable.

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@PeelerSheila thankyou! Sorry to hear your partner has ongoing issues - I'm truly not looking forward to the potential of this to keep reoccurring now its happened twice in a row with little time in between. But it has given me the kick up the arse to lose weight and despite the ongoing poor sleep and pain not yet resolved, daytimes are pretty good now, I am getting at least 5 hrs sleep (up from 2-3 hrs a couple weeks ago) and can function even though mornings take a while to warm up. My surfaces! I can almost see theeemmmmm!

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@Thornburywitch @Catfish liquid soap is waaaay more profitable. And worse for the environment. I guess maybe time to see if you can source your preferred brand direct from the manufacturer?

https://gogreenhongkong.com/2011/09/20/the-truth-bar-soap-vs-liquid-body-wash/

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@Seagoon_ @CEOofmyhouse56 I am new to the chronic pain merry-go-round, but it seems doctors who don't know you well will pretty much assume this by default. It's exhausting. I even had the rural GP who ordered my MRI which showed clearly there was signal behave like there wasn't really anything more he could do. I think he was a bit grumpy that his diagnosis of "likely tennis elbow" was incorrect.

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@Seagoon_ @Thornburywitch commiserations, and same, though I did manage to get a 5 hour stretch for the first time in almost 2 weeks before waking about 2am. Herniated discs fucking suck.

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@bacon ta very much!

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@Seagoon_ much sympathy, I'm c6-c7 and now it looks like c4-c5, as MRI 4 months ago when the c6-c7 herniated showed a c4-c5 which became symptomatic just as the c6-7 settled down. It's scary to contemplate that this might continue regularly the rest of my life, it's fucking agonising. Still haven't worked out ideal pain meds. Opiods do nothing.

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