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maxthyme

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I'm a woodworker and such. (He/Him)

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dgar, to random
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The thing is about Australian wildlife is that most Aussie animals won’t back down from a fight, but most of them don’t go looking for a fight either.

If you’re worried about visiting Australia because of our deadly fauna, here’s a hint. If you see an Australian animal, walk away from it.

A kangaroo has trouble disemboweling a retreating person because its attack involves rocking back on its tail and kicking you with both feet. It’s not really able to do any damage on something that’s moving away.

Magpies will generally let you know where their territory is, and if you stay out of it while they’re nesting, they won’t knock a hole in your head.

You literally have to get in the water to be bothered by sharks or crocodiles. Swim where the locals swim.

Snakes and spiders are about the only thing that you might happen upon by surprise and they tend to be happy to let you leave, but will happily fuck you up in self defence.

Y’see, Aussie wildlife mostly kills idiots who approach it, try to pat it, or catch it. Our animals mostly kill and maim stupid people.

I guess, my point is, we don’t have anything like lions or bears that will chase you down, pull you out of your car and tear you to pieces.

Also, the chances of being shot in this country is almost non existent.

Australia’s a pretty safe place to visit, comparatively.

maxthyme,
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@dgar I notice you didn't mention drop bears, or blue ring octopus, pretty suspicious if you ask me.

The spiders bit is totally true though, odds are if it's too big to ignore it's a huntsman, they're big goofy cheetahs that are only dangerous to anything smaller than they are, you can just let them out into the bushes or ignore them and let them kill stuff for you.

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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The Dungeon Master cackles sinisterly, and tells the players "When you regain consciousness, this is what you see..."

maxthyme,
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@nyrath Oh crap, on a scale from 1 to Berserk we're screwed huh?

impactology, (edited ) to random
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Is there a term for a person who eschews association or affinity for any social category identity marker — race, class, caste, age, gender, disability, sexual identity, geographic region, occupation, nation, ethnicity

Who doesn't see identity or culture as incommensurable but as processual, in flux unfolding moment by moment in interactions instead of a static thing we inhabit & rather believes in construction of identity via shared interests (like no domination, no imposed coercive hierarchy)

maxthyme,
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@impactology Free?

mvario, to random
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How Much of My U.S. Taxes in 2023 Went to Israel’s Gaza War

https://theintercept.com/2023/12/28/israel-us-taxes-gaza-war/

maxthyme,
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@mvario I mean, none? The federal government doesn't gather taxes into a big pile and push it around to fund stuff. It issues the currency so it just spends money into existence and taxes it back out of circulation. It is absurd to imagine it having to collect currency it issues to fund itself.

donni, to random
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I think you’re cool if you’re still awake, living in the moment, punishing your future self

maxthyme,
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@donni What has my future self ever done for me, that jerk isn't even here yet, lazy!

maxthyme, to random
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WELCOME TO AMERICA!

Are those fireworks or gunshots?

It's christmas so, could go either way!

maxthyme,
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@Daojoan We're doing, for sure.

Meyerweb, to random
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We have done our parental duty and introduced our child to another classic Christmas movie.

maxthyme,
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@Meyerweb Next year do Batman Returns!

nixCraft, to random
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Hello followers and bots: After six months of hard work, today I’m finally introducing my startup

Check it out 👇
https://127.0.0.1:3000

maxthyme,
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@nixCraft squints suspiciously

I know I shouldn't but why not!

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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Trump just filed his opening brief in the immunity appeal in DC circuit court of appeal.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.40415/gov.uscourts.cadc.40415.1208582803.0_3.pdf

It's late but I just had to start reading (morbid curiosity)

Paragraph #1: He tells the court that if he can be indicted there will be no end to it. Presidents will be indicted for decades! It will be a parade of horribles!

(Assumption: This is a purely political.)

#2 is the doozy.
Basically, Dear Court: You have no power to sit in judgment of MEEEE.

It's laughably absurd.
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maxthyme,
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@Teri_Kanefield @mmaniac90 I was thinking of the King of Rohan while possessed when he laughs and says the same line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwkQbGamtvQ

augieray, to random
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A brief history of people telling me I'm wrong, panicky, and addicted to doom. I don't think I know more than experts. I think I listen to experts and have tried to warn people about the facts. It takes the media weeks and public health agencies months to parse information, evaluate it, and act. But if you really listen to the sources who've been correct from the start, you can know what's going to happen earlier than others (and perpare better than others.)

maxthyme,
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@augieray I was wrong back in early march 2020 when I suggested people should ignore the loud orange moron saying it's no big deal because he was "going to get tens of thousands of people killed" so I was just a few orders of magnitude off.

maxthyme,
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@augieray Yup, had someone ask me what they should do if I was right. Mourn early, because it is going to be so bad, and worse because it did not have to be.

ChrisPirillo, to random
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behold, the wreath of khan

maxthyme,
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@ChrisPirillo He gifts me... he gifts me and gifts me!

nixCraft, to random
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Oh god…. It’s already happening. Kids are having a hard time these days

maxthyme,
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@nixCraft If you smush playdoh in the hdmi port and close the lid it extrudes hair through the holes in the vga port.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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    maxthyme,
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    @ryanhoulihan She knew what McCarthy was doing and did nothing to stop her killing babies and undoubtedly harming the uptake on COVID vaccines with her stupid bullshit. Screw her and everyone else who enabled that baby killing shitrag.

    fribbledom, to random
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    We're doing ad-blocking wrong.

    Instead of blocking ads, we need to ensure they register being shown as often as possible.

    Drain these ad budgets with useless traffic 😈

    maxthyme,
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    @fribbledom Love this idea, but I fear any company stupid enough to pay for targeted ads is too stupid to figure out we're screwing them rather than think they're being super successful.

    JonBaker, to random
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    MOVIE IDEA: Tim Allen’s Santa Claus is delivering presents to kids in a cabin in the middle of nowhere, only to be mauled to death by a bear

    The bear happens to put on the coat and then has to deliver the rest of the presents

    It’s called “Santa Claws” and it’s a horror/thriller

    maxthyme,
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    @JonBaker Fund it.

    Gargron, to threads
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    If for whatever reason you never wish to interact with , you can personally block it for your account. This hides all posts and profiles from Threads, prevents anyone from Threads from following you, and stops your posts from being delivered to or fetched by Threads. Simply click the "Block domain threads.net" option on any Threads profile or post you see in Mastodon.

    maxthyme,
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    @Gargron Normally I'd be all for expanding the interaction range, but the whole threads "we get to use your shit for whatever we want" bit of their boilerplate is a big nuclear nope.

    doersino, to Birding
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    Who could possibly hate these colorful, shape-shifting, amazing creatures?

    (These might be my favorite pigeon portraits of the year. So far.)

    #birding #birds #birdwatching #birdphotography #birdsofmastodon #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography #naturephotography

    Same shot, but pigeon all fluffed up and somehow even more colorful.

    maxthyme,
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    @doersino They make those wonderful watery little noises and it breaks my heart knowing how many homeless pigeons are out there waiting to be loved.

    maxthyme,
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    @Metamere @doersino They are homeless, pigeons aren't native most places and the ones most people see were bred to be pets for like centuries before we up and kicked them out of our homes.

    We used to build them castles to live in, now we treat them like vermin.

    Daojoan, to random
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    the housing market

    maxthyme,
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    @Daojoan I would have said billionaires but this is good as well.

    augieray, to random
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    If one more person tells me I'm not an immunologist as a way of diminishing my warnings, I'm going to lose it. They're right, I'm not! I'm just a guy who's dedicated around 5,000 hours to studying research on COVID-19, tracking data, and evaluating risks. That doesn't make me an expert--it makes me knowledgeable and informed of what the experts tell us. What so annoys me is that the very people who say this to me are the same ones ignoring the experts who've been right for 4 years!

    maxthyme,
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    @augieray Being the person who listens to experts makes you one step closer than the people who ignore the experts, does it not?

    jsq, to random
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    maxthyme,
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    @jsq Ow, reminds me of the time I saw my little sister grabbing a scooter and a rollerblade and I told her she probably shouldn't do that because she was gonna break something.

    Then later when another sister said she was hurt and I sprinted down the street to see her, a big lump in her forearm, a scooter, and a rollerblade... welp.

    tenderlove, to random
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    I think we should be working on more blameless time travel, and instead of focusing on the Doctor Who, focus on the Doctor How and the Doctor Why. Time travel accidents are a failure of the system and not the person

    maxthyme,
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    @tenderlove Don't forget the American version: Doctor Huh?

    Gargron, to random
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    I've been brewing on this thought for a while, but I think it comes down to, AI has no place in the arts. Machine-generated art has the appearance of what it is emulating, but no substance. Like cake made entirely of fondant. Or cardboard.

    maxthyme,
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    @Gargron Doctorow said llms are blurry jpegs of the web, and I agree.

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