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geordie, 7 days ago to random

"We're lifting the hood and getting into the weeds..."

Why are there weeds under the hood?

geordie, 9 days ago to random

You, an idiot: MSG is bad for you and I, like many people are allergic.

Me, wise and learned: MSG is not bad for you. "MSG syndrome" was a combination of Sinophobia, an academic prank and the introduction of higher sodium cuisine than Americans were typically used to from the higher amount of table salt in American Cantonese cuisine. Periodically a prize is offered by science communicators for someone who can prove they have an MSG allergy. It is lower sodium than salt by quite a margin (15% versus 40%) and its role in managing hypertension is the subject of study. Also it tastes fucking great.

geordie, 9 days ago to random

Ticketek sent me a tearful missive about their victimisation by evil hackers in which they secured their customer data roughly as well as a cooling pie on a window sill in a Warner Brothers cartoon.

geordie, 9 days ago to random

What in several hundred fucks

geordie, 10 days ago to random

When I do statistician work usually I’m paid via direct deposit from a commercial officials management thing like Refbook, but Manly do it in cash and you sign a sheet that you’ve received yours. This means that at half time someone comes up to the scorebench and literally gives each official an envelope full of cash and I can’t understand why it hasn’t caused a massive misunderstanding before.

geordie, 10 days ago to random

I have to go to Warriewood this afternoon which means my first B-Line bus ride.

geordie, 12 days ago to random

If we see alien ships trying to make contact we should nuke them because that’s probably their billionaires.

geordie, 12 days ago to random

Hello police? Yes I’d like to report a murder.

Kels_316, 14 days ago to random

being able to knock up an EMP is going to be a handy skill soon.

geordie, 14 days ago to random

Never forget.

geordie, 14 days ago to sydney

The gloriousness in #Sydney today pounds you directly in the apricots. #SydneyWeatherTooting

geordie, 15 days ago to random

They used to teach first aiders to leave a crush injury because removing a crushing force could release trapped body chemistry problems to flow around the body. Now they recommend get the piano off the dude, which always sort of made more sense to me. Continuing to be crushed is worse than any problems stopping it causes.

geordie, 19 days ago to random

AI is going to spark a new dawn of human understanding and the valuation of knowledge. It will do this by making everything you read online almost certainly complete bullshit, leading to a renaissance of people engaging verified experts on a commercial basis.

geordie, 20 days ago to random

Super farty over here.

geordie, 20 days ago to random

I asked for lidocaine at the chemist, the chemist immediately started acting like I'd asked for oxycontin.

"It's unusual to ask for medicines by their chemical name, why do you need it?"

"I have an ulcer on the roof of my mouth."

"You should use mouthwash."

"Weird that you call it mouthwash and not Listerine. I'm doing that, but it still hurts and I'd like you to tell me where the lidocaine is."

geordie, 20 days ago to random

Innovative!

From: @verge
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112486868652615309

geordie, 21 days ago to random

A lot of action movies have a central plot of a massive explosion from the bad guys killing heaps of folks in an iconic building, but in reality if you blew up a relative handful of water treatment plants, electrical substations, sewage facilities and all those railways stations that get real busy at peak hour it’d probably be several orders of magnitude worse. Just thoughts.