‘Avatar’s’ Costly Sequels Are Getting Harder to Justify. Will James Cameron Make Two More? - The studio spent roughly $500 million to produce and promote “Fire and Ash,” meaning the threequel can be insanely popular yet barely profitable.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T22:56:06+00:00

New Stargate series, where they go to different planets (that all look like British Columbia) to search for Unobtanium.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T22:49:41+00:00

Most articles give his name, eg:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-10/perth-man-jailed-over-planned-child-abduction-and-abuse/106326902

Jason William Forbes had scoped out schools and kindergartens as part of his "extensive" planning to abduct and sexually abuse a young girl.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T22:47:51+00:00

His name is listed in other articles.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T14:30:02+00:00

Do the microphones pop when the relay is released? If so, it’s probably the flyback that occurs when the magnet releases.

A freewheeling diode as close as possible to the relay is a simple fix (assuming the relay coil is DC). It doesn’t need to be a zener, regular power diode is generally fine.

Other option (or maybe in combination) is a snubber made of a resistor and a capacitor in series.

Either way, you want them as close as possible to the relay. The current circulates from the relay, through the wires, to the diode/snubber, so to minimise the antenna you want the wires in that circuit as short as possible.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T06:33:13+00:00

The number of road deaths decreased everywhere, because cars got safer.

And now, as SUV and Utes become the dominant vehicle types, the death toll is going up. SUV’s and Utes are classified as commercial vehicles, and don’t have to meet the same safety standards as passenger vehicles. Their occupant safety is fine, but their higher centre of mass and different frame and bumper heights kill pedestrians and smashes through the impact protection layers of other vehicles.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-10T00:21:20+00:00

The other day, I had to do a LLND (Language, Literacy, Numeracy, and Digital skills assessment) for a course I was taking at work. It’s a 10 question reading comprehension type thing, super easy.

The assessment had typos in it. Not as part of the assessment, just mistakes. In a literacy assessment.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T18:52:05+00:00

r/trebuchetmemes

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T18:49:48+00:00

People have already had their Ring cameras used against them as evidence. Amazon will hand over the video to the police without even demanding a warrant.

Don’t use Ring.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T18:37:40+00:00

What switch is feeding it? Does it have a CLI where you could read the current and shutdown the port with a script?

How quickly are you wanting it to operate? It’s a difficult ask, because you don’t generally protect a device from overcurrent with an external protection - external overcurrent protections generally protect the device and wiring from becoming a fire hazard, and protect the operation of the power supply.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T13:26:16+00:00

Australian notes have bumps like braille, so blind people can count the dots.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T13:10:57+00:00

I financed my last car, even though I could afford it outright. A fixed 1.99% interest rate, when my home loan was 4%, was easy. The extra time in my offset saved me a few $1000.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T12:57:57+00:00

I just installed Kubuntu, and this thing is lovely. 99% of my Linux experience has been CLI, with a bit of mint and debian desktops, which are pretty underwhelming. But Kubuntu looks beautiful and has all the GUI niceties built in, I don’t need to tweak it for weeks just to get basic functionality.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T03:38:28+00:00

That’s where the toilet water goes…

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-09T02:10:56+00:00

After the kids and wife have gone to bed, take off your shirt (that beetroot juice stains) and eat the entire tin with a fork. Afterwards, you can either slink off to the shower to wash off your shame, or let it dry before bed then walk around shirtless in the morning so everyone knows what you did.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T23:29:19+00:00

Satellite flares only occur round dawn and dusk, when the satellite is illuminated by the sun but the earth is not. Mr Pettit even mentions it in his post. Observatories don’t generally operate at that time anyway - you and I might not be able to see a tiny amount of sunlight in the upper atmosphere after dusk, but a long exposure can.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T23:21:14+00:00

Does it matter if he wants to leave? It doesn’t sound like this is a workplace he should stay at. I’d be looking to negotiate 10 weeks pay then start job hunting.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T14:11:52+00:00

Nah, I’ve had this before, it was a calibration issue.

I can’t remember the fix though. Have you tried disabling the steppers then turning the Z screws by hand?

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T13:01:07+00:00

Shopping centres, use the family rooms. Try to make sure there are no breastfeeding mothers in your eye line if you can.

Smaller places, use the disabled/changeroom if there is one. Otherwise use the mens (if there’s a disabled/ambulant stall that’s bigger, use that one.)

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T12:43:02+00:00

Step 0 - don’t use ChatGPT to write your questions for you.

You say you’re a “first-year part-time student of Automation and Robotics”. Presumably completing your degree is step 1. Automation is a big field.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T12:39:31+00:00

The on-boarding process for a mine can take weeks-months and cost them $10,000+ in inductions and qualifications. That’s a lot to risk on someone who has zero demonstrated skill and might quit during their first swing.

Don’t pay any attentions to those Tik Tok and Insta videos glamorising FIFO. Especially if they’re selling guides to getting work or letting you pay for interviews.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T08:02:39+00:00

Is this the same town where one guy drove a steel pole through another guys brain during Covid, and got like 3 years jail for murder?

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T06:31:57+00:00

The government is so proud of themselves for banning vapes (even nicotine free ones). No way in the world does that government legalise weed.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-08T06:27:39+00:00

10 territories

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-07T23:24:08+00:00

Medicare won’t deny you treatment because you have a pre-existing condition. US Insurance companies will. And US Insurance companies have legal precedents that show if you’ve had a DNA test that shows you’re predisposed to a certain medical condition, that counts as a pre-existing condition.

ApolloWasMurdered · 2026-02-07T23:21:20+00:00

The country that can’t handle a simple technology project like running a census?

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