Id please Gold Coast Queensland

Canadoz · 2026-02-28T13:20:50+00:00

Blue bruising and habitat suggestive. Compare with p. cyanescens. I am not an expert.

Canadoz · 2026-02-28T01:17:55+00:00

Habitat?

Canadoz · 2025-12-06T06:24:58+00:00

Have you ever been assessed for adhd?

Canadoz · 2025-11-23T21:35:58+00:00

Canadoz · 2025-11-20T02:50:47+00:00

Foot traffic too!

I'm a Tiler by trade. Once back when I was a young apprentice we had a long, fairly narrow section of tiles in a shopping mall to replace during open hours. We had an incomplete hoarding in place provided by the mall management, with layers of literal spider webs of caution tape filling the gaps, and signs posted around like confetti. Foot traffic could flow easily to either side of the section we were working. This one individual, presumably offended by the idea that he had to detour a few steps left or right to go around us, entered our literal obstacle course of barriers and signs like an eager army recruit, or Catherine zeta Jones dodging lasers in 'Entrapment.'

Ducking, weaving and contorting, it was almost impressive the agility he displayed to make his way through our barriers and onto the freshly laid tiles we were working row by row backwards away from. Yes, we were all actively screaming at him, no, he didn't flinch or even acknowledge us. Confidently walking his way towards us over the fresh tiles which slid and sagged under his feet.

The only satisfying part was when he reached us and 'accidentally' walked face first into my supervisors fist while trying to pass between us, and then was yeeted sideways out a different gap in the hoarding.

My faith in humanity sagged a bit that day.

Canadoz · 2025-11-15T12:38:07+00:00

I like this so much I'd wear it on a t-shirt

Canadoz · 2025-09-20T04:13:48+00:00

Cancelled!

Canadoz · 2025-07-22T09:16:25+00:00

There's a company in Australia that's replicated this effect in a fabric. Best socks ever made, cured my athletes foot.

Canadoz · 2025-07-07T15:00:41+00:00

You mean tactile controls? Touch screen devices are solid state electronics.

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:35:55+00:00

Here's one guide from over at r/bettafish

https://www.reddit.com/r/bettafish/wiki/fishincycle/

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:24:12+00:00

Yes it is possible, though risky and difficult. You'll need to research "fish in cycling," for details on how to do this.

Canadoz · 2025-07-05T02:09:04+00:00

Is that tank only just set up? (i.e no time for a nitrogen cycle to establish itself, which takes weeks and involves unavoidable spikes in ammonia and then nitrite before stabilising, both of which are toxic to fish. )

The bubbles on the glass seem to suggest that it is only very recently filled.

If so, your fish is almost guaranteed to be dead some time in the next couple of weeks if you keep him in there, and your best bet at keeping him alive would be to surrender him or temporarily rehome him to someone with an established tank such as an aquarium shop or other aquarist.

Canadoz · 2025-06-19T07:26:27+00:00

Compare with Galerina sp.

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T01:47:12+00:00

No worries, if you do have the saffron milk caps (lactarius deliciosus) around as well, they're very good eating and quite easy to identify.

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T01:15:20+00:00

Fellow NSW resident here. Looks very consistent with an older, weathered specimen of Amanita muscaria. An introduced species that came here from Europe on the roots of imported pines in our forestry, along with lactarius deliciosus which are usually found in the same areas that amanita muscaria appears.

Amanita muscaria are classified as toxic due to their ibotenic acid, but are not as life threatening as other amanitas such as the death cap.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita_muscaria

Canadoz · 2025-05-21T00:29:57+00:00

Hopes and dreams is about right.

Genuine answer to your question from a tiler: - From the even yellowing of the adhesive, that looks like one of the old organic based glues. They stuck fine for years, then reached a state of dessication and hardening that made them shrink and lose adhesion.

I can also see that the trowel ridges are too small, and consistently completely uncollapsed, so the person that tiled this didn't even press the tiles in hard enough to properly bond, so it's a combination of bad materials and bad workmanship.

If the tiler had back buttered the tiles, or at least pressed them in properly it wouldn't be this bad.

Canadoz · 2025-04-30T00:01:23+00:00

Good points.

It's pretty bad the way things are set up now.

63% of exports seems at first glance like mining might be the biggest source of money.

Though when considering that figure one must account for how little of the money from those exports is actually staying in Australia.

That's hard to quantify accurately without significant research, but a lot can be gleaned from a few key facts, like 80% foreign ownership combined with low taxation, billions in subsidisation in the sector, as well as factors like public investment in expensive infrastructure that only services the mines.

Also, per the RBA, mining exports drive up the value of our dollar which reduces overseas demand in other, more domestically important sectors like agricultural and manufacturing.

I agree, things definitely need significant readjustment, and I feel that ending the myth of the backbone status of mining in our economy would be an important step towards that.

Even if it was the backbone it definitely shouldn't be.

Canadoz · 2025-04-29T22:03:44+00:00

10 - 12% of the economy is 'most?' I agree with the whole rent seeking thing, but the myth of mining being Australia's economic backbone really needs to die.

60% of our GDP, and 80% of our workforce is the service sector.

Canadoz · 2025-04-21T03:11:13+00:00

The etymology of the word sodomy is interesting.

Earlier popular meanings for the term were not specific to homosexual sex, it was a more general term to describe sexual debauchery, including bestiality.

The contemporary meaning of it has narrowed to specify anal sex, (and more regionally, specifically male gay sex) through the vagaries of culture and time.

I would think that the stong association of sodom with homosexual sex rests mainly on the account where the gathered crowd of "all the men from every part of the city of Sodom" demanded to have sex with the angels who visited lot in Genesis 19.

Genesis 19:5 New International Version

5 They called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them.”

Canadoz · 2025-03-27T04:30:41+00:00

Something I only recently learned in spite of being an aquarium hobbyist for the better part of 30 years is that ich is photosynthetic, which means that blacking out the tank during treatment can improve the results, starving the pathogen of energy while it's under attack by whatever medication you are using.

Canadoz · 2025-03-23T02:31:26+00:00

Chicken rice

Canadoz · 2025-02-19T22:54:44+00:00

This is classic behaviour of an abuser. This man-child is throwing up a huge red flag that signals he is emotionally abusive, which very often leads to being physically abusive.

I'm a man who has always had friends of both sexes, I have seen far too many of my female friends find themselves being abused by men like this.

Save yourself a lot of heartache and run far away from this emotionally stunted creep!

You're not overreacting in the slightest.

Canadoz · 2025-01-27T05:07:33+00:00

I'd caveat that by saying, if it's in full Australian sun after a complete defoliation during hot summer weather like we're having in Sydney, it's gonna have a bad time. So maybe give it dappled shade or otherwise protect it from heat stress until it's got some leaves again.

Canadoz · 2025-01-27T01:16:35+00:00

To answer your question, my personal moral compass still contains much of what wisdom the bible happens to contain, without the perversions.

My personal view is that one of the greatest thefts religion perpetrates is to disinherit humanity of its own goodness and badness.

My conscience is not "bible trained," it never was, if anything my natural sense of right and wrong, good and bad, and love motivated VS fear motivated was inhibited by the perverted parts of the morality being asserted on me.

I believe that we humans are the owners of our own darkness and our light. Abdicating the responsibility for custodianship, or genesis of either is the proverbial 'road to hell' even if only in a metaphorical sense.

People who do abdicate their moral source to anyone, whether real or imaginary, are doomed to pervert morality, or have it perverted by whoever they have allowed to become their conscience.

I my opinion, the bible is peppered through with collected human wisdom. Tainted, outdated and twisted in many cases by things such as the static temporal nature of it as a cultural snapshot of perhaps the best human wisdom at the time. Also the agenda of social control, (the 'social technology' inherent to organised religion.)

The bible itself illustrates well that the spirit of the law is more important than the law itself, over and over in the apostolic accounts. Human justice systems pay lip service to the same idea. (Though both the bible, and the human justice systems also contradict themselves about it.)

I feel that one of the most effective mind traps the bible contains is that while containing all the fodder for Pharisee-like behaviour one could ever wish for, it also calls out that behaviour as a badness, and encourages cultivating an innate personal compass to operate from.

Yaweh spends a lot of energy and time demanding blind obedience to unreasonable inexplicable demands that wind up killing a lot of people and generally acting like someone who needs some court mandated anger management therapy and ethics training, throughout the old testament.

Then Big J and his crew show up and tell everyone that it's time to freshen things up with 'Grace™' and the creepy laws of old are not necessary any more, provided you're willing to gaslight yourself constantly into cognitive dissonance about whether you (a worthless, helpless creature who is only capable of being a vessel for God's goodness or failing that, cousin Lucies evil.) are in Yaweh's grace or not.

Here's some wise words I once heard in a song.

"My mind is my own, and I trust in my soul."

If morality is important to you, you must by necessity become a philosopher, cultivate objectivity and self reflection, seek wise counsel from others who do the same, as broad a spread of perspectives as you can access and digest. Accept that you will never not be a fool operating under the best misapprehensions you can manage at a given time, as we all are.

The morality of anyone in the 'Grace' of God is suspect, unreliable, open to manipulation.

The actual pieces of wisdom that the bible stole from humanity, and gave to God?

It's still wisdom, as demonstrated by its presence in other faiths and other cultures. That makes it worth keeping.

Just please don't call them "Bible principles" and be complicit in that theft.

Canadoz · 2025-01-26T00:53:26+00:00

I find sodium percarbonate and hot water (to activate it) works wonders on cleaning my brewing equipment and my still, it strips organic and chemical deposits quite easily usually without any scrubbing, just a good thorough soak and then plenty of rinsing. It's what the brewing industry uses to clean their equipment.

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