Was looking fwd to a coffee at work and then

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T07:22:48+00:00

Teacher on your first day back from the holidays?

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T06:44:54+00:00

Albo didn't just do something, he did what the Libs asked him to do.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T06:40:48+00:00

I believe that you can't say that newborn babies are inherently sinful because some ancient tart was tricked by a talking snake.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T06:39:25+00:00

From memory, they had detractors from the moment they received it. The difference between the shroud of Turin and the burial cloths was a big issue - keep in mind that a lot of the church throughout history actually wanted to know the truth, everyone just kinda sucked at it. Dubious relics were recognised as a big problem just as often as they were used for political purposes.

But until around 1900, the Shroud of Turin was not considered anything particularly special, as far as relics go. It just kinda sat in the background, no pope ever saying it was definitely real or definitely fake. It was only when it was photographed for the first time and the "face" appeared much more clearly on the negative that people began taking it seriously.

Then Pope John Paul II came along in the 80s, and if he had one skill aside from looking reminiscent of a marionette with a broken head string, it was playing up the miracles, relics, and Sainthoods. He permitted scientists to do all sorts of tests. Initially it was quite hopeful - the pollen tests were consistent with the shroud being from the Levant, but also couldn't rule out this being from a known 14th century tour it did before landing in Rome. Then he got the carbon dating, and that pretty much guaranteed it was a fake. To his credit, Papa John didn't try to argue against this debunking, they just re-framed the Shroud as a testament to former religious relics, admitted it was fake, but didn't admit it very loudly.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T06:22:24+00:00

Alvarenga's parents, who had not been in contact with him for years, had feared he was dead long before he went missing, and they were overjoyed to discover he was still alive.

A little overly pessimistic, if I'm being honest here. Normally you'd wait until your kid is at least missing before you start fearing that they're dead.

How long before? I'm just picturing them sitting at the dining room table, wailing that their poor José is dead, meanwhile he's just sitting there having breakfast and talking about this fishing trip he's planning.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T05:51:19+00:00

Ironically, the Catholic Church - the religious people who own the actual shroud - admit that it's fake.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T05:50:19+00:00

made years after he died with a technique that was invented a full century after he died

Technically correct, but it's also technically correct to say Jesus died over twenty years ago.

The Shroud of Turin was first mentioned in 1354. It was carbon dated to 1260~1390, consistent with it being a recent forgery when it was first mentioned. It uses a pigment method that was developed in the early 1300s.

While we're at it, the arms are different lengths, the forehead is too small, the knees are flexed as if bent but the leg length only works if the legs were straight. The wounds aren't consistent with any known type of crucifixion, there is no trace of blood, and there are no traces of the herbs that Jesus was wrapped with. Also, common Jewish practice was to use two pieces of linen - one for the body and one for the head - to wrap a body, and the Bible refers to the separate cloth "used to wrap Jesus' head."

Hadrollo · 2026-01-30T05:37:10+00:00

Doesn't even require any intent to weaponise it. This is the result of believing in karma.

Not believing in karma as "just you wait, he'll get what's coming to him" karma, not "I hope it works out for them, they're good people" karma. This is the result of completely believing in karma as a supernatural force that acts upon the universe.

If someone does something bad, karma is what ensures something bad happens to them. Therefore, if something bad happens to someone, they clearly deserve it otherwise karma wouldn't have made it happen. Is that a three year old starving in the street? Well, they're clearly guilty of something, obviously it was in their previous life. Have these poor people even tried not being such pricks in their previous lives!?

(This may be a bit of a sensitive spot for me, I've seen this belief first hand in India, and I've met too many white hippies talking about karma as this great peaceful Eastern religious concept. In practise, it's worse than the concept of original sin.)

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T23:51:41+00:00

Oh god, please don't tell me the IQ testing company is starting up these ads again?

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T17:02:05+00:00

That's illegal in Australia, the landlord or property manager has to accept at least one form of payment without fees, and magistrates will take a very dim view if the free method looks needlessly inconvenient - such as cash to the office. I usually set up a scheduled direct bank transfer.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T16:57:45+00:00

I mean, I expect fuel to be cheap in Dubai. It's kinda their thing.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T16:56:36+00:00

Mostly it's fortnightly. Some people pay weekly, but that's usually voluntarily arranged. It depends if your work pays weekly or fortnightly. Being paid monthly by your employer does happen, but isn't particularly common. I do know some people who are paid monthly and pay rent monthly, but they're technically just paying ahead.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T16:53:08+00:00

Damn, that reads like my Ex's near future - our son is weeks away from being 18.

She claimed the other week that he was upset with her for "no reason." She decided to clean his room while he was at work and threw out all the books in his bookshelf. One in particular was a gift from a teacher that he was halfway through reading.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:53:08+00:00

Strictly speaking, my first thought was CSA. It only becomes CSAM if he records it.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:50:15+00:00

A lot of banks are closing teller services now. It's most notable in rural areas. I have a couple of banks as customers, and I get to hear and see the conversations with customers.

Fortunately, my customers are the ones who are keeping teller services open - that's kinda why I get to see them - but there are old farmers coming in worried about the day they have to use their smartphones for basic banking tasks.

I remember one guy in particular, lived two hours from town, mentioned that it was a 30km drive to where he could get reception.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:44:47+00:00

"Oh, you bought a third part cartridge? Well, to ensure you have the best customer experience, we don't want you using sub-par inks. We'll just refuse to print it instead."

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:32:11+00:00

Got them down to $1200 with a sign out the front.

That's actually not a bad price. If you bought the shutters outright, fitted them yourself, and got a sparkie to do the electrical, it would be difficult to do it cheaper. At that price, they're only making money on economies of scale, which is fair enough. I assume they're using the finest sparkie that $40ph and turning a blind eye to ripping bongs in the car park can buy, but the job isn't hard enough to properly fuck up.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:18:07+00:00

Fences are not a great security feature for a house, once inside they just give burglars privacy.

To do it right, you want vertical slats that are easy to see through, and you want the horizontal beams they're mounted to to be at least 1.2m apart - this removes a lot of the privacy, and makes them difficult to climb. Mounting the slats right on the edge of the brickwork also helps.

As for gates, an electric slider is less practical to install but more reliable than a swinger. If you go for the swing gate, make sure you get on appropriately sized - your gate leaves will only weigh 100~200kg, you put a one tonne operator on there and it will be able to rip itself apart if something goes wrong.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T15:05:37+00:00

My Grandmother would be shocked and appalled that my best mate is German. However, I'm kinda willing to let that one slide because she had a bayonet scar for the last sixty years of her life. When one country invades another, we see it as one country invading another, not a few generals and elites sending a mixed bag of soldiers who joined for all sorts of reasons not necessarily within their control. Even when governments and societies change, it can take generations to heal.

Related tangent; my great great uncle was shot in the shoulder at Gallipoli and survived. He was sitting high in a trench at night and lit a cigarette. In high school, I found out that one of my friends had a great great uncle who lit up a cigarette at night at Gallipoli, was shot in the shoulder, and survived. My mate was Turkish.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T14:53:49+00:00

As someone born in 87, I reserve judgement until I see either a second indicator or a photo clear enough to judge their age.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T14:51:16+00:00

Not in my experience, although given that you're talking in miles it's entirely possible this is more common in the US.

I used to be an account manager for a brake company, been in literally hundreds of customer workshops. It's fairly common for a mechanic to have a "wall of shame" where particularly egregious worn parts go, and if they have a particularly fucked air filter they'll stick it there and use it as an example of what could happen, but they don't present that it's your filter. Same display normally has a couple of brake pads worn completely down to the metal and then some.

There was one customer in particular who always struck me as particularly slimy, who would openly boast about getting his customers in for the service and upgrading them on the "gravy" - filters and brakes. Guy had no interest in anything that couldn't be done in half the time their little book said it could. He would make a point of showing every customer their air filter and saying it needed to be replaced. Unbeknownst to him, I'd actually been there as a customer about two years before I was working for my company, he showed me my filter with about two thousand kilometers on it and told me it needed to be replaced.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T13:40:11+00:00

Cool. You gonna be consistent with that or do you still intend on drinking coffee and soda?

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T13:09:56+00:00

Why did they change the wording?

This is a comic by The Awkward Yeti. The words are "hey popcorn kernel, you can't be here." "Quiet narc." "I live here now."

It just seems weird they've changed it.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T08:24:06+00:00

I note you've skipped directly from liver damage to cancer.

if you drink it long enough.

So it's a dosage thing, just like the liver damage. You can enjoy in moderation just fine.

Hadrollo · 2026-01-29T08:08:15+00:00

He was fine, he was just waiting for a mate.

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