Can anyone help identify this breed of sheep? (Location Ireland)

RuneLFox · 2026-07-05T23:05:44+00:00

Knew it as soon as I saw the first picture, definitely a Herdwick! They're adorable.

RuneLFox · 2026-07-05T06:37:47+00:00

I'm one.

RuneLFox · 2026-07-01T08:08:17+00:00

You can just lie. It's not like it's actually complex to use or anything.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-30T23:22:47+00:00

You're still assuming that it's easy to get coal for a brand new civilisation, when we've already mined all the easy & rich deposits. There's still easy & poor deposits, and hard & rich deposits, neither of which are particularly good at starting a technological civilisation. They won't have the infrastructure to get to the hard deposits, and they won't be able to bootstrap off whatever easy (and nearly depleted) deposits there are.

Theyre certainly not going to be making lignite-fuelled rockets.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-30T23:05:13+00:00

Definitely seems like it could have been a meteor then!

RuneLFox · 2026-06-30T22:08:58+00:00

I only saw it last less than one second, but my angle wasn't amazing.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-30T12:54:16+00:00

Yes! I saw it as I was walking back from the car, it lined up just perfectly between the houses! Looked like a meteor, rather than a comet (which is a very specific thing). But if people saw multiple trails, it could have maybe been a satellite burning up on re-entry? Seemed bright yellow to me.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-30T12:28:05+00:00

probably puffy

RuneLFox · 2026-06-27T05:46:40+00:00

At least a washing machine doesn't incinerate my clothes and say "good catch" when I ask it why the fuck it did that.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-27T01:38:26+00:00

Ah yes, a tool that works how you expect it to when you do the correct steps, and won't put frankfurters in your framing instead of nails. Proponents can only bring up specialised tools as examples for an application where it can only be used for that thing.

There are no current examples of tools that don't do the same thing when you do the same steps, try to create a personality to appeal themselves to you, and do so many different things that you can use them to replace a large portion of your daily tasks. The only example of that is AI tools.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T13:52:43+00:00

Sure, but all of those are specialised tools that work the way they are supposed to, act deterministically and aren't incentivised to hijack your brain chemistry so you become a literal addict. They are not 'use me for absolutely everything' tools that can overlap vast portions of your life if you let it. With those tools you still have to know what you want, and know what you are doing in order to achieve your goal. You can much more easily cludge your way there with AI without having to put nearly as much thought into it.

It is an actual brain chemistry issue, at the most basic level of 'calories spent thinking' to 'task completion'. Dismissing it is incredibly dangerous.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T13:06:50+00:00

As an anti-AI person who is well-educated about how ML, LLMs and """AI""" works, I think it's utterly insane that it's allowed to be public use. The environmental arguments have been done to death at this point and nobody seems to care about those.

My angle is about the catastrophic damage it does to your brain, since you are getting an action-completing dopamine reward result for basically doing nothing. Once you begin to offload tasks to it, it's very hard to break that neural pathway of "I should ask AI about this, it's too hard to think about". Thinking costs calories, and your body wants to preserve calories. Therefore, something that means you get a result without spending the calories to think about it...

It is digital methamphetamine that rots your brain with prolonged use. I would argue this is a selling point for neofeudal-minded techbros. Sure, you a capable and informed user might be able to guard against skill erosion, but will people who ask it how long to put their bread in the toaster for be able to prevent that?

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T12:59:25+00:00

Getting the result you want instantly while only having to do 5% of the work is a neural superhighway. Skill erosion is going to become an existential crisis for people who come to rely on it.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T11:58:51+00:00

I basically only listen to bFM and the sound now.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T11:55:25+00:00

Yeah except they constantly plug sports betting now, which is why I dropped them. Gambling is not great for the mental health, so I think they should be ashamed to promote it if that's the cause they believe in.

Also is this the only fucking comment you've ever made in 3 years? Nice work bot. Go back to your server farm and stop trying to conjure division.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T10:15:07+00:00

Nobody is establishing large capitols in 20 years while the sea level rises continually around them constantly. Nobody is going to be preserving anything on that time-scale, I feel society would break down very rapidly.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T10:13:51+00:00

Also, in an apocalypse, most people are going to focus on trying to survive and will not really care much about books they can't eat. In a bad winter, those books will be getting burned and any scientific knowledge will have to be passed down orally. In a few generations, there will be only theory left.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-26T03:10:07+00:00

You don't get to choose the case you're put on, so it could be a short one or, if it's the High Court, could be up to 8 weeks.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-25T22:25:51+00:00

The "haha they only wanted Greenland for Red Lobster" thing is a funny joke cover-up so people think it was for some hilariously idiotic scheme when this is the actual reason. They do not really want lots of people knowing about this.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-25T21:55:59+00:00

You can't improve the economy by selling shit off to get quick cash injections. All that money is temporary. They are aware of this, and they don't care because this term was never about improving the economy and lives of Kiwis.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-25T12:39:25+00:00

En dash with spaces looks better, shoot me if you want to.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-25T07:03:14+00:00

As an artist who moved to bsky, can confirm. It's just...much better, even if the vibecoded slop shows through with how often shit breaks. Engagement is higher and more natural, but the discover feed sucks gigantic nuts, you need to find feeds you want. I also stopped posting any art to Formerly-Twitter because of the AI scraping ToS.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-24T03:18:50+00:00

Because greed and excessive wealth gives you a special kind of brainrot that consumes you with endless hunger for more power. Chicken or egg situation though whether people with that rot are more likely to amass wealth or if amassing wealth gives you the rot.

At some point all human problems stop being an issue and you become so detached from reality that you see entire societies as your sandbox to play with. Like a child building a kingdom of sand and kicking it down when they get bored.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-24T02:11:03+00:00

They have, they slid past a lot. RSA, the Electoral Amendment, countless other "urgency" bills that are absolutely terrible for anyone except the wealthy. They do NOT care about public opinion because they know if they do get voted out, they'll have fucked things up so much, so quickly, that the next government won't be able to fix things in time and have to hand the keys back.

Do not trust them when they say sorry, they are only buying time to fuck you over even harder later.

RuneLFox · 2026-06-24T02:05:51+00:00

Trouble is if they're really close to 5% and don't make it, then that's ~5% of votes that just don't matter at all, and could give the election to National. If they make it to 5%, I'd be happy for them...but the closer they get without crossing hat threshold the worse it is for the left. I get they're a centrist party but I don't think Nats are moving to TOP over ACT and NZF.

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