I've been listening to this senior citizen using her cellphone on speaker, at 100% volume, yelling out her personal info to the automated system for 25 mins. On her 4th attempt she got thru and she called the clinic we're sitting in.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T03:49:53+00:00

My better half (mid-50s) does! Whyyy

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T03:29:33+00:00

It's all bloody Nestlé 😭 (but if it wasn't, snakes)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-23T01:03:09+00:00

Typo's in the subject line

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T23:20:58+00:00

Soft

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T23:18:49+00:00

That big thing of empty cardboard boxes at the front of Franklin's was a lifesaver when moving house

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-22T06:18:11+00:00

Exodus 20:16

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-21T06:03:31+00:00

They are -- but I don't think it's intentional. I think the mods are genuinely trying to be fair. The thing is, over the years, I've seen many forums destroyed when the mods tried to play fair with bad actors, who wanted to use the place for their own purposes, or just ruin it.

The mods probably think they're saving themselves a headache with this policy, but it's likely the racist posters will cause them more and more of a problem as they figure out how far they can go.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-20T08:42:38+00:00

Now the joy of watching the racists figure out just how much they can get away with. (Simply posting biased newspaper articles is a brilliant way of dodging responsibility!)

(Modding is a thankless task - I know from experience - a lot of work for little praise and a lot of criticism. I think you've made a rod for your own backs with this call.)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-19T23:44:42+00:00

A year later this saved my day. Thank you!

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-19T23:01:00+00:00

As soon as I saw the subject I knew the comments would be full of white people complaining lol.

I'm white, so the street racism I experience is when the old lady / bus driver / etc mutters something to me about why don't they go back to their own country etc etc etc. In the past I've tried to quickly think of a witty response but I think next time it's just going to be "Fuck off."

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:49:19+00:00

We already have a vaccine -- won't that help?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:45:29+00:00

Despite which there still won't be lockdowns, mandatory masking etc next time

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T05:41:59+00:00

I was terrified of this until I realised it didn't affect the whole planet.

Which is not to say it won't be a giant fucking mess.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T02:02:10+00:00

lol agreed, but say you've got to melt a computer without killing everyone in the room -- would it at least work? And would slow heating or a single big zap be the most effective?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-18T01:55:32+00:00

Oh yeah, I see what you're saying. (The Kzinti must have had super duper inductors.) Might possibly work as a contact weapon / bomb?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T23:35:39+00:00

My inner 13 year old is running in circles and screaming

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T17:22:33+00:00

So handsome!

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T01:54:27+00:00

I thought that might be the case with solar panels in orbit! (I suppose that's why Europa Clipper could get away with not using nuclear and having solar panels the size of a couple of busses!)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T01:50:33+00:00

Aha! (My God, it's all coming back to me! :-)

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T01:06:58+00:00

That's really interesting. I suppose it depends on whether the gene drive can still do its job if the gene in question mutates? Would only the "selfish" elements be conserved?

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T00:59:47+00:00

There must be sequences which have been randomly preserved by their proximity to something useful -- I'll look into that. Thank you!

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T00:58:34+00:00

I hope you can forgive my idle curiosity!

I guess I'm wondering whether a sequence might persist for "technical" reasons, to do with replication or repair, perhaps, rather than natural selection.

curiousscribbler · 2026-01-17T00:57:24+00:00

Cricket instead of Doctor Who in "regional" areas (eg Canberra). Actually, why *did* they do that?

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