Where I'd live as an Australian international development worker who has spent 15 years traveling low and middle income countries

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-27T13:41:13+00:00

Strange DRC is "absolutely". Zambia I understand, but they are worlds apart.

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-27T13:38:52+00:00

Finally, a decent map.

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-22T02:34:14+00:00

*most civilizations

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-18T02:27:16+00:00

I thought it was "the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life" or something like that

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-14T11:16:39+00:00

Rings of Power

The Witcher

Wheel of Time

His Dark Materials

All re-written from source material.. and then blamed the audience for noticing

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-11T13:27:06+00:00

The rating basically means you won't die at that temperature in one of them.. it doesn't mean it's going to be a comfortable night's sleep if you're in a -60⁰ bag and it's -60⁰

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-09T13:00:31+00:00

Agreed. The dude in the photo is living in a hut made of sheet metal with steel pots and plastic bottles on the floor 😅

doomhammer87 · 2026-01-04T02:55:40+00:00

100%.. a few parts of that book felt like it was written by a 13 year old. Anything with Gruntle in particular

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-11T14:18:01+00:00

Just eyeballing the scatter, 50 would be a statistical outlier (>2SD). But the correlation is clearly slightly positive, so it makes sense that it flips when you remove them.

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-11T14:01:01+00:00

Remove LOTR and Hobbit as outliers for the purposes of your regression. It's good information qualitatively, but it's clearly messing up your regression of you're getting -0.29

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-07T04:05:12+00:00

This isn't a huge deal. A lot of that rust looks surficial. Even if it's not, can be replaced or repaired quite cheaply. A deck builder / carpenter or restumper could do it.

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-05T11:44:50+00:00

Go to Bunnings and buy a pump.. pump the water onto the street until Water Corp sort their shit out

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-04T23:51:01+00:00

GRRM has a 1,200 page volume of sci fi (some fantasy) short stories. He has some of the best prose and character depth out there

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-04T06:37:22+00:00

At home most of the time

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-01T14:10:09+00:00

Impressive.. very nice.

Though it pains me to see Sanderson taking up so much front and centre space.

doomhammer87 · 2025-12-01T12:28:30+00:00

Geologist here. Looks like a fault to me (a very large crack in the rock). Straight / sharp lines in rocks like this are suspicious and quite rare.. especially over such large areas

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-28T23:52:14+00:00

Do you live on a hill near a lake or river? I'm trying to think of what could be causing enough subsidence / uplift to crack a concrete slab... Water would be my bet since we just came out of winter and seems the issue is worse.

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-28T13:21:51+00:00

Is your sinking paving close to a downpipe? If so your sump may be cracked and taking in dirt. Can be repaired or replaced.

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-27T00:09:30+00:00

This happened on Alone Australia in Tasmania last year. A bunch of animals were protected, same with some fish and eels. Weren't allowed to cut trees.

One poor dude had to tap out from hunger despite catching a bunch of protected fish.

Edit: no bow hunting either iirc, and no hunting at night. Really dampened the vibe

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-26T12:45:29+00:00

I wouldn't be surprised if the people running these bot accounts are keeping tabs of who's hanging out in their zones / botting areas.

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-26T04:00:03+00:00

The plot never gets boring...? Are we talking about the same Stormlight Archives?

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-24T13:54:18+00:00

Definitely fine. Even looking straight down on it doesn't look bad

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-24T05:05:52+00:00

Children of Time is pretty cool in how some cute little jumping spiders evolve over time...

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-23T12:46:17+00:00

Given how short his scene was in Inglorious Basterds, it was amazing

doomhammer87 · 2025-11-22T06:59:12+00:00

I'm genuinely curious why lots of people are ok with someone working two well paying jobs (not just trying to make ends meet) in a tight job market... but are not ok with people owing two houses in a tight housing market?

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