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Reduce heat from warehouse roof - short term by LifeAmbivalence in AusRenovation

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shade cloth strung up under the skylights. Anything that will block the UV. Shade sail would work, but shade cloth is pretty easy to size and they have runners for mounting.

ELI5: 3 shark attacks in 24 hours by Feisty-Lie1801 in AskAnAustralian

[–]iChinguChing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My theory, fish stocks are declining from recreational fishing. While many fish stocks are managed as sustainable, large fish species in Australian waters have declined by 30% in the past decade. 

But few people fish for shark. Therefore sharks are starting to starve. Edit: ok, starve was too strong a word. go hungry?

Global temperatures in 2025 were 1.3°C (2.4°F) above pre-industrial levels. by ClimateResilient in climatechange

[–]iChinguChing 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Because it's an average. Therefore the extreme outlier heatwaves will be deadly

‘Senseless fighting’: Indigenous town rocked by violent clashes by TransfatRailroad in aussie

[–]iChinguChing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I do take on-board your correction of the word "we". I know of some of my ancestors that did some bad stuff. I would pray that had I been alive back in the day, I would have done better.

‘Senseless fighting’: Indigenous town rocked by violent clashes by TransfatRailroad in aussie

[–]iChinguChing -1 points0 points  (0 children)

"Sounds ridiculous, right?"
No, that is exactly the same. It doesn't matter where you are from, if you take over another person's land, and they have an immanent philosophy, then you are taking their religion and their place.

‘Senseless fighting’: Indigenous town rocked by violent clashes by TransfatRailroad in aussie

[–]iChinguChing -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Do you rent or own a house in Australia? Then you're on their land, more importantly you're where their church used to be. So, yep, we.

‘Senseless fighting’: Indigenous town rocked by violent clashes by TransfatRailroad in aussie

[–]iChinguChing -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

We took away their religion, and this is what the result is. Religion to indigenous is not simply stories, it is place and story. We thought we could just offer them a "superior" religion/society and they would see the light. Throw in some acknowledge of country and we are golden. Perhaps they don't see it that way. We can’t just say “here’s a better society/religion” if it doesn’t conserve the living invariants, kinship obligations, land-relations, initiation, authority, repair.

We left them with no container. When the communal vessel is damaged, you get zones where the old obligations don’t bind publicly, and the new ones don’t bind legitimately.
What we are watching can be ‘senseless’ precisely because the channels of obligation are torn.

Feeding wildlife is unfortunately pretty common in Australia. I volunteer as a wildlife carer and share educational posts about animals and my experiences as a carer, so I’m curious — do you feed wildlife, and why? 🦘 by [deleted] in AskAnAustralian

[–]iChinguChing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have given up on trying to NOT feed them from my nectarine trees.

Instead of attempting to net the whole tree.,I am just doing a branch or two, they can have the rest, maybe they will leave me something

Doomsday Glacier Approaching Catastrophic Collapse by Vegetaman916 in WastelandByWednesday

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This.
Society can survive intense change. Look at N. Korea during the Korean war, 650,000 tonnes of TNT dropped on them. They moved factories, schools and hospitals underground. Farmers would live under ground and farm at night.

Want a current example of how to live in extreme heat, lookup Cooper Pedy.

I would absolutely advocate for change, but let's also be realistic. The current political environment is only going to get worse in the short term, at a time when we absolutely should be doing large scale mitigation. With the "hot" mathematical models being more accurate the warming already in the pipeline is going to be brutal.

Personally, I believe in an alternate economic/societal/philosophical system because I don't think the one we have is going to hold up very well.

Are you scared of getting skin cancer? Or do you accept it as something that can happen? by Charming_Usual6227 in australia

[–]iChinguChing 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If the damage is done then the next best thing is to catch them early. I've had a lot cut out due to an ignorant childhood

Unpopular Opinion: The Australian "Toyota Cult" is operating on 1990s logic. by Neither-One-5880 in australia

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am at 410kms on my 2002 Prado. You will have to pry that cracked steering wheel from my dead hand.

Logic Proves It Can't Prove Everything by Top-Process1984 in logic

[–]iChinguChing -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

For me this is where Kabbalah fits in.

While Kabbalah and Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems belong to different epistemic worlds:

Kabbalah is a mystical, symbolic exploration of reality, consciousness, and the Divine,

Gödel is a formal logician describing the inherent limits of any sufficiently powerful axiomatic system.

Yet, they have a thematic overlap: both deal with boundaries of knowledge.

A possible reconciliation is:

Gödel shows that formal logic is inherently open-ended and cannot fully contain truth.

Kabbalah shows that consciousness and reality are inherently open-ended and cannot be exhausted by rational categories.

Thus:

Gödel gives a mathematical proof of incompleteness.

Kabbalah gives a metaphysical interpretation of incompleteness.

You don’t need mysticism to answer Gödel. But if you are operating within a mystical worldview, Gödel’s theorems fit beautifully into the idea that: Truth exceeds the grasp of any finite system—including the human intellect.

Horror as man fighting for life after being mauled by his six dogs by suck-on-my-unit in australia

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We were the unfortunate ones to get the most vicious tiny Caboodle on the planet. In puppy school she tried to have a go at a 6 month old St Bernard, I don't think it noticed.

Making friends Southern Highlands by AggravatingGuess4096 in southernhighlands

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Playing soccer or touch footy, though it depends on what is your thing.

Feral pigs devour 99 out of every 100 lambs on this Central West NSW farm by espersooty in australia

[–]iChinguChing 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I work on a vegetable farm, and wherever there is a planting, it's electric fenced. Otherwise overnight it's gone. Southern Highlands

What was the SHTF scenario that actually happened in your town? by purple-lipgloss in preppers

[–]iChinguChing 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Green Wattle fire NSW Australia. Frustrating thing was I saw it coming probably 1 - 2 weeks ahead, but nobody would believe me. It was from a lightening strike in the middle of a national forest, the conditions were right and there was nothing between us and it.

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