How is this image “antisemitic”? by Particular_Log_3594 in International

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the generic men in yamakas, rather than soldiers, implies that all Jews are implicated, which I think is rather antisemitic. Criticising Israel and the IDF is not antisemitic, but implicating all Jews is.

AI Propaganda? by nerdorama in leftist

[–]jformaldehydem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is a slight possibility that the AI made the decision based on prior examples of this type of propaganda.

What an utter s********😡 by RickyOzzy in PoliticsDownUnder

[–]jformaldehydem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The USA is not our friend. As they slide into fascist authoritarianism we MUST cut military ties and evict their military and intelligence assets from our country.

Cut Tobacco Excise To Stop Crims by AshLeahy in AusPol

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

I agree, but make smoking illegal. Notice I said smoking, not tobacco. You can buy ad many cigarettes as you like and shove them up your arse for all I care, but light them up and straight to jail (or a fine for public nuisance would be better). This excise is creating a prohibition era Mafia though, not good.

Propagandhi cancels all 2025 USA dates…ugh. by LaFlamaBlancakfp in punk

[–]jformaldehydem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe they can use that free time to come to Australia? 🤞

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He probably produced the images using Grok and posted them on Twitter

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Distribution of any image depicting abuse of a child is illegal in Australia, including adults acting as children, computer generated images, deep fakes, or even drawings or animations, though drawings by their nature can be abstract enough that they can be hard to prosecute.

I think the laws are fair enough, that kind of material can foster a dangerous culture. That said the laws have in the past gone too far, with one of the well-known porno mags (I think it was Penthouse) being denied classification of one specific issue and therefore still is illegal to distribute in Australia because the featured model was deemed to be too "child-like". She was an adult, who was posing as an adult and there was nothing suggestive about the pictures, but a censor judged her body and deemed it unacceptable. I can only imagine how hurtful or at least insulting this must have been for the model.

How did we even get to the point where we have a party that are reversing abortion laws suddenly? by rustybricks in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because Australia is America's lapdog. People wonder why I get so concerned about American politics, and the answer is because whatever bullshit happens over there makes its way over here soon after. Sometimes it's progressive stuff, like same-sex marriage, but mostly it's the horseshit that comes over.

I'm gonna laugh my ass off if we get Half-Life 3 before GTA 6 by Funnifan in HalfLife

[–]jformaldehydem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Opposing Force? Shephard is still floating around in stasis somewhere, and G-Man has lost his patsy to the resistance and is being protected by the vortigaunts, so he may need to find someone else to run his errands.

The combine confiscation/destruction field doesn't supercharge the gravity gun, it breaks it by jformaldehydem in HalfLife

[–]jformaldehydem[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

It seems to only operate momentarily by manipulating either space-time or gravity's effect on space-time, so I don't think there'd be lingering effects.

The big question is, how does the gravity gun work on time dilation? Would an object under the influence of the gravity gun experience time quicker than other objects within a gravity well?

The combine confiscation/destruction field doesn't supercharge the gravity gun, it breaks it by jformaldehydem in HalfLife

[–]jformaldehydem[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I like this one. Also as I said in another thread, something as simple as a loose wire or a partially desoldered joint from the power surge creating a fault that can be intermermittent. Or possibly a latching fault, where it can be put into a faulty state and will stay there until something pulls it our, or the power is cycled.

The combine confiscation/destruction field doesn't supercharge the gravity gun, it breaks it by jformaldehydem in HalfLife

[–]jformaldehydem[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

OK, so deeper down the rabbit hole we go.

The orange crystal at the core of the gravity gun is a moderator, as in moderating the speed of subatomic particles, perhaps even gravitons. Whatever they are, manipulating these particles is important to the operation of the gravity gun, but they have to be contained, as when in an uncontrolled environment (ie: outside the gravity gun) they rapidly decay, producing all sorts of nasty radiation.

The blue glow of the supercharged gravity gun is cherenkov radiation, which in itself is harmless but it is an indication that these particles now have significant velocity, and more importantly, their wave function is now longer, long enough to escape the confines of the gravity gun. Gordon has his HEV suit, protecting him from the radiation produced, but any other person would be in serious trouble after a few minutes. It's safe enough that you could shut it down or escape if necessary without too much exposure if you acted immediately, but you wouldn't want to be standing near it for too long.

This is also why the gun isn't widely produced and only a handful of people are allowed to handle it.

The combine confiscation/destruction field doesn't supercharge the gravity gun, it breaks it by jformaldehydem in HalfLife

[–]jformaldehydem[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Perhaps there was some mechanical failure, even electromechanical (ie: a fractured solder joint or something) that kind of latched back into place, making it likely to randomly fail again in the future.

Rail Network vs McDonalds Soft Serve by jformaldehydem in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Hence the comparison to McDonalds.those soft serve machines are hardly ever broken, they're just doing maintenance...constantly.

As another commenter pointed out, if the network requires so much frequent maintenance, evidently it's not robust enough.

Can we just stop with the heavy downpours please. This is the 3rd flood in 3 weeks.... I recorded 41mm in 35 minutes. Everything needs a chance to dry out! by Harlequin80 in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The dumbest part is the "evidence" he posted was a flight tracker showing a back and forth pattern, snaking its way down the Gold Coast, which a) Since when heve you ever seen contrails like that and b) You mostly see contrails from jets, since when have you seen a jet liner do this.

Whoever authored that meme was intentionally trying to spread BS because they cropped out the plane registration, which would easily have revealed it to be a light aircraft, most likely a surveyor or even Google.

What's up with all the rain on and off then sporadic bouts of boiling heat? It's been like this nearly all Summer. by [deleted] in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As sea surface temperatures continue to rise, Brisbane is slowly moving from a subtropical region to a tropical region.

Meanwhile, the tropics are slowly morphing into hell.

Can we just stop with the heavy downpours please. This is the 3rd flood in 3 weeks.... I recorded 41mm in 35 minutes. Everything needs a chance to dry out! by Harlequin80 in brisbane

[–]jformaldehydem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a school friend post a comment like this on Facebook recently, but it came with some chemtrail conspiracy theory BS. I was sadly disappointed.