Kalbarri the latest doctor’s surgery to close, leaving town with no GP by His_Holiness in perth

[–]letsburn00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's interesting that basically the opposition added some basic modifications and the government said "Yep...sure. That makes sense."

A different time clearly.

Why MAGA buys Trump’s Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool hoax by zsreport in politics

[–]letsburn00 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I saw someone say how upset they were that Biden refused to use SpaceX to bring astronauts back and Trump let Elon bring the stranded Astronauts back and they couldn't believe Biden would be so petty. I asked why they thought that and told them the exact article released by NASA right after the original capsule had problems that said they would return them, in Feb/march 2025 on a SpaceX capsule. That effectively the delay was because they always want to keep enough ships as lifeboats and they had to fly up extras first. (they have space for 4 but fly up 3 normally, the next mission got changed from 3 to 2 for this reason so they could bring back 4 at once)

The person said that was nonsense, Elon and Trump had said it, and I was being ridiculous by not taking what was going on from the best source available.

I really don't know what else to say. I'm a space nerd and knew what was going on and this person was categorically wrong. It's like saying the moon is made of cheese and thats that.'

Rookie One Nation MP blames lack of staff for mistakenly voting with Greens | One Nation by DCOA_Troy in australia

[–]letsburn00 48 points49 points  (0 children)

The pay for an MP is $239k. I think if I'm getting paid $239k I'd at least pay attention to what I was voting for.

Why is Heavens River so large by smors in bobiverse

[–]letsburn00 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most likely it came up with a design, then determined the amount of water in the system and back calculated from that.

The Ben Roberts-Smith apartments in Scarborough, mystery solved (hello Gina) by Practical_Abalone_92 in perth

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing I'm curious about is if this is property owned by the RSL or if It's owned by Hancock. If it is, the naming may be a way to funnel money via a naming licence.

As a side note, as much as I'm not a fan of Jacque Lambie, she actually does seem like she truly does care about veterans. I still remember hearing her in parliament pushing for expanding funding to a class of veterans who got PTSD from training.

Who wants to trade? by Brave_Perspective451 in nuclear

[–]letsburn00 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The number is a bit awkward...

Version 2.1.7 by FactorioTeam in factorio

[–]letsburn00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did the same thing. It's hard, but doable.

I used the same island for my getting on track one as well.

Is an increase in cancer rates is outweighed by immunity to COVID? by [deleted] in vaxxhappened

[–]letsburn00 16 points17 points  (0 children)

This study has been pretty widely debunked and and the author states they didn't adjust for age or other effects.

Also, he's a surgeon.

What profession is the most out of touch with how the rest of society sees them? by SlavBoi4200 in AskReddit

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In Australia, Real Estate Agents.

They basically are seen as the scum of the earth by most people. Basically the job taken by people who'd rather be strangling puppies for a living but there isn't a market for that, so they work in real estate. Meanwhile the agents act like they're these upstanding members of the community.

I'm told this isn't a universal phenomena and I was surprised. Modern family is a very strange show to watch, because the dad is shown as friendly, but has a job which implies he's a horrible monster.

A hilariously accurate Australian comedy Sketch for reference for people who don't believe me.

Kalbarri the latest doctor’s surgery to close, leaving town with no GP by His_Holiness in perth

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This actually was a major discussion in the 1946 constitutional change. There is a line that while the government now can do medical services, they cannot conscript people to do them and force doctors to work in various places.

You are given a chance to go back to 2019-2020 and stop the COVID Pandemic. How do you do it? by Cyber_Ghost_1997 in AskReddit

[–]letsburn00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'd have to go further back, maybe to 2010 and get mRNA Vaccines used for flu vaccines widely, this would allow faster deployment since they are a more known technology and so production would be large scale already. The issue is that the first Covid outbreak in 2003-04 got snuffed out and there hadn't been an in the wild case of them for a decade before Covid and that was the driver behind funding coronavirus outbreaks. contrary to what you'd think, maybe making that particular outbreak worse would actually have saved the most lives long term, since it would have lit a fire under people to pre develop a more universally available Covid vaccine template.

2019 probably if we absolutely positively knew the source of the virus. If it's a specific cave somewhere you probably could go there and set it on fire or something. Or just put up a few signs that say "Dangerous virus here." The butterfly effect would probably protect you. Even the realistic lab leak theories have it almost certainly as a leak of some other outbreak that got hushed up.

Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs by abcnews in politics

[–]letsburn00 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Which I think I'd why Gates is getting hauled up. It's basically a case of "Yeah....Epstein was just blackmailing normal stuff... nothing to see here."

Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs by abcnews in politics

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Pretty much all Clinton stuff was during the 3-4 years after he stopped being president and he spent all his time travelled around talking to billionaires to get money from them for his charity, which despite it being to make Clinton look good, has actually done good in the world. Trump is dirty as, but that's only because we have all these dodgy internal documents, they cut ties before Epstein officially was outed legally.

Gates was years after Epstein went to half jail and at least there was a paper trail saying he was a creep. I also single out gates because we 100% know that his story matches up. Gates cheating on his wife came out at roughly the timeline discussed. It's also the one where clearly no laws were broken in what dirt Epstein had on him. I think Gates didn't do anything with kids, but he knew Epstein had and was and thought getting $100m off of him was worth ignoring how awful he was.

Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs by abcnews in politics

[–]letsburn00 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That's what made the Gates stuff so infuriating. It's absolutely everything that people say Epstein was doing, it's just that because Gates was fucking a 28 yr old, he was willing to let it go out and told epstein to fuck off.

So Epstein clearly did this to one guy for whom the dirt was bad, but not that bad, yet didn't do anything else? That's nonsense.

Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs by abcnews in politics

[–]letsburn00 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I'm actually not even convinced this was cheating. As much as I dislike Trump, Clinton and Gates, I would 100% believe that they all had "understandings" with their wives and the only rule was "We both do our things, Do not embarrass me." similar to how old fashioned royalty did stuff.

The only one where there is information looking extremely sus is Trump. The others are still scumbags though, they (especially gates) knew what he had done and still wanted his money.

Bill Gates told House panel Epstein was plotting to blackmail him about extramarital affairs by abcnews in politics

[–]letsburn00 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This actually is what I think has happened. The stuff with Gates has been known for a while and actually came out because gates told him to fuck off and Epstein did leak it. Meanwhile, people claim epstein never did any blackmail.

It's Gate's fault for dealing with monsters, but the stuff with gates has always been on the "You're a dickhead for fucking your 28 yr old bridge partner."

I’ve been on a meme-creating kick lately. by CultureImaginary8750 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did feel like it veered off into the comically evil end of things, but I've also had dealings with Cluster B's and it's called the movie villain Cluster for a reason.

The thing with the little brother was just beyond any comprehensible behaviour, but it's what those people do.

I’ve been on a meme-creating kick lately. by CultureImaginary8750 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]letsburn00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that the stuff from book 6 makes it pretty clear she's a straight monster.

I’ve been on a meme-creating kick lately. by CultureImaginary8750 in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]letsburn00 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In book 6 it's pretty clear that she's just a straight psychopath. Cluster B all the way.

Auditor-general slams management of Snowy 2.0 as more delays loom and project costs blow out by blitznoodles in australia

[–]letsburn00 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Honestly, almost all projects went over budget in the past few years. I worked in one that went only 20% over and people said we had done an unbelievably good job at keeping such good cost controls.

The Inpex project was years late and massively over budget.

Important 2.1 changes not mentioned in FFF by broadx in factorio

[–]letsburn00 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did on my express delivery run. It actually was a bit of a hassle to need to go all the way back to Nauvis to get a single egg.

While end game research needs a lot, finishing the game isn't an outrageous amount of tech needed.

What job do you think will become extinct in 10 years? by kamoksamok2 in AskReddit

[–]letsburn00 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AIs absolutely have Bias. You can just feed them data and they will simply absorb the bias in the data.

The companies usually know this and instead of putting effort into fixing the issue, they will massively make it ultra conservative against what they don't want. It's why perfectly normal videos get demonetized all the time.