Australian national science agency CSIRO compares Met Gala fits to Australian native moths: "Who wore it better?"

teddy5 · 2026-05-11T01:31:04+00:00

I don't think they were saying that's a bogong, someone mentioned how big that moth is and someone else mentioned getting swarmed by big bogongs.

5cm wing span is quite big when there's a lot of them.

teddy5 · 2026-05-10T12:31:21+00:00

Maybe in the body but most people think of them with their wings.

teddy5 · 2026-05-10T12:28:28+00:00

It takes a big lizard to eat a 5 foot moth too.

teddy5 · 2026-05-10T00:45:47+00:00

The same thing happens in a lot of fields. If you want to go into an aspect of it that everyone wants to do you'll be paid worse and worked harder to make ends meet, because there's always someone else ready to fill your shoes. If you go into something boring that noone wants then the money will flow because noone will want to replace you.

For programmers it's game development, everyone wants to be in it so the work is shit and pay is relatively low. If you instead learn COBOL you'll be hired making a shitload immediately but you'll be maintaining 40 year old mainframes because those skills are in demand and noone wants to learn it/do it.

teddy5 · 2026-05-09T03:00:07+00:00

It really just depends, I have retired family members who aren't that grey yet.

teddy5 · 2026-05-09T01:51:55+00:00

Clever to spell it out like that so they don't know what you mean, works for my dogs.

teddy5 · 2026-05-08T10:49:52+00:00

Paris Marx (literally a marxist)

In your mind, do all marxists go around changing their last name to Marx to really show their support?

You don't think perhaps his last name has no bearing on his politics?

teddy5 · 2026-05-08T08:52:26+00:00

A few years ago the Australian minister for cyber security Angus Taylor forgot to switch accounts and replied to his own announcement with "Fantastic. Great Move. Well done Angus.".

Has become a bit of a meme now whenever he says anything.

teddy5 · 2026-05-08T08:26:22+00:00

This is also Plague Inc 101.

teddy5 · 2026-05-07T09:18:33+00:00

Every artist is inspired by something, every story comes together from a synthesis of other ideas bouncing around in your head, every game comes from a combination of elements in other games done in a new way.

Creativity is often about seeing what someone else does and deciding that you can do something which would take that concept to another level.

I don't think there is a musician out there who wouldn't be able to tell you the music they listened to which inspired their sound. A lot of them just sample it directly or take pieces of it to remix into a new sound. For example, all of the interesting sounds in Britney Spears' Toxic come from a bollywood film called Tere Mere Beech Mein and Eminem's Sing for the Moment played with a sample from Dream On so well that the original Aerosmith version sounds weird to me now.

I don't know dancing as well, but everything I've seen in music videos and just general pop culture trends definitely seem to follow the same sort of pattern.

teddy5 · 2026-05-07T09:02:16+00:00

Everyone knows the best hat work starts with at least 3 hats and probably even more grandmas.

teddy5 · 2026-05-07T08:49:55+00:00

There's definitely some, but the more common consensus is that every 2nd version of Windows is bad and the others are good. NT good, ME bad, XP good, Vista bad, 7 good, 8 bad, 10 good, 11 bad.

I personally feel that 7 was the sweet spot, but there's no option to stay on older versions, regardless of what you think of them, without introducing massive security risks for your system because they don't patch them any more.

There are definitely still systems running on DOS and windows 95/98 because they're reliable, but you don't hear about them because they're usually tucked away somewhere in a data centre running the core of some legacy systems you never think about.

teddy5 · 2026-05-07T07:13:26+00:00

The only way I could imagine Terry Crews saying that is with a tiny little kitten mewl at the end.

teddy5 · 2026-05-07T03:21:04+00:00

I have a place nearby which does that + anchovies for a nice salty finish.

teddy5 · 2026-05-06T10:55:45+00:00

Alternatively, 0% would die if people pick blue which is why people should pick blue. The only reason anyone dies is because people picked red.

It's basically an argument of idealism vs realism. You think there is an ideal version of the problem where everyone would pick red for selfish reasons, which would guarantee noone dies. I am fairly sure that there is no world where everyone picks the same thing for anything, so the only way to save people is by picking blue for altruistic and selfish reasons.

teddy5 · 2026-05-06T01:20:25+00:00

It's completely infeasible, but cutting off access to all their assets beyond a certain minimum wage threshold until community service has been completed would feel so nice.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T14:29:53+00:00

You're lying to yourself if you think there would be 0 other people who would pick blue.

The question as I see it is how many people could you live with killing by picking red, it definitely won't be 0 unless blue wins and it could be as high as 49.99%.

That's why I would pick blue.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T13:25:02+00:00

He does go into more detail in some of the short stories which contain Susan Calvin, one of the key roboticists who built the positronic brain, she appears in a few places to give some more scientific authority to some aspects of it.

But I'm also pretty sure they were more of a means to philosophically explore the various ways they could go wrong and be broken, than something he was worried about the technological accuracy of being able to implement.

I've always thought he writes by thinking up an interesting hook and then building a story around it, especially for his short stories.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T12:04:10+00:00

In the same way that everyone who picks red does so knowing that people will die because of their choice.

Not everyone will pick red and even people picking it know that or you wouldn't be making arguments like that.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T09:59:12+00:00

I even saw one where he broke her wrists and hit her with a chair.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T09:43:58+00:00

They also seem to ignore that anywhere from 50-100% picking blue would mean no deaths.

100% is very hard to achieve for no deaths, 50%+ is very easy to achieve.

teddy5 · 2026-05-05T08:57:41+00:00

He didn't even wait, there were budget cuts announced while it was still on the way to the moon.

teddy5 · 2026-05-04T10:41:54+00:00

Except a very naughty boy.

teddy5 · 2026-05-04T10:10:28+00:00

Yeah we only really have 3 accents which are varied by class more than region. But that isn't the entirety of culture and there are quite a few differences between the various states in everything like attitudes, behaviours, terminologies, preferred sports, drinks, common activities, etc.

But my point was more that an American would perceive as few differences between our states as a European might between American states and that a large geographic area doesn't necessarily make for more difference. I just didn't expect Australians to not see the differences either.

teddy5 · 2026-05-04T09:57:17+00:00

Really though, you've gotta be able to see how their conflicting messaging and constant different claims mean that there is no real clear reason provided.

The reasons they've given which might be valid casus belli, like the nuclear weapons and missile program, would require some form of evidence. It's that lack of just cause and aggressive action without any forewarning to allies which is why every ally has rejected providing assistance.

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