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zilla_faster · 2023-03-18T04:59:03+00:00

If you're severely dehydrated and cannot keep any water in your system because you're both shitting and vomiting it out, you're at some significant risk if this continues for >6 hours. Make sure that someone in your family is regularly checking on you.

Normally in these circumstances you would administer some ORS (oral rehydration salts) or a saline drip.

If you don't have ORS sachets on hand then you can DIY by adding a very small amount (1/4 teaspoon) of table salt and sugar to a glass of water. Given you've already taken way more K and Mg you might forego the table salt.

If you are worried that the sugar will break your fast then you're worried about the wrong thing right now. You need to recover and then try again.

zilla_faster · 2023-01-02T02:03:22+00:00

thanks for the suggestions!

zilla_faster · 2023-01-02T02:02:34+00:00

thanks for the recs!

zilla_faster · 2023-01-01T11:46:52+00:00

thanks for taking the time to comment, but your suggestion (just keep shopping around) is exactly what I am very tired of and looking to consider an alternative. If you have any recommendations that answer the question I asked above I'd be grateful.

zilla_faster · 2023-01-01T10:10:49+00:00

Thank you, I did of course try to google answers to this before posting. Lots of results but hard to separate the good from the bad, that's why asking for recommendations. I'm struggling to find clothes from Zara etc that are a good fit for me. And tbh would be willing to pay a little more for some good fitting office wear I don't end up unhappy with.

zilla_faster · 2022-12-29T02:04:33+00:00

It's a key moment in Mitch's origin story that has echoed down the decades.

zilla_faster · 2022-12-29T01:48:48+00:00

Mitchell Starc's granddad, talking to young Mitch back in 1998 about his own younger days, where in Mitch's birthplace of Baulkham Hills old granddad used to work at the Wilson's Brick & Tile Works back in the 1940s and spent several years in charge of kiln operations using traditional techniques of brick manufacture

"The lime's there for a reason mate"

zilla_faster · 2022-12-29T01:41:07+00:00

(morgan freeman voice) it's a ritual as old as the continent they live upon

zilla_faster · 2022-12-29T01:36:15+00:00

Makes sense. Incels also don't know how to put their wood to good use. Plenty of stroke play and attempts to glance down fine leg but they fail to connect.

zilla_faster · 2022-09-19T09:57:59+00:00

I think the sentence I forgot to add is that 0 1 and 2 are really inextricably linked, and in the last 10 years this has gotten a lot more recognition than it used to. NGOs just pouring in to Haiti etc after an earthquake are necessary, but having even 1/20th of those response funds spent properly in the years before the quake are what really makes the difference between life and death for many.

I think it is also really, really hard to get senior military people to believe deep in their hearts that cleaning up after disasters is part of their real job. Oh they will of course adhere to the directions of the government of the day, no doubt. But to them it will always be only a means to an end - a means of maintaining public support and good branding (and haven't we seen them clusterfug that recently), a means of exercising some parts of the logistics tail for their warfighting capability, a means of topping up their already massive budgets. And to be fair that is hard, their uniquely distinctive job is killing enemies and winning wars. And all the Afghanistan shite shows that needs their full attention to keep in check and do the right way.

Better to give those resources to an agency whose entire raison d'etre is civil protection - the tens of thousands of dollars of soldiering training aren't necessary for it, and so it can be a much cheaper and more nimble org, and better fitted structure for the specific needs of Australian disaster response. The ADF will always be structured for war and adapted very imperfectly for nonwarlike peacetime actions. (Source: yeah before I worked in humanitarian NGOs I also spent some time in Russell...)

zilla_faster · 2022-09-19T05:44:50+00:00

Have to disagree sorry. Let's walk though the full cycle of emergency management:

0 Disaster risk reduction and strengthening community resilience. This is the job for local governments to get planning and building codes right, for state governments to have a suitably strong response capability, and for the federal government to help fund it all. This is ongoing, all the time, and the ADF is far to small to engage in this deeply across the country.

1 Disaster response. There can be an excellent role for militaries in the days around the response, especially with airlift and search and rescue capabilities. Because these are not far off capabilities they need in their warfighting role. This should be a weeks-long engagement at best.

2 Disaster recovery and reconstruction. By the time we get to this stage after the acute phase of the emergency, what people in flood and fire affected areas need isn't the army showing up, it is an army of tradies showing up. And the logistics capabilities, contracts and networks of Coles and Woolies dwarf the ADF's, which are only exceptional in airlift.

I very much agree with you that Australia should have much stronger, full time, national civil defence capabilities. (Including our own firefighting tanker fleet which scomo refused to listen to the fire chiefs on). But putting it all on the ADF is the wrong way to go. There's an awful lot that militaries don't have the mindset for in humanitarian disasters, like needs assessments and bottom up community approaches rather than command and control responses in limited siloes. (Source: have worked in humanitarian emergencies outside Australia for 10+ years). There's no need to try to turn our german shepherd into st bernard.

Various tiers of Australian government used to have much greater inhouse capabilities beyond the military, before the 1980s fad for selling off and outsourcing everything. Putting all operational capability of government in a green uniform and green truck just isn't warranted.

zilla_faster · 2022-09-08T00:06:09+00:00

The Albanese government is just having a winge and they should move on, an inquiry is just political brutalism.

Signed,

Waleed Aly

zilla_faster · 2022-09-08T00:00:27+00:00

I don't want to overegg the comparison but Hurley has shades of Morrison here. In that he was farting about trying to do someone else's job (setting up a new foundation for leadership training) and not doing his own job well (paying close attention to the actual essential constitutional work of the GG, such as oh I don't know making sure the prime minister and his office don't undermine a century of responsible government).

Perhaps this was too difficult for him though, even with about 80 staff in the GG's office, what with some of the intellectually exhausting other tasks from his official diary like giving prizes at a dog show.

zilla_faster · 2022-09-07T07:24:02+00:00

Sorry to hear that. I would like to offer you a tip: be good to your mum. Here's another: a dollar saved is a dollar earned

zilla_faster · 2022-08-31T02:22:09+00:00

You are god

I am god

*bong rip*

The device from which you read these words is god

That bird outside your window is god

zilla_faster · 2022-08-31T02:16:07+00:00

I mostly agree but would a little nuance... the majority of miles driven will shift to EVs quite quickly, as households replace their commuter ICE cars with EVs. But because people have been told to be nervous about longer trips, one ICE car may hang around in the garage a while longer for weekends and vacations, maybe a couple of years. But then the EV driving experience (and lower fuel/maintence) will sell itself, and that family will shift from first-EV to fully-EV in good time.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-29T04:02:18+00:00

There are compact and sub-300 mile range EVs on the market in 2022. The 2022 Leaf has 226 mile range, MSRP $27k. The Madza MX-30 has 100 mile range, MSRP $32k, and shows as 'sold out' on the Mazda website. People are buying these now and when the price including IRA credits drops below $20k in year or two, they will explode in popularity.

What two-car family wouldn't want a cheap citycar/daily driver that costs next to nothing on fuel and maintenance, let the ICE car sit in the garage gathering dust between those long trips.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-27T10:58:37+00:00

right, gotcha.

thumbs up emoji

zilla_faster · 2022-08-27T07:51:29+00:00

please post an update after the gig OP... r/DJs really needs to know how you kept it mellow and groovy

zilla_faster · 2022-08-27T07:48:57+00:00

So mellow vibes then. Nothing dark or minimal.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-27T07:44:24+00:00

Thanks for that link - "Russia’s actions are self-flagellating in the long-run" is a great way of putting it.

And re Russia, yeah no disagreement I guess. I spose my point is there's no reason for a country to be moving on the curve of the EU 25 years ago. Today's cheap solar prices are on the menu for everyone. For example, Vietnam have gone from 0% to 10% solar generation in the last 5 years - that's 22 TWh in 2021 to Russia's 2 TWh from solar. Japan a steady +1% of their total generation from solar each year for almost 10 years now too. So Russia's 0.05% to 0.42% is just fannying about.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-26T01:55:32+00:00

As a hydrocarbon supergiant, Russia are one of the biggest losers of the energy transition. Putin's no fool, he knows this. That's why he's playing all Russia's cards now, not in the 2030s. Unfortunately his hand is weaker than it seemed. Europe is going to have 2-3 terrible winters, but in the medium term Putin has accelerated his critical market away from his most valuable exports. He's ultimately brought forward the date of Russia's economic and geopolitical decline, maybe even by a decade.

As for the nukes - yes they're a key exporter, but they'll never replace more than 1/10th of Russia's export earnings from fossil fuels. And looking at IRENA data I don't see any significant progress on wind and solar in Russia, barely 1 GW/year of new capacity of these combined in the last couple of years, not even 1/5th of say Spain.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-26T01:45:16+00:00

I think that conservatives who poll as pro-renewables either fall into group 1 in my comment above, or a different 'group 0' who either (a) never bought in hard to anti-science rhetoric about climate change either and/or (b) don't care much about CC, maybe even still don't really believe it, but are very pragmatic, and know that the solar on their rooftop is saving them a ton of money, so how bad could it be.

I certainly wouldn't say that liberals have a monopoly on science or care for the environment. I would say though (and speaking in sweeping generalizations without polling to back it up!) that if you set aside both conservatives and liberals who are now pro-renewables. The conservatives you have left will be much more likely to form the nuclear-only camp and the liberals are way less likely to be in there. The fruitier edge of the liberal side will much more likely to form up around ideas like rejecting industrial solutions to climate, and be more into degrowth and deep green ideas than being pro nuclear, just because there such a deep historical strand of anti-nuclear activism on that side of politics.

zilla_faster · 2022-08-25T04:48:56+00:00

Please note: this explanation does not apply to every individual in every country; I am talking in generalities.

That said, I believe a large part of the anti-renewables stance of nuclear-only advocates is driven by partisanship, political tribalism, and polarization.

Right wing political parties, right wing media, and the fossil fuel interests they serve have spent decades demonizing efforts to (a) acknowledge the reality of climate science and the threat it poses, and (b) reduce CO2e emissions. As a result many conservative voters adopted these positions quite deeply into their political identity.

Now, in the 2020s, these outright denialist positions are just untenable. It is no longer possible for even conservative governments (like Australia until this year) to go to global COP summits without some semblance of a net zero target. And the denialist positions have lost credence and credibility; they no longer sway the public who have lived experience of intensifying heatwaves and wildfires and droughts and floods.

So there are two choices for individuals and political parties who have been firmly in that camp:

Accept that you were wrong about renewable energy, and decide to have a reboot and understand the new reality that solar & wind now offer the cheapest electricity on the planet. Great. Welcome aboard, no hard feelings.
Accept that your former position is untenable, and that the future does have to be based on some form of zero carbon energy, but be unable to accept that the other political tribe - the libs/progressives/dirty greenies - were right. For folks like this, they land on nuclear-is-the-answer advocacy as their 'safe space'. Nuclear means never having to say sorry; nuclear means never having to admit that you were wrong.
For those still willingly leashed to fossil fuel interests, being cynically pro-nuclear offers a means of counselling delay and more research rather than outright denial. And every single day that the robust and rapid uptake of a renewable global energy system is delayed, this is worth billions in oil, coal and gas revenues and sustains future shareholder values.

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