How is this world news?

You can have a fight and still look out for each other’s wellbeing. If this was a walk on very safe flat terrain, maybe you’d have a point, but this was kilometres of intense scrambling and climbing over steep boulder fields with serious risk of injury. I’m a OK rock climber, and there were parts that freaked me out.

As is every social agreement

Just a few weeks ago I saw a dude have an argument with his partner on top of Cradle Mountain and then head down before her. We kept an eye on her to make sure she made it down OK (sketchy down climbing). He was at the bottom of the steep bit on his phone when we got there… She caught up and they seemed fine, but it was a weird vibe.

Not OP, but many of those windows updates were worse in lots of ways… Arguably a large part of the need for those updates is just so that you have something new to sell…

Gonna be a big fire season in Aus after the last few years of wet. Just hoping we don’t get two strong El Niño summers in a row.

AI slop

Interest from mainstream journalists, obviously, duh

You should punch up though.

(I agree this britney meme is trash)

I doubt that plastic in a well maintained state will rot fast. Wood rots quickly in the wild, but can last millennia in controlled conditions (kept clean and dry)

Opiuo. About 10 times, including at Festivals. Just fucking great dance music.

Also Machine Gun Fellatio. Only 2 or 3 times, but what a show, even now they are all in their 50s

It’d be nice if the linked to the study…

is it this? https://dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi%3A10.26193%2FA9VEXA

Agreed. And I think most of the anarchist-leaning folks I know would also agree.

I read it. I’ve been reading a lot of complex systems science lately, and it seems to have a lot of overlap, so perhaps it will stick a bit harder this time. Thanks :)

Fair point. I guess I will try to invent blacksmithing.

(not that I think a return to the neolithic is a likely scenario - some knowledge will stick around, regardless of how far we fall in population, resources, and technology)

Thanks. I’ll try it, but I have zero faith it’ll stick this time 😅

Eh. That’s the difference between a complex system (politics) and a complicated system (the part of a human body where surgery is relevant). It’s easier to write a manual for a complicated system and have it be correct and valuable. Complex systems not so much, not lease because every context is different and local knowledge is extremely valuable.

I agree that theory is often useful. I don’t think it always is though, and I think it can be misleading and wrong for a long time without anyone really noticing. I mean… Neoliberal economics also has a lot of theory…

I have multiple Iranian friends. No one in Iran other than religious fundamentalists liked Khamenei, or his government. But they also (justifiably) don’t trust the west. They feel trapped. Khamenei being removed is a problem not because he’s gone, but because he leaves a vacuum that might get filled with something worse.

Yeah, but so does just doing it. And talking to people about how to do it. The point isn’t that people shouldn’t read, it’s that the should do (and shouldn’t be prevented from doing because they can’t or won’t read).

The all theory and no action crowd are definitely more annoying and proficient at taking over spaces and killing the vibe, in my experience (e.g. socialist alternative here in Aus)