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[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Today is too cool for my liking, 19 max.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Meh, this is our life on Enmore Rd in Sydney on Friday and Saturdays nights until the early morning. Not sure if it's already been designated an entertainment precinct but it's meant to be. For some reason that attracts people with loud cars and bikes.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/22774303

The state is grappling with the legacy of a surgeon who allegedly mutilated an Aboriginal man's remains.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

There is a reference to Mixy in the video.

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The Ferals (www.youtube.com)
 

The time has come to introduce our uninvited guests. We're looking at the top 10 most destructive introduced animals (and plants) in Australia. But why are they so devastating? And how did they end up here? All this and more will be explored as we delve into the world of the ferals.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who's your pick for the flag? I don't see anyone beating the cats. Really don't wanna watch Dangerfield tear up the Swans in another gf.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The catch is it won't happen I guess.

 

So the title info is cribbed from the Wikipedia link which I looked into after noticing a few fledglings in a park being fed by half a dozen mature birds. Very communal creatures.

 

The Hawks travel to Adelaide Oval looking to continue their fairytale run while the Power are hoping to bounce back after a big qualifying final loss.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

I would try a few Plasma based tiling scripts before switching to anything like Sway or i3. You'll get a good idea of whether it's for you. Later on if you find you need more control over the tiling you could switch to a dedicated tiling window manager.

I'm using Karousel in Plasma which is scrollable tiling. You can install and enable it like so:

Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > KWin Scripts > select Get New... > In search enter Karousel and wait for it to show up > select Install > select the latest version (as of now karousel-0-9-4.tar.gz).

There is a companion desktop effect that also needs to be installed like so:

Go to System Settings > Apps & Windows > Window Management > Desktop Effects > select Get New... > enter Geometry Change in search > select Install > select the latest version (as of now kwin4-effect-geometry-change-1.3.tar.gz).

Karousel and Geometry Change have configuration options and Karousel also has keyboard shortcuts (view here) which you may need to update to your liking. I don't have a need to configure anything in Geometry Change as the default animation settings are fine. For Karousel I tend to adjust the various spacing and gaps options along with making sure the shortcuts I want are configured. That link above has a short video of what Karousel looks like in action.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Do they have demosages (forgive me) for these elections on polling day? It's the only time I ever eat a sausage sandwich these days. Don't wanna miss out.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I was pretty annoyed from the get go when they killed the three kids but hey, it was on in the background while I was working so I was like, ugh whatever.

But then the next thing was like, wait they tried to geoengineer a tornado away and it grew into monster tornado and killed everyone. Is Twisters going all Jurassic Park? Awesome if so.

But nope because after a lot of nothing we get to a scene where the main character's mum casually drops that the the farmers up in woop woop were cloud seeding for rain... They're what now? Oh and hold your horses, what if you use their cloud seeding tech which totally works in this now clearly science fiction tornado film, with your fireworks and diaper seeding tech to take down some dinosaurs, I mean tornados! Yeah totally let's do it!

So yeah, you know if they had totally not had that stuff I wouldn't have said anything ever about this film.

Burn Hollywood Burn.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Awesome 👍

I don't think I would have minded all the issues I had with the film if it had a better cast. The actors in this film just don't have the presence of the og crew and soundtrack. This feels like a paint by numbers, made for television movie, stuffed with forgettable characters and actors. Not that the og was anything high brow but that cast sold it.

There is so much weird, incongruent stuff in this film.

Like why was there a single tram carriage in that large town? It looked so out of place. There is a very strange stage setting scene of the tram rolling ever so slowly down the main road of this midwestern town. Does this small city only have one tram car for public transport? Is it a weird hybrid tourist area? Are tourists travelling to midwestern farming towns to go on a tram ride for the day, a tram that appears to only go up and down a small section of the main road?

I think my biggest beef is that the movie horrifically murders three young uni students at the start of the film. All because the writers have no original ideas, let's just steal the og film opening but make it meaner and more gruesome, it will be a great back story for our main character. But it's not because the main character is so boring (and the lead actor hasn't been given enough to work with).

I could go on. I need to let go.

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Willie-wagtail (lemmy.world)
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OC by @[email protected] .

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19684593

OP comment: Looking perpetually angry 😠

 

Alternative title 'Twister 2: Geoengineering can save lives and is good actually'.

That's all I have to report. I had no idea this 'sequel' to the 1996 film Twister was some light geoengineering propaganda. Weirdly, climate change isn't mentioned once (correct me if I'm wrong). Which begs the question, why even introduce the idea of geoengineering as a solution to your tornado problem? Oh right, to provide some meaning to your characters otherwise meaningless lives. 'We have to help the townspeople', 'I want to make a difference' blah blah blah. I'm sure I'm butchering the actual dialog.

The only returning 'character' is Dorothy the scientific tornado instrument (a term pinched from a google search which pinched it from some wiki).

The film could also work as a stand-in for a very boring country and western mix-tape (or spotify playlist). I don't remember the original films soundtrack being so dull.

This movie blows.

 

NSW (New South Wales) is Australia's most populous state.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/13554034

Comment from OP: This sounds like a positive change, definitely a much better grounding in Australian history than I received at that age. It is pretty wild that you can live in a colonial country without ever being taught what colonisation means for indigenous peoples but that is the world we've been living in until recently.

 

Source: 6 News.

SBS: Senator labels the government 'capaholics': Fatima Payman's Gen Alpha speech decoded - Includes graphic below and edited video with some 'translation'.

Graphic from article above

 
  • In short: A leaked email from the National Farmers Federation is directing its members to stay silent on a story linking the common farm chemical paraquat to Parkinson's disease.

  • But the leader of the Victorian state branch has ignored the directive, saying she believes a debate needs to be had about the safe use of the chemical and the health of farmers.

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