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Cake day: November 21st, 2025

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  • Theft. That’s what is up with all these violence fantasies.

    I don’t think of myself as a violent or aggressive person. I’ve navigated my entire adult life without giving anyone a beating.

    However, throughout history theives have received a violent response from their victims. If you steal something you should expect to face the wrath of your victim if you’re caught.









  • The word “exosphere” was proposed by Lyman Spitzer to designate the outer part of a planetary atmosphere, defined as the region where the density is low enough to describe it as a collisionless region. Since the beginning of the space era, it was discovered that the major neutral constituent of Earth’s exosphere is atomic hydrogen, and Shklovsky (1959) coined the word “geocorona” to designate the H component of the exosphere.

    I didn’t read the whole paper obviously but this part makes it sound like you’re talking about the exosphere in which, by definition, there might be more gas molecules than elsewhere but few enough that they’re unlikely to run into them, or they’re unlikely to run into each other maybe IDK.

    Obviously, if there was a significant atmosphere the moon would experience atmospheric drag and would fall to earth.


  • Its a lot more complex than it sounds. I have a post grad in geo spatial intelligence, even though its not something I do professionally.

    These maps are stylised, meaning that the location of some things in some cases is moved slightly to improve readability. For example, I want the map to cover the entirety of my small city so the scale has to accommodate that. However, in some areas like beach fronts and tourist precincts there’s a lot of important features to include, which the scale just doesn’t really allow for. So you take some editors license to move things in a way that fits everything, but no one reading your map would think “Hey that path is supposed to be 30m to the west according to this map.”

    For this reason the whole thing is more of an exercise in graphic design than it is one of geo spatial manipulations. Im using inkscape to create the map but i have qgis open alongside for things like street names and suburb boundaries.

    The photography im using as a background on which to draw streets and paths is published by our state government. Its a tiled view of the entire state compiled from aerial surveys by plane. The resolution and quality available is truly beautiful.

    The thing about this process which is truly captivating is that despite living her for 40 years, and growing up here as a curious and nosy scallywag, I’ve discovered so many little things in my area I didnt know existed. For example, there’s a network of paths that runners use behind a lake that I always thought was just a swamp.

    There are also features I suspect may be similar to “crop lines” - vegetation growing in a different way due to man made features beneath the surface. In this case, fish traps constructed by first Australians perhaps hundreds of years ago. Or maybe its not that at all.



  • I’ve heard that almost every single bath tub install has this problem.

    Like on a new build the plumbers show up before the pad goes down to run the pipework. They measure out where the waste pipe is according to the plan but it might not be perfect to the mm.

    Then the pad goes down. Then the carpenters show up and put up the walls. More measuring and inaccuracies and what have you.

    The tub is the last to go in, and there’s always going to be some variance between that first step and the final step, so there’s always going to be something under the tub to connect it to the correct waste water.

    We’re planning out a renovation to take place in a few weeks. It’s above ground floor with unrelated tenants below. Our guys need to drill a new waste water hole through a ~150mm concrete floor. The waste water pipes are in the ceiling of the tenancy below. The tenants are being weird about it… “you can only have access on Fridays!”.

    That said, our plumbdinger was leaking into their tenancy real bad 2 years ago. We couldn’t really get at it without a full reno, which we didn’t want to do, so we just put silicone on it as best we could with the nozzle through the grate of the bath tub waste water. That running repair has worked for the last 2 years.