fizzle, fizzle@quokk.au

Interesting.

That particular example is often a subject of discussion in our house.

The preface is, im absolutely aware that an individuals experience is what matters, rather than my perspective. For example, if a 10 year old child says they’re very worried about a truck they left at the park, its not helpful or relevant that my own stresses and concerns are more impactful - like I lost my job and cant pay the mortgage, what matters is that the child is distressed.

That said, my partner and I often bicker about whether “it’s cold”.

We have twins, who are toddlers. Shes from the “fully dressed in warm clothes at all times” school of parenting, while my approach is… less prescriptive.

Obviously if a child told me they’re cold i wouldnt simply tell them that its not cold, but give them some warmer clothes.

Another point of contention in our house is the heater. We live in a temperate climate and the cost of heating is a significant component of the household budget.

My partner tends to run the heater more often than I would, but often times shes wearing a thin nightgown. Not surprisingly, the accepted approach in most households is to put on more clothes if you’re feeling cold, but of course you can turn on the heater if you’re still cold.

Im really just trying to figure out whether I am in fact a gasslighting asshole, given your example 😆

I suppose a disagreement around use of a heater is not at all the same as telling someone whether “its cold”.

Its got a logo on it FFS.

Satisfying homogenised mammalian excretion.

A focus on rehabilitation doesn’t mean releasing dangerous predators into society. Merely that rehabilitation is the focus, rather than punishment or profit.

Im not sure if youre actually this daft but obviously thats not true - im sure you’re entitled to claim a deduction for expenses you incur in producing your income.

I’ve never really understood gaslighting.

Yes I know the original definition.

Yes I know the phrase is overused to describe behaviour it really doesn’t apply to.

I just cant imagine someone actually planning to manipulate someone in this way.

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 had a psychologist and a psychiatrist tell me that diagnosis isn’t very important.

As in, I might be neurodivergent, but there isn’t really a specific pill for my particular brand of peculiar. I can just kinda skip past diagnosis and treat the symptoms, knowing that I may well be neurodivergent.

imagine one of these perpetual liars saying the pope is a liar.

I know it’s a long shot but I desperately hope some of them live to regret this behavior.

Oh well, I can’t be right about everything I guess. Happy to be wrong on this.

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.

Mapping!

Presently I’m using aerial photography to produce a map of local cycle ways and walkways.

I agree that moon stuff is a critical first step to doing anything in space, but my point is that I don’t think sending humans will ever be the best way to do anything.

Bots are just so cheap and effective and disposable by comparison.

How many decades more research and development before we can safely establish a permanent base on mars, and in that time how much more effective and reliable and deployable will bots become?

Eventually the calculation will be: we can afford to do a manned return trip to Mars, or we can afford to solve cold fusion by doing whatever thing with a bot, or something similarly amazing.

I think there’s a litany of problems with this assertion.

Firstly the sample size is 150 people, too small for any meaningful conclusion.

Secondly the article doesn’t make any attempt at a causal relationship. Are men with higher IQs more progressive because they have higher IQs? Or is there some other reason.

One hypothesis is simply that students in the 80s and 90s who were more comfortable with STEM work (and IQ tests) were more likely to go on to tertiary academic studies, and we know that there is a causal relationship between academic achievement and progressive politics. Given the era, perhaps women were less likely to follow that path than their male counterparts.

I’m not saying that’s the answer, it’s just an example of how statistical links aren’t always helpful.

Edit: most of what I said is really dumb and wrong!

I’m not a plumber but there’s a variety of devices designed to address this problem because… everyone has the same problem. The one under our bathtub is called a plumbdinger.

No one has mentioned Open Web UI, which is part of this landscape.

Open Web UI is the chat interface you use to interact with a model. I haven’t really dug into much of the functionality beyond simple chat, but there’s thousands of community plugins for web search and similar. You can also create knowledge bases and attach them to queries. For example if I have a bunch of policy and procedure documents from my work, I can create a knowledge base and ask the LLM to create new policies in that context.

You can configure it to work with ollama, which allows you to run LLMs from huggingface.co and similar on your own hardware.

However, in my own case I just don’t have anything resembling a modern powerful GPU, so I don’t run ollama locally. You can use a paid account at huggingface.co and use their API to do the inference (running the models). Not all LLMs are available this way but certainly many are.

More recently I’ve discovered that OVH, (a french bare-metal host I’ve used for years) provides an inference API for a half dozen models, and I’ve found this to be blistering fast compared to huggingface.

If you give a hospital medicine they will use it.

Irs not only formal education but also just a kind of culture around medical practice.

In a lot of south east Asian countries there’s a real expectation that doctors have to give you medicine. If you go to the Dr with a cold, instead of being told to go home and get some rest, you’ll leave with a goodies bag with all the things: paracetamol, a branded pen, antacid, vitamins, a coffee mug, antihistamine, bubblegum tooth paste, expectorant, a mask, and yes: antibiotics.

Many patients particularly from rural backgrounds, have always experienced medicine as a blend of actual therapy and showmanship. If you get headaches then the treatment is paracetamol for the pain and cupping to remove the bad spirits.

This means real practitioners providing science based medicine really need to uphold the showmanship. Better to give a kid a vaccine they might not need in order to improve the perceived value of the healthcare they received.

I can also imagine situations where a hospital might receive 10,000 doses of a vaccine from an aid organisation but are expected to provide their own hardware.

so trump hasn’t blocked all the straight homos? Much confuse.