Depending on the way it’s modified, I think there’s some environmental risk particularly for soil erosion and potentially cross breeding with non-modified crops.

I don’t think these should stop us from making better food sources, but it does concern me because there isn’t much corporate incentive to adequately test for these things.

Probably proper knife skills. I’ve always been pretty good with a knife, but I’ve been taking my time to really refine the skill as I do a lot of cooking for large groups so speed is extremely useful. I honestly learnt a lot of it indirectly by just watching how chefs use them, but for the theory and all that I started with Lan Lam’s video on knife skills over at the America’s Test Kitchen yt channel.

I’m about to be going to an event where I’ll be cooking nearly a thousand meals a day for three days, so I’m going to be putting it to the test. The one nice thing is we’ll have a team of volunteers to help with ingredient prep, so it should be okay but daunting none the less.

That’s a pretty reasonable misunderstanding, I don’t speak for anyone but myself but generally as long as there’s no malice involved I’m not upset by an accidental misgendering.

I’m on jerboa too and didn’t even know there were specific pronouns on accounts, I just chucked mine in my bio.

I’ve also got a degree in physics and I think it’s a valid if kinda wonky use of the word study. They studied whether or not GR allowed this specific thing and that’s enough to say it’s physically possible. It’s not just publishing an idea so much as proving the validity of it within current models, to me a study implies investigation of some kind and that’s definitely what went on here.

I’ve definitely heard it used this way before, even if it is less common. I wouldn’t say it’s an unwritten rule so much just that people have learnt to infer that there’s some direct observation going on.

I don’t know if it’s the worst or best I’ve ever seen, but Sonichu

Judging from the other comments it’s not for everyone, but personally I love my Wednesdays off. For me it’s mostly about dealing with accumulated fatigue due to a health condition though, and I definitely agree about the errands. When I have lots of medical appointments they’re so easy to schedule lol

Tech companies do something sane? Never.

Honestly I expect half the reason is the headlines

Yeah exactly right? I’ve had Americans tell me that snakes and spiders are too scary, snakes will actively run from people (mostly) and spiders don’t care about you they just want flies and stuff.

Meanwhile in NA you’ve got powerful prey species that will just randomly wander through town, not to mention all the gun violence in the USA…

Most dangerous thing here are the cars tbh.

I really really hate this narrative. Time and time again people tell me they would love to come to Australia but it’s too dangerous.

This isn’t a dangerous place, most of our wildlife is harmless and/or actively avoids people. It makes me so damn sad every time another friend tells me how deadly my home is, and even worse they refuse to listen to people who actually live here because they’ve been told Australia is dangerous their whole life.

Eat shit Albo, fucking biggest disappointment ever. So much potential from the supposedly left faction of Labor and we still cop shit like this.

That’s fair, I just like windows and that’s really all there is to it. I’ve had a few Linux installs in the past, but never really found an advantage to anything except compiling this one specific python library, but these days I can do that very easily running WSL, VS code SSH’d to my server or more recently a jupyter server that I can connect to from any device with a web browser.

Now macOS on the other hand, I absolutely despise. It was one of the first OS’s I learnt to use back in primary school, and now that I have to use it for work I have absolutely no nice things to say. Unintuitive, missing basic features and slow to navigate, and I can assure you that none of this is due to unfamiliarity…

Other than messing around with the beta for half an hour, I thankfully never had to use it.

Unpopular opinion that I have no justification for: I don’t mind windows 11 all that much

If you’re looking for books, then it depends on what field you want to study. Generally just I’d search for recommended textbooks for that field and then I’d definitely buy it and wouldn’t just download it from libgen.is

Now I’m wondering, surely someone has already made a language that’s designed to read like scripture?

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NAB did the exact same thing after the banking royal commission

Long COVID absolutely terrifies me. I already have a similar condition, that I eventually managed to learn to live with during the pandemic.

If I get long COVID I don’t think I’ll want to continue living, there’s only so much uncontrollable pain and fatigue I can take.

There’s plenty of bad shit here too.

The country voting to not recognise that the traditional owners deserve a voice.

Our government continuing to fuel the climate apocalypse.

Housing affordability is locking basically every young person out of the market.

A lot of my friends are losing their jobs because the economy says they aren’t profitable enough to employ.

Federal and state governments enacting policies to make it harder for independents to challenge them by restricting funding.

Fucking NIMBYs everywhere.

Detention centres still exist for some fucking reason.

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I cope with the US falling further by not living in the US, unfortunately I’m just privileged like that, sorry.

I have a few friends over there, and the state of things absolutely breaks my heart.