Vegan Circlejerk naevaTheRat • 1 week ago • 69%

I feel like it's a parent's duty to teach children right from wrong and lay down the foundations of a moral and healthy life. Everyone knows that heroine use is often harmful and the way it's produced is blood soaked and exploitative. The internet is really mad at me for forcing my opinions on my daughter though, so lemmy. AITA?

vegan naevaTheRat • 3 weeks ago • 75%

Hi all, I'm one of the mods that apparently caused lemmy.world to melt down for two weeks. It's a lovely sunny Sunday arvo, and I'd much rather go catch the last rays of sun in my garden than write about mod drama. Alas, I must have sinned in a past life. Today the lemmy.world admins made a follow up post about the incident where the admin Rooki interfered with moderation of this community in a way which was determined to be against lemmy.world TOS and factually incorrect. Throughout this incident there has been no communication with me, nor to my knowledge any of of the other moderators of this community. Rooki quitely undid his actions and edited his post to admit fault however there was no public acknowledgement of this from him. In fact I wasn't even told I was reinstated as a mod which is quite funny. The lemmy.world admins' response appears more focused on managing their own reputations and justifying similar actions in the future than providing a good environment for vegans, and other similarly maligned groups. Their statements about wanting to handle misinformation and overreach better in the future ring a bit hollow when they won't take actions to address the anti-vegan circlejerks under their update posts which abound with misinformation and disinformation. The legalese written basically allows for the same thing to happen, and that if it does the admin decision is to stand while moderators have to quietly resolve the conflict at the admins' leisure. Presumably with a similarly weak public apology and barely visible record correction after the fact. This community already has a fairly high moderation burden, with many users coming here in bad faith and getting outraged when they are told to take it elsewhere. I have spoken with /u/neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com and /u/Beaver@lemmy.ca and we are of the opinion that given the lack of assurance that admins with an axe to grind wont interfere in the future this is no longer a space we are interested in moderating and can't in good faith recommend as a place to host a vegan community. Instead we would recommend that users come to !vegan@vegantheoryclub.org (note, not federated with .world, make a local account), additionally !vegan@lemmy.ml, !vegan@slrpnk.net, and !vegan@hexbear.net are well moderated and run. Mods are just glorified internet janitors though, so if any current mods or users want to take over the responsibility of primary management from /u/neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com they are welcome to do so and should get in touch. Otherwise I think the consensus is to close this community for now. Finally I'd just like to express gratitude for the great effort put in by the users here. In particular /u/Rose@lemmy.world you are a bloody champion for trying to get a better outcome here, we all appreciate it immensely.

Australian Politics naevaTheRat • 3 months ago • 94%

www.abc.net.au

This is fucked reporting right? The quote they use as evidence is her saying something is "in God's hands". Elsewhere articles are run using quotes of her praying to god. This is like, extremely normal lexicon for even casually religious people right? I'm an atheist with a pretty negative view of religion and to *me* this looks like pearl clutching. Lots of extremely normal people say "I am praying for guidance" when they're reflecting on something. That in isolation doesn't mean they expect a hedge to catch fire and tell them what to do... If our standard is pollies never mention religion then we might want to do some stuff about the Lord's prayer, the oaths, and the magical mace of the Royal cult.

vegan naevaTheRat • 3 months ago • 70%

Alt text can't be formatted. Have it here Things I've learned since going vegan - You can slice someone's throat and still love them. - The word "need" can also mean "could easily live without but do kinda want". - The word "humane" can mean literally anything you want it to. - It's ok to call people out for harmful behaviour unless that behaviour involves bacon. - Plants definitely feel pain and lawns scream when you mow them. - Crop workers are exploited but slaughterhouse workers definitely aren't. No exploitation here, no sir. - Meat is the only food that contains protein. - "Found the vegan" is still funny and original the millionth time. - Before humans came along, cows were just wandering around with massive udders praying for someone to invent industrialised agriculture. - Steak is cheaper than beans, rice, pasta, and canned vegetables. - While 99% of all meat comes from factory farms, no one eats that meat. - Everyone only buys local, organic, humane, Dalai Lama approved meat. - Everyone has an uncle who owns a farm straight out of a 1950's Americana magazine - Everyone has a degree in nutrition and evolutionary biology. - Everyone knows that one guy who went vegan and almost died. - Everyone is free to talk about their identity, beliefs and interests without being shamed for them. Unless they're vegan. Vegans can fuck off.

Elden Ring naevaTheRat • 3 months ago • 85%

Is it a lore reference to a toilet? Hinting at some of the late game of elden ring being shit?

Sydney naevaTheRat • 3 months ago • 75%

NSW still requires surgeries that are often unwanted, complex, and have mixed results (particularly for ftm patients, unless they opt for steralisation instead which might count. mtf steralisation is mandatory), and tremendously expensive (not covered by medicare, in fact barely offered in australia at all especially for ftm people). Further if you are fortunate enough to be able to do this you are required to be inspected by two unrelated medical professionals. I went through that process and it was the most humiliating moment of my life. This policy is out of line with policy adopted by the federal government over a decade ago now, and is similar to policies previously enacted by Sweden and The Netherlands. Policies which they are currently apologising for and paying re-compensation to transgender people harmed by them. Having ID which identifies someone as transgender causes ongoing dysphoria which runs contrary to treatment recommended by health professionals while exposing someone to violence and discrimination. Chris Minns' words ring hollow when the state government continues to drag its feet on this front, despite support from the Greens and Alex Greenwich. While I'm glad for any of my comrades getting a sense of closure, to me this leaves a bitter taste in my mouth and appears another empty political stunt of pretty words without commitment to action.

Australian News naevaTheRat • 4 months ago • 81%

www.abc.net.au

I read this while enjoying a glass of the date rape drug known as Shiraz which some users consume to the point of death. You could power a city on my eyerolls. My message to the community is to demand reasonable and measured reporting on drugs, and sensible drug policy with a harm minimisation orientation. Or you know, let's get hysterical about people taking a ghb prodrug that's harder to dose and more likely to be contaminated because it's easier to import than GHB. That'll keep the kids safe.

Australian News naevaTheRat • 4 months ago • 100%

www.theguardian.com

Complete bullshit. Regimes that punish whistleblowers harder than war criminals reveal themselves as dreaming of tyranny. The entire trial was cooked, and I'm furious :( That non parole period is nuts too, pure revenge. What danger does this man represent? If he's out on the streets some war criminals better watch their backs? edit: I should add, it's also quite frustrating that at the end of all this top brass has had no light shone on them, which was his initial goal on leaking. He thought the SAS was being investigated overmuch as a distraction from leadership failures. I guess we'll never know. A slap on the wrist for the executioners, no systematic investigation, and an inconvenient man in gaol.

chat naevaTheRat • 5 months ago • 100%

So I came across this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/18/five-of-the-best-books-to-understand-modern-china and the headline piqued my interest but the books all seem of a rather particular slant. I am a fan of reading from a series of broad perspectives when trying to understand huge things and it's obviously a bit farcial to suppose the lives of 1.4 billion people are gripped by terror and pain in a country that somehow still chugs along. Since of everywhere on lemmy I think I'm likely to get some pretty interesting recommendations here, if we can do it without igniting the china good/bad flame war what books would you recommend to give insight into "understanding modern china". That is phenomenally broad and vague so I'm keen to see anything from histories to fiction. edit: thank you all for your opinions, I will endeavour to check most of them out and communicate my thoughts on them later. I'm especially interested in what the lives of boring arse people are like in different sectors of society (e.g. migrant underclass, party bureaucrate, officer worker, house wife, farmer etc) , if anything like that comes to mind.

Australian News naevaTheRat • 6 months ago • 97%

www.abc.net.au

Alternative title: NSW cops murder a kid because he ran home when 4 people in plain clothes pile out of a car and accost him. For wearing a hoodie.

Bready naevaTheRat • 7 months ago • 94%

No crumbshot yet, cooling. It's a bit of a frankenloaf as I didn't have enough flour but had already started the process. about 30% white bread flour, 30% rye, and 30% horrible supermarket wholemeal. ~80% hydration. Tbh I was surprised it came out of the rattan thing as the rye + high hydration makes a pretty sticky mess. However it seemed enough water leeched through the wood during proofing that the rice flour did it's thing.

Australian News naevaTheRat • 8 months ago • 100%

www.theguardian.com

Looks like a rather significant adjustment to the proposed cuts. Although still moving some beans around rather than dropping it. Rough back of the envelope stuff it seems like ~80-120k earners get the largest dollar cut, but it's more significant in terms of % income at the lower end. So workers in "professional" roles likely to see the biggest impact, still gonna be tough at the low end of town.

Australian News naevaTheRat • 8 months ago • 100%

www.abc.net.au

Unsurprisingly it's still food and housing driving it largely.

Shitty Million Dollar Ideas naevaTheRat • 8 months ago • 80%

Marketing campaign involves targetting usaians insecure about a lack of nationalism in their desert choices. Claim icecream sandwiches are effete and European while hot dogs symbolise freedom and the rags to riches stuff.

3DPrinting naevaTheRat • 9 months ago • 97%

Includes a little jig off the side to bend the leads regularly, and holds the LEDs in consistent orientation using the cathode cutaway on the rim. Designed by my lovely wife. btw It is food safe to drink coffee next to 3d printed parts nerds ;) P.S. this filament is awful, filamentium pla. The worst thing I've used since early reprap days when variability was high. Any ideas what's causing that "shadowing" between the holes? those parts printed last I think but at the same speed/ironing pattern etc as the more matte parts between.

3DPrinting naevaTheRat • 9 months ago • 93%

It'a detained by magnets so it doesn't get in the basket and interfere with spreading out the grounds. Needs a clean up with a lick of sandpaper, pretty stupid but these things cost like 50 bucks /shrug  EDIT: appreciate all the concern for my health, it touches dry coffee grounds. I agree that if it got wet there'd be health problems but unless it gets real humid there's just no opportunity for decay. As for random leaching same diff, without heat and wet it's not really a concern. That said I probably will seal an improved design, this is just a test piece.

196 naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 98%

I'm sorry for making this.

Food and Cooking naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 100%

Does asafoetida smell amazing to you? and if yes do you consider yourself someone with an accurate sense of smell (e.g. identify if someone needs dental work in a conversation, smell who someone has been hanging out with, identify spices and herbs used in a meal with high accuracy, identify the perfume someone wears etc)

196 naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 100%

A straw is just a stretched doughnut.

Aussie Enviro naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 100%

www.abc.net.au

Seems more related to air movement maybe than depletion of ozone. Still, the possibility is a bummer

Dwarf Fortress naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 100%

Obviously giant creature war breeding is the goal. Any great candidates that are from good biomes for taming? Do cavern invaders still cause save corruption/become completely unmanageable? Also since it's been a long time I'm thinking of setting a lower population limit and taking my time. Do any of you have recommended settings for enemy invasions etc based in a ~50 dwarf cap?

Arch Linux naevaTheRat • 10 months ago • 100%

I've got a refurbed thinkpad yoga in the mail. It's a stylus oriented laptop so I need to change the software I use to be more clicky. For years I've favoured stuff like netctl, xrandr, xbacklight etc etc over GUI alternatives and usually gone for very minimal WM setups (e.g. dwm). For obvious reasons this would be actual hell with a stylus in tablet mode, but it's been around 15 years since I last had a clicky linux setup and I'm really lost as to how to set one up on arch. What do you folks recommend for laptops? EDIT: update for wayward souls. Went with plasma, less works nicely out of the box but gnome hung occasionally on a 2019 yoga x1. There's a lot about plasma I would say is annoying but configuring it is vastly easier than gnome.

Running naevaTheRat • 11 months ago • 100%

Silly title aside what do you do to warm up and if you do any stretching for mobility after a run what are they? I confess to being extremely lazy. My idea of a warm up is just running a bit easier than normal and the only stretch I do is foam roll my calves and stretch out the old hams on a wall. Every time I look up articles you get insane fitness blogs regurgitating the same 3 page "easy" routine that you absolutely must do all of or you will definitely die. So what do actual other human beings do? Come, share your wisdom or commiserate in haphazardness.

Australia naevaTheRat • 12 months ago • 100%

www.theguardian.com

This should be an interesting case to watch. It seems on it's face something utterly inhumane and so it will be important to know whether it is considered legitimate.

Running naevaTheRat • 1 year ago • 100%

I started running about a year ago. No specific goals just for fun, was making good progress till I got up to being able to run about 7 km 5 days a week no problem. Unfortunately a series of health problems lead to getting really out of condition and I'm dealing with some knee tendonitis due to irresponsibility when doing strength training. Now I'm gasping after 3 km and having to carefully pace myself to avoid aggravating the knee while I build it back up. On one hand I know that a lot of the long term adaption isn't totally gone, that I'm not starting from zero. When I started I would throw up after running a block. On the other hand it's demotivating as fuck putting in so much effort to hobble through stuff that recently was relaxing. I'm obviously not the first person or the last to deal with this so I'm asking if you could share times when you've dealt with recovering and what kept you going.

3DPrinting naevaTheRat • 1 year ago • 100%

See attached photo for the results of the bed levelling test using superslicer's calibration test. This is using the uhhh mriscoc firmware after heating to thermal equilibrium, tramming to tolerance, doing a 9x9 mesh which found a high point at the super messed up bottom left corner (higher than tramming result? but slightly further out). I have M420 S1 in my custom gcode, and for insanity's sake checked the gcode of the part and it's in the custom block and start block. Any ideas what's going on? every other section is okay, although back right is a bit distant. EDIT 2023-07-11T08:27(UTC): So after some shenanigans the current findings are summarised as following: - Z travel speed during probing needs to be slow - multiple probing (3 samples) creates reproducible meshes and tramming wizard results - Trying to enable the mesh via `G29 A ; Activate UBL \n G29 L0 ; Load mesh in slot 0 \n G29 J ; Correct for skew` didn't seem to work. Replacing that whole block with `M420 L0 S1` makes the Z axis move during XY translation (from which I infer the mesh is loaded and being used correctly vs my printer is possessed) - The above would seem to me to indicate the marlin documentation is wrong? as it suggests using G29 L# and G29 A respectively. As of the time of update, that lower right corner is proving troubling, still. I *think* it's an issue with the location of the probe and interpolation results vs actual geometry of the bed. By that I mean, if we define down on your screen as positive X and right on your screen as positive Y the probe is located at `MX, -NY` vs the print head, thus the extreme location cannot be sampled. If the bed geometry is not smooth at that extreme then the automated fill in of my 9x9 grid might be wrong. I will attempt manually leveling that section and see if that helps EDIT the second: I'm going insane. Will take some photos in the morning but mesh values in the left front of the bed are wildly different from actual height. Building the mesh with the probe will report a sort of hill in the centre going to low corners, the front left will report something like -0.3mm (although the mesh display only shows -0.2 mm editing the value shows it's lower) but if I go into the edit mode and manually probe that location it'll crash into the bed hard. Setting it for light dragging on paper akin to the sort felt in the centre of the bed where values are accurate will have the mesh height at ~0.1 mm. A 0.3 mm difference? what the fuuuuuuuck? EDIT: 2023-07-13T08+00:00: I figured it out. Thanks for your advice and patience. I will add pictures of the meshes at various stages to this post at a later date to assist any other wanderer in madness in identifying and solving the same problem. In essence neither X or Y were square, the probe being offset in both X and Y created the problem. Because of the gantry construction it would be non trivial to square the XZ gantry to the Y axis so instead I verified that Y was not twisted and instead squared X to the best of my ability and precision tools. Then I printed this part: https://www.printables.com/model/255096-sprite-extruder-ender-s1-pluspro-cr-touch-mount-fo to which my eternal gratitude goes out to a Mr S Grindset for providing in order to move the probe to be colinear with the print head in X. Ensuring that any error due to Y not being square is even for the probe and print head. Now it is pretty good! Auto leveling works well enough to get "pretty even" layers, certainly none of the nasty ripples and ploughing I was experiencing.