Nursie

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by Nursie 5d ago
And this is why I’m considering retraining as an electrician :)
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by Nursie 5d ago
This analogy may well be very apposite. But what is that cobbler supposed to do during that time? He can keep his head above water using the machine, suspecting the factory is coming for him too or ... he can refuse to modernise and fail
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by Nursie 5d ago
> No one cares about you. Then why respond to a post in which I say what I'm thinking about doing? You don't care. > You’re good mate, you’re rich. I'm not rich, I'm just a homeowner, 66% of the Australian public l
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by Nursie 6d ago
I never saw a “Venus girdle” myself while diving, I saw some little boxy ones though, in relatively shallow water, catching the sunlight. So I can’t vouch for that first video, but I can vouch for the rippling rainbow cilia (scroll down to
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by Nursie 6d ago
Nice, I have great respect but also a level of “WTF” when encountering cyclists in the deep wilds, especially in the heat! Passed an old guy on a pushbike with a trailer on the nullabor in 2010 and just thought “wow, that’s commitment”
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by Nursie 6d ago
It certainly forms part of the picture. Another part of the picture is that you can more often get away with buying a truck “for business” if you’re a small business-person, regardless of whether it actually ends up being used for that. And
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by Nursie 6d ago
Been thinking more along the lines of the Munda-biddy actually :) But I haven’t got on my bike for a few years now because at the moment all my spare energy goes on managing our plot. There’s always something needs moving, sawing, building,
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by Nursie 6d ago
I’m not in a rental home, and wouldn’t be anyway. I want solar and a battery (don’t have it yet, it’s on the list) to cut my energy bills and guard against power cuts anyway. So neither of these things is an ‘extra’ expense for me getting a
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by Nursie 6d ago
Australia doesn’t tariff Chinese car imports, on account of no longer having any car industry of our own to defend. That said we do still have a hefty “luxury car tax” for anything over $80k, which is a hangover from when there was an indus
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by Nursie 6d ago
It’s pretty tiny too, so not a road trip car IMHO. That said, coupled with home solar to power it, this is a very cheap way to get on the road and I will likely go this direction in future - one of these for the city and something a bit big
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by Nursie 7d ago
Yeah it’s not the only one known. Unfortunately while people are going wild as if someone found a never-before-seen cat, this is actually more “after genetic analysis we now know that the tiger cats that everyone already knew about in Boliv
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by Nursie 7d ago
Mysterious and interesting things, first read about them after going scuba diving and seeing a few of there barely-there diaphanous whisps of creatures, with rippling iridescent spines up their sides. Amazing to learn they were cilia refrac
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by Nursie 8d ago
Looks like there was a land-bridge to "Europe" around the Jurassic-Cretaceous boundary if you stick it in Paleotopography mode. (I like that mode better because it appears to show the actual landmasses at the time vs the plates wi
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by Nursie 9d ago
> I understand what you are trying to get at, its just that I simply am unable to understand the mood of despair as associated with brutalism We've established that your view is the minority position and that people in general prefe
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by Nursie 10d ago
> If beauty is function we might as well do away with words and go back to using grunts I'm not sure my comment was meant to be that deep, I was suggesting that beauty or at least pleasantness be added to the list of things which co
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by Nursie 10d ago
> eg unwalkable architecture would force a lot of driving That's purely a utilitarian take. You don't believe that design language could ever have an effect on mood? You said yourself you find neoclassical and gothic styles ind
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by Nursie 10d ago
> I am saying if someone dislikes an architectural style they shouldn't blame it on the materials. Cool, then we’ll blame it on the choice of how and where to use those materials? So when there’s an architectural style that for exa
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by Nursie 10d ago
> I am not sure how you are saying a place is inviting of druggies, what are the physical designs that you think make it so? The concrete voids, semi-open outdoor stairwells and other weird half-hidden spaces in many of these buildings a
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by Nursie 10d ago
> Any building would feel ugly if its less inhabited and full of druggies and homeless. You have cause and effect backwards IMHO. The brutalist housing monstrosities in the UK, with the notable exception of the Barbican which is more gen
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by Nursie 10d ago
Hot-take - what if beauty (or to tone it down, mere 'pleasantness') is function?
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by Nursie 10d ago
> I find it very irritating looking at fake or overdone things. I don't think that's minority. 1. I think the onus is on you to prove that it's not a minority, in the face of people overwhelmingly favouring older, more orn
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by Nursie 10d ago
No, but it appears you are part of a pretty small minority.
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by Nursie 10d ago
> You don't like it, which is just as valid, but trying to turn your preference into a universal truth for humanity is not valid. Can't it be just your preference? What if it's almost everyone's preference? Except for
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by Nursie 10d ago
Part of inhabiting somewhere is how nice it is to look at. And it's is a false dichotomy, both can be done. > I enjoyed living in a soulless luxury tower because it had good lighting, not terrible elevators and decent fixtures. Now
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by Nursie 10d ago
The Barbican is a standout exception though. It always comes up in these discussion, and I think it's because in contrast to most other buildings, it was really thought through. The fact is that like in other walks of life, when talent
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by Nursie 10d ago
It's certainly striking and interesting, but "more beautiful" is going to be subjective and is up against some pretty tough competition. I don't know about you, but I'd certainly put the Taj Mahal ahead of that, as
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by Nursie 15d ago
> That's just not true. It's right there in the article, in the postwar years the UK was reliant on imported Canadian and other wheats, the process allowed the UK to use its own wheat. "Artisan" bread was not a thing
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by Nursie 15d ago
You can buy non-chorleywood bread from bakers and from most supermarkets in the UK (look for their 'sourdough' loaves, some might even give a fermentation time) But French bread is still particularly good somehow, there is just n
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by Nursie 15d ago
> This article makes it sound like a good thing At the time, it was, it allowed the country to feed itself on (largely) its own wheat. They didn't know it could contribute to IBS, they did know there was national food security at st
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by Nursie 15d ago
The reality is that the process is used all round the world these days (as covered in the article), not just in Britain, and its done that by being fast and cheap. It's also doubtful that it's any worse for you than American super

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