Insects dying off is probably the biggest problem we could face. No technology breakthrough is going to quickly fix that after it happens.
I remember when I was growing up my yard would be covered with dandelions and we had tons of bees. I can’t remember the last time I saw a dandelion. Been at least 10 years. The idea that everyone has to have a perfectly manicured lawn is part of the problem.
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I read somewhere that if you want to support bees you should aim to always have 4 different flowers in your garden. Weeds definitely count and I also love to let vegetables go to seed for the extra flowers.
My state.
Already happened in WA, the mining town of Kalgoorlie hit 45C (113F) which has never happened before in November.
Yeah but is it a dry heat? And don’t give me some weird metric version of humidity.
Also November is like May for you?
Liberal is conservative. Winter is summer. Florida is north. Your time zones are incomprehensible, Your mammals lay eggs. New South Wales - pick one, it can’t be both.
Could anything not be confusing in Aussie?
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Isn’t… isn’t all humidity metric?
It’s all dry. Kalgoorlie is in the desert. SA is hot and pretty dry in the summer.
Jesus - the forecast for Wednesday in Adelaide has been upped to “42 (107.6F), becoming windy, possible dust haze in evening”. Sounds great.
Don’t confuse me with facts. Dry heat - 113 no biggie - we get that in the CA deserts before breakfast. Grow a pair snowflake. Earth big man small.
I’ve taken a nap in the shade in 110 degree heat before. It wasn’t super comfortable but I didn’t die. I’ve done landscaping in Kansas City in 108 degree heat with humidity and I did almost die.
130 is supposedly when you need to take off anything metal or it burns your skin. I’ve been in 125 before. Pretty real. Well at least that’s what the giant thermometer in Baker said. I didn’t confirm. Had to be over 120.
People in Iran near the Red Sea go through something like 120 with 90% humidity. Unfuckingimaginable.
UTC+08:45 is used in 5 places in Australia, including Border Village in South Australia, as well as Cocklebiddy, Eucla, Madura and Mundrabilla in Western Australia.
Official populations: 100, 19, 53, 18, 23.
I’m assuming making up your own timezone qualifies as entertainment out there.
Indiana used to do that in the US until the deep state stepped in and squashed their freedoms.
If anyone ever gives you a programming project to determine the local time everywhere in the US at any point of time in history going back 100s of years - run far away as fast as you can. It may be impossible. You’ll be getting into parsing addresses within zip codes from 1958 to 1974 - when the whole county voted to align themselves with Ogdenville and North Haverbrook.
No way Cocklebiddy is a town. You just made that up to see if I was paying attention.
Pfft. Home of the world famous Cocklebiddy Cave. Also, hole 10 of the Nullarbor Links golf course.
Suzzer clearly has no concept of Australian town naming. Looking forward to his reaction when he comes out here.
I’m not even sure Australia is a real place and not some elaborate practical joke put on by cheeky/stoned Brits.
Lets give everything silly names, and the animals are all weird. Ok cool. And put a y after everything? Everything? Yes. So what do we call the post man? The posty! Are you daft?
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It’s “postie”, Chrome spellchecker fails you yet again.
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I’m sure spelling was important to the illiterate convicts who decided to make gibberish words out of everything.
Somehow I don’t think we’ll see Trump tweeting about this particular record.
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One of the reasons why I switched from Nutella to a cream which doesnt use palm oil. Main problem is that I cant verify when they write sourced from sustainable production so I try to avoid that as well but its not easy. 
I hate general contractors that do this. In my limited experience they suck and rely on squeezing their subs to eek out profits. The subs typically have little recourse because the contracts they sign are weighted heavily in the GC’s favor and litigation is so expensive, the Subs rarely sue and have huge incentive to settle for a fraction even if they do.
One of the most satisfying moments I’ve had so far as an attorney was winning a judgement for a small site development subcontractor against a large GC. Our client was hired to pave the parking lot of a post office. The specs the GC supplied specifically required our client to demolish the existing concrete in the parking lot and replace it with asphalt. Our guy measured the Concrete and submitted a bid. GC accepted it, turned around and incorporated it in their price proposal to the USPS. What the GC didn’t realize was that part of this parking lot had been recently paved with asphalt, so it wasn’t concrete. The reason the GC didn’t know this was because it didn’t bother to investigate the site before it submitted its bid. Of course there was a conflict once construction began, the GC insisted the scope included the whole parking lot based on a drawing that showed the general dimensions of the entire lot, despite the fact that the picture itself and contract they wrote specified concrete demolition in multiple places. The GC wouldn’t issue a change order, because, according the GC, the USPS agreed that the asphalt was part of the scope. Turns out that was a lie. The USPS actually changed the scope after the fact for the GC. The GC wouldn’t pass the change along to our client because they were assholes and were underwater on the project already because they were trying to cut corners.
During the law suit, they drug out discovery, withholding key documents, including the general contract between the GC and the USPS. There was no legitimate reason the documents should have been withheld. We had to retake the deposition of their corporate rep, who was a total frat-bro prick (the epitome of a privileged white guy who has used his intelligence figuring out how to break the rules and screw over less advantaged people), because of this. We just won outright, getting everything we asked for, which was only in the mid-5-figures. The satisfying part is that we get our attorney’s fees and because they were such pricks in discovery, the fees will be for over twice the amount of damages.
The part that really sucks is that our firm probably shouldn’t have taken the case in the first place. I didn’t bring the case in, another attorney did who left the firm right after doing so, and so the case fell in me because it was considered a shit case. Luckily for the client, I’m smart, hard working, and I actually give a shit about somethjng other than profits, so I was able to get a good result. 99% of the time, however, our client would have been correct to settle for like 1/3 or 1/4 of what they were actually owed. That’s just how the system is set up, to benefit parties who have resources. GCs know this and they use it to their advantage, making subs eat the costs of their fuck-ups, because they know it’s not going to be worth it to fight over even amounts into the low 6-figures.
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