Earth Abides

Its mostly slow. Apocalypse genre, without the insanely selfish caricature of the personal relationships between people.

Oh wow! I read Little Kiwi’s Matariki to my whanau all the time, but had no idea how to find it in the sky. When the clouds go, i’ll have another look!

So, over in Perth, i assume its the same across the country, we have these big bridges over freeways and highways, theres probably hundreds of them throughout the whole city. Theres massive piles of sand inside each side of each bridge.

So if the Polar Night Energy heat energy storage technology can be retrospectively fitted to these, thats potentially hundreds of heat storage batteries spread out across the road network just sitting there ready to use.

Is it a book about how Russia becomes the world’s hegemon, or how it beats the US/West/Atlanticists?

What does it say in relation to East Asia?

Most interestingly China, considering today’s context, but thinking about the time it was written Japan might’ve been more pertinent in their thinking.

Must be low populations of drop bears in North Queensland for the kangaroos to make the jump into the trees.

Only a communist deals in absolutes! … wait… thats not it…

I’m a dummy, i iust saw ‘live’ and accepted that was the only way to view it, in my defense i’s watching it qoth only half an eye while i did other stuff.

Just watched for about 5 minutes its the least action packed thing on youtube, probably better for your brain though! Might check in later on tonight, they might not be awake yet?

What does the term Greater signify. I see it attached to certain animals, but i’ve no idea why.

Its definitely conflicting, i can see their intentions are relatively good, but the way they’re going about remibds me of how i imagine the people inteoducing Cane Toads went about the problems they perceived.

But they’re providing a habitat thats secure from the invasive species and perhaps some land based predators.

These guerilla rewilders could gift/lease for a dollar, the use of that land out to the environment department to come in, introduce the animals they know need help and support in a controlled and planned way. These sanctuary owners could be the daily custodians working in partnership with the environment department for the benefit of these threatened animals.

I’ve wondered how many people must be watching it, i think its on their programming later at night now.

Politics being divisive is a reason politics opportunities like QandA should be available. It forces the members of the Partys together to discuss the topics on the same platform.

For example, i think it was on the latest episode of Rest is Politics - Leading, where Johnathan Haidt talked about Newt Gingrich forcing a policy of Congress meeting only Tuesday-Thursday to ensure the representatives wouldn’t feel a need to move to Washington DC, and instead fly in then fly home again. Newt Gingrich’s theory, he claims, was the Republicans got too cosy with the establishment once they got to Washington DC.

But why have the Government cut ABC funding?

Seems like it clears the airwaves for right wing propagandists to fill.

QandA’s going? I like that show! Getting the politicians and experts in a live, audience participation setting has all kinds of benefits for the National ‘conversation’.

I mean Matt Kean dismantling Jane Hume, (was it?), earlier this year on energy transition was valuable to see.

Those kind of match ups, where its slightly out of the control of the host/producers, are rare.

One of the reasons people are saying Dutton lost is because he refused to talk to the so called ‘unfriendly media’ leaving him at a disadvantage in his preparedness for the election just gone.

So QandA seems to me to be good for lots of things. The only thing i dislike is the grandstanding and clearly recited talking points, but thats where you need a talented host to deny and redirect the discussion.

What matters for an economy, and therefore the value of its currency, is the value they create–simply put, how much resources they exploit and how efficiently

Yeah, thats the way it ought to be, its actually slightly different, and is very important in the context of what a country does to undermine it’s own currency, or even a companies director does to the value of their company.

Value is a question of perception. How much are people/investors willing to tolerate and still perceive the value in a good or service or currency.

Its the reason the massive quantitative easing ended up spreading so widely as a tool in the last 15 years. In the beginning it was assumed that the massive ‘money printing’ would lead to massive devaluations, which didn’t really happen as expected. Thats because the reaction in value percieptions in those currencies ended being more flexible than central bankers and economists initially feared.

The perception of value played a role in how long it took for people in the US to recognise the real estate bubble exploding in 07-08. It plays a role in really any bubble, and is why prices drastically plummet instead of taper. The value perception changes en masse, and bang, everybody runs for the door.

One more interesting example is the value perception comparison of essential workers in the COVID19 Pandemic compared to normal times.

…unrealized capital gains" which is … real estate…

Alan Kohler and Stephen Mayne, on Money Café, have been using property taxes as an example where taxes on unrealised gains are applied. It seems an interesting example flying against the ‘never tax unrealised gains mantra’.

I don’t think AZ users/posters or the video creator should feel conflicted. There wasn’t, and isn’t any sensationalism in what i see here.

And i think thats the key issue that groups like this play on, amp up the drama as much as possible for the cameras and paper shuffling anchors.

The video’s creator doesn’t sensationalise the events spoken about, or make particular hero’s out of the SHARPs (what is that?).

The only thing he says about them specifically is we should listen to them as people ‘who have actually stared down’ these shitheads. Not exactly the kind of hyperbole you might find with other media, even ABC sensationalises this stuff rather more than giving a sober account of these events.

Haven’t been dedicated to downvoting it all the time, but the one track posting behaviour is uncomfortable to see. Its such an unapologetic agenda. I suppose there could be something to respect in it as a user’s goal, i don’t know.

I don’t take fake internet points seriously! Who would do that!

I’ve barely even noticed that both the people who have replied to my comment have a higher upvote total than me.

Nope, i don’t care at all!

Not on iota!

Okay, maybe a little… /j :p

Similar reason for Zero_Gravitas?

I hope so, i’s a bit spun out when i saw them both on this list.

Hmm, looks suss.

I read a comment somewhere recently that the upvotes and downvotes don’t really do anything on Lemmy.

If thats the case, is their seeming coordination for downvoting having a meaningful effect?

Hmm, not sure what you trying to ask…

Might be a technical issue between mastodon and lemmy if the link or article aren’t showing properly. If thats the case, maybe copy the URL and access the article via a search engine.

If you’re interested in what FOGO is, its an acronym, Food Organics Garden Organics. More information can be found here