How did I never notice the Utah Teapot in this scene?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot

A few more people to throw on the ‘will step over the bodies of trans people for the bag’ pile.

Wait, this app cost $20 to install before it asks for a monthly subscription to unlock the full functionality? Yikes.

Read the article in The West. The lead was originally identified in four sources I believe, two of which “had patient access” and “exceeded the recommended levels”.

Of course, being The West, the article did not mention where the sources were. An unused carpark tap is accessible by patients. A sink in the back of the cleaning room could count as a source. The article also did not specify by how much each source breached the recommended levels. Does 0.001% over count as a breach? Or are we talking a 50% lead to water ratio?

Deposits of minerals were apparently found in filters for faucets that had not been regularly used, and replacing the filter reduced the reading to safe levels. So they could have been old faucets that had not been replaced since the initial incident? If this is a huge scandal, where’s the actual information?

The whole scandal was obviously leaving big bits of info out to weave a narrative. Every man and his dog is talking about ‘accountability’ and asking why PCH didn’t reveal this, but we all know if they announced there was small levels of lead in unused faucets, that parents would go off their nut and catastrophise. If they are doing regular testing (which they must be if they found these breaches) and are quarantining any areas that are unsafe, then they are doing their jobs well without causing mass-panic.

Something the West doesn’t believe in.

“But how will we pay minimum wage employees to work over Easter if we need to pay them penalties?!?!”

Maybe, and hear me out, a ‘Public Holiday’ should allow the public, your employees, to take a holiday? I remember a time when long weekends were actually a holiday for most people. Yeah, you couldn’t go buy milk from Coles, but you planned ahead like an adult. Now if I want to I can do a weekly shop, get my haircut, go to a cafe, shop for a new outfit, see a movie, and go out for dinner. Why do the people who work the lowest pay g jobs deserve to lose their weekends to the rest of us can consume more shit?

I approve of WA aligning its holidays with the eastern states. It is likely to make business easier for companies that operate or trade interstate.

without direct human interference.

climate change is the likely culprit.

Sure glad we humans didn’t do a climate change or anything.

War against who? Do we have the perpetrator? Do we know their political affiliation? The Trump shooter was a registered Republican. Are they waging war against their own party?

Obviously they don’t need evidence to be horrifically violent shit stains, they’ve managed that well enough so far.

I can see the train of thought that these dunderheads would have. “We arrested you because we thought you were the shooter. You weren’t, and because we arrested you, we let the real shooter get away. This is your fault.”

Do Etsy witches run out of mana?

“We are against genocide”

‘I can’t believe you hate Israel, you antisemite!’

This feels like a rather large self-report.

This is somehow worse than I imagined. This looks like the sort of coded calling card a serial killer who dismembers women would leave at the scene of his crimes.

The next time I found him after unlocking the needolin, I rushed around to earn enough silk to play with him as long as possible.

Can I enquire how 15,000,000 copies sold was down to luck? They released a solid game with fun gameplay, great music, and an eye-catching art style. They priced the game competitively, even considering international pricing. All of this seems like choices that were made with intention, not the roll of a dice.

You could perhaps argue that there was luck in people seeing the games initial campaign on kickstarter, but I don’t think you can excuse the rest as ‘luck’.

This mindset from people is what makes online multiplayer games unplayable for me.

I don’t get a lot of time to play games as an adult. When I do, I don’t particularly want people telling me how I should be having fun. There is this weird competition that happens where you need to know everything about a game before you are allowed to partake in the game. It sucks to have missed out on so many experiences, but i guess my not playing sub-optimally made someone else’s experience better, so it’s all good.

A breath of fresh air for DC to be honest. It definitely feels like a James Gunn film, but if you like that sort of film then you’ll be set.

It sort of feels like the film is jumping in in the middle of a series: no extended backstory sequence for the cast of main heroes, the status quo of Lois & Clark has been established, etc. But I saw this as a positive, because there are only so many times that the Waynes can be shot in an alley on film (as an example, Batman is not in this film).

Superman is probably the most human he has ever felt on film. He is kind, and his focus is on protecting people, not just punching terrorists through walls and threatening people.

I liked it.

I love the devs previous game, Another Crab’s Treasure, for its tough but fair gameplay, and really well implemented progression. I was a little disappointed to discover that Peak leans more into the multiplayer, emergent gameplay, “eternal beta” feel of many indie games today. The concept seems fun, and it can apparently be played solo, but all of the gameplay footage I have seen from non-devs is people screaming frantically at each other about some new feature while nothing happens.

I might be a hypocrite though, because I am interested in the upcoming game Big Walk from House House.

4d Squid Guy

If ‘///‘ stands for “bigotry”, then yeah I’m sure not calling people out on their shitty views will make them go away…

I think, in western media at least, that the tank is rarely used as an image of defence. A tank’s artillery is not personal or protective, it obliterates its targets from a distance. Its treads allow it to travel in terrain that has been decimated by war. The image of a tank ominously rolling over rubble and bodies in a war zone is contractually obliged to be in every war movie.

The heavy armour on a tank is perhaps its only ‘defensive’ trait, but it only exists to let the men inside blow things up for as long as possible.

It’s an all terrain cannon, and a country owning a fleet of them requires their neighbours to also invest in a fleet of them, just in case. This then causes their neighbours to invest in more tanks just to be extra ‘safe’