this is quite good, thanks for sharing!

thanks for sharing!

we are such a garbage species.

Meshcore in Australia is taking off and recently made the first Victoria - Tasmania link. Long distance comms are viable within state with many hops - if you are within range of a repeater hooked into the existing network is possible to go hundreds of kilometres quite easily. We have people participating in synchronous conversations that are occurring over a dozen hops from regional to inner urban anew back again. Yes messages do sometimes get lost but people are creating tools to troubleshoot and track. It’s genuinely doing what I had originally hoped Meshtastic would, but could never get messages far enough due to hop limits and telemetry cruft.

yeah they really are trigger happy over there, any excuse to delete something. While it is political I think it’s very relevant to collapse.

Weatherzone atm says Wednesday 39 and Thursday 35. Different apps use different models. Lots of people recommend Windy which gives you the option to apply different models for forecasts, but it’s quite a bit more expensive than paid Weatherzone.

I also think this is fair comment, but it also kindof misses a bigger point: and that is that the experience of media in our lives before social media kindof conditioned us all to separate ourselves into the categories of performer and audience, with the publisher in the middle with the power: and media has always laid the power in the hands of content publishers vs content consumers.

I loved early social networks pre-Facebook (newsgroups, messageboards, LiveJournal) as power was not yet consolidated in the larger publishers. The clever publishers always saw this potential to consolidate power and control media consumers more than ever before. Which has happened, as we’ve been trained for so long to be passive consumers.

The most important element of Burning Man culture for me was the focus on participation: no spectators. The media world wants the opposite and always has.

My collapse awareness has been cyclical, and acceptance for me has been an arc over decades. I think Buddhism has been incredibly helpful in buffering many of the difficulties of accepting the reality that contraction is inevitable. I know one day the sun will burn out, and I have been aware of deep time since a young age, and that awareness has grown as I have done decolonisation work and become more conversant in the ancient cultures that had more awareness of the cyclical nature of life. This is the greatest collapse, but these cycles have happened before, and may happen again.

And now I have 4 of the first and 1 of the second on their way to me. Thankyou!!

omg this is brilliant. I have had mini screwdriver sets taken from me at airports, so effing annoying. this is perfect and they appear to be from $2.50 if you want to wait to get it from China, or around $10 in AU on ebay, so possible to still get. what exactly is the usb (device?)

Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don’t believe in 🤦

Oh FFS. This is actually I think what the government HOPED would happen: rapid uptake of individuals investing MASSIVELY to shift demand. Those massive batteries are not going to sit empty, and the concerns of parts not rated for high speed charging and discharging, ummm… EVs have been doing this for ages… high speed DC charging is over 100 years old - early EV DC charging existed before AC won (and will eventually lose again, amusingly enough).

The more resilient the power networks, the better for everyone, and the faster many distributed batteries are deployed, the better. Though I think the future of power grid is ultimately doomed, this buys us some time.

I love this guy.

I guess one of the upsides of Limits to Growth is that if industrial production drops 50% in the next 10 years then the production of plastic pollution at least should fall too (unless I misunderstand things)

I’m quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.

Definitely Antichrist material! 👍

I read more and apparently the mushrooms were picked by 4yo son and placed on table with mum assuming dad had picked them. Honestly no way of proving that, but if it was what actually happened it’s a bit more forgivable but still, dumb as hell.

I have to say the biggest warning here to me is: fucks sake people, don’t eat wild mushrooms if you aren’t an absolute fucking expert. And even then, I’m not sure they are worth the risk for the meagre calories.

my make and model is not listed (Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV). Just FYI, these are reasonably popular in several markets globally even though they are a JDM.

On track for Handmaids Tale. I really hope this life destroying stays in the US only and doesn’t get approved elsewhere…

Ugh crap, it was approved in Australia by the TGA last year. Yaaaaay.