Uranium 🟩 @ Uranium_Green @sh.itjust.works

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I'm going to take a slightly different approach of what productivety means here; for me it's literally just making my things in my life less time consuming, easier to access and return to.

With that in mind, I use Google photos to automatically back up my photos, this could be anything from wiring diagrams, patio brick layouts, a quote in a book, to a mushroom I'm wanting to identify.

I use the app plantnet if I'm wanting to identify a plant.

I use the app seeker to download music from soulseek

I upload any research papers/books downloaded from scihub/libgen to gdrive for easier access in the future.

This is of course ignoring all of the notes/timers/reminders I use my phone for as well

There's an alley by my house where all the cats hang out, some are spooked by people and hide under cars, others lie in wait under cars to ambush you for pets as you walk past.

It's taken a solid 10 minutes to walk 200m before due to the cats wanting fuss

How about you fuck off with your spam advertising?

That's a really sweet older sibling thing to do

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/guardian-steve-bell-cartoon-netanyahu/ this article goes into the past accusations a bit more, tbh I'm struggling to see it as well:

" The incident is not the first involving Bell, The Guardian and allegations of anti-Semitism against his cartoons. In 2018 he said he was censored by the newspaper’s editor, Katharine Viner, when the editorial team declined to publish a cartoon depicting a Palestinian medic shot dead by Israeli forces in a fireplace besides Netanyahu and then-prime minister Theresa May.

Bell subsequently sent the cartoon in an email to the entire Guardian editorial staff, from where it was leaked to Huffpost. Critics argued the image evoked Nazi gas chambers, which Bell responded was “the last thing on my mind when I drew it”.

Viner told The Guardian’s reader’s editor that Bell’s point “could easily have been made in a way that didn’t reference fire or ovens”.

In 2019, another of Bell’s cartoons – this time depicting Labour deputy leader Tom Watson as a witch hunter looking for anti-Semitic tropes – was blocked. In November 2020, The Guardian received 32 complaints of anti-Semitic imagery over a Bell cartoon which did make it to print and depicted Labour leader Keir Starmer holding the head of predecessor Jeremy Corbyn on a plate, alluding to the beheading of St John the Baptist. "

As the pay, support and education for officers diminishes, the police as a profession become less attractive to those who are intelligent/educated, who might carry a slightly authoritarian slant but ultimately view their role in the context of being beneficial to society/preventing crime etc.

Due to Tory cuts to forces, the numbers of those who are more thuggish, less educated, more racist, and generally shouldn't be policing wider society due to unchecked and unchallenged beliefs increases.

I know people who hadn't achieved their GCSEs saying that it didn't matter as they'd become police.

Like I'm personally not the biggest fan of the police, but those who were educated enough to get better jobs but stayed in the force because they believed they were genuinely helping have left, only leaving mostly those who seek power/control over other people. Obviously this is a general sweeping statement, but like everything else under Tory rule it's been hollowed out.

And yet somehow wholeheartedly American...

I think people have given the requested advice, so I'm just going to say unless you know the age of the soffits, be a little bit wary as there may be asbestos fibre board behind the PVC outer, shouldn't matter unless disturbed, but just be aware

The classic ones are red, there are (were) ones installed in the 80s-2000s which are mostly glass and grey aluminium (IIRC) that had a the BT logo on the side.

The classic red ones are more typically associated with smaller villages etc nowadays, often turned into mini community libraries or have been retrofitted to carry defibs. Some towns still have them but very few still function.

Also for context about the original picture, I believe it's a reclamation yard type of thing, you can often buy old/vintage building materials/farm equipment/utilities etc at them for a somewhat inflated price

Except the whole bit where the government refused to make a deal regarding processing of asylum applications whilst they're still on the French side, inherently creating this issue of them drowning in the sea, heck there still might be some which attempt it, but it'd certainly be lower than the current situation.

By removing legitimate methods to apply for asylum, they've exacerbated this situation.

Haha, I take your point!

Lmao, do you drink your Li-po batteries as well?

The typical dose needed to reach bromism (when talking about old bromide sedatives) is 0.5g-1.0g a day, the lethal dose of zinc bromide is 3-5g, those levels are not passive exposure levels, they're intentional or very unlucky accidental ingestion levels

...They literally are in some scenarios.

When Cameron's Government "closed" the tax avoidance loopholes in 2014(?) they went to my sister's boyfriend at the times firm which literally finds ways for multimillionaire/billionaires to not pay tax to close the loop holes but enable other means to remain functional.

Like this firm made millions purely from helping billionaires avoid tax, they aren't going to give up their income source because the government gave them a few thousand to act as consultants on the new bill being drafted.

They were consulted so the government at the time could "close the loopholes" and discretely open up others.

In the same way that (IIRC) regarding the conversion therapy ban, it was pointed out that there were loopholes left in when the bill was drafted.

You could've told me the last one is L. williamsii var Caespitosa and I wouldn't have questioned it!

Are the first two's larger broad leaves/spines flexible or are they rigid like a typical spine?

I kind of agree with other person who said it's basically just antidepressants... though I've shyed away from the one that made me deeply content (yet somewhat dysfunctional) in exchange for one that leaves me more functional in exchange for a bit more (healthy) strife.

I'd be quite curious of a world where everyone is on universally functioning antidepressants.

Is this society a functioning dystopia or a dysfunctional utopia?

Also OP have you ever played the video game 'We Happy Few', a key feature of the world is that everyone takes a mild psychedelic called Joy to stop them from remembering the past.

Another story that I seem to recall using a similar plot point is Brave New World and their drug Soma (IIRC)

Seeing that you mentioned MS365 imma just have my mini vent here, my mum is over 60 and her work has just started using MS365, so far run into a bunch of minor frustrations, but two big ones that she wasn't able to figure out herself, and damn near stumped me:

First was trying to create an email group, so it's easier for her to mass email her different classes, go to create the group, realise there's a bunch of other junk like chats and shared files as part of the group thing which isn't needed (and can't be used by non ms emails anyway, over half of them) but whatever, get most of the way through it then realise that two people aren't included in any group... ok that's odd, just says they can't be added to the group, turns out that they've likely had some permission set regarding not being able to be added to groups.

45 minutes in at this point and they cannot be added at all, decide to go back and manage to find the option to create a bog standard email group (list?) hidden away under a drop-down menu, this is what I wanted to and thought I was making in the first place, then realise I cannot import or move over the already existing groups to the simpler email lists, so have to start again...

Finally get all of that done and my mum starts to send her zoom links out except nothing is hyperlinking automatically, try to search links, hyper links, linking, etc via the help and nothing of relevance comes up, turns out outlook Web doesn't support that, only the desktop app does but nothing mentions that. Manage to track down some random forum post that states that automatic linking only works if the email is set to plaintext format, not html...

Absolutely ridiculous

From a brief search I believe the name for them is a 'Lazy Susan'. I'm very much considering purchasing one myself

Reiterating what the other guy said about NL ones for the UK; ours don't use that style of system, ours use moulded protrusions in the plastic that glass shelves slide into, in my experience both narrow upright fridge freezers and classic stacking ones use this system

I couldn't explain why they do this beyond hygiene maybe or perhaps safety, as a child can't grab and pull an entire shelf down on themselves?

There's also something deeply unsettling about the smell of O3 in any concentration where you can truly smell it, not like getting punched in the lungs that ammonia bicarbonate is, and less irritating than than NOx compounds, but the almost sweet and sickly pleasant smell to it carries a sense of dread.

Speaking of which NOx is another good one; N2 is (essentially) inert and makes up most of our atmosphere, O2 has already been explained, but run a high frequency (white) electric arc in our atmosphere and you cause the N2 and O2 to combine in varying quantities producing NOx compounds.

NOx compounds are effectively gaseous nitric acid, it has a brown/red colour, and on constant with water it forms nitric acid. It doesn't matter whether that water is in a beaker with the NOx being bubbled through it, or the water that exists in your sinuses, lungs and eyes.

You lose your sense of smell pretty quickly when exposed to it and concentrations can build up quicker than you expected, if you've been overexposed to it, you'll wake up the next day or even a few hours later, feeling like you've got the worst sore throat in your life, like someone stamped on your throat then tried to scrape it clean... assuming you do wake up.

1/10 do not recommend.

They're a classic English pick'n'mix sweet, with a texture that basically like somewhere in-between a candy cigarette that's been inflated/puffed up and what I imagine the circus peanuts candies (which we don't have in the UK) would be like, flavored with artificial banana flavour and I think the prawns are supposed to be strawberry (but I honestly don't know).

They're somewhere in-between gross and great, depending on if you like sweet things or not.