yeah i'll give it a bit of time to see if it falls down to the ground by itself, that'd be more manageable. it's not going to damage anything where it is now, dealing with it isn't urgent.
yeah i was just thinking yesterday that i'd probably need to get this one taken down soon. thankfully the wind last night came from just the right direction.
i don't have a chainsaw, people as clumsy as me shouldn't operate chainsaws. and i'm simply not sawing that thing into log-sized chinks by hand.
the dead tree is currently stuck in some other trees and resting horizontally-ish about 5m above the ground, don't think it's safe to go near it.
if the tree had been healthy it could have been a fine mast for a ship, but that tree wasn't healthy anymore and i wouldn't trust the integrity of the wood.
firewood. the tree was already half dead, it's not high-quality wood.
On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.
This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
It's about 1 km tall.
If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.
so, uh, anybody want a tree? i already mentioned it's big, but it's REALLY BIG.
i'm in
i already went feral while working from home in 2018, it became noticeable in 2019 when i returned to office work and was, well, not domesticated anymore. 2020 i went full hermit and have been working from home since then and will not even attempt to re-socialize myself.
i honestly wouldn't be surprised by either.
idk, seems plausible to me.
det var bare et tidsspørsmål for dette treet, dette var naturen som fikk gå sin gang. synes det er mye verre når trær sages ned enn når de faller av seg selv. og når vinden først skulle ta dette treet, gikk det så bra som det kunne gå, det kunne truffet veien eller strømledninger.
wow just noticed the wind last night took the last of my big pine trees. big old pine, snapped right off. fortunately it fell in a place where it's not done any damage, away from my house and the power lines.
was just thinking about it yesterday, it wasn't in great shape and it was getting gusty.
one time camping in the desert i heard someone walking circles around the car at night, but in the morning it turned out they'd left no footprints. the location was too remote for anyone to have been there at night.
my sister used to hear our dead grandpa's shuffling footsteps around the house.
oh they're not single-use.
he's so vain
he probably thinks this war is about his face
www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/jf...
Mega thread on who is behind these age verification laws, spoiler alert it’s Meta.
waiting for his mom to intervene and tell us we're being terribly unfair to her brilliant boy.
go away
it's basically really hard to imagine how the minds of people significantly smarter than oneself might work.
The number one website currently cited in Google’s AI search mode? It’s Google.
The second? That’s YouTube, which is also owned by Google.
Google’s using circular hyperlinks in AI Mode to keep users locked into their platforms. My latest for @wired.com:
www.wired.com/story/google...
i never expected the war on the bots to be so tedious and desk-based and not even involve any hacking. i'd been led to believe there would be explosions and guns and i'd probably have to go off-grid like sarah connor or at least learn to code.
turns out it's more about being a stubborn human.
i use machine translation all the time, my job involves having to decode text in languages i don't speak, and i can't just learn 20 new languages well enough to be any use, but:
1. i'm fully aware i can't trust the output, and
2. i do not machine translate text intended for publication.
win: they've decided to use my human translation instead, and the person who did the AI translation appears to have realized that was not such a great idea.
yeah one time in the shower i panicked because my legs had turned blue and i'd forgotten i'd been wearing new jeans.
of course the list has stuff you'd expect, like cough syrup and ADHD meds and painkillers and injectable anaesthetics and various psych meds, but eczema ointment? bringing a backup nuvaring without prior written permission from the ministry of health would make me a criminal in dubai?
no thanks.
i knew UAE is weird about what meds tourists can legally bring into the country, but hadn't realized quite how weird. among the meds that require permission from their ministry of health are antidepressants, hormonal contraception, hormone replacement therapy, isotretinoin, and eczema ointments.
det er vel alkoholsalget som gjør det lønnsomt for dem å holde åpent
Dr Naomi Wolf @naomirwolf Follow Replying to @FatEmperor Terrifying. Also confirms/explains the conversation I overheard in a restaurant in Manhattan 2 yrs ago in which an Apple employee was boasting about attending a top secret demo: they had a new tech to deliver vaccines w nanopatticles that let you travel back in time. Not kidding 5:44 PM- 25 Feb 2021
you need to know about the time-travelling nanopatticles
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