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Watch the media turn on anyone that tries such sensible shit. And then watch the voters lap it up.

It's crazy. I'm expecting a bunch of forced academic redundancies in April/May. I don't expect her to last a full term, but she will take a lot of others out on the way.

Currently at the Australian National University.

This is too real.

I assumed these are small fpv drones? They have kind of broken the traditional warfare dynamics and are more like ground force+ without the traditional air to air susceptibility.

Whilst trace lithium is important for many biological functions, it seems unlikely to me that a particular tree would require significant quantities of lithium to thrive.

Having a quick google it seems the issue is a particular forest that exists in a place that companies wished to prospect for lithium. I couldn't find any evidence of a high lithium dependence for Jarrah trees.

I would be very surprised if it's not possible for us to mine lithium deposits and also have healthy forests. Though typically companies just care less about flattening acers to get to the money making rocks.

Yep. Doesn't matter if you're the biggest redneck or the greenest hippy on the street the common factor is everyone wants the lights to stay on and they don't want to pay through the nose for it. Solar has already won, we can't even come close to touching it with any other tech.

Yep. Great idea and seemingly decent implementation. Even with some hiccups the net benefits will be unmatched to any other energy policy for the price.

Haha that's amazing. I hope you enjoyed them, the entire concept of never questioning authority (in all meanings) seems to have pitfalls that have trapped too many of today's society into polarising views with no concept of nuance. If more people had read these books the world would probably be a better place.

Now let's just hope Pullman can get the last book out this decade! He better not pull a Robert Jourdan on us!

I assume they disliked the source material. Which is a shame because they are amazing books.

I installed fedora to replace windows on the 31/12/2023. I wasn't a complete Linux noob by any measure but haven't run it as a main OS before. Thank you proton for getting me over the edge.

The whole repo situation on fedora is honestly pretty meh, things are out of date or broken too often. Or they just don't exist. I have put arch on a number of machines since and find it significantly better. My main box will move away from fedora next time I'm enthused to mess with it and this is the primary reason.

Some interesting tidbits from one of the staff.

The actual flowers are hidden down in the base of the opening and it has both male and female flowers but cannot self pollinate.

They didn't want to pollinate this one as they were worried the plant was not strong enough. But they will keep pollen from the male flowers to give to other gardens.

They had a bunch of Australian native relatives of this plant there too. They have a similar life cycle but are much smaller.

Rather fascinating plants. I can only wonder what makes them all want to flower at a similar time after years of dormancy.

Agreed. Have smelt far worse on the farm. We were there at 2ish and one of the staff was saying it was a lot more potent in the morning and yesterday evening.