[makaeru]

The Australian vaccine rollout fuck up, from memory edition:

July 2020: Pfizer offers Australia 40 million doses of their vaccine once it gets approved, so they can use us as an example of a quick and effective rollout. Govt says nah, later denies this happens.

Some time after that: at least three people in the govt buy stock in CSL.

A couple of weeks after that: govt announces that CSL has the rights to produce the Astra-Zeneca vaccine in Aus and most of the population will be getting that. It's pure coincidence that there are former govt staffers on the board.

December 2020: govt orders 10 million doses of Pfizer, in what they claim is their first ever discussion with Pfizer.

Early 2021: govt says that 4 million people will have their first shot by the end of March, and everyone will be fully vaccinated by October. Priority is on vaccinating people in aged care facilities (both workers and residents), where 800 of our 910 deaths occurred.

March 2021: govt falls short of 4 million target by 3.4 million. Govt blames Europe and Pfizer for not sending vaccine, Europe and Pfizer come back and say "wtf no". Govt is sending vaccines wherever the fuck they want. Vaccine clinics can't guarantee they will actually have the necessary doses for the people who booked in.

April-May-ish: doctors decide due to risk of blood clots, Astra-Zeneca shouldn't be given to anyone under 50. This is later revised to 60. >90% of Pfizer does have been used, despite govt promises that we are "front of the queue" to get more, we are not. Pfizer getting real sick of the lies. Govt stops referring to "targets" for vaccination and starts calling them "horizons".

June: we've pretty much run out of Pfizer at this point. After a massive aged care vaccination blitz they're finally approaching the levels promised by the end of March. Scotty, our Prime Minister who once shat his pants in a maccas carpark, holds an emergency meeting and announces that it will be mandatory for aged care workers to be vaccinated by September but doesn't offer any explanation on how that will happen. Our next Pfizer shipment is due in December. He also announces on live TV that anyone who wants to can get Astra-Zeneca, to the immediate reaction of "what the fuck, no, who told you that was okay" from prominent members of the medical community, none of whom were consulted with. Press conference is delivered from inside quarantine, as he has just returned from a holiday (he was a non-participating guest at a summit) in the UK while half the country is in lockdown.

Over 4 months in, only 30% of the adult population has received one dose of the vaccine; only 7% are fully vaccinated. I am not part of that fraction. At the current rate, as a healthy under 40 in a non customer facing job I can expect to be vaccinated halfway through next year at the earliest.

This government's rollout makes the SPN finale look like it was well-planned by competent people.

[somecunttookmyurl]

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

[somecunttookmyurl]

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

[somecunttookmyurl]

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

[somecunttookmyurl]

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

[somecunttookmyurl]

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

[somecunttookmyurl]

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

[beggars-opera]

[somecunttookmyurl]

there is a shitton of evidence for OP (an egyptologist’s) claim including the literal pictures of the artefacts you just… reblogged? like they are right there? you’re looking right at them. they are in the post.

but also entire books. multiple. and the first page of google results. tut’s tomb is the most well-documented find in egyptology and the duck tunic is especially famous

[averagefairy]

working full time is terrible why do we just accept that having 8 days off a month is normal and okay........ being alive could be cool but we waste it at our JOBS.... sorry i’m just heated about capitalism again i’ll be fine

[fbdbsgdg]

8 days....never thought about it like that 😓

[revere-irreverence]

This seems really whiny to me. Like, I agree with you, work sucks, but our ancestors didn’t get to browse tumblr at their desks or have the option to gleefully spend their ENTIRE WEEKENDS horizontal on the couch stuffing their faces/watching tv/playing video games/wacking off.  They didn’t have weekends. They just slaved away as fucking peasants from dawn to dusk until they died in childbirth or got the consumption.

I am perfectly happy working 8 hrs a day because I don’t have to:

grow my own food

find my own clean water

heat my house

shit in the woods

[nubiana-americana-deactivated20]

[aggressivelycalm]

Hi, I study social and cultural anthropology. Humans working 40+ hours a week is 100% an industrial revolution thing and was not normal in the early stages of our existence. In fact, hunter and gatherer societies that still exist to this day spend about 15-20 hours a week TOPS working. The rest is dedicated to sitting around and telling stories and jokes, dancing, singing, eating, sleeping, fucking and so forth. Read a damn book.

[ekelarsons]

The average American worker takes less vacation time than a medieval peasant

Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies.

[bookwyrmth1rt33n]

🤔😬😡

[patentlyabsurdrpgideas]

When the medieval peasant - the iconic, screwed over, worst off person of pop culture - had more days and time off than you, something’s gone wrong. And apparently something has been wrong for a while now...

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

[wayfaring-cryptid]

How dare you leave that in the tags?

[guerrillatech]

[annoyingalchemist]

Ok so can someone explain to me how cryptocurrency pollutes? Like what crazy calculations are they running that they need enough brainpower to significantly effect things? Like I’m assuming what’s causing the pollution is increased electricity consumption but… how does sending lil pretend money tokens back and forth or whatever cause so much pollution?

Also, what the fuck is “mining”? How d'you mine… like bitcoin is not a naturally occurring resource, and I assume that you can’t just make it, cause that would make it instantly worthless… help?

[commiemartyrshighschool]

So you get “coins” as a reward for performing the cryptographic calculations necessary to update the public ledger which is the blockchain. This is, by design, an increasingly complex and resource intensive process to slow down the collection of (intentionally finite) coins.

So every transaction with bitcoins requires the ledger to be updated with the current ownership of every already existing bitcoin, which also requires encrypting and decrypting a bunch of information and sharing it across the public ledger. So every transaction made with bitcoins increases the energy requirements of updating the ledger making it harder and harder to complete the latest version and get the coin which is a reward for doing that work.

There’s a lot I don’t fully understand myself but the long and short of it is that the actual value of any crypto currency is pretty much just what people agree on, except instead of a fiat currency where a government says it’s worth something and a mint that makes physical currency, there’s a bunch of nerds who agree that solving certain math problems is worth rewarding.

[brokenmachine3553]

Feeling like adding on for a bit of context, I know it’s kind of hard to understand how mining for really any kind of crypto is hard to imagine, but seeing what a bitcoin mining facility looks like for the first time really helped me realize just how energy intensive it is.

See all these warehouses? They’re quite literally filled to the brim with specialized computers that do nothing but mine, each one filled with thousands of these computers, just row after row of this:

So all the power consumption winds up adding up like crazy.

[white-throated-packrat]

Yep, that’s why cryptocurrency and NFTs are considered major contributors to pollution – because the energy needs of all those computers doing the calculation are equivalent to a medium sized country. Currently, crypto consumes more energy than Argentina.

[ralfmaximus]

Guess what’s inside a lot of mining rigs? Gowan, guess.

Graphics cards! 

Lots and lots of these puppies side by side, spinning their little fans as fast as they can go because as it turns out: GPUs are perfect for doing the calculations required for mining cryptocurrency.

Which means amateur miners buy a lot of these things.

So many, in fact, that there is now (May 2021) a world-wide shortage of NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards and building a new gaming rig is damn near impossible because of the shortage. 

OR you can pay a ridiculously inflated price by GPU scalpers on eBay.

Seriously. Places that sell GPUs impose quantity limits because if they don’t… some crypto asshole will buy out their entire stock in one go.

But the “good” news is that the professional miners (like the Bitmain site up there, in the photos) use dedicated ASIC mining rigs which don’t use consumer GPUs. But (bad news) they DO use the same sort of chips that NVIDIA & AMD rely on to make their products, which just starves the supply pipeline at a different point.

Bottom line: not only does cryptocurrency mining consume terawatts of electricity, it also consumes megatons of computer hardware. Which is expensive to produce (in resource terms, like rare metals, petroleum, water, electricity, paper) and will, someday, require even MORE resources to recycle. Or else it ends up in a landfill.

Note that current dedicated mining rigs are so highly specialized they are useless for anything other than mining. They cannot be easily repurposed to  (say) sequence DNA or fold proteins for miracle cures.

What a waste.

[smute]

was anyone gonna tell me that some nerds peepee poopoo “currency” is the reason why graphics cards are sold out everywhere or was i supposed to find that out from comments under a screenshot from twitter user whoreganic cop puncher explaining how bitcoin is just an artificially complicated math problem

[jellypawss]

Heart Surgery Scar

I was gonna update this to be in Health Life but I figured I’d just make a separate post for now and include it in the next health life update.

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[jellypawss]

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Kids are lacking interactions so I decided to make this mod to add some personality to your child sims! For now this mod includes social interactions and computer interactions but I am working on new traits and aspirations for your kiddos!

Features:

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Talk About Icecream For Breakfast

Talk About Recess

Throw A Tantrum

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[sandandglass]

[lilobears]

[safitheartist]

For context: This guy is a ex cop who is there to expose the fact that police heavily manipulate these statistics to cover up the truth. He aint a bad person who is lying, he is a good person who is pointing out that the police is lying.

[badjokesbyjeff]

Oedipus: Oracle, what’s going to happen to me?

Oracle: you’re going to kill your father and marry joe.

Oedipus: whose Joe?

[sunshinetomorrow]

me joining a discord server- "hello!"

guy named floyd- "hi! would you like a colour role?"

me- "what does that mean?"

floyd- "it means your name gets to be a colour. like how mine is pink for example"

me- "cool ok! so what colors can i have then?"

[thatssoscience]

Slime mold was grown on an agar gel plate shaped like America and food sources were placed where America’s large cities are. 

The result? A possible look at how to best build public transportation. 

I just really like the idea of slime mold on a map of the US. It’s beautiful.

[acquaintedwithrask]

I’m—

holy shit

[deaexlibris]

I have a raging science ladyboner right now.

[sxeli-deactivated20171231]

I’d love if we could do it on a state-by-state basis.

[unspellable-blog]

That same slime mold once affirmed that the Tokyo subway is pretty well-designed.  

[nearfuturisticdystopian-blog]

Using slime molds as a calculator.

Using slime molds as a calculator.

Using slime molds as a calculator.

[amydentata]

Natural computation: it’s a thing, and it’s awesome. What is the universe but a really, really complicated computer?

[kasaron]

I love this.

[liberalsarecool]

Trump ruins bacon.

Every Trump policy makes things worse.

[squidbroom]

context for the joke: upton sinclair’s the jungle is a book from 1906 about the meatpacking industry both about the working conditions and how unsanitary it was. it led to numerous laws about federal oversight on the meatpacking industry (specifically inspection) during what was known as the progressive era.

[lynati]

Time to stop buying any and all pork products until this is fixed. Spread it around. PORK BOYCOTT. Bacon isn’t worth debilitating sicknesses that you’re likely to catch now that standards are going to be lowered in the industry in order to save money.

[howdy-nyalll]

Double checked this and it’s legit. I’d be really cautious about pork from here on out y’all.

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

This is also likely to negatively impact the health and wellbeing of slaughterhouse workers and meatpackers and other animal ag workers, who already tend to have inadequate access to health services. It’s already a dirty job, with high rates of work-related illness and injury, and with less inspection, the workers are likely to be pushed to work even faster. Pork manufacturing also is known to draw heavily on undocumented workers for its staff, workers who are already going to have less ability to stand up for their rights.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Immigration policies that leave crops unharvested, absolutely terrible work with foreign trade agreements, removing any real quality assurance in dangerous products (thus nobody will buy the products)... is the current American administration trying to tank each of their own industries in turn?

[failsnail]

Buy local small farm hold meat whenever possible. Home kill or private property is always more likely to be be nice meat too. But this is America/American Pork. Australian pork is still happy buy that instead

[prismatic-bell]

My fellow Americans:

You can do something to protect yourself AND help your Jewish and/or Muslim communities at the same time. In case you haven’t noticed, we’ve been really struggling under hate crimes with the current administration in power.

FIND A KOSHER OR HALAL BUTCHER.

They will not have pork. However, other meat industries are also being deregulated, and you can get better beef and chicken through us.

I know the requirements for halal are slightly different than those for kosher, so if this crosses a Muslim’s dash I’m going to politely request, could you please share how they diverge, because I don’t want to misrepresent y’all?

Meantime, kosher requires:

—all of the following must be examined by a trained rabbi to ensure it’s being done correctly

—the animal must be raised humanely

—the animal must be disease-free

—the animal must be killed so quickly that it has no time to feel pain or fear. In Judaism this is accomplished by cutting the throat directly through both the main artery and the main nerve to the brain at the same time, and you have to train for YEARS to be able to do this and call yourself a kosher butcher.

Kosher butchers suffer from a lack of demand. You can keep your meat safe AND SUPPORT A STRUGGLING SMALL INDUSTRY.

Buy kosher and halal. Protect yourselves.

[omnistruck]

Chiming in with the Islamic perspective! 

the animal must be permissible to be eaten (i.e. not a pig)

depending on who you ask, either a) the name of Allah must be invoked upon killing the animal or b) the name of any other deity must not be invoked upon killing the animal

big agree on the animal being killed quickly to avoid pain or fear. in Islam, the jugular is slit, along with the esophagus and trachea, with a non-serrated blade to ensure a quick, clean cut. the animal must not see the blade until the very last minute, and must not be decapitated. (a quick and painless kill also ensures the meat is less acidic.)

each animal must be killed in seclusion to avoid stress on the other animals; they cannot witness the slaughter of a fellow animal.

the animal must not already be dead. carrion is one of the forbidden foods in Islam. some facilities may use a stun gun to induce unconsciousness, but this can cause instant death and some argue that this renders the meat haraam (impermissible). other facilities may use electronarcosis to render the animal insensible.

all the blood must be drained from the animal; again, we are forbidden from consuming blood

the animal must not be handled (e.g. skinning; removing and cleaning organs) until after it has died

Buy from your local halal market and support Muslim businesses!!!

[bananatwinky]

bitter enough to be true

[najaaozixxjsiaaiaiia]

[4444555666777888999]

Just had a glimpse of my alternate reality where I am the mom that made this meme

[secondclassvines]

[mongolian-ass-eater]

I see stuff like this every once in a while and it reminds me the kids are still alright

[knucklehead--mcspazatron]

I have no idea what is going on but I watched this like 20 times

[exeggcute]

apparently the EPA said asbestos is “safe” again, which is good news for asbestos memes, and bad news for literally everyone else

[raejin99]

[funnylime]

found this site that lets you like, look at all the radio stations around the world, lets you connect to them and listen in

and obviously you can flit around between all the big stations, but it’s quite fun to go to the isolated green dots

I discovered a new band thanks to a station in cyprus, and now I’m listening to ‘chillout’ music being broadcast from kazahkstan

(http://radio.garden/)

[funnylime]

ok i found this russian station way out in remote siberia which apparently according to the website is somewhere that looks like this

i cant understand a word of what’s said during the breaks but its fun

[funnylime]

you just tuned in to my computer by mistake

[tenitchyfingers]

that’s when my evening went from good to great

[almostfrenchrevision]

This is weirdly soothing to know what all of these people are doing around the world at this particular moment, who’s waking up and who’s going to sleep…

[myfavoritedemons]

i’m listening to a station in barrow, alaska. they’re playing ‘my boyfriend’s back’.