cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/46451015

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/46451012

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#NOMERCY #stoprussia
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I've heard about a movement about keeping cash alive. However, am I allowed to exchange or keep "foreign" cash in Australia despite it being worth more? For example, I hoard cash via the following currencies: USD, BBD, OMR, KWD, PLN, GBP, EUR & AED to name a few and most are higher value than Australian Dollar.

I mean, will stores (in touristy parts of Sydney) accept the following in cash (mentioned above) directly for transactions. Like for instance: this item costs A$50 but gave them a 200€ (A$330) bill as payment, will they take that at face value due to that being worth more despite it being the second most traded currency globally?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_efficiency_in_transport

that table is thoroughly fascinating. i mean all of them, there's more than one table on that article

apparently walking is the most energy-efficient transport mode of all?!?!? apart from bicycles

what i find mind-blowing is that airplanes consume approximately the same amount of energy as cars and trains. I mean i can easily see cars and trains being on the same level, but i always thought that airplanes consumed like an order of magnitude more fuel than cars. considering how everybody keeps saying that "airplanes consume so much fuel" and such. crazy.

and also boats are less efficient than i thought? boats consume 16 L/100 km while cars, trains and airplanes consume 6 L/100 km?

Whether it's economic, cultural, political, religious, ideological, whatever, what are some ideas that you believe in? I think friendly (very important!!) discussion of these could be good as to understand the views of others. Pluralism and the acceptance of many beliefs is generally a good thing.

As long as you don't believe in implausible conspiracy theories or say anything that is listed on the rules of most Lemmy communities and instances (in which case, don't say it), I think the opinions of others should be respected!

Please don't devolve this into a hot political argument, holy war, or similar. It ends badly for world powers (all of them), and it will end badly here with no winning sides. Friendly debate is ok as long as you don't go nuts, make sure you give good supporting arguments with evidence!

Tagging as AI because some illustrations seem to be AI generated and the previous video from the channel also used AI edits in the video.

Exclusive - Murdoch Media's smear campaign against Palestinian academic EXPOSED - YT

Bonus: The Murdoch Media's Campaign Against Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah - Spty

This is a case and point in how the centralised ownership of the media in this country controls and pushes us, democratic liberal peoples, away from what is in the best interests of us as we decide it, and what is in the best interests of a few.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/49146842

Context

(Let me know if there's a better place to share these memes)

The purpose of religion is to replicate culture, which is made of memeplexes, which are made of memes, like your DNA has chromosomes made of individual genes.

Culture is your operating system. The narrative of the framework from which you derive your identity determines what you experience and how you think n behave. Our two main ways of learning from this world as children are play and story. Of these, story is the first cognitive technology, as it allows us to consciously structuralize the narratives from which we derive our identity.

This means culture can be engineered around the effect that specific language would have on certain archetypes of individuals that prior to monotheism, manifested in the form of pantheons and families of gods n goddesses. In the process of wrapping everyone around a core narrative, this resulted in synchronization of society.

Hence, why we have the ethos/pathos complex of Donald Trump. No, seriously, in the modern day, we have functionally weaponized religion by engineering two diametrically opposed cults of divergent political narrative. Likewise, we did this around things like the American Revolution and Jesus, but what my random word generator told me to write all this for is to talk about how we built a boat on a mountain.

Because "who would build a boat on a mountain?" IS a cognitive technology. We took kids to it to prove to them that God is real because God does not speak in the storms or earthquakes or fires but a whisper; synchronicity as Carl Jung called the phenomenon, or what is a burning bush in the Bible or white rabbit to Neo.

Y'know, kid is home alone. Ooh, gunna get into the cookies! Wham! The broom fell? Well, in a godless universe, that's just the wind, whatever, let's pick it up and get a-cookieing! But if the child knows that they are always watched and God is all powerful, they choose to resist temptation, strengthening their prefrontal cortex and making them better able to resist temptation in the future, and more.

Also, reconciliation and Karma and the world is an illusion and everything you experience is procedurally generated based on how you have and are setting your intention, the only thing you have any direct control over. It's just basic topology, folks!

Is it still viable to use Signal for privacy in 2026? It's centralized, and has had many suspicious occurrences in the past.(Unopen source server code, careless whisper exploit which is still active as far as I know, and the whole mobile coin situation.)

Thoughts?

xkcd #3235: Types of Board Game

Title text:

I can't believe Candles of Vienna caved to commercial pressure and added the Goku expansion.

Transcript:

Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com

Source: https://xkcd.com/3235/

explainxkcd for #3235

This is an old web comic i used to read, the site is long since gone. The artist went by the name FrogPlague.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/36830794

Climate change is already at work

As floods become more extreme, farmers are now taking serious hits – especially in Queensland.

In 2019, floods and sticky mud trapped and killed up to 500,000 cows.

In 2022, record-breaking floods caused a national lettuce shortage.

In 2023, floods hit banana, mango and avocado crops.

In 2025, over 100,000 cows died in outback Queensland due to flooding.

This summer, it happened again. Over 48,000 cattle are dead or missing after extreme flooding in northwest Queensland.

Rising temperatures also make life harder for the animals and plants we rely on. Heat stress is on the rise in livestock. When animals are too hot, their health can suffer and milk and meat production falls.

When floods devastated Lismore in 2022, the New South Wales town had empty supermarket shelves for months after main roads and freight lines were cut.

But farmers’ markets reopened within a week. As one farmer’s market manager told experts:

supermarket shelves were completely empty [but] we had all this produce.

Climate change is already at work

As floods become more extreme, farmers are now taking serious hits – especially in Queensland.

In 2019, floods and sticky mud trapped and killed up to 500,000 cows.

In 2022, record-breaking floods caused a national lettuce shortage.

In 2023, floods hit banana, mango and avocado crops.

In 2025, over 100,000 cows died in outback Queensland due to flooding.

This summer, it happened again. Over 48,000 cattle are dead or missing after extreme flooding in northwest Queensland.

Rising temperatures also make life harder for the animals and plants we rely on. Heat stress is on the rise in livestock. When animals are too hot, their health can suffer and milk and meat production falls.

When floods devastated Lismore in 2022, the New South Wales town had empty supermarket shelves for months after main roads and freight lines were cut.

But farmers’ markets reopened within a week. As one farmer’s market manager told experts:

supermarket shelves were completely empty [but] we had all this produce.

Bots give equal weight to scientific and non-scientific sources, potentially directing sufferers away from approved treatments and preventing them from receiving the life-saving help they need, study finds

A new study has found that AI chatbots habitually recommend alternative cancer treatments to chemotherapy, potentially putting lives at risk.

A team from the Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center tested a series of widely used bots as part of their research, including xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Meta’s AI, and High-Flyer’s DeepSeek.

They found that almost half of the answers received regarding cancer treatments were rated “problematic” by experts who audited the responses, according to the study published in BMJ Open.