wjrii

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wjrii ,

I had to look this up. An indigenous Australian artist, famous by antipodean artworld standards, included an unflattering portrait of the woman who owns the most profitable mining company in Australia and depending on the day, she's usually calculated to be the richest Australian in the world, and sometimes the richest woman.

The company is infamous for doing as mining companies are wont to do, and also specifically for her late father's old-school racism on the topic of indigenous Australians, and then her own actions that suggest she was fine with his attitudes. Frankly, the fact that her portrait looks to have been just a bit more exaggerated than the rest should have been viewed as a minor win that she could ride out, but she decided to raise a stink about it and be the biggest Karen in the world, accusing the national gallery of doing the Chinese government's bidding, even though she is on record saying nice things about them to get their business.

wjrii ,

You don’t really need to know anything else about her for this story.

Well, maybe a liiiittle bit more:

Perhaps the most well known controversy in the history of the company centres around the racist views of founder Lang Hancock towards Indigenous Australians. Hancock is quoted as saying,

"Mining in Australia occupies less than one-fifth of one percent of the total surface of our continent and yet it supports 14 million people. Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it's your ground, my ground, the blackfellow's ground or anybody else's. So the question of Aboriginal land rights and things of this nature shouldn’t exist."
In a 1984 television interview, Hancock suggested forcing unemployed indigenous Australians − specifically "the ones that are no good to themselves and who can't accept things, the half-castes" − to collect their welfare cheques from a central location. And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future, and that would solve the problem."

Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, Gina Rinehart, caused controversy in 2022, when she failed to apologise for or denounce comments made by her late father in the 1984 television interview. Hancock Prospecting subsequently withdrew an A$15 million sponsorship from Netball Australia after Indigenous netballer Donnell Wallam voiced concerns about the deal and the impact of the comments, pertaining to a genocide, by "poisoning" and "sterilising" Indigenous Australians to "solve the problem"; as well as concerns about the company's environmental record.

wjrii ,

This quote is from her father in '84, and it was in a televised interview. However, just two years ago she refused to denounce those comments, and pulled millions of dollars from support from Australian Netball's governing body because an indigenous player raised the issue.

wjrii ,

Aussies are great. They're like border collies, but slightly more chill.

Cost-effective convex keycaps? 1.75u and under

So, I figured y'all would be the best people to ask. I make fairly traditional row-staggered hand-wires, but I like them to be stabilizer-free, due to my home tooling limitations and a realization that they work fine. They also avoid one of the biggest pet peeves across the various niches of keyboard people. What is the...

wjrii OP ,

Yup. He’s ever so hungry, basically wasting away.

LOL.

wjrii OP ,

We like to say he looks like an oil painting brought to life.

He's also gone straight from the foster where he was born (his mother is only 10-12 months older than him and had a much tougher road) to be the doted-upon baby goofball. Even our other dog, a slightly aloof and very wary former stray, looks out for him and even washes his feet when he senses his 90-pound (40kg) "puppy" forgot to handle it.

wjrii ,

This is only really an issue if it's not free and convenient to get one, as in huge swaths of the US.

wjrii ,

In a world with GORILLA.BAS and NIBBLES.BAS, I simply cannot reject the QBASIC faith with which I was raised.

wjrii ,

You mean the thing for hosting galleries because Lemmy can't do that yet and Imgur won't work on Mobile without an app? Yes.

As a social network? No, and even when I tried it wouldn't let me switch my post's visibility from unlisted to public, so I shrugged and used it as an image host as I'd originally intended.

wjrii , (edited )

Yeah, she grew up on a farm, animals are tools, yadda yadda yadda. I can accept that decisions sometimes have to be made that are not meant to be cruel. Here though, the fact that she made the call unilaterally, casually, and without considering other options that might have been available for a dog but not other "livestock." She also stated that she "hated" the dog. Then, the way the article phrases it, it sounds like she got her blood up and decided that it was the day to do all her up close and personal killin' and took out the goat she didn't like. Oh, and let's also not forget that her kids clearly liked the dog. This is what she decides add to her political bona fides.

There's doing what has to be done, and then there's seeming to get off on killing things that are less powerful than you but refuse to bend to your desires.

wjrii ,

I read that, and while some of the possible implications are concerning, that was a beloved and elderly dog and OP claims they tried to make it painless and less scary than euthanasia. I am iffy on some of the decisions that were made, but the story as told is pretty much the inverse of an annoyed jackass shooting a 14 month old dog because its training was not going well and she "hated" it.

wjrii ,

So, sad story time. We had a pup going on 15 who had health problems, most notably a bum knee that she just wouldn't trust to rehab after surgery when she was 3. For the next ten years, she managed fine, but eventually she was clearly on the downward trend. She was maybe even ready, but I didn't quite think so. Then we found out we had to move. For the briefest moment, I thought it would be easier not to take her with us, but after recoiling that I'd have the thought, I decided I wouldn't make that decision in the middle of a bunch of other stress, and she was a good dog who deserved a thoughtful End of Life thought process.

A couple months after we were all settled and she had her spot in the living room, it became clear that it wasn't just stressed humans. She was clearly declining, and it was time after all. We took her in to the new vet we'd identified, and let them know, but because she hadn't had a checkup with them, and they didn't know us well, they made us do a three day waiting period and asked for our old vet to get a reference that we were responsible pet owners. Then they asked for a full external exam beforehand. They made us jump through hoops, and I for one completely understood, because they didn't know us from Adam and as far as they were concerned we might just be sickos or thieves who make vets kill dogs for the hell of it. We went through it all, and I watched her gently slip away through my teary eyes.

A good vet won't put a healthy pup down for no reason, and being a bad hunting dog who goes after chickens probably wouldn't have been anywhere near a good enough reason. We all face tough decisions. Noem just sounds like the type who has no respect for lives she's entrusted with, only what they can do for her.

wjrii ,

Thank you. It was sad, but the two mantras I have about this are “long life, good life,” and “the only alternative to losing them is never having them.” Life happens. It’s okay.

I’ve lost a few animals over the years and personally put down a wild bird too injured to survive (which still haunts me even though I am convinced it was the right thing to do) so my main point was that Noem is a special kind of callous and that vets wouldn’t immediately put down a young bird-dog that got confused about the exact form of hunting it was expected to be part of.

wjrii ,

The linked Guardian has the longer version. Training wasn't going well, but she made a spur of the moment decision that training was done. No rethinking said training. No spaying to keep the traits out of the bloodline. No deciding if a different role in the household would be appropriate. No rehoming the dog to one without birds. No rescue or even a county shelter. Not even a sober discussion with her kids to let them say goodbye and then a humane euthanasia.

No, the dog embarrassed her and cost her money, so she shot it. Then, she was in a killin' mood, so the goat had to go too, apparently the same day. And she did a bad job with that one so it sat there with a gunshot wound until she could get to the truck and back, and there were other people in sight, so it was all safe and well thought out (/s).

Then she brags about it like it was a good thing. I will stand by it: people in rural areas and in agriculture have to have a different relationship with mammalian life and death and have to make tough calls, but this shithead is just cruel.

wjrii ,

I doubt I’d use it, but damn I love the ingenuity, and Katana makes a lot of sense for monoblocks.

Numpad? Or the right-hand half of an Ortho Split? ( www.keebtalk.com )

Okay, it's a numpad. However, if you happen to have access to a gantry-mounted diode laser engraver, it should be able to cut through cheap and readily available 3mm Masonite without much trouble (my 5w Comgrow took two passes). A couple of coats of textured spray paint gives a surprisingly nice finish, and mounting the MCU on...

wjrii OP ,

I'm leaning towards having this one live to the right of my mouse, but it looks best on the left. I got options, though, which is nice.

Somehow it wasn't until I was about halfway through making the thing that I realized it looks like some distant cousin of the Corne or other ergo splits. It would be fairly trivial to adjust the cut plan to one of the usual suspects or to do something bespoke.

wjrii ,

This isn't the first time the prime minister has made headlines because of his shoes.

In 2023, he was mocked for wearing Timberland boots during a speech about the government's drive to "stop the boats", with people pointing out they were disproportionately large.

It wasn't long before people started making memes online, some showing Mr Sunak in one giant boot, others saying he should instead "stop the boots".

The year before that, he was criticised for wearing a £490 pair of suede Prada shoes to a building site.

And in 2021, people were quick to point out his £95 sliders as he prepared to deliver the budget.

I low-key love the idea of people giving Rishi Sunak shit about his shoes literally no matter what he wears, just make the "correct" decision an endlessly moving target and make him the Sisyphus of politically acceptable footwear.

wjrii ,

My favorite part is that his nom de plume, General Yossi Sariel’s alias, while working a book about AI in the Israeli security services, was “Brigadier General YS.”

wjrii OP ,

https://youtu.be/6orsmFndx_o?si=PJbr4wHkVwntd7KA

And a later video that's more of a feature style piece, and they get to the 3D functionality(!) at about 11:30.

wjrii ,

That’s just what their baby teeth look like. What’s extra fun is that’s their teeth when they’re in piranha puppy phase and bite the shit out of your hands and toes all day.

wjrii ,

I'm using box whites today on my 75%. They are a delightful light-tactile masquerading as a clicky. I need my box navies. Would be interesting to see how those compare with the iconic C64 homage keycaps.

wjrii ,

8-bit guy is a politically-active gun-nut, and apparently also just a rather unpleasant creep. Take it for what you will.

wjrii ,

Here is a pretty good place to try, and as mentioned !mechanicalkeyboards is the closest thing to a viable normies' mk keyboard community on Lemmy. Most of the reddit-hating graybeards in the mk community were already on geekhack, with a small contingent on keebtalk (I joined both! My beard is already turning grayer!), and then between Discord people, people who don't give a shit about APIs or IPOs, and people who need /r/mechmarket to fund their hobby, there just hasn't been the critical mass of users migrating.

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