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Hobart, Darwin and Canberra topped the list, while Sydney, one of Australia’s most populous cities, has come in the 150th spot, posing questions about the impacts of air pollution.

But experts have cautioned against taking the data at face value, saying the logic is “fundamentally flawed”.

However, Professor Gavin Pereira, an environmental epidemiologist at Curtin University in Perth, said the ranking of cities was “fundamentally flawed, even if the calculations are correct”.

“Firstly, air pollution events like bushfires and dust storms are common in Australia even if the air quality appears okay at other times,” he said.

“Secondly, it ignores everyone living outside the selected cities, including those in regional rural and remote areas most prone to bushfire smoke.”

Alcohol is a messy a.f. drug but it’s thought to work on some opiod receptors as part of its action. Unfortunately they’re our shit feels nice receptors (disgusting simplification) and exercise, or rather part of the body’s response to it, works on that too.

God hates us, so when our happy receptors are active all the time our brain turns the volume down so we continue to suffer. Removing the alcohol means the volume on the reward pathways is too low right now.

Fortunately even people who blast the fuck out of those pathways with like heroine don’t stop them from coming back to a relatively normal sensitivity and usually pretty fast. So you probably don’t have to wait long before stuff feels good again and it definitely will happen if you just grit your teeth and rawdog life for a bit.

Defs gonna get mine the moment I can. Mounting evidence of brain and heart damage with infections. Fuck that to hell, I want them in good health so I can use their threshold for damage on things that are fun.

I haven’t been able to talk my mum into getting any of her boosters, she’s also the one that infected us all by lying :(. Logging onto Facebook to play words with friends is damaging, also I think a somewhat traumatic memory of smallpox vaccine or something.

Highly recommend people take precautions, life is fragile.

Hey nice, I am not you but I wouldn’t tempt myself with a drug while quitting. I smoked at that sabotaged my efforts a few times before I quit. I’m not exactly down with the AA type always an addict thinking, but it is worth remembering that brains take to things differently and vulnerability can remain. I don’t take nicotine or coke anymore because while I’m pretty sure I would be able to use it and stop I know it would be unpleasantly hard to do so.

I drink to much atm, it got out of hand during a bad period of chronic pain and it’s been a struggle at times. Posts like this are encouraging.

My apologies I lied to you.

That information is wrong, coal is still being formed today. Although mostly in bogs, which provide an environment where decay doesn’t happen.

About a million to 10 million times slower than we are using it though, and the rate is declining relatively as bogs are cleared or mined for peat/moss and our coal use increases year on year.

omfg they charged him and refused bail.

edit: also yep, he’s brown. Figures.

It’s as simple as not buying it. There’s no trick.

Check out some stuff like the vegan home cooks discord for some recipes, some blogs in whatever cusine you enjoy. Then make those foods.

I don’t think vegans are out there buying pets from breeders. Or at least they shouldn’t be.

We adopted two greyhounds from who were discarded from the racing industry. It’s complex, because it sort of allows the industry to launder the hideous moral cost to be people that are not vegan but think dogs are special and cute. However even with the rehoming there are still mass graves full of greyhounds that were too old or slow that didn’t get adopted, so it’s not like forcing them to execute them would make the enormously profitable sport collapse.

It would be better if there were proper shelters and reserves for everyone and we stopped forced breeding programs but there aren’t and the individuals seem to want to choose life over death.

It’s soooo good. Incredibly moody, strange, easy to play while also being a vaguely alienating experience that contributes to the otherworldly vibe.

I loved it so much, some genuinely troubling dilemmas at times if you get into it. I do recommend trying to get the airship first and then side no actually, do whatever it’s short and sweet and full of yearning.

How many actually will vs how many innocents you just abandon. Like how many people actually presented to doctors or hospital after getting vaxxed, missed work etc.

I think this fear of other human beings behaving in ways you probably would never dream of, nor would you expect of almost everyone you know, is misguided.

Society can afford a few mooches if it’s the price of helping the needy. We support an entire class of mooches with stuff like CGT discounting and that doesn’t help anyone.

I agree, part of keeping trust in collective health measures is trusting people when they say they are hurt by them and trying to help.

These people did a prosocial and sensible thing, they got hurt in freak accidents, they deserve respect and compassion.

CSIRO hastening the trend in culture by explicitly making us a nation of fart huffers.

she’s living up to the paramedic tradition of being completely awesome and down to earth.

As a trans woman who wears jeans and Ts and feels more at home in a machine shop than a stitch and bitch (although stitch and bitches rock) the narrative that feminine coded behaviour is a necessary and/or sufficient condition for being a trans woman is deeply damaging medicalised bullshit.

Don’t push people to perform cisness or transness, just let them discover themselves.

I’ve not made the time to get all up in my fungals, but i know a lot more understanding is coming out. Whats the deal?

So I might be wrong here, I have no formal training in the carbon cycle and am not nor have ever been a biologist but I was under the impression that coal basically no longer can be made as it comes from a time before lignin (the stuff what makes plants woody) could be broken down by organisms. Now, barring unusual geological events, plants die and fall into the soil where the vast majority of their substance is metabolised by fungi which use it for energy emitting co2 in the process.

So if you take some area and forest it, there is now a mass of carbon bound into plant stuff, but since it reaches a steady state quickly it isn’t really sequestering any after that. This is why carbon capture is sort of a farce, as captured carbon in its ideal form is coal.

Hey awesome. Almost all of us were heavily indoctrinated at some point and often many of our most precious memories are deeply associated with carnism due to the centrality of food to most cultural events.

I’m actually curious, given that forests don’t actually fix carbon anymore (yay fungi) is there any amortised effect on co2 levels? or just a peak then increased uptake during regrowth.

Of course, smoke is bad

The sluiced fragments (some of) hairtie for scale.

Not practical, but I want a tiny 3d printed chest of gem rough so for now I’m collecting it all.

Uh tiny fragments of zircon and saph I haven’t sorted yet. A single flec of gold and a metric tonne of magnetite.

Gonna dry the cons and strip out the magnetite and look for more gold, it’s not an area where you expect it though. This was the sand from classifying a few buckets for sapphire. Photo of sieve finds attached, the sluice found similar stuff but smaller.

Labor is certainly trying to stop the rise of the greens.