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What is the southern hemisphere?
Very cool. It’s nice to see original content.
They took the tree down and then drilled the stump? Just spouting on the pieces? Shouldn’t come too much. Eucalyptus is another species that also gives it a good crack after cutting.
Usually when we do Privet you can throw the pieces wherever but during the La Nina we had to work through rain constantly and had heaps of cut small-leaved Privet pieces take root.
We took ownership of an old piano and inside was a bag of DDT and Camphor.
Can’t click on a FB link. Got a screenshot or text or summary?
Rating this from an environmentalist perspective:
2/10.
Did you really have to have that oily chain in the water? Of all the places to take the photo…yeesh.
A neurosurgeon in Australia pulled a wriggling 3-inch roundworm from the brain of a 64-year-old woman last year-which was quite the surprise to the woman’s team of doctors and infectious disease experts, who had spent over a year trying to identify the cause of her recurring and varied symptoms.
A close study of the extracted worm made clear why the diagnosis was so hard to pin down: the roundworm was one known to infect snakes-specifically carpet pythons endemic to the area where the woman lived-as well as the pythons’ mammalian prey.
The woman is thought to be the first reported human to ever have an infection with this snake-adapted worm, and it is the first time the worm has been found burrowing through a mammalian brain.
The woman went to a local hospital in southeastern New South Wales, Australia, with a three-week history of abdominal pain, diarrhea, dry cough, and night sweats.
The woman went on ivermectin again and another anti-parasitic drug, albendazole.
The doctors believe the woman became infected after foraging for warrigal greens around a lake near her home that was inhabited by carpet pythons.
Doctors hypothesize the woman picked up the eggs meant for small mammals as she foraged, ingesting them either by not fully washing or cooking the greens or by not properly washing her hands or kitchen equipment.
I’d probably search the Whirlpool forums for similar threads. If they have no guarantee on quality of service, then shitty service is probably enough.
I use Aldi because Telstra, thanks to their dominance is the only one that works well enough. The phone also plays a big part in it, I run Graphene on the ‘a’ models (plus other cheaper phones prior), and other people I work with can get better reception than I, using the same provider but with their flagship phones. Next time you buy a phone, see if you can review the modem in it.
And to top that off, I get no reception at all where I live. Besides the fucking annoyance of getting ‘text message’ verifications which drive me up the wall, not having the phone working gets quite relaxing after a while. I turned off wi-fi calling when my phone finally had it because the shock of it ringing was too much.
Brutal article.
I think the highlighted quote could be labeled an understatement:
“It’s getting worrisome,” she said.
In some ways it is: Victoria has a hard, legislated target for 95 per cent renewables, which means there is no place for either Loy Yang A, or its half sibling Loy Yang B on the state grid beyond that date.
Now the attention is turning - again - to Australia’s biggest coal generator, the 2.88GW Eraring coal plant in NSW. Its owner Origin Energy has for some time flagged its “Intention” to close the plant as early as August, 2025, although this has never been “Locked in.”
He put the renewable infrastructure roadmap into place - and legislated it - but there are no fixed times for coal exits or renewable targets.
Environmental activists point out that paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year to keep Eraring open is not needed, and that two reports - including “The Lights Will Stay On” by the Climate Energy Finance and “Earing can be closed on schedule” by Nexa Advisory - outline why and how Eraring should close.
The CEC’s Kane Thornton says keeping Eraring open will simply make it worse for renewable energy investors.
