shermarama.bsky.social
Design engineer, drummer, general maker of stuff. Keen on finding good solutions to complex problems. She/her. Hamiltron 🇳🇿innit.
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Perhaps they were all thinking "It ain't me, it ain't me"? :D
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Oh gods though, Thatcher and everyone since has smashed the community of the working class... The new rich of this century are firmly in control there, and the monarchy is just part of the circus. Charles hasn't Uberised any workforces, you know?
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It's a funny one, and I don't know either, but sometimes I wonder - like, everywhere else can identify the UK's colonial influence and try to follow a different path, but for the UK, there's no other history / origin to reach for. That's... how they got there. How to find a way forward from there?
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But also, remind me who elected Pete Hegseth? :D
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All I'm saying is that 'aristocratic' invokes chinless wonders, only there because of history. I'd agree that the partisan appointment of graspers and cronies is a problem - and worry that criticising them for what they're not (hereditary) risks masking that.
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And to be clear, I think it's absolutely monstrous what Falkner's trying to do, and even more monstrous to pretend it's in the name of human rights - just that it's her own works that have put her there to do it. Baroness Falkner moved to the UK as a young adult.
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There are no longer any inherited seats; people get made 'lord' in the sense of being appointed to the chamber. They're unelected in the same way US Supreme Court judges are - so there's all the problems of it being partisan, but it's no longer about what someone's great-grandfather did.
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Cheers! Already doing better for a quiet day knitting in non-public...
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The messaging generally seems to be that you should buy fancy yarn bowls, and fair enough if people want to, but that's a big yoghurt pot and it's fine for me. (Normally tucked between my leg and the arm of the chair.)
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Goes perfectly with car-centric design and drive-thru everything - the idea that experiencing anything outside your personal bubble is an intrusion and 'hassle' rather than, you know, living.
(This is a thing I like about NZ - stopping for a yarn is still a core value.)
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Pattern is Polar Braids quarter zip, yarn is BC Garn Loch Lomond, 4mm needles, and I like magic loop so much I'm doing it on the body with a 150cm cable. www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
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) (It was too early.)
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Similar for me, with a bonus perception shift from remembering I don't have to put up with being shown algorithmic slurry instead of what I asked to see.
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Old / Not today, thanks / The Internet.
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'Gregarious earths'? Since they're usually found hanging around with a bunch of very similar-looking mates?
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I'm working my way up to knitting a proper stranded-colourwork / Fair Isle jumper... Just want to be sure I'm getting the other stuff right before trying something that expensive 😆
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Having a lot of fun while wearing lab coats?
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And how do you aim your phone camera at an image you've screenshotted or downloaded?
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Kroky Saté (available in Belgium and NL) are amazing.
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Two-piece sleeve = well classy!
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I've honestly been wondering recently what it is that gets some people to exec level, based on many years in engineering. There are some good ones, but half of them seem to be just... useless tending to actively detrimental, and only there to be mollified? How *do* they get there?
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But I have no information, and can totally also believe it's NZ's bizarre enthusiasm for fossil fuels in the face of *gestures at all the sun-bleached things here*.
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I have wondered if there's some fundamental structural difference. UK rooves are usually built pretty solid, covered with heavy tile, with a long design life. NZ rooves seem to be much more 'corrugated tin hat that needs painting', so maybe less easily panel-compatible?
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Oh, yeah, just thinking 'alternative typing methods' in general. Moving fingers individually in five different directions sounds like a thing that makes sense on paper, but less so in practical reality, especially for things like isolated sideways pushes.
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Giving me Lawnmower Man vibes somehow.
(I did try learning to do stenography for a while, with all the open-source stuff there is for it, but it was hard to stick to it rigorously enough and I never really got functional.)
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Well, this hits buttons. I know which side of the line I'm considered here (Not Womaning Correctly) but also I know I *am* a woman (with the good fortune that the state agrees) and also I know that all these other women are women too. So, yah boo sucks, womaning anyway.
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I'm enjoying the process of inferring the news, as a picture emerging from intersecting tangents to the snark.
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Really tall woman here; this is why I learned to sew. At first I thought that had the same problem, because patterns are for average-sized people too... but then I learned that almost everyone alters patterns, and I just do it more. I'm no expert, but for casualwear, I now just make my own.
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Fair dos, that's a bit of a workout :D
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Definitely banger territory!
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Cheers for the links! Where do the images in your main post come from?
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Yes everyone chooses what info to take on, but, well, media in the US is pretty siloed. You're saying that anyone who hasn't taken personal responsibility for breaking out is liable for the result? So there's no point looking at changing it, because we already know to blame the end users?
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Weeell, also this is NZ where the number of cars in a household usually matches or exceeds the number of adults, but that's a choice people make and then like to deny having made, innit...
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I know a bunch of posties here in NZ, who drive along pavements in electric buggies or e-bikes to deliver to letterboxes, which are at the end of driveways here. So many people parked blocking the pavements, yet still expecting to get post...
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Blimey. I'm from round there originally, and 'not enough rain' really wasn't a common experience.
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Ah, yeah. I get the option for five minutes, which seems to be enough to read that one thing, but not enough to get lost again, plus renewing that more than once does start to feel ridiculous.
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My practices vary on this, but I usually also have the time-suckiest, doomiest apps set to be inaccessible after 11pm. This helps reduce the risk of both late night anger *and* scrolling rollover.
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I've enjoyed the updates! And also the recurring earworm of "I don't like shipping, woah no..."
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Ah, okay, so they actually have a use? I only ever see them used for making a peaceful river into a noisy one for jollies.
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I had never heard of a jet boat at all until I came to NZ, and have still never been on one. I kind of don't really get the point.
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Absolutely, although King Willem-Alexander might like a word about this 'president' thing.
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Solidworks defaults to y up, and it's never quite felt right to me. I think I must default to seeing the xy graph as being on a desk, not on the wall.
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Um, F but somewhat dad-coded also. Reasons include a) bad back, b) Doing Things with TV background but getting drawn in, so watching while leaning by the door and c) becoming fascinated / horrified by things other family members watch and door-leaning for both denial and ability to nope out.