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Doing some car repairs recently and was looking for a way to deal with a spinning ball joint. Youtube can be helpful, but I made the mistake of leaving auto subtitles on. Google's auto-translate really doesn't do Scottish does it?

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/roger-pielke-jr-s-appallingly-bad-analysis-of-billion-dollar-disasters/

An excellent debunking of a (climate skeptic leaning) Nature paper. Worth sitting down and reading over a relaxing pot of tea

@_thegeoff@mastodon.social @spytfyre@mastodon.scot @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Sounds like it had a desired effect, so was it a lie, or a means to get you closer to people ?

@spytfyre@mastodon.scot @_thegeoff@mastodon.social @VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
The ability to put aside differences for a shared good is something not encouraged as a man. No criticism of the tartan army at all

@_thegeoff @revk When I find the right banana (> 1 unit) I shall laser it

@revk Here's a (to scale) png attoparsec ruler that can be printed/lasered onto a banana turning it into an every day practical tool. I've been using it to cut banana bookmarks...

@yschaeff@fosstodon.org Lasers and bananas were just made for each other ..