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A forum mod ran high-quality audio through a banana, old microphone cable soldered to pennies, and wet mud. Nobody could tell the difference.

The place for hearing aid DIY fitting. I've since opted to stick to my biologically lousy ears, but it was useful at the time.

Notes:

• Of course all the software is windows only and passed around under the table
• Many HAs have a hardware dongle requirement for reprogramming, which can be sourced reasonably easily secondhand
  • If I've inspired a friend, I do have a spare noahlink wireless going unused, absolutely send me an email...
• Your audiologist will know someone meddled with it if you do
• The theory behind fitting a hearing aid is daunting if you don't have a known-good (hell, known-okay) reference point, but it can be done
• The state of the HA industry is rage inducing enshittified disability tax hell, and only getting worse
• Ears are hard, man.

Articles I did not expect to have a BSDM section: this one

Articles I probably could have inferred could have a BDSM section: also this one

People will probably (possibly) assume:

• ring finger (usually left, sometimes right: engagement/wedding rings etc- well-established tradition
• pinkie (left): signet rings- less relevant in a modern context
• index (right): birthstone ring

Otherwise, as far as I can tell, have at.

Cory Doctorow confirmed to be a hammock fan, btw.

Ninety-five percent of people living there who are HIV positive know their status.

Ninety-five percent of HIV-positive people are taking medication that lowers the amount of the virus in their body.

And 95% of people on HIV medication have a viral load so low, they're considered virally suppressed. This means they have an almost zero risk of passing HIV on to their partners.

Details the crime & legal process that set this precident. Read with caution.

NSW's largest ever known snowstorm in 1900 dumped nearly a metre on the Blue Mountains, 70 centimetres on Bathurst, 55cm on Mudgee and 23cm on Forbes.

Late last century, colder winters could still deliver significant falls.

A few melting snowflakes were briefly observed over Sydney's northern suburbs in July of 1986, while in 1990 snow was reported on 13 consecutive days in Oberon. But snow has rapidly declined during the past few decades, and it has now been four years since snow has settled on the Blue Mountains.

While the occasional 20th-century winter would pass without a significant fall, like in 1973, the current absence of snow is comfortably the longest on record.

tldr: "imitation animal-products aren't profitable enough any more"

The good news is that they still sell plants. Overpriced and sad looking plants, but still.

Australian 'acceptable intake' (for median population) guidelines

Do you want to go "aaaaa!!!" while eating breakfast, experiencing profound horror at an incomprehensible scale?

This one. Read it.

Content warning for industrial scale farming & food ethics, food guilt, meat as food, and the author's wrestlings with vegetarianism.

A pile of book recommendations, podcasts, papers, and other educational goodness.