In practice it lead to mega rich foreigners buying up all the water rights in Australia and preventing anyone from using them which created artificial scarcity and drove up prices. These mega rich foreigners then sold Australians their own water back to them at exorbitant prices.

Oh hey I’ve seen this movie

While I would like to think of myself as something rare and shiny, I’d like to admit that I don’t actually identify as “truly” ambidextrous.

It’s perhaps more accurately “mixed-handedness”, and while I have quite a few of the benefits of what an truly ambidextrous person would, I also have some negatives that a person with one clear dominant side wouldn’t. I think the benefits outweigh the negatives for me, but I don’t think everyone would necessarily agree. And ofc it depends on your degree of mixedness, basically.

It’s much more common, being reported in this study at a rate of 13.49% while left-handedness was 7.14%.

For instance I used to do frisbee golf (disc golf?) quite a lot more, and long throws obviously with my right, although I could do them a bit with my left. But then my left wrist (what I mostly write with) is stronger so when I put the disc, left was often more reliable. So then if it was between a put and a medium range throw, I’d have problems choosing which hand to throw with.

Then again writing on a blackboard, sorry, whiteboard is what they are nowadays, I start with my left but finish with my right.

And when I cook for instance, which hand holds the product and which cuts is mostly a matter of how I’m facing or what hand the knife happens to be closer to. I can also shoot from both sides, although my right-eye does seem more dominant.

Coincidentally my preferred gender is sort of slightly fluid as well and/or mixed but my presentation is 99% of the time mostly masculine. I don’t live in the most progressive society in terms of attitudes towards LGBTQ+ people.

Laughs in ambidextrous.

What’s “handedness”? Some propaganda by people who are disabled on one side of their body?

Yeah but no-one would ever really use a word like that. It’s just the example given in all memes, but a a more realistic one than epäjärjestelmällistyttämättömyydellänsäkäänköhään. I think it would be more probable that in that scenario, a Finn might say something like “pitäiskö juoksennella vähäse?”

But it is a good feature we have, yeah. Imagine trying to learn all those, whereas now they just come more or less naturally. (For that wordmonster, it takes a bit of concentration and I’m still unsure whether I typoed or not but whatever.)

Everything else I buy except the pigeons with C4.

They tested a lot of crazy shit during WWII and that’s not exactly what they tried, but derivative schemes were tested and didn’t really work.

This meme reminded me of this sketch.

Trolls these days.

We’ll of we’re just going for efficiency, what don’t we just use a bolt gun?

I think the appeal of a guillotine is more… the vivid images of the French revolution it conjure.

We could still go for the massive one, just got to have some ratchet system so it doesn’t fall before we want it to.

Oh sure, to get a good cut, you need a heavy blade.

The point is… who’s gonna lift it up?

You can see the heft a blade meant for a single head has in this video from guys who made one this summer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RPO7fm_ZtlY (it’s a short no long video)

Starts comment with concern about people who support the death penalty — ends comment with advocating vigilante torture/rape/something else horrid.

Cons; the blade will weigh a metric fuckton.

That’s about it.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-modern-heart/202303/are-americans-really-becoming-less-intelligent

This is a meme from 2008;

Oh fuck I’m old. I was there when it was written.

I would think this.

They didn’t have exactly airtight building skills. So it’d be something from three days to a week probably.

been able to walk right up to very large “deer” species such as elk

I completely forgot that you guys say “moose” for the biggest fellas, and thought that you just walked up to moose and try petting them and I was gonna tell you what a bad idea that is, but yeah, you mean Cervus canadensis. We don’t have elk that big. Moose, reindeer and a few different deers, basically. I guess the closest would be the white-tailed deer. I started reading that, and seeing how it’s an American species more or less, I was very confused, as I walked up to one as a kid when I didn’t live in the city. But it’s been introduced to Finland as well.

Reindeer are fairly small. Smaller than what I feel like they look in that picture. (Perhaps it’s a small man or an odd angle. Or just a unit of a reindeer)

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/rQj0TrKxwcY/maxresdefault.jpg

See?

Well, the article says “deer”, but it’s just reindeer, and reindeer are a semi-domesticated species. All the reindeer in Lapland are owned by someone, but they’re also literally free to roam around and graze wherever. When it comes time, they gather up the tokka (collective noun for a reindeer group ~herd).

People aren’t walking up to wild deer to paint their antlers.

I literally laughed out loud. Well, not too audibly, but still. Forcibly exhaled, let’s say.

Amateurs.

It was the late nineties and info on such matters freely flowed on the net.

As opposed to?

Improve on the model by getting a metal bat and welding metal plugs on it.

This ain’t bad either though, just a suggestion

In these temps anyone will understand how cold can burn.

I slept outside in -42 when I was in the army in Finland. Not a good night’s sleep, I’ll tell you that.