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by Nursie 9mo ago
But how accurate was the data on those older apps? Petrolprices.com (for example) seems to have been built on user-reported data rather than petrol-station reported data, and it's easy to find fairly recent criticisms of the whole thin
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Here in western Australia, they must publish the price for the day by 2pm the day before, and cannot change it. Definitely very different.
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That's an extreme case though, and not what this sort of thing is aimed at. Here in Perth, Western Australia, it's common for pump prices to vary significantly even within a small radius. But they're all on https:/&#x2F
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This is exactly it. We have a system here in Western Australia and people use it a lot: fuelwatch.wa.gov.au I think it's exactly that, the UK has never had this so people there either choose by brand or just convenience. But since movi
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Social media is not the open internet, pretty much by definition. With a few notable, niche exceptions it’s big centralised services entirely in the control of single companies. They’ve long been explicitly targeting human psychology for pr
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That's not an oath that many modern doctors will have sworn though - (From wikipedia) As of 2018, all US medical school graduates made some form of public oath but none used the original Hippocratic Oath. I imagine the story is similar
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I'm not sure that "everything that people do out of habit" is a reasonable summation of the category we're talking about. Perhaps I misworded my post above. Gambling is known to be addictive and causes some symptoms of w
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I remember that! Reminds me also of Motorola's attempt to have a hardware-expansible phone a few years ago, the Moto Z range and Moto Mods. https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/gadgets-computers-software/25... Obvi
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Where exactly the line is between 'withdrawal' and anxiety caused by a sudden, non-voluntary change in habits, I'm not sure, but I'd say that the one looks very like a symptom of the other. If we're willing to admit
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Did they describe them as either wholesome or safe? To me the difference is in the doom-scrolling, the shoving rage-bait in your face and the gaming for addictiveness. Old-school forums, whether they were wholesome or not, didn't do th
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> Or, just hear me out, this is what a moral panic looks like on social media. Could be, could be, except moral panics are usually absent evidence, whereas here we have meta's own researchers discovering and attempting to suppress t
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Or, just hear me out, or it might be actual withdrawal symptoms as the source of dopamine spikes is withdrawn, which is what it seems to look like.
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Are there many things that could be changed without a) changing the fundamental nature of what social media is or b) keeping the harms that are being identified? > Just banning it instead of searching for a good balance won’t help the ne
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https://www.reddit.com/r/perth/comments/1pmvcml/my_14yo_is_l... I think it depends on your definition of withdrawal, but it seems that some teens did experience something analagous to it here in Australi
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That would be nice. Maybe take it back to a time when it was about forming and maintaining interpersonal connections rather than 'following' influencers and peddling ragebait.
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I'm not convinced it's that hard. I've pointed out a few ways that it differs significantly. There are others major differences like the lack of infinite doomscrolling, or the personalised feed to optimise engagement. To the
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> This site is social media. Is it? If so then I would say the term "social media" has more or less lost all meaning. To me HN is more like an old-school forum - it has a focus and it has a mod team to keep the rails on the dis
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> It’s like if children were forbidden to drink a soda at a bar because they also sell alcohol. Errr... there are quite a few places where children aren't allowed to enter a bar, or can only go to them with parents if the establishm
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> So at what point can we start saying that violence because of words (or shirts) is bad? Straight away! > Should we act as if you're a good guy, because it was just a punch? No, and nobody is asking you to. In fact this is the w
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Tell me about it, that Jury thing in particular was shocking to hear, that they’re considering throwing aside an ancient right in the name of expediency and clearing a backlog, as if it was a minor detail and not the basis of the system of
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Sure, and his treatment has been awful in so many ways. I'm honestly not trying to defend any action by any state in this thread, I'm not trying to say that the UK is better than any other state. I'm not trying to make any po
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I mean, given that is hasn't worked and hundreds of people have continued to stand up and be arrested for supporting Palestine Action, I'd say that's a no? It still stinks through and through of course.
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Who’s defending it? It’s awful that they’re arresting people with “Palestine Action” t-shirts too. It’s just not the same thing as actually disappearing people. That's the point of this thread, no? Things can be bad in different ways a
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This feels disingenuous on your part now and is in fact exhibiting the exact problem brought up in the thread. You’re not being asked to feel better about the UK! If you didn’t know about this stuff and you feel worse about the UK, good, yo
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The example given was of a man in a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt, with the poster saying how that man was “disappeared” by the British state when he was briefly arrested and released. If you’re not aware of the history of people being disapp
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I think that promoting quack medicine as if it was legitimate is a problem in itself. Beyond that, some of the remedies are actively harmful, and we know that alt medicine practitioners have often kept people away from vital treatment.
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The people complaining were American AFAICT and weren’t worried by either, they were just drawing hyperbolic equivalences between suppression of speech and state orchestrated mass kidnapping and murder.
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This seems to happen a lot. The UK is doing some shitty stuff and a man was arrested for wearing a “Plasticine Action” t-shirt a few weeks ago, “Palestine Action” being a proscribed group in the UK, and showing support being an offence. Whe
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‘Western’ doctors generally recommend things that work and are proven to work. They don’t always get it right but in general that is at least the driving idea. Psyllium husk is a source of dietary fibre and has been shown to to absorb chol
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While this seems true and may be true within China, the Chinese government does push for this to be accepted around the world by pressuring for its inclusion in WHO documents, and is trying to open up new markets for TCM “Pharma” in poore

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