Nursie

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by Nursie 11mo ago
I mean, your source there is telling us that cannabis and hallucinogen use are up, vaping (weed and nicotine) is up and smoking is in decline. Hallucinogens are generally considered not very addictive, they are drugs that people use infrequ
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by Nursie 11mo ago
What "they" want is secondary - it's a pretty popular move here in Australia, it's what people largely want. Labor have been failing at giving people what they want recently, and are generally considered rather lacklustr
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by Nursie 11mo ago
My favourite micro pressure-group in Australia is the Pedestrian Council of Australia. Whenever there's talk about car safety measures, e-scooters or anything else, the press goes to the official-sounding "Pedestrian Council of Au
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Comparatively, sure. I don't think either of those are as addictive or as deadly as tobacco use.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> normalising people uploading identification documents This is dependent on implementation. From what I have heard (from ConnectID), some sites are using services like ConnectID as a way to have your bank verify you are of age without r
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Mine was great too, but it just never took off quite the same, maybe because of price. 'originals' were expensive, and so were recordable discs. There was also (IIRC) built-in DRM, so you could record digitally from a CD or read-o
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Other than the bluetooth capability - are modern walkmans as good as they were at the peak of portable tape use? I had one of these in black - https://walkman.land/panasonic/rq-s30 Gorgeous little machine, not much big
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I have a macbook pro. It has 3x USB-C, HDMI, a magsafe charger port, SD slot and audio jack. I love having a dock, it means I get to hide all the wires behind the desk, and plug the laptop into power, two screens and all the other periphera
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I don't have kids, I'm not that careful with devices myself, and we have had instances of (for instance) laptops that have fallen off a table with usb c chargers plugged in, landing on the cable end, and not breaking the port. I d
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by Nursie 11mo ago
What do you do to machines that they need a new port every couple of years?! I used to have issues with the oldeer micro-usb ports, but since USB C came along I don't think I've had a single failure.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> In Australia, 35 year mortgages are normal, Are they? I was under the impressions that 25-30 was normal now. > $1700 per month pays off a $350k loan in 17 years, does it not? Noooo. Have a play with this Australian mortgage calculat
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by Nursie 11mo ago
The essay was a thought experiment based around the popularity of the so-called "sharing economy" at the time, not a WEF strategy document and certainly no government's policy. Even the author of the piece said it was not a d
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I’m in my late 40s. I know what a Labubu is. Trust me, it’s over :)
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Wow, are we already in a world where we can say "Most people who develop AI psychosis..." because there are now enough of them to draw meaningful conclusions from? I'm not criticising your comment by the way, that just feels
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I don't think people in these cities want to legalise fentanyl. That's a strawman. They may want to decriminalise it and treat it as a health problem because empirically this has been shown to actually make a difference in outcome
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> just search for countries by gdp/debt %. It's been just incresing for decades, that is not sustanaible This is an idealogical argument more than a factual one. It certainly appears to be sustainable. Step back from the gdp&#x
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by Nursie 11mo ago
This has been a refrain of the political right for several decades now, particularly in the US, and appears to be ideological rather than factual.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I’m not sure who hurt you but I find this outburst a little unnecessary, especially as I’m exploring arguments rather than making assertions on one side or other. > we all know that this is not what happens in the vast majority of cases.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
I honestly don’t know, perhaps find some to ask. To me that looks far too much like government overreach and interference. Not that government overreach or interference is anything but fashionable these days. As others have said as well - p
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by Nursie 11mo ago
The problem with that view is that it’s not the children’s fault, and the cap punishes them and messes with their life chances because of decisions made by someone else. If there are kids going hungry, that’s somewhere you usually want the
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> Google Maps has heavily censored their Street View in Germany to scrub any personal info I remember when this first launched in the UK, automated face-scrubbing was in place. It was about 90% accurate on scrubbing faces from pictures.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
That seems a little bit of an odd interpretation to me. Persuasion is honest. "Hey, I think you should do this thing because of reasons a, b, and c, there are some downsides like y and z. It may mean something to me peronally, so I may
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by Nursie 11mo ago
> I’m curious how you accidentally or unintentionally become friends with someone Really? My most enduring friendships seem to just sorta happen, meeting people at random in various ways, figuring out you're into a lot of the same s
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by Nursie 11mo ago
Good for you, totally valid choice. I'm not saying you shouldn't use what you want, or even that Mac is best (or even that mac is best for me!) I'm only taking you to task on the "locked down" assertion.
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by Nursie 11mo ago
You've probably also heard of 3,4-Methylenedioxy-N-methylamphetamine, though its abbreviated name (MDMA) is likely more familiar. It's a huuuuuge family of substances though, particularly if you go one step more generic and start
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by Nursie 11mo ago
OK, so this seems like a list of gripes about MacOS. It's absolutely fine to have personal preferences on UX, customisability etc. This is why I swore off GNOME at the Gnome 3 transition and have never looked back, for example. If it d
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by Nursie 1y ago
Sure, it's definitely nice to have a consistent env, no particular argument there. It's more "where are the barriers/locks?" that I was interested in
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by Nursie 1y ago
> M1 macbook is a locked down Sure, iOS is certainly restrictive, fully locked-down, app store only etc etc, and I'd love a full-fat firefox with its plugin system available on my phone. But what are you doing on a non-Mac laptop th
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by Nursie 1y ago
There are a few games that support couch coop, but you’re right it’s not very well supported any more. We enjoyed Split Fiction and It Takes Two recently, but those are quite couple-y. And Blue Prince is very playable as a group effort. The
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by Nursie 1y ago
> Namco had a patent on the idea of "a minigame playable during a loading screen". When does that date from? Because I remember playing "Invade-a-load" on the C64 in the 80s, while waiting for (I think) Slimey's

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