Perenti

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by Perenti 2y ago
Vaping is safer, but calling it a "life-saving habit" is a stretch. Your logic is the same as "picking up a rattlesnake is OK because it's not as deadly as a taipan".
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by Perenti 2y ago
Here in Oz the banning of disposable nicotine vapes has led to an increase in organised crime activity. Schoolkids are getting the vapes without any problems. Great idea, but poorly implemented. I'll be interested to see Belgium avoid
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by Perenti 2y ago
Firefox 133 no play now button at all. only "sign up" and "log in".
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by Perenti 2y ago
No. There is no such button on my Firefox. Nor anything about who wrote this, what it is, or what it does. Lots of social media "invite" type things though.
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by Perenti 2y ago
No "Play now" button on Firefox for me, only "Sign up" and "Log in". No corporate webpages, only anti-social media links to invite people. No "FAQ", "About" etc links. Not human friendly.
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by Perenti 2y ago
Sorry, but if I can't see what it's about without an account I don't want to know.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I feel doubtful about this article. They claim that the man-o-war is the largest colonial organisms, but there are HUGE siphonophores that are 100m long.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I find it interesting that the vast majority of comments seem to focus on race and politics, and only one that I noticed that mentions social media and phones as possible factors.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I'm quite ignorant about my phone. I struggle to send someone a photo with it. Every time I have to interact with android for anything trickier than making a phone call or sending a text I just end up angry and frustrated. I don&#x27
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by Perenti 2y ago
The way to give this teeth is for any proposed law to charge the parent or guardian of social networking children, as well as the social networking site. Once it hits the parents' pockets they'll start to get involved in their ki
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by Perenti 2y ago
13-15 is when the brain is driven mostly by hormones, not thought. It's worst at 14. 14 is NOT the age to let teens off their leash.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I'm one of those people who find maths really easy. I've also had extensive experience working in mathematics education, from primary to tertiary levels. I've even written policy for our state education department. You are
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by Perenti 2y ago
Two of my housemates have just bought new iPhone 16 Pro and ProMax. Between them, and associated accessories, it's cost them over AUD$5k. My phone is a cheap android, and cost AUD$290. I can't see where they get 10 times the val
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by Perenti 2y ago
The original Conan story is set in the 4th century, but the earliest stories date from the 12th century. He settled Brittany/Armorica whilst fighting for the usurper Emporer Magnus Maximus. His name seems to relate to Conan the Barbari
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by Perenti 2y ago
ACE of 8, IQ 170+, did absurdly well at High School. Am diagnosed ASD (at 50 years old) , have a psych friend say I'm ADHD but untestable. I've had incredible highs (University Medal for example) in between various crises. My li
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by Perenti 2y ago
I struggle with ripeness, I'm deuteroanomalous, and on the green/red dimension I can really stuff it up with some fruits.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I've noticed I'm far more likely to try to eat underripe fruit and veg than the non-colourblind majority. This is probably due to my lower sensitivity to green, and how brown/red gets mixed up with green. There's only a
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by Perenti 2y ago
It would be a nice change to see people walking around with their organs out, rather than laying in the gutter or the bottle shop car-park.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I did, as a kid. Blew up the kitchen. Got good at home chemistry. Still do at times, but it's much harder to get the good stuff, like KNO3.
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by Perenti 2y ago
The quoted size is when contracted. They often exceed 2m or more.
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by Perenti 2y ago
Variance in Science is the square of the standard deviation. Since you are talking about a scientific issue, and discussing measurements, and since you claim to have a BSc it is reasonable to expect the word to be used in a technical conte
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by Perenti 2y ago
You have a BSc, but you use the word "variance" describing Melbourne weather. Variance is a statistical measure, which you _surely_ met in your degree. What you observe in Melbourne is variation, which is a different matter all
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by Perenti 2y ago
Comparing Melbourne's weather to global patterns is a stretch. For non-Australians, Melbourne weather is the subject of the song "Four seasons in one day".
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by Perenti 2y ago
Here in Brisbane we get wicked humidity, which means that even 27C can be disgusting. As a child I lived in the Wimmera, which is quite dry, and 35C was nice.
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by Perenti 2y ago
There's a few 'kinds' of red-green colorblind as I understand it. It has to do with whether you're missing a type of cone, or whether the frequency response of a cone type is shifted. I knew someone who had never exper
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by Perenti 2y ago
I'm deuteroanomalous, and I got 165 - greener than 94%. Turquoise is blue (well yeah, it always has been!). People often tell me things are green that clearly are not, so I'm wondering what this means. Does the "165, which
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by Perenti 2y ago
Living with neuropathy of the right brachial plexus, I find that dvorak hurts me less as there's a lot less movement.
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by Perenti 2y ago
I don't understand how Dvorak is supposed to be hard to learn. It took me 2 months to get from "where are the letters" to being able to touch type faster than I previously could. From the start you're typing words, not
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by Perenti 2y ago
Oh boy, so familiar. I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, which is another CNS sensitised pain syndrome. "localised" for CRPS is usually a whole limb though. It's hard to explain how fully mind-consuming neuropathy is, a
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by Perenti 2y ago
With increasing global temperatures, increasing numbers of people are vulnerable to heat related illness. In my case, whenever it's above 36C I have a significantly higher chance of sudden death (Brugada Syndrome), so I hide from heatw

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