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I can't tell you how much nicer it is to have a hybrid or ev bus pass you as a pedestrian than a massive rumbling stinking diesel.

Voluntary assisted dying (VAD), is legal in all Australian states except the Northern Territory. It was first legalised in 2017 after over 60 failed bills.

The person must have a disease or illness that is advanced, progressive, and expected to cause death within a certain time frame, must be experiencing intolerable suffering and must meet the eligibility criteria for their state.

My state has a ‘gag law’ that prohibits medical staff initiating a conversation about voluntary assisted dying with a patient.

It's not a situation that anybody ever wants to be in, but knowing that should the worst happen, relief is possible can be a big comfort.

Yes. Although the ownership of Microsoft shares is more diffuse.

We still aren't even close to repairing all the damage from Black Saturday, let alone being at the point of 'recovery'.

I do disaster relief and our organisation is at operating at its limit to cover everything that hits us every year.

I can't imagine how our infrastructure is meant to cope with more of this happening more often.

We all know it's actually the hyperlinked text, the buttons are a lie

AWS's power makes him a defacto Techno-Feudal Lord.

I worked in advertising for over 10 years before a career change. I saw how much money was wasted on programmatic digital advertising. I'd recommend checking out the book, The Subprime Attention Crisis

Always Top 6 Hours or Top Day. Never hot. Not sure what the deal with hot is, but I agree it feels wrong.

If it was an accident, he'd probably have apologized by now. But it really doesn't matter either way. It's too late now, he's given license to the far right to see it as the endorsement they want.

I've ended up using Patreon way more now

'Targeted advertising' is shockingly untargeted. As the underpinning of our digital economy, the value of online advertising is dangerously overinflated.

And the billionaires cheered "Hurrah for the Black Shirts"

What was that story warning people that if they use RedNote they'll experience 'Chinese style censorship' for the first time?

US using the old if you can't beat em approach

There is a stream of thought that political theatre has no value on its own. I'm not sure that's true. If you can make a big hullabaloo about a few critical issues you drive the news cycle. Just look at the way the republicans weaponised Benghazi.

Dems massive failures to put on a big song and dance about the supreme court scandals of the last term is what you give up when you only go after cases you know you can win. They also failed to make any substantive efforts to enforce the law which is the other side of the equation. So I guess I'll admit that in a lot of cases you can't have one without the other.

My favourite part is "challenge" being misspelt multiple times. It's just chefs kiss

Feels like the natural result of selling off our national infrastructure. Who'd have thunk it.

They got the results of the tests back. They definitely have cancer.

One game that we always play at LANs is Spellforce III . It's got a great old school RTS vibe while throwing some new stuff in the mix and there's a free version of the multiplayer which gives it a really low barrier of entry.

They targeted gamers.

Gamers.

We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a little digital token saying we did.

We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.

We'll spend most if not all of our free time min maxing the stats of a fictional character all to draw out a single extra point of damage per second.

Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: slogging through the grind, all day, the same quests over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know evety little detail such that some have attained such gamer nirvana that they can literally play these games blindfolded.

Do these people have any idea how many controllers have been smashed, systems over heated, disks and carts destroyed 8n frustration? All to latter be referred to as bragging rights?

These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They take our media? We're already building a new one without them. They take our devs? Gamers aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even making the games our selves. They think calling us racist, mysoginistic, rape apologists is going to change us? We've been called worse things by prepubescent 10 year olds with a shitty head set. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with big brothers/sisters and friends laughing at how pathetic we used to be that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.

Gamers are competative, hard core, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another boss fight.