Ilandar @ Ilandar @lemmy.today

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I think it's mostly a combination of a Apple pushing it + people having a singular bad experience with the fingerprint reader on some cheap/old phone and assuming all fingerprint readers are like that.

Victim blaming? What are you, a misogynist?

Err, these boys aren't being taught Misogyny 101 in the classroom...the female teachers are often the victims here. Asking them to solve this problem is delusional.

a school teacher needs 4-6 years worth of higher education to be eligible to teach meaning a school teacher is more likely to come from a wealthier, more conservative background

Most Australian university students have their study 100% funded upfront by the Australian government and only pay it back over time if they earn above a minimum threshold, so the connection between socioeconomic background and university education isn't as strong as in the US (though it definitely still exists).

I know it's almost exclusively negative experiences here, but I do think it depends heavily on the student and their teachers as to whether that type of coursework is appealing. Personally I devoured English throughout high school, it was my favourite subject by far and the only one in Year 12 where I felt empowered, confident and challenged myself. It really established my ability to think deeply about complex issues and articulate my arguments with more clarity (and listen to and engage with those of others), which are some of the most widely applicable and useful life skills I learned in school.

It's better to read the study rather than the article written about it. The study isn't much longer, is easy to read (not written at an academic level of English) and has a lot of graphs and images to help convey the key information.

What happened to Gen X men? That gap is massive, their numbers are nearly as low Gen Z men.

Yeah, it's so dumb. But even if we were to entertain this idea that China is a major threat, the nations we should be discussing this with our neighbours in Southeast Asia, who are in the same position and know a lot more about living alongside China than random white Europeans. Angocentrism in the media means we rarely hear those perspectives, unfortunately.

Having an iPhone in my age and country is a kind of privilege, i can’t forget how my high school classmates looked at me while holding it

Peak teenager right here.

We don't need mandatory military training, but perhaps a more general form of mandatory national service could be useful. Australia is big country that will suffer from increasingly worse natural disasters in the years to come. Having a large pool of young, fit people on hand at all times to offer assistance to communities in need could have a positive difference and presumably some of them would be interested in a career in Defence after that experience.

I'm sure many people play third party games on their Switch (as do I) but that wasn't the question I was asking. The deleted message was along the lines of "buy a Steam Deck, it's better for everything except first party games", so I wanted to know if they specifically bought it to play third party games.

Moronic article and argument. Last time I checked Taiwan was not Australia and we did not share a land border with China. We have also never been historically invaded by China. I'm getting really fucking sick of this constant framing of China as a direct military threat to Australia; the only reality in which that is the case is the one we go out of our way to create.

There's no reason to sign up for DuckDuckGo's service, since OP already uses Proton (which owns SimpleLogin). It would just be unnecessarily increasing their footprint.

I know there's definitely no lions at Adelaide Zoo, because it chose to kill its last one after her mate died.

Do you really buy Nintendo consoles for something other than first party Nintendo games? Why?

Big Room is slower than 90s Trance, usually more around the 126 - 130 BPM mark (old school Trance is more in the mid-to-high 130s, sometimes up to 142 BPM). In Big Room there are usually other elements tied directly to the kick as well, like snares, claps, hats or the bass which gives it a "jumpy" kind of feel. If you were to compare it to an older genre, it's a lot closer to something like Hands Up or Jumpstyle which are also a big jumping genres (also think classic Eurodance like Basshunter). Designed for festivals and raves or anywhere you have tons of people packed in a tight area where they can only move vertically.

Aside from generally being faster, Trance also has a lot more complexity which means there is a lot more variety in how you can dance to it. There are extended breakdowns and slower build-ups, which is where the name comes from (people feel like they're in a trance). Swaying, hand movements like gloving, and Tecktonik are some of the other common ways people dance to Trance subgenres. Trance and its subgenres are much more underground and niche than House and its subgenres though, which I suspect is due to the complexity and tempo making it more challenging and individualistic to dance to (some people feel more self-conscious to dance in their own unique way). Stuff like Big Room is super accessible because the structure is short and basic and it's built around very friendly "drops" after which everyone can just jump up and down together, which I think is another reason why it has that Saturday night mainstream club popularity.

There is of course overlap between House and Trance since they are both four-on-the-floor genres and they both have tons of subgenres, some of which blend elements of both. For example, Progressive Trance is a similar tempo to House but retains the complexity and melodic structuring of Trance. In the 2010s there was also this subgenre called "Progressive House", which had nothing to do with the more traditional Progressive House and was more like a predecessor to Big Room. "Progressive House" had some more Trance elements like atmospheric (but shorter) breakdowns and big uplifting synth leads, but it was still very much a House subgenre.

Anyway, subgenres of electronic dance music can get quite messy and there is often a lot of blending and overlap which means it's often up to the individual how they want to define a particular track. In the case of Big Room and 90s Trance, however, there are so many major differences that they live quite firmly in their own distinct categories.

I only go to raves and specific artist/label events these days, so I'm not too sure what's happening in mainstream clubs on a Saturday night. In my experience, the dance floor is always full later in the night and people are enjoying the music and having fun. Interesting to note that one guy quoted in the article complained about people "just jumping" instead of dancing - that's the result of genre trends in electronic music, not social media or smartphones changing our behaviour. The more popular mainstream club genres for at least the last decade have been house sub-genres like Big Room that are festival-friendly and designed to be jumped to.

Sure, it's a fun thought bubble. I'm still not convinced it's anything more than that at the moment (and the abysmal sales appear to back that up). Apple's hesitance to enter the market also speaks volumes.

That concept doesn't seem to appeal to anyone beyond the stereotypical "gadget geek" influencers on YouTube, who in some cases aren't even paying for these devices. Most people don't work on their phones, nor do they want to. Most people also don't have the time or the need for a larger screen that they can carry around everywhere. If they want to use a larger touchscreen device, for common use cases like watching videos or drawing, they want to be doing it for longer periods in a relaxed environment. In which case, there is no reason to buy one of these expensive folding phones over a tablet with a usable aspect ratio and a vastly superior screen that doesn't have a giant crease down the middle.