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it’d make some amount of sense if they were actually inconvenienced but i’m still not understanding the inconvenience tbh

oh yeah totally! i’m in vic too :)

i mean management of the grid to a centralised location IMO is always going to be a bigger cost, which would likely mitigate some efficiency gains from installing solar en masse by a utility

i can see the “more economical” argument, but it also plays right into the hands of commercial interests… rooftop solar doesn’t allow rent seeking unlike utility solar, which at least makes me question the argument

i’m not sure if you add management overheads (including grid management) and ROI on top of everything that it’d end up more economical, so IMO it’s really a toss up, and in that case i’d lean towards the non-rent-seeking option

if in doubt, invest in yourself; don’t rent your life and all that

yeah kinda… you can get private health (but it’s muuuuch cheaper than the US; eg i pay $1200/qtr which is about $800USD/qtr) and over a certain tax level if you don’t have PHI you pay a medicare levy so it becomes more cost effective to have PHI than not

PHI often gives you things like better food in hospitals, private room, cheap/free glasses, better mental health support, massage etc… the stuff that medicare pays for like surgery, doctors visits etc your PHI doesn’t pay for

medicare keeps you alive and healthy, PHI makes things comfier

and i think this is where the conflicting information comes from. i’m australian, but we have similar conversations about our medical system: it’s not that it’s bad, it’s that there can be improvements and since it’s a government system it becomes political so it seems like there’s a lot of fighting, so clearly there must be big problems!

… but the thing is, it’s sooooo much better than private medical: the visibility of the problems is a feature, not a bug. we’re discussing how to improve the system; not how to make it not shit

there are some downsides (eg if you have a boat load of money in private you can probably get whatever you like whenever you like) but overall public health literally saves lives… economic stress factoring into health decisions is such a weird thing

basically the exact same thing than happens in every country with similar systems :( why does the right ruin everything good in the world?

this is the way

i believe the current policy is to force people to pay in rubles

afaik the edges of your vision are better at picking up movement too (for “seeing out of the corner of your eye” kinda things), so it’s possible that while you’re trying to make out specific things by looking directly at them, you’re missing the parts of your eye that can make out the higher FPS?

just a guess though

adopt new rules? they don’t even follow the ones they’ve got already!

and years later the image in people’s head of people who used google glass didn’t change a bit

what apple offer is on no iphone ever has anyone had to worry about how much RAM their phone has… its literally irrelevant: it could be 100Gb, or it could be 1Gb for all i care… its just not something that needs thinking about

i just default to they/them for everyone unless i know for sure… nobody has ever been annoyed about it, and nobody has ever felt misgendered

yeah… you can’t publish a “the best” list like this that doesn’t include the most popular/well-know options without at least writing a little bit about why not those alternatives

to me, it feels a little less like a “the best” and more a “the best that happens to be developed in a reasonable OSS-friendly fashion”

automatic auto fill is where your u/p is filled when you load the page with no interaction required

requiring an interaction to fill the u/p means you expect there to be a login box to fill, which can mitigate certain kinds of compromise

Any law you can use can be used by your opponents

well GOOD! anyone who rallies a mob to overthrow the democratically elected government should never be allowed to run for office again

this isn’t a “sides” issue… it’s irrelevant which “side” someone’s on

holding public office doesn’t, and shouldn’t have the same bar as convicting someone… this isn’t restricting individual freedoms; this is about the leader of the most powerful country on earth

i will never understand the US’s obsession with “consistent” housing

i use Every Door on ios… its UI is hideous, but very functional

in still pretty new to it all though so it might not be great… better than go map for edits though

i’m not sure if that makes it worse (because the headline is now knowingly misleading) or better (because at least they provided the correct information)

thanks for the info regardless! i didn’t read it because there’s no way im clicking through to murdoch BS