Staple_Diet @ Staple_Diet @aussie.zone

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Microsoft upped the Gamepass price on the basis that it would allow for bigger titles. Honestly I think they are delivering on that with Starfield and Forza Motorsport amongst others. EA Play inclusion also adds value as does having the 2 out of the 3 most recent AC chapters. Ubisoft + can go suck a dick though, I want Valhalla and eventually Mirage on Gamepass.

I'll get downvoted into the ground, but right now, Brave with shields up + privacy badger is the only browser I can run with javascript enabled that does a half decent job at anonymizing my fingerprint, verifiable by https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

DuckDuckGo does this out of the box.

Safari + Privacy Badger too (I use Safari as my work related browser).

But if Brave works for you then that's cool.

I worked in Community Mental Health in Sydney for 5 years. During that time a number of people were killed whilst experiencing psychotic episodes, thankfully none of my own clients. Colleagues had to brief police on how to respond, they were dumbfounded at the ignorance and blatant disregard.

I would never call Police if a family member was going through a similar psychological event. Do whatever you can to handle it yourself before introducing jumpy idiots with firearms to the situation.

No, he left a certification board that brought in policies such as 10yr recertification. This kind of thing isn't uncommon amongst specialties and professions, with fracturing societies and groups. His licence is governed by the State.

Bro, it's on YT FFS. Just rip it from there.

https://youtu.be/PB5krSvFAPY

Yeah I know man, just the first thing I think of when people mention sleeping on a Greyhound.

If you ever have to do this buy yourself lots of benadryl and just sleep as much as possible.

Err, nah fuck that; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Tim_McLean#:~:text=On%2030%20July%202008%2C%20Tim,of%20Portage%20la%20Prairie%2C%20Manitoba.

According to witnesses, McLean was sleeping with his headphones on when the man sitting next to him suddenly produced a large knife and began stabbing him in the neck and chest. After the attack began, the bus driver pulled to the side of the road, and he and all the other passengers fled the vehicle. The driver and two other men made an attempt to rescue McLean, but were chased away by Li, who slashed at them from behind the locked bus doors. Li ultimately decapitated McLean and displayed his severed head to those standing outside the bus, then returned to McLean's body and began severing other parts and consuming some of McLean's flesh.

Yeah nah I got that. I understand they describe a deal that most likely at the upper end for most working Americans, but still below the minimum guarantees in EU and ANZ.

Mainly relates to eBooks now;

https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/here-is-a-breakdown-of-how-much-libraries-pay-for-ebooks-from-publishers

Edit; found a good summary.

Libraries pay more for books than a customer would at retail.

There are different payment models libraries use. And not all options may be available to all authors.

The one-copy method pays for the book up front, while the cost-per-checkout method pays a small amount each time (and can be more profitable in the long run).

With the one-copy method, libraries often pay two or three times the retail cost of a print book—and sometimes even more than triple the retail price of an ebook.

With the pay-per-use model, a book makes an amount less than the retail cost—but each time it’s “checked out,” the author gets royalties. If a lot of people read your book, you win!

Source; https://danieljtortora.com/blog/are-libraries-good-for-authors#:~:text=With%20the%20one%2Dcopy%20method,%2C%E2%80%9D%20the%20author%20gets%20royalties.

I don't tend to agree. A similar sentence could be; "Owner of Maserati found drunk in river charged with disorderly conduct." Similar structure but less confusing because the Maserati can't be drunk so the statement re charges must relate to the owner. In the present headline the "locked in barn" could equally relate to both parents or children, it is only the fact that child negligence is mentioned that you can surmise that the kids were the ones locked in. Grammatically, the sentence could be better as I write above.

It's a confusing headline that forces the reader to consider context.

A better headline would have been;

Adoptive parents facing felony child neglect charges after 2 children found locked inside a barn in West Virginia, authorities say.

Even by Australian standards that is still pretty good, except it's generally 20-30 days annual leave here in any permanent FT job and 10-15 sick days, some of which is already accrued at beginning of employment.

Are those Haribo gummy bears, fuck yeah, score!

This is the logic publishers apply to libraries when they charge them more for books than general retail price.

Reminds me of the partner of a US intelligence member who hit and killed a man in the UK and saw no repercussions. Vehicular manslaughter is becoming a top 10 US export.

I find YT Pro to be more polished. It uses MicroG and is closed source which can put some people off, but I've had nil issues.

Awesome, I've been running SmartTube on a Sony Android TV for a bit. Works really well, almost seamless. Regular updates appear via the Telegram chat too. SmartTube coupled with YT Pro for phone is a perfect combination.

Right, so I know seals are descended from bears, but narwhals being cetaceans are more hippo like? So do we refer to narwhal meat using the same nomenclature as say beef, or is it it's own thing?

Any reason for playdate vs a Miyoo or Anbernic system?

How to Invent Everything is a good, humorous take on restarting society from first principles. It's obviously not aimed at what you are going for but it has plenty of good information on all of those topics. Next search for Military manuals.

I would also recommend attending some courses if you haven't done so already. It is great to research this topic, but many of those points you list require skill acquisition that can only be learned out field.