Whirlybird @ Whirlybird @aussie.zone

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The subs deal has always been insanely stupid. It’s like when we spent like $10bil on a few fighter jets a while back - if China came knocking looking for an invasion, having 6 subs and a few dozen fighter jets may as well be a few mosquitos buzzing around chinas ears. Completely pointless.

No one is coming to invade Australia. We’re too far away, too barren, and we already give away all of our resources for almost free to anyone who asks.

Our military strategy should be “yeah nah she’ll be right” because we have nothing to worry about in terms of an army from another country pushing a full scale invasion.

Our bigger issue is that we are currently just welcoming in immigrants from anywhere in record numbers, and have been selling all of our land and assets to China and other countries for decades. We’ve imported ~20% of our population in the last 5 years, mostly from China and the Middle East. You know, 2 of the 3 places that are the most likely to invade/start a war with anyone, alongside Russia. Our government is essentially selling our country out as it is with welcoming arms, so there is no need for any military invasion.

It was this, it wasn’t just that more people were home more.

Covid didn’t make people pirate, the studios did. When it was just Netflix and it had everything and it was a reasonable price, piracy went down because Netflix was easier, affordable, and a “fair” price.

Then every studio started taking their stuff off Netflix so they could make their own streaming service, and all of a sudden the streaming world became a very expensive spiderweb of who makes what, what service is it on in my country, is every season on there if it’s a show, etc.

Then everyone just started raising prices like crazy so you’re paying significantly more every single year (sometimes multiple times a year), while giving you less content. It was a match made in heaven for piracy to explode once again.

People appreciated affordable, reasonably priced access to movies and content via Netflix. That was taken away. No surprise what happened next.

Most people aren't born into homelessness and never escape it. Most homeless people have ID and are registered to vote long before they become homeless.

but for some people it’s an insurmountable barrier

Literally never true.

Why can’t homeless people vote?

Or, get this - if you want a switch 2, buy a switch 2 if you can afford it.

But most of these “consumer hostile” things aren’t really “consumer hostile” though. They’re just “not giving away stuff for free”.

By that reasoning, literally everything that requires the consumer to pay is “consumer hostile”.

What are these “consumer hostile” things specifically?

The whole “vulnerable people” line is complete bullshit lol.

And you couldn’t buy the game digitally either if that’s the case.

What you can do is continue playing your copy that you already have.

Lots of missing info in that story. You can’t just carry someone’s ashes into the USA. It doesn’t sound like he went through the correct processes to do that, which is a huge biological hazard risk and that alone would be enough to deny entry.

If voter fraud isn’t a real problem then you should have no issue making sure it can’t happen.

If you want a fully digital copy just buy the digital copy. Those aren’t going anywhere.

These ones are for games that were sold at retail, in a box, but just had a digital code that made it no different to buying the game digitally. They had no reason to exist. Now they do. They give these games some of the benefits of physical copies.

They don’t stop working once servers are shut down btw. 100% false. You only ever need an internet connection the first time you run the game after downloading it. Source: Nintendo directly:

https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/68415/~/nintendo-switch%26nbsp%3B2-game-key-card-overview

An internet connection is only required when you launch the game for the first time. After this, the game can be started even without an internet connection.

User error. Pretty much every AI tool says that you should not trust what it says and that you should check everything yourself.

Also while this cost him $2000, how much did he save by having AI do all the work? If he saved more than $2k then it’s still a net positive.

The article in this topic? She never went to America! Some random unnamed lawyer said she could maybe possibly run into some trouble lol.

She didn’t get denied entry, sent back, or thrown in the gulag.

I’m sorry but “voter suppression” isn’t a thing, especially when something as logical and simple as “have ID to prove you have the right to vote” is constantly called “voter suppression”.

Sorry I legitimately took that as you thinking that stick drift could be “fixed” by calibrating the controller, as in the controller would be back to normal.

Yeah you can do a workaround to at least stop the games from registering the drift as input, but I think if you suggest that then you need to make sure people are aware of the loss in precision and that it will make the stick feel unresponsive.

Taking my downvote away.

It’s less of a vote against your own interests than literally voting against your own interests. Less votes means each vote has more power.

Lots and LOTS of people only vote because they have to, and they vote for whoever lies the best.

If they didn’t have to vote they wouldn’t, and the major parties would lose a LOT of votes, which is what needs to happen. We need independents to actually have a chance.

Can’t read a single line without signing up.