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Conversely, I'm so opposed to the enshitification that I've carefully tailored my internet usage to places that aren't shit and have no prospect of becoming shit, like Lemmy. Since I don't even have the motivation of not supporting an evil company, I'm more addicted that ever.

That would be regulation of the banks. I believe the OCR is simply the interest rate that the banks can borrow money from the reserve bank. The banks can lend out money at whatever rate they want, it's just market forces that keep their rate at around the OCR.

In the current system of free market capitalism the banks have to be free to leech as much profit as possible from the people, no equitable regulation allowed.

There's no issue with driving whatever on private property. But driving a professional vehicle on public roads should require a professional license.

What is the Q movie?

Hello. It's the only walking and cycling route through a densly populated(by rural NZ standards) area. It's also a very busy road that can be a pain to turn on and off. I'd rather they built a shared path, improved the busy intersections as they are doing, and left it at 100. But in the absense of that, this is an improvement.

So being enthusiastic to see the Barbie movie is a red flag for you. That doesn't make sense to me, but hey, I hope you find love in someone that shares your movie preferences.

I know, it's a misleading political statement, like the rest of the survey.

Refusing to see a movie their partner wants to see with them is a sensible red flag. I think it would be higher if it was phrased generally rather than specifically about Barbie.

In New Zealand, neoliberalisim was introduced by the center left Labour party.

Spaghetti is the hardest pasta to cook. You have to keep stirring it to ensure it doesn't clump together, but you can't stir it too hard or it breaks apart.

Star Wars despecialized edition.

In 1997 George Lucas updated the original trilogy with new special effects, and every release since then has been the new special edition.

Fans have gone through a painstaking archival effort to track down the "despecialized" original release in as high quality as possible.

It's not uncommon to speed, drink drive, etc, that doesn't mean those things are right. There's all sorts of obstacles that might end up on a regular road that you should be able to stop for. Fallen rocks, fallen trees, pedestrians, cyclists, parked cars, traffic tailbacks.

And remember, the bridge did have warnings, which happened to be removed by vandals. That's not the city's fault.

Browsers themselves are easy to make.

What makes you say this? There are only 2 fully featured browsers, Chromium and Firefox. Anything else isn't a viable alternative even if we compare stock to stock.

$180 for a new 4TB USB SSD? Hard drives are becoming pointless.

Who wants to outlaw delivery vans?

Between power, hardware, and harddrives, an *arr stack works out more expensive than this unless you self host a bunch of other services. I self host because it's a fun hobby, not to save money.

Why not both? Unfortunately you have to keep living in the broken system while trying to fix the broken system

That's always been the way with Apple. If you fit into the 0.1% of users that can make use of their products, it's good value. If you don't, it's bad value and so locked down there's nothing you can do about it. Most people don't need what Apple is offering, yet buy it anyway. That's the part I don't get.

I'm not sure why anyone expected Uber to stay cheap. It's got the same costs as a traditional taxi, a car and a driver, so it's priced similarly to a traditional taxi.