gazter @ gazter @aussie.zone

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I never knew prescriptions were country dependent- What differs?

My response is similar, usually the good old 'Do you shut the door when you shit?'.

When we start getting specific, I'll often try and frame data harvesting in a much more visceral way. If they say they don't care that xyz keeps track of everyone they talk to, I ask them to imagine an actual person standing behind them, making notes on a clipboard about every interaction they have with someone, and how that would make them feel.

You could get your thermostat checked. Depending on the stove, it's something you could probably do yourself. It's like a ten dollar part, maybe?

I don't think any of the climbers I know would call it an adrenaline sport. It's slow, considered, thoughtful. It certainly gets a high sometimes, pun intended, but it's much more akin to a runners high or the elation of finishing a difficult task well.

I agree there is an obfuscation of what is happening under the hood in Windows and Mac systems- but that doesn't stop the tech savvy from digging a bit further. I played around with resource files back in my System 6, 7, and 8 days, and got pretty comfortable with registry edits from Windows 95 onwards.

I think it's more that Linux only appeals to the tech savvy, precisely because of the lack of that obfuscation layer.

I always squeeze some lime and grind black pepper on my watermelon. It's great!

I can't imagine this working as well with anything other than poached, but I can confirm it's a winner like that. It's a more 'even' substitute for salt, I guess?

50/50 Guinness and cola. It's called a Black Velvet and is indulgent and lovely.

Check out the local gym anyway- you'd be surprised how many people are there packing a bit of extra weight. There's also a high likelihood they'll have some basic gym equipment, so you get a bit of a two-for-one deal in that regard. It's also way easier to meet and chat with people than your typical gym.

My pet peeve is people cycling with a helmet but not doing it up. It's so blatantly stupid- you get none of the benefits, and all of the negatives.

Ok I lost respect for you when you said 'reading and righting' but that line right there gained it all back and then some, well done!

Cycling helmets should not be mandated. If someone is dumb enough to cycle without one, that's on them.

I believe significantly more people would cycle if helmets were not required by law.

The natural extension of this is that everyone should live in one big megacity. Is this what you want?

Formula 1 races average about 200kph, with a top speed of 375. These are the best of the best professionally trained drivers in multimillion dollar equipment tailored to them and designed to keep them (and others) safe at those speeds.

300km/h on the highway is essentially suicide by stupidity, not to mention manslaughter for whoever you hit. You are travelling fast enough that you literally don't have time to react to something several hundred metres in front of you.

150 is really fast, 200 is stupid fast, and 300 is really fucking stupid fast.

Forgive me.

Legitimate question... Why?

This template was going around a lot of instances, then when it got moderated out of existence, shifted to direct messages.

My understanding is that cookies were generally just used as a fingerprint- it's just a unique ID that is used to tie your device to their database, which is where the information is kept.

You don't necessarily need to get two straight away, though. If you've been a couple times and used the hire shoes, sweet. You're getting into it, you reckon you'll probably keep going, time to buy some shoes. I'd actually advise against it. Climbing shoe rubber varies from soft to really bloody soft, and you dragging it all over the wall wears it through really quick.

So I'd suggest spending quite a few sessions in those hire shoes, really focusing on your footwork. When you can confidently stick your feet first go while climbing, and not have to adjust your feet constantly, you're ready for your own shoes. Shred someone else's until you are confident you can make yours last.

I understand you are trying to simplify things, and I appreciate that we, a hobbyists, need to do this to open up the field to more people. Accessibility is a great thing, but we do need to make sure that potential Roemann examples are prevented from establishing themselves in the governors ethos. There's a whole lot to VX, and if people are using j-discs and their induction coefficient inverts due to misalignment of the rotorcore (or, god forbid, any of the main encapsulated rails), they're going to have a bad time. Simple is good, but paradoxically, you need to have a thorough understanding of the more complex parts of this hobby before you can simplify it. The hunchback that taught me went through seventeen flange coupling cycles before they were even allowed to touch the resonance spectroscopy imaging chamber, even at the low end of hypersonic capture waves. To this day, they are still cautious when trying to simplify the pressure transducer startup sequence- and they're using the more modern Reeistack implementation. Safety first, people. Understand what you're messing with, because stray glycemic bonded couplings will absolutely kill you.