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What a silly thing to say.

I'm certain that pretty much every person in ukrain or gaza or a bunch if other places has more demonstrated bravery than Greta.

We def have pride "month" in Australia.

However, most cities have pride festivals at other times of year like my city had a bunch of events over 2 weeks in Febreuary.

IDK why it's a whole month? You're right it's unusual. We celebrate different sports for different periods of time. IDK if that counts.

People refer to "Christmas time" or "over christmas" as a vague period of several weeks. "We're going to visit mum and dad over christmas" implies a week or more.

Sure, it's true that it's often not a choice (although I don't think that's who this article is talking about).

There's a lot I could say about this. I'm an accountant and see all of my clients personal / familial financial arrangements.

Very briefly, the law takes the view that any surplus wealth produced in the course of a romantic relationship belongs to both parties. Often / usually when a relationship ends both parties need to agree on how to split it up, but it's quite common to be acting on that dynamic during the relationship and ensuring that the non-working spouse is building savings / investments in the same way that the working spouse is.

In Australia this means that if one spouse is not working and one spouse is, the working spouse might contribute to the non-working spouses pension fund (401k?)

Everyone needs a plan B I guess. Making yourself dependent on someone else is obviously not a path to independence.

Can you imagine the moaning?

I thought this was the bribe?

It doesn't even have to be so combative.

Imagine being thrown together with 99 other survivors of the apocalypse and 1 of them was musk.

There's going to be medical people and trades people and farmers and naturalists and even people with governance experience from community groups et cetera.

Imagine how utterly useless a billionaire would be in that context. Their entitlement would make them worse than useless. Like I'd rather be stuck with nanna who is just a drain on resources rather than someone who's only skill is self interest.

They're all idiots.

People that voted for Trump are idiots.

People who didn't vote for anyone are idiots.

Dems who failed to read the room are idiots.

Republicans supporting Trump are idiots.

I think Musk is his own special class of idiot though.

It's not only top soil that we're running out of. To farm you really need consistent weather patterns and we just don't seem to have that any more.

There's been a drought in the state/ province of South Australia for the last several years. Graziers are buying feed for their livestock from another state / province New South Wales. Last week there was a once-in-500-year flood in NSW, so loads of livestock there died and there certainly isn't any more feed for sale.

I guess "top soil" is one way to describe the problem but there's a variety of problems really.

I reject the premise!

There is no safe or unsafe. It's more like "more safe for a given person".

Your friend's system is better than using the same password everywhere. It's more difficult to hack than the majority of passwords that aren't generated by password managers. If that's what your friend likes and works for them well, fine I guess.

It wouldn't work for me because:

• it doesn't input the password for you. Does your friend really type passwords in all the time?
• IDK if my memory is particularly bad but having to remember anything at all is hit and miss. Like I could remember those characters that are used everywhere, but for the router at my mum and dads house that I haven't accessed in 5 years, was it "mums router" or "router mums house"
• Also I manage multiple passwords for the same sites, as in credentials for my partner or whatever, but I guess I could make variant of this system.
• also if I were to die the person who sorts out all my stuff will have access to my passwords
• but the main reason is.... I use my keepassxc db as a database for all sorts of things which aren't necessarily passwords. ssh keys are a good example. I use it for TOTP. bank card details. membership numbers and government ids. VIN numbers for vehicles. Also, a weird one, I have to keep track of about 100 physical keys for reasons, I stamp a number on them like k32 and then store that number and an explanation of what it's for in my db.

Yes.

In fact I'll go further and suggest that in the not so distant future everyone is going to happily eat insects.

I don't know much about this but my understanding is that insects are a very economical source of protein, which can be used to produce synthetic meat.

Right now my favorite sausages are probably made from mostly pig offal. You know, tongue tail and bum hole. If at some point in the future the label starts to list synthetic meat amongst the ingredients, I don't think I'll even notice.

I guess my point is, it's just a marketing thing. We already eat loads of things we might think are objectively gross (curdled mammalian excretions for example), but we don't think about it because it's just what people eat. On the spectrum of things people eat insects aren't really anywhere near the gross end.

Installing a behavior altering brain chip is not analogous to getting a vaccine.

Sorry I'm not going to engage with this type of argument.

I dislike the use of the term "cut".

If I don't buy food for my family this week can I really brag that I've cut my family budget?

Maybe, I guess it's subjective or semantics.

The article talks about mandatory as in forcible injection. You hold the kid down and put a needle in their arm. Obviously, this is not the way.

I'm suggesting that if you want to receive government benefits or want your child to participate in school then yes vaccination is "mandatory". Sure it's not much of a choice, but it captures the reality of the situation.

As a society, we can all work together for everyone's benefit. You can choose not to work together with everyone if you wish but it's not much of a choice.

A delicate issue, but again - it's a basic prerequisite for participation in contemporary society.

It would be unethical to allow an exemption on those grounds.

How so?

Bedside table.

Maybe 50 years old.

Comments of no substance on the side of popular opinion get upvotes, and waves of downvotes come for anyone who disagrees even a little, and even if they do it in a reasonable way.

Lemmy seems much worse for this than reddit TBH.

There's a number of topics about which any dissent is met with vehement derision. As in those engaging in wrong think are assholes.

I don't really know of course but I suspect it's because lemmy has a narrower demographic than reddit. Opinions are just generally more homogeneous. I guess I'm describing an echo chamber.

Exactly.

Communication with people is hard enough already without an LLM deciding what parts are important.

Idiots using LLMs to write emails to people using LLMs to summarise them. It's just slop all the way down.

this sounds great. thanks for the tip!

I think I already have pinchflat. Didn't know sponsorblock worked for podcasts. Thanks!