sqgl @ sqgl @beehaw.org

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But the Australian eSafety Commissioner isn't giving up her "won't someone think of the children" rhetoric.

And good news in Australia (despite the disingenuous headline).

News today: vote has been postponed.

My admin friend told me that all email is now secure and encrypted by default.

Of course you have to trust whoever is hosting your email though. Don't trust Gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc

They sing in a higher pitch (more annoying to humans?) to compensate for urban noise.

Selfish people don't care about those factors. The existing graph has a better chance of swaying them.

I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular headphones require three wires while power supply only requires two. Ingenious really.

EDIT: Proper wired headphones would also require a soundcard in the dongle.

The guy was having a funny geeky bitch. He was laughing at himself. He doesn't expect Apple to change anything.

EDIT: I think you are right, that last paragraph of his is weirdly serious. Would have been pure comedy without it.

Misleading title. He did not win the appeal.

He won the opportunity to have an appeal hearing.

It is last week's news anyhow.

Aren't ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?

Am surprised to see Australia rates highly. 40% of students don't know it takes about a year for Earth to orbit the Sun.

I would guess that half the population doesn't understand compound interest.

I would also guess only 5% could describe the scientific method, 1% could describe the use of normal distributions.

I would guess that 20% of locally born Australians would not know how to use punctuation or grammar for clear expression.

Is this a worldwide trend? The rise of flerfers suggests it is.

Trump posted that he had an "enthusiastic" audience at the Libertarian Party convention.

FACTS — Round 1 voting was:

Story Daniels 1 vote

Denali the Cat 1 vote

Sean Ono Lennon 1 vote

Christian Weston 2 votes

Art Olivier 4 votes

Donald J. Trump 6 votes

Toad 16 votes

RFK Jr 19 votes

Charles Ballay 21 votes

Jacob Hornberger 59 votes

Joshua Smith 73 votes

Lars Mapstead 122 votes

Mike Ter Maat 141 votes

Chase Oliver 181

Michael Rectenwald 259 votes

The video is great schadenfreude but a better analysis is available (RFK Jr wasn't well received by attendees either).

I prefer promotion of humility and a lifestyle which puts the emphasis on values relationships, nature, personal time etc, for instance...

In August 2020 the Chinese government launched "Operation empty plate", a campaign to stop food and beverage waste and cultivate frugality.

However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.

Because it depicts teenagers, yeah. It would have been fairer if it showed a dozen people with a more representative spread of ages. It would still skew young though.

I am Gen X, a computer scientist and often use my phone while walking.

Have often jumped on the wrong train because of my lack of attention. Not life threatening but results in extending my one hour journey by 30 minutes. But that kind of error did also happen occasionally pre-phone so at least now I have entertainment for that extra half hour :)

If it was sunny then why didn't your clothes dry? Why did you leave them overnight?