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- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
Yes, you can choose to lay out your wishes. Many do, just like opt in or opt out organ donation. However, if you don’t lay out your wishes, you will still end up buried or cremated or something similar without consent.
I’m not saying that’s wrong. We can’t just leave dead bodies where they lie. It also provides comfort to families to practice burial rites. My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with some odors body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference? If they care that much, will they just opt out?
I know some countries, they used to let you specify which organs, but then people opted out of eyes. So they removed the option and it was just donor or not. People still consented, without opting out of eyes. Is that better, or is that manipulating consent?
- Comment on Oopsies 1 week ago:
We don’t get their consent to be buried or cremated or whatever else people do with the remaining bodies of their loved ones. It’s just opt out. Why should organ donation, which provides a societal and personal benefit be different?
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
I’m not an admin but don’t they keep changing them so that you can’t prevent these updates with group policy alone.
- Comment on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu says he and Donald Trump 'see eye to eye' on Iran 1 week ago:
He doesn’t abandon them. He was never with them. He is only for himself and expects loyalty but never offers it.
It’s crazy how many people have been suckered in with the hope of riches, only to have their lives destroyed.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 1 week ago:
Which is likely why they are not bothering to fix it.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 1 week ago:
We’re the same people that attacked the taxi and the flag the same people who were attacked? If they were the same people, it’s anti dickehead behaviour. If it’s other supporters, connected only by their nationality, then calling it antisemitism is not a stretch.
- Comment on Who was our worst Prime Minister and why? Any notable state leaders we need to add? 2 weeks ago:
Albo is less honest than we’d all like, but scomo hasn’t told a truth in his lifetime.
- Comment on A box of Cadbury's Favourites reveals a lot about the 'high-low' cycles of supermarket pricing 3 weeks ago:
I wonder if its less about habit forming as the article supposes, to lock consumers into shopping at one or the other, and more about confusing consumers. If both discount in an alternating fashion, consumers are not benefitting by going to one or the other regularly. They only benefit if they plan their spend across both but that becomes too time consuming. It might be more about keeping pricing much more fluid. If the price is always different, there is no usual price. Its hard to price compare and less likely for price rises to he noticed as consumers can’t possibly track all prices of all products.
- Comment on Friday Night 3 weeks ago:
Husband was tired so I just vegged out with TV. I’ve gotten hooked on the traitors. Trash reality tv, but the best of the trash. Its thought provoking about the psychology of honesty and betrayal and group think and leadership, while still being an easy soapy watch.
- Comment on Australia's prime minister rejects China's claims that his country is rife with 'racism and hate crimes' 3 weeks ago:
Facing it? Most people dont even recognise it.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 4 weeks ago:
Damn right, let’s throw it at Farage.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 weeks ago:
Yes, which existed at the time but was not a commonly used phrase. I dont know that it had even been coined by that point.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 5 weeks ago:
I’ve already switched to Firefox. It makes me a little sad that I moved to chrome in the first place. Back then google seemed to care about improving the web experience and moving to open standards. Now they are so dominant, it’s the opposite. Its the death of an idealistic internet.
- Comment on King Charles 'won't stand in way' if Australia chooses to axe monarchy and become republic 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but labor might use the divisive nature for political purposes to paint the libs as elitist, unfair and part of the old guard. Most of the libs voters are more likely to be monarchists. Younger people are probably less likely to be royallists. It could backfire, though, as the voice referendum did.
- Comment on Australian billionaire Gina Rinehart wanted ‘so-called’ portraits ‘permanently disposed of’ 1 month ago:
No, no. Shes an incredible job builder and businesswoman. The odds of such a business mastermind being born to a mining magnate were very low, but she beat those odds. Nothing to do with the fortune of her birth.
- Comment on Many cheered when banks eliminated ATM fees in 2017 – but now it’s a struggle to find one 1 month ago:
Men. Who uses cash?
I’d prefer free, unneeded and slightly less availalable than everywhere, necessary and rip off.
- Comment on How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China 1 month ago:
No, bit the point is that china is making the for themselves and everyone else.
- Comment on Labor threatens to cancel visas for ‘inciting discord’ after protests against Israeli attacks on Lebanon 1 month ago:
Lol, like anyone would take Dutton seriously if he tried to label anoyher party as bigoted. He already tried and failed. Unfortunately, labors .isguided support for Israels awful policies and genocide will alineate more voters and were already seeing disaffected youth increasing right wing support worldwide.
- Comment on Software fixes now account for over 20% of car recalls 1 month ago:
Rust is bad for cars
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 1 month ago:
So, you think on,y the best workers will leave? Not a great policy then.
- Comment on German supermarket finds €7M of cocaine in crates of bananas 1 month ago:
Somewhere, some drug cartel is finding €700 worth of bananas in their crate. They are a great source of potassium, so its not a complete loss. Someone slipped up on this banana peel though.
- Comment on X is capitulating to Brazil’s Supreme Court 1 month ago:
And while they serve a purpose, they aren’t really missed in any significant way when gone.
15 years ago, we might have missed google. There were other options then, but they were worse. Now google is worse.
- Comment on Can it get any more obvious 1 month ago:
And about how judging someone in that way isn’t fair or healthy for either of you.
The line was a juxtaposition of interests to easily characterize them. Its also very catchy as this meme would show.
- Comment on Donald Trump is wrong about the cost of wind energy 2 months ago:
Quelle surprise. He lies constantly. Its just misinformation at all times.
There are studies showing the cost of wind plus battery storage is alsocheaper than coal or nuclear.
- Comment on Reminder that NSW local gov elections are on again tomorrow 2 months ago:
Snag on 2 pieces of bread? That’s a sandwich. What happens to folding it as a wrap because apparently rolls weren’t a thing when BBQ fundraisers started out.
Still, good value. All $5 around here. I was on the BBQ today doing the onions. Didn’t even have one myself. Should have but my kids showed up with my husband to collect me and they all ate while in was still behind the grill.
- Comment on A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks 2 months ago:
It would likely lead to a lot of issues. The games companies would need licences like a bank. They would need to keep it secure and have funds availabke to offset a run. It would likely also mean that players would be able to refund unused cash.
If they change the value in game, it might lead to gains which are taxable or losses which are possible to offset.
- Comment on An Ubisoft investor wants to dethrone Ubisoft's founders so Ubisoft can lay more developers off 2 months ago:
Also, a grammar lesson for you too! When you dont put ‘an’ between quotation marks, your sentence doesn’t read well either. Next debate should be which quotation marks to use, but that varies by country.
However, your post enlightened me to my mispronunciation of Ubisoft, despite knowing they were French. I’m not sure that I’ll change though. I don’t thibknthe French would anglicise a word with widespread French pronunciation to appease non-French speakers, so I’m sure they are (ironically not) fine with it.
I also agree with you, that in English, most people pronounce it as Yubi, so “a” would have been appropriate and 'an" reads poorly.
- Comment on More than two-thirds of Australian homes have building issues, new report says - ABC News 2 months ago:
Anyone who’s lived pretty much anywhere by Australia can tell you our housing standards are pretty crap. Unfortunately cheaping out on energy efficiencies costs us all more in the long run. Its not like cutting costs saved anyone money, either. Out house pricing is very high, even worse given the poor quality.
- Comment on 'Big, massive deterrent': Social media companies could face fines for allowing kids under 14 on their platforms 2 months ago:
Force ids is the only way. Hopefully that means less adults use them too. What they do with your actual I’d is less nefarious than what they do with your data or feed.
- Comment on Oasis ticketing chaos prompts probe into dynamic pricing 2 months ago:
They already do that with different pricing based on distance to stage. This is gouging, which is different. They stagger the releases to control the market, so as to artificially inflate demand and prices.