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- Comment on Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League Devs Just Removed DRM From Their Failed Game 1 day ago:
It was free on ps+ and I haven’t played it.
- Comment on Wetherspoon boss Tim Martin blames 'dinner party classes' for pubs crisis 1 week ago:
Certain foods and drinks considered essentials don’t attract vat. Hence Jaffa cakes arguing they were not in fact a cake. Any prepared food is considered a luxury item, which would include drinks that are served.
I think alcohol should attract vat in supermarkets, not reduce vat in a pub.
- Comment on Microsoft bundles Office AI features into Microsoft 365 and raises prices 1 week ago:
Hopefully lots of people cancel which makes other companies wary of trying similar.
- Comment on ByteDance to sidestep US sanctions by renting Nvidia GPUs in the cloud 3 weeks ago:
No, they didn’t want tik tok scooping all the data up for the Chinese government. Facebook and Instagram and WhatsApp are meant to do that for the American government.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated ‘Users’ No One Asked For 4 weeks ago:
I think employment is based on those seeking work. So if you take time off, you wouldn’t be counted. It’s a balance in the market that stops wage rises and inflation when there is unemployment. It’s obviously not desirable for the individual.
- Comment on The loyalty tax shoppers willingly pay despite push for supermarket competition 5 weeks ago:
Aldi don’t stock niche products. You don’t need to buy canned products like that weekly. Their entire business model is less stock, higher turnover and own brand for most things to control the supply chain more.
In a cost of living crisis, you can olan your shop around what’s in store. If you save, what looks like 25% at Aldi, if enough people shop there, it puts pressure on Cole’s and woolies. Personally, I shop in Aldi, and can get most things there, ut if they don’t have something, I pop into another shop. I had the same experience with woolies and Cole’s. Woolies has a wider selection but it’s still not infinite and store dependent. They might have 5 types of things I never buy, but they don’t necessarily have what I need for my recipe.
- Comment on Tsunami alert after 7.0 quake off California coast 1 month ago:
The warning is no longer in effect.
- Comment on BACK IT UP 2 months ago:
Nanotechnology exists. Not in vaccines, but it’s still a thing.
- Comment on Oopsies 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Which is likely why they are not bothering to fix it.
- Comment on Amsterdam bans all protests after attacks on Israeli football fans 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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' 2 months ago:
Facing it? Most people dont even recognise it.
- Comment on Woman admits hurling McDonald's milkshake over Nigel Farage 3 months ago:
Damn right, let’s throw it at Farage.
- Comment on Google is purging ad-blocking extension uBlock Origin from the Chrome Web Store 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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’ 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Rust is bad for cars
- Comment on Most Amazon workers considering job hunting due to 5-day in-office policy: Poll 3 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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.