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- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
You gotta actually break the procurement cycle where they receive books free to own themselves and it’s not some janky copy before they realise this way is better
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 1 month ago:
Check their libraries for their favourite authors. Get them a Kobo. Load it up with their favourite author’s bodies of work before giving it to them. Problem solved.
Disclaimer: I am not responsible for your parents hassling you for more books
- Comment on What time can you mow the lawn on a Sunday? Here's a state-by-state breakdown of weekend noise restrictions 2 months ago:
You can run it anytime provided that the noise at the border of the property doesn’t exceed limits set by the local council. In the event of a neighbour complaint council will come out and measure it
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 4 months ago:
It’s pretty bad, but the hyperbole comparison to a global leading cause of premature death is a bit over the top. Besides, as I previously addressed: this legislation will not solve the problem, neither by its intent or practical application.
The Luddites had good points, but ultimately the species continues marching forward and is better off for it.
- Comment on U16 Social Media Ban - Senate 1hr debate before the vote, some time tonight on the livestream 4 months ago:
The social media problem is a media literacy problem. You don’t teach media literacy by shielding children from media. It’s a legislative band-aid in lieu of a solution that we can’t be assed to implement.
Nevermind that the purported exemption for Youtube, presumably on the basis that Youtube is useful, is not objective.Tiktok and other platforms have equal potential for usefulness - and if you don’t think so, I’d challenge you to explain why?
- Comment on (Scottsdale, AZ) Gila Monster or Chuckwalla? 4 months ago:
I don’t think it’s a gila
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
To address youth vaping. The outcome of that has been that youth vaping is significantly higher than in other OECD member countries, and kids are now getting them from the ‘vape dealer’ whom may have other illicit drugs available. Cigarettes aren’t banned, only made unaffordable via progressive excise tax. That’s had its own unintended consequences of launching a new market for “chop chop” i.e. illegally grown unprocessed tobacco, as well as black market imports that sidestep the plain packaging laws, and tobacco gang wars in Sydney and Melbourne.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 5 months ago:
The disposable black market & associated disproportionate rise in youth vaping in Australia results from the illegality of all vapes, not just disposables. It’s hard to imagine it becoming a burgeoning black market predicated solely on that vapers find the highly available, better value, relatively environmentally friendly option untenable. Overall a sensible move I think coming from a pro-vape perspective