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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨KDE Plasma Bigscreen (Android TV alternative) is back from dead⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  mpv supports Dolby vision (along with the Jellyfin clients that depend on it), but if you mean with streaming services, that’s unlikely to happen due to DRM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Misogyny is thriving in our schools. Why aren’t we doing more?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Personal responsibilty approaches to behaviour change have never worked and never will work. You might as well be shouting into the void for all the good it will do. You need to address these sorts of issues at the societal level.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Bring on socialised dental. The horror when our entire population has healthy teeth!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fear of 'being cringe' blamed for lack of dancing on nightclub dance floors⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure if this is anything new, but maybe it’s getting worse. Most of my friends when I was younger wouldn’t do anything more than the “stand still and sway” method of dancing because they didn’t want to look silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the reasons people do use roads is that they are often flatter and in better condition, and you’re not competing for space with children and dogs. But better that than cars with all the risks that come with them (collisions and noise/air pollution).

  However, the health benefits of regular exercise tend to outweigh the risk of air pollution (although perhaps not in severely polluted cities like in parts of India). So it’s probably still worth it that’s the most convenient place to exercise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cancer rates in Australians under 50 are rising at a pace that's alarming doctors and scientists⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Obesity is also a major factor for all-cause mortality, including cancer (and bowel cancer specifically which is one the diseases increasing in incidence).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Australia Government considers requiring developers to build bigger garages. The cost will be paid by home buyers. Whether they have a car or not.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Property Council SA is mentioned later in the article. And in this case, they are right, as this is another subsidy for people with gigantic vehicles that must be borne by all of the people that have smaller cars (or no cars at all).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia’s had two more years of gambling ad harm since the Murphy report. It’s time for Labor to show some courage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When pressed on his reticence to implement a full ban [on gambling ads], Anthony Albanese has repeatedly implied that gambling is part of Australian culture.

  Culture doesn’t happen in a vacuum, nor is it some sort of iron clad thing that never changes. Government policy has been a major contributor to addressing various public health issues that have historically been seen as cultural, and the same can apply to gambling.

  Although I feel Albanese himself has a bit of a blind spot on this issue. He was one of the people who came out against the proposed greyhound racing ban by the NSW Liberal government in the 2010s, which has always tainted my view of him a little.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was clear from context I was talking about X.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most of those are lesser evils compared to X, and that’s probably the best you can hope for. And Bluesky is the obvious alternative lesser evil choice of you want a like for like replacement and aren’t open to Mastodon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re technically inclined, self-host navidrome or jellyfin.

  If you just want music and don’t care about the streaming part, bandcamp (although it does have some basic streaming I believe.

  If you want streaming and aren’t technically inclined, Tidal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get where you’re coming from, but it’s not like there aren’t multiple obvious alternatives (and not just on the fediverse). And someone clued in enough to boycott Spotify should have no trouble finding those alternatives.

  And the platform being owned by an outright Nazi should give even the most out of touch people pause.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention giving 100s of millions of dollars to fund Joe Rogan and his extreme right-wing propaganda.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Minimum wage, parental leave and road fines: what’s changing on 1 July⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good to see, but shame that unemployment and study payments haven’t been raised in real terms.

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