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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There's a baby drought in Australia. Maybe we should fund IVF?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps it’s unfair to people who want to have kids but can’t that IVF is so expensive, but really, there’s one thing that affects birth rate more than anything else: cost of housing with decent nearby amenities, infrastructure etc. If housing were cheaper, people would have more kids… Simple.

  So if you want to solve the social equity problem, subsidize IVF. If you want the birth rate to increase, knock down the barriers to entry and high costs in the housing market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google abandons “Web Environment Integrity”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This was an utterly terrible idea to begin with and it’s still a terrible idea for Android apps as well. Apart from messing with ad blockers, this has the ironically “helpful” feature of allowing malware to be force loaded into your browser. If it ends up in Android, some popular app that uses it will get owned and then every user of the app will also end up getting owned as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s times like these when I’m glad I refused to even log into Google to view YouTube, let alone buy subscriptions. I also refuse to view downloading content (without logging in) that’s freely available to be viewed as piracy.

  These subscriptions are undoubtedly a rip-off. For those saying creators get a “cut”, there’s a reason why sites like Patreon exist. It’s substantially better for creators if you subscribe to them directly that way and get your videos from Patreon. Same with Nebula etc. If I really had to pay then I’d do that (and do already for some stuff that was never on YouTube anyway).

  You can get enough subs for the price of a YT premium to get plenty of content to watch, even if you don’t want to subvert Google. So there’s zero reason to throw money at them for this. None at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which one do you trust the most for your privacy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal. Also, the solution to the “no-one on signal” problem is simply to refuse to use insecure platforms like WhatsApp. If people want to talk to you then, they have to download signal. They might get annoyed with you, but sometimes a bit of coercion is necessary to get people to do what’s good for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian students shun education degrees as fears grow over ‘unprecedented’ teacher shortage⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stressful training and work environment, long hours, and the pay isn’t that great either. This really is the government’s problem to solve - and it’s probably not going to be solved just by paying people once to complete their degree, it will have to be throughout their career by providing more pay and more support. Which of course means the public will eventually end up footing at least some of the bill - but the alternative, where education is compromised, will end up costing even more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opinion: Why it’s time to raise the speed limit in Australia to 130km/h⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or you could make public transport run faster and more efficiently and faster, reducing the number of people who drive.