yistdaj

@yistdaj@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By the way, why do you think mRNA vaccines are genetic therapy?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or in 2025. Looking at you, Florida.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RNA vaccines may be relatively new, but they aren’t genetic therapy. It does not get integrated into your DNA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I do agree with that, I suppose we probably disagree with the speed reforms can take then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What would you say are limiting factors on our ability to build then, if you think reducing immigration won’t significantly reduce housing construction?

  Why do you say immigration a lever to pull but not the factors limiting construction?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to be under the impression that we will just magically build and build if people are gone, but that’s not realistic. My point was that reducing immigration would significantly cut the number of houses built under the current housing market. We may be building too few homes now, but I doubt much at all will be built after cutting immigration either.

  The problem is not that we have a housing market that’s too big, it’s that we have a broken market. Housing entering the market in this country may be insufficient when demand is high, but it’s straight up not entering the market where demand is low, and housing prices are higher than ever everywhere. We need to figure out why the market is broken and fix that if we even want so see housing prices stabilise for an extended period, let alone fall. Reducing immigration is a distraction at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Australia, racist violence is nothing new. But emboldened neo-Nazis form a frightening new spectre⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people I know who supported the protests do so because they’re upset at the upcoming spare bedroom tax, which aims to bring more homes on the market to lower prices. They don’t care about housing people, they care about profit.

  I’m also not convinced cutting immigration would help at all when it would only discourage construction, which is already below what’s needed to support birthrate + people moving in from rural areas. Immigration isn’t the cause of the crisis, so cutting it isn’t the solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blue rizz⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine some parasites would benefit from being delicious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨monthly challenge⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  500 greater than steps a day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Switzerland plans surveillance worse than US⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as it’s dumb, many other places (such as Australia, where I live) are similar at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you want something not Google, I used to have Ubuntu Touch on a Fairphone before Australia’s 3G network was switched off. It would have to be an older Fairphone however.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian high-speed rail has barely left the station – some experts say a new US project shows a better way⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I find it interesting how often articles come out about how good projects like Brightline West are before they’re built. There’s still plenty of time for more delays, budget overruns and further compromises. The original Brightline in Florida was meant to be the first high speed rail in the US, but after enough delays and increasing budgets they compromised on its speed. The Brightline model is better than nothing, but I’d hardly call better than nothing a model for us to emulate.

  Some problems are legitimate, but honestly even if the Australian government cancelled the project and restarted following many of these recommendations, it would be even further away from completion, as we would have to wait years again for new plans to be drafted, and it still won’t be built immediately. In my mind, it is better to commit to a slightly flawed plan than to constantly restart because we think of a better way, as we have been doing for years, decades.

  The reason we’re looking at Sydney to Newcastle is that people complained Sydney to Canberra was too expensive/difficult when that was last proposed, and that Sydney to Newcastle is easier and shorter. Grass is always greener on the other side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As you are doing it you never realize⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, I just got blank CDs yesterday.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weeeeeee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I keep hearing that Cities Skylines II has constant bugfixes because each fix reveals new bugs. It’s better, but still divisive. More people continue playing the original, according to Steam’s statistics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨℞osaur⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mammals are just jealous of the long enlightened reign of the dinosaurs, and want to paint the previous dynasty in a bad light to justify usurping the throne.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Audiologists raise concern over headphone use in young people⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m wondering if the cause and effect are the other way around, people that have trouble with noise (such as people with APD) might want noise cancelling headphones. The rise in cases of APD might indicate otherwise, but with the information provided, it sounds like it might be under-diagnosed anyway.

  The first thing many people used to assume is that if you had any problems with listening, you might be somewhat deaf. APD and other difficulties listening definitely aren’t deafness, but I wonder if there is increased awareness of other reasons why someone might have difficulty understanding speech.