Perhaps I am delusional, but I still hope that we are contrary and proud enough of a country to take whatever America can dish out to not be publicly humiliated into submission.

Obviously there are a multiple of less public submissions we’ve made over the last century, but I still have hope we can turn it around.

Yeh for sure, you can only fight so many battles at a time. Even if it pays off in the future.

I mean, if you want to make a point like that: TV shows are horrificly scarring to children. Not all of them of course, and we have a rating system to make it easier for disconnected parents.

The same goes with games. I guess you’ve never played a Nintendo switch, but these are hardly the same thing as phone gatcha games. My son can easily walk away from playing Mario kart at 5. Games should probably also be rated on addictiveness.

Parental oversight and engagement is of paramount importance.

As to the final paragraph, your right half of the adults can’t. But it’s not like the challenge is going to go away as they age, kids will have better defenses against this shit if they learn from a younger age. But we should also have a deeper look socially as to what we want to let companies get away with in terms of manipulating us.

I’m shocked by the level of anti tech/screen time in this thread.

‘6 is too young’ - you think this (or any 6yo) child doesn’t watch TV? All the arguments provided go double for TV, expect for portability.

My take, as a parent, is that full restriction is almost as unhelpful as no restriction. Kids need to learn, and a big thing they need to learn is self regulation. Teach them by teaching them how to play within limits and how to watch between limits. Some of my friends did zero screens till 5, and now they’re kid now basically worships screen time - it’s this huge reward for him. H’ll be fine, but the difference to my kids is staggering.

A key point about screens, games or shows, is that they shouldnt be used to replace emotional self regulation. There is research coming out now that does how this stunts emotional development.

But ultimately it’s your brother’s choice.

Still trying to sell? Would you ship to aus?

I don’t think you can controlled burn a suburb tho.

The AC my car die, there was no blow. If we drove fast enough we could feel a slight cool breeze.

Hit up YouTube, turns out there is an AC blower fan - makes sense - and the one in my car had probably made it’s last rotation.

Found a replacement part for $50 on eBay, followed YouTube vids to replace. Took about 15 min, and a bit of discomfort. Beautiful cool Air on demand again, in time for that 40C day.

Given that super cheap auto quoted me $350 for the manufacturer recommended part, I like to think I saved myself a lot on going to the mechanic. Pretty chuffed with myself, I know nothing about cars; thanks YouTube.

public toilets are marked on mine?

Just in time for bird flu!

Yes, I think that is how the whole world is voting… But I’m worried that the solution we’re all voting for is a bigger dick, so that what we’re experiencing today will seem pleasurable by comparison.

Thanks for the detailed response!

I’m neither a professional programmer nor a user of Ai but…

Do you think your experience, I’m guessing a pre-ai trained programmer, is reflective of post-ai trained programmers?

Will the inevitable reliance on AI in learning and training, will creativity of new programmers drop? Is that even a problem?

Penny Wong happy to say storming out, throwing papers and flipping the cunts in your meeting the bird wouldn’t be allowed in any workplace - I beg to differ that’s like a HR reprimand at worst for first offense.

Systematic discrimination towards a college based on race? Doesn’t that have legal consequences? Instant termination at my workplace.

Fuck Penny, fuck Labor.

Will he cover it thought, it’s not greens bashing after all.

I mean, it’s a highly visible strategic military position. I’m sure that American can technically give it up, but it’s a huge cost.

US is global military hegemon, no matter how many civ games might make one think they have a cultural victory.

This comment has got me in a spin. Isn’t GNOME the standard DE of fedora workstation?

If people could delay their gratification, and just not buy form scalpers then more chips will become available, and will get greater profits and the scalpers will be left holding the bag.

Win win win.

Didn’t be obtuse.

To fix your logic “It would be a failure if his goal was to keep his movement alive at any cost”. That clearly wasn’t his goal.

Or have I missed the point entirely, and this is not a discussion but some point scoring thing based on digestible one liners.

It’s not a failure, he made a choice. In hindsight we see it as the wrong choice, but we don’t know what the alternative is. We will never know if it was right or wrong, failure or success.

Nothing is ever so simple.

Cold turkey worked for me. Took me 4 attempts. I wasn’t hard on myself for failure, I noted what happened (emotional trauma, stress, alcohol) and prepared myself for the next attempt.

I wanted to quit, so when I relapsed it’s not because I wanted to smoke but because those little cancer stick bastards were trying hardest to kill me. But if they were going to be tough, I could be tougher. I found it easier when I could see the cigs as my enemy.