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MisterFrog

@ MisterFrog @lemmy.world

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  • How is this a good argument? The law from the post being stupid notwithstanding, by this logic, why bother making any regulations or laws at all if someone, somewhere is gonna break it.

    Are you aware of how much of society is held together with the duct tape of social obligation and the honestly system? Yes we have audits, and enforcement, but honestly in a health society, the vast majority is self-imposed.

    This is a really poor argument against government regulation, is all I'm saying.

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  • It boggles the mind how many times a higher up comes up with some idea (in any context, not just politicians), and never stops to answer the question: "how is this going to work?".

    She'll be right mate, don't worry about it 🇦🇺

  • Donald Trump Says Gulf of Mexico Will Now Be Called 'Gulf of America.' Congress Is Already Prepping Legislation

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  • I wonder how long it will be before the white house issues a 9 dash line Trump has hastily marked up with a red permanent marker.

  • ESET in Germany recommends installing Linux as alternative for older HW running Windows not supported by Windows 11

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  • And Windows 8/10 didn't take features away for no reason. (Or at least, they didn't insist on them for too long, with the windows 8 desktop fiasco)

    You will take my top taskbar from my cold dead hands Microsoft, who the fuck signed off on this? They actively shutdown any forum threads on it too.

    Off to Linux we go.

    Other than at work, where I have no choice :(

  • New Folder

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  • Me being the way I am, if we worked together in shared folders, I would die.

    My current colleagues already somewhat annoy me by not properly version numbering so you have no clue what file in a unsorted folder is the latest, or naming a folder with a date like: "14 Feb 24" like some hecking heathens.

    YYYY.MM.DD (or other delimiters) or gtfo.

    This concludes my 2 cents only partially related to yours haha

  • For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit

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  • In the early days of brave it was glorious. Set up max notification on my phone, set to minimise notifications - profit.

    Literally cashed out like $100 this way over the span of about 6 months, before the rugpull, I assume. Ads paying out way less now.

    It was hilarious. For me. The ads were (and I believe still are) primarily advertising other shitcoins hahaha

    Edit: I should note, I used Tasker and did not have to see a single ad.

  • The situation is dire

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  • This was a god-send on this one. So hard to read

  • Another orbit around the sun

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  • This is why we need to go back to the roots of what Christmas was co-opted from.

    Gimme my winter solstice festival!

    Summer Christmas is less magical

  • Trump Medicare pick Dr. Oz says uninsured ‘don’t have right to health’ in resurfaced clip

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  • While I agree with the sentiment (where this should be the case), this isn't actually true for some of these countries.

    Australia, for example, though not sure if we're included in this 23, we have a private system also.

    For all emergency care, it's single-payer. Private health insurance / private hospitals are not permitted to provide emergency care, nor out of hospital car, but all other hospital care is allowed (I am simplifying, as I'm not super clear on it either). Further, private health insurance is not allowed to cover things that Medicare doesn't at least also partially cover.

    Sounds good right? Sounds like private health is kept in check? I mean, sort of, but it's still really profitable, and you even get a tax break.

    What it doesn't stop, is prices getting higher and you having to cover the difference because health care employees are not necessarily employed by the stat, and can set their own prices (which is either covered by private insurance in hospital, or out-of-pocket outside hospital as private can't cover that).

    If you don't have private health, you often have to wait way longer in the public system for non-emergency (but still medically necessary) care, like hip replacements, eye surgery etc.

    It's kinda fucked, everyone ought to be in the same queue, and if things are taking too long well then gee, I dunno, pay more / hire more / train more doctors, this doesn't take a genius to figure out.

    Healthcare should be provided by the state, in-full, covered by taxes. We (and the US for that matter) have plenty of tax revenue to cover this. And if you're feeling really frisky, perhaps very slightly increase corporate taxes and tax breaks for the wealthy.

    So we now have a two tiered system, where the wealthy get care first, or whoever can afford to pay. And you even get a tax break for it.

    The US system is trash, and ours is utopian by comparison, but let's not pretend like all 22 of 23 countries have true, universal healthcare.

    We don't, let's aim higher haha

  • A KNIGHT NIMBLE AND FIERCE

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  • "Do I speak Chinese or what?"

    Found the German.

  • Layaway

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  • A ton of bollocks, more like

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  • TIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollution

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  • I'm not claiming they're the same as cigarettes. Just that if they hadn't come along, a huge number of people (in Australia) may never have picked up a nicotine addiction at all.

    And that's a shame :(

  • TIL Cigarette butts are the most common form of plastic pollution

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  • there's a lot more people quitting smoking than there are picking up vaping

    Sadly, in Australia, this isn't the case. We had very, very low smoking rates, and vaping has opened up the floodgates to new nicotine addicts, many, many of which never even tried cigarettes.

    I'm pretty annoyed about it, to be honest.

    Another generation who will reap the rewards of cancer, which will be a massive cost to society. Financially and emotionally.

    I really hope we can stem the tide.

  • A ton of bollocks, more like

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  • I mean, sort of. TIL this particular unit came from different definitions of hundredweight. Though, I'd argue this is still kinda of British origin (and the pound).

    My favourite unit to pick on when someone doesn't want to switch to metric because it's "European" and they're proud Americans, is BTU.

    Why yes, how American, British Thermal Units haha

    Don't be me started on tons of refrigeration 0_0 that's nightmare fuel

  • A ton of bollocks, more like

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  • I'm just mad kg is the base unit, inconsistent with the rest. The prefixes for mass are all wrong (in my opinion).

    Bring back the Grave.

    For example then a joule could be G m2 s-2, no prefixes 🥹 (I dunno what the symbol for Grave would be)

  • Please help resolve a disagreement in our home

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  • To say what others have said in a different way. Yes, in almost any categorisation system, you're gonna need to deal with some misc haha.

    Where else could these things possibly go? (minus the scales, which in my opinion belong on some flat surface in a cupboard of countertop somewhere, since I use my scales all the time)

    We have one of these drawers at home, also. I think your wife is right on this one friend.

  • In the year 2050

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  • Original MarioKart DS, Luigi in his vacuum go-kart was peak performance

  • Good luck, bro

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  • We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

    Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

  • In the same universe...

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  • Close up on face and phone, would be my guess on how to easily resolve this while keeping the same tone