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Zarobi

@ Zarobi @aussie.zone

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  • All you do is take!

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  • In this context, where we're talking about having children, would you do it better? You wouldn't let your kids suffer the same way you did, right? That's called generational healing.

  • All you do is take!

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  • Even people with cancer deserve to exist

  • Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands

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  • People's Reaction to Birth Rates be like:

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  • This was true back when the economy was vague and vibes based and people kind of just died and it was ok. But now we have pensions, and it's considered unacceptable for people to starve to death and economies to collapse, so an upside down pyramid starts to get wobbly rather than "self-resolving".

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    You gotta find a way to make your disorders work for you. [Feral Mills] [NSFW]

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  • I had it as a kid. I was a complete asshole nightmare teenager lol. I later learnt it can be part of ADHD. Even today I still have it, but as you get older you learn tricks to live with it without throwing your boss out the window. Little mental gymnastics like, when someone tells me to do something, I try to find a way for me to agree with them and make it "my idea" and own it if that makes sense. Like "hmm yea actually you're right" kind of mindset. Unless it's something I really don't want to do then we have problems

  • Price hikes pushing consumers to abandon their favorite brands

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  • I think there was a really interesting part right at the bottom that was briefly mentioned. A lot of people are using A.I. to shop now. Probably not the Lemmy demographic. But people are willing to trust the A.I. when it gives them a recommendation, even if it's for a new brand they've never heard of before. This is an unprecedented level of marketing if the numbers in the article are correct. No advertising can compete with "artificial word of mouth" directly changing a customer's opinion.

    My prediction is companies will notice this, fast, and there will be incentives for A.I. to become like a new advertising platform. How much do you think Grok can charge to recommend one product over the other if it can have such a high (near 40%) lead conversion?

  • Google kills Tenor GIF API, forcing changes at X, Discord, and more

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  • I don't trust Google not to nuke my playlist randomly for copyright... Especially my precious bootleg remixes that have been purged from the internet. I use EverMusic with Dropbox for that reason.

  • WinRAR releases new update and says it’s thanks to people finally paying

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  • Didn't Microsoft get in trouble for trying to steal 7zip code without credit or something?

  • Calm down, Pepto

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  • Reminds me of that Rick and Morty episode with the perfectly level floor. At a certain point in reality you also would need perfect tools to check if something is perfect. Measuring the stick so to speak. I believe it is theoretically possible to get perfect angles, but keeping it that way might be a challenge outside of a vacuum. As a thought experiment, if you take your arm, hold it straight, then bend it, for 1 picosecond or something, wouldn't the angle of your arm be exactly 180.000°, 90.000°, etc, as it is bending?

  • All you do is take!

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  • That's a very nihilistic view that implies existence is not worth anything. Personally, I believe that existing is actually beautiful and worth experiencing, even if it sucks sometimes and has inherit suffering. Otherwise we might as well all lie down, stop eating or drinking, and wait for death. Kids don't see the world as suffering and pain — they enjoy every moment with unjaded, curious eyes.

  • Sony is deleting 551 movies and TV shows you bought on PlayStation, because you don't really own your digital purchases— John Wick, Paddington, and Terminator 2 are among the titles–no refunds offered

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  • That would make sense if the movie becomes available on their store again you didn't have to repurchase it. But you do. The licence is very fragile and "breaks" if there's ever any licensing issues.

  • What was the absolute worst bootleg DVD menu you encountered during the physical media era?

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  • Anyone remember the Harry Potter DVDs that had janky games on them like dodging trees in the forbidden forest? And each button press took a full 5 seconds to register? It was cool but also jank

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • Yeah exactly... It's emergencies only really then you're on your own. I needed 20 physiotherapist appts after a severe car crash, thankfully we have special insurance specifically for car crashes that is very good, but if the same thing happened from a random fall or something then idk what I'd do.

    Interesting how insurance works differently around the world. It's really weird here. Most people here in AU have private health insurance, even though it does absolutely nothing for them. I ran the numbers myself. As an example, you would pay $1200 a year for something you can max optimistically get $600 value per year from, and that's after multiple years of building up "trust". There's clauses like, only these specific kinds of treatment, only $x per year, only x% of each treatment covered, etc... It's extremely restrictive. But if you tell anyone, they'll get mad and say you're an idiot to not have this scam health insurance. It's better to self-insure here and just try to have ~$1000 set aside for health emergencies.

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • Not in SA at least. There's concession cards that sometimes helps, sometimes even makes it free, but it's basically random how much a clinic will discount you, if at all. If you're poor you're generally expected to languish in the public system for years, assuming you can find treatment at all. A lot of medical stuff is in the private sector now. I see people using afterpay or credit cards for medical stuff. Some clinics offer payment plans, sometimes interest free.

  • Are ya winning, son?

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  • Yeah I felt like it got too personal for public record lol

  • Are ya winning, son?

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  • Are ya winning, son?

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  • One morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his armour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, flickered helplessly before his eyes. 

    ‘What’s happened to me,’ he thought. It was no dream. His room, a proper room for a human being, only somewhat too small, lay quietly between the four well-known walls. Above the table, on which an unpacked collection of sample cloth goods was spread out (Samsa was a traveling salesman) hung the picture which he had cut out of an illustrated magazine a little while ago and set in a pretty gilt frame. It was a picture of a woman with a fur hat and a fur boa. She sat erect there, lifting up in the direction of the viewer a solid fur muff into which her entire forearm disappeared.

    Please note it's 41 pages

  • Besides gas and housing, what else makes you do a double take at how much it costs now?

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  • It's not that bad yet, but I feel like we're on the way there. Luckily we still have a pretty good public sector for emergencies. But there is no public sector psychiatrists, at least not around here. So you're covered for some things but not others, especially specialist treatment. That's why I specified appointment, because most of the time appointment refers to private sector. And outpatient stuff, but the line is confusing and arbitrary.

    For example,

    • Dentists are essential but also elective.
    • The hospital will cast your broken leg for free but you'll pay a lot for the rehab physiotherapy privately.
    • They'll CT scan a tennis ball sized tumour for free, but refuse to remove it because even though it's growing it's "benign" i.e. if it won't kill you then we don't care.
    • Two doctors will cost wildly different prices even though both use Medicare.
    • You can go to the hospital 10 times for the same cardiac problem for free, but getting it investigated or fixed is private, unless you're critically in danger.

    It's hard to know whether something will cost you or not until you try and get it treated. It's very "reactionary" instead of "preventative" is how I'd describe it. Like they'll chop off a diabetic foot for free, which is hugely expensive medical procedure requiring a surgeon, but seeing a dietician to learn how to manage your diabetes costs $200+ per appointment.

    I almost feel like if I had to choose, the reverse should be true. Focus on preventing problems rather than putting out fires.

  • How can you make sure that my post that you are reading now is real and that you are not currently dreaming?

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  • Because I have aphantasia and can't see pictures in my dreams. Seeing this text visually means it's real.