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gazter

@ gazter @aussie.zone

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  • Good point, and well made. However, ICE cars are already wearing out. 250 million ICE cars on the road. ICE sales stop. The next day, some of those 250 million cars wear out. Gas consumption goes down.

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  • I'm still trying to understand what you're saying about needing to stop producing any ice cars if we are to reduce consumption.

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  • I don't want to sound like I'm being another hater, you've copped a lot of unwarranted downvotes and vitriol. People not willing to discuss things is part of the problem- attacks and trying to silence people through downvotes does not contribute to discussion.

    If you're willing to keep presenting your viewpoint, I'd appreciate some clarity. I urge anyone replying to your comment to engage with thought and maturity. We all learn from opinions that aren't aligned with ours.

    My main question is around your claim that we would have to stop producing any new infrastructure that relies on oil, to prevent consumption going up. I'm not sure I agree- To use a simple example, if some industrial plant uses a diesel engine, and replaces it with a diesel engine that uses less diesel to achieve the same outcome, does that not reduce the overall consumption? Of course, this is a very simple example.

  • What's something common that in 20 years from now people won't believe we used to live this way?

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  • This is just my experience, but that experience includes travelling through some remote areas in less developed countries. Water to wash is usually the first upgrade on the tech tree- It's unlocked right after you dig a hole in the ground. Grinding xp to get plumbing will make life nicer, but to start with you just need to gather enough resources for a bucket.

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  • Added water infrastructure? My guy, the connection for the cistern is right there. The added infrastructure is literally a tee piece and the hose.

  • What are some otherwise cutesy games that went really hard?

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  • That brief period where fire spread was super op- you'd stumble upon decimated wastelands from natural fires.

  • What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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  • I think intent would count for a lot here.

  • What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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  • We're all guilty of littering. Even the most careful of us will drop something without noticing- And I know I'm not the most careful. So I try and make up for what I've dropped by picking up bits of litter here and there.

    Especially out in nature. When I see a bottle top or something, I tend to think to myself that the person who left that there is a bit of a dick. Now I have a choice - pick it up, or leave it there.

    If I leave it there, then suddenly I am the dick I was complaining about.

  • What is a human behaviour you've never understood?

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  • There's such an amorphous dividing line around bodily fluids. Swallowing your saliva is fine, but as soon as it exits the mouth, it shouldn't go back in. Unless it's from someone else that you really like, but even then only a tiny bit, incidental to the act of kissing. The same does not apply to boogers. There's also some sort of age or stage of life after which it's no longer acceptable to drink breast milk, unless it's from a different species.

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  • I guess it depends on how you define human, and bugs.

    Insects have been, and continue to be, part of the homo sapien diet for millennia.

    However, there's a pretty strong argument that choosing to cause less suffering by not eating animals is a more human approach.

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  • I was partying at a friend's house, that night I slept in the back of my van. I must have forgotten to lock up when I got in, because I woke up to the sound of the front door- closing. I slammed straight from deep, morning after sleep to a massive adrenaline surge of fight-or-flight. I distinctly remember coming up with more than one plan almost instantly- There was a curtain between the front and back, so I couldn't see the intruder, and they couldn't see me. I didn't know if they had heard me wake up, so my first plan was to get the jump on them by bursting out of the curtain throwing fists. The second was to stay quiet, wait until they turned the engine on, then use that distraction to sneak up and choke hold them against the headrest. The third plan was to immediately scream like fuck and hope they bailed. In that half a breath of time, I had a bunch of plans made. But I distinctly remember being totally frozen and unable to move at all, like a stiff, useless dishrag. I eventually realised that there was no-one in the car, and stuck my head through the curtain. In the dawn's light I could see some random drunkard staggering down the road, leaning against cars for support. He must have noticed mine was unlocked, and his drunken curiosity led him to open the door. Thankfully, he must have had a moment of clarity and just walked away instead of trying to drive off using the keys that stupid past me just left sitting in the front seat. I'm also super grateful to his moment of sobriety for the decision to not take my wallet, which was also just laid out for anyone to grab.

    So yeah, minor compared to other real violations, but it certainly had an effect on me.

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little shit? Ill have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and Ive been involved in numerous secret...

    Oh. Oh wait. I think the shock of what I just read reverted me to default internet discussion... Was that just a polite exchange where we saw the others point of view, then both admitted we could have done better? Nice!

  • The Paper Passport Is Dying

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  • That would be great, sure- but all I really want is boarding passes to be the same size as the passport. They go together, so why don't they make them so they actually go together?

    Angrily tries again to read seat number, obscured by the rumpled creases from the bit that sticks out from the passport getting folded in a pocket

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • My comment was intended more to praise OP than to deride the person who replied. It was probably worded badly. I guess I should have said something more along the lines of 'You know your argument is good when the only fault to be found by internet strangers is too many commas'.

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • Yes, that is a risk. Don't forget about voltage drop, though! A short extension is generally quite a thin conductor, and the thinner the cable, the more resistance you get in the cable itself.

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • British cables are fused in the plug, and it's a pain in the ass. I don't see the problem with a breaker that just drops the whole circuit if something goes whoopsie.

  • I never knew that USB-C extensions are not allowed for a reason

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  • You know you explained a topic pretty damn accurately when the Stranger On The Internet can only use the good ol' "too many commas'" argument to bring you down.

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  • I've never really delved into the AI copyright debate before, so forgive my ignorance on the matter.

    I don't understand how an AI reading a bunch of books and rearranging some of those words into a new story, is different to a human author reading a bunch of books and rearranging those words into a new story.

    Most AI art I've seen has been... Unique, to say the least. To me, they tend to be different enough to the art they were trained in to not be a direct ripoff, so personally I don't see the issue.

  • Docker on VM vs bare install on VM

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  • Wait, ease of installation? As someone who had to walk away from a semi-homebrew, mildly complicated cloud storage setup recently, that's not the experience I had. Networks within networks, networks next to networks not talking to each other, mapped volumes, even checking logs is made more complicated by containerising. Sure, I'm a noob, but that only reinforces my point.