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    GitHub a possible inclusion in Australian under 16 "social media" ban

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  • This is the right way to make laws and rules.

    It's the same way we do tax - self compliance. You self report but if you're caught breaking the rules then you face punishments.

    If the administration just made a list of who's effected, it would be perpetually incomplete. This way, everyone is effected.

    They can't just unilaterally decide that your self assessment is "wrong" without explanation. Also their decisions about who is effected are public, and can be relied on by others to self assess.

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  • the timeline argument proves nothing

    That's what I said ?

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  • The point is, the claim is that Tylenol is "linked to" autism.

    This post is rebutting the claim that Tylenol "causes" autism.

    Thats a classic straw man argument.

  • Pete Buttigieg Responds To Kamala Harris Confession He Wasn't VP Pick Since He's Gay

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  • LOL. Sorry Buttigieg. Half of American voters voted for the guy that wants to brand Transgender people as a terrorist threat.

    America isn't ready to have a President who is straight, white, and not racist.

  • Immigrants in most countries are required to pledge allegiance to their adopted country to become exempt from deportation (aka: Attaining Citizenship Status); What do you think of this practice?

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  • Yes it's a reasonable request, but it's also pretty meaningless.

    It's performative. Like if you break this pledge nothing happens.

    However, it's performative in the same way that a marriage is really. I mean you can go to the court house and register your marriage without having a ceremony, but that's very uncommon and in the vast majority of cases you have a ceremony and do all the things.

    Achieving citizenship is an important moment in anyone's life. If your own case for example your Mother's citizenship ceremony marked the point at which the work to change the trajectory of her life and all of her descendants had achieved the objective.

    A little pomp and ceremony doesn't hurt.

  • Behind closed doors, our top CEOs say Trump is bad for business and it's time to Make America into America Again | Fortune

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  • Yeah IDK.

    It's certainly true that everyone, including economists, have been saying that tariffs are going to be terrible. If anything, the implementation has been far less terrible than everyone thought.

    However, I don't think that these CEOs necessarily thought that tariffs were going to increase profits. Corporations have a way of socialising the bad and taking advantage of the good. So in some ways they always benefit from change, including chaos.

    For example, and this was alluded to in the article, if you could stock up before the tariffs took effect, then you can increase prices and sell the goods you bought with out tariffs at the tariffed price. Even after you run out of pre-tariff stock, it's the consumers who are paying the tariffs, and it can't last forever, and all your competitors have the same context.

  • Trump posts a Pam Bondi DM to public on TruthSocial?

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  • This is so nutty.

    Every day that goes by I wonder how even republicans can pretend like his behavior is totally fine and normal.

    This is how your deranged 80 year old uncle posts on facebook. POTUS not so much.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • Obviously, there isn't enough vegetable oil to run every tractor and every truck.

    In Australia, bio diesel is subsidised in the same way regular diesel is.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • Even if that were true they're not presently in common use. Agriculture presently runs on diesel.

  • What is something that should have died out a long time ago?

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  • I just posted this in response to another idiot, but it works here too:

    I'm not sure that's true.

    The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

    Presently there's no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it's not economically viable at this time.

    The subsidies don't really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it's more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

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  • I'm not sure that's true.

    The supply chain for food is heavily dependent on diesel. All machinery on farms is diesel, and the trucks that move the food to silos then mills then factories and then shops are all diesel.

    Presently there's no real substitute for that machinery. Sure it might be technically possible to construct an electric tractor or truck but it's not economically viable at this time.

    The subsidies don't really serve to make fossil fuels continue to be viable, it's more like a measure to avoid sudden inflation due to fluctuations in the price of diesel.

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    So how do you feel about the whole Charlie Kirk divide?

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  • Political violence is always the last, worst option. Sometimes it's the only option but that wasn't the case here.

    Kirk was a pretty awful person, who profited from spreading hatred. He didn't just have an opinion, he had an agenda.

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  • This is straight from the Pseudo Scientist playbook, well established Graham Hancock shtick.

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  • The Experts claim to have an answer to every question

    That's not my experience at all. "The Experts" are extraordinarily cautious to make assertions even when they're well supported. They talk about "models" and are happy to revise and update their positions when contrary evidence emerges.

    Pseudo scientists have answers for everything.

  • Does anyone actually take into account "IP Rating"/"Water Resistance" when they buy phones?

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  • People don't, but companies do.

    Company A might get a contract to do whatever thing for Company B and the contract says "all equipment brought on site by your team must be this or that or whatever IP Rating".

    It's an insurance / liability thing.

  • Albania appoints an AI bot named Diella as the minister responsible for managing and awarding all public procurement tenders to combat corruption

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  • Oh man. This just obfuscates the corruption.

  • What do you call these?

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  • Power Adapter is too broad.

    If someone asked me for one I wouldn't know what they wanted. It could be an international adapter, or a DC power supply, or one of these things.

  • AI adoption rate is declining among large companies — US Census Bureau claims fewer businesses are using AI tools

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  • I dont have the hardware so I'm using "open web ui" to run queries on models accessible via huggingface API.

    Works really well. I haven't invested the time to understand how to use workspaces, which allow you to tune models, but aparently its doable.

  • Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms

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  • Very dramatic.