100% of SMS usage for me last N+1 years is for OTPs and such

Yes those ones.

Can we do a car buy back to remove these horrors from our communities?

A good read on this is Sun in a Bottle

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3024263-sun-in-a-bottle

And a physicists take on the Livermore announcement that so many went bat shit over, one dude on Mastodon said he was so overwhelmed he was on tears as we can now “solve” climate change … Wtf!!!

https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2023/08/fusion-foolery/

Something like 3 billion in the black summer fires of 2019/2020

https://assets.wwf.org.au/image/upload/v1/website-media/resources/WWF_Impacts-of-the-unprecedented-2019-2020-bushfires-on-Australian-animals

An SUV you say, very innovative.

Greens policy:, “tax the Billionares to afford dental in Medicare”. Australians…

Voters clap back: “Gina needs a foot massage on her new private jet and I dont need teefs anyway!”

Alas, very much this.

We should have started to move away under Bush, I remember wheb Bush was adrsssibg parliment and they banned Bob Briwn. An elexted Australian Senator, banned from neing in parliament ? That was the last straw for me

The first red flag was the dodgy US shit around Whitlams sackng and US interference, let alone the endless shit fuckery th US has been up to since the 1950s.

Fuck it, Vote Green

I am not looking for software alternatives.

Ok then

Is the best method still to dual boot?

No, the best method is Windows or Mac…

i didn’t want to do that, so just i changed to Darktable. It’s more ppwerful then LR but that power brings a bunch of differences.

We used to launch our kayak from the back door of our apartment in a canal on the Gool Coast, several times we’d have dolphins coming past chasing fish in the wayer, amazing stuff. Could also see them from our balcony

More deaths in NSW this time, here

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-13/hundreds-of-flying-foxes-die-in-east-coast-heatwave/106223198

Everything ? I though MS Office woukd fail becase no one will want to close source their data files, i was using an Amiga at the time at home and the file format was standard and you chose the app to use

It started there and just progressed, Apple was a big one, people won’t buy into their closed wall’d shenanigans. Wrong again.

Messaging, what a debacle that has turned into. I assumed the system would be standardised and the fight would be over the front end for interoperability, wrong again.

So the takeaway here is we need to invade the US , batter them into submission before they’ll become reflective and apologetic ? Similarly Russia, and Israel i guess

But never the stories about the “acceptable” public.

Plumbers, electricians, weapon factory supervisors, miners, grocery store managers.

And I’m learning it by experiencing it now.

I’d not say I get opinions from but some experts I watch, read, listen to to form opinions.

Professor Kevin Anderson, James Hansen and Will Steffan (RIP) (climate change)

Professor Brian Cox and Richard Feynman RIP (physics amd astro pbysics. I can listen to Richard all day :)

Sam Harris “philosophy” (he’s also a neuroscientist)

James Galbraith, Yanis Varoufakis and Thomas Piketty (Economics)

General medical podcast with Dr Norman Swan

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/healthreport

General science podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/ockhamsrazor

There’s a bunch of others in biology, earth sciences etc as well.

It’s not that all conservative people are stupid but all stupid people are inevitability conservative.

So, technically, with a lot of word pushing, there are socialist speed bumps

And so is the road

Heck! Human meat tastes like pork

If the TV show Whitechapel taught me anything , it’s that human meat does NOT taste like pork.

Short version - there’s too many elderly people in China and not enough working age so the economy is suffering

More children is never the answer becase all that does is kick the can down the road, in 30 years time they’d have 3 billion and a shit ton more elderly, so wjat then doibke down and make even more kids ?

We can already see if we empower women and let them choose they’ll mostly have 0,1 or 2 kids. The only other solution is to force women to breed and have no choice (religious scum fuckery). Even the nordics with way better supoort for women and childbirth etc are still less then 2.1

We’re better off learning lessons from xenophobic counties like Sth Korea and Japan and seeing what solutions work in regards poulation degrowth, becase every country will eventually face this issue

This contlstat framing of less people on the planet as a bad thing is ridiculous, should we have 1000 billion and all stand shoulder to shoulder ? How tobdecide ? there is some sort of sustainable level, why not let those expert in the area advise us ? if you do that, the number is less then a billion. Classical and neo liberal Econonics should play no part in the debate.

Isnt it a differnt Visa, like the one thay applies to movie and TV stars, musicians etc ? Not the one that applies to scientists etc

More JOI videos ?