Imagine running for 576 days and finishing in Brisbane

Unlike most media outlets I don’t read political press releases

doctor who?

Exactly and that is something a lot of Pro-Israel people try to obscure

I accidentally went 18 seconds and got a microSD, just be careful of microwaves with different power for the correct parameters, but this is known to work

Labor’s position on Palestine is a bit complex. They are actually Pro-Palestine, Australia just voted at the UN in support of a motion to make the PA a member. They’re trying to play the risky game of appeasing both parts of the community, as they have seats in both Islamic and Jewish dense regions. They might lose both sides playing this game though. For whatever reason the Pro-Israel voice seems to have more influence while the Pro-Palestine voice gets tossed to the side. This is weird in the context of the 2021 census:

Which marks the Jewish section of the community as near negligible, but what really matters is what the rest of the community thinks. Murdoch has chosen Israel, and thus have the LNP. The Greens have chosen Palestine. Personally if you don’t support the coexistence of Israel and Palestine, I’d vote for either of those parties.

We should also note that Australia has very little power to influence international events and the LNP are clearly using this as a distraction to win votes due to their woeful domestic policies. But it is morally reprehensible to not try for a resolution. Israel do nothing for us and we should recognise Netanyahu as a terrorist alongside HAMAS

It is depressing studying science only to realise that whatever research you do to improve the world you will be ignored unless someone can profit from it. Truly an advanced civilisation

The automatic updates are really good it would be better if they integrated with GNOME software, but it is still a distro I would recommend to people who want something that “just works”. Atomic really is the future of linux

Their instructions aren’t quite right, I did find that I had to change the icon theme back to adwaita myself using GNOME tweaks.

Yeah I use silverblue on another computer and previously on this one, but the killer feature of bluefin is that NVIDIA drivers and codecs are built right into the image (as with the other ublue images) meaning that you don’t need to layer them and risk a bad upgrade. I’m planning on bringing the other computer over as well even though it’s AMD, at least I’ll get ROCm and the codecs.

Recently switched to bluefin from workstation, I was initially a bit held back by all of the GNOME customisations, but they’re pretty straightforward to revert back to default. While I like the idea of automatic updates it would be nice if it integrated with GNOME software to make it easier to control. Otherwise if you’re looking for an immutable/atomic desktop and want it to pretty much work out of the box I would highly recommend

driving while unhealthy, tired or whatever or taking drugs known to increase violent tendencies like alcohol.

If it was up to me, alcohol would be banned as well but such a ban would be largely impractical and there would also be a large black market formed just by how easy the stuff is to make—it literally used to be a learning exercise in year 12 chemistry in QLD. When it comes to driving when unhealthy or tired, there is generally a choice to not drive and if you do crash you will almost always be identified as being at fault. So it’s not like there is no recourse for those poor decisions. With vapes the user cannot stop anytime they want, they’re addictive and there are companies exploiting that.

Even though he probably shouldn’t have accepted antmy offer from a phone call, I think there is a really important story in there about the lax security of his super fund, not checking documents properly or requiring a second factor of authentication. To think a piece of paper can securely cause the transfer of 180k in the 21st Century is ludicrous

It’s a lot easier to avoid fog machines than it is people vaping. I’ve never seen a fog machine at the train station…

Not exactly, as they won’t be promoting the vapes as they’ll be plainly packaged and they’ll be heavily regulated. They will still profit but not encouraging it

Are you saying that vaping is a good thing and a net positive?

A bunch of businesses will basically be shut down because of this … they can’t exactly pivot to something else

It’s a damn shame too - I don’t know what we’ll do without all those businesses built around exploiting drug addicts

Thanks for linking that, their position makes a bit more sense now, at least by restricting them to pharmacies there won’t be as much of a black market

You can just not watch it. I think it’s their genuine opinion probably not rage bait

I’m not sure I understand the Greens position on vapes. Are they pro-tobacco or something? or is it about creating a black market?