which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia
State/corps: Mission accomplished
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Utilities want control of consumer solar and batteries to help reverse price spikes they just engineered
Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explode
Australia risks losing ‘war on nicotine’ in same way as war on drugs as illegal tobacco sales explode
I suspect the high tax no longer has much of a harm reduction/uptake suppression utility, and that the Aus government secretly knows this, but they are hopelessly addicted to the revenue so will enact overbearing new laws to protect the income stream.
The reasonble approach is to wean nicotine users off black market product by removing the price disparities. The only way to do that is by accepting a much lower tax intake than the current arbitrary, punitive one (perhaps VAT * 1.5 or 2?)
I remember the Australian government crowing about their world-first plain packaging initiative many years ago. Talk about fighting the last war lol
What you want is basically a recipe for the web turning into an exclusively corporate wasteland. Lack of installation freedom doesn't provide security from anything when the A/G app stores are already full of malware. Real security - security for users - lies in our ability to exercise choice - to use a FOSS app, or to pay conventionally via the web instead of having to put up with creepy opaque vendor portals (or worse, an app)
Phones are generic computing devices. We must able to operate and maintain them however we wish.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466 https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/
tldr OP shouldn't be posting Forbes articles
The old metric used by free-to-air networks was advertising minutes per broadcast hour. When I stopped watching FTA about a decade ago that number was about 12 or 13. Youtube's must be 40+. I'm not brave enough to rawdog 60 minutes of YT and test it (and of course it wouldn't be uniform number anyway)
People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT's video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?
Why couldn't Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT's viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power...
A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.
Gnarly Christmas Day watch for the whole family
It's worth going in blind. But for the impatient, here's an insightful review: https://www.themoviedb.org/review/5cc25a01c3a3681e6b805326
Protector of arresting color palettes. Spiritual sponsor of NPBs. Discarder of crepes.
This film's second act has a stereotype/racial epithet montage that will always be funny.
First of all, Monos is a film set in the jungle, so you know it's already good (see Raiders, Jurassic Park, Sorcerer, Predator, Apocalypto, etc.). Secondly, Landes has an eye for scene composition and potent metaphor. Thirdly, it gets awfully good performances out of a mostly amateur cast.
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It wouldn't surprise me if 'fatphobia' turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience ('don't give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!')
50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn't negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, consuming high protein diets and covering 10+km distances
The notion that we can out-social engineer physical reality is a doggedly persistent one