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Half my family is indigenous; I hear you.

I'm no expert on the technology but God I love our battery powered lawn mower. Our lawn, front and back is mostly temporally embarrassed grass (weeds) but keeping it down is critical in Australian snake season. Plan is to get rid of most of it and do the native plants and minimal grass thing.

In the meantime, no fumes, no refueling, the dog isn't scared of the noise, and it works a treat. The batteries and how to recycle them in the future is certainly something to worry about, but in the meantime it's vastly superior to our old stinky, do a rotator cuff turning it on, 2 stroke option.

Our phones are such amazing pieces of mobile, personal technology. We're using them for all the most mundane details though and they're detracting from some of the better things we could be doing with our time and intellects.

I feel it's a problem for all of us but as an elder millennial at least I have experienced a world without them. I feel for the younger generations - they're all consuming for them.

When I noticed it encroached on something I enjoy - trying to guess or remember a bit of trivia - my partner and I now have a rule that we must spend at least 5 minutes trying to guess who that actor is from, or who sings this song before we look it up. The technology was robbing us of imagination and rifling through the mental files.

I don't disagree with you at all though - we're using star trek tech and it's fucking cool.

Dude, he remembers things being hot in hot places. I don't know why we even measure things and keep records. This bloke just remembers!

And they without fail put up the coalition corflutes during elections, and had the 'if you don't know, vote no' signs during the referendum.

The Venn diagram is a perfect circle.

My grandmother could win this game if she saved as often as you do

Yep the rule is always to bleach the things that need it and do everything else while you're waiting for the wet time to pass.

I mean, yes. But fbk marketplace is the quickest and safest way for me to get some local random to come pick up a bird bath I don't want.

I'm starting to think this guy wasn't very nice!

I've wondered this as a ciswoman who is hetero and far as I'm aware, neuro typical.

Growing up I had all kinds of identity questions and it's taken me a long time to both understand who I am and what I want for myself; to make peace with a few things about my personality etc.

I wonder if the struggles of trans/queer/ND people to find their identity delay those additional questions? Or are they layered on top as well?

No real point, just a musing I've had. Being a human is hard even when you're already ticking boxes that society says you should.

Sounds like it was a specialist surgery that Norway's smaller population doesn't accommodate. Hardly an indication that other countries are flocking to the US for their on demand healthcare.