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I'm looking for to seeing an ACT billboard corrected to say "Time for a Charge", reflecting their user-pays approach to... everything.
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Or a Nat billboard artfully alerted to say "Get Our Country Back On Trains”, as a satire of their roads, roads, and more roads approach to transport policy, and total lack of interest in investing in modernising our railways for both freight and passenger transport.
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I'm looking for to seeing an ACT billboard corrected to say "Time for a Charge", reflecting their user-pays approach to... everything.
"The opposite of toxic masculinity is heroic masculinity. It’s all around us; you depend on it for your safety, as I do. It is almost entirely taken for granted, even reviled, until trouble comes and it is ungratefully demanded by the very people who usually decry it."
#CaitlinFlanagan
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/heroic-toxic-masculinity-boys/675172/
#ToxicMasculinity #HeroicMasculinity
I hope TDB have a fediverse account, so they can post on a social media network not controlled by one corporation. The ideal solution would be to host their own server, eg social.thedailyblog.co.nz. That way they could have official accounts for TBD itself (eg @news@social.thedailyblog.co.nz) and for each of the bloggers who write for it (eg @bomber@social.thedailyblog.co.nz). These accounts would be obviously official, because they're using the same domain name as the blog site.
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OK, let me try to repeat your argument back to you, to see if I'm understanding it.
Because retailers can only guess at the minimum useful life of a device, advertised guarantees of that would have to be made by electronics manufacturers themselves.
You're arguing that those manufacturers would adopt a business practice of winding up their legal entities every few years, and transferring their assets to new ones, to avoid legal accountability for overblown claims of useful life.
Yes?
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> Best of luck worshiping your cloud god ;)
J. R. Bob Dobbs and the irrefutable power of Slack pisses all over your CyberNerd fantasies of data immortality in The Clod. Wikipedia is guaranteed eternal battery life or your money back! As long as it maintains its dedication to editorial oversight powered by Slack, and its digital shrines to Bob and the Church of the Subgenius:
I guess Ian Bogost was writing this 2 years ago. But The Social Dilemma had already been out for almost 2 years by that point. Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus had been out for 5 years. It's disturbing that such an uninformed and wrong-headed take can get published in a major outlet like this:
Especially given that the silver bullet solution it offers to the social media tire fire created by the DataFarms, amounts to an argument for a return to information gatekeeping.
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> the higher propensity over a long long time for the content to outlast digital copies
I'm not sure why you think so.
It's true that we have paper works that have survived for centuries, but this results in a strong survivor bias. As a proportion of all paper-based works that have existed, those that survive longer than 50 years are a vanishingly small proportion.
Digital archiving is a new field and most of the major failures so far are already addressed by Wikipedia.
First creative billboard alteration of the election campaign that I've seen so far. I was out for an evening walk earlier in the week, and saw a Labour billboard with "Ru" added to the start of the slogan, making it into "Ruin it for you".
Keep 'em coming folks, no party exempt!
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> Compared to apartments in Central Auckland, can definitely get something bigger :)
Good point. One couple I know are renting one of those, and I'm pretty sure you could rent a whole house with a yard in the outer suburbs for the same money.
You have to factor in the weekly spend on transport though. Not just the work commute, but getting groceries etc That can add up fast around Tamaki Makaurau.
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> over time its worth will outstrip many assets
It's probably a better a better investment than crypto but that's beside the point. It's usefulness as an encyclopedia will decline over time, while Wikipedia's will improve over time. If everybody who uses Wikipedia gave them $10 a year for 60 years, that's still a tiny fraction of $1600. But it would cover all WikiMedia's costs many times over.
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> Profit is an overriding factor for everything short of the laws o' physics
Agreed, which is why regulation needs to be a thing. Eg obliging electronics vendors to advertise prices per year of useful life, rather than just the ticket price. Still not sure why you seem to be so opposed to this you dismiss it out of hand.
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> Generally, homeless people aren't homeless because of their bad decisions
... or decisions of any kind. There is such a thing as voluntary homelessness, which is a decision. But that's precisely what makes it a very different thing from being involuntarily homeless. Have experienced both, can confirm.
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> Has anyone tried framing the society in which they want to live as a dystopia?
Isn't this kind of the idea of solarpunk?
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> I don't know if such a demographic would even see my toots
FYI using hashtags like #sewing or #crafts makes that much more likely.
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> Am thinking about a possible move to a flat in Orewa... much cheaper
Really? I thought Orewa was the Florida of Aotearoa. Well, one of them, Blenheim being the other. Surprised to hear rents are cheaper anywhere around the Hibiscus Coast.
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> I have yet to meet any others who experienced this "turning off" of being ticklish
I don't remember consciously turning it off, but I used to be ticklish and now I'm not.
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> Screenshots of Tweets is my least favorite thing here
Images containing only text in general.
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> Pork toilet
... aaaaand my mind goes straight into the gutter : P
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> that is what I meant
My apologies for taking your words so literally. I think it's an autistic thing : )
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