You can do your pacman -Syu now @rottenmummy@lemmy.ml ;-)

It's one thing for someone inside to profit off their insider knowledge.
It's a whole 'nother level of evil to make announcements and decisions based on the profits you can make.

If $'s was my only consideration, I'd pirate the game.
If my valid options are paying $25 to Valve, installing the Epic malware or dealing with pirate sites, I'm sending money to Valve.

These are pretty calm messages to an Australian and Garry is British, so culture checks out.

// What the fuck
// Fuck dynamic compiling.
// what the fuck is this shit
// What the fuck, why isnt this a method

Should this by the by commentary be there?
Not really.
But as a programmer, I understand each and every time I see something like:

// Urgh this is so dirty, Invalidate() and Refresh() do nothing.
tButt.AutoSize = false;
tButt.Width = maxWidth;
tButt.Height = maxHeight;
tButt.AutoSize = true;

I have an American based friend who recently visited and I discussed this with him.

His house has an asphalt shingle roof, which is beyond common, it's standard where he is.
This means the roof supports are light, and won't tolerate the load of solar panels (direct weight maybe, but not torque from wind).
Beyond that, his states power company have limited the accredited installers to a group that refuse to sell panels, they effectively lease them to you, with an insane payoff period.
If you go independent, you can't tie into the grid.
He's subject to a HOA, which means he can't build anything in his yard without approval.

And so, whilst he's paid for his dad here in Adelaide to have panels on his roof as a no brainer, he's given up in the US.

There's a perspective problem here.

Australia Post doesn't make profits and losses, it provides services - and services have costs, not losses.
Expecting Australia Post to:
A) Deliver packages of international origin for free
B) To unprofitable remote/rural areas C) AND turn a profit like a business whilst D) For profit courier companies undercut them on profitable metro areas...

Well it's not going to work long term.
And post offices are more than just places to drop off a package you want delivered, lots of people use them as their local bank branch for necessary in person tasks - especially in the a fore mentioned rural areas.

Long story short, Australia Post should not have been privatised - it's an essential service and essential services are natural monopolies.

I know Discord has a lot of time and effort into formulating their exact position on this, justifying it's necessity in the most verbose of terms and I want give them an equally measured response:

no

It's not the android side that's failing, it's Apples refusal to implement anything other than SMS for cross ecosystem compatibility.

About 200 Australians have money.
Almost a quarter of it.

The bureaucrats normally do.
It takes a politician to say something like “The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia,”

That CSAM exists is horrible.
That people would maliciously spread it as some sort of prank puts an extra disgusting veneer on this whole thing.
I hope at least some of these "it's just a prank bro!" people get caught by the police and get shown just how funny society finds them.

.308 is 7.62, civilian measurement vs military (there's actually implications related to pressures, sidewall thicknesses, machining tolerances, but yeah same same)

Vegemite?
Couldn't we just go for nuclear tipped ICBMs like civilized people?
We're not animals.

System too hard to use?
Working as intended.

Every time they get a new applicant through:

We elect "Donald Trumps" all the time.
Clive Palmer.
Craig Kelly.
Barnaby Joyce.
Bob Katter.
Pauline Hanson.
Jacqui Lambie.

They only differ from Trump in degree, not in tactics.
This "article" is a thought bubble, not even a fully fleshed out one.

It isn't the crimes that Trump is accused of committing that are evil, it's the lieing, manipulating, etc that got him in position to do it.
The shit that Palmer did to get elected were basically strong arming an entire electorate to support him.
The shit that Hanson has done through funneling electoral funds through friendly advertising companies SHOULD be considered fraud.

They do a plant based version that is still delicious and doesn't upset lactose intollerent people.

Me: Hi, I need some high quality components, you know better than office stuff, and I'm willing to pay a premium.
Company: Great, we have a huge range. And as a bonus we've covered EVERYTHING in LEDs!
Me: Err, can I get the good mechanical switches and silent fans without LEDs?
Company: Ooh, that's a SPECIAL item! 3x the price!

This is great.
The unused code is (now) no longer an attack surface.
If Kicinski is wrong, someone needs to take ownership of the module and it gets re-added.
Win-Win.

Enormous ecological and financial damage?

Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
"Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it's not cost effective."
"Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST."
"But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we've decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term."
"Don't worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won't actually build more than one of these things."
"Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded."