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quitenormal

@ quitenormal @lemmy.world

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  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet

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  • There are far too many people who will benefit financially from this to allow that to happen.

    Orly? Can you give me a couple of examples?

    I'm opposed to this trend myself, btw. But I just interpreted as a bit of pointless over regulation by a bunch of populist nanny-statists. You're telling me there's financial interests involved as well?

  • TIL the word for "speed" in Norwegian

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  • You've obviously neverheard of the illustrious 8th century Norwegian King, Eystein the Fart.

  • ‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him

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  • We could actually improve our democracy by making voting mandatory.

    In Australia, we've tried that. I have to say, that I personally, am not a fan.

    The consequences of forcing politically ignorant or complacent people to vote is that they end up deciding the result of the election, and you just get skilled used car salesmen as your politicians. They know all the buzzwords and three word slogans to keep the politically apathetic tuned in.

  • ‘It will be the end of democracy’: Bernie Sanders on what happens if Trump wins – and how to stop him

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  • I know you mrrrkns absolutely hate it when furriners' talk about your politics, but it saddens me to see a fellow democracy in such a state. Both these guys are demented old f&@ks! These are the best candidates your democratic system can give you? Really? I know we Aussies have plenty to cringe about, but jeez!

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Labor shelves election promise for inquiry into prosecution of Witness K and Bernard Collaery

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2024/jan/12/labor-shelves-election-promise-for-inquiry-into-prosecution-of-witness-k-and-bernard-collaery

  • E-scooters are linked with injuries and hospital visits – but we can’t say they are riskier than bikes yet

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  • This wouldn't surprise me at all, if it almost entirely be rental scooters.

    Here in Adelaide, they have these rental scooters lining the sidewalks on the nightlife strips - on the weekend!

    This seems to me to be almost criminally negligent. What do they think young people are going to do with these things, while drunk? They are going to ride them, while drunk, and they are going to have accidents, of course. Because they're drunk.

    I like the rental scooters, as they're a great way of getting round the city when you're in a hurry, but they should shut them down on the weekend evenings, FFS.

  • An Australian sentenced to death in China

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  • I wonder whether there'll be this much outage when Jillian Assange is sentenced to decades in prison in the US.

  • There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article]

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  • Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but ......

  • There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen [actual article]

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  • I'm just wondering if we could substitute our current monarchy for the Danish one. Maybe if a Danish naval officer lands at Sydney Cove and plants a flag there? This has a precedent I believe.

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    There’s something about Mary: the Australians going ‘absolutely mad’ over Denmark’s new queen

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  • I honestly don't know what happened there.

  • Peter Dutton calls for boycott of Woolworths after Australia Day merchandise dropped

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  • Cancel culture exemplified.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Scientists take out full-page New York Times ad calling on Australia to end ‘climate annihilation’

    www.abc.net.au /news/2023-09-20/australia-called-to-ramp-up-climate-ambitions-nyt-ad/102876940

  • Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice

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  • I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.

  • Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice

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  • On the top of my head, I'd say a trust-level system would be great, both for instances and users. New instances and users start out on a low trust level. Posts and commemts federated by them could be set to require approval or get deranked compared to other posts and comments.

    Good thinking, but devil's advocate here: might make it difficult for new users to post anything. I can imagine a lot of communities would utilise that feature, maybe even the majority.

  • The Adblockalypse is coming

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  • Great translate feature. Instant.

  • ABC shuts down official Twitter accounts due to 'toxic interactions'

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  • Surprised to know they even had an account there in the first place.

  • Your Computer Should Say What You Tell It To Say - Google is adding code to Chrome that will send tamper-proof information about your operating system and other software, and share it with websites

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  • I downloaded something called Chromium Browser via apt-get in Ubuntu. Seems to be exactly like Chrome, except it's open source. Is this what all the cool kids are going to be using now?

  • World news vs US politics

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  • Problem is that these Americans talk. A lot.

    The grim reaper in Monty Python wasn't just whining. The struggle is real.

  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Climate scientists first laughed at a ‘bizarre’ campaign against the BoM – then came the harassment

    www.theguardian.com /science/2023/may/07/climate-scientists-first-laughed-at-a-bizarre-campaign-against-the-bom-then-came-the-harassment

  • Youtube added shorts to the subscriptions page, pushing the subscriptions almost entirely off the page...

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  • I generally only use the Android client. But if there's any similarity, there's no way to stop them spamming you with their shorts.

    YouTube be like

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  • Yeah it's interesting to think what our world would be like if there were more than one species of hominid.

    Some of us consider homosapiens with different colour skin to be intrinsically different for some reason. What if there were individuals around who were different again?

  • Reddit @lemmy.world
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    I can't post hardly anything on Reddit anyway