Chris is a pretty switched on and likeable guy. His take is absolutely right, but I think you also have to tackle the people buying multiple properties as investments. Property just can’t be the safest and most profitable investment in Australia. Negative gearing has to go first, but I wouldn’t mind seeing further steps after that to incentivise the property moguls to sell up (or at least slow their buying).

Yea you’re right. I read the article after commenting and realised my mistake lol. Some of the replies have been entertaining though.

Why are we saying Linux PCs AND steam deck? The steam deck is just a Linux PC. Unless custom work was done for it?

It’s probably so they can tag the pet on the vet’s Instagram stories.

microplastic clouds

Horrific

That’s fair. I think it’s the front of the bike.

Read the caption brotha

Really depends which spin of Android you have. I have a Nothing Phone 2 and the OS is arguably more polished than on my SO’s iPhone 14, which frequently has bugs, lag, and crashes. You can’t really generalise about Android when there are so many versions of it.

That being said I’ll probably be looking into Linux phones in the next few years because I’m tired of corporations trying to control my devices.

Fair analysis. As a member of gen z myself (on the older side, born in the 90s) I can understand how having your hopes dashed like that can be tough.

If we’re talking about the mental toll then I think you’re probably right. Never having hope in the first place hurts slightly less. That being said if we’re talking about actual material wellbeing, it’s pretty clear gen z (so far) have it worse.

I’m saying this as someone who is a slightly older gen z, I feel absolutely blessed to be on the older side as the younger kids are so incredibly fucked it’s hard to even explain. I believed that studying hard would get me places, and it kinda did. If I was even 2 years older it would have got me far further. The shift since covid is hard to overstate. If things carry on in this direction I just don’t see a future for most of my generation.

Not disagreeing that millennials got it tough, but interested to know why you think gen z have it easier than millennials. I haven’t seen this perspective before (at least from someone who’s not a millennial).

AI can already “find” the solution. They’re not listening to it because they’re looking for a magic pill that solves it without needing to change anything. We’re fucked.

Ngl I saw a duck.

Agreed it was bad timing but yeah other companies have been charging more for games for years, calling it a “complete edition” or whatever, and locking people out of content of they don’t pay the full price. But eh it is what it is.

You are being willfully ignorant if you think Sony has got the same negativity Nintendo has been getting recently. I have seen comments calling Nintendo a cancer on the gaming industry, calling for them to go bankrupt, etc. You can’t pretend Nintendo doesn’t get an undue amount of heat when they misstep. My headcanon is that the discrepancy is mostly due to 13 year olds in their edgy phase but it’s still real.

This is not an argument against fair use, but against abuses of the fair use system. Everyone should be for reforming the system in such a way that it is not abused in this way, but that does not mean that we cannot implement a similar system for AI abuses.

I would assume those would fall under fair use of some kind, but you’re right that those fair use laws would need some scrutiny before implementing this. I’m still cautiously optimistic about it, but yeah if I was a lawmaker I’d be thinking hard about the potential misuses of it for sure.

Crazy that this wasn’t already the standard years ago.

Because sycophants keep saying it’s going to take these jobs, eventually real scientists/researchers have to come in and show why the sycophants are wrong.

These guys are so full of shit hahahahaha

Fair enough I suppose. Shame the right wingers co-opted it.