Until recently they were recommending Intel CPUs over AMD at the low end, saying they provided better value for money in that segment. And they used to recommend Intel processors for gaming, back when they had the gaming crown.

As someone from a not-US country, I’m always amazed at how right wing the US “liberal” policies are. If Biden was our PM he’d be more right wing than our most recent conservative PM.

The workplace isn’t high school.

It can be. I’ve definitely seen cases which were more high school than a professional workplace.

Expected work hours seem to be increasing everywhere over the last twenty years or so. It’s gotten pretty nuts.

Lithium is used in grid storage:

• Hawaii
• Ventura County
• Collie
• Hornsdale
• Bouldercombe
• Geelong

And that’s just what I could find in a couple of minutes.

They’re meant to survive an order of magnitude more cycles than Li-ion. But I’m containing my enthusiasm until we see them lasting a long time in real life use.

They’re meant to have a much wider temperature range than Li-ion, theoretically.

Close… That moon’s called LV426

And politicians drink alcohol so they’re not exactly lining up to ban it.

I found one from the early 2000s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOxSWzi9G_g

I don’t think it was specifically DARE here but I do remember some super cringe anti-drug ads in the late 80s or maybe early 90s.

“To serve and protect”

I think they may have lost track of that…

The updated version: “To harass and murder”

Democracies usually have laws and some kind of government. There are no laws in Freetown Christiania and there’s no individual who has direct power over another.

I think this is a common misconception about anarchies - that there’s no social control of any kind. If you look at actual real world anarchies like Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen they don’t believe in a complete absence of organisation. Far from it - they develop community-based committees which have no actual power in themselves but are used to develop concensus on issues that affect the whole community. So rather than abolishing all rules they’re all about human collaboration and concensus.

For instance when hard drugs became a problem in Christiana the residents got together and banned hard drugs. It’s not a law as such but everyone’s in agreement that if you try to sell hard drugs you’ll be ejected.

It’s not a perfect place and it’s hard to say that their brand of anarchy works well as a system of government. It seems to have been a mixed experience for many people who’ve lived there. But it’s definitely been an interesting social experiment.

There are plenty of documentaries on youtube if you’re interested.

We have ranked voting in Australia. It works pretty well.

It’s a normal sized guitar and an unusually large cat.

In other news only 40.01% of Australians care about US politics.

BHP was the one behind the weak messages attributed to the yes campaign. They deliberately played this one to lose.

Smoking’s already dramatically fallen out of popularity with younger people, being replaced by vaping. So I don’t think it really matters what they do at this point - smoking’s a dinosaur waiting to die.

It’s most commonly used in the UK

Also common in Australia