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>Nature Conservation Council ecologist Mark Graham told parliament: “[Koalas] really have no capacity to move fast enough to get away [from the flames].

Seems like natural selection to me

lol someone was so irked by this small dose of truth that he proceeded to downvote all of my past comments


This would actually be interesting if the author wasn't trying to be funny.


I'm still trying to understand if the author is making fun of Windows or making fun of himself.


Maybe they're making fun of you for overthinking it.


I think the author is just having fun.


Even then it would still be useless. Windows updates also get stored on disk, so the disk space requirements grow over time.


If you use Brave you have to enable device recognition attempts or you won't see anything. https://i.imgur.com/QYIBFVO.png


It was quite literally leftist virtue signalling. A way for those companies to say "I support gun control".


I support gun control but do not support the censorship in emojis. So I don't know about that.


Skim milk tastes like whole milk that's been watered down. Simply unpleasant.


>Laws should only be passed when you’re harming someone else.

Cough cough DUI cough cough liver disease cough cough domestic violence


> DUI

Is illegal and I don't think anyone here is arguing against that.

> Liver disease

That's harming you, not someone else. If the state pays for the healthcare requirements that then arise then a more nuanced argument can be made, but surely if it's your own liver and you pay for healthcare then you're harming no one else.

> Domestic violence

Once again, already illegal and I don't think anyone here is arguing against that.


I like your arguments against gun control: murder is illegal already, after all.


My argument against gun control is similar to my argument on the “War on Drugs”. It wouldn’t be enforced equally. Do you think they are more likely to arrest one of the good ol boys in the south for having a gun illegally or a minority?

Also, the US has a poor history of actually getting rid of things that people want.


We should consider outlawing DUI and domestic violence



Only the requester got it.

You could go the government’s list of Completed Access to Information Requests page, find Canadian Forces and ask for an informal copy.

They may send you a copy.

There may be a lot of rédactions though.

It may not be up yet, might be a few months.


Actually I think it's quite a good idea if it stays up. It will show him the consequences of what he's preaching. A taste of his own medicine. (I support laws like the right to be forgotten, and I believe decentralisation to be a bad idea because it defeats those laws.)


Moxie's talk is a critique of decentralization, so how is this a "taste of his own medicine"?


that argument depends on the cooperation of the centralized parties in power, whose motivations are not necessarily aligned with (in fact, are usually opposed to) a person's desire to be forgotten.


(2005) in case you're confused about the "five years ago" remark


>This is the reason why none of your Amazon purchase confirmations list the items you purchased any more

Just checked a recent email from Amazon I received on a Gmail account and that is false.


I just checked the emails I received from Amazon from Christmas purchases, and it is not false. I don't doubt you, but I'm curious what the difference is. I'm looking at order confirmation emails and package ship/delivery emails. They only list order numbers for me, and I need to click through to the Amazon account to see the actual items.

Is there a different category of purchase that you're looking at, or is there something I'm missing?

Edit: I am looking online and I'm not seeing any articles that reference Amazon hiding orders specifically to thwart Gmail tracking, so it's very possible I'm wrong and that's just anecdote. But that being said, they definitely aren't showing individual items in my email confirmations. Is there a preference for this that I forgot I toggled?


In my experience, I’ve noticed that order confirmation includes order details: shipping confirmation not. Took me a while to notice the pattern, and I still find it frustrating.



Do both of you use gmail?


I'm on Fastmail. I looked back at some of my old Gmail emails and they do list items. The Fastmail emails do not. This strikes me as really weird, if anything I would expect it to be the opposite.

Regardless, it's pretty clear that Amazon doesn't universally hide order information, so my assertion that they're doing it to avoid Gmail tracking seems to be pretty objectively wrong. If they were, they would do a better job.

Note that Gmail is still tracking your purchases, that's pretty widely established, and until recently, they were using your purchase history for ads. But I'm definitely wrong about Amazon's response, and I can't track down whatever source gave me that idea.


My confirmation emails contain zero product information.


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