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Fuck suffering. The system should be focused first on rehabilitation and second on seperating the person from society so they can't harm others.

The infliction of suffering does nothing to help society at all. It just creates horribly broken people in prisons and encouraging hate outside.

If someone can't be rehabilitated I see no issue in providing a comfortable isolated environment for them. Hell, give them whatever drugs they want too, who cares, just keep them away from society.

First thing I tried yeah, I tested a few and verified with a multi meter. It isn't that sadly :(

I have a motherboard in a state where it won't boot unless you pull and reinsert the cmos battery. After this it will boot exactly once.

It will also boot without issue if you don't have a cmos battery at all. This is obviously not ideal.

I wonder if these issues are related? I purchased the motherboard second hand in this state about a year ago. So it is far too early for this update, but it remains a mystery.

They were protesting outside the US consulate

I absolutely paid attention to these things, even spending more on more efficient appliances after figuring out the break even time on the price difference.

I consider the power usage of everything in my home. I'm down to 300w idle draw from more than 700w.

I'm pretty annoyed to find out the star scheme is bullshit :(

Your idea works great as described. The system has grown beyond that though. Capitalists receive these IOUs because they own a portion of a company that owns a thing that neither the company nor the capitalist has ever had anything to do with. They receive these IOUs in perpetuty, but they never provided any contribution to the creation of anything.

Then you stack this a billion times, with IOUs servicing IOUs, amplifying the amount of IOUs, and skimming IOUs at every point from people who actually do the work, just to increase the number of IOUs held by a handful of people, until those people who contribute nothing, now hold the majority of the worlds IOUs.

This is fucked.

It's pretty obvious, it's right there in the name, capitalism.

Shit sucks.

Ugh, no.

The liberal party are terrible, I don't want them to start claiming they're in support of net zero. Because that's all it would be, a claim. They would continue to push for more emissions and continue their anti science bullshit, just not publically.

I never want to see these fucks in power again.

That's absurd. Reporting super details to the government for 80,000 Australians would not be a significant ongoing cost for any competent provider.

There would be an initial cost to develop the reports, the ongoing cost would be minimal as it would be spread across the existing costs to maintain their reporting infrastructure.

If somehow this is true for some super providers, you should avoid those providers as they are already operating with incredible inefficiency.

I do wonder how it would work for those in defined benefit schemes, but I doubt any of those are above the $3m threshold.

The constant chase of productivity increases can make sense, but only if you're not trying to increase output at the same rate.

We should be trying to reduce the total amount of work done, while increasing the quality of life of all Australians. If that is the goal then productivity increases are a win for everyone.

Tofu is pretty good when prepared well. Very low chance of contracting some fucked disease too.

When testing just remember, any positive at all, no matter how faint, means you are infectious.