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Almost 1 in 4 millennials and Gen Z-ers say they won't have kids due to finances
  • Developed countries typically have lower birth rates than undeveloped countries.

    That is more to do with education and women's liberation (including contraception), than finances. Which I suspect is still the predominant reason that birth rates are dropping, with finances just a secondary reason.

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    Trump refuses to criticize Laura Loomer amid concerns from Republican allies about her influence
  • I'm not sure how this helps Trump. He's not some upstart like in 2016 where people didn't know that much about him and the publicity benefited him. All this is doing is solidifying the racist vote, which he already had locked in. The increasing craziness and utter stupidity is going to continue to peel off the slightly more reasonable, and the Democrats can sit back and let the Republicans tear themselves apart.

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    The Guardian: Ig Nobel prize goes to team who found mammals can breathe through anuses
  • and a French study which found that scalp hair tends to whorl in a clockwise direction, though less so in the southern hemisphere.

    We better get the preeminent scientist, Bart Simpson, to actually confirm this.

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    Trump Says He's Done Debating: 'THERE WILL BE NO THIRD DEBATE!'
  • Online scam artists tend to do it, along with random emphasis. It just makes the person using it seem illiterate to me, but we're not the target market.

    Think dick pills, pick up artists, conspiracy theorists, and so on.

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    Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead
  • I'd be happy with 2010 era desktop Linux level of support. It doesn't need to get everybody to switch, just needs to be good enough for my needs.

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  • reneweconomy.com.au Australians don’t know how far the energy transition has come – and that’s a problem

    A new poll has revealed the average Australian has little understanding of how far the transition to renewables has already come. RE-Alliance says that needs to change.

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    Despite tech-savvy reputation, Gen Z falls behind in keyboard typing skills
  • I only learned to touch type properly because I was bored one summer and went cold turkey and learned Colemak. Before that, I had this weird pseudo touch typing technique with some keys being touch typed and others not, and because of the muscle memory, it was difficult to change.

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  • www.theguardian.com Revealed: 15 Australian universities to have their international student cap slashed

    University of Sydney and University of Melbourne’s 2025 caps both reduced by 7%, to 11,900 and 9,300 international students respectively

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    Earbuds
  • Batteries are likely to degrade over time, meaning you’ll eventually end up with a worthless ear bud on the left or right and the only solution will be to throw them out. These things are often pretty bad scoring on repairability metrics, and I can’t even blame the companies producing them here because they’re so small.

    I'm hoping these start getting recycled for their batteries, like the EU has plans to do.

    Anyway, I feel full size wireless headphones are somewhat less problematic as they have bigger batteries, and you can always fall back to wired use (in most cases). But the proprietary app concerns are definitely valid.

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    [discussion] Transporting heavy/bulky stuff?
  • An e-bike might be a better option if you have many hills and are carrying a lot of weight, if not a proper e-cargo bike. But for the former you need to be careful about how adaptable it is to racks and fenders etc, since some are not great.

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  • if you aren’t American you can agitate and tell people “don’t vote, voting for the lesser evil means you end up with slightly less evil and that’s bad, instead you should not vote or ignore mathematics existing and vote third party which is a fancy way of not voting” and then suffer no consequences.

    The entire planet suffers the consequences when Trump undoes all climate action and destabilises the world.

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    userbenchmark calls AMD neanderthals
  • Userbenchmark have a long running grudge against AMD. I'm not sure why, but they therefore aren't a trustworthy source.

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  • www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au How the NACC ‘betrayed its core obligation’

    The National Anti-Corruption Commission has ignored referrals from a royal commission to investigate six public servants over the disastrous robodebt scheme.

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    What a slacker
  • The point is to harm people that have less power than you do. There's a whole political ideology based around that idea.

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    Bluetooth 6.0 adds centimeter-level accuracy for device tracking — upgraded version also improves device pairing
  • LDAC is a very inefficient codec, and isn't lossless even at its highest bitrate. But they are all close to perceptually lossless even at relatively low bitrates so it's a much of muchness.

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    Linda Reynolds failed to offer a ‘basic human response’ after Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, court told
  • Someone among Linda Reynolds’ advisors should have had the courage to tell her that persisting with this defamation trial, especially in the wake of the Bruce Lehrmann trial, is really shitty optics.

    She seems to have the hubris of Lehrmann, as Christrian Porter had before them. Something about being in the Liberal party makes you believe that normal rules don't apply.

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    17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
  • You can also connect rural towns by cycling routes. Some parts of Australia are doing this by adding cycling tracks to long-abandoned rail links (would be nice if some of these were used as rail again but that's another story). Yes, not everyone is going to be willing and able to use these but it's great for tourism, and even getting a small amount of people out of their cars now and then is a win.

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    17% of the US's Infrastructure & Jobs Act goes to transit. 67% goes to conventional highway programs
  • Just add more buses in that case. This is the good kind of induced demand.

    Even then, in a well designed city, there are enough viable alternatives when buses get too crowded (walking, cycling, trains, even a slightly different bus route).

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  • www.theguardian.com Linda Reynolds failed to offer a ‘basic human response’ after Brittany Higgins’ rape allegations, court told

    Higgins’ lawyer also tells defamation trial Reynolds was an unreliable witness and harassed Higgins by leaking documents

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    It became very obvious after starting this channel that probably the biggest motivating force for people who care about urbanism is, simply, the fact that places with great urban qualities are often so unaffordable. Enter YIMBYism, the movement that says the more neighbors, the better, and the more people who can afford to live in a city, the better it is for everyone.

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    www.theguardian.com Gina Rinehart’s personal message to NGA about her portrait revealed in FOI documents

    Billionaire wrote to the National Gallery weeks before furore erupted after a ‘concerned friend’ had told her about the now infamous painting

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    reneweconomy.com.au Households will produce more energy than they consume by 2040, and AEMO is paying attention

    Rooftop solar, home batteries and other consumer energy resources have been listed alongside large-scale renewables and storage as critical to reliable supply – but work needs to be done to coordin…

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    www.abc.net.au You have the right to disconnect from work after hours from today. But what does that mean in practice?

    The right to disconnect means you can reasonably refuse to be contacted outside of work hours. For people tied to the 'digital leash' of phones and email this marks a substantial boost in their right to break free.

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    reneweconomy.com.au “Purely phenomenal:” AEMO says world is watching as rooftop PV leads surge to 100pct renewables

    AEMO says world is watching as Australia leads in the penetration of wind and solar in the grid and addresses the engineering challenges.

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    www.abc.net.au SunCable receives environmental approval from Albanese government for Australia-Asia Power Link

    SunCable's Australia-Asia Power Link project in the remote Northern Territory has received crucial approval from the Commonwealth government.

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    www.theguardian.com ‘Enough is enough’: teal MPs call out ‘misogyny’ of Coalition MPs in question time

    After an often-heated parliamentary sitting, new figures show spike in ejections of opposition members as Kylea Tink labels behaviour ‘unacceptable’

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    [Steam] Bomb Rush Cyberfunk ($19.99 USD / 50% off)

    store.steampowered.com Save 50% on Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on Steam

    Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is 1 second per second of advanced funkstyle. Battle rival crews and dispatch militarized police to conquer the five boroughs of New Amsterdam. Become All City.

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    www.theguardian.com ‘Mind-boggling’: Victorian outreach workers decry double standard for lifesaving overdose drug naloxone

    Untrained bystanders can legally administer the opioid-reversal treatment – but frontline staff workers face a legal risk if they do not first call triple zero

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    www.theguardian.com Why are Australians in denial about how cold our homes really are? ‘Winter stoicism’ is partly to blame | Reena Gupta

    I work from home with a hot-water bottle on my lap, wearing a dressing gown over my many layers of clothes. We do what we’ve got to do

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    www.theguardian.com Dutton praises Canada to sell nuclear plan. But does Ontario really have cheaper power? | Temperature Check

    Opposition leader’s argument is puzzling given Canadian provinces dominated by renewables pay less for electricity

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    tl;dr EEVDF CPU scheduler that has replaced Linux's previous default scheduler (CFS), is close to completion. CPU schedulers can have a significant effect on performance and latency of various tasks.

    It will be interesting to see how it compares to BORE which is what I use on my desktop systems. There's also the many workload specific schedulers that sched_ext allows for, but it's still not in mainline I believe.

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