Pup Biru

i hate that all that’s a thing for you

idk i think our aussie plugs are a good middle ground: they’re about mid way between UK and US in size, are not reversible, don’t have a fuse (but laws govern the type of current things can handle: extension cords MUST be 10A which covers a standard 10A home circuit - i believe there’s some extra built into the rating too), power boards the same, and have a 10A safety switch built into them which prevents daisy chaining over the current just like the fuse

repairability probably not so good, buuuuut i’ve never had a cable break so maybe we do something different with the construction that solves that need?

tax doesn’t destroy money… tax money gets recirculated… tax money is part of the economy… it literally buys goods and services

where do you think it goes?!??? do you think governments just set fire to piles of cash?

yes printing cash is a thing that governments rarely do - mostly to replace physical cash that does get destroyed, but it’s generally a very bad economic policy for governments to print cash… it devalues their currency and has a lot of truly awful flow-on effects (like loss of confident in the currency as a whole) that are far worse than the effect of having the extra cash

… and also printing cash is the opposite of what we’re talking about

well obviously! education turns people woke!

$s never decrease - they just circulate… if nobody you know has any, and the tv is saying nobody like you has any, someone else has them

(kinda)

this is meant to be read without the emotional loading to the words that we’ve been conditioned with: ie X is implicitly bad… these are just words, whose meaning has more depth than what they actually define

terrorism is

the use of violence against non-combatants to achieve political or ideological aims

violence is

an act of physical force that causes or is intended to cause harm

arson is violence

and this particular act of violence is intended to achieve political or ideological aims (musk is a political figure albeit not an official government employee, and this is in response to his public political acts)

now, i’d argue it’s not “against non-combatants”, but perhaps it is? is destruction of a persons property constitute violence against them? it’s at least psychological - trying to scare/influence for sure

let’s not kid ourselves though: it is what it is… it’s just ridiculous that this is what they pursue while pardoning jan 6 offenders… the issue isn’t that they’re labelling this domestic terrorism. the issue is that it’s singled out because fElon asked daddy dictator

“both foreign and domestic” i guess is the repurposed phrase aye?

“screens for everything”.
“screens for three diseases”.

you never answered my question about what other diseases are relevant to the conversation

these are the STDs that are actually relevant to talk about. there are no others, unless you have some information on some novel new STD, in which case i’d love to hear about it

caution information and talking about sex is not FUD

i agree! what is FUD is overstating the risks with statements like “pustules on your genitals” and suggesting that there are relevant STDs that aren’t well tested/treated/prevented

there are risks, but the risk of contracting STDs if using condoms is very low. the risk of contracting antibiotic resistant STDs is also incredibly low

there is, however, and actual risk in stigmatising these things so that people don’t talk about them and educate themselves

getting an STD is absolutely fine! get tested, get treated, tell sexual partners, no drama… that’s exactly what the public health messaging is because that’s what works to keep people healthy

mitigate risks, don’t pretend like they’re irrelevant.

of course: you should always mitigate risks… but don’t act like something is more dangerous than it is… you’re making out here like having sex is as dangerous and base jumping, and that’s such an unhelpful position to take that it is actually dangerous to people’s health

this is exactly the issue with “abstinence based” sexual education: if you go too hard, people won’t actually trust when they hear the real risks because people have overblown the risks in the past

it’s a lot of risk that is worth considering before making an informed decision

i would agree that there is some risk and it’s always worth being educated but stigma and FUD contribute to people not wanting to talk about sex

“getting tested” doesn’t cover most STI’s unless you’re symptomatic

patently untrue. a standard STI screen covers HIV, chlamydia, and gonorrhea

these are by far the most common STIs that’s cause anyone issues without other complications, and tests accurately catch them within weeks. standard public health advice is STI tests every 3mo for sexually active individuals (and in fact if you’re on PrEP to cover you against HIV, you get a 3 month script so it’s pretty much ensured)

HPV, Herpes, and many others are diseases for life

the HPV vaccine is very effective, herpes i’d agree with but causes minimal issues for the enormous majority of people without complications, and i don’t know what you mean by “many other”. if you can list them, id be happy to engage but otherwise the rest of that is more FUD

skill in knowing who to trust…

nope not at all! it’s public health. it has very little to do with trust, other than trying to limit as much as possible to people who know that telling their sexual partners when they get a positive test result is a healthy thing to do, and they won’t be berated for it… the main thing here is that you should feel confident that your sexual partners are going to tell you ASAP when you’ve been exposed, and that more than anything reduces that 3mo timeline and keeps everyone safe… but that only happens when people don’t stigmatise and fear the outcome

… i guess it also helps that here in australia STI tests are free and treatments all cost a couple of $

or you can just make sure everybody “gets tested” but that’s not how getting tested works.

as i’ve stated previously, it is with PrEP and with gay men - i don’t know much about the heterosexual community, but we have very active sexual health campaigns and they work

and walking down the street isn’t 100% safe

that’s a much more reasonable way of putting it that i did, yes, thank you

would you like to elaborate?

because

• HIV is preventable through PrEP
• gonorrhoea is curable with antibiotics
• syphilis is curable with antibiotics
• chlamydia is curable with antibiotics
• mgen is curable with antibiotics
• many of the above are preventable with DoxyPEP
• herpes is treatable
• HPV is preventable through vaccination

and your “pustules on my genitals” is just complete FUD

STIs are all curable, treatable, or preventable

a duopoly is better than a monopoly but 3 platforms would be better

personally, my reasoning for saying it trounces it is the integration of all the tools: no switching to after effects etc

but beyond that, ppro colour correction is just soooooo far behind

granted i haven’t really used it much, so i might not have “got” its workflow - it took a while for resolves to click - but it just seems so disjointed and clunky to do anything beyond cutting together a basic video

Davinci Resolve has to be one of the most jam packed free software packages available… seriously, it absolutely trounces Premiere at evvvverything

the model of free for everything except if features you’d want for producing a professional movie, and financed by hardware sales - that you don’t need unless you’re a professional - is absolutely incredible for home users

not everyone that downloads content isn’t paying for it… they might just want it in a place or format that isn’t being provided

it’s like the yellow/blue/white/black dress but it’s not an optical illusion

and unfortunately for them a large number of the backup applications consist entirely of “attach a string to it”

i think some form of advertising is useful no matter the structure of your society: if you have a cool idea for a new product, getting the word out is an important way of making it a reality

what we don’t need is the constant, and ever-present repetitive drone of advertising mundane things that you already know about