abrazame

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by abrazame 5y ago
It may sound insignificant, but quality-of-life issues like these feel incredibly frustrating, and build the feeling that your computer is working against you, rather than with you (or at the very least at cross purposes to you). Friction i
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by abrazame 5y ago
I'm unsure about this. On the one hand, it does seem unfair to exclude people who aren't rich from particular kinds of investment. On the other, it might be a good protection for the overall system. The investments we're talk
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by abrazame 5y ago
As someone who has worked multiple elections for the Australian Electoral Commission, this is an incredibly rosy view of Australian elections. You’re thinking of the preliminary count in a polling place. On election night, basically the onl
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by abrazame 5y ago
> Really, they're nostalgic for an era when almost everybody else they ran into on the internet shared the background of being a white, male American geek As someone who doesn’t fit into that pigeon hole, and whose friends mostly do
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by abrazame 5y ago
You're not the only one. Reading the news, I feel like a stranger in my own country. Australians don't share the values I thought we did. I'm leaving early next year. A surprising number of my friends are planning to leave so
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by abrazame 5y ago
I'm fairly open-minded to a critical take on trans issues, so I gave the linked podcast a listen, and I just want to report back that it's pretty straight-up conspiracy theory thinking. For example, the author of the book notes th
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by abrazame 5y ago
It's worth noting how little debate there was (or is) on any of this here in Australia, by the by. The government decides this is happening, and the media cheer them on. Any critical voice is instantly branded anti-science, told they d
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by abrazame 5y ago
I’m really interested in reading more of your story. Have you ever done a write up or a longer piece? Or is there one by someone else that you think is fairly on the mark? Do you think there’s a way of mitigating the risk of being hurt &#x2
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by abrazame 5y ago
It's true that AZ isn't enough for herd immunity, but as I understand it neither is Pfizer or Moderna. It's also worth noting that AZ is extremely effective at preventing serious illness or death from the Delta variant (as ar
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by abrazame 5y ago
Funny you should say that, because that's definitely not the perception among my friends. I wouldn't overly generalise from one's own circles (or the circlejerk that is Aussie Twitter/Reddit) - I think there's genui