We should just syphon all the water out of the ocean, put it in a giant still and use a massive rocket to move it near the sun.

Now we have unlimited steam energy and way more land to build things on. Winning!

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Anything public yet and are they sticking to Rust?

Basically yeah, it’s cheaper to use chemicals other than what’s approved to make a chemical vape. We were seeing a bit of an endemic of kids being hospitalised because of them.

It’s worth keeping in mind these vapes were coming from the same place where even baby formula wasn’t off limits to substitute dangerous chemicals into to save a buck.

Unfortunately not bullshit.

Here in Australia, just about every tobacco store was selling them under the counter to kids, often still wearing their school uniforms. Worst still, most of the vapes were dodgy grey market imports with undeclared and often dangerous chemicals in them as well as nicotine. There were more of these stores near schools then there were stores that sell candy.

Common sense dispenery laws for both vapes and recreational cannabis like Canada would make sense here too but our politicians are too beholden to corporate interests and think of the children fear mongering.

Chinese phones are generally pretty good and cost a lot less so it’s not surprising at all.

I’d probably take the motorcycle at least and see if I can convert it to run on wood gas.

They could have just paid the CEO a little less to cover it too. It was just greed so they could sell the data at a pittance, even though the cat is already out of the bag.

Australia is super concentrated, the duopoly own 70% of the grocery store market as well as others like 60% of the alcohol market. The rest is made up of convenience stores (mostly one company, IGA) and Aldi, the latter having single digit percent.

You basically sell and buy groceries though these two or you don’t exist. The CEO of one of them got so cocky during a recent interview he was forced to resign over it.

As an Australian who has to deal with the duopoly of our grocery stores after we let them all merge years ago, it absolutely will drive higher prices and nobody who isn’t a shareholder should want this.

They basically “collude” to fix and raise prices here and have whole teams of people who’s job it is to monitor and extract as much money out of us as possible. They also force growers to accept shitty deals or they reject their produce due to “not meeting their quality standards” and there’s basically nowhere else for them to sell it in the quantities they need to.

Nobody wins in grocery store mergers except the shareholders.

Nobody should own a private (personal) jet.

They want to actually do it and be the one to do so.

I’m perfectly fine with the unwashed masses flocking to non-federated services, it means things will remain sane a while longer over here.

Politicians absolutely have a responsibility to exercise their positions appropriately just like any other job. The problem is we’ve all forgotten this and default to the “well vote them out” excuse to excuse some blantly shitty behaviour that nobody else would ever get away with in a regular job.

Just look at how Trump is still bizarrely in the running to become US president again for just how far we’ve let them push it. It’s a disgrace.

So Capitalism, gotcha.

Only seems fair if you don’t pay your bills.

Traitor.

Being a loser sounds pretty great actually.

You’re also completely at the whims of your power company for your heating/cooling needs. Here in Australia they privatised the electricity companies and our power bills are astronomical unless you are one of the fortunate few who own their own house and can install solar.

So is most of the junk they sell on Amazon. I’ve gotten so many fake and poor quality products in the last couple of years that I shop anywhere else I can first.