@SuperMoosie

Look, here's the bottom line(s):

'Age verification' systems - where a person's ID is submitted - will not work.
Kids will find a way around them.
ID verification systems are a privacy nightmare and something only a dictatorship would implement.

Device/OS/platform 'age restriction' features are workable, but Labor is too incompetent to liaise with the EU to implement them.

It is for parents to supervise and control their kids' devices, NOT for everyone else to have to provide ID just to access social media.

@Zagorath

@makingStuffForFun

50% of Zagorath's name is 'rath'... as in 'wrath'.

Beware the wrath of Zagorath!

@Zagorath

@Zagorath

Oh, I do agree with you, Zag!

I detest the notion of citizens having to provide ID, and solutions - at the device or OS level - could be implemented.

It should be a responsibility of parents to limit the social media access by their children, and NOT the 'surveillance state' solution of compelling the entire population to hand over their 'Australia Card' just to crap on about something here!

@brucethemoose

Well, not quite fearmongering but certainly an unclear sentence that was derived from the study's abstract.

Multiple sites were tested, and the range of contamination across those sites was "four to 4,500 times higher in the Montebello Islands than the WA coastline..."

In short, 'bad' in some places, 'very, very bad' in others.

@mio

@princessnorah

You said, "Oh…OH!"

Yes, precisely. That is how one may express, in word form, the vocal utterances of a user of such objects at the culmination or 'climax' of the experience.

Well... so I've heard...

@ryannathans

That sounds like a Miele. Am I right?

The same 'German efficiency' as VW.

@Davriellelouna

@zero_gravitas

Appreciable difference? Not really. But a 'calculable' difference. Sure!

However, be sure to appreciate the HUGE difference of the landmasses in the northern and southern hemispheres.

The primary way heat "gets into" our atmosphere is via re-radiation from the "ground".

Compare the amount of "ground" between N45° and the North Pole, with that of the amount of "ocean" between S45° and the South Pole.

At perihelion (around 4th Jan.) the southern hemisphere is in summertime, but the southern oceans easily absorb any extra solar energy by being 'a little bit closer to the sun'. It's roughly equivalent to having the energy used by an extra 5000 cars arrive as solar radiation... and for *most* of that solar energy be absorbed by the ocean.

The tiny (almost insignificant) effect the earth's orbital eccentricity has on weather and climate is FAR less than that of our planet's axial tilt and the position of our continental land masses.

But, sure, if some researchers wish to tweak the underlying data used for the Milankovitch cycles, then, fine.

But our world is still on fire, and our children's future will be ashes unless we act now.

@TheCriticalMember
Ah! Cool!
Thanks for clarifying.

When that article was being written and edited, I'll bet there was a moment someone said, "You can't remove that line; that's a load-bearing phrase."

@melbaboutown

It might be about time to leverage the "Commonwealth of Nations" into a formal military pact.

Then the USA would be up against not one, not two, but THREE countries with nuclear weapons.

@Frenchys_prospecting

@BlueSquid0741
Better to keep the batteries 'out' of the radio, but stored 'with' the radio.

If fitted to even a simple device like a torch, pretty much any battery can leak.

If the radio's battery terminals become corroded from a leaking battery...
...well, it's not good.

(Please don't ask me how I know this...)

@shirro

@Zagorath
Generally, truckies just talk to each other on UHF40 (or 29) to arrange safe overtaking.

But a turn signal has always been a warning signal. It points to where one should never be.

It's not uncommon, though, for a truck that has *already* executed an overtaking manoeuvre to 'thank' the vehicle now behind them with an R-L-R-L combo of single flashes, *after* they're back on the correct side of the road.

Some truckies add a 'flourish' of one or two 'hazard light' flashes to the end of the sequence.

But, in all my years on the roads, I've only heard of recently deceased idiots who've tried overtaking a truck that has had its right-hand indicator on.

Things may have changed in the last decade, but FIIK why!