I remember seeing a video of their system behind the scenes, maybe in an attempt to reassure us we’re not being facial recognitioned or something – it showed height dots walking around the store.

Hmm, so it’s actually far worse… I suppose that means gait analysis, too (≈mood/tiredness?). Combined with where you go in the store, how you pause at each display, what time of day/week, then finally correlating it with your card details and direct in your face camera at the checkout.

It’s an incredibly detailed picture of who someone is.

What a lovely relationship they have with Palantir and Microsoft. I love being a participant in the genocide machine every time I feed myself. (I’m assuming Coles is still in bed with them).

Australia (and other countries not in the slop graph) are in this source for the post’s linked article.

The Aus stats are from 2021, too (most of the other countries are 2024). I can’t see how PPP was worked out, or if inflation comes into it. Also, '21 is in the midst of covid.

My anecdotal feeling is that our wages go a long way here. Food is cheap and high quality, essential medical care is pretty much free, fuel is cheap, electricity is cheap (in most states), taxes are low.

What about at or beyond the equator from the language’s native region?

sigh I knew alekwithak’s comment would get misinterpreted and downvoted.

FFS, the negative reaction against the stream of “unreasonable” questions posed above is exactly the problem. A question is asked of a professional warrants a clear compassionate response, not prejudice and derision.

Yes, the single aspect of Vitamin K1 injections/oral for neonates is highly effective uncontroversial science based medicine, but one needs to remember the context: so much of what parents are pushed to do medically around pregnancy and childbirth in a hospital-based birth is controversial and questionable, and in many cases the norms pushed by hospitals have evidence against them yet are still pushed by that system (for example: GBS testing & prophylactic antibiotics, gestational diabetes testing, routine induction before 42-43 weeks, continuous electronic fetal monitoring, circumcision).

In any case, prophylactic vitamin K1 can be offered orally if the parent is averse to shots for the newborn, sidestepping much of the perceived issue. It’s unconsciable that this is not offered in some places (USA).

Oral vitamin K1 is almost as effective as injected K1, and most countries seem to offer it orally as an alternative to injected. Oral is pretty much just as effective as injected. 1, 2

The article doesn’t mention oral. Is it still not approved in the US? (It’s the same formulation as that injected).

It’s very cheap. In Australia it costs ~9AUD (~7USD) for a single dose vial with oral syringe without subsidies.

Meth (“Therapy Chatbot Tells Recovering Addict to Have a Little Meth as a Treat”)

Article from January. The list is longer now.

The widespread gently-spoken implicit celebration of genocide (and further depraved violence against civilians of the region) is sickening.

But don’t be upset, you’ll make someone feel unsafe. ^/s

The trouble in Australia with the Fairphone models is that some/all networks are blocking them due to a perceived/actual risk they may not work reliably on Australian networks, and Fairphone has not done what the networks demand for that approval. (There’s a heightened risk-aversion here at the moment due to a few highly-publicised emergency-call routing/connection/fallback failures).

It’s a work in progress though, and it should work already/eventually:
https://forum.fairphone.com/t/3g-network-closure-australia/109696

Is it neutral to take a welcoming stance towards the leader of a government currently enacting a genocide?

Nah just reflecting on the absurdity that the mere mention of river and sea may be criminalised by the Queensland government soon.

between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River

Careful there, mate… _/s

Oh, and that’s just a teaser! The full thing is a 90 page book. Looks like it might be available online for residents’ state libraries (australia), and hardcopy, and maybe elsewhere:

• https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/search?query=any%2Ccontains%2CDateline+jerusalem&vid=61SLV_INST%3ASLV&search_scope=slv_local&tab=searchProfile
• https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/247505305/version/277725518 294900339 296927209 297384332 303974862 307606585?keyword=dateline+jerusalem
• https://search.worldcat.org/title/1285257953

According to worldbank.org:

• In 2022 the crude death rate across Gaza and West Bank was 3.0/1000pop/year.
• In 2023 it was 7.0/1000pop/year.

I expect Gaza specific stats are worse. Maybe someone else has further info they can cite, perhaps also relating to 2024-2025, but like others have said, such data is difficult to collect when Israel repeatedly bombs hospitals and their personnel.

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…yet our foreign interference concerns seem to be limited to panicking about things like “cybersecurity risks in Chinese-built electric buses”.

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