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Much thanks !

KiaOra, mind pointing me in the direction of that research if anything is available?

wtf. I’m glad I won the lottery with where I was born. But saying that, it has to be a constant struggle to prevent that dystopia anywhere. Not luck. Were the shots required for visas? Did you look into the price difference getting them at your destination? - more out of curiosity . $200nzd is the highest price I could find for full dose here in NZ - and thats private (not publicly funded). Approx 100usd. Some of your others would be free. I’m guessing you’re not coming to NZ though so not questioning your choice to vax for whats required at destination - sensible. Just the absolute scam world you poor Americans have to live with. We are all headed there if we aren't careful, and keep our wits.

I’m a non dev and non IT worker but found myself using warp the last year on mac and linux kde for home things and work. I really like it particularly its history per tab and various intuitive usability things like click and drag to select text , copy pasteetc. The login requirement did creep me out, as well as the AI things I’m not using. I don’t trust businesses going in these directions. Anyone recommended another terminal cross platform (not that important i guess) and good for a non uber techie like me?

Edit: apologies I hadn't seen the earlier comment thread but perhaps my requirement mentions will produce some interesting replies.

Its hideous but it isn't new. We just had a period of blissfull ignorance when it was less acceptable to be a rascist coloniser i.e we made some progress , but they were still there simmering in their own filth. Passively aggressively holding in. They've wriggled back out of the cracks emboldened by this mini Trumpist dweeb and possibly by comparable events elsewhere, enabled by spineless reactionary slugs in their coalition (National) that'll agree with whatever ends up being popular - they have no actual value system, beyond following the orders of their political donors. Hatred and division is also the default business model in this phase of the info age. Engagement.

But that may be reducing how serious this could be. I still think these types are a large element of this country , maybe even a majority have a streak of this tendency, so what we have is an ideological clash over what we want this place to be or what to base it on. They want to wind the clock back to their romantic idea of a rosey (non-existent) past. Perhaps it relieves some pent up pressure to have a hopefully short period of this (dangerous to assume though), so making the statement and pushing back as with the hikoi is so important to ensure we dont end up back in a bland homogenous faceless outpost of a dead colony. The mindset is so pervasive, the tendency is quite possibly genetic in us descendants of colonisers and very similar psychology occurs in other European colonies.

Take your pick, especially in those where settlers outnumber the Tangata Whenua. We’ve inherited a hospital pass from hell, but the solutions are so easy beginning with respecting where we are in the world, who’s space we have been allowed to share, and a partnership that was entered into. But most important Looking inward to recognise these tendencies. Self reflection may be beyond these shrivelled slime dwellers though. Theyre like wild animals lashing out when they have everything they need and none of what they perceive is of any threat to their comfortable lifestyles whatsoever. On the contrary, their own attitude is what risks what they have already and theyre being used as cannon fodder for someone else's benefit just like original settlers funnily enough.

Also its tempting to frame it as generational, hopefully it is, but things can wind back, so hoping we will grow out of it will not be enough.

A global look at Short form video as the latest trend in mass misinformation campaigns, including which interest groups, or states conduct them and who they contract (from large scale to possibly unwitting small creators) to produce and post it. How it developed from prior trends, and where it might go next. Perhaps not particularly controversial (in the true sense of the word), but geopolitically worth looking at and discussing more in imo. Of course a privacy and security focus on this is very much integral to the issue by default. How the existing business models around the data involved (harvesting , auctioning etc) might play into this already , and in the years to come. As well as how other business is implicated. Good old “Follow the money” I guess .

According to police records, there have been 19 incidents of indiscriminate violence in China this year in which the perpetrator was not known to the victims. Sixty-three people have been killed and 166 injured in these attacks. This is a sharp increase on previous years - 16 killed and 40 injured in 2023, for instance. While the incidents are still sporadic and rare, they are high-profile. And the videos that often circulate soon after on social media have prompted concern and fear among people. "These are symptoms of a society with a lot of pent-up grievances," Lynette Ong, distinguished professor of Chinese politics at Canada's University of Toronto, told AFP. "Some people resort to giving up. Others, if they're angry, want to take revenge." A slowing economy, high youth unemployment and a property crisis that has hurt savings have led to increasing uncertainty about the future among Chinese people.

Thats a job for ‘journalists’ these days.

Me too. Tried twitter way back in the early days of it. Never found it useful. Others did though obviously, which I don’t understand, but they did. What I find interesting is the seeming need to replace it with something similar. Why? Is it like gradually kicking an addiction by switching to something slightly less bad, but not going full cold turkey?

Yeh the files being little pieces of paper, and the folders being old office folios are skeumorphic. Skeumorphic was (or is?) sometimes used more generically for ui elements made to look physical so perhaps the pseudo 3D shading, dropshadows, bevels and highlights qualify much of OPs examples, though they aren't representing any specific type of physical object necessarily. Just objects to be grabbed and used (clicked).

I’m sure trends will bring us back to a similar style at some point like they often do.

Good thing FB and Insta themselves are skippable.

My 2019 mbp is my work daily driver doing fairly heavy design , video, and blender work no problem. Runs well. Probably gets 6-10 hours a day of use. Video rendering a little slow but not egregiously so. It was upgraded to the max though. Its late 2019 intel. Not sure if its on latest OS but shouldn’t be too far behind.