No need to help you. If you're actually addicted you'll figure it out.

Maybe get addicted to an education instead. Words have meanings, and neither Uber Eats or Fortnite meet the definitions of the words you used in that same sentence.

We actually don't need anecdotes. We have actual statistics to work with which show that smoking rates in under 18s have plummeted. Also what do you mean a kid smelling of smoke would have been noticed immediately? Yes. The answer is yes. Kids smelled of smoke. But you couldn't punish kids for smelling, you could only punish them for catching them in the act, and even then only on school grounds. ... Sorta... I went to a private school so there was a "disgracing the uniform" policy that many kids got in trouble for when they were seen (and recognised) smoking in public while wearing their blazers.

Congrats, you discovered the point I was making while trying to counter it.

No it's not. Your right to free speech is not impinged by preventing Facebook from offering you a service. At no point are you being censored or persecuted for what you say.

Tell us you don't know anything about Taylor Swift without telling us. You don't need to do any guess work here, there's a lot of behind the scenes "making of" footage out there. Most of her songs being in her head, and then get punched into piano keys or strummed on guitar strings while she takes note in an old fashioned pen and paper style notebook.

Virtually none of her music is loop-based, virtually none of it is sampled. And calling someone who expertly plays 8 instruments and writes all their own music not an "actual musician" isn't an insult to her, it just demonstrates what a loser you actually are.

I don't like Taylor Swift's music, but will happily defend her from being shat on by ... wait didn't she write a song about you? Haters gonna hate or something like that?

Just because people aren't paying attention to the opening act doesn't mean it's forgettable, it just means they paid for something other than watching the opening act. There have been some truly excellent opening acts, in fact your favourite band was likely at some point an opening act for someone else.

Correct. Propeller based systems have a record of 12km. Most drones and other propeller based vertical lift craft have a limit closer to around 6km. Weather balloons can go as high as 30km.

Because browsers are expected to be whole self contained isolated operating systems. The modern web is complicated. There's a reason you can literally run Windows 95 in your browser. https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015...

Addicts will work around the ban. This generation is already lost. The ban helps start a new generation of addicts, the kind who haven't yet been fed algorithmically designed addiction.

Hey, here's an idea, I've got this awesome new site, you'll love it! All you need to do is jump through a whole lot of hoops to get to it. You in? If so I'll send you the 10 step instructions!

Did you just say "social media" and "socialising" in the same idea? Do you actually have a fucking clue what is being discussed? Virtually no one socialises on social media. Kids aren't sending each other TikToks, or posting on each other's Facebook. Get a fucking clue.

No you can't. While there's no absolute right to free speech in Australia, there is an absolute right to protecting speech related to any religion. And precisely zero people have been imprisoned for "criticizing Islam". Please leave bullshit for the cows.

Correct, your only mistake is thinking that encryption has any role to play in this. That is what this entire case is about. A contractual screw up to protect data. That applies whether you hand them an encrypted drive or a bunch of plain text rubbish.

We thankyou for your thoughtful and detailed rebuttal. Your value to the discussion and society as a whole has been noted.

In a place where smoking is prevalent because our government is doing nothing to stop it. Unlike in say ... Australia where teenage smoking is now in the sub 5% range which is an insane decline compared to when I went to school there.

Or we could look to the numbers in the previous story on this which said 30% stopped. The numbers vary depending on method of recording. The reality is some people have stopped. Success.