She's really killed Harry Potter for me. I'm envious of the people who are able to separate the art from the artist, because I would love to play this game but I just can't enjoy anything from that universe anymore without thinking about the horrible person JK Rowling has turned out to be.

The real conspiracy is that there's only one recognised holiday per year for most species on the planet, except for humans that get several per month. Seems to me that humans are trying to keep other species from having enough free-time to plot the revolution.

I also believe a lot of the hate stemmed from an undercurrent of real-life red-pill misogynists, but that's not to say all criticism was invalid.

The social commentary around She-Hulk was wild. The fact that certain parts of the fanbase were losing their minds over a silly post-credits twerk with Meghan the Stallion was both unsettling and entertaining to witness. If anybody had a problem with that but not the recurring America's ass joke in Endgame, they really need to go and take a good long look at themselves.

I think those quotes at the bottom are a really great summary of the problem with the Coalition's nuclear plan:

“As I said, from an engineering point of view nuclear power is an excellent form of energy,” Dr Finkel said. 

“What we can’t do is say, ‘Oh, nuclear is easy, therefore let’s stop all the wind and jump on to nuclear.’ 

“It just can’t possibly happen in the time-frame that we need. But that doesn’t mean we should rule it out because there’s that long term benefit.” 

I could see the merits of beginning to invest in nuclear now, given the time required to get it up and running, but only so long as the shift to renewables isn't interrupted. Unfortunately, I think the LNP see this as a way to seem like they give a shit about climate change, but really it's just a way to buy them another decade or two to line their pockets with coal.

Yeah, replying "Get fucked" to a response that brings up a lot of good counter-arguments to your original point will certainly make it look like you were bringing up immigration in good-faith.

At least here in Australia, we believe in the right for a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of coal mining, and renewable energy threatens that right.

Now that the world is turning away from coal as much as possible, we're now pivoting to allow a select group of billionaires to make money off the land in the form of uranium mining, and renewable energy also threatens that.

At least with Metallica, we could laugh at the irony of a band regularly releasing songs about anarchy crying about piracy.

I've been able to strip the Kobo DRM out of a couple of book bundles using Calibre. Haven't bought this one yet, but I'd assume there wouldn't be a problem.

supposed to work synergistically with renewable energy

Well, there's your problem. They don't want something to work alongside renewables. They want to delay renewables for as long as they possibly can to keep the mining gravy train chugging along for as long as possible.

I think we do need to keep developing new technologies, because there are always going to be situations where renewables aren't ideal, but that's not the "problem" that SMRs in Australia are supposed to be solving.

But Microsoft is doing exactly the same thing, only instead of paying for exclusivity of one title, they're buying developers so not just their next title, but all future releases will be exclusive, up until MS decides they're not worth it and dumps them.

Sony absolutely participates in anti-consumer practices, but let's not pretend that MS is any better.

Microsoft are no longer interested in selling consoles necessarily, otherwise they'd be holding stuff back from PC as well. They're interested in getting people into their ecosystem through Game Pass.

And while I agree with you that Sony and Nintendo have used plenty of anti-consumer practices, Microsoft has also done so in the past and I think the only reason they've been more pro-consumer of late is because they've been the underdog for a long time now. I would be anticipating a change in their behaviour the more people they get to subscribe to Game Pass, and this Activision-Blizzard deal is a huge step towards that.

Already got a message from NAB yesterday that our mortgage repayments are going up yet again, so unless they're backtracking on that after today's decision, I feel like many people are in fact not breathing a sigh of relief.