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  • You probably know about it more than me..

    I've been onsite plenty of times when they've been cutting that stuff up. Some owners argued better PPE would be enough for the Stonemasons, but it won't protect other people where its being cut.

    Furthermore, nobody NEEDS engineered stone anyway, and people tend to take shortcuts when they are in a rush

    And its mainly the workers affected. The people selling it are sometimes the ones who aren't even cutting it up (especially because they know there are risks).

    Feel bad for my friend though who now has silicosis and no way to cure it.

  • When it's cut for bench tops and such , that's what exposes people.

    Lots of stonemasons here in Australia now have silicosis because of it.

    Natural stone has far less issues and there is stone available which doesn't cause it

    Business owners were also claiming they weren't given enough time to switch. Everyone including me (I have a friend with silicosis now) has known engineered stone was dangerous to work with for years.

    So they had years of warning that it was dangerous But they pretend like it was unexpected.

  • Haven't you heard though?

    Both parties are the same apparently

    Also "hunter bidens laptop" /s

    It's literally 1 party which isn't following any laws and getting in shit fights with literally, vs a party where Israel is the only bad thing that can be said about it...

    It's like that black mirror episode with Waldo.

  • Here in Australia we just banned engineered stone because it tends to cause silicosis

    And yep, lots of shitty business owners whined and a few shit customers on Facebook

    Silicosis is what's killing people at the moment, and business owners in particular don't seem to care, despite the fact there's is alternatives

  • They stopped using them on construction sites specifically for that reason. You can just cut them off (or knock them off the wall), and open them at your leisure. Everyone hides the keys instead now.

    Also, its just a stupid solution for AirBNB too, since anyone can easily clone the keys. You're better off installing a lock that accepts pin numbers and you can change whenever a guest leaves

  • Don't forget that also being anti woke for whatever reason is really important.

    Which basically is just a codeword that just means they think they can bully anyone they disagree with to make them fall in line

    And they're always the victim of course

  • Voting for people like this is like being convinced to punch yourself in the dick.

    Some people need to wait to discover what a truly shit idea it is before. Its a pity that when people get cancer, it doesn't pop up with a label saying it was caused by Coal and car fumes, because if it did, the choice would be obvious

  • Yep. Was going to mention that

    And they say what percentage in Australia in a lot of cases

    A year ago, I thought it was stupid. But with trump in charge, Im even switching to Linux now, and dumping Apple music for Spotify again

  • At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he's doing, and what a load of bollucks his promises were.

    It looks like at least news.com.au in Australia has turned on him a bit (Sky news though is still out there brainwashing people 150% though to make up for it)

  • If anyone is stupid enough to vote libs (or even worse, clive), honestly, it's an indication we need to spend more on education.

    Even the crappiest Independents are more likely to be better.

    Also, make sure you show up to vote with a list of who you want to vote for. There are a lot of shit parties out there with misleading names

  • Except doesn't this replace their old tool? So, its not really fragmenting anything if its replacing an existing project.

    Fragmentation isn't great, but it can be beneficial in some cases too. I've contributed to a number of projects.

    Over the last 20-30 years, I've seen plenty of projects fail, and new ones take over.

    If you take a look at arts/eaudio and the other sound servers of 20 years ago. All failed, because Pulseaudio consolidated and killed them eventually. Now, Pulseaudio is on its way to getting killed by Pipewire. And one could argue its a waste of resources.. but, the changeover is actually super awesome (for JACK)

    One other good example of the fragmentation argument was Xfree86. Lots of people argued against Xorg at the time, and ultimately, Xfree86 died ages ago. If you asked me 20 years ago, I would have said KDE was dead, but now Gnome and KDE and carved out VERY different products, that suit very different people. Both are awesome in their own way

    Everyone was freaking out when devFS got deprecated. But, udev was an amazing replacement

    Linux is evolving FAR quicker than Windows or MAC (mac OS has barely changed in a decade). And, many ideas introduced in linux are stolen by Windows and Apple.

    At the end of the day though, sometimes a rewrite is needed of things. What really matters is that it doesn't fragment the desktop experience (and, it won't in this case)