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If your favourite brand comes in at 20+ instead of 50+, it's fine to keep using it. I won't say this is a beat-up, but they're making out like you should throw your sunscreen out, when 20 odd years ago all sunscreens were 24+ and that was normal. Just be sure to re-apply it every two hours if you are in the sun a long time.

For most of the affected brands, this is more a potential issue with false advertising than public safety. Also noteworthy that most of the brands produced results from independent testing when approached for comment. The Cancer Council said they're going to submit their affected products for another round of tests with another lab. So the brands are taking this seriously and most of them appear to be acting in good faith.

Most of Choice's tests were performed on ten volunteers in line with Australian and international standards. Three tests were performed on five volunteers.

This is important to remember. We aren't talking big sample sizes, here. It's really important to shine a light on Sunscreens and be certain they are up to the task. But at the same time, don't overreact.

Ultra Violette's Lean Screen SPF50+ Mattifying Zinc Sunscreen, which costs $52 for 75 millilitres, and returned an SPF rating of four.

Ok, so this one is difficult to defend - I wouldn't use it. 😂

Most of my team leave today. The project was extended three months to September 30. The work isn't done, there's still a few things to roll out so three of us are going another month.

It's a bit sad. I've worked with some of these people over two years.

What? Growing flowers is loads more effort than just buying them.

If I pay $60 for a bunch of flowers, that's something like 1-2 hours work. Growing them? No idea how long that takes, but I bet it's longer than that.

I hate how the Guardian routinely does this.

Payment cancellations have been paused since July last year

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“The system is being applied unlawfully at worst, and it’s defective administration at best. It’s thousands and thousands of people who are having really serious consequences because there are errors in the automated processes.”

The system is not being applied unlawfully. They recognised that it is buggy and turned it off over a year ago. There is enough true stuff in this matter to make a story that is worth discussing, particularly since it affected people who are most in need of support. But because the truth isn't scandalous enough for someone a the Guardian, they need to make it sound worse than it actually was.

Hahaha it's funny how I see this view almost every day and take it for granted. Welcome to Perth. 😃
Don't get too used to our weather, it might make you cross when you get back to Melbourne.
Try also not to think about how that train is doing the equivalent of Southern Cross to Geelong in a similar time for $5.

He discounted the preliminary dance, I assumed because it was not a battle. But I'm not going to go back and check. It wasn't that interesting. 😀

It was mildly interesting to watch (listen) to this perspective. He's right: I don't care much about Breaking as a sport. It turns out the scene in Australia is tiny and the people who do it are amateur. For Raygun, she had to do three dance battles in a field of eight women to qualify as Australia's entry into the Olympics. Which globally is a very low bar.

To sum up the video:
Yes, she sucked. But it isn't like Australia was ever going to do well in this event no matter who we sent.
Dancers in the Australian breaking scene can't afford to travel to global events and get good.

That is the title of the actual video with the bit in braces added.

The description reads:
Welcome to the Raygun retrospective.

My name is Jafri, I’ve been dancing for 10 years and been going to events in Australia for the past 7. I’ve been observing all that’s been happening over the last year since the Olympics and wanted to provide my perspective on Raygun and Australian breaking.

Why now you ask?

I felt this was important for me to share as someone who has experienced breaking in Australia. You all know by now that breakers are a rare breed in this corner of the world and I feel like a lot of detail was missed in other videos, so I wanted to provide something for the scene that was actually substantial.

Now that the smoke and mirrors around Raygun has dissipated, I’m hoping you can watch my video from a different place.

Thanks for your time and enjoy.

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0:00 - Chapter 0
2:44 - Chapter 1: Australia’s Disadvantages
11:11 - Chapter 2: That Fateful Weekend
16:32 - Chapter 3: Complacency
20:15 - Chapter 4: Incidents
23:51 - Chapter 5: Picking Up The Pieces

It'd be funny if he just didn't bother meeting with the US president. Even better if he was in town doing stuff at the UN and then just not even trying to meet.

Will it fix more problems than it introduces?

If your kid is into trains, go with Chuggington over Thomas. Dinosaur Train is also pretty great. Time-travel, Trains and Dinosaurs!

It feels like weight and pain would be connected, but the article doesn't mention weight at all. It lists income, occupation, health (diabetes, arthritis and any type of cancer), smoking all as factors.

I expect weight plays its part, also. It makes sense that carrying an extra load around all day will contribute to muscle and joint soreness. Curious that it isn't listed.

Bring it up occasionally when appropriate. Most active Redditors know about Lemmy already. Don't get too spammy or you'll find yourself in Reddit's sinbin.

We aren't trying to steal Reddit's userbase. We are not equipped to handle millions of users and frankly, the whole of Lemmy is not, either. The admin and moderation tools are not mature enough to deal with activity on Reddit's scale. We're happy to organically grow and while I think most users are either refugees or dual-citizens from Reddit, I'd be happier to pluck up users who have never been Redditors in the first place.

It's a steady two or so new accounts per day. Occasionally Reddit does something silly and we get a wave of them, but that hasn't happened for a few months.

Free advice: Watch Baby Race now, before your baby is born. This episode is for the parents.

The episodes are only about 7 minutes long. It's well worth the investment.

Heh. I think I must gloss over that community. Like, I see the posts and never tap on them. I don't think I've ever commented in there.

I am not at all useful in such a community, I fear. 😞

Telstra is a different matter. The government still has hooks into them. They're under contractual obligations and service level agreements and if they breach those, there are financial penalties.

I suppose Optus must have signed something with the government also? Though I don't recall reading anything about it. I can't think under what other pretext the government can just issue a huge fine for not providing a product.

I'm not defending or particularly interested in the outage. If their service is unsatisfactory, leave them. That's business and they probably deserve it.

What I find amazing is that they're being held to a standard that no other private business is held to. I see no fundamental difference between this company offering a service and any other.

Forget tech, compare them to Macca's. Imagine a service outage that meant Macca's couldn't sell you burgers today. You'd shrug and take your business elsewhere.

Optus is getting brought before the government for a "Please explain" and a $12 Million fine. Yes, they own infrastructure. That's my point. It's theirs. They can in theory decide to just stop offering their product tomorrow.

Somehow we have reached a point where enough people totally rely on their service that they face this level of scrutiny when they stuff up.

It's fascinating how when you step back, this is a regular business that sells a service. Little different to any subscription service.

And the service is reliable almost 100% of the time. But because we the customers take that reliability for granted, the business is blamed if something bad happens in that 0.0001 of the time.

This is a regular company. In theory, they could close up shop and just leave. But they're being treated as though the very thought of not being able to use the service is a massive deal.

This same company makes you sign an agreement when you join up saying you understand their service is not 100% reliable and should not be used if you require perfect access to emergency services.

Imagine your ISP getting a 12 million dollar fine when they have an outage.

Hahaha no. But a regular 400+ gram tin of chickpeas is around the same price on its own.

They're reducing the peas by three quarters and adding a dollop of dressing, but charging the same price.