Feel sorry for all the kids growing up right now, I know people who suffer from OCD with problems like handwashing, etc.
Can only imagine the fear of germs is going to tip alot of such people over, especially kids.
I know that already councilors are having to deal with these kind of issues with kids and its only going to get worse.

I hope that a good portion of the billions wasted during this pandemic goes towards mental health, because we are going to see a rise in the cases of OCD...

You will need facebook to watch.

https://www.facebook.com/theplatformnz/p...jDT3RjwJHl

Are there any other Firefox users out there who have had this browser totally drop all tabs including logging out of those websites that require a log in? This has happened every couple of days to me over the past couple of weeks for no apparent reason. This evening it was a couple of times while relisting Trade Me items.

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https://www.techradar.com/nz/news/larger...n-expected

In case you missed it, as much of NZ's mainstream media seem to have, this is the presentation that Jacinda Ardern gave at Harvard.

Malwarebytes has recently disabled definition updates for it's unsupported EOL version 2.2.1.1043
I am looking for advice for a 12 year old PC running Win 10 and no third party antivirus. It has been running the free version of Malwarebytes Anti Malware alongside the BETA versions of Anti-Exploit and Anti-Ransomeware.
The obvious step would be to update the Anti Malware version and pay for the premium subscription to include the other products.
If the user is unable or unwilling to finance a subscrirpition, what is the next best option?
Is it best to update the Anti Malware version to get regular definition updates manually and do without the other products?
Or, on the basis of no threats being detected after years of using the existing combination, is it better to leave the situation as it is, with the proviso that it will only scan using an out of date definition file, (bearing in mind that ADW cleaner could be used for some types of threat if necessary)?
Thoughts please?

from Ari Meelber regarding the latest in what he describes as a 'ritual' cycle of angst and grief and then doing fuck all 
about shootings in usa.

no need to watch its entirety, the opening monologue runs about 3 minutes.
he uses words like 'negligent', and 'complicit' in their approach to actually dealing with the issue.
he berates americas normalisation and ongoing acceptance of this phenomenon... hmmm phenomenon might be the wrong word but it seems unique to american society, although ive made reference in another thread to our own elephant in the room that is infanticide and our ritual of blame, hand wringing and then doing fuck all (ongoing acceptance,)) is just marking time between deaths.
at which point do we too become complicit by neglect to act as well?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cp-CMwXQQ8s

california started down the reintroduction of cannabis road 20 years ago when they gave it 'medicinal' status, meaning it could be legally obtained with a doctors prescription. This was soon changed to a card system, doctors being inundated with repeat prescription requests.

they then de-crimmed it, making quantities of less than an ounce at the buyers end could be held without prosecution.
this ran contrary to federal law, but many states reserve their own systems of governance.

after a couple of years of this, californians noticed they had not undergone cataclysmic change and fallen into the pacific ocean, and that the population was not hanging about gutters and sleeping in doorways. they legalised it for recreational use.

as opposed to here where they wish to ban delivery, california embraced it, shying away from bricks and mortar dispensaries that thrust the product into the publics eye at street level.
this gave the industry a legitimate but underground delivery system that had no public face. no advertising, no shops.
to get a delivery you must register using photo id. order online or by phone. when delivered you get a text, you meet the guy curbside where identity is confirmed and goods and cash are exchanged.

the streets and bars and public spaces dont stink of weed. you still cannot consume publicly.
you cannot buy it from a liquor store or service station or dairy. you must order and wait, no instant gratification.
its a system that works very well and we would do well to take note. eventually it will happen here, we should glean as much knowledge as we can from other countries as to what does and doesnt work.

with the criminal element removed intake systems changed. waxes and concentrates are popular, no smoke, no lung issues no smell. clean and safe. dry herb is available but seems to be for old school tokers. much of it has been infused with concentrates to give a hellatious kick, something the millennials arent really into. edibles are very popular. transportable, innocuous, safe and yummy, with a nice slow come on and longer lasting effects.

i may have won 'best new customer' spot at my local delivery whilst there.

https://weedmaps.com/

huge homeless encampments.
Little tent cities, under bridges, parks, railway corridors.
they go for marginal spaces that are hard to police without 'owner dissension'.
i saw one camp had about 70 tents and structures, dont know where the ablutions were, probably none.
this, and doing laundry seem to be the most challenging aspects of homelessness.

loneliness. as many as half of employed San Franciscans work from home after Covid.
the workplace was their grounding point, where they knew and were known.
while they no longer have a shitty commute, save on time and parking fees, they have lost the only human contact they had.
i saw countless solo diners in restaurants, empty bars, on the road and in church (yeah, went to church, but only because i was banned from it, wanted to see if i were persona grata by now.) no one noticed.

We think our inflation is bad, theirs is worse, and going on longer.
for the first time ever clothes, shoes, sunglasses and electronics were more expensive after calculating exchange rates.
Saw lamb at Costco, bone in leg, $113. about $45 a pound. Gas at a record level $6.70 a gallon. still under $2 a litre, but they do way more mileage than us.

the machine guns and the fucking slaughters of innocents. An elementary school while we were there, think he got about 20 people. brought the guns and ammo day after his eighteenth birthday. but cannot drink for two more years.
guns easier to get than booze.
much hand wringing and angst, ultimatums and excuses, but no change. mr mitch mc'connell  house minority leader has accepted more than $20 million $ from the gun lobby in 30 years of politics. he said 'ownership rules need to be tightened'. gosh, that will fix it mitch, you amoral waste of skin, good one. meanwhile children are gunned down in their classrooms.

Taxation is throttling them. local body Property Taxes, (same as our council rates) run at about 2-5% the value of the property per year, depending on location etc. Explosions in property prices have left folks in multimillion dollar properties, with tax bills like the retired FIL sitting in 3 million dollar homes with $60k property tax p/a. Scary.

things might seem a bit bleak down here at times, but we are head and shoulders above the yanks for quality of life.

they seek him there
those Frenchies seek him everywhere
is he in heaven
or is he in hell?
that damned elusive pimpernel...