sphere_au

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The simple fact is that YouTube just isn't good enough to pay the amount of money for that Google wants for it. Accordingly, if other ways to use it besides premium aren't available, I'll stop using it and recover some time in my day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Rooftop gardens and semi open high floor shared areas are possible... Not necessarily a huge amount of space, but I've seen it work. Just need the apartment building to be built with a decent budget.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps it's unfair to people who want to have kids but can't that IVF is so expensive, but really, there's one thing that affects birth rate more than anything else: cost of housing with decent nearby amenities, infrastructure etc. If housing were cheaper, people would have more kids... Simple.

So if you want to solve the social equity problem, subsidize IVF. If you want the birth rate to increase, knock down the barriers to entry and high costs in the housing market.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Same... Have done for ages now. Don't know how anyone puts up with the default behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I always just turn DRM off and don't subscribe to these things... Now I know I had a better reason than I thought I did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or you could make public transport run faster and more efficiently and faster, reducing the number of people who drive.