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Because it's inevitable.

Oh but fellas... I mean in the future when participation will be mandatory to engage in commerce, or else you will be significantly disadvantaged. This is more than just games, in about a decade, the Powers-That-Be will want this to be the way we live our lives. I don't believe it will be that...

So I've done some reading on this so-called "Metaverse" that good old Mark Zuckerberg seems to want to impose on the world with virtual reality and augmented reality. Supposing that this fancy computer cartoon world will become so ubiquitous, almost Ready Player One-style, where the...

Ohhh I had an MRI on my knee last year (another unfortunate accident!), and went in prepared with some Mack's earplugs, and that bugger was still loud af, but I came out of it okay. Might depend on where you head is located relative to the machine. My head was way outside of it while my leg was...

Quit the earplugs and carry a set of Peltor muffs with you when going places you think will be loud-ish. I mean we're in the era of everyone wearing surgical masks everywhere, so what's a set of muffs that look like headphones? Go for it.

Alright, ear pluggy wuggies it is.

But holy god, those YouTube videos are so icky and addictive and satisfying. I'm such a weirdo.

I need to get an MRI done on my knee after a really dumb injury, but I'd like to protect my ears before going in with that noisy machine. Mack's earplugs might do fine, but I'd just like to know if my 3M Peltor X4As have any metal in them?

Yeah my ear problems went away, but my back pain came back after I stupidly tried to lift something in my yard and I hyperextended myself. Ugh! Ah well, I'll get over it.

The world will be uninhabitable by 1990!

I think Western society can be a bit too benevolent. Death is so taboo, we try to prolong life at any cost.

I copped the "underlying condition" spiel from my ENT after I told him clearly that it was caused by a blast to my ear. I think they're out of touch, these people, especially in their futile efforts to "cover all bases" before proceeding with a diagnosis or treatment plan. Often you just need to...

Oh god, oh my god.

Looking back, it seems like something a clown would do!

People on this forum pop prednisone like Tic Tacs. It's not a drug you play silly buggers with.

Scream 4 was the best one.

Coffee Girl is a maneater?

Running makes me all sweaty and puffed out. I prefer just walking.

Doesn't Bill hate lawns? I use a battery operated Ryobi lawnmower (and a few other items in the Ryobi ecosystem like a chainsaw, whippersnipper, etc.). One of the very best purchases I ever made years ago. Just a miracle machine. Still might be a bit loud for some folks here, but it beats those...

Could a hair transplant be harmful?

I have erectile dysfunction too!

I just bought a turntable and can't stop cringing at the inner groove distortion of some LP discs. Ugh, I guess that's what it sounds like in real life for some of you?

Hi-Fi audio and headphone testing.

I listen to music on my hi-fi system - something that makes people go "hi-fi? So 80s..." Anyhoo, I healed well enough that I can finally blare out the score to ID4 and it never affects me. So I think with some more healing time, and maybe investing in some decent quality speakers, a pre-amp...

I think Contrast gets a weird, sadistic kick from all this. I mean, just look at all that. The guy needs to calm down and quit the zero sum rants of grim warnings that a few bad synapses are going to kill us all. You'll probably get better. You just need to take it really easy for a while (ie...

What if you had tinnitus (along with an extremely sore ear) from noise exposure, but then the tinnitus goes away? Could it be that the inner ear parts weren't damaged, instead the tinnitus was due to a high level of middle ear distress?

I've never measured it. Not stupidly loud, just enough for some good punch, but I know that doesn't mean much in text across the internet. I will say though that a decent set of hi-fi speakers with good amplification will have a softness and sweetness to them that will be kind to your ears at...

I use really, really big speakers! 7.1 channels of sound, 185 watt main speakers, THX certified 200 watt amplification per channel, Super Audio CD multichannel music zig-zagging across the soundscape, a 250 watt subwoofer that makes thunderstorms blush. Soon I'll install Dolby Atmos and really...

Could take months after a significantly blasty/explodey acoustic trauma, but it does go eventually. The problem is dealing with it in the here and now.

Only if he launches in a rocket.

I had no idea TT was overrun by a bunch of incels.

I bet he's on Tinnitus Tinder a lot.

Simply having a percentage of your income (or capital gains or goods and services) compulsorily deducted by a third party doesn't fit the definition of "slavery" either. Unless you're actually a trafficked subject of slavery for dubious purposes, you're not an actual slave by any measure. Nice...

Unless you've been a victim of sexual violence or lured into sex without your consent, you've never been raped.

This claim you keep making based on your own biased anecdotal experience is just plain false. http://www.oecdbetterlifeindex.org/countries/australia/

Found one! https://www.tortech.com.au/product/voltage-converters/economy-american-step-up-transformer/ And a cheaper one: https://www.wallcann.com.au/100w-step-up-voltage-converter/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAtbnjBRDBARIsAO3zDl8lg3R0zDiw5EDCIB5poxTGfeseq776GhXp57ktJ_TrIHTLKDbwf-AaAv4VEALw_wcB Waiting for...

Dude, I have no idea what that ramble was all about.

You are entitled. It's just that miserly conservative attitude "i aint lettin them leeches taek muh tax dahlahs no wai no how sir". It's all festered from the "strong work ethic" mentality that essentially believes that you must work your arse off with no reward until you're dead because the...

Ehhh sorry, you're being too vague here.

Again, our lower value dollar means things are inflated, but overall Australian wages (as well as those on income support) are proportional to those prices. And I noticed you wrote a response to that point that I made Australia experiencing higher wages than the US, but you mistakenly compared...

Our farming capacity is actually extremely limited in Australia. Most of our landmass is arid desert. And come on, our poor of course do it tough like anywhere else in the world, but your talk as if we're stuck in 1930s Depression era is completely false. What exactly do you mean that people...

Actually I think you blow all your credibility away by constantly referencing the USSR. There is no reasonable comparison between Australia and the overreaching Soviet command and control system (with all its ownership of production, killing quotas, gulags and famines, etc). It just reeks of...

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"You don't have to live this way" - oh my god, could your condescension be any more blatant? You make it sound like we're all dying in agony in the streets! Australians generally experience a higher standard of living than Americans, mainly because of our more immediate access to health care...

Exactly. In Australia, we have a reliable public healthcare system and we haven't become a communist dictatorship.

Okay, this is interesting. I'm not sure how it works in the US, but in Australia, the private sector executes infrastructure projects anyway. The process essentually goes that the state government approves a project (like a road or railway for example) following an indepth assessment, then it...

I think Bill took Ayn Rand a bit too seriously.

They're also overseen by Congressional Committees, so that the public funds are spent accordingly. In Australia, we have a similar mechanism in government called Senate Estimates. Does the government make mistakes? Certainly, it's not infallible. But there's no way it should be leaving...

Dude you're talking to a former libertarian here who used to think it was fun romanticising the rugged individual stereotype until I learned that "personal responsibility" is great and all, until you just can't do it anymore. Conservatives and libertarians revel in perpetuating their pet myth...

No thanks. I'd be happy to pay higher taxes to ensure the poor and disabled are fed, housed and clothed, and importantly they have a chance at living. Charities (and I for that matter!) lack the complex resources required to distribute funds to consistently supply welfare needs to the disadvantaged.

Great, so they can just starve to death instead. So compassionate!

Too much gunfire without hearing protection while huntin' wabbits.

It'll probably go away if you practice some care. Don't let the "permanent/lifetime-sentence/doom-gloom" crowd lure you into despair.

Lovely attitude to welcome new folks.

Seriously I think ditching the piano might have been a premature move.

Sounds not unlike the effects of a barotrauma.

I find these audiogram tests set by an audiologist rely a great deal on your attention span. If your mind wanders, you might miss some ultra soft tone that you heard but you don't know whether you did or not because you were distracted by a poster on the wall.

Is this the same as getting a catchy tune stuck in your head or is it something else? I really don't know.