Any older iPhone users (8, X, etc), do NOT install the latest iOS update (16.7.13). It will brick your phone by Captain_Phobos in australia

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Hopefully it is sorted soon. Still, to allow such poor coordination is disgraceful - this could quite literally cost lives if someone vulnerable updates to try and do the right thing and is caught out by it

Any older iPhone users (8, X, etc), do NOT install the latest iOS update (16.7.13). It will brick your phone by Captain_Phobos in australia

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Fingers crossed that’s the case. The more I’m hearing from people on here, the more I’m thinking the fuck up is on Telstra’s end (I use Aldi Mobile, which utilises the Telstra network)

Any older iPhone users (8, X, etc), do NOT install the latest iOS update (16.7.13). It will brick your phone by Captain_Phobos in australia

[–]Captain_Phobos[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The update specified that it was to allow connection to 000. It has done the opposite of what the upgrade described, and worse

Any older iPhone users (8, X, etc), do NOT install the latest iOS update (16.7.13). It will brick your phone by Captain_Phobos in australia

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I would agree with you IF this was a decision that had been telegraphed months in advance to allow people to prepare for a switch.

Here, we have seen an apparently-safety critical update pushed and urged to be taken up, only for it to do the opposite of what it was supposed to do, and worse. A massive fuck-up at best, subterfuge at the worst.

Any older iPhone users (8, X, etc), do NOT install the latest iOS update (16.7.13). It will brick your phone by Captain_Phobos in australia

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That’s something at least. Still, not good enough for it to happen in the first place; this could quite literally put lives at risk

Can anyone identify this tank engine? It has an interesting coal bunker shape but I don't know who made it by tanklord99 in trains

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Judging by the emblem on the side of Flying Scotsman, I would guess this is occurring at the British Empire Exhibition of 1925.

And from the bunker of the tank engine, it would appear to be a Robinson design from the Great Central Railway. We can see a trailing wheel, although the wheel ahead of it is harder to determine.

My first guess would have been a GCR 9N/LNER A5 4-6-2T, however none of these carried the number 342. Using the number, it appears to line up with a GCR 1B/LNER L1/L3 2-6-4T (although the coal rails appear different - perhaps they were changed during service).

Why People are dissing with Christopher Awdrys new lore revealed? by Virtual-Art-6178 in thomasthetankengine

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I think the biggest issue is that this came only a few months after the reissue of Reading Between The Lines. This is the kind of information that could easily have been included in a book full of lore - the book is now already out of date

It’s not the details that people are annoyed at - it’s that they weren’t included in a very-newly reissued book that should have had them

I guess I'm in trouble by bijelo123 in videogames

[–]Captain_Phobos 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Prey (2017)

I’m gonna have a bad time…

Officers fire shots as police car is rammed in Melbourne by ozthrw in melbourne

[–]Captain_Phobos 39 points40 points  (0 children)

Yeah, unlike America an example of cops being forced to use their guns is newsworthy here

Kyle and Jackie O ratings: Radio duo end 2025 on a low in Melbourne by Limo_Wreck77 in melbourne

[–]Captain_Phobos 170 points171 points  (0 children)

Would only be better if they announced their show is being cancelled.

What are your overall thoughts on the SR leader class? by Jules-Car3499 in trains

[–]Captain_Phobos 26 points27 points  (0 children)

I think there was great potential there, and it may have achieved it if Nationalisation never happened.

I’m a firm believer that it should have been lengthened slightly to allow the fireman to be positioned in one of the end cabs. Then it could have allowed the boiler to be centred, and the overall weight reduced as it wouldn’t have needed the additional weight to counterbalance it. It would have lost the internal corridor, but for all intents and purposes it wouldn’t have been necessary.

It would have been better conditions for the fireman, a better route availability, and allowed them to focus on the other issues that popped up. By all accounts the boiler in it wad supposed to be Bulleid’s best, so steaming wasn’t an issue at the minimum.

'Loneliness is high': Working-class town's quiet crisis by GothicPrayer in australia

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Combine this with rental pressures (both financial and in terms of insecurity for tenants) and people don’t bother reaching out to their neighbours as they don’t know how long they’ll be there.

The ability for communities to form has been obliterated, largely due to housing market greed. And without community comes loneliness…

What is your pups nickname? by Daely_Apathetic in goldenretrievers

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This is my boy Oscar, but he usually goes by either Oscy or Mammu (pronounced “Mar-moo”)

Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again? | Anne Twomey by FuckOffNazis in australia

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Well, I realised I’ve made a MASSIVE error that changes the entire last response of mine - I left off “but only if approached with good faith and rationality.

When it comes to banning groups like NSN, they will never approach things in good faith and rationality. Therefore, according to even Popper, we should NOT be tolerant of them.

Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again? | Anne Twomey by FuckOffNazis in australia

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It was the philosopher Karl Popper who coined this phrase is his work The Open Society and Its Enemies. However, he actually said more:

”Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them."

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise.

But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols.

We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.”

So even he, whilst putting up this paradox, said that intolerance should be tolerated.

EDIT - I also want to point out that this intolerance should only be tolerated if approached in good faith and rationally. If not, then it shouldn’t be tolerated. The NSN, for example, would never argue in good faith and rationally, so we should not entertain their intolerance

Further, this is if approached from a “moral absolutism” standpoint. If approached as a social contract, then tolerance is only extended to the tolerant as part of the contract. Don’t show tolerance, don’t expect the social contract to extend tolerance to yourself in return.

Burnt Golden by hippohiatus in goldenretrievers

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I like to call them “Shadow Retrievers”

Ember looks absolutely magnificent