OnlyAwfulNamesLeft

I think Jordies wording of “police terror units to prosecute and intimidate me was deeply unsettling” was very smart. When anti-terror units are used in the way they were against him and his editor, they themselves become the source of the terror.

If only there was some kind of legislation that protected an open and fair internet…

Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It’s genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.

What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.

I loved the “anyone can be special” message, even when rammed down our throat by having the slave stable boy force pull the broom to himself at the end of the movie.

I hated them undoing that and going “hahahaha, no, you’re actually one of the two special families!!” in Rise of Skywalker.

I quite enjoy the Baroque Cycle. I am yet to read Snowcrash.

Federal law enforcement agencies can request app Devs put backdoors into their apps, so the cops can steal data. What’s more, the Devs aren’t allowed to tell anyone that they have done so.

Very important legal distinction here: we have laws about spying on our own citizens, so we let our allies do it for us, while we openly spy on our allies citizens, and then share that information back with each other. Totally different bro! /s

Tax incentivsed rubbish cover is the best way to put it. Taking out private cover (and never using it) is cheaper than paying the lifetime loading Medicare levy surcharge for most households earning over $100k a year. And all that money goes into some corpo’s pocket rather than to the government to help fund our public health system (although, let’s be real, even though it’s labelled as a “Medicare levy” the money would probably still go to buying nuclear submarines).

Literally only a few years ago we had a national argument about sexuality. Shouldn’t we at least have some national demographics to back up this kind of discourse? An understanding of who modern Australia really is?

That’s got to be a two-three man job.

Not long, but I’m no tradie, I barely wear them, so long enough for me.

I get most of my everyday clothes from Target. You get the occasional dodgy seam, but for jeans, trackies, and t-shirts they’re pretty good. In no way haute couture, but it’s $10 a t-shirt.

Do the No voters think that the government shouldn’t listen to the AMA when making health policy? That they shouldn’t listen to teachers and principals when they make education policy?

They fall mostly into the LNP camp, and given their track record… yes, that is exactly what they think.