Alas, very much this.

We should have started to move away under Bush, I remember wheb Bush was adrsssibg parliment and they banned Bob Briwn. An elexted Australian Senator, banned from neing in parliament ? That was the last straw for me

The first red flag was the dodgy US shit around Whitlams sackng and US interference, let alone the endless shit fuckery th US has been up to since the 1950s.

Fuck it, Vote Green

Isnt it a differnt Visa, like the one thay applies to movie and TV stars, musicians etc ? Not the one that applies to scientists etc

More JOI videos ?

Against who ? The only country with the ability to attack us are the US and China, nothing we can do will stop either of them. Our defence force is mostly dick waving theatre.

We have zero strategic petroleum reserves and no electrified rail transport system to speak of for logistics. They don’t need to attack us, just starve us of petroleum products for a couple weeks and we’re fucked. We have a total of two muntions factories. We are closing or jabe closed the WW2 dry dock near Brisbane which seems stupid.

Joining the EU and then trying for NATO membership might be one possible way foward. Starting from scratch with some sort of mutual defence Asian pact might work, Japan, Canada etc but then if Canada is invaded by the US what then ?

The US is probably our greatest threat, China not so much.

Well, the ladies like the bears, maybe this is why, the bears are mostly gay ?

I looked at getting a place on the SMBI, lovely area, on either Lamb or Karagarra Islands, visited a few places, ferry across and used the electric scooter to get around, visited Russel Island aa well. Awesome place, inter island is free. It’s protected from the worst storms by Stradbroke Island.

Still have find memories and Woollies delivering was a great thing

Decided on Tassie instead. No Woolies deliveries though where we are (small NE village) :) No Aldi or CostCo to help keep them honest either.

Not really sure why a business charging more is news worthy ? Happens every day. Hate on Colesworth is easy to stoke I guess.

There’s also a different Woolworths in South Africa, they also own fashion label Coutry Road amonst other things.

Insurance industry is more profitable, cutting out high risk areas and raising prices for everyone else.

Rinse and repeat until everyone is in a high risk area I guess :)

Having been through the Black Summer fires, we saw the future and moved from Northern NSW to Northern Tassie, we made sure we are off a flood plain (on a small hill), with high average rainfall (raining now and 20c) and zero bushfire risk. Nowhere in the world is taking any of this seriously, including Australian voters, so we had to do what we could,. We know we can’t escape it, we just don’t want to be at the front of the queue like the people in this article

My partner as an ex RFS Captian still suffers truama from back then, from the homes she couldn’t save and home owners cursing her for it and the 6 days a week 14hr days work for no pay, still have bills to pay. She did get a cap and a badge from the NSW Premier, so there is that /s.

Cupra ?

Her writing wasn’t why she was cancelled though, it was at the request of a Jewish Lobby 'as a mark of respect in these troubled times". Apparently the troubled times in Gaza are unimportant.

I find it problemeatic, as do many writers who have withdrawn as a protest.

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/jan/09/adelaide-festival-boycott-pro-palestine-academic-randa-abdel-fattah-ntwnfb

Yes, this is a nothing burger because hard to innovate a rectangular slab phone and allows some marketing bullshit about privacy.

Meanwhile Lynas, the mining company and the largest non-Chinese rare earths company, refines its metals in Malaysia.

This is because Lynas couldn’t get permission some 20 years ago to refine in Australia as the waste from processing rare earths is always super toxic and radioactive. Malaysia spat the dummy in 2023 and said the cracking and leeching could no longer be done in Malaysia or they’d shit the plant as its too toxic

https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/278525788/pollution-issues-and-controversy-over-rare-earth-company-lynas

The cracking and leaching generates radioactive wastes, which is the most polluting and controversial part of Lynas production. Before 2023, the cracking and leaching was done in Malaysia. However, the radioactive wastes produced in this stage was unacceptable to Malaysia, so the Malaysian Government required Lynas to relocate it or the entire plant would be shut down. In order to ensure the integrity of the rare earths production, Lynas had no choice but to move its cracking and leaching facility to Kalgoorlie.

The water supply has also been a controversial issue since the Kalgoorlie facility began its operation. The City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder signed a 30-year deal with Lynas and agreed to the annual supply of up to 1.7 gigalitres of recycled water, which left Australias biggest island cities facing severe water shortages.

It has generated much more discontent and controversy as the Australian Government and Lynas decline to disclose details of the deal.

Mutiple times the waste dams have overflowed and released toxic shit into Mayasia river sysyems, to the point they were threatened with closure a few times

Why we do this stupid shit in a monsoon area is just another data point on the human stupidity graph, the Ranger Uranium mine is another example, their tailings dam must fail eventually.

Biggest seller in Norway for 5 uears in a row

What the fuck Norway ?

And vibration problems AFAIK which don’t effect stand alone installs where solid state isn’t really needed but does have issues in vehicles.

It alwayss seems off that in the face sonw teadwgy the knee jeek is to make it even more illegal as the reaction.

But to be fair voters seem to mostly respond positively to it …so i understand why polticans do it.

As to ASIO hey, soon they’ll be able to distribute child porn, so there is that.

Goid lord, i had Mario Cart and GoldenEye and that was it :)

Fuck Nintendo, I’ve mibed to Linux gaming and am eyeballing a Steamdeck

If a Labor government can just opportunistically ban one kind of protest an LNP can easily just ban another.

A lot of aged Qld ALP members were dismayed when Qld cracked down on protests under the previous state ALP government, saying the legislation nearly exacrly mirrored the Bjelke-Petersen Governments Union anti protest laws. Didn’t help though… (mostly climaye protests becase protesting the destruction of the enviorment and the likely collapse of civilisation is apparently not on)

I notice the Greens supported the revised gun laws but were against more protest crack downs, so voters do have a choice.

Yes, MAGA

As an Australian, I’d love to have Australia invited to be part of the EU. Tekk we sing in Eurovision, so why not :). Seems a wondeeful experiment I’d lobe to be part.of.