They won’t because we are expected to toe the imperial line. We are a vassal state of the US.

It’s batshit that DFAT haven’t issue a travel warning, I agree. There’s warnings for China (reasonable), but damn, I feel no worry about travelling to China, just don’t do anything political.

I’d never in a million years consider travelling to the US.

Props to the camera person for showing the message.

Every small resistance counts ✊

As a one of her foreign subjects. May I say god save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor General.

Fuck the queen, fuck the monarchy.

Is the Sabbath Sunday? I thought it was Saturday. But regardless, some countries start the week on Sunday.

It’s cursed as heck when we call Saturday and Sunday the weekend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

2015 can be written as Y-2.015E3S4

When would this ever be required, wtf hahaha

I routinely do this in emails and documents. No one has ever questioned me on it because they’re used to it from folder/file names.

Please do join me in slowly changing the world over to year, month, day order.

(Though I prefer the non-standard dots instead of hyphens, as they are non-line-breaking, and allows for hyphens to be used as separators for other parts in a file along with underscores)

YYYY.MM.DD is my fave

My least favourite argument is them pointing to the reduction in poverty.

Like, I could say the same for capitalism. Which I won’t because capitalism needs to be abolished, but just “there was a massive reduction in poverty therefore system good” is stupid.

Tankies aren’t socialists in my eyes because socialism necessarily needs to be democratic control by the people.

Fault based divorce is already a stupid concept (under the law).

Someone MAY be at fault, but you should never need to provide a reason beyond “I don’t want to anymore” to commence divorce proceedings.

Marriage is just legal protections for the partners in the event of a separation (i.e. rights to split assets and whatnot).

But it’s still entirely voluntary.

Well, in nice countries anyway.

It’s silly that they don’t just operate from the browser. It’s how I use Patreon on my (admittedly not iPhone) Phone.

They should have just pulled Patreon from the app store.

It’s not like it’s such an impediment to ask users to use their browser.

In an ideal world we would not have monopolies controlling app stores, but I think Patreon is really stupid for not just abandoning the app store.

Don’t let Nintendo see this thread 0_0

As much as not protecting endangered species sucks and is stupid, what you’re talking about is the MUCH more concerning part.

Annoucement by annoucement, the US accepts rule by decree.

How, in the ever-loving-fuck, are people not marching in the streets (I am aware people are, but as a percentage of the population it’s really not enough given what’s happening)

Sadly, only sort of: https://youtube.com/watch?v=TwPLqGkYnBA

Does it really cost what Kagi is charging? I would love to see some research on this if people happen to know where to find such articles.

Like, in theory to pay for Kagi or a similar service but it’s just extrotionately expensive.

I pay for other service which are offered for free (like email hosting), but those are reasonably priced.

Install a VPN to be slightly safer on public WiFi

Hey guys, remember when these same countries ragged on China for being against freedom of expression?

The sad part is, banning VPNs for most users is extremely doable now.

Source: I have been to China not that long ago and VPNs are mostly cooked now :(

Luckily my state government seems to encourage VPN use (despite the federal government’s horseshittery): https://www.vic.gov.au/using-public-wifi-networks-safely

Soooooo like a proper appellate court system?

This already seems to be a thing in other countries, just saying. Most common law countries (it seems from cursory reading) have mechanisms to refer convictions to an appellate court system.

I am not a lawyer and don’t really know how things work in practice in any country.

I’m back to point out presidential pardons are an absolutely WILD power to give to your head of state.

I’ve yet to hear a solid defence of having it in the first place. It’s a power just waiting to be abused.

Nah buddy, we all went to school, and it’s abundantly clear that in modern English, an animal is part of the Kingdom Animalia.

So, the only people (in the English speaking world) who don’t think of insects or fish an animals, either are of a much, much older generation, or didn’t do very well in school.

Most fucking 6-year-olds, in Australia at least, would be able to answer yes to “is a fish an animal?”.

I dunno if this analogy works because Rupert Murdoch is originally from Australia

Edit: turns out I can’t read and it works perfectly because “we” is the US