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- Comment on Anon likes trains 1 week ago:
Because they don’t give a shit about driving? They care a lot more about their family members that own car dealerships, or are involved with the petrochemical industry.
Or they saw that American rightwing grifters talk like this so they are cargo culting the fuck out?
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
I have written and rewritten my response here trying to find the right tone. I feel like we are closer to agreement here than might be immediately obvious. I think a lot of what we are seeing now is a result of 50+ years of people who find the idea of your republic distasteful seeking every method they can to erode it away. All the details are just components of this project, seems to me that MAGA is a result of years of stoking xenophobia and anti-intellectualism. Turns out if you spend decades laying the groundwork you can make the situation seem completely hopeless to a whole populace. I sincerely worry the long term goal is to perfect the formula for dismantling democracy and then start exporting it to the rest of the world.
Or I could be a fool, I don’t know and I don’t want to rewrite this again. Sorry that this was so rambling.
- Comment on I'm gonna mute this one 1 week ago:
From my detached non American (but still a citizen of the planet so likely to get fucked hard by the way Americans vote) point of view, seems like Americans are continually letting perfect be the enemy of least bad. “Well since Democrats are kinda bad in these instances maybe we should just go fully fascist theological doom cult. That will force the Democrats to improve, or kill us all.”
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn Announcement Trailer 2 weeks ago:
“Don’t get too excited. Don’t get too excited. Don’t get too excited. Don’t get too excited. Don’t get too excited. Don’t get too excited.”
Its not working.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Is it too late to set up a bunch of forks on github of AI counter measure software, change the descriptions of each to rambling diatribes about the Musk Rat, explaining how you aim to take him down personally, and then forward it to them as an example of your current work?
I wonder how negative you have to be about AI and Musk to get the offer withdrawn?
- Comment on Sale of state-owned assets possible to bring down Tasmanian debt 3 months ago:
I wonder which assets Rockliff, Ferguson and Barnett already have buyers lined up for?
Between this and DOGE lite it’s fun that the Tasmanian populace will be paying for the stupidity of voting in the liberals for years if not decades. I can’t wait to hear how we need to vote in the party of strong economic managers at the next state election from the entirely captured media.
- Comment on 'People can't keep going like this': Inside a mortgage-stressed electorate 4 months ago:
I know a family, 4 voting adults, who won’t vote Labor at any level because the father had a dispute with a Union when he was the 3IC of a medium sized business.
I mean I hear what he was saying, the union was protecting a bunch of workers who had hit the point in life where they felt the company should hold their current jobs open for the next 10-15 years (until they retired) and they refused to negotiate around upskilling to up to date technology and work practice’s. The idea that a whole company should be stuck with 40 year old process on 50 year old hardware due to a small contingent of union employees is ridiculous.
But voting against your own interests at every state and federal election in the last 6 years and for the forseeable future as a response…
I had the “strong economic mangers” conversation with them about Gladys “Koala Killer” Berejiklian, “Oh she is doing a great job, you leave her alone… she’s only ever done her best and she gets picked on all the time…”
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- Comment on Private health insurance is a dud. That’s why a majority of Australians don’t have it 6 months ago:
My family has extras cover, for Dental and Optical, that’s all we ever use. My wife and I have both used up enough dental to make it worthwhile. But my son is getting braces soon which will basically Max out his lifetime orthodontics cover. So at that point we need to change insurers.
On a tangent I don’t get lifetime covers. It seems like they are so focussed on not letting an individual recipient cost them more than an approved amount that they instead cause recipients to jump ship once it’s used up without contributing any more into the fund. That seems like a perverse incentive to me, or am I ignorant of some gotcha there?