AllNewTypeFace
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- Comment on Ah, the old family favourite 2 days ago:
It’s obviously from the parallel timeline in which German became the official language of the United States.
- Comment on Is it really possible to tax the rich? 2 days ago:
Not even that; 0.1% per trade would bring in a huge windfall. Even something negligible like 0.01% would bring in nontrivial amounts of revenue.
The problem is that being above paying tax has become part of the identity of being rich, and the very idea of even a negligible amount of one’s wealth being taken away to be given to your inferiors is unacceptable, and the rich will defend every fluctuating cent of their wealth as a non-negotiable matter of honour, even if it means burning down the world.
- Comment on US finds that Israel is not impeding assistance to Gaza; aid groups disagree 4 days ago:
It is logically impossible for Israel to commit genocide. It is, in fact, grammatically invalid in English for the words “Israel” and “genocide” to be in the same sentence. And anybody who says otherwise is an antisemite.
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 4 days ago:
The ones I’ve seen look machine-made, probably in huge quantities. They’re thin, and look slightly less disposable than a paper coffee cup.
- Comment on CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook’s algorithm police 4 days ago:
The village on Lunt near Liverpool considered changing its name to “Launt”, because vandals kept adding a top stroke to the L in signs.
- Comment on CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook’s algorithm police 4 days ago:
Coulsdon is the new Scunthorpe, it seems
- Comment on If you're in this meme, go buy a fibre supplement 4 days ago:
They still make these
- Comment on Black Panther 3 is happening and Denzel Washington is in it, Denzel says 4 days ago:
Keeping in the spirit of the recent electoral result, they’ll make him white.
- Comment on Anon walks home in the city at 2 AM 5 days ago:
Typical 4chan user
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 6 days ago:
I wonder whether the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli civilians, and the similarity between Aboriginal and Palestinian causes, did quantifiable damage to the referendum results. Polls have shown that, outside of the inner-city left, Australians side more with Israel than Palestine, perhaps because both Australia and Israel are perceived as Western/vaguely American in a similar way. If so, the left’s rhetoric on Palestine may have doomed it.
- Comment on Het Pijnstillersparadijs: Europese Zelfbeheersing vs. Amerikaanse Pillenfeest 6 days ago:
Also Australians (where the most economical package of paracetamol/acetaminophen is 200 pills for A$4).
- Comment on Dutton is already testing Trump's campaign slogans 6 days ago:
If mainstream acceptance of progressive ideas collapses, Dutton will sweep in in a landslide not seen since Howard. And anecdotally it looks like it’s happening: the broad popular rejection of the Aboriginal recognition referendum suggests that there’s a mood of having had a gutful of progressive ideas. Which may be an illusion caused by Murdoch/Rinehart’s command of the media, but Albo having conceded on the issue and playing small-target I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-LNP politics isn’t helping.
Another thing to watch for: Greens support collapsing outside of the core, with them losing seats.
- Comment on Nightmare Blunt Rotation 6 days ago:
New Trump cabinet just dropped
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 6 days ago:
True, though BlueSky is a temporary redoubt at best, though one which, through switching costs, will trap people just as Xitter did. They accepted venture capital funds, and so when the time comes, will have to somehow recoup that from their users. At the moment, they’re in the glue-trap phase, attracting their users with promises to be open and not screw them over (see also: the early days of Facebook). Once enough are there, and have brought their friends and built personally meaningful networks dependent on BlueSky, the trap will close: third-party APIs will be restricted to the point of not providing an escape (as happened with Reddit and Xitter), the user-configurable algorithms will get unremovable additions that gradually increase the amount of ads, influencer content, AI pink-slime and whatever else they want in your feed, and then you’ll lose the ability to see all the content you selected, all the better to keep you refreshing and scrambling for anything you may have missed. And then, since all your friends and the cool people you follow are there, your choices will be to stay and suck it up, or effectively become a hermit.
- Comment on Anon has a realization 1 week ago:
Those grapes were certainly sour.
- Comment on Taylor Swift Fans Are Leaving X for Bluesky After Trump’s Election 1 week ago:
and apparently Nazis are following suit.
Someone should perhaps spin up a Mastodon/Misskey/something instance named swifties.social and bring them into the fediverse.
- Comment on When was the last time a Republican Oresident left office with a good economy? 1 week ago:
Eisenhower, probably
- Comment on "The American experiment endures," Biden said. "We're going to be OK." 1 week ago:
In the long run, we will all be dead, and none of this will matter.
- Comment on Labor backs 16 as the minimum age to use social media ahead of national cabinet meeting - ABC News 1 week ago:
So there’ll be mandatory age verification for accessing social media? I’m sure they’ll have robust firewalls to ensure that your identification data isn’t passed to the sites or their advertising partners. I’m equally sure that the police will have access to this data on day 1, and everybody from the tax office to local council will have it within a year.
- Comment on Two decisions made by Australia in 1924 and 1984 mean we've avoided the Wild West that is voting in the United States 1 week ago:
Also, not doing first-past-the-post should probably be counted.
- Comment on Police investigating historical sex offence allegations against Russell Brand hand file to CPS 1 week ago:
It’s always the ones you most suspect
- Comment on Mushrooms 2 weeks ago:
Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters
- Comment on Anon awakens an ancient evil 2 weeks ago:
“ancient evils” are usually things like blasphemy, insubordination or having intrinsic self-worth.
- Comment on Britain will rejoin the EU within 15 years, former Brussels chief predicts 2 weeks ago:
I hope so. Though 15 years may be a bit optimistic. The UK has passed through the phase of leaving the EU being a benefit in itself (freeing it up to rule the waves once again unfettered by the whims of politically-correct vino-drinking bureaucrats and such), and, faced with the sunk cost of its folly, has retreated into denial. Brexit may have cost us dearly, it goes, but it’s a price we have to pay to be true to our destiny, rather than pretending to be just another small country interchangeable with Spaniards and Belgians. Eventually the fit of pique will end and the consensus will settle on Brexit being a bit shite, and there not being any meaningful glorious destiny for which it is a price worth paying, and the question is how do we become like the Spaniards or Belgians (or, indeed, the Irish), enjoying the conveniences of the EU. It may take a generation though.
- Comment on "And now for some golden oldies!" 3 weeks ago:
When someone mentions a weird old man bothering people with his weird-old-man music and I expect it to be 70s prog rock but it’s Radiohead or Aphex Twin or something
- Comment on Anon needs tips. 3 weeks ago:
Life experience has negative value when the norms of consent have evolved in a matter of decades.
- Comment on Controversial US commentator Candace Owens refused Australian visa for speaking tour 3 weeks ago:
She can just wait until after the next election
- Comment on Row as Starmer suggests landlords and shareholders are not ‘working people’ 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure he’ll acknowledge his mistake, apologise profusely and make amends with a round of capital-gains tax cuts.
- Comment on 'It Has Plateaued': Should We Be Worried About Console Gaming's Future? 3 weeks ago:
The economics of consoles made more sense when computer power was expensive, and the choice was an underpowered home computer with so-so graphics and sound or a dedicated game machine optimised for drawing sprites and scrolling the screen responsively, with the extra costs subsidised by the price of (uncopyable) software. When PCs caught up, the consoles started looking internally like x86 PCs with souped-up GPUs (and, of course, draconian amounts of DRM baked in). Now with devices like the Steam Deck (and similar form-factor devices running Windows in game-console mode), there’s no real reason to buy a dedicated game-playing machine.
- Comment on Chris Kaba shooting: Firearms officer not guilty of murder 3 weeks ago:
All police officers are, by definition, not guilty of anything.