I live in what is considered “regional” Australia

The inbred hicks who think that sharing a name with a coloniser who died a hundred years ago is a flex resent it when they’re shown up as simple, unworldly people

They resent the stereotypes, but they go out of their way to reinforce all of the worst of them

Luckily, they’re not Queenslanders, or Territorians, so it could be worse

I still have say that I live in paradise, but I choose my company

Baseline obs haven’t changed in a hundred years

We do a fair job at banning some of their people too

I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money

‘Murica got exactly what’ Murica deserved

There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn’t new

It has always been fucked. It wasn’t founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble

It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else

The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics

‘Murica is a laughing stock, and rural’ Murica somehow managed to be even more stupid

I’d like to watch each member of this group burn, slowly

One at a time while the rest watch, knowing that they’re next

Centuries

The civilised world just wants 'Murica to fuck off, shut up and sit in the corner eating crayons

You should be ashamed to use that name

Bill & Ted understood empathy and that things aren’t black & white

He can’t read anyway

Because even if you earn enough to afford the repayments, it’s the deposit and stamp duty that fuck you

Few hybrids have hand brakes these days, and even many combustion powered vehicles

It has a hand brake, but it’s electronically operated and I have it set to automatically operate, because there’s no benefit in not doing that

I love my little BYD dolphin essential,

It’s everything I need without much that I don’t

I respectfully disagree

Removed by mod

An engineer knows that without applications, science is just magic, but we know that what isn’t immediately applicable will someday be wonderful

A bigot is terrified that what they know to be true in this moment will be revealed to be the most basic understanding of a thing, and almost entirely incorrect (but good enough for children to start with)

Can’t even call it a throttle

I guess I’ll have to stick with “accelerator”

Dunno what it’ll be called when I trade in my motorbike for an electric one someday

Another whistle to the bigots

This case was an outlier

But, “good job, Angus” will parade this around to appeal to the fears of transphobes

I despise him, but he seems to be alienating himself more and more by trying to appeal to the shrinking right-wing

The problem is that when they feel penned-in, they will become even more vicious

I’ve seen it for three decades now

There isn’t one simple answer because it’s a situation that’s more complex than people realise

I’m an electrician

One of the big problems is youth apprentice wages

They should be eliminated. They do the same work, they should get the same pay as anyone else, and they’re the reason kids pull out of apprenticeships

With residential, and to a lesser extent commercial, kids are treated like shit and used as cheap labour

Young people with brains are still pushed towards university, and even now, the trades still tend to get the leftovers when it comes to young people.

That’s why many big outfits tend to employ slightly older people, many who have tertiary education already. They are there because they are motivated, not because there’s nothing else

But there are only so many of those big employers

It’s also cheaper for unscrupulous companies to hire cheap labour to do the vast majority of the work and have a single tradesperson to sign it off, and plenty of good sparkies won’t be held liable for work that isn’t their own, and rightly so