Well, the run on bullshit and the stink of lies, so any ol made up thing works to rally the fascists.

We should have years ago, I think its impossible now. We use their IT everywhere for example, who hosts taz office records ? We have their military bases everywhere , look what happned to the ICC. How we let ourselves give up our digital soveriginety is an all time disaster thats unfurled.

The turning point for me was when George Bush was in then Australian Parliament and Senator Bob Brown was banned. An elected Australia senator was banned from Parlment. I started voting Green then.

We should really align ourselves with the EU and move away from the US.conplelty, the US jumped the shark with Trump the first time and we still didn’t pay attention, going the ANKUS root is a fucking national embarrassment

Regardless you’re not going to get any change from the ALP nor LNP, they’re too embedded in the orthodoxy.

There was a similar thing about the left crushing science, from the likes of Laurence Krauss, Dawkins, Pinker etal. Their argument seems to agree the right is a problem but it will go away, the left won’t :)

I thought it a weird argument but there you go, it seemed mostly concerned about censorship.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-War-on-Science/Dawkins/9798888457566

This.

The only charity that works is cash, it allows the local econmy to get started ,people buy food off local farmers etc. Some infrastructure eg trains crossing countries allow moving food or livestock from drought striken areas etc but maintenace inevitability becomes an issue.

Buying corn etal off comparatively well off American farmers is just welfare for said farmers.

Of course you always have corruption skimming off the top, stong men controlling water well access etc etc.

The entire way we structure the econony is based upon destroying the biosphere, this is just a symptom of that.

Asuming they know where they are launched from, send in a couple.Tomahawks.

Like a kid, pushing boundaries

Three million?! Who the hell has that much?

80,000 rich Australians, mostly its via an SMSF and they dump.assents in ther to avoid …paying tax , whihc is the entire point of this.

Personally i think the Greens $2Million cap thats indexed is a better idea but Im sure Albo will die on that cross with his hatred of The Greens as he’s now trying to work with the LNP to get it through the Senate instead.

The irony if the endless artickes in the AfR decrying how unfair it all is.

Running alongside articles about how terrible it is there hasn’t been tax reform for 24 years

It’s the same whenever the possibility of death taxes are raised, I am always bemused how the average person is outraged by this, as though a high tax on say >$10Million inheritance is some sort of outrage but inherited dynastic wealth that leads to vast inequality and political manipulation isn’t. Let alone it was often made off the back of generous tax subsidies in the first place, like large super balances.

Indeed and we allow.oirsekves to be distracted… As it ever was, for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Juvenal originally used it to decry the “selfishness” of common people and their neglect of wider concerns. The phrase implies a population’s erosion or ignorance of civic duty as a priority

People have fogotten what heaphones are for on phones.

I thought it was a ghetto way of hoping a dropped grenade from a drone might bounce off.

Support the artists ? Buying from Apple (or Amazon etc) sees you supporting Apple, supporting the publisher, the RIAA. The Artist is at the end of a long chain of grifters and middle men taking their pound of flesh… I’d love to support the artists, if I could donate directly to them. The ones who aren’t, like Taylor Swift don’t need more supoort.

I think thays a good compromise. if you then have an issie with a particular user you can block them individually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-NC_vQqf3E

I don’t log in to YT to watch any videos, I alao use Newpipe and Stube sans account. Grouping them in Tabs to get to is great for me.

Ban cars to me is shorthand for ban private cars, has nothing to do with EMS, or even public owned shared cars for that occasional time a car might necessary.

An 80% reduction in cars should be easy. 90% reduction with a few tweeks i’d think.

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

Loops ?

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/loops-by-pixelfed/

When Drive on Linux ?