I provided a statutory declaration affirming to whoever needed to read it that my friend and her English fiancée were a real couple; as well as photos I had taken of them at bbqs, concerts and zoo trips etc over the years as he was applying for permanent residency in Australia. What you are describing is a thing all immigrants go through - the white ones as well.

I personally think this portrait is rather flattering. Particularly in the context of Vincent’s other works. I think she’s far uglier in person.

This guy is about to learn that nobody likes him, isn’t he?

Even the people who listen to him and are entertained by his awful antics don’t tune in because they actually like him. He’s just on in the car and they’re a captive audience.

There was probably reluctance to accept it as true because he’s a VC recipient. One of the only seven living recipients in the world. These guys are meant to all be heroes. And what this dude did in 2011 was heroic. It’s just that he (allegedly) did stuff after that date that we don’t want to believe a hero is capable of.

I don’t think there’s a realistic way to measure that.

First of all, comparing sales of five-year-old games on PC to what’s going on in console land is unfair. Also, just how much does it cost them to port a game to PC and sell it? It’s gotta be cheaper than making the game to start with.

A significant portion of that $300 Million is pure gravy. I’m unlikely to buy a PlayStation, but I’ve bought four Sony titles so far and will likely buy a couple more. If they want my money, they need to come to where I shop.

I think if I only made 300 Million dollars in three years, I’d probably wonder what on earth I was even doing with myself as well. What is even the point? 😔

I’m on the other side of the country, so I have absolutely no idea. Your theory is as good as anything I’d come up with. That, and people suck at keeping secrets. Particularly in a rural setting. Crimestoppers exists because it works.

The Collins project taught us that building submarines is not trivial. And that was starting with another country’s R&D (Sweden). We also have no clue how to make a nuclear submarine.

While there issues with the French Barracuda subs, I think we should have had an open conversation with the French instead of secretly entering into the AUKUS pact. The French do have nuclear tech, so using that as an excuse to change after we’d asked them to make us diesel subs is a bit rich. I don’t know whether that’d have made nuclear subs, but I know it would have been something we could have asked about.

If you are really off-the-grid, you can disappear fairly effectively. There’s a lot of country out there to hide in. All the CCTVs and cell tower surveillance in the nation will only help to locate you if you are in the areas where the people and that coverage are.

I hate that I was right about this dude. 😞

It was obvious at the time that he was never coming quietly.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

Yes and no. My family’s personal carbon footprint is negligible. And it’s less than average because we reduce it intentionally. Let’s say for example that we reduce our footprint by 40% (I don’t know what the number is, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it were around this). Big deal - 40% of an average family’s greenhouse emissions is still 40% of bugger-all.

But now imagine three million families doing this. 40% of three million average families suddenly is a significant number.

I love that he managed to get this article out before the ABC strike took effect, but at the same time it feels rushed and a bit all over the place. It’s probably not helped that the speech from Mr. Bourke spoke of terrorism from a wider perspective, and that the incident in Perth was a part of that speech. Yes, Perth was phenomenally lucky that the IED thrown into the crowd Forrest Chase failed to go off. But the point that he was making was that four terrorism events in recent years were all carried out by people born in Australia. Three of the four men in custody behind these incidents are white nationalists. We need to look closer to home to tackle the threat of terrorism and not simply point the finger at immigration.

Even with the incidents from the last couple of months, the terrorism threat level in Australia remains at probable.

Having worked petrol retail through my late teens/early 20’s, I can assure you that people have no idea how much of our society depends on diesel.

Electricity, too: Ten days without power would be almost enough to send us to the Iron Age. It’s scary when you think about it, you could seriously cripple any modern nation by attacking just those two vectors of infrastructure and they’re both pretty soft targets in terms of the damage you could do.

Not only is it possible, there are hundreds of examples we can learn from. It’s been done over and over in Europe to astonishing success. That could be us.

That’s one of the nice things about Lemmy for me. I pretty much just stick to the local feed and I can read whatever has been posted today in an hour or so. More time for books.

This article claims to cite the ABS, but the ABS has a very different story: https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-releases/annual-net-overseas-migration-falls-second-year-row

Overseas migration added 306,000 people to Australia’s population in the 2024-25 financial year, according to data released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

Jenny Dobak, ABS head of migration statistics, said: ‘Net overseas migration dropped by 124,000 people in 2024-25, falling for the second year in a row since the financial year high of 538,000 people in 2022-23.

‘The change in net overseas migration was driven by both a 14 per cent decrease in migrant arrivals, particularly temporary visa holders, and a 13 per cent increase in migrant departures.

‘While net overseas migration is not currently at the level seen prior to the pandemic, this year’s overseas migration figures are the closest to pre-COVID-19 figures since annual net overseas migration peaked in September quarter 2023.

‘Migrant arrivals in 2024-25 were only 3 per cent higher than in 2018-19, but migrant departures remained 15 per cent lower than they were in 2018-19.’

The irony is: Most people’s jimmies would not have been rustled even if this article hadn’t been full of shit. Go back a few generations and almost all of us are migrants.

The post has been reported, but isn’t breaking our instance rules. I’m inclined to believe OP is being dishonest with you all. At this point, I’ll leave it with the community to decide if any action should be taken.

The last holdout servos finally went above $2/l today. I topped up at $1.49 last week. Is this even real?

Jazz hands!! 👐