Thanks for your response. It’s a shame this is a trend but perhaps fluxer will add that feature or it can be formed with one

Oooh. Thanks for the tip! I just tested it and it’s great, other than being slow which is understandable. Is it internet searchable? Or a walled garden?

As a Xennial, I still don’t get it because, I guess, I embraced being the weirdo at school and hung out with the weirdos. I was bullied for wearing secondhand uniforms, not wearing doc martens, not having the backpack that everyone has, never having a bf, not talking l33t etc, etc…

I say, take that fall. Embrace destruction and delete the apps. Be the weird analogue kid.

But then again, maybe Australian kids weren’t massive arseholes.

Any age, really. You can introduce the topic gradually through learning about biology. Pollination of plants, for example. Or bird mating rituals. At primary school, we had an egg incubator where we could watch the live growth of a chicken fetus. Make it clinical and normal rather than this forbidden mysterious thing.

High schoolers should definitely be taught about safe sex and disease prevention. Also, consent and how to deal with unwanted attention, or even what to do after rape, dealing with shame etc. Heck, talk about masturbation and how it effects the body and mind.

It all needs to be laid out on the table so, in the future, these kids grow up into well informed adults and we can forget about data harvesting for surveillance.

At this point, it’s probably cheaper and more effective to have proper sex education in schools…

Rage for the Machine

Paper trail

Here we go. This is how they’re going to further oppress the opposition and keep the regime in power. Anything to keep Trump from paying for his crimes.

It might just be my Australian English.

Because you can’t force them to do what you want without them telling the authorities and ruining your reign of debauchery.

When he gets snapped out of his cult induced mind, he’s in for a hell of a time realising that he killed his own daughter in the name of a pedophile rapist.

I see double redactions in that document. Pretty sus right there.

Yep. Or at least that’s how much it was 10 years ago when someone I knew didn’t vote and purposefully stayed home. Could be a bit more than that now. I think the money goes to the electoral commission and is redistributed as election funds to parties on the next election. Happy to be corrected on that point, though.

We also have preferential voting, which means there’s more than 100 people to vote for. You can pick your top 12 or number every single one in order of preference. This means that your vote counts for something in the end, so there’s no feeling of having your vote wasted if “your side” isn’t elected.

We get a fine of $50. The purpose is not to punish those who don’t vote but to make the act of voting more palatable.

In Australia, we still get donkey votes and non voters but they’re in the minority, and definitely not in the millions.

And it shouldn’t be like that at all. The government should be a reflection of all the different voices and perspectives of a nation. That way, not one party of whatever colour holds power and everyone can be more easily held accountable.

There’s room for conservation, to keep things like nature parks the way they are and there’s room for progression such as adapting laws to be emerging tech etc.

The US political system is so, so very broken and honestly needs to be built up from scratch.

Voting should be compulsory.

Voting should be accessible.

The bar for entry to run should be much lower and more accessible to people who want to run and make a change.

Preferential voting should be considered.

The people should have veto power over government if there is a vote of no confidence to allow a dissolution of said government and snap elections held to redistribute power in favour of the people.

And so much more. Like getting rid of gerrymandering, electoral college etc. So that the votes actually reflect what the people want. If the country is mostly progressive, then it moves in a progressive direction.

Etc. Etc.

My friends tell me it’s screen share that they want and why Mumble etc. won’t cut it.

I’ve always used “Yeah, nah” as “I get what you’re saying but I disagree” and “Nah, yeah” as “No problem here with what you’ve just said and I agree with the sentiment”. I rarely use the latter though, at least as far as I know. It might pop out without me knowing.

Basically third partying cost of labour to a country where worker protections differ (although are there any worker protections in the US at all?).

But China isn’t a crony capitalist country like America. The money is set up to always favour the government over there.

Things are the way they are in places like America because the government exists because of the billionaires (bribery, lobbying etc). In places like China, the billionaires exist because of the government (surveillance, prison sentences etc). This is most likely because Xi is driven by ideology, not greed.

The only way for the billionaires to take over China at the moment is to come together and start their own army to go to war. No way that’s going to happen because wars are a drain on capital.