How many actually will vs how many innocents you just abandon. Like how many people actually presented to doctors or hospital after getting vaxxed, missed work etc.

I think this fear of other human beings behaving in ways you probably would never dream of, nor would you expect of almost everyone you know, is misguided.

Society can afford a few mooches if it’s the price of helping the needy. We support an entire class of mooches with stuff like CGT discounting and that doesn’t help anyone.

I agree, part of keeping trust in collective health measures is trusting people when they say they are hurt by them and trying to help.

These people did a prosocial and sensible thing, they got hurt in freak accidents, they deserve respect and compassion.

CSIRO hastening the trend in culture by explicitly making us a nation of fart huffers.

she’s living up to the paramedic tradition of being completely awesome and down to earth.

Is Australia the entire south of the world?

if you’re asking me to defend the decisions of the British you are looking in the wrong place lmfao.

Nah, it’s funny ribbing them over their egotistical exceptionalism. you know they almost named their country freedonia?

Imagine meeting a German who refers to themselves as a Eurasian, cringe shit that is.

We can have a little pogrom against usaians as a treat.

Whitlam. No competition, most good things in Australia can be traced to the government under him and very few bad things.

Yeah recency bias is always a thing.

I would also add the subtly that this question:

On the whole, are you very satisfied, fairly satisfied, not very satisfied, or not at all satisfied with the way democracy works in Australia?

Is not “do you want more or less democracy?”. We only nominally have a democracy, we can’t for example fire a government (non violently) that broke all it’s promises. We can’t force certain bills to be presented or not, we can’t directly vote on any issue, our workplaces are almost exclusively dictatorial. Even within the system we have defects like the popular vote to seat count being completely whack because of single member seats in the lower house (very unusual among democracies).

Saying you are dissatisfied could mean you’re an authoritarian dickwad, but so could saying you’re satisfied. People who want more democracy, lots of citizen involvement, and more accurate representation of the people are not against democracy but would also say they’re very unsatisfied. I mean society is getting measureably worse while we careen into a global crisis of apocalyptic proportions, who the fuck things this is working?

Hope each of you are happy about the dead horses

Everything looks rainbow whenever I sit down at my computer but I thought I bought a non lgbt led case.

I guess this explains it.

This was inevitable and forseen.

Realistically recreational drugs can’t be priced out of existence. Stuff like plain packaging is fantastic, more funding to help addicts quit would be good (e.g. naltrexone pbs trials) would be nice.

At a certain point you just have to accept not getting 100% of people off them, and recreational drugs are the place for a government monopoly so there’s no profit incentive to undermine cessation efforts.

the military industrial complex promoting militarisation? Now I’ve seen everything.

This account seems to only post news stories critical of the Chinese government, I only noticed after the three posted here in such a short time.

That’s not a comment on their accuracy, just be aware the poster is deliberately spreading propaganda with a very narrow focus.

I dunno, byd has some pretty ‘budget’ entries for sale elsewhere.

what does this have to do with what my wife and I would want?

I have found that being slightly racist and doing a bit of a Chinese accent makes the BYD voice assistant understand me better 😬

I want this to be true so bad. The idea of like having to put on a comedicly overwrought accent to make a machine understand you is 👌

Axe the rear seats and this is something my wife and I would likely love when the dogs have died.

We take our kona electric in some pretty silly places but I’ve nearly gotten stuck a couple of times in muddy gravel having only 2WD and lowish clearance restricting some of the paths we can take.

Hoping to do some long arse road trips across the desert in the next couple of decades.

So this might have been the case however:

• Australia maintains a strategic stockpile for events like this.
• There was at one point no evidence masks stopped spread (after all, we didn’t know how it spread). Some people touted this as evidence masks don’t stop spread. This is a perversion of how evidence works and a very silly thing to think.
• You cannot change messages and expect people to keep trusting you. you need to be honest.

Australia’s readiness had been criticised for years, indeed it used to be one of the ways I bored everyone stupid at house parties when I got political. If the stockpile of masks was insufficient this was massively forseeable, although I think it was actually adequate and the pollies were just reckless idiots for panic reasons.