How convenient...for Putin and others who want to divide Europe to make it easier to claim parts of it.

I didn't realise these kind of culture war astroturfing regressive religious groups were this active in Australia. I hope there is something we can do at a societal level to prevent this escalating.

• Antivaxxers
• Sovereign Citizens
• White supremacists
• Anti Trans "protesters" (making threats to libraries)
• Religious "mothers" groups banning books

I'm happy for people to have their beliefs but these things all feel like they are being done cynically by dark forces that want to change the fabric of our society - Or maybe I am off with the fairies, I don't know sometimes.

Am I alone in thinking that? What can we do about it?

In my outsider opinion you have one more chance. This is it. If you can repel Fascism this time it will get easier next time. If you don't, I fear for us all.

He's also pretty much guaranteed to be dead in less than ten years, so all those narcissistic Republican assholes assume it will be them personally that takes the throne when it happens. So of course they support him.

In most places it actually rains a lot less that you would.think, and often it only rains a small part of the day. I know that when the forecast is for rain often the 30 minutes it takes me to commute are dry.

I commute everyday in a place that has a reputation for being a bit rainy in winter and I get actually wet like 5 times a year.

Ah! I came here to make the same comment! Well done😜

Dickheads in cars on their phones that will run me over and kill me from behind one day. RIP me. But it's been a hell of as ride until that point in the future.

Ooh, and freehub incompatibility and different "standards" fuck those.

Was there no requirements for the essays to be factual? I honestly can't understand how or why blatenet and provable falsehoods were aloud to be in this important document?

Imagine spontaneously building a gallows, like where the fuck would you even find the wood at in the capital?? Who randomly thinks "I should take multiple 12 foot lengths of 2x4 to hear the person who lost the election speak?

Who else thinks a big old fat length of rope is what I should take with me to see the peaceful transfer of power for myself?

Fuck those cunts.

Oh wow, I never thought I'd see cycling here! Sorry, I have no answer but would also love to know.

Anywhere that has any of the major racing available would.also be greatly appreciated ♥️

Worse than that, it's an intentional miss direction so that their billionaire benefactors can continue to squeeze the fossil fuel sponge well into the future. They want to get every last almost free drop out of our resources.

Am I being way too cynical by thinking this sudden burst of "RFK actually bad for Trump" content that seems to be everywhere is actually some kind of reverse phycology propaganda trick to make the left leaning folks let it play out?

That wasn't my question. What is Trump going to do to help Palestinian children?

And what do you think Trump will do to help the Palestinian children? Please be specific.

You're assuming he ever got told their name by the fixer before the poor girl was sent into the room.

This sounds absolutely insane! Surely it must be trivial to prove that she had no part in anything. Corporations shouldn't be able to reach down into peoples lives in this way (she is in a different country and was not represented). what can be done to raise awareness and try to help get the attention of the relevant Minister to advocate to the USA Govt to have this sorted out? This women must be beside herself.

Tackling congestion is something that should be done, it is a huge drag on productivity as well as quality of life. The challenge as I see it is the tough decisions that would need to be made and the political capital that it would cost the decision makers - as such I don't see any Australia govt and any level doing much to fix the problem for decades still.

As I see it there are a several main setting changes that need to happen to contribute to the overall goal.

1. Reduce demand - Decentralise cities, give people the right to WFH, develop 15 minute towns/villages, satellite CBDs, regional hubs etc.
2. Incentivise other modes of transport - create more comprehensive public transport networks and make it free, tax incentives for active travel (purchase personal mobility devices with pre tax income, interest free loans etc), increase shared user path construction, reduce speed limits, build sensible regulations around personal E-Mobility devices, develop last mile logistics that utilise E Cargo bikes and other alternatives to large vehicles in CBDs &town centres etc.
3. Disincentivise single occupier personal vehicle use (this is the hardest one!) - introduce CBD/inner ring time of day and/or congestion charges, variable peak hour commuter toll charging, KM travelled based charging for vehicle use, or similar, create slow streets and other car hostile town planning.

It is impossible to stop people driving cars, but COVID certainly showed that making changes to how people work and incentives/disincentives to traveling can have a large impact.

I acknowledge that many people will still need and want to drive personal vehicles, I I bet by pulling all these levers together then it would significantly change the way people move around Australian cities.

That would be amazing, but unfortunately not the case in many places, including Australia where instead a bike rider that gets hit by a car gets told that it is too difficult to prove blame on the driver, even when there is clear video evidence and third part witness statements saying the the driver intentionally rammed the rider.

Don't ask me how I know...

It is to be to defend against potential prosecutions arriving from the RC - it seems like he is likely one of the people named in the sealed section.

This Bloke has really broken Godwin's law hasn't he?