It's not a coincidence that social media was flooded with bots shilling One Nation and the party started rising in the polls after Gina the Hutt (Gina Rinehart, Australia's richest person) decided she was done with the Coalition and went to Mar-a-Lago late last year.

I still occasionally cringe and spiral over things I did and said 15 years ago. Just typing out this comment is enough to make me feel the tug of the spiral again.

I doubt that monoculture exists anywhere. What does that even mean?

Read it as monochrome culture and it makes much more sense.

To Israel "ceasefire" means you cease firing, I get to keep firing.

What a terrible day to have eyes

Australian consumer law specifically protects against this. The consumer has a choice between a repair (if possible), a refund or a replacement; the retailer doesn't get to choose for them. At today's prices, replacement is the only sensible choice. The retailer has to take it up with the manufacturer to cover their costs.

Out of character, super earth is obviously not good, but I don't think the helldivers are, necessarily. More victims imo

Helldivers are absolutely victims of Super Earth's leadership. The tutorial shows just how little training they actually receive, then they're immediately frozen and shipped off to be used as disposable cannon fodder. Their missions are almost always accomplished by throwing Helldivers at the objective until the ones lucky enough to survive complete it, or they run out of bodies.

Calling it "porn" makes it sound more legitimate and less like the heinous abuse that it really is.

Because big tech won't take no for an answer any more.

It's very convenient that the guy who supposedly shot up the ICE facility is dead.

More sanewashing from the complicit media

Because the no campaign isn't interested in answers, they just want to spread FUD.

but are they the real villains?

Yes.

I have never had my phone searched for memes (or at all, for that matter) when entering China.

It's a long bow to draw, but you could argue that AMD contributed to killing Clear Linux by taking back a lot of market share (particularly in the lucrative server market), forcing Intel to make big budget cuts, which included Clear Linux.

In reality, Intel's problems are largely self-inflicted. However, I don't think they'd be in as much trouble as they are if AMD wasn't also in such a strong competitive position.

Hey, he wrote "anti-ice" on one bullet with a sharpie, that's pretty much a signed confession.

/s for those who need it

It's bullshit doublespeak that really means "we're cutting costs (in the short term, the only term that matters)". Reducing headcount doesn't reduce the workload, it just means each remaining person has to do more work.

But he doesn't charge interest and sets no deadlines for payments. All he asks is that you pay off your existing loan before he'll give you another one.

The article mentions it in passing, but I want to point out that the accusations came to light in 2021 and he was kicked out of the Liberal party (they're the mainstream conservative party in Australia FYI), then suspended from the NSW Parliament when he was charged in 2022, but he was still re-elected in 2023 despite criminal charges hanging over his head. Even after he was convicted he took legal action to fight against expulsion from the Parliament rather than resigning like any MP with a shred of integrity would do, and only finally resigned literally hours before the expulsion vote was to be held (which was definitely going to pass).