This doesn’t discount the rest of your points but in Australia Dutton lost by a landslide, and also lost his own seat, so he’s out of parliament entirely.

We still have a lot of the racism and xenophobia issues fed by inequality and corporate interests, but Trump and his style is deeply unpopular here, which is partially why Dutton lost so badly.

75000/255000 < 30%

This is disproving your 58% claim above

Yep sorry. Your post is good, and your comment is good.

The other comments just shocked me and I have been reactionary. I should never have strayed into “All” probably.

You’re incorrect. I am disgusted by actual abuse, but I am also legitimately disgusted by the idea of anyone having sexualised thoughts about children. If you can tell me that these people have no control over that then you must be able to comprehend that as a parent I have no control over my protective instincts.

The idea of people who are sexually attracted to my children, or any children, being anywhere in the vaguest vicinity of them triggers very deep instinctual reactions. Whether those people intend to act or not.

I wouldn’t describe the feeling I’m having as my morals. My morals are conscious and deliberate.

Maybe you need to be a parent to understand… It is a visceral, deep in the gut feeling of fury and repulsion and rage.

Sorry but what the actual fuck are these comments???

Lemmy: yeh punch a nazi haha that’s awesome and deserved and cool

Also Lemmy: nooo don’t be mean to pedophiles they’re just misunderstood waaahhh it’s all QAnon propaganda

Fuck anyone who thinks abusing children is fine and normal. Fuck you all so hard to hell. Get the absolute fuck away from my kids.

I’m pretty damn left, but I have zero empathy at all for anyone who is thinking sexual shit about children. I’m livid. Holy shit.

Brisbane

I got a kilo of roo mince Monday for $13, beef mince was $20/kg

Oh god I almost don’t want to say this in this environment…

Techy people aren’t the most intelligent in other/all areas just because they have some technical expertise.

I have worked with, and interacted with people, all my life who are technically very intelligent in some specific way, and even been one of these people… Who thinks that one area of proficiency grants them unearned respect in other areas.

Eg." I’m great at maths therefore I’m logically infallible". Or “I’m an engineer, so I know exactly how society should function best”." I’m a doctor so my every opinion on everything is more important than yours".

Or you’re super well off and also don’t give a shift about everyone else

No apple?

“Almost more” seems nonsensical. Is it almost equivalent?

Are rates and ratios just too difficult? 529 in five months is much higher comparatively than 5** in four years.

Like, you could just say Trump has done airstrikes at more than 9 times Biden’s average so far.

I guess at least you know they can’t evangelise?

A lot of comments saying why they think reading has declined (boo evil school… They made me critically analyse stuff…) but not even touching on why that’s evidently having more effect on boys than girls?

That’s odd.

Compare to the other post asking why Tate bro manosphere brainrot is on the rise. The kind of garbage that specifically discourages boys from higher order thinking because that’s not “alpha”. Some of the comments there basically boiled down to " not my problem, shut up".

Interetsing juxtaposition.

Misogyny holds men back, but as long as that won’t be acknowledged, nothing will improve.

https://youtu.be/KWDRdvZsCyE

US-manufactured products should be allowed to compete on an equal basis with Australian-produced goods, consistent with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and US-Australia Free Trade Agreement,” he said.

Research and development tax concessions in Australia, France and Spain were described as conferring advantages to local firms “that the United States is hard-pressed to match”.

Um, isn’t this what the US is ostensibly trying to do to everyone else with their tariffs? Advantage home grown products over international ones?

It’s almost as if it’s not supposed to be free or fair, it’s just about the US extracting as much money from everyone in the world that they can get away with.

Es tut mir leid für die lange zeit. Ich habe zu viel Arbeit.

Meine muttersprache ist Englisch. Deshalb Ich dachte wir reden könnten. Ich bin Australier. Habst du Ideen für Themen? Ich mag politik, nachrichten, gaming. Was magst du?

Sweet. Hopefully this means we will deny Musk and Trump and all the rest of them too

Möchtest du mit mir sprechen? Mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich will es lernen. Ich war im 2003 in Hesse, ich liebe Deutschland

Ich lerne Deutsch, und

opiskelen suomea, ja

estoy aprendiendo español también.

Furthest along with Deutsch, because I did it at school (decades ago), not making huge progress gains with any of them because Duolingo, but it fits in my day so easily and the repetition is effective I think.