The UN is just a town hall. It has no more authority or legitimacy than that.
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The UN is just a town hall. It has no more authority or legitimacy than that.
I must be the only Australian who hasn’t seen a gambling ad in the last 5 years. Of course, I don’t think I’ve seen an ad for anything at all except maybe street-level billboards that I ignore.
This surely must rank amongst the most insane things he’s ever said, right? Also amongst the most insane things that anyone ever said at the UNGA (I hope!) www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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Or you think that your audience has
The Cultural Revolution vibes are getting extremely thick
Lemme spell it out. Trump's only leverage over Jimmy Kimmel and ABC came from FCC regulation. His direct power over H1-B visas gives him similar leverage over tech, higher ed, and others.
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Farmers have the most to lose from climate change and the National Party betrays them.
I kind of love that our climate strategy is officially described as “maximum possible effort”
Employment contracts as a mechanism for authoritarianism: (H/t: @redrabbleroz.bsky.social) If employees aren’t allowed to speak, who is? philosophybreak.com/articles/eli...
When your visa policy has nothing to do with immigration & everything to do with becoming a dictatorship.
I think you’re right. During the campaign when he started doing this, people assumed he was confused because he’s an imbecile. But by now he must know. So it’s more plausible that he’s intentionally poisoning the terminology.
British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has defied Chinese warnings of “provocation” and upheld international navigation rights in the South China Sea. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/british-carr...
Stacking the deck means investing the hell out of the technology development process for things like decarbonising metals & industry, and CCS. CCS is not an option: we’re going to overshoot, so we’ll need net negative emissions for a time.
We know what’s necessary & we know what’s possible. There’s a gap. It’s not that it’s impossible, but the technology doesn’t exist yet, so it’s impossible to rely on. It’s a gamble, so we need to stack the deck as much as possible. www.smh.com.au/environment/...
The only feature I want from a new phone is a camera lens cover
Amazing that this has been on the news for most of the last hour and so far no one I’ve seen has said when this happened or for how long? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
huh. I've often heard people speculate that this is how Zebras evolved with stripes but I never heard anyone suggest adding stripes to other animals before. english.kyodonews.net/articles/-/6...
Looks like a bunch of US state governors are having to clean up after the mess made by Trump's ICE goons www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/com...
What are their main costs? Is it just writing staff + renting the studio? Hard to see what they spend money on that could generate such loss.
If their mission is to deliver a smoke-free tomorrow I feel like I could offer some notes to make their strategy more productive.
Was he a member of his union?
I suppose public broadcasting is out of the question, huh.
If you want a 40,000 point game, you either need to be a CEO or the owner of a 3D printer
It’s not cheaper, faster, better at large scale, but it is at small scale. So it’s mainly used for very small production orders like prototyping, where the production run is one unit instead of one hundred million units. A decent overview from June: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Trump confirms Albo meeting, says public journalism on the agenda #auspol 😋
Hastie’s conduct over BRS displayed huge integrity. It’s his commitment to ignorance on climate science/economics that puts his leadership credibility in question in my view (but he’s probably still near the top of credibility within the Libs)
Why would anyone want to eat food that wasn’t from region D anyway?
Guessing here since it’s not my aggregation, but since both parties support it & it’s already the status quo, what matters is whether there’s a big constituency opposing it. There isn’t.
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(on the government's recognition of a Palestinian state, 42% are unsure/no opinion. And the question was about the way the Australian government is acting to recognise a Palestinian state, not about Palestinians generally)
Suspect some of these results willcome as a shock to many on social media. Especially 58% support/accept AUKUS (18% opposed). Also that only 29% support Aus's recognition of a Palestinian state www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Is it just me or did they jump from 15 to 26?
I'll be impressed if they follow Europe's path. I expect what they'll actually do is just crack down on anyone who isn't sufficiently MAGA politically correct.
I’m absolutely loving the SMH’s new policy of using links to documents that it’s reporting on. Revolutionary! www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Code Pink or that post?
He hasn’t learned a single thing for the last 40 years at least
People only believe this when they themselves are sick😪
I’d be more interested in the top 3 languages on Duolingo in each state. School language education in Australia is basically useless & the numbers are minuscule.
Wow! Canada is low trust place I guess!! 😅
The problem is, you can either tell AI to prioritise highly factual sources or you can tell it to prioritise right-ideological sources, but you can’t do both. So it will either be factual, or it’ll say what Elon wants to hear, but not both.
What if I offered you $50 to yawn?
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
There aren’t that many sane counties left.
100%. It’s just a continuation of Megyn Kelly: “We haven't felt like ourselves since Obama”. So damn racist that their sense of their own identity can’t survive when a black person is in a top leadership position. Just useless in their core.
Meanwhile they perpetuate the institutions that ensure corruption continues.
Elon apparently thinks *every* country can only be saved by right wing extremism + lots & lots of (neglected?) babies
Also, credit where it’s due: Andrew Hastie (a conservative MP & former SAS soldier) led the official inquiry into these war crimes & led the calls for accountability. His view was that the SAS’s reputation depended on accountability, not coverup.
Only because they’re opposed to education
Do these guys just get ALL their policy ideas from China’s Communist party?
I’d like to note here that he was a decorated war hero AND THEN his war crimes were revealed at which point he became seen as a war criminal, not a war hero (with some people slower than others to adjust)
This is an excellent example of why air safety is the biggest productivity issue we face.
The murder of Charlie Kirk is part of a disturbing rise in political violence that threatens to hollow out our public life. A free society relies on the premise that people can speak out without fear or humiliation. No more political violence.
Thanks! That’s very helpful
Cheers. I’ll look that up later!
Ahh… that makes sense. Clearly a new use of the term, but the evolution is kind of logical in that way. Thanks
Yep. It’s like how China has tofu construction, but this is dimsum excessive production & competition!
Thanks. So this is an imported word to English? Like, it didn’t have this meaning in English until we started using it as a translation for CCP jargon, right?
Cursed
#ChinaSky, have we always translated 内卷 as ‘involution’? Pleco has it, but my English dictionary doesn’t give involution the equivalent meaning. I’m wondering if I need a new dictionary or if this is just very new #sinology
My first use of the new bookmark feature :)
“Trivial” isn’t allowed anymore? Have they run out of data storage or something? That’s like, all social media comments.
Great way to control the questions (By “great”, I mean “effective”)
This would be fantastic. It would make PNG Australia’s third formal treaty ally, along with New Zealand & the US #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
The problem is: Charlie Kirk was wrong.
Also: civilisation is about resolving conflict through words. Charlie Kirk may have spent his whole life opposing that value, but he was wrong.
Dec: Luigi Mangioni May: Elias Rodriguez killed two Israeli embassy staff June: two Minnesota Dems & their spouses shot in their homes (separately, on the same day)
Charlie Kirk’s is at least the fourth (!) assassination in the US in a year This is how civil wars start Shooting people is just not an ok way of resolving problems. Even if they spent their life saying it is www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
Well done with the rest of it. I wouldn’t’ve had a chance.
Yeah. It looks like he miswrote the last letter and wrote over it or something
“errors” I think is the word you missed.
The only kind of person who says this is the kind of person who has done this
Trump demanded foreign post offices collect his taxes for them. They’re not set up to do that, so they suspended service to the US. You can’t post something from Australia to the US at all right now.
Thanks again for setting me strait. I hate contributing misinformation. I left my mistake up but have tried to highlight your correction. Hopefully the mistake is neutralised.
So it would be 12% of the company’s value, not 2/3rds. Still a ridiculous and immoral sum, but now it’s in the realm of believable for this cursed timeline
My sense that Elon’s $1 trillion payout was insane even for this timeline turned out to be more correct than I realised, in that it isn’t what’s actually happening. He has stock options he can realise if Tesla’s value hits $8.5 trillion. The options would then be worth $1T
This is probably the biggest productivity freebie there is 👇
Vivid simile
Sussan Ley says she wants Australians to be less dependent on government. In that case, we need far stronger unions so we can rebuild the middle class & end the culture of billionaires. #auspol
Australia is there with you www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
Thanks for calling out my error, btw
Huh. Ok, that’s somewhat different. So then, if he quadruples the value of the company, THEN he gets this enormous payout? I wonder if there’s a timeframe? Sorry - I find the whole thing too disgusting to read so many details. That was a mistake on my end.
Has any other company in history ever given TWO THIRDS of its total market value as a single-year payment to its CEO? #econsky #auspol
I thought it sounded familiar. Perhaps the biggest lesson of the pandemic (apart from the need to mitigate airborne transmission of respiratory infections) is that there’s almost no amount that you can spend on prevention (for everyone everywhere) that is too much. www.smh.com.au/national/spe...
Our submission to the productivity Roundtable made roughly that point (section 5) Unfortunately on 1.5% of health spending in Australia is on prevention. curtinrc.org/wp-content/u...
How can shareholders possibly justify paying an absentee CEO 2/3rds of their entire market cap in a year that the company value fell 25% #Tesla apple.news/AMax5EoqUTCG...
South Australia’s way of simply banning political donations is also pretty great
You can’t fix this without enforced real-time police finance transparency. My preferred way is to have all donations go through the AEC & let them declare it before the parties even get it. #auspol www.smh.com.au/national/i-m...
Nobel Peace Prize is a lock now, right?
The CCP didn’t want good relations, they just wanted docility
The only thing Biden did was convince people to stop caring about it.
This is indeed fantastic
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Sportsbet really has taken Australia to the dump
They even highlighted it as the pull-out text 🤦♂️
The US was doing fine without all these tariffs just a few months ago
I wouldn’t take any avoidable risk that depends on the current US government keeping its word though.
Seems extremely premature & presented without evidence