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The more we live in cities, the safer the natural environment can be from us. The biggest threat we pose to our natural environment is our rapacious sprawling for suburban lots in the most arable areas of the country. And we can make cities livable, indeed, even walkable! If we design them as such.
Agreed. But learning to live in higher densities is part of that. We could stop expanding the sprawl and double our population. We could build greener buildings and renewable energy. No reason we couldn't grow our population while reducing our (extravagant) footprint. If only we wanted to.
There is space for immigration without terraforming the deserts. We just need to grow up and build more dwellings, and take the opportunity to do so more densely near transport hubs, rather than in sprawling suburbs. The only resources we lack are political courage and common sense.
This is the way. Mock them.
All true, but it's an eerie reminder of where qanon was in the US in 2015. It's a foreign influence op, with the goal of a fascist take over. In the US it worked pretty well. I'd like to think Australians are less prone to propaganda, but I'm not confident.
It does raise one important question: where are the Epstien Files?
Aha! It was an electric car. No smoke.
🤷
An upstanding man who always likes to ensure his short is tucked in...
... and presumably, you were tucking your shirt in, right?
Combined arms maneuver - very advanced stuff.
It was *checks the complaint* apparently trans.
Guys, there's a tip line...
Oh, but that's unfair. His past victims have made it very clear he jacks himself up on viagra to maximize the misery he's able to inflict...
Oh, that's a good theory. If it was inspired by a Garth Brooks song, she caught him cheating, and was driving the other vehicle at the time of the collision. 🎵 She never hit the brakes, and she was shiftin' gear. 🎶
Yep. Mayor shirt-tucker makes *my* skin crawl. I can't imagine how women feel, just at the mention of the slithering creep. Guarantee you're right. We will find out more, and we will wish we didn't have to know it. Ew.
They're rehabilitating the narrative. Michael Wolfe is in on it.
I thought it was a Jedi thing.
As I am a girl-dad, I am well versed in Mean Girls, High School Musical, Gilmore Girls, My Big Fat Greek Weeding, and various other girly canon, which impresses some of my female friends. A woman freely citing Monte Python deserves the same admiration in the other direction. Well met, friend.
Mr Frampton, I believe that you... whereas most people have two...
Alpha
Hundreds of Facebook feeds and YouTube algorithms marching in the streets, shouting about stuff they wouldn't even care about if they logged off and touched grass. I'm so tired.
Torturing children to death to own the libs.
Low poly grocery bag. Check!
Yep, costing nothing, they will generate billions. It's like magic.
Not if you factor in all the spanish-speaking minorities who were rounded up and stuck in prison camps or deported. Then it comes out about even. This is MAGA math.
You got paid. Throw your own parade.
Posting for absolutely no reason
So why are we arming all these people with unworthy hearts? Sensible gun laws filter those folks out. So, it sounds like an argument for regulation.
Great. Now the afterlife is ruined, too.
All these GOP gun shills should be required to send their kids to schools guarded by the Uvalde PD. Then we might see some attitudes shifting.
Anything but gun control...
I saw a documentary about this. There was a Christmas miracle, right?
Climate activists are going to throw paint at her if she's not careful.
Anything. Literally anything else, but not, "God probs doesn't want nutters having high-powered weapons so they can go on killing sprees" Because, was that so hard?
Yes, but aren't they also stupid?
Medical licenses and expertise in general are too woke. We need more festering whale carcasses and brain worms in public health.
True. It's a different time. Ned was dealing with a colonial British police force, so he could garner a lot of sympathy from locals. Other than that, there's not much difference. The Kellys were pretty terrible guys. It just comes down to whether you see the govt/police as legitimate.
In Australia, we have different traditions. When we go on the run, we *wear* the trash cans.
I'm not a doctor, but doesn't it actually mean they're all going to be Jedi?
But maybe if we wait longer, the fascists will change their mind.
Have a baby, and you have increased the capita without increasing the production for 2 decades. So... GDP/Capita falls. Someone immigrated, you increase the capita and *also* increase production (also taxation). Immigration is the easy way to grow an economy! But some of them are brown, so... 🤷
I mean, they have a point that the only way the government can tell you what to do, ultimately, is by force. But what they don't get is that force matters. If they want their own country, they need to go make one (good luck with that), but this is our country, and they will obey our laws or suffer.
These people are a living Facebook feed. They have scrambled eggs for brains, and do not inhabit reality.
I'm sure he responded as he always does on such situations, "May a thousand blossoms bloom, as far as I'm concerned..." Before scowling and invoking some unnecessarily violent anecdote as a non-sequitur to change the subject.
Speaking as an Australian, we have always loved to knock Americans, but it's in brotherly love. Right now, we're horrified at what you're going through. You'd be welcome here. One day, maybe we can get back to calling you all "seppos" 🙃 but: me vs my brother; me & my brother vs the fascists
Americans, get out of there. It's not a safe place to be.
This mode of prayer is an act of empathy. When Republicans do it, it is a cynical distraction to avoid taking action. Pete cannot be accused of that, as an advocate of gun control. For additional explanation: We pray not that it changes God, but that through it, God might change our own heart.
Ah, well, ok...
There's a poem on a statue in NY harbor, the existence of which implies this wasn't inevitable. It was a choice.
Again? www.un.org/en/about-us/...
I had another game that was pirate-themed. It referred to loot as "bootle" instead of booty, and I never figured out of it was deliberate.
I had a game in the '80s where your emblem had a Latin inscription. I didn't think about it much, but a friend, whose fancy high school taught Latin, saw it and keeled over laughing. "Semper ubi sub ubi" "Always where under where"
It means they know the other guy is almost dead.
It's also apparently encouraging people to think they're messianic prophets. What could possibly go wrong? It's not like it's even hard for their software to detect these conversations and flag them. They just don't want to.
Freedom from doing business.
And they try to tell us AI has no good use!
This is what baffles me about this post. Don't Americans know they measure *everything* this way?
I mean, Americans have been measuring everything by that measure for hundreds of years. The rest of us don't know why.
Yep. The category of uniformed combatant is at least defensible under some sort of moral framework.
I mean, it was protected last time...
Even tiny changes are tested as catastrophic if the community is serially traumatized. ... just saying, for no particular reason.
Asphalt roads are woke antifa dei crt! Why can't we build good old, patriotic cultural heritage white roads? Oops, I mean concrete, of course...
Turns out, he had a point
Sure, but what was she wearing...? Same energy.
And you can observe the natives with their curious little behaviors, like pooping in a plastic bag so that they don't leave their cherished spot on the line. They're so wholesome.
Luigi Mangione should apply as campaign manager.
But he's pretty. Would it be as scandalous if the genders were reversed?
You answered your own question. It's the same reason she is getting kid glove treatment now.
Forgot to well-regulate them.
When profits go up, you get stock buybacks, not jobs. Also, not pay increases. Just stock buybacks.
Your belly can't...
A bottle-nosed shark
They will be down by finity and a quarter, finity and a half...
Also, the window winder handles are very valuable second hand.
Everyone under the age of 35: What's a car radio?
Australia as well. It's because they aren't physically able to pay the import duties. Not that they don't want to, they aren't allowed to. Australia post is trying to arrange payments through a third party. Presumably, all the others are as well. So it will pass, but it's Trumpy chaos.
Exactly. They aren't federal judges, finders of fact. They are reporters, reporting what happened!
But I'm Australian, not Camadian, and I'm talking about every single advanced economy in the world having a measurably better design of healthcare than the US, as measured by real world outcomes like life expectancy, maternal mortality, etc. No system is perfect, but one is just obviously wrong.
Nailed it.
There's a world of hurt coming for America. Most of it self-inflicted.
*the US
If i lived in the IS,I would probably be fine, too. But then, I have enough money to afford good access. In Australia, I know that my fellow citizens can also access world class healthcare, regardless of their income.
Yep. When you have to look at Turkey and Mexico to find economies *without* this feature, it highlights that single payer is normal in an advanced economy. The US is an outlier.
We've tried nothing, and we're all out of ideas. The only countries that have figured out our are *checks notes* every one of the other G20 nations. Of only there were some way to figure this thing out it's just so complex...
Those throwaway lines are always misleading. If healthcare was *actually* unobtainable for any significant number, the statistics on health *outcomes* for the US would not look like a 3rd world outlier among 1st world nations. Outcomes > propaganda talking points.
Agreed. It's better than anything Americans have had before. But in Australia, almost all prescription drugs cost ten bucks or less. Why? Government single payer plus government subsidies. It means everyone gets good healthcare.
I'm Australian. We get measurably better healthcare than Americans for far less per capita, and we're not excluded from anything. I earn a lot of money, so I am required to pay a gap. I can insure most of it. It has all been done before. By literally every advanced economy in the world.
Ok, this is weird, but I have the Democratic establishment on line 3, the Republican party on 5, and three billionaires are at the front door.
"I will not write lines on the board" "I will not write lines on the board" "I will not write lines on the board" "I will not write lines on the board"
Patriotic aged urine 👍
To be fair, they will return soon, and get right back to it.
I love how the comments almost universally call out the juvenile premise of this useless and destructive question. Well done, everyone. Faith in humanity boosted.
