Sam

I'm not worried about Artificial Intelligence killing us all. Human Stupidity is simply much more efficient.

Weird to me so many people seem to forget that consumers need to be able to afford things in order to be able to buy things.

One Nation is for the One Percent

I swear every other day I see some commentary saying the greens need to "cut through". How though? The media just flat out ignores them. I follow their socials and I swear, every time someone says "they should do x" like focus on cost of living or whatever, they're already doing it.

There's this weird phenomenon in auspol that I'll never understand - when people say stuff like "I could never vote liberal or phon but labor are so disappointing. Maybe VicSol? If only there was an established party that wanted to tax the rich and stop coal and gas. Ah well, nothing to be done!"

Starting to notice people I know say stuff they never would have five years ago. Is this what happens to people who "don't care about politics"? They just follow whatever is trendy? Nothing crazy yet, but definitely shifting to the right.

The real answer to why we can't have nice things.

Liberals are ahead of the curve. They've been seeing the rise of independents and have decided to become a minor party.

Isn't it insane though that the Nats still have a strong vote? They're willing to sabotage themselves to continue the climate wars. Why do farmers and regional Australia still support these crazies? Climate change hurts them more than most.

Why does it feel like being a progressive is frowned upon in Australia? Did I miss the memo or something?

Looks like we might be getting some new source material for Call of Duty pretty soon.

It does bug me that we're not making waves to get all the public scientists and researchers who are leaving the US. Who needs innovation and productivity when you can dig rocks out of the ground and give them away for free? We're a nation in decline and it's saddening.

The comments on this thread make me legitimately mad. Even the top comment blames poor people for "not valuing education" (i.e. can't afford private school) www.reddit.com/r/AusEcon/co...

How do people follow so many people, like in the thousands? I use the Following tab and even a hundred following seems like it would be overwhelming.

At least culturally, I still wonder how this happened. I used to spend a lot of time on Hacker News, it was a pretty good resource. These days though the Tech Bros are abundant as they are insufferable.

On Media Watch, they highlighted a story talking about the death of a teenager who was cyber bullied. Maybe it's whataboutism, but why is that a tragedy, but when a trans youth dies it's a barely acknowledged statistic.

Friends I made online helped me get a job. The social media ban is still dumb.

I've been trying to save for a house deposit, but I'm deeply worried that Dutton's super for housing policy is going to turbocharge the housing crisis.

The "host your own data" aspect of BlueSky is kind of cool. I wonder if it's worth setting up. It doesn't seem *too* hard, the only aspect I'm concerned about is that the developer docs say it's (at least for now) a one-way street.