That one in five may also be a bit nuanced. Every time Bibi gets in, it’s by a bee’s dick. That tells me that perhaps not all Israelis are in fact arseholes.

As a citizen of a nation whose government has embarrassed me and made me ashamed of my nation in the past, I get it.

Their government and any who support it’s actions - Arseholes. Israeli kids burning their national service letters - they’re all right.

Is it only Aussie.zone where the posts/comments are failing to appear?

Alternately, are people seeing comments/posts from other instances failing to appear on aussie.zone?

I’m 99% local to this instance, so I probably wouldn’t notice either scenario without replicating it myself.

I was about to make the chronic condition caveat. It’s crazy that people with lifelong conditions that will require medication for the rest of their lives need to go to their GP to renew their script every couple of months. Make that twice a year and ad-hoc as required and pharmacists can assist with the middle ground.

I’d trust then to mostly manage repeats. I’m not so sure about diagnosing and prescribing meds though.

Sell. Flood that market!

It probably isn’t actually $7k from those 3.7 million people. It’s more like $1k from every Australian. They haven’t only taken from the poorest among us.

It’s a strange world. It isn’t that there aren’t enough houses - well not just that. It’s that too many houses are owned by people who do not live in them.

Mr. and Mrs. Boomer and their property portfolio of seven homes are suppressing supply for six other people/families.

Then you have Mr. Foreign who has a place or two in Australia as a safe way to secure wealth in a place out of reach of his own government who might one day decide to simply take over all his assets.

50 years of successive Australian governments have been encouraging investment in real estate. I’m sure there were great reasons for it initially like keeping wealth within the nation. But now we’ve gone too far.

If we could get all those property investors to sell their properties, we’d go a long way toward meeting housing demand with existing supply.

Ok you’re a mod. Feel free to set up your new community.

I can change the display name of a community, but not its url. I could probably edit the database record, but I’m not sure what that would do on the Federiverse front for other instances looking for the old name. The only supported way is to delete the community and make a new one.

https://aussie.zone/c/support4life created. Go post in it so I can set it up properly.

@arbilp3@aussie.zone

We’re pretty happy to add any community there’s demand for. Community creation is only disabled to prevent a thousand empty communities from being created.

What are we calling it? aussie.zone/c/supportforliving is a bit of a mouthful - but there are certianly longer names around. Is that what you’re looking for? @arbilp3 ? Are you looking to moderate/curate it?

It’s 2026, Earth’s pop. is 8.3 billion people. I genuinely think we are going to be 2/3 this in ~5 years.

You think that 2.75 Billion people are going to die in the next 5 years?

Sorry - I can’t get past that. It’s possible I’d read an article that had this conclusion, as shocking as that would be - if it had a more credible bit of evidence than “I genuinely think”. I also don’t know what WHS is. I would normally google that if I wanted to be informed by the article, but yeah - I’ve already dismissed its contents as crazy and stopped being interested.

I’m being harsh, I apologise about that. Normally I’d have closed the tab and never thought about it again. But you’re asking for criticism and appear to be new at this. As a reader of lots of articles, I approach them something like:

Is this plausible? No? Who is saying it? Some random on the Internet? What’s their source? “Trust me bro”?

If you have bona fides on the topic, be clearer about what they are. If you have data to back your conclusion up, be clearer about that before you drop a bombshell like ‘3 Billion people are going to die in the next few years’.

From the bits I read/skimmed, you appear to be saying that present levels of food production are relying on artificial fertiliser, which in-turn relies on LNG to be produced. But you haven’t made clear is what’s changing, why this is a problem, why we can’t use alternate fertiliser sources, what trends you are already seeing to demonstrate that you’re not projecting everything.

It’d depend on whether you liked it for its engine or other aesthetics. I loved the look of late 90’s Celicas. Couldn’t care less about the engine in them, I just thought they looked cool. In some other life where I had the time and resources for such a project, I could see myself giving them such an upgrade.

I think I read that Arnie put an electric motor into one of his Hummers.

As much as I love Beached Az, it was made by Australian guys taking the piss. It’s not actually Kiwi.

I think the quintessential NZ video involves how Dumb Monique thinks you are, and whether you’d like some Ghost Chups.

Yep - I read an ABC article this morning about the same topic.

tldr; it’s about how the government just yoinked a chunk of Arnham land away from Aboriginal people to make mines. Because the land is only reserved for first Australians until rich people have a use for it.

Well, to defend the politicians a bit: The ones who built the facility are still in power and haven’t caved to the ones calling for the facilities to be repurposed. Yet.

Hopefully after this incident, they won’t, either.

I have no idea how to even begin to fix the whole “oh we owe 70% of our revenue to our international parent company for licensing and stuff” tax loophole. But that loophole costs our nation so much money that it boggles my brain. I assume it can’t simply be closed. But wow would that be neat!

And this is a company that actually paid most of a Billion dollars in tax.

You ask this like we don’t know the answer. We had the draft in living memory.

We need a proclamation of a call to war before parliament 90 days before it can be activated. The government needs parliamentary approval from both houses. All Australian residents 18-60 can be called up (not only men in the 21st century) but the government can call up a subset of this cohort (‘only men’, ‘only women with red hair’, ‘only residents of Bankstown’ or whatever ‘class’ they wish).

Then everyone loses their shit, we storm our politicians and threaten them with being the first to war or something if they even think of voting this in. It would be so wildly unpopular and I can’t see any government passing it.

It’s not something the PM or Governor General can unilaterally do. Hooray for checks on politicians in Australia.

57% vs 45%? That’s the “cluck gap”. It’s a significant gap, but also means that most people who want kids can find partners who want kids, while most who don’t can also find compatible partners.

The headline makes it sound like the “cluck gap” is going to be 90% vs 10% or something.

Also, the oldest Gen Z are still in their 20’s. Let’s see their attitudes in a decade or so. Yes, many will have unchanged stances. But if Gen X is anything to go by, some will change their minds.

I provided a statutory declaration affirming to whoever needed to read it that my friend and her English fiancée were a real couple; as well as photos I had taken of them at bbqs, concerts and zoo trips etc over the years as he was applying for permanent residency in Australia. What you are describing is a thing all immigrants go through - the white ones as well.