If we’re walking together, can I give you a piggyback or something? It’s death walking somewhere for a purpose and taking like 50% longer to get there because your friend/partner/whoever doesn’t walk 6 km/h.
6 km/h should be default. 1 km/10 mins just makes estimating arrival times perfect (1.5 km is 15 mins). And it’s not that fast even.
Edit: I’ve taken your inch and asked for a mile
I have a name which is jokable. You hear a lot of boring uninspired jokes, which gets old.
I dunno, this one sounds silly and fun, and I don’t think everyone and their dog would have told it.
Surely the good ones are still funny, no?
I have never understood the appeal of marvel universe movies. It just always came across as bad world building.
The whole reason super heroes with secret identities works is they are unique, and not a fundamental change to society.
Having a world that’s basically the same, with truck loads of super heroes makes no sense at all.
I have seen only a handful of these movies.
Who in their right mind would go to the US? The only reason dfat (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trace) is still categorising the USA as “Exercise normal safety precautions” is because of geopolitics.
It’s wild that we rank it above other destinations.
I would choose China over the US to travel to, any day of the week, and have multiple times.
China is massively authoritarian, no doubt, but they’re not going through random travellers social media posts. Even if you’ve posted negative things about China (watch Polymatter’s video on Chinese censorship, if you’re curious)
I mean, unless you’re actively and famously criticising the Chinese government. In which case, probably don’t travel there and be accused of being a spy or something 😅
In any case, I feel much, much safer travelling to China than the US.
Do we have a source? All I can tell it is from Australia before the Libs (the conservatives, for international readers) changed the name of Newstart to “Job Seeker”.
They also renamed the Department of Human Services to Services Australia.
Every time they’re in power, they’re trying to remove all the welfare we’ve built up. They just can’t because we love it.
If it weren’t for Centrelink, I probably wouldn’t have finished university, and I probably wouldn’t be an engineer now.
Fuck austerity. And long may the LNP (the conservative coalition) be in complete shambles, ans hopefully push the Labor party back to its more left wing roots.
Calling critics of a state and a polity racists is some high level bullshit
Did you criticise the Nazis? Pretty sure that means you hate all modern day Germans /s
*Gasp in Anime* That’s impossible!!
A tale as old as time. Perhaps we ought to limit maximum wealth 👀
Anyone who doesn’t reflexively proclaim DATENSCHUTZ!!! at this, isn’t a true German.
I’m a big defender of China when the “China Bad” crowd comes out, but this graph is meaningless beyond what people’s perceptions are.
Real trade unions are banned. All must be part of the party, workers rights are routinely not enforced, and given the lattitude the government has to act, there isn’t really much of an excuse.
The CCP enjoy massive support, though, this is undeniable. The reasons for this support is debatable and vary from person to person.
I for one, very much enjoy when the Chinese government does things in line with my socialist ideals. But let’s not pretend like they’re actually keeping the capitalists in check. There are many, many billionaires in China, something that ought not be possible under an actual socialist country.
It doesn’t take a genius to look at their system of voting to quickly conclude that you don’t really have a say, the People’s Congress functions as a rubber stamp for what the inner party has already decided.
Again, my opinions aside, people in China generally are supportive of the government at this present time.
I feel like this is shifting the focus to imperialism, where the US is overwhelmingly and undeniably worse.
However, domestically, if you wanna pretend that someone as a random citizen, has any chance of receiving political representation in China, well you enjoy your fantasy.
The US and China are both deeply undemocratic places. I’m saying this as someone from neither country.
Anyone who’s actually been to China would know this. It is authoritarian. It’s not even something viewed as bad by most people in China. It’s just the way things are there.
There is pretty strong support for the government there, albeit that could be argued as product of censorship, repression and also genuine support. Many see the CCP as having done a lot of good things which they are grateful for, which in addition to the bad things, in fairness, they have done.
I’m getting kinda tired of some leftists knee jerking “China Good”, just as much as I’m getting kinda tired of the “China Bad” crowd, when the truth is neither wholly good nor wholly bad.
We can be leftists and not have a hard-on for any country claiming to be socialist, you know
It’s more like, both sides, but one is even worse.
There is no left wing party in the US (that’s been in power).
This guy seems to think it’s equivalent to “by magic”.
He’d never get one from Trump, I’d suspect
Me too, I cannot believe it. How garish
I feel like this is some programmer humour I’m too not-programmer to take
I recently diagnosed and fixed (by replacing) the toilet cistern inlet valve. First time doing very, very basic plumbing.
I was quite pleased with myself for saving the couple hundred bucks it would have cost me to have someone do it for me.
This is a extremely apt take
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Depends, even if you’re a nice landlord who treats tenants fairly, if you’re voting for things that make house prices higher, or the rental market tighter, then you’re an arsehole.
If you’re using periods of rapid rental inflation to also massively raise the rent, then fuck you. If you’re standing in the way of up-zoning, fuck you. If you leave your rental empty for a long time because you’re looking for at or above market rents, fuck you.
However, if you’re just playing the capitalist game at the kiddie tables (2 properties like juuuuuust counts, maybe), while doing everything else in your power to work against capitalism, then I’m willing to grant there being landlords who aren’t arseholes, just people living in the system.
Don’t hate the player, hate the game, and hate the players who aren’t trying to undo the game in some way.
I’m inclined to agree not all landlords are bad, just most.
Oh that sounds lovely.
I will say, if you’re walking for the purpose of walking (and not getting somewhere), I’m happy to stop to smell the roses