No, we let then in, they’ve already won, they even have war bases here that Australian federal politcans are not allowed to visit.

Personally I’d rather China took over, at least we’d get decent railways.

Have you seen the Governembt NZ elected and what they’re doing to the Treaty ?

While as an Aussie who mostly agrees Australia is a conservative ass backwards shit hole, it would appear NZ is now aspirationaly Australia.

Heliboard, sourced from F Droid with the clipboard enabled.

I used to use Openbaord fom F Droid

If a bank has $100, they can write a loan for $1,000; effectively putting $900 more into circulation. When that is spent, it gets deposited into a bank, which can then loan it out amplified again.

Since there is not infinite money, there must be a gap in my understanding somewhere.

While this is true, the only “new money” created in that loan is the interest becase the capital is paid back , albeit over decades.

Absolutely, as a Linux uswr if only 18 months it was a complete balls up me trying to install Signal from tje shitty instructions. Their website, a seasoned Linux user in the forum said how he could see how I was confused becase the command lines on the Singnal website to do the install all ran together, since then it’s been fine but just Flatpak FFS.

Yeah but in my LMDE, Flameshot wont save files and is buggy as shit. It has an option to selext what App to open the screen shot in and that does’t work, share with another app and that doesn’t work, save the file and the files not there. Now, highly possible it works for others and just not for me

Hell, my Logitech kb can’t even use the screenshot button to take a screenshot.

I just use work arounds but still annoying.

As an Australian social media isn’t the problem, like the internet isnt the problem, its commersialisation thats the problem. The need to grow the custoner base sees outrageous behaviours from corporations like Meta, Google, Apple etal but that’s what they’re incentivised to do, so that’s what happens.

This legilisation won’t solve shit. The government and the polotical class forcing citizens to use Facebook or Twitter to get information, they could start there.

You think non-tech people are gonna understand that?

Yes becase they’re not looking to understand the protocol behind federarion anymore then you dowbt understand the protocol behind email, so they will grok better then you how it works bybusibg the email allegory, sending from gmail to outlook works for them.

I also use the phone network as another allegory if their eyes do glaze over, i can be with one phone company and phone somone on another companies plan. They have little idead of the prorogation of radiowaves etc that makes that all work.

Indeed, I’d like to see my country, Australia, join the EU and trade the pacific peso in for the Euro. What a grand experiment!

True enough, as is the visit it before it’s gone. Yes, the Great Barrier Reef is dying from emissions and the resultant rising temp but fuck it, fly across the planet.

Get away from assholes ?

I’d like the age raised fron 16 to 75, I’m 58.

Interesting to read the comments, I was unaware anyone gave mich if a shit about posts, let alone how others might vote on them. I mean I don’t actually know anyone here.

I do hit the upvote occasioanly if a post was helpfu/usefull… to me. Conditioning is the only real explanation I have for that behaviour though.

Quitting a job cold is one of the dumbest things you can do when you do not have any safety nets.

I quit work at 35 and now 58. My only regret in life is not quitting earlier. I get mo pensions or welfare or inheritance, I’m just mindful of spending and ever since I was 19 I invested small amounts of surplus income in stocks and shares that ballooned over the decades to large amounts.

Frugality includes all the other virtues.” – Cicero

This is not new though, Orwell pointed out in 1939 that demcroacies inevitability turn Fascist when times get harder.

Climate change will see that get even worse still.

Many years ago, making a sandwich, dude says he needs to piss, i apologise say theres no toilets, he says no worries, pulls his dick out and pisses right there.

Cath 22 ? If you cant be ass’d moving why would others, you’re just enabling the enshitifcation to continue

Community is what you make it.

Stop driving (pollution, deaths, cost of living etc) and remodel cities and town around PT and AT , restricted gun ownership

Bluesky is the enshitification continuing. Sort of Mastodon on a single, godlike instance which they control…

Pretty much , anyone remember the Florida hurricanes ? No ?, what about the 5 that have hit The Philippines in the last month ? No? What about the mega fires in Canada ? The mega fires in Australia 5 years ago ? Pakostan underwater ? No? And on and on

Like goldfish…