who had hoped anger toward Elon Musk would have faded by now

Even fucking goldfish remember what he’s done. He has irreversibly associated Nazism with Tesla at the same time that cheaper and better electric vehicles are coming out of China. The only way is down and that’s not going to change until he is no longer part of Tesla and a lot of time has passed.

America borrowed a washing machine from America to troll America? I don’t get it.

I was kinda hoping the US would collapse into civil war before they helped start WW3.

Bugger.

Just wondering: if California just stopped paying federal taxes would the net effect be the same? That way they haven’t gone through the process of seceding, but at the same time they are refusing to entirely be part of the union.

But I bet Putin said “thank you” when he received said plans…

So the article says. What of it?

Huh?? If a streaming site (or any product for that matter) is free, the user is the product - be it their time, personal info, whatever. It is known and accepted that a “free” service will have a catch that allows the provider to make money.

If a user PAYS for a service it is expected that the payment is enough remuneration for there to be no strings attached. Of course companies will look for shitty ways to do shitty things to make more money, and those companies ought to be punished, generally by a reduction in customers, for their shitty behaviour.

Not sarcastic, but rereading it now I can see why you’d say that. I’m grateful for preferential voting because there were a lot of seats that had Liberal first preference majorities that swung on preference counts. I wasn’t actually aware that preferential voting came along 17 years after federation and that it was the states that gradually brought in compulsory voting… and now in wondering why, and what happened to cause us to shift away from the British model we were no doubt following beforehand. Thanks for the new rabbit hole!

This must what winning looks like.

Significantly partially. In January Dutton started to style himself after Trump, even going so far as getting tips from the GOP, after Trump’s win. However by mid-March Dutton was trying to backpedal rapidly but it was too late. Clearly not all his staff got the memo (esp Jacinta Price… oh dear) and everything he did or said could be met with a variation of “hold on, last week you were saying x”.

Also I’d like to once again say thanks to the founders that gave us compulsory, preferential voting.

It’s insane to me that the greatest threat to women is dating men

Yet men are the leading cause of death for women. You’re correct, it is absolutely insane, but until those types of men can sort out their fragile masculinity problems here we are unfortunately.

“He has MS-13 tattooed on his knuckles”. In Sans Serif apparently. Words cannot express how moronic Trump and his followers are.

I think it’s fair to say most people didn’t know shit about tarrifs until recently, then got told “no, tariffs are paid by the IMPORTER, not the exporting country”. The word “tariff” right now is assumed to mean “import tariff” as that’s how the word is commonly being used, so if you mean “export tariff” it may be a good idea to explicitly say it instead of getting upset when people don’t know what you mean.

Yay! We get to choose how to pay a ridiculous price something that’s free in other countries! Yay, choice!

Trump’s fucking head is uninhabited yet here he is costing us a lot, so I guess that’s the same as Heard Island tarrifs, right?

Seen this one yet?

https://youtu.be/0aI8fOsX3T4

That’s right. Setting fire to Teslas is OK so long as you do it for free!

Right. That whole cop kneeling on a person’s neck until they died had nothing to do with it.

Nah, the guilty parties already told congress nothing the texts did not contain classified material, so releasing them should be fine. It’s not like this administration would suddenly change its mind now, surely.

Especially now that

1. The US have told the Five Eyes to stop sharing intelligence with Ukraine - something I suspect the other Four Eyes may have a moral problem with, and

2. The US is obviously compromised. Sharing intelligence with them is akin to just handing that intelligence straight to the “enemy”, whoever that may be these days.