zero_gravitas @ zero_gravitas @aussie.zone

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It's because we've hitched our wagon to the U.S. and we're not allowed to say or do anything that'll piss them off. It'll only get worse with AUKUS, and arguably that's the point of it - to lock us in to dependence and obedience to the U.S.

Labor and the Coalition have had a stronger response to this handful of flags and posters than they have to Israel killing 20,000+ kids.

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The designation is particularly ridiculous considering it was the US that ran a campaign of terrorism against Cuba: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mongoose

This would do the opposite of calming tensions...

Just put archive.is/ in front of the URL, e.g. https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-unimpressed-with-ukraines-victory-plan-ahead-of-biden-zelensky-meeting-23e87bff

The headline on the article page is (currently) "Boy, 16, fatally stabbed at shopping centre in Melbourne's west", so I don't know why the share-preview headline has 'allegedly'

A cooperative is one way to start on that: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-07-10/supermarket-alternative-co-ops-save-money/104078660

Profits have increased as a percentage of revenue (i.e. profit margins have increased).

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-23/supermarket-profits-surge-as-inflation-spikes-coles-woolworths/102004616

Codified as the Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness

You can find the sizzle in your area here: https://democracysausage.org/nsw_local_government_elections_2024/m/

a liquid irritant, some of which has been identified as acid

'Acid' hardly narrows it down... Often the cops will say it's 'acid' when people throw rancid butter bottles, which obviously are designed to stink, not maim. They're trying to bullshit the public into believing that protestors are trying to give cops chemical burns. Meanwhile, the cops are using capsicum spray, tear gas and rubber bullets.

Archive link for those who don't want to give Murdoch the clicks: https://web.archive.org/web/20240906110110/https://www.news.com.au/national/victoria/news/bollards-installed-in-melbourne-cbd-as-tens-of-thousands-antiwar-protesters-plan-blockade/news-story/6f0e9636a9d0d9f1f18369431f8ecf2c

Shall we use the nod system?

He has a neurological condition, spasmodic dysphonia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spasmodic_dysphonia)

Brilliant, thanks!

I'm thinking it's probably just that the Privacy Commission is under-resourced, so they figured they may as well let regulators in other countries do some of the work for now.

Not that I'm inclined to defend the Coalition, but I suspected that the ratio was due to them being in opposition, and the historical record would seem to indicate that's a large factor: https://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/pubs/rp/rp1617/DisorderlyConduct#_Toc468869261

Non-government members, including crossbenchers, account for 92.8 per cent of all instances of disciplinary actions from 1901 to the end of the 44th Parliament in 2016—irrespective of whether Labor or the Coalition has been in Opposition (see Table 11).

That's great news!

For charity, though so 🤷‍♀️