Here in Melbourne Australia, plastic bags are illegal. Same with plastic cutlery, plastic cups, straws etc, and Ive not heard any significant whinging.
Any country that hasn’t done it yet needs an authoritarian left wing government to storm in and force their gormless populace to grow up and take responsibility.
I bought an electric motorbike to use instead of a car, my right wing dad bummed me out when he said australia is 70% powered by fossil fuels.
Homie still thinkin bout his ex 😬
Saved you a click (or embarrassment of not knowing what one looks like from the thumbnail)
It’s the tardigrade.
Good point, corrected.
What’s not in their jeans is probably in their genes.
Key word is “state mandated”, only the state of Victoria was locked down, I think COVID barely scratched the other states. I also lived in NZ at the time, and as you recall, we barely got COVID and I spent 2020 and 2021 skiing and partying. Thanks to clever leadership, not seen in the US at the time.
As for UK healthcare, I quickly researched where Australia stacked up in the world and by most metrics, the UK was overwhelmingly the best. Unlike the weirdly propagandized Americans, I don’t have to do weird mental gymnastics to try and force my country at the top. I can accept facts.
We keep up with the mortgage because the minimum wage here is $16USD.
The average Australian citizen pays $17,000 in taxes as opposed to $14,000 for seppos.
For that, I know myself and all my fellow Australians will never be crippled with medical debt, as going to the hospital is always free. We have the second best health care in the world, right next to the UK.
Us Aussies like to look out for each other, rather than you individualistic, seemingly selfish yanks.
Wait what’s the joke
I find I often have to stop for a moment and imagine her life up until the sniper shot. Like, you and I have ONE life, and it’s EVERYTHING, and this girl’s went dark for the remainder of the universe.
Vegan diets are popular in third world countries because they’re considerably cheaper. Meat is cheap in western countries because it’s very often subsidized by governments. Meat consumption by wealth proves eating animals is a luxury.
Also veganism mantras always have “as far as is practicable”. I bought a Samsung phone because Fairphones don’t work here in Australia.
Oh bother I can’t remember who did the study, but Earthling Ed in his book talks about it, whereby participants were either served meat or not during questions regarding diet, and those who were eating meat became almost obtusely against vegan diets. I tried searching for it just now but can’t think of the right keywords to find it.
Unless you’re a male chicken, then your range is whatever the dimensions of the Live Rooster Masher is.
Oh dear I remember playing around with explosives as a kid, chlorine, break fluid, tin foil, that kinda thing. Then we started playing around with acetone and peroxide, trying to make a touch explosive. I count my blessings that we didn’t do it correctly, as I absolutely would have lost a hand. I don’t know how you can explain to some people the risks associated with this kinda stuff, the book we were using called the touch explosive “Mother of Satan”. If that didn’t dissuade us…
Oh this is my jam, I analyse sleep studies on one screen, watch stuff on the other.
Films (highly rated) that don’t require you to look: Rope, The Apartment, My Dinner With Andre, The Sunset Limited, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolfe, Locke, Buried
Long form YouTube content: Some More News, Climate Town, Pop Culture Detective, Jenny Nicholson, Münecat, Summoning Salt
Podcasts: Hamish And Andy (it’s the only podcast I’ve ever liked)
My dad was a bit of a tinkerer, and he attached a power plug to the battery terminals of my gameboy and gamegear to avoid buying me batteries. So long as the wires never popped off the battery springs, I was right as rain.
How interesting, as I shared this with my partner I prefaced it with “this is easily the whitest post I’ve ever read”, and she agreed.
I know that conservatives like to go “if you go after trump for being a pedophile, then what about Clinton?”
And EVERY SINGLE LEFTY goes “okay”.
Like, what a bizarre world where one side of the isle ignores pedophilia if it’s their idol doing it, and the other has a blanket “no pedophile” policy.