I’m so sorry, mate.

And most of us Aussies voted no to recognise the indigenous voice in our constitution. It just never ends.

Look, I have a cousin in Texas who voted Republican last election. She’s very smart; works as a psychiatrist for neurodivergent children. Her reasoning for voting that way was because they ‘reflect and represent’ her values: low taxes and small government. She says she doesn’t like Trump but voting Republican doesn’t mean that she’s voting for Trump, she’s voting for her party.

I’ve spoken to her at length because I wanted to understand where this thought process comes from and my conclusion was that it’s total cognitive dissonance, and that’s a choice she’s made. I know she’s smart and rational but when it comes to politics, it seems to me that most Americans just don’t care or justify their ignorance with mental gymnastics.

If you can’t blame them, that’s fine, you do you. However, for me, shame on those who voted Trump in a second time. Shame, shame, shame.

But people don’t exist in a vacuum. You’re part of a community that’s still functioning.

You say as if everyone is straight jacket bound, hands and feet wrapped tightly, eyes blindfolded and mouth plugged. Born that way, in fact. If that were actually the case, you’d all be dead and your country would cease to exist.

You forget to think how this all starts. Everyone is born with free will. You end up in the deep end because of the first few steps you take, and you always have a choice to either stay or change yourself or others. Some choices are easier than others and I’m saying that Trump got in because people chose to be selfish or greedy or ignorant.

But that’s my point regarding healthcare. You guys just accept the status quo and this is where it has gotten you. It was never always like this in America; it’s just that the noose has slowly been tightening around your necks and you just… Let it be.

It’s always a choice. You can stand there with your mouths agape and be fed with hook, line and sinker. Or you can choose to seek out the information, have conversations, choose to listen and process, choose to be open minded…

Just like choosing to bury your head in the sand is also a choice. A Florida rep recently chose to ignore evidence and reality and blame the opposition for almost dying after having an abortion. She can also afford mental healthcare but obviously chooses not to.

Avoidance is still a choice. Remaining apathetic is a choice. Remaining ignorant is a choice. Voting for a felon, for a second time, is a choice.

Not really. Brain drain from an institution to do evil stupidly is an even worse outcome. Very unpredictable and very unstable for everyone.

… Yes it is.

And this.

Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action

Don’t forget that most of American media outlets aren’t very conservative, compared to places like Australia and China, for example, where a majority if not all the media is owned and operated by a single entity.

Australia managed to shirk the rise of Dutton and the Liberal party, which is GOP-wannabe-lite, and we kicked them to the curb even though almost all of our media did a massive scaremongering campaign and was constantly doing puff pieces and character assassinations.

So, I’m saying that you all do have a choice and, additionally, you all desperately need access to proper mental healthcare because only truly sick and gullible people could vote for Trump again.

As an outsider, I don’t blame the people who voted for him the first time but the second time? Nope. People had a choice to be less gullible because there was evidence that he is not fit to lead: felony charges, nepotism, incompetence, derangement etc.

It’s cognitive dissonance from the top down.

MADness.

Hopefully someone drops him beforehand.

Yeah but my W10 shoved a giant full screen ad telling me to get rid of my PC and get a new one with W11 twice. Support might be ending but if it constantly nags you to upgrade, that’s just BS.

Australia banned hentai

Did we? My scientific search the other night proves that false, and I’m not on VPN.

Our right leaning is more in line with your Dems, though.

Makes me mad, though, seeing that cunt pop one off like that. Bring him down here and he can do a 1v1 fisticuff against our red kangaroo. That’ll learn him.

Because of the desire for infinite growth. The line must go up 💹

Can’t they just write an ‘AI’ to ask an artist for permission then? I’ll bet they can. It’s just that most artists will say no unless they get paid. So, their business model, based on theft, is not sustainable. Got it.

A friend of mine should be landing in LA today. He’s a cis white man though, and I think should be fine. Hopefully.

However, for anyone not cis male, white and speaks English, I wouldn’t recommend at all. There seems to be a common denominator for anyone who doesn’t fit that profile… I’m glad I visited least year before all this shit went down. I would’ve been detained for sure.

Hmmmm. I’m sure you’d also say that slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength etc.?

Agreed but let’s be honest, that would’ve relied on people voting for their best interests and, as always, Australians generally vote governments out. The safest way to vote out Liberal is to vote Labor and, so, we have a majority.

My windows partition forced me to do an update which has now broken the start menu and right clicking on pinned icons. Thanks Microsoft. Great job.

I really can’t wait to be rid of it completely but unfortunately the building and construction industry is addicted to torture and refuses to move on from Autodesk.

On a separate note, I just installed a Linux partition on my laptop to dual boot since I still need windows for AGI32 and Autodesk. Next weekend, I’ll be shrinking my windows partition, move my files to a new partition and mount it in Linux so I can access files both ways.

Feels so good to have absolute control of my computer again.

I’m glad I got out when I could because Recall is such a dodgy ‘feature’.

As a non American, I keep seeing this excuse and I’m always gobsmacked.

Bad candidate compared to… Trump?

You lot sure know how to pick them (or not, as it were).