Notices by David P (pewnack@aus.social)

@CindyWeinstein

I really have a problem with the language of "battle with the [insert disease]" because as you say it implies that if they'd only tried harder they'd survived.

There is a serious cultural problem with how we treat people and expect people to behave with chronic conditions.

For example, I have a chronic illness for which there is no cure or treatment. I have repeatedly received advice to the effect "have you tried [insert bullshit alternative medicine scam]"?".

I usually say I haven't, either because it's bullshit or repeatedly say "there is no treatment or cure", or I've had this for more than a decade and if there were a real cure it would have taken it already.

Their response is usually that I haven't tried hard enough, and I don't want to get well. Essentially it's my fault I'm sick.

In our society we just don't accept there are illnesses that can't be fixed.

@VeroniqueB99

Denmark requires California for its strategic security, especially in this new dynamic multipolar world.

Denmark and the more broadly the EU faces unprecedented and unpredictable security threats from rising powers like China and the established powers, Russia and the USA whose authoritarian leaders have shown increased belligerence, unpredictability and renewed appetite to engage in territorial expansion through force.

Denmark must acquire the state of California, territory in the Western Pacific North American Continent to counter these threats, liberate its people and bring democracy, freedom and all the benefits to oppressed Californians that all Danes enjoy.

#DenmarkInvadeCalifornia

@hannah

Sorry, but not an author and not cats.

The famous official NASA photo of astronaut Leland D. Melvin, taken with his dogs Jake and Scout. He smuggled his dogs into the photo shoot.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_astronaut_Leland_D._Melvin_with_his_dogs_Jake_and_Scout.jpg

@skinnylatte

Well, sparsely inhabited except for the coastal cities.

In terms of international travel. Apparently in 2024 Australians took over 11 million overseas trips. For a country with a population of 25 million, that's quite a lot.

I suspect it might be a wealthy subset.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-16/travel-tourism-australia-holiday-cost-of-living/104337072

@skinnylatte

Australia, like the US is a large continent. But unlike the US most of it is very sparsely inhabited.

And yeah, the distances are vast. A flight from Sydney on the east coast to Perth on the west coast (which I believe is actually closer to Singapore than to our capital Canberra) is roughly the same as a flight from Moscow to London.

@alice

Australia has now implemented a "child safety" social media "ban".

I use quotes for the former due to everything you've said and for the latter because it's already clear it's not working.

Everyone who understood anything about the tech knew it wouldn't work told the government but they continued to double down on it because *wave arms in the air* "child safety".

#AusPol

Australian governments will do anything to appear to do something to fix housing unaffordability than actually do anything to fix housing unaffordability.

@DharmaDog

Today's "Too Woke Art" is 1930s "Degenerate Art".

This is *literally* Nazi Germany stuff right there.

#Trump #Fascism #EntarteteKunst

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art

@andreas_heitmann@troet.cafe

Why do so many Star Trek fans not understand Star Trek. Go on stop watching. It'll be better off without you.

@aral

You're describing the so-called horseshoe theory.

https://theconversation.com/horseshoe-theory-is-nonsense-the-far-right-and-far-left-have-little-in-common-77588

@bodhipaksa @GottaLaff

He's been told multiple times (including the Australian Ambassador) how tariffs actually works and who actually ends up paying. Reportedly he just refuses to accept the reality of the situation, when it conflicts with his belief.

@RickiTarr

@skinnylatte

From what I understand, some British colonial anti-homosexuality laws (since repealed in the UK) are still on the books in many African nations. This and the presence of current American evangelists are largely responsible for the severe anti-LGBTQI+ laws around the continent.

@TheEffekt @RealJournalism

Given how visitors to your country have been treated you can hardly blame the rest of the world for avoiding the US at all costs.

@skinnylatte

No Otter McOtterface?

@SheDrivesMobility

Paywall free:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250211040851/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/hitler-oligarchs-hugenberg-nazi/681584/

@GrapheneOS

Isn't it a cryptocurrency scam wrapped up in a browser?

Not to mention founder Brendan Eich's anti-LGBTQI political donations and other activities.

@mattblaze

It's the latest distraction scapegoat for hate after "critical race theory". Fascists need to keep their supporters focused on something "other" to hate/fear , instead of the real decline in their living standards, freedoms etc.

I'm all but sure The Heritage Foundation has a list and they're working down it.

#USPol

@raymondpert

Oh no! Trump makes cryptocurrency look like what it is, an unseemly cash grab. How dare he!

@mekkaokereke

Perhaps what might have been going on there was those boys were already into sport. Then there's a short hop to the wellness cult, and another short hop to body purity and anti-vaxxer conspiracy theories and finally you reach full blown Fascism.

Although, the wellness cult route to fascism is more common for (white) women for obvious reasons.