https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/essays/human_fallback/
This a wonderfully written article from a woman who worked as a chatbot helper in the real estate industry.
I'm anticonsumption in general and temu just seems like the epitome of paying for disposable garbage.
In general i don't understand why people are buying any nonessential items at all. Everyone is apparently too poor but random crap still sells. I splurged and bought a cheap tablet to use as an ereader this year but only because i can't justify the expense of buying books and my local library is awful.
If prohibition doesn't work then why ban vaping? If prohibition does work then why not ban smoking? The billions in tax money is why.
Economic imbalance is baked into the games.
Taking your own air conditioner and rubbing it in the face of those who can't afford it, in the olympic village where you're all supposed to be treated the same, is such a glaring display of economic privilege that i find it bothersome.
I'm always embarrassed by Australia spending a fortune on sport and then congratulating ourselves for winning more medals, especially at the commonwealth games where most of the countries are poor.
They made the news because they remind people who hate them of why they hate them. Not because anyone had a wakeup call. They increased the ambient hate.
You can't remove individual differences but there ought to be a level playing field at least at the actual competition. Is it acceptable to provide better accommodation to rich countries? White countries? I think at the games everyone should be treated equally.
That would be Australia. We are less extreme than the US but still succumb to fear tactics. We did manage to get marriage equality despite a conservative government so there's that.
The athletes who get aircon will also be determined by who comes from a wealthy country. Makes a mockery of the games imo, should disqualify them all for having an unfair advantage.
Up next: incels demand to be assigned a sex slave to protect their health.
The chauvinism was already there, that's why they have more male children.
How can you have the right to something that doesn't exist? Your right to life is the right to have an unnatural death investigated by the police. That is all.
Influencers should be called manipulators.
Domestic violence is not minor. Jfc.
They want people to smoke, that's the only explanation. They make money from taxing it and save money when people die early.
Are you glorifying a teenager burning themselves alive? This is disturbing.
The taxes people (in Australia) pay to finance public healthcare are numbers on a spreadsheet and we don't have unlimited money.
The 722 abortions in 2023 added to the 43383 births wouldn't change that. I'm sick of all this fearmongering about fertility rates and using it to attack women's autonomy is absolutely appalling.
I was really hoping for some theory of how sociopathy could be contagious. Nothing. I'ts just name-calling.
Landlord put in a new oven and not sure how it works.
Former NBL player Tiny Pinder is sentenced to eight years' jail and will likely be deported over two violent sexual assaults.
Serial rapist given reduced sentence for having the cognitive level of a 14 year old boy. He has been a known rapist for decades but they will still let him out to do it again.
From wikipedia:
>In 1976, Pinder was found guilty of unlawful carnal knowledge of a teenage girl in Miami, Florida. He was given five years probation.[21][22]
>In 1992, Pinder faced charges of attempted sexual assault. He was convicted by the Western Australian Supreme Court and was sentenced to 18 months' jail.[23][24] In the following year he was also found guilty of raping a 23-year-old woman and a 16-year-old girl; the three offences had occurred between 1988 and 1990.[21] In 1996, he was sentenced to five years' jail for sexual offences involving a 15-year-old girl.[25][26] In 2001, he was acquitted in the New South Wales District Court on a charge of raping a 19-year-old woman the previous year.[27] In 2013, he was arrested on a charge relating to an alleged rape in 1987. He was cleared in August 2016.[28]
>In 2021, Pinder was arrested and charged with stalking a woman in Sydney. He was sentenced to 15 months' imprisonment.[29] In April 2023, he pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault that occurred in November 2009 and March 2021.[21] In March 2024, he was sentenced to eight years prison for the two assaults.[20]
>Pinder was assaulted in prison in 2021 and 2023, requiring him to undergo CT and MRI scans for his injuries.
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I'm middle aged and this has been stuck in my head for a couple of years now. Hauntingly beautiful.
Is this really about a change to maritime fuels? I'm genuinely curious because the change is extreme.
Saying Israel is committing genocide in its war with Hamas is like saying American and British forces committed it during their devastating campaign against the German city in 1945.
