For anyone who isn’t Australian, the only reason we have a teenage social media ban is because almost everyone wanted a ban on gambling advertising but the gambling industry and the politicans they own couldn’t allow that.
The teenage social media ban is just a distraction, and it’s only going ahead because a majority of Australian parents can’t or won’t control their kids and are happy to let the government do it.
When my mother-in-law passed away I attended the funeral in rural China. It was weird for me as a non-Chinese, it seemed to me like everyone was being hysterical with the wailing, pulling at their own hair and clothes in grief etc.
But I joined in anyway and looking back on it I feel that while it seemed weird at the time to grieve so publicly, it was positive to get it all out at once.
Go do something that will start the tears flowing, watch a sad movie if you have to, but once you start let it all out.
Trump and his ilk are just a symptom, not the disease itself. The rot in American politics started long before Don was a twinkle in Fred’s eye.
I’m not Chinese, but my wife is and we lived in China for the first decade of our marriage, having 3 kids from 2008-2014.
When my wife was pregnant with our first she had an entry level job in local government. We both had to have a meeting with her boss and sign a pledge that we wouldn’t have any further children. Doing so meant she got full access to paid maternity leave, and her work paid all the hospitals bills.
Before our second was born we’d already decided she was going to stay at home and look after the kids, rather than returning to work while her parents cared for them (as she was raised), so she quit that job.
The one child policy didn’t affect us atall after that. I always heard rumours of forced sterilization out in the countryside, but in our post-2000s experience there was none of that.
I also had a student who’s dad had a cushy government job that he lost because they wanted a second child.
The only thing I missed when switching to GrapheneOS from Android was Google Pay, and that wasn’t that big of a loss.
You know that feeling when you wake up and all the news is bad and you just think “What’s the point of it all?”?
This is the exact opposite.
The teen social media ban is just a distraction, carefully crafted by gambling industry lobbyists to ensure no one was talking about restricting gambling advertising.
I try to use IronFox as much as possible, but most of the time Vanadium loads pages quicker.
Careful yanks, those bastards will appear from nowhere to fuck up your day, and your front bumper.
I think Veritasium is doing it right. They have new people presenting in videos, but Derek is always there tying everything together.
Not sure if the time I was held at gunpoint by Chinese soldiers counts as a “physical altercation”, so I’ll say it was the time a “friend” decided his drug problems were all my fault and he headbutted me out of nowhere.
What did you call me?!
Unions are made up of human beings, and unfortunately most human beings suck. Unions are the only way we know to fix bad workplaces though.
I’ve always been unable to ignore bullshit from management at work. It’s cost me jobs and promotions in the past, but now I work for a trade union, where the ability and desire to argue with bosses is a benefit rather than a liability.
It’s always the way, sadly.