nigel99

Australia is a nanny state and WA takes the crown. Our politicians are power hungry arseholes. In the last few years we have had a surge in intrusive laws. 1. Being banned from ALL facilities serving alcohol across the state if you’re deemed to be a trouble causer. A female friend was banned for 6 months because she swore at a policeman who wouldn’t let her get her jacket that had been left in a club. 2. Gun laws have been tightened up. Contrary to popular belief Aussie has pretty reasonable gun laws and quite high ownership for hunting, sport shooting and vermin control. If you live in the city and aren’t a member of a shooting club, you need a letter from a farmer/property owner giving you permission to shoot on their property. Government cancelled the letters earlier this year and made people reapply (apparently they had lost thousands of letters). 3. it’s illegal to own a still over 5l and you’re supposed to get a permit from the tax office to distill your own alcohol. 4. This weeks gift from the government is sweeping powers and what they are proudly presenting as some of the strictest knife laws in the world. Police have been issued portable body scanners and are scanning people at the shops. Bear in mind fishing is a major hobby here, as well as having diving knives for snorkelling etc. it can land you with 3 years in jail. They have literally been stopping and scanning old ladies at the shops and going through their handbags. 5. Last month it was made illegal for anyone under 16 to access social media (of course when it comes to enforcing it, it will probably mean you have to use government issued ID to access websites which is being touted as the proposed solution) That’s just the tip of the iceberg, from e-bikes and scooters being limited to 25km/hour (about 15 miles) through to insanely low speed limits and god knows what else.

I agree, the mods have done a lot and it’s been good.

JD Vance is a liberal? Funny how they ignore his statement regarding Trump

You’ll be annexed by Russia before then The art of the deal and a few Tesla sales, no need for war

Remote work has its downsides, and there is a definite shift in people’s social skills and how much people isolate themselves. But there is a flip side to the argument and one that companies bear the blame for - the rise of open plan offices. My day job is design engineering, and if my train of thought is broken it takes ages to get back on track. Most of my life I’ve been in offices and this company has crammed into quite a small open plan office. What’s worse is we share with LOUD sales guys who are always on calls/teams meetings. The end result is I end up staring at my screen and getting anxiety from all the activity around me, and I can’t use headphones as music distracts me just as much. I’ve always had adhd and been unmedicated, but had to go onto meds to cope in that environment. I hate the amphetamines as they stuff your heart and affect your sleep. Effectively I’m medicating for a bad work environment. Luckily my direct manager is pretty chilled out (and disillusioned) and so I get to work from home 4 days a week - against company policy. There are other sides to it as well. I’ve got a dog that always had people around and after covid he really doesn’t like being left alone and as a husky then cries all day and drives the neighbours nuts.

Even shitting his pants is a deliberate tactic to distract his adversaries

Except innocent people who voted against Trump are being hurt. The news cycle has moved on from the hurricane impact, yet people are still dealing with the aftermath.

Why does an AR15 magazine hold 30 rounds? Because that’s the average number of kids in a classroom.

I’d forgotten how bad the Trump chaos was. Seems like Musc is going to make it even worse. Imagine a government run like Twitter?

Illegal’s can’t access welfare and generally have to work to pay their bills, as fact that’s lost on you it seems. Seems your one billionaire is doing a bloody good job of putting stress on 800 000 federal workers though, but he’s rich and white so it’s ok.

I believe you’re strongly against illegal immigrants? Are you ok with an illegal immigrant dictating your countries policies? Or is Elon exempt and if he is why?

You’re already down the path of dictatorships and authoritarian rule, just nationalise them and seize control. There is probably a legitimate national security concern, that could be justified (if you had an independent judiciary)

Can you explain a bit more?

It’s interesting how Trump wants Biden to be the one to take the hit for the debt ceiling. To Jakee’s point on corruption. I wish that Biden would take a stand against Musk. Even if it as small a step as suspending all government contracts with his companies until it is clear that there is no conflict of interest in his new role.

Interesting following the news how Musk led Trump by 12 hours in calling for the funding bill changes etc. If US government shutdown ATC are affected and it may not be such a happy holiday season for many

Maybe it is cultural as Aussies and Brits don’t tend to be as vocal as you are. My son is in the Aussie military.

The way you talk about being in the military and bragging reminds me of when my son was 15/16 and wanted to join the military and be some kind of Rambo. As he’s gone through the special ops selection and training he talks a lot less about guns and what a hero he is. In fact the arrogance is gone and replaced by a quiet confidence and you would be hard pressed to get him talking about ‘work’ these days. If you’ve got to tell people you have the skills, you probably don’t.

My dad had some interesting and occasionally whacky ideas.

A long lost ghost! Haven’t seen you here in a long time!

Any HR manager who is prepared to voice opinions like that at a company event is a problem. Although I do wonder about the full context because how does that topic even come up? Not knowing the full story and context I can see an argument for an applicant being rejected for expressing a political, religious or other controversial view on a CV. We don’t want to know that you’re passionate about guns or equal rights when you’re applying to do an unrelated job. Simply having pronouns isn’t expressing an extreme view, lots of people have CV’s on recruitment templates or with professional help and it may not even be something they care about. Even if it is a personal preference it’s not an issue. If the head of HR is that prejudiced it’s probably doing them a favour and helping avoid a toxic workplace with awful executives.

When I was 17/18 my best friend was the son of a diplomat and I got to hang out with diplomatic kids. Eric couldn’t drive and his dad used to let us go out with me driving with diplomatic plates. The diplomats may follow the law (or not), but their teenage kids were wild. We pretty much ignored all the road rules we didn’t like and told the police to F off. How we never died I don’t know.

I get your point, but am thinking of people saying illegals aren’t subject to the law (I forget the exact wording)

Big wide world out there… Beyond MAGA land there are countries in different time zones where our dear leaders don’t shit their pants in church.

Thanks Mark

The whole argument reminds me of the ‘sovereign citizens’ nonsense that is going on. I’d venture to say that everyone against birthright citizenship makes an exception for rich white illegal immigration’s. I’d have a bit more respect for the anti illegals if they were clamouring for Elon and Melania to be kicked out.