TheCriticalMember
@TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
- Comment on One million Australians missing specialist doctor appointments due to cost, report finds 1 week ago:
Medicare used to be a point of pride for us as a nation, now it’s more of an embarrassment. We’re making fantastic progress on our path to becoming America Junior.
- Comment on The biggest privilege rich people have is to be extremely stupid on purpose. 2 weeks ago:
And then they convince themselves it was their perseverence and gumption that resulted in all their success, which enables them to look down on anyone who isn’t successful, because clearly they just lack perseverence and gumption.
- Comment on Feet are as expressive as the face. Moreso because they are uncorrupted by intelligence. 3 weeks ago:
Never really thought about it this way, but my wife’s little piggies do have a lot of personality!
- Comment on Andrew Leigh says Australia is a generation away from “US-style inequality” 3 weeks ago:
I reckon 100% over 10. Whatever it is, rich people’s kids who have no idea what the world is like for 99.9% of people have no business making decisions that affect the lives of the working class.
- Comment on When I was a kid, "thongs" were footwear... 4 weeks ago:
Still are in Australia. It was very confusing to my American wife for quite a while.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 4 weeks ago:
The 2 laptops I ordered were on their way being delivered. It’s now Sunday and the last update on the tracking info was from last Tuesday in Lismore, right before all this flooding.
- Comment on Floods in Australia 4 weeks ago:
I’d been saving to buy my kids new laptops for their upcoming birthdays and picked some up at a great sale price last weekend. Last update they were in Lismore on Tuesday afternoon…
- Comment on The term carrot and stick doesn't sit well with me. If you hit a donkey with a stick then it's likely it won't trust you enough to accept a carrot later. 4 weeks ago:
It’s pretty intuitive from the saying. It’s the carrot OR the stick, not the carrot ON the stick. The carrot is the reward for doing the thing, the stick is the punishment for not doing it. Just google it.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Kick. I couldn’t be married to one of them.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This is amazing. I copied it and sent it to my wife. Well done. 👍
- Comment on What is an example of a supermax prison? and how do you get sent there? And a regular prison in your state? Or what movies call club Fed which is the easiest? How do you get sent there? 4 weeks ago:
And then you live your life one quarter mile at a time…
- Comment on What is an example of a supermax prison? and how do you get sent there? And a regular prison in your state? Or what movies call club Fed which is the easiest? How do you get sent there? 4 weeks ago:
Supermax - be a serious threat to society Regular - be a poor criminal Club fed - be a rich criminal
- Comment on What techniques do bad faith users use online to overwhelm other users in online discussion and arguments? 5 weeks ago:
It wasn’t a nazi salute, he was just waving
- Comment on We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S. 5 weeks ago:
Well, why don’t the 250 million Americans who didn’t vote for trump just also move to Canada???
- Comment on Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities designed for commuters | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know what it’s like in the states, but here in Australia taxis just can’t compete because of the massive licensing fees they have to pay to cover taxi zones and such. I’m not pro or anti taxi or uber, but there are loads of stories here of people who have paid well into 6 figures for taxi licenses right before uber came along and blew them out of the water. I do feel bad for them.
- Comment on The US is Collapsing Like the USSR – So What Comes Next 1 month ago:
jumping up and down on their own dicks
Bravo sir.
- Comment on Are we all suffering from "future shock" in 2025? 1 month ago:
Nobody’s suggesting it wasn’t. But a lot of us have lived our whole lives with the idea that racism was generally frowned upon by most and that it was naturally dying out. I don’t think many of us could have predicted how readily it would come roaring back, along with god damn nazis, FFS.
- Comment on Can you afford to live in your postcode? Here's what the data says 2 months ago:
It’s a very pretty confirmation of how fucked I already knew I am.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
3 times as fast as 100? I don’t know what you’re expecting here. It’s 83.3 metres per second, if that helps. Your friend must have a nice car, there’s not many that can go that fast, and even fewer that can do it and still handle predictably.
- Comment on NT pseudo-cops filmed kicking a man's head like a soccer ball. 2 months ago:
Whaaaaat? No way! Things like this normally never happen when you take a bunch of untrained morons off the street and give them police like powers.
- Comment on Why wooden bridges still have a place despite upkeep challenges 2 months ago:
IPWEA (Institute of Public Works Engineering Australia) Bridge Guide. I’m a bridge engineer. That “proper care and maintenance” line is doing a lot of heavy lifting. Sure, you can make timber last that long, but it’s maintenance-intensive.
- Comment on Why wooden bridges still have a place despite upkeep challenges 2 months ago:
Trouble is, wood has a much shorter design life and needs a lot more maintenance than concrete. Concrete bridges have a design life of 100 years, while timber will likely need significant refurbishment within 20-40, not to mention constant inspections every year with testboring at 2 year intervals (per AustRoads) and they’re often more expensive to build nowadays with the price of timber.
So yeah, they can look cool, but there are far better things to spend our money on.
- Comment on Liberals Plan To Blow Current Educator-to-Child Ratios To 1:50 3 months ago:
Or, another idea - we stop subsidising private schools and only give public money to public schools? I don’t think the private school down the road really needs a fifth auditorium while the kids at the public school are sitting in the library for science class because there’s literally nobody to teach it. But I guess we don’t want the poors getting educated, can’t have my landlords little princes and princesses competing with the peasant class for jobs.
I swear if anyone tells me they’re voting LNP I’m going to have a really hard time not just punching them in the face.
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 3 months ago:
Maybe the execs went to trump university…🤔
- Comment on Why don't people going to college get HUD, Food Stamps, and free Medicare/Medicaid while enrolled? Instead of the parents footing the bill or the student working 3 jobs and school? 3 months ago:
Because in capitalist America, you only get financial help if you don’t need it.
- Comment on Star Entertainment close to collapse with casino group set to run out of cash before the weekend 3 months ago:
- Comment on Women earn 78 cents for every $1 men paid on average. 3 months ago:
So the man is only left with 22 cents??? 😯
I’ll see myself out…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Sounds like a 13 year old edge lord with a lot to learn about the world. Pretty normal and hopefully he will grow out of it in the next 5 years or so.
Don’t mean to sound insulting, but sounds like you have a lot to learn to if you’re hung up on someone like this.
We all think stupid things at that age. Getting out into the real world cures a lot of people. Some are sufficiently privileged that they never get out into the real world - those ones become CEOs and senators, some are incurable - they become some version of maga.
Just try to remember that everyone has their own history, hangups, and demons. We’ve all got our own battles to fight, and most people just want to live their lives and be left alone.
- Comment on ‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff 3 months ago:
You’ll never both envy and commiserate with bikeseats so much simultaneously.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 3 months ago:
There have always been Nazis in America, even during WW2. Listen to Rachel Maddow’s podcast “ultra” to hear about how close they came to a takeover of the US way back then. They never went away, they just went low profile for a while.
