CoolThingAboutMe
@CoolThingAboutMe@aussie.zone
- Comment on Makes sense to me 1 day ago:
Ah yes, the old “if I can’t impress girls with my skill I’ll impress them with belittlement and open hostility instead”
- Comment on The biggest voices need to admit Australia is a low-taxing nation before joining the economic reform conversation 3 days ago:
75000/255000 = 30%
This is disproving your 58% claim above
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 days ago:
Yep sorry. Your post is good, and your comment is good.
The other comments just shocked me and I have been reactionary. I should never have strayed into “All” probably.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 days ago:
You’re incorrect. I am disgusted by actual abuse, but I am also legitimately disgusted by the idea of anyone having sexualised thoughts about children. If you can tell me that these people have no control over that then you must be able to comprehend that as a parent I have no control over my protective instincts.
The idea of people being who are sexually attracted to my children, or any children, being anywhere in the vaguest vicinity of them triggers very deep instinctual reactions. Whether those people intend to act or not.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 days ago:
I wouldn’t describe the feeling I’m having as my morals. My morals are conscious and deliberate.
Maybe you need to be a parent to understand… It is a visceral, deep in the gut feeling of fury and repulsion and rage.
- Comment on I'm doing my part 4 days ago:
Sorry but what the actual fuck are these comments???
Lemmy: yeh punch a nazi haha that’s awesome and deserved and cool
Also Lemmy: nooo don’t be mean to pedophiles they’re just misunderstood waaahhh it’s all QAnon propaganda
Fuck anyone who thinks abusing children is fine and normal. Fuck you all so hard to hell. Get the absolute fuck away from my kids.
I’m pretty damn left, but I have zero empathy at all for anyone who is thinking sexual shit about children. I’m livid. Holy shit.
- Comment on Australians, especially men, are reading less than ever before 1 week ago:
A lot of comments saying why they think reading has declined (boo evil school… They made me critically analyse stuff…) but not even touching on why that’s evidently having more effect on boys than girls?
That’s odd.
Compare to the other post asking why Tate bro manosphere brainrot is on the rise. The kind of garbage that specifically discourages boys from higher order thinking because that’s not “alpha”. Some of the comments there basically boiled down to " not my problem, shut up".
Interetsing juxtaposition.
Misogyny holds men back, but as long as that won’t be acknowledged, nothing will improve.
- Comment on Powerful US lobby groups urge tariff retaliation against Australia’s ‘socialised medicine’ 2 weeks ago:
US-manufactured products should be allowed to compete on an equal basis with Australian-produced goods, consistent with the WTO [World Trade Organization] and US-Australia Free Trade Agreement,” he said.
Research and development tax concessions in Australia, France and Spain were described as conferring advantages to local firms “that the United States is hard-pressed to match”.
Um, isn’t this what the US is ostensibly trying to do to everyone else with their tariffs? Advantage home grown products over international ones?
Ita almost as if it’s not supposed to be free or fair, it’s just about the US extracting as much money from everyone in the world that they can get away with.
- Comment on Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song 3 weeks ago:
Sweet. Hopefully this means we will deny Musk and Trump and all the rest of them too
- Comment on Dr Fiona Stanley: ‘If we want better health outcomes, the last thing we need is more doctors and hospitals’ 4 weeks ago:
Thanks for sharing! Have ordered her book :)
- Comment on RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years 4 weeks ago:
Yeh bangle.JS is this I think
- Comment on I disappeared off TV screens seeking a different life. Here's what I found 5 weeks ago:
I really emapthise with Stan Grant in this piece. I have been feeling similar things myself, and I strongly believe that if I was indigenous and had a traditional family land l would be going back there too.
As it stands I am a city raised person who has experienced living in various country places. I’m living in a city right now, earning good money, but dreaming of moving back to the country to a quiet life.
I was also raised in the Catholic tradition, have been athiest for a long long time but really missing the sense of community that came from the church/school community when I was young.
I feel so pointless as a human. The money I earn doesn’t seem as important as what I could be doing for my family. The work that I do doesn’t seem relevant amidst the insanity of the world. I thought a great career would give me self worth but it just feels made up…
…like every other aspect of adult life. It’s just all made up. Nothing means anything.
I’m lucky I have kids and pets to anchor me in the day to day. But that just reinforces my desire to move to a quiet country town, maybe have another child, maybe get some goats and grow some vegetables.
- Comment on Australia has had record flu cases this year – and that’s before winter arrives. What’s going on? 2 months ago:
Same for me. I struggle to keep on top of the planning for mandatory stuff for my family because I work more than full time and my spouse works full time and it’s just hard.
If work didn’t organise shots at every office I wouldn’t go out of my way to add to my mental load to get it organised for myself.
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 2 months ago:
It could also be related to how your cervix changes over your cycle, but that baffles me because surely gynecologists would know that and try to time things correctly if it made things easier for women.
Close to ovulation, your cervix goes really soft and opens up, close to your period it changes position, goes really firm and closes.
I haven’t gotten an IUD so I have no personal experience with this, but I imagine that trying to put an object through the cervix into the uterus would be best done at ovulation when your cervix is open. And probably extremely difficult and painful to try to do when your cervix is shut tight.
- Comment on Palantir Started By Spying on a City Now Sells AI for War 2 months ago:
In this video about Lavender AI which is Israel’s Palantir, they talk about the accuracy score that the AI gives targets for how sure it is that they are Hamas. It is used to determine how expensive the weapons to take that person out, and how many innocent bystanders they are willing to take out along with that target.
- Comment on The swimming carnival is nearly over and will cost lives 3 months ago:
I agree, I would have thought Australia would have very high levels of swimming proficiency compared to other countries. The article doesn’t seem to mention other countries, just the drop in participation/interest within Australia.
1 in 4 schools dropping swimming carnivals is really suprising to me. I’ve got 2 kids, and my oldest has been to quite a few schools due to us moving around a bit, and every single one of them had swimming lessons and carnivals.
Though I’m not suprised that parents are less interested or supportive. My husband and I both work full time, often both do overtime, and schools and daycare can be a little overwhelming at times with all of the events and things that require some level of extra thinking or planning or shopping or crafting on our part.