CoolThingAboutMe

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kanye West was denied entry to Australia after releasing antisemitic song⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing! Have ordered her book :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RFK Jr. Wants Every American to Be Sporting a Wearable Within Four Years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeh bangle.JS is this I think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I disappeared off TV screens seeking a different life. Here's what I found⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

  youtu.be/4RmNJH4UN3s

• ⁨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.