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  • Bondi beach terror attack: father and son duo allegedly used licensed firearms in shooting

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  • Even adjusted per capita (Aus population is 8%, or roughly 1/12, of the US), the difference in mass shootings is orders of magnitude.

    Australia actually has a much less spread out population - more than 2/3 of our population lives in just five cities across the country (Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth).

  • truly thought-provoking question

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  • Is that you, John Oliver?

  • Florida man says his wife ‘wants a divorce’ after he lost $45,000 on an AI-generated Elon Musk car scam

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  • You make a great point - not all of us have the same capacities and there need to be protections in place to prevent people falling for scams - but I just don’t know where the line is between personal responsibility and collective responsibility. Like, for society to function, we all need to assume some amount of collective responsibility to protect others but that can’t be at 100%. People need to take some amount of personal responsibility for their actions, otherwise we slide towards a society with no learning and no repercussions which is a recipe for disaster and collapse.

    It’s a tenuous relationship, and extremely context-dependent, so I don’t think that there is an objective and quantitative answer to the question. Would make an interesting philosophical/ethical debate though.

  • Trump administration says sign language services 'intrude' on Trump's ability to control his image

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  • That’s the heart of the meaning of MAGA - to take the USA back to days where there was no inclusivity or accessibility at all. The entire phrase Make America Great Again implies that things used to be great (before inclusivity and accessibility) and so they want to wind back the clock on everything. Civil rights; human rights; inclusivity; accessibility - all of these things and many more have been blamed for the state that the USA is in by politicians and talking heads to distract from the fact that it’s neoliberalism, kleptocracy and crony capitalism that have hollowed the country into an economic husk.

  • rule

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  • It’s somehow simultaneously terrible economic management and terrible ethical management. There’s just no upside to anyone but the Military Industrial Complex which funds the politicians. I really wish more people could understand that.

  • Four countries to boycott Eurovision 2026 as Israel cleared to compete

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  • Hmmmm, Germany and Austria siding with Nazis? Now, where have I heard that before…

  • White House throws commanding admiral under the bus in killing of alleged drug boat survivors

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  • The Narcissist’s Prayer:

    That didn't happen.And if it did, it wasn't that bad.And if it was, that's not a big deal.And if it is, that's not my fault. <— we are hereAnd if it was, I didn't mean it.And if I did, you deserved it.

  • xkcd #3175: Website Task Flowchart

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  • If the second-to-last box at the bottom had an honest message from the company:

    “Did you know you could do all this in a way that’s cheaper for us while we continue to charge you the same price that we keep raising inexplicably so that we make more money? Just go to w-w-w dot…”

  • Feeding my family alone is expensive. I can't afford to feed all of y'all.

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  • I grew up as a single child (boy) with a single mum for most of my life and that taught me all the life skills I needed to manage a home myself. In hindsight, I’m really thankful for that.

  • China has brought millions out of poverty. The US has not – by choice

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  • Communism doesn’t mandate a single-party government though. Single-party government is just authoritarianism. That’s why there are, and have been, communist parties in democratic countries.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism

    “Communism (from Latin communis 'common, universal') is a political and economic ideology whose goal is the creation of a communist society, a socioeconomic order centered on common ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange that allocates products in society based on need. A communist society entails the absence of private property and social classes, and ultimately money and the state. Communism is a part of the broader socialist movement.”

    By this definition, PRC is decidedly not communist as the common people do not own the means of production; products in society are not solely allocated based on need; private property exists; social classes exist; and money exists.

    Whose definition of communism are you relying upon?

  • Dems Dunk on ‘Couch Sleeping’ Vance After Usha Seen Without Ring

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  • Salty Persimmons?Spare Parts?Significant Pasteurisation?Salacious Pragmatism?Seven Pills?Settled Pieces?Startled Poltergeist?Scalded Privates?Serendipitous Pimples?Spelled Poorly?Sour Plums?Sexual Prowess?Semitic Principles?Santa’s Profile?Sextet Polka?Salmon Pendant?Saucy Politics?Schadenfreude Pig?Smithsonian Pedestal?Soggy Pants?Small Penis?Shouted Preamble?Sorting Place?Shifty Panda?Spandex Poll?Sentient Pentagram?Silent Parable?Stationary Pigeon?Smelly Pugilist?Shoddily Preened?Starter’s Pistol?Symbiotic Parasite?Self-Preservation?Synergy Pyramid?Soot Pole?Semblance Provider?Scunthorpe Party?Smashing Pumpkins?Seaside Porgy?Steely Pumpernickel?Storage Purpose?Seemingly Perfect?

    We may never know

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • I was so happy to hear about this! The Libs are digging their electoral grave deeper and deeper. I had an inkling that, because most of their seats lost at the last election were moderates, the remaining voices would all swing conservative and pull the party even further to the right. With this kind of rhetoric the Coalition isn’t going to be a viable option for government for at least another couple of election cycles.

    I just really, really hope that votes for them move towards independents and other parties as opposed to bolstering Labor’s current lead.

  • Discuss

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  • I withdrew $11 dollars from the ATM machine using my PIN number to buy some DC comics which I converted to a PDF format to view on my LCD display e-reader.

  • What's a video game that you just don't get the hype about?

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  • Weapon degradation seems to be a serious and genuine complaint that a lot of people have with BotW and TotK but for some reason it never seemed to bother me as it has others. I totally understand the criticism but frankly I always had a full stock of good quality weapons - particularly with the Fuse function in TotK - and never ran low or out of decent weapons on hand.

    I think they were implemented to try to force gamers to think about other options to take down enemies rather than brute-forcing every battle which appeals to me, but it seems to have angered a significant proportion of people. From my perspective, it helps to engender the puzzler aspect of Zelda games in a novel way - viewing battles as a puzzle to be solved for maximum efficiency rather than how well you can strike and dodge.

  • Do air purifiers really reduce dust much?

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  • Thank you for that clarification; I was genuinely wondering why anything smaller than 2.5 millimetres would pass through an air filter! When it comes to filtering air, 2.5 millimetres is MASSIVE

  • suicide to the idf

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  • I am not engaging in genocidal apologia. Just because someone isn’t as hard-line as you are doesn’t mean that they’re opposed to you. Viewpoints are held on spectra because life doesn’t exist in binary states; it exists on spectra.

    I hate the Israeli regime. I hate Zionism. I don’t believe that the state of Israel should exist. I think Benjamin Netanyahu and his ilk should be gaoled for the rest of their lives. I sympathise and empathise with the innocent people of Palestine and would love to see their sovereignty established and upheld by the international community.

    I also believe that celebrating the suicide of IDF members is a fraught and dangerous precedent.

    One can understand the complexity of a circumstance without ‘picking a side’. One can understand that humanity is complex, nuanced and difficult to understand. One can abhor the actions of a person while trying to better understand the motivations for that action. One can walk and chew gum.

  • suicide to the idf

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  • What you hear; what I hear; what others hear is entirely dependent upon what we subscribe to and what services we use to access information. We no longer live in a world where there are three newspapers everyone gets their information from. If you didn’t hear that then that’s likely due to the bubble you’re in. What I’ve heard is due to the bubble I’m in. We all get fed content that espouses views we already hold.

  • suicide to the idf

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  • I’m not trying to justify anything - nowhere have I stated that any action that IDF soldiers or Hamas fighters have taken are justifiable. It’s an extremely messy, complex and convoluted set of circumstances and it does no one any service to attempt to simplify and boil down what has happened and what is happening to simple, binary soundbites.

    I’m just trying to inject some empathy into this discussion. I understand that not everyone has a great capacity for empathy - particularly towards those who appear to have no empathy themselves - but to allow those who we oppose to turn us into death-hungry monsters is allowing them to harm us. I won’t allow the atrocities and war crimes to turn me into someone who cheers for death.

  • suicide to the idf

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  • And perhaps more nuance should have been taken in those situations. Self-preservation is a basic human instinct and I would wager that many good people, when faced with the choice between kill someone else or be killed, would at the very least be extremely conflicted about that choice.

    Just because we did something 70 years ago doesn’t mean we should be doing it now. Tradition is often a smokescreen for oppression. Let’s try and do better than our forebears and attempt to understand those who oppose us.