This take makes a lot of sense, fair enough.

I guess I’m just expecting the worse because of all the norms they’re breaking. Maybe not a war, but I would not be surprised if the CIA leans on us a little more heavily than they already have (allegedly, but let’s be honest, very likely).

I’m still (probably naively) hoping people wake the fuck up and resist like their lives depended up it.

This voting system does not spark joy (thanks for the explanation!)

I feel like your (the US’) only hope is a proper grassroots campaign.

Preferential voting or bust.

Because it’s really going to be bust, at this rate.

I feel like what the rest of the world doesn’t understand (I am from the "rest of the world), is that the USA is VASTLY more powerful than the Nazis ever were. Barely any country is sounding the alarm seriously. Just “oh we’re concerned about what’s happening”.

We are truly fucked.

And we’re under the US’ thumb (Australia).

At least we’re majority white… maybe that’ll keep us safe, temporarily.

I hate this timeline, so very much.

Do they not have preferential voting in the primaries?

Is this a specific NYC democratic party thing?

I am not from the US.

As much as we’d all faun over the fall of the US empire, I don’t think fascism in the US would work out well for anyone.

Why Harris?

Wait until Tremp finds out all digital services now need to charge GST in Australia (10%) since like 10 years ago.

My 5D chess move would be:

• Go: ok bet, you wanna shut it down? Your stores are now in immediate administration under some eminent domain law
• In order to mitigate political backlash, make it known that they’re able to sell their business to someone else, or the city, provided that the subsequent owner is bound to either run it, or sell it to the city

Watch them get mad because you haven’t technically seized it, they can still sell the business (maintaining the sacrosanct rights to private property capitalists love so much), you’ve just prevented them from closing it down, and everyone gets to keep their jobs :)

I typically hear people say it at my company because we’re all busy as hell and time in meetings is time spent not doing tasks (which are a mix of necessary and not).

We’re “getting back” the time to work, not relax

I’d suspect it’s a water safety thing, not wanting to drink stagnant water right next to their “kill”. The cats I’ve had have always preferred drinking running water in the bath

This is but a hypothesis, though

I don’t judge the individual, but I sure as hell judge them as a group, who keep voting for people who are doing genocide.

Because ethanol forms an azeotrope with water, 100% ethanol is also considerably more expensive than ~95%

They’re definitely not gonna use 100% ethanol haha

A bunch of Europeans in this comment section forgetting there are more “western” countries than just western Europe and the USA/north America.

Fortnightly is the most common in Australia, with some people paid monthly also (depends on the company).

And thankful for this. Monthly sounds terrible

:(

Australians: Finally, we’re not on the deadly map!

If this is true, I envy you for being shielded from the abomination of a measurement system USC is 🥲

People in Australia still use feet and inches for height even though they use it practically no where else, and I’m guessing most people could not use it reliably in any other context.

“That guy is 6 feet tall”

Australians: “Oh, okay”

“That’s 50 feet away”

Australians: “What”

Drives me nuts. I will be that annoying person who prompts people to say it in metres or cm. “I’m 180” (said as “one-eighty”) is just as fast, and in a system we actually understand.

Ugh.

6 toes on the back paw. Including the “thumb” that’s underneath, that’s 7.

I’m pressing X to doubt on this one

come from the Christian crusades originally

To me, this is equally as bad as Nazi symbology