“Bear” and “Bull” as terms are so cringe and I can’t put my finger on why.

I think I just associate them with grifters and idiots.

Props to musk. He’s doing what the rest of the oligarchs are doing. He’s just making it plainly obvious.

Hopefully people then start to wake up to who their enemies truly are.

I hate that saying “they are fascists” is not at all in the slightest hyperbole :(

WTF is this timeline?

Hmmm, I better send a suggestion letter to the ATO (Australian Taxation Office) to put the tax bracket breakdown directly into your return with the amounts populated.

Hey, they give us a breakdown graph of where our tax is going, this seems like it’s within the realm of possibility.

I think sadly there are also many people here who have no idea how tax brackets work…

Presidential pardons are one of the dumbest powers. Change my mind.

(Plenty of more stable countries get on fine without it, and don’t have to deal with this nonsense to boot)

Downvoters mad to find out cars are inherently unsafe and need very good infrastructure and to be remotely safe.

Downvoters mad that E_k= ½mv², and speed, funnily enough, is dangerous.

Downvoters mad that manual transmission isn’t making cars safer.

Car go vroom vroom, but public transport go better

Fax

I wonder if they “Spanish” flu it all over again by claiming it started elsewhere.

It’s all fun* and games until there’s human to human transmission.

(*Darwin award “fun”)

This is what small government is. I have no idea how people convince themselves that right-wing libertarianism isn’t an absolute joke of an ideology. It’s just replacing positions answerable to elected officials with unelected oligarchs.

The Swiss just can’t help themselves

The poor font. Forever associated with shitheads

American tipping culture is so pervasive, anerican POS software companies don’t even bother localising POS systems to remove the tipping step.

Like, why is this button here, practically no one is ever going to use it.

If we leave a tip, it’s in a tip-jar almost without exception, in cash. It’s where you put your poop change or a couple of gold coins ($1 or $2)

(Australia)

Grumble

Media being owned by a few rich people was and always has been dangerous for press freedom.

I can only really see workers co-ops striking the correct balance here. (Basically, editor makes decisions, when needed workers vote on whether to publish or not).

Capitalism is always the problem, and anti-democratic.

Whoops, assumed because of the Woolworths logo 👍

Don’t mind me 😅

I’m back to complain about Australians looking at Medicare through rose tinted glasses, when it still has a lot left to be desired.

PBS is one of the better parts of Medicare, however, there is very often a gap fee, even for PBS medication, unless you qualify for a health care card. Which is great because we’re taking care of people who can’t afford it, and the gap fee is still mostly fine, in most cases.

I mean, look at the sign, has an Asterix right there.

However, the rest of Medicare is more and more resembling a two-tiered system where you get to skip the queue if you have the means to pay, and you get a tax break to do so 👍 and of course, can’t forget our luxury bones which still aren’t covered.

Please do not vote for the LNP, I beg you.

Medicare is not that great compared to what we could afford as one of the richest countries per capita in the world. Only in comparison to the shitshow in the US.

You must wonder if the board has a death wish at this point, otherwise they must be confident their 24/7 security is up the task

At least they can. So bummed stock android no longer has the option :(

I think in both cases (modern China, and the USSR), there is a genuine feeling/desire towards the ideals.

In both cases though, it is co-opted for propaganda purposes, and falls pretty flat when inequality is off the charts.

Which is a shame, if you have socialist beliefs

I wish them the best though, and hope they figure things out to bring outcomes more in line with the ideals.

It’s hard finding people with this opinion, sadly. I’m with you on this one comrade

Eh, there’s a notional aspiration to socialism at least, which is more than can be said about the US sphere of countries.

In practice though? Yeah, China is hyper-captialist, without much of the social security present in wealthier countries.

Why Leftist get a hard-on for the former USSR, Russia and China, or frankly any country, is beyond me.

There are positive and negative outcomes in line or against socialist ideals everywhere (I think people are too black and white about China in both directions personally)

I just do not understand simping for any country, just because they are “socialist”.