This guy’s Wikipedia page shows that in his entire life, his greatest achievement is beating up 3 people.

His entire political career can be summed up as Jafar from Aladdin; he has a fetish for hurting people, but has evidently never done anything ever to actually ‘help’ anyone in his electorate.

If I ever became noteworthy enough to have a Wikipedia page, I would be downright ashamed to have his. How the fuck is this person an elected representative?

From the actual USDA website (had to use a VPN to access—clearly America doesn’t want other countries to witness their shame):

“Senate Democrats have now voted 12 times to not fund the food stamp program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Bottom line, the well has run dry. At this time, there will be no benefits issued November 01. We are approaching an inflection point for Senate Democrats. They can continue to hold out for healthcare for illegal aliens and gender mutilation procedures or reopen the government so mothers, babies, and the most vulnerable among us can receive critical nutrition assistance.”

I cannot think of a single developed country that would allow such blatant partisan propaganda to be on an official government website.

How the fuck is this actually permitted?

Fall from Heaven II. It’s a fantasy themed overhaul mod for Civ IV. Has extraordinarily deep lore and unique game mechanics. I’ve never actually played the unmodded version of Civ IV. I only bought the game to play this mod.

My first job application as a spotty teenager landed me a job. This developed a false impression of the job market for baby me (in my country it’s perfectly legal to pay minors less than the minimum wage, thus an incentive to exploit children).

My second job, in my spotty mid-twenties, took me around 100-300 applications, and I only ended up getting the job due to some programme that let companies get cheaper onboarding through a government scheme.

I’m in my spotty mid-thirties (I might have bad skin), I’ve had success only applying for the occasional job that actually interests me, and putting my best foot forward (each application generally takes 3-5 hours preparation). I’m fortunate enough to not be desperate though (employed, just seeking something better).

Even with LLMs, I think most employers are savvy enough to tell if a person is genuinely interested.

Side note: Don’t use em dashes. I love em dashes—but so does ChatGPT—it’s one of the first things a recruiter will look for apparently.

“In other news, person in Milky Way galaxy starts bawling like a baby”

Looks like OP specifically altered the title for drama

Why change the title? Australia ≠ Queensland

This is like changing the title of any story about Florida to be about America.

I kind of get a ring. I wore a smartwatch for years, it was only after my last one broke, and I didn’t immediately replace it, that I realised how inconvenient they were. I used to constantly get it caught in things e.g. while getting dressed, and constantly had to keep adjusting the position of the band. With a ring on a finger, I can’t see this being anywhere near as much of an issue.

Would be great if they didn’t risk blowing your finger up.

The best thing Australia could do is to abandon both America and China as major trade partners. Both countries have shown they are unreliable and will use their market power as a weapon.

Don’t worry, the next time we ‘hurt the feelings of the Chinese people’ things will be back to normal.

I hate this. China is just as shitty a trade partner as America. They are reactionary and impose nonsensical tariffs in response to perceived slights.

Increasing trade and dependency with these countries creates a deterrent against free speech.

Let countries like this stand on their own.

I hate universities that do this patronising nonsense (which is probably most of them tbh).

Things like this should be taught at school and assumed knowledge at uni. University is (generally) for adults.

Having adults teaching other adults ‘how to respect other cultures’, ‘how not to rape someone’, ‘how to work in a group’, ‘how to be ethical’, is condescending af.

TIL by my coworkers that there was real shit going on in Nepal, Poland, and Qatar. Unfortunately, all of this was drowned out by every single fucking post in Lemmy being about some random American I never heard of getting shot (as if that were a noteworthy achievement in America).

I need to find a better way to get non-curated news. The public is clearly absolute utter shit for this purpose and no single news company can be trusted.

This is not a US thing…

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“Firstly, there is a large economic factor, and that is, on average and compared to women, men can earn more in other industries,” Dr McGrath said.

“Second, there are social expectations around who belongs in the teaching profession — teaching is often associated with stereotypical traits of being caring and nurturing.”

Pretty sure neither of these are the actual reason.

It’s okay, they only recommend it for children older than 11.

8-ish is a little early for me. By ‘Dawn’, I really meant somewhere around 10:30. I am amenable to your terms. I played Age of Mythology and watched (some of) the Marvel movies, clearly that means I am an expert at Norse mythology.

I reckon it must be over 20 years since I last heard this song.

This comment isn’t about nostalgia or reminiscing. You ruined something good by making me listen to this again.

We duel at dawn.

I think it’s because it causes all of Lemmy to have a collective ragegasm. It’s kind of funny in a trollish way. I support OP in this endeavour.