"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

The job market is vanishingly small, and programs keep cranking out PhDs to apply to jobs that they simply cannot get- and they often spend years warning them that the jobs will not exist! And then the jobless blame race and gender, when the issue is really that they imagined they’d be an exception!

Obviously gun control works. As bad as the murders at Bondi were, can you imagine how much worse if they'd had access to the sorts of arsenals Americans are allowed to have? And miss me with "you need a good guy with a gun to take out a bad guy with a gun" nonsense.

Just imagine a United States where our government cared enough about gun violence and it's citizens citizens to do something like this.

The government initiated a mandatory "buy-back" scheme with the owners paid according to a table of valuations. Some 643,000 firearms were handed in at a cost of $350 million which was funded by a temporary increase in the Medicare levy which raised $500 million"

"Under federal government coordination, all states and territories of Australia restricted the legal ownership and use of self-loading rifles, self-loading shotguns, and tightened controls on their legal use by recreational shooters..."

You guys really need to develop the capacity of simultaneously holding the truth that the colonialist occupation and genocide of Palestine is unacceptable AND violent antisemitism is real

Both are true

I could use a laugh this morning, so: what are y'all's favorite Far Side cartoons?