Nah man, they're not made up stories, can confirm. Australian. They defund the healthcare till it breaks. That's where we are right now. We had 'conservatives' (not what we call them, but it'll do) destroying the place for the last 10 years odd. Thier M.O. is, defund public infrastructure till it doesn't work, then go 'oh we had to sell it, it was broken, the private sector will fix it' and simultaneously go 'look at how good at money we are, we brought alll this cashola in from nowhere in particular' and then their mates buy up public information for pennies, who then price essential things out of our reach. It's fun times! Some of the last targets they were hitting were unemployment payments, people who worked, while receiving benefits, people who are disabled, hospitals and schools. So our hospitals are nearly entirely broken. But it's been a shit show for a while, I had gallbladder attacks, sending me to the emergency room, once a month or more for two years, I was supposedly on the top of the waiting list for surgery. That was just what the wait for anything like that was like, they wouldn't operate sooner, unless I went into septic shock and was literally moments from dying. Their words.
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Question: did anyone notice, In TNG, anyone say "data" referring to information, but with the different pronunciation to "Data", in the show? Why did I not think to look out for this till now!
You were the superstar cool kid! I bet you're just as cool, now bud.
Hey man, that's one of your secret superpowers!
This one time in high school...
(I didn't want to declare my gender, because 'the site that shall not be named' is an absolute dick to women, but I'm feeling like that might not be as much of a thing, here)
... I came across a group of 5 or 6 huge 6ft footballers, in a circle, kicking this small indigenous kid around and taunting him, I'm half their size, a girl ,probably 12, and just about the shyest quietest kid in school, but when I saw that, the pure rage that welled up in me, has no equivalent on earth, my muscles all lock up and knot and I (somehow) came out with a deep booming growl of a voice, that made all a these blokes just freeze dead, I boom at them, "what the fuck do you all think you're doing!!" , and in a slow angry tone I add "do you all feel like big men, a heap of you, beating up on one guy" . And I stood there, all rage, staring them down. The indigenous boy noticed they were all frozen and scattered along the ground and grabbed his bag and pelted.
I realised this needed to end, and he had escaped, so I tried to throw out some finalising statement of 'do you feel proud' or'this better never happen again' or something, I don't really know, because by this stage, I'm gripped with ultimate terror of what I've done. These guys are twice my size, and happily beat up kids smaller than them. If they snap out of this and realise, I'm easy prey, I'm done for. I fake a hold on my rage, turn and (painfully) slowly walk away and proceed to lock myself in the girls toilet and cry for the rest of the day, expecting a mob of footballers to be out there, after snapping out of their trance, ready to dust me. But I made it home, unscathed. Those footballers gave me death stares, the rest of high school, but none of them ever spoke to me or gave me trouble, really. A taunt here and there, but always when surrounded by classmates. The indigenous boy came and found me and thanked me, later, I asked him if that had happened since and he said, yeah. But he still really appreciated me sticking up for him, that day.
I didn't really think about what I did that day, those words to those footballers just fell out of my head, they rose up from the depths of my soul, I didn't really feel like I controlled it.
But also, I know I'd do immoral shit, if I got superpowers, I'd go around and kill all the billionaires and dictators. I'd probably give them an ultimatum, give away your money or die.
I feel like the boys just represents a more realistic subsection of humans, there would be a percentage that are narcissists and have powers, and a percentage that are highly moralistic, like in gen v. And I could see capitalism being the real bad guy, in real life, just like in the boys.
Literally everything he said rebuked that last sentence.
There's always that one sibling that you pass the controller to, who can easily do the thing, like it's nothing, and you have been trying for hours. Also, I was born 1977 too! We had an Atari, tho. I spent full days on that thing trying to get that big block of attacking aliens down to none.
They actually are trained in psychology and emergency health, in Australia. There was a task force built in 08, and it's since been rolled out, so every officer has mhit (mental health intervention training). Not that I don't agree that police shouldn't be involved, even if trained, because regardless, it's too terrifying for someone having a mental health breakdown.
Cool to know! What I'm wondering, though, is what changes the government are making, specifically. Why do they think it's bad, and what are they changing.
It worked when Australia did this back in the mid 2000. But it probably wouldn't today, with today's cost of living, job and childcare shortages.
Yeah, I wonder what they're actually doing. Are they making it safer, or just shitty they aren't taking a cut, and changing it so they can skim off the top.
Same has been said regarding the way we feel towards parents. I dunno tho. I think I Kindly disagree with both sentiments.