Yep, it’s just evil to their own staff. It seems every time I have to call some call centre these days, when I finally get to a human the conversation starts something like “I’ve just spent 40 fucking minutes trying to get to talk to a person and I’m really pissed off. I know that’s not your fault and I apologise in advance if I struggle to contain my frustrations while we talk. Now…”

I’m pretty sure that’s the plan. I think there’s even a name for it? Keep us so overloaded with fucked up news that we just zone out and let them carry on with their christo fascist nazi agenda.

I’m open to suggestions for what else I can do. I’m already not buying anything made in the US.

I get what you’re saying but, as someone observing from outside, stuff like this is all I can do to resist.

Yes, words have impact. I hope that words like “no more elections” inspire people to action against what is happening. I don’t see it as defeatist at all.

The way I read it, the entrepreneur is Bezos - he has his own planes etc. and does not need USPS. You have to buy Chinese stuff from him now. (I have not researched the subject in depth - this is just my take on the headline)

It’s not just that he’s much worse it’s that some people somehow expected him to be better?!?

Which is really really sad. When I was younger I used to think we just need these old people to age out of the system and my generation can do things better. We seem to be doing significantly worse.

This isn’t a generational thing. For a start, he’s technically Gen X, not a boomer. And secondly, I’m older than him and I’m just as happy about that as everyone else.

I understand the downvotes you’re getting, but this take isn’t far off the level of cynicism I’m feeling now.

I’d be curious to know what the people downvoting this don’t agree with?

I can’t understand how someone hasn’t explained to them that it’s impossible to enforce. I can only see two possible ways:

1. Require every social media platform operating in Australia to do rigorous ID checks on all users to ensure no-one is under the legal age, or

2. Somehow lock down the whole Australian internet so that users must login and then validate the identity, and therefore age, of all users. Then maintain a huge filter table to restrict under age users from social media.

Both of these are clearly never going to happen. Have I missed a simpler way to do it?

Almost a chuckle

I must be old - it’s WordPerfect to me.

Where do you live that Antarctica is “up”?

Once an end-to-end, encrypted, connection is established between a pair of peers then anything can be sent through it. The establishment proces is generally facilitated by a server of some description so neither peer needs to allow inbound connections. (I’m a long, long way from being an expert on this and happy to be corrected - but this seems like network fundamentals?)

It’s a 3 way tie between Back in Black, Led Zeppelin II and Wish You Were Here.

I recently learned this, and changed mine to English only. I still see non-English communities in All. I suspect it’s up to community owners to set the language of their community and a lot don’t?

I’m really dismayed by your political system - I can’t put into words how much it disturbs me. I know it’s a good thing that the Harris Walz campaign is doing well, but all I hear when seeing news like this is how much money politicians are taking from “average” people to give to insanely rich advertising firms, to develop ads, and even more insanely rich media corporations, to run them. It’s messed up.

That is such a fucked up view of the world that I have a hard time accepting that it’s real (even though I know it’s quite common).