We have a small population and mandatory voting means everyone gets a vote by default. We also have a different culture around voting because the majority of us have to do it. We have sausage sizzles and democracy dogs. I've personally worked at polls all over my state and there's never been a line longer than 10 people. It takes most people like 5 mins max to vote. We make voting easy in Australia because everyone has to do it.

It's worth noting that it's not all that mandatory. It's relatively easy to simply avoid enrolling to vote. You're not automatically enrolled in other words. Also it's really easy to just sign your name off at the poll and hand in a blank vote. The worst outcome of not voting is a fine that you can pretty easily get out of as well.

As an autistic person that's a double fuck you from me

Human civilisation feels like it's regressing.

Bonobos

Fuck yeah Germany!

Can we please just have a good ending with this one where the Germans protest the nazis out of town. The world kind of needs this right now. Please Germany, show us that anti-fascist resistance is possible and history is not doomed to repeat itself forever.

More war. Not necessarily WW3 but an increase in the number of proxy type conflicts.

His whole life story explains everything already. The drugs are just the icing on the cake.

I lost what little faith I had left in our current arrangement of society and our capacity to cooperate within this context. My worst fears were realised as it became apparent just how many people, entire governments even, are more than willing to abandon the vulnerable to the capitalist machine. The fact that at one point people were trying to argue that death is actually not that bad and not being able to go to bars and cafes was actually the real injustice. I'd say that's a pretty long term consequence for me personally.

I'm autistic so for me it was speech first. Didn't really learn to read body language until my teenage years and it was something I had to actively force myself to learn. Still can't really do it all that well though to be honest.

I like very early morning because I feel like it's the best of both worlds. Usually nobody awake so no people, but there's still sun.

We've had political, social and economic revolutions before without shit collapsing. Lots of death and destruction though generally. People don't give up power easily unfortunately.

I used to have a Russian blue. Such beautiful cats

I know these have mostly been performative for a while but I feel like this one has really symbolised the crossover into entire absurdity.

Thank you for your service

I dramatically strain for something that's too high up for me to reach it. Pretend to try and weild the force to pull it towards me. And then wait until my very tall partner just comes along to grab it.

I think OP is guided by virtue ethics actually.

Going to space! I'm disabled so it's highly unlikely that I would be able to, even if it was commercially available.

100 years too late.

Late stage capitalism on steroids