In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

Man, if I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read someone from Australia write online: “they’re just revenue raising!!!” I’d be rich.

We’re not as brain-dead as the Americans with cars, but still not great.

There being absolute fucks doesn’t imply positive and negative fucks though.

It implies we’ve set a point to measure against which we call zero fucks.

Perhaps there’s an absolute zero fucks which can never be reached.

Are we sure this person isn’t buying instant granules? At least to my Australian brain, a 25 fl oz cup of coffee (~739 mL in real units), is a patently insane size to buy from a cafe.

This is my favourite word on the sign. People used to spell this way (however they liked, and by accent).

And I can HEAR this person’s voice through the words. Beautiful

They mean not guaranteed the same way by law.

Practice of course is a different matter

🎶Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb.

Damn, this is some serious beef if y’all are taking it between posts.

Surely internet arguments are siloed to the post. I literally remember none of the usernames of people I’ve had arguments with haha

We really need some consumer protections around emails.

Imagine if your landlord could just intercept your mail on the same way.

It’s part of our identities.

We’re living in the Wild-West of the internet

I think you’re underestimating what service workers will do for a small amount of entertainment.

Being very subtly snide is a great way to pass the time.

Source: I used to refer to milk as cow’s milk when working at a cafe, because very occasionally it would trigger someone, and I found that mildly amusing.

(Everyone else didn’t bat an eye, because that’s what it is).

Triggering snowflakes is pretty fun

Indeed, and I personally hate it. “&” Is right there if they want to save space.

I really dislike when the reason to continue doing something is tradition, and that’s what is going on here. It would be so easy to just start using “&” instead of commas, which outside this context are not used this way.

Get with the times, silly journalists.

(Just an extra gripe, that journalists are often really shitty at citing. “A report from XYZ organisation says” yes, which one? Y U DO DIS TO ME?)

This headline is proof this newspaper convention is stupid. If they’re so keen on holding on to this weird tradition of “saving space” in headlines for a medium in decline (print), just use an “&” symbol. It’s much more recognisable, comma has a clearly defined function and they’re misusing it.

Their tradition be damned.

Just my 2¢

The US lacks even the most basic consumer protections it seems.

In Australia, companies still try to give you the run around, but I am extremely confident this wouldn’t fly here. Even though I’m not a lawyer.

If you literally can’t get a hold of them, they’re breaking Australian Consumer Law, that’s a slam dunk to charge back the card and dare them to take you to your state’s relevant tribunal that hears cases like this. It costs either like $70 to file, you can represent yourself easily, and if you’re low-income, it’s literally free.

They don’t want to waste money on fighting you. If you’re confident you’re clearly in the right, it’s very easy to get a company to back down.

This is a great time to remind everyone to take photos before and after getting a rental car, because otherwise it’s your word against them.

It’s a shame all the people most likely to go on about Nineteen Eighty-Four (the far right nut jobs), don’t recognise this as Newspeak. And actively support their own oppressors.

What the actual fuck, what state is this?

It’s SO funny how apparently for almost 20 years we (as in the west outside the USA) decided that using Chinese cloud platforms or networking hardware was dangerous and to be avoided, but private US companies? Nothing to see here!

Silver lining of the orange man is that maybe countries will wake up and smell the digital sovereignty that we sorely lack.

If they’re making profit, how in the world can they possibly think it’s charity?

Do leftists universally hate crypto?

While I personally think the current cryptocurrencies out there are a bit shit (transaction fees and times on Bitcoin make it pretty useless as a currency), and I do think there is value in governments having control over a currency, I don’t necessarily think currency itself is a left-right issue.

I guess unless you’re the type of communist who doesn’t want any currency at all (which personally, I’m not for, since I’d like people to be able to choose what they spend money on, to some degree, and work extra if they want to, to some degree, and currency fills that use case quite nicely)

Not sure why crypto-currency, as a concept, is necessarily conflicted with leftist ideals (as a nebulous group who don’t agree on many things).

Nah it’s most more of the world than just Americans this time

We really need to pick one and go with it.

This is upsetting haha

Until I used spell check I wasn’t even 100% sure this spelling was made up

Top comment is about how Chinese censorship is not overt, but behind the scenes to stop your speech from spreading. It’s definitely censorship, but no one is going to arrest you for criticising the government online (to a point), they’ll just stop you from reaching others with your message.

I’m just saying that there definitely is censorship, just not what some “China Bad” people imagine.

My comment was in opposition to the “China Good” crowd who also pretend like everything bad said about China is not true.

Reality is inbetween, in my opinion. It’s a country with good and bad points.