Onii-Chan

Same thing here in Australia. No semiautomatic rifles after Port Arthur, but everyone thinks we banned guns completely (we didn't, and there are more in the country now than ever in its history.)

We've still got semiautomatic handguns, our AR15's just became pump action, and our shotguns had little buttons or levers added as bolt releases in order to skirt the law, with new variations popping up every time a ban happens (check out the Templeton T2000 - fires just as quickly as a regular semi-auto 12 gauge and is totally legal to own in the easiest license class to obtain.) Hell, I own five guns myself, two of which are handguns (Glock 19 and Beretta 92X both in 9mm, 10rnd mags.)

What Australia DOESN'T have is a culture of gun fetishization. How any American thinks these laws will work in their state, let alone the entire country, is just insane to me. I also happen to think that a government disarming people is a really fucking bad idea, and even a growing number of young Aussies are starting to change their views in that area as well.

So good on ya. Hold onto that AR. I'll now accept everyone's inevitable downvotes.

This is something I'm very interested in too.

AuDHD here, and I think he's fantastic.

Spot on. My wife and I are actually making plans to move overseas. I'm ready to get out of here, but she wants to wait until the next federal election to get a guage on where things will be heading. In the meantime, we're saving as much money as we possibly can, because Australia isn't the country it used to be, and it's clear that we're both deeply-incompatible with the general culture of apathy, government trust, and rules, rules, rules. It's suffocating.

Australia too. I'll never understand it, and I live here.

Trolling has never been easier. Back in the day, you'd get found out fairly quickly, but now? Everyone has such strong opinions and is so perpetually-riled up to the point of taking every opinion at face value and arguing back with such passion that it's almost irresistible to fuck with people these days.

Probably the two downvotes it has haha

I'll happily just stick with Kodi. I download all the media I watch to a massive HDD anyway, as I live in Australia, and our internet infrastructure is beyond useless. No accounts, no invasive 'social' features, just my local media library - no streaming required.

Enshittification strikes again.

That's exactly what TikTok is. It's just the latest weaponized propaganda machine from the CCP designed to destabilize social harmony in the west and weaken the youngest generations' trust in western democratic values (specifically to ensure their values and priorities are molded to align more with hypercorporatized capitalism x mass governmental surveillance and control.) Basically, "don't question any narratives, shut down any dissenting opinions, it's okay to hand over all your private information, and also - spend, spend, spend, peasants." We're seeing this taking place all across the west today, and it began around the time of the Occupy Wallstreet movement, and Gen Z in particular are EXTREMELY susceptible to this propaganda.

TikTok wasn't the first tool to be used against us, but it's certainly been the most effective, and I'm not sure the youngest among us can reverse the damage already done to their minds. I'm extremely worried about the future of all free democratic nations, given that in a very short number of years, these kids are going to have political influence via their votes. We're sliding fast into a neofeudalistic world, and it isn't going to be a superficially-fun dystopia. It'll just suck massive cock.

Yeah, TOR in particular seems to give a lot of people a false sense of security. I live out in a very remote area, I'm certainly not going to be using TOR, for obvious reasons.

"These aren't windows, they're just sophisticated high resolution 3D monitors. NASA has had this tech for decades, they've just never let the secret out. You're not seeing the Earth, you're seeing a video. Why can't we go see it with our own eyes outside? Exactly. Seems very convenient we're being asked to wear suits with image projection helmets."

You will never win with people this fucking stupid.

Audibly encouraging fights among males literally ties into the theory. The hypothesis is that female moaning attracts nearby males, the males want to procreate, but only one male's genetics are going to actually form a child, and it is in the species' best interests for that child to contain the DNA of the most-likely-to-survive and procreate. It doesn't matter whether the guys all form an orderly queue to some daily gangbang (which was absolutely NOT the case), or start fighting amongst themselves to be the only one with a chance (which includes the possibility that another had ejaculated inside her prior to this) - the purpose of her vocalizing was to encourage males in the area to compete, especially if she's already in the middle of the act. There's enough merit here to suggest further study into the area, especially given that neither of our theories are proven.

You seem to be fixated on an argument I've not made, and I may not have worded it clearly enough. I'm not suggesting that primitive human females started moaning in an attempt to initiate a gangbang because cave-dwelling women were insatiable whores or whatever. I'm suggesting that those vocalizations were a method to incite breeding competition between males in the area, and that this aids natural selection.