JackFrostNCola

Its weird hearing americans have to specify ‘un-sweetened’ tea as if its not the norm

Personal reasons? Yes, because I personally do not want to get Karma’d.

I bet they wont ban it. Seriously, 1 goat they dont do it.

Yes, it makes logistics a nightmare doing the maths.
Its basically a class of truck that is for moving the biggest loads, like road trains (truck&+ trailers) or moving giant mining dump trucks,dozers,etc.

In one version of the transformers series optimus prime is actually a prime mover too

Fair enough, but it also spins me out when americans call prime-mover trucks ‘tractor trailers’

I dont know the actual justification behind it but i would say:

1. The Liberal party here love protecting business interests and giving pretrochem companies huge incentives, tax breaks, etc to take our resources and they probably get hard for how much more fuel they can sell here.
2. Australia has inexplicably bad fuel standards, as such car manufacturers dump their shittest engines here which run on this low grade fuel and every time we talk about reforming this the manufacturors run a scare campaign about how much extra cars will cost if they have to meet these standards and the Libs have been jumping on that.

As to the big cars thing, we have typically had quite regular sized cars and our typical tradesperson vehicles (called “Ute’s” here, “trucks” in the USA) were significatly smaller than their american equivilants, but local manufacturing shut down and now we buy from whats available on the market. Also the laws around taxing work vehicles is worded in such a way that bigger cars get taxed differently and incentivises people buying these cars and slowly our car sizes are increasing and more and more giant ‘Yank Tanks’ are appearing on our roads. And couple this with car manufacturers slowly changing the publics idea of what a ‘family car’ is from a large sedan to a small suv to a full blown suv or 4x4 7 person tank.

Also notable, the increase was boosted by asain and hispanic mothers, the exact people that the MAGA Reich is exporting as quick as they can.

Also the whole reason there is a jury?
To counteract the system that one person is the deciding factor. People are imperfect, bribable, blackmailable, make mistakes and have biases.
I have biases, i know some of them and others i am blissfully unaware of, but they are there.

And i bet there are a LOT of things about how the system works that lawyers and judges know, but us regular people dont so if we do have an advantage they dont know about then i dont see why we arent allowed to use that tool at our disposal.

And bird flu, tbc

Meanwhile: Canadian manufactutors pulling their hair out while reviewing their books “what are we going to do with all these profits?”

Well im just going to leave this here: State medical boards by Gloomer McToucan-Face

If only we could give everyone the illness, but like without all the death or lifelong damage it causes…

I agree with the oyher comment to jusk the locals in whatever city or town you are in and there will be a really nice beach literally everywhere you go.
We are extremely lucky to have beautiful soft white sand beaches, and chances are you will have a large section to yourself as we have a small population which is clustered around capitol cities, the only exception being is that the nice beaches in capitol cities can be popular in summer. Dont even think about places like Bondi, seeing that on TV shows gives me anxiety. There are beaches near me in WA that have sand so fine that it literally queaks as you walk, it can be weirdly satisfying.

Gday, and hope you enjoy!
Our beaches are much better anyway :)

Oh dont worry, Trumf said that the tariffs will make America very rich… I mean the tariffs will make the Gov very rich, at the expense of normal americans.

And Australia

Shiplifting? Settle down popeye

Ignoring the best candidates for the ones who fit his idea of what race & gender should fill the roles, why does this concept seem familiar?

Dont forget convicted felon.
From an outsider its extremely baffling that one president resigned from office after they found out he was fucking his secretary but this guys laundry list of actual real harm done is so long it would be like santas list from a cartoon christmas movie, and yet…
Voted him in when everyone was fully aware of everything.

I just cannot comprehend the USA

Excuses, blame, finger pointing.
How long will these last when people cant afford to eat?

Excuses and misdirection may keep MAGA voters consience warm at night but if the power is off and their belly is empty i think they might stop beleiving its the ‘lefts fault’ when the right are in power pulling all the strings that made this happen and could un-fuck it any time… but choose not to.