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As they say mate, a problem shared is a problem doubled! 🤣

Marvelous! 🤣

I appreciate all that. The Ireland program was essentially just an industry support program.

No one will have a UBI unless you tax wealth, as most of the available untaxed dollars are capital gains using debt instruments to create income, through double tax write-off sandwiches. It won't happen.

I need to apologise to all of the members of Midnight Oil. Whenever I see some interaction that is just so ridiculously Bluesky, I start singing to myself "But if I work all day on the Blue Sky Mind"

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

Vroom Vroom!

I think it's because we were really good at it, and then refused to recognise when the circumstances of the data generation process of the economics around it changed (which normal people refer to as "our lives and lived economic experiences"). Australian power treats change as a personal failing

Nothing wrong with that - chilis without seeds are grown up capsicums!

Lol

Australia Brain would do this with vigorous household income means testing seamlessly merging into an income contingent loan, which would allow us all to wax lyrical about its efficiency, whilst reducing net-benefit to human welfare by about 90 cents in the dollar. Oi Oi Oi!

The notoriously woke 'hang them from 10 foot poles' radical faction, trying to cause trouble for the 'hang them from 20 foot poles' sensible center faction of the party.

Bathurst 1000 time and since forever I've made a chili for it (nachos for the shootout, party Sat night, wake up just in time for chili & beer breakfast for the start). This year I think I might go kangaroo and beef short ribs for a dark chili (and can smoke and roast the beef bones for the stock).

Welcome to clown world. The carnies have badges and they all shoot each other.

De Brouwer made the exact same argument two years ago after the Robodebt Royal Commission report was delivered. This is how I treated it in Mean Streak: "Grow up."

First they came for Ben Roberts-Smith, and everyone went "he's over there, hiding behind Kerry Stokes' couch"

The old problem - the errors made by humans in the grout holding the boilerplate together that's presented to governments by the big four for vast sums of money.

The new problem - the grout has been replaced by AI.

The real problem - the boilerplate.

Jesus man! 🤣

All those ICE agents in the US with weird shoes. Talk about telling a story

Underneath all that prickly fuck off, you're really just a sweetheart 🤣

Man, you made me explain the joke! You now owe me a joke - that's the universal rule!

"Hastie is Presbyterian, not Pentecostal, so not a rapture believer."

That's the point!

It's the LBJ "Make the Sonofabitch deny it" thing on the pig fucking. Any answer he gives splits the christian nationalist bullshit because they're all sectarian fundies - and makes him weird to everyone else

If Hastie becomes leader you could have some fun as a journalist.

"Mr Hastie - what's your advice to people with SMSFs regarding The Rapture. Would the policy under a government you lead be focused on enabling short term or long term gains in this regard?"

Apparently there's a pig image you can't post on Bluesky Mind or you'll get banned.

But Roger Rogerson seems not to be the pig in question.

Haha!

Toyota brain. Not realising it only applies to Toyotas

High on the hog mate

What's this nonsense about the pig image?

Yeah, but she's broken a barrier that can never be resurrected, and tells half the population that all political power is now available.

I don't agree with her politics, but this matters. This really matters in an institutional way.

This is a big thing

They start scrolling Mastodon and all turn into furries. Then start lecturing their superiors about federation and instances before they're ultimately deported to El Salvador