I really would have thought that a few of the safe seats would have flipped, considering how deranged he is and how many old-school Republicans have come out against him and endorsed Kamala.

It just goes to show that their Democracy has been so corrupted by decades of abuse that their elections no longer function.

We just need to educate our electorate that we can”t “Throw away your vote” by preferencing a special-interest party above a Major party…

It is also how biased the US electoral system is to maintain the Status Quo.

Every time the Republicans get in, the cripple democracy a little bit at a time. When the Democrats get in, they don’t do anything to roll back the damage.

It has finally come to the Endgame for US Democracy.

All we can do is make sure that our elected officials are aware that it is not something that we want in Australia.

As @tinybreak infers, they may be trying to get people to leave so that they don’t have to payout redundancies.

If you take your LSL and AL, you can bypass all the issues. When you come back you will either be invaluable to them and be able to get a payrise, or they would have decided to issue redundancies after all and you can cash-in again. It is a gamble though.

The vindictive anarchist in me wants to see what happens when the US crashes and burns, but if Trump gets in it is going to empower the right-wing nut-jobs in other countries too. We will all crash and burn.

Was that the Dave Cristafulli character?

What a blatant scam artist!

I can’t believe that he is gaslighting voters by saying that the existing system is corrupt!

I just now received my ballot and read the “Candidate Leaflet” brochure. We had two choices and they both read like some sort of pre-rolled DnD characters. One was like a generous Cleric and other was like a selfish Necromancer.

I have a feeling that due to the base instincts and gullibility of my neighbours, the evil necromancer will likely get in. His campaign is based on less bile and more road lanes, arresting children and anti-wokeness. The joke is that he has a Hindi or Sikh surname and the most base instinct of my neighbours is racism.

This will be interesting.

Did everyone else get the “Energy Bill Relief” email?

I have a feeling that this is just more “corporate welfare”.

I expect everyone’s Energy providers to inflate prices over the next 4 months by about $75 a month.

I recently changed provider because the government energy website said my bill would be half of what it was; guess what; it was exactly the fucking same!

The sooner the Government de-privatise the Energy sector, the better. We will also see an end to the Fracking Industry’s astroturfing against renewables.

Sorry, was my tasteless joke similar to those deleted comments? I will happily delete it if you don’t approve.

Saved you a click; It was Woodgrove in Melton, It wasn’t Highpoint (if it was Highpoint, it wouldn’t be News).

Maybe ThE aLgOrThMs insistence to put scantily clad women in everyone’s Shorts is just a really bad attempt at a bad Dad Joke.

Curated music services like Spotify and Apple Music can give some great recommendations.

ThE aLgOrYtHm of YouTube gives terrible recommendations. It is as if it has no musical taste whatsoever.

They are all doing these offensive bundles of crap. It is worse than the days of Cable.

We are subscribed to Apple One Family Premier. I need the large data for my family to backup their devices, but none of us want Fitness+ or News+. It is cheaper to get this extra crap we don’t want, than to just get Data.

I just need a way to disable Fitness+ without disabling the Workout features. This is the same as disabling Shorts, Music and Games in YouTube.

I have been ”Don’t Recommend”-ing the generated “SuperPanavision” videos since they started earlier this year; blocking channels, “show less like this” everything. The problem is that this stuff is being pumped out constantly on so many channels that it is impossible to block them all.

I usually get bombarded with Right-Wing content after I watch Juice Media videos. Also, if a watch a feminist video, it is usually followed by recommendations of “AnTi-WoKe” mansplaining videos. it is if they want to show “Both Sides” after I watch something about maintaining democracy and contributing to society in a positive way.

The YouTube Games are just another banner of unwanted “content” like Shorts.

The T&A shorts are usually of young women in jeggings and crop-tops doing risqué actions; if your mouse passes over the Shorts for a millisecond , YouTube autoplays them and registers as a view, creating a negative feedback loop of more and more scantily clad young women doing mundane things in a risqué way.

Jailbait is probably the wrong word, but every single short has a scantily clad young lady. It isn’t the Algorithm because all I watch are Machining Videos, DIY and Restoration Videos and the occasional Science and Natural History video.

The most risqué channel subscribe to is VanWives.

Speaking of which, the Algorithm never serves anything that I subscribe to. I would better off going straight to my Subscriptions page.

I will maintain my observation that the Algorithm is shit.

This is ridiculous.

• their algorithms are crap and keep ramming right-wing bullshit down my throat
• they keep trying to get me to play YouTube games
• they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.
• using anonymous Google to find a video on YouTube is more effective than using YouTube search

I am seriously thinking of getting an Apple Vision Pro just so I can use Juno and bypass all the bullshit.

Time I planned an exit strategy.

High Tech doesn’t automatically mean MLL. There is still plenty of “High Tech” that isn’t a Techbros wet dream.

The term ‘AI’ is not not turning off customers. The actual product is turning off customers.

It has already been proven that the products claiming to be AI are just advanced enshitification and that they are inferior to traditional products.

It is time for everyone to jump off the AI bandwagon and start making products that are actually smart and aren’t just called “Smart”.

It does “Make Sense” in the “Economic Rationalism” mindset.

They don’t want to loose money they make on Parking, Airport bus licensing and all these other little penny-pinching charges they can make in their role as the monopoly.

If they loose customers to other methods of transport like Interstate Rail/Coaches, driving and people just not travelling, that is fine because they still make obscene profits on the parking.