CoolThingAboutMe

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This one goes out to Dennis Prager in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

From what I've heard adopting is actually very difficult and arduous. There's way more families trying to adopt an infant than there are infants that can be adopted

John, 75, wanted a taxi outside Sydney airport to take him 1.5km to his hotel. Drivers refused in c/sydney@aussie.zone
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago

Yeh okay, that makes sense

John, 75, wanted a taxi outside Sydney airport to take him 1.5km to his hotel. Drivers refused in c/sydney@aussie.zone
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand why short trips would be refused.

Aren't cab fares charged a flat fee then also per minute? So multiple short trips would result in more money than 1 longer trip that takes the same time?

A reminder that it's always been this way, the manosphere is just the latest version of it in c/witchesvspatriarchy@lemmy.ca
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Society collapsing due to half the population disappearing, yes.

All women dying out in "days" without men, no. 😂

Even if in work like water treatment and electricity generation/distribution that are mostly men, there are still plenty of women. And huge swathes of the world live without these things anyway. It seems like you're only thinking of cities becoming unlivable, or only thinking of a very narrow microcosm of women.

As someone who has known extremely competent and intelligent women all through my life, and also lived in really remote and rural places, I can say with absolute certainty that if men just blipped out of existence one day women would be just fine.

Yes, life wouldn't continue as it had. There would be changes. Just like there would be changes for men if women all disappeared. But to suggest that women would just let rubbish and bodies pile up, and that they wouldn't give any thought to or take action about food supply is delusional.

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NYT Connections #870 28 Oct (www.nytimes.com)
 

Connections Puzzle #870

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Clues by Sam 2025-10-14 (cluesbysam.com)
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Oct 14th 2025) in 04:37

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What is the best advice you can give to teenagers? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This will be great for my daughter, thank you

Selective rage in c/memes@lemmy.ml
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if anyone outside Australia knows Fern Gully... But anyway, years ago, watching that movie with friends I casually suggested that possibly fairies in Australia would more likely be indigenous looking than white, and got told off for "making everything political". And by migrant friends.

One of whom used to get quite offended at any implication that they were anything other than Australian.

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Clues By Sam 2025.09.18 (cluesbysam.com)
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I solved the daily Clues by Sam (Sep 18th 2025) in 05:48

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Awooga in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago

PASH? 😆 really??

@jack_toohey on why the housing crisis is not caused by migration [ALL IMAGES IN POST BODY] in c/australia@aussie.zone
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So AirBnB/Stayz/etc is a contributing problem.

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Wordle 2025-09-04 Thursday (www.nytimes.com)
 

Wordle 1,538 4/6

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Alberta government pauses ban on school library books with sexual content in c/alberta@lemmy.ca
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 0 points 8 months ago

Ah yes. I'm sure it was 100% the children's decision to fuck their dad, he was completely unwitting... 🤢

Why the cost of living crisis will not get better in c/australia@aussie.zone
Does AI need to be perfect to replace jobs? in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 2 points 8 months ago

An acquaintance at work (in Australia) went to work as a developer for Amazon in the US a few years back. According to him, the hours he was expected to work meant that his really great salary actually translated to a quite shitty hourly rate. And he never got to go sightseeing and tourist-ing with his wife and kids because he was always working.

My friend and her husband also worked in the US for years, in mining, and said similar things. Terrible leave offerings, and a culture where even if you have leave you feel extreme pressure not to take it.

cum 2 mummy in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] CoolThingAboutMe@beehaw.org 7 points 8 months ago

Is that what a flatworm looks like?

I would not describe that as flat. It looks like some kind of dragon imo.

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Why Western hegemony is over (johnmenadue.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/21644011

The US will not be able to prevent the emergence of multipolarity, but it will try. Trump will try one thing or another, but without success or coherence. Multipolarity has already arrived.

The broad pattern of economic convergence — in which the emerging economies narrow or close the income gap with the high-income countries of the West — means that Western hegemony is over. This is leading to deep frustration, not only in the US political class but in Europe as well.

China vastly outproduces the US in advanced industrial goods, such as EVs, solar power, wind power, advanced nuclear power, batteries, low-cost 5G and many other key technologies. China incorporates AI into advanced manufacturing processes more than the US.

Many European leaders feel that if they stick with the US against China and Russia, then maybe the Western hegemony will continue. This is delusional in my view, but nonetheless creates a lot of noise, friction and risks of conflict. None of it is a coherent strategy, however.

The US has no strategy to stay ahead of China. In fact, the US can’t succeed in that. We hear a lot of US sabre-rattling against China, Russia and the BRICS countries. This is all dangerous. I think the heated rhetoric by itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. There are a lot of ignorant people in the US political leadership, and I worry very much about their naivety and delusions.

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Why Western hegemony is over (johnmenadue.com)
 

The US will not be able to prevent the emergence of multipolarity, but it will try. Trump will try one thing or another, but without success or coherence. Multipolarity has already arrived.

The broad pattern of economic convergence — in which the emerging economies narrow or close the income gap with the high-income countries of the West — means that Western hegemony is over. This is leading to deep frustration, not only in the US political class but in Europe as well.

China vastly outproduces the US in advanced industrial goods, such as EVs, solar power, wind power, advanced nuclear power, batteries, low-cost 5G and many other key technologies. China incorporates AI into advanced manufacturing processes more than the US.

Many European leaders feel that if they stick with the US against China and Russia, then maybe the Western hegemony will continue. This is delusional in my view, but nonetheless creates a lot of noise, friction and risks of conflict. None of it is a coherent strategy, however.

The US has no strategy to stay ahead of China. In fact, the US can’t succeed in that. We hear a lot of US sabre-rattling against China, Russia and the BRICS countries. This is all dangerous. I think the heated rhetoric by itself can become a self-fulfilling prophecy of war. There are a lot of ignorant people in the US political leadership, and I worry very much about their naivety and delusions.

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