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Meta management are evil but kind of clueless. I would guess the usual suspects including Palantir are whispering in their ears.

That would be the majority of US citizens. Pity the dumb fucks don't bother voting.

How long do you stay on a platform before the outreach to new people is outweighed by implicit support of the platform?

It's a tough call. It is difficult to reach out to outsiders and talk to them but it's the only way to have a conversation with them.

Unfortunately Ukraine opened my eyes to a very painful truth. The protection of nuclear powers is worth nothing (including the US nuclear umbrella) and having your own nukes is everything.

If you don't have an independent capability the nuclear powers destroy your countries youth, heritage and future in endless proxy wars. I don't ever want that for my kids. I don't want nukes either but having our own nukes is a lesser evil.

Family member spends all day every day recording and editing videos for youtube. Never finds an audience. Never gets promoted. The service is too busy pushing AI slop. All that video storage for the long tail of content with almost no views must cost a fortune. Meanwhile big quality youtubers seem to not be growing for some time like they have hit a ceiling. I think Youtube has been in decline for some time. Instead of fix it, which would require investment and ideas, I think they pull the usual bad US MBA style management practice and attempt to maximise revenues on the way down until they finally kill it.

I do not want to buy American phones, particularly Apple. I want to go back to card over phone. It isn't really any less convenient to carry a sliver of plastic. My end game for mobile is degoogled android or Linux where I won't have access to banking.

I think least cost routing is supposed to be available for traders or they can set their terminals to prefer EFTPOS. I think I read that some banks let you set a preference on the card but mine does not have anything in the app. I might need to contact them.

I pay my internet with PayiID. Also use BPay. Osko. A lot of ecommerce is restricted to US platforms. I would prefer to make NFC payments with EFTPOS but haven't worked out a way to do it. Might have to research.

Norway is a petro state. Those EVs are green washing, paid for by exporting fossil fuel. Those EVs will all be broken in a few years and they will send them to land fill and buy another lot. Not half as smart as building public transport and liivible cities.

Australia could also be a petro state and own the profits from mineral extraction and invest it for our people but the risk of doing that is becoming addicted to fossil fuel revenue.

The truck network is privately owned and the big company owners are huge political donors. They will always oppose rail. We have road trains going through town day and night and the roads are getting years of wear in months. Privatise the profits. Socialise the costs.

There are huge bypasses and highway upgrades not far away costing millions and none of the road trains use them. They are tearing up the B roads because it's the only route they are allowed on. It's crazy.

The rail here was never fit for purpose. Installed a century ago and conditions were so bad it moved at a crawl. It could not compete with the massive public funding that goes into roads.

Why can't we make card payments without Visa in Australia? We need to ditch these foreign companies and develop our own or co-operate with peer countries. I ditched Paypal and Amazon but I still have to donate to Visa every time I buy a pie.

They have been getting fuel into the country and trying to support critical industries and combat price increases. There is a limit. We aren't about to sanction the USA or start a war with them. Global oil prices aren't something our government can control.

Whatever they do it's going to end with fuel rationing I think. Odd and even plate days etc. Seen it all before. People forget quickly how vulnerable we are to disruptions in the global supply chain.

Cutting fuel excise is likely a poor decision conomically but there is a constant theme I see online, don't know where it comes from, that this government does nothing. They are obviously doing a hell of a lot and perhaps more than they should. It isn't being reported or understood for some reason.

Long term it would be bad. High prices help hasten energy transition and energy independence but the collapse of the Libs has left a very dangerous power vacuum.

Hopefully Trump dies of natural causes or gets the 25th soon and the disruptions in the gulf ends.

Meanwhile Labor needs to be seen to be doing popular things to keep the fossil fuel and billionaire funded populists to 20%

Government is always about finding a balance, not being perfect.