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  • The US prenteded to be Australia’s ally and friend, China is just another country who happens to be a great customer and that should be recognised but that’s about it.

    I’d pivot away from the US and try and forge better and closer alliances (more like we have with NZ) with places, The EU, Canada, Japan for tradr and defence but theres no warm embrace with China.

    As an Australian I’ve long been a Green voter and their policy has been arms length from the US (and China)

    That the US treats us with disdain has been obvious for decades.








  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldVentoy my beloved.
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    29 days ago

    Honestly that sounds like a jerk move.

    Quite the opposite,

    Why would you force someone to use Linux?

    In what world is that force ? He wasnt holding a gun to her head, the opposite, he’s freeing her from stupidity.

    Decent people help others, they don’t go along with their stupid ideas before at least trying to convince them its a stupid idea. An allegory perhaps, your friend comes over, they have a 1/2 dozen beers, they’re going to drive home… In your world it seems it’s force to ask them not to and to stay over.

    It isn’t your computer and if you are helping them you should do what they want

    Helping them is the phrase you seem to be confused about. It’s his sister, not his boss at the office.








  • Hanrahan@slrpnk.nettoWorld News@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    They won’t, they’re immensely supportiv"

    I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. .-- John Stuart Mille

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    2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

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