ubuntu is so popular when you stop using it you get to write a blog post

The only problem is you used MSN which is using the Daily Mail as a source? An American source using a UK (garbage dump of a) source to report on Australia? :\

If I open a debit/credit account at any bank in Australia I get access to one of two networks, Visa or Mastercard, both American, no other option, why? Is this really the end game for credit card networks, 2 companies made in the 80's?

How Credit Controls Your World - Ordinary Things https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGJ051u38Xo

Why can't good old fashioned local Australian companies rip money out of "suckers"?

I don't understand why if I make a credit card payment between 2 Australian bank providers America should get a cut of the fee

There's also:

https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/113962833330427797

real men find a random pdf converter website on the internets and upload our secret documents there

does not sound like parallel, sounds like modern internet/reality has infected bookstores. It just needs books created by AI on influencers and it'll be complete

sorry to butt in but that’s a hobby of mine 😀

for example going full renewables: solar panels made in south korea (qcells), battery german (sonnen), ev south korea (hyundai ioniq), heat pump australia/japan (reclaim energy)

I’m now looking at computer parts made exclusively in taiwan (looks like gigabyte mainly) because europe appears to have 0 competitive chip makers

it seems you can still buy bigger items that are local or non-china made but you will be punished for it, prices are anywhere from 10% to 100% higher

Terrorists have been using Canada as the preferred point of entry into America for years now

?????

This is so bitterly disappointing, can one billionaire not turn into a complete fucktard please :(

i think it missed a few words

Israel can take out the islamic regime in Iran allowing for a second revolution to happen

i think that’s what he meant to say

What exactly is there to defend or deflect, LLM's are useful for some things and not for others, this is well known

No /s, it is, no one says Gen Zed, or Jay Zed, XY Zee is just next in line, it's all Zee's and it makes sense why

At this point nobody is learning 'English', people are learning American because they watch American Movies, TV Shows, listen to American Music, eat American Food, play American Video Games, we watch literally millions of American Youtube and Tiktok Videos every day, we're following American Influencers and Celebrities, with American Social Media Australians are following American Politics more closely than Australian Politics and frequently confusing the two, in addition we're all addicted to the American Apps installed on American Operating Systems (all of them, Windows and MacOS and Android and IOS) on the American Smart Phones/Laptops/Desktops

The top most visited websites in Australia:

https://www.similarweb.com/top-websites/australia/

1. American
2. American
3. American
4. American
5. American

The consequence of this is that we lose our culture, but as some French statesman said: why bother when everyone is enjoying everything?

Except for a million articles like:

The ‘Men Going Their Own Way’ movement is the Taliban of the manosphere

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/men-going-their-own-way-movement