with no technological progress, all that’s left is marketing and cultivating addictions - the story of a lot of Silicon Valley tbf

jessie wtf

it has no substantive improvement, only designed to feed parasocial connections, placating the people mad at losing 4o. but attempts to make it even more of a pseudo-friend with more cross-conversation “context”. terrible

its ugh

I heard he was to lie on the floor of the current House of Representatives

this is peripheral to what I intended this thread to be about, but it is part of my general gripe with everything requiring constant updates, even hardware.

(On this topic tho, I fell victim to hx stomp fad and man it’s annoying to use)

I like it

now you buy anything - a guitar pedal! - oh sorry got to plug in to internet to update the “firmware”. lol what happened to just making shit that worked

They'll also interview friends and family about whether, in their opinion, you're an item.

Yeah, no matter how much advocacy work my comrades do, the "bludger" rhetoric has done soo much fucking damage 😔

The partner income test perpetuates domestic violence. Victims of domestic violence without their own source of income cannot easily flee a violent partner because the perpetrators' incomes are counted in Centrelink's income tests even after the relationship is terminated.

Of course, if you're not a wage earner, you could always create a family trust of somesuch to distribute your income across your dependents so you pay fuck all tax. But then you have to vote for the Nats.

Yep, I made a few posts about this on Reddit. Just received a torrent of abuse saying the system isn't the problem, I am (or my partner is). Sick it up.

Amazing what anti welfare propaganda has done to people's brains.