willing to burn through public funds in order to gain geopolitical advantages over their adversaries.

So why aren’t other governments doing something similar?

Our government (Australia) basically told the last couple of brands that manufactured locally to piss off. So they did. So now we have literally zero local manufacturers.

Pretty much anything in the dipping cabinet at Miss Sophia’s Gelateria in Stafford (Brisbane).

Double Espresso is a good one, as is Milo, Vanilla, Pavlova, in fact they’re all good.

Ice cream in winter is one of the perks of living in Brisbane.

Yeah, that was some bullshit

You’re going to have to throw down a few more facts. Preferably with proof of some kind, not just unhinged rambling.

It seems like if what you’re saying is true, you could easily just reference something that explains it.

I still have no idea what this design is you’re talking about.

Any chance of some facts or references in that word spaghetti?

Then they have the hide to bang on about the free market.

It’s grotesque.

I pay for non popular things - bands that aren’t well known, YouTube creators who haven’t started doing those stupid “MUNDANE TASK 😱 GOES WRONG!” thumbnails yet, games or software that are free to download but hey maybe some money would be cool if you could, independent news and radio, etc.

Once something is popular I’ll just thieve it. Artists are creators deserve to get paid for their work, but once they start getting paid dozens of times over for no extra effort it’s hard to feel too bad about borrowing a free copy.

Went to the aquarium yesterday, and saw this dickhead:

How come all the coffee shops shut so early? I wanted a coffee at like 5:01pm yesterday and the only option within walking distance that was open was a 7-11 and the hotel foyer.

feeling

Classic Apple user, IMO

The Royal Melbourne disagrees 😎

The real State Of Origin is Parmi versus Parma.

I mean obviously you guys are wrong, but it’s neat to argue about.

I’m sorry, I don’t speak the local dialect. It’s a, how you say, chicken breast with crumbs? Or as the French say - le parmi. And chips on top. Always on top, or the side. Never under.

Flying to Melbourne this morning, boy are my arms going to be tired.

Going to see my favourite comedian who was originally not coming to Brisbane… But then all of about 48 hours after we committed to tickets and accommodation in Melbourne announced Brisbane dates too. Funny joke, this is why he’s my favourite comedian.

Jokes on him though - I’m still going to go to Melbourne and get me a parmi, and then I’m going to see him in Brisbane too. Now who’s laughing? 😎

… I think that may have another meaning 😬

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I’d feel relief tbh. If anyone starts circulating real photos of you in the buff you can just claim it’s those zany AI prompters at it again and wave it off as bollocks.

Subsonic (https://www.subsonic.org/) hasn’t been updated in years, but it still works perfectly for me. I’m mostly on Youtube Music these days just for the size of the library, but for stuff I have that YTM doesnt I still fall back to Subsonic that’s running on my HTPC.