A single region within a member country can veto an entire block's will, even if the rest of the country assents? That seems very broken as a voting system, to me.

It's very depressing, also for those of us in the imperial sphere of countries. Because we're beholden to US foreign policy, and the worse the US gets, the more dangerous it is for us.

I mean, we (Australia) already we're doing war crimes for the US in Afghanistan (look up David McBride, the Australian military lawyer), already buying $300 subs as some kind of tributary payment, already followed you into dozens of wars we had no business being a part of, I truly worry for what's next under a more corrupt US regime.

Yikes.

If God was real / or is real and cared, we would have a perfect 336 day year.

In Australia, they'll give you the fraction of the note value between 20 and 80% of the full value:

https://www.banknotes.rba.gov.au/damaged-banknotes/damaged-banknotes-policy/

Wolverine just isn't allowed to lose more than 80% 👍

You know what's fucked, Standards Australia annouced they were considered increasing the minimum size for parking spots and gave only 3 weeks for public comment.

So many comments against, but I bet the car lobbies get their way anyway.

These things are a scourge.

It's not like AI is a legally defined term anywhere (that I've head of). Surely someone will end up suing google for things like this.

So far I'm sensing a food related theme with your sexual conquests

I know this is a joke, but a bad dog is so much more of a problem than a bad cat. (Not counting feral animals)

Bad cat: angry, wants you to leave them the fuck alone, scratches you at the slightest provocation

Bad dog: hyperactive or jumps all over you or barks at you, can seriously injure or kill you.

Our society takes for granted that you can take your dog anywhere (in Australia at least), and I don't think enough emphasis is placed on the fact if you can't 100% control your dog, don't bring it anywhere near people.

The number of people saying "oh he's friendly" as their dog scares someone afraid of dogs because they're jumping up on them is stupid.

This society values dogs more, and I just don't get it.

It must be globally, I'm in Australia. What utter bullshit, since I would have never known if it weren't for my NetGuard firewall app.

Requests the app made today.

This is my phone I own outright, by the way. I don't have any creditors.

Update for those curious:

At least she was open to listening, hopefully you've made an impact on her going forward

I think this logic is silly.

Employers don't own you, so witholding wages for services you provided isn't stealing. Getting a haircut and not paying isn't stealing.

I think the better justification is: rights holders make it a pain in the arse to access content affordably, so fuck you, just going to steal it.