I’ve got some more:

Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.

Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.

Fast trains for transit and freight.

Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don’t want to work they wont. It’s a waste of money to try to punish people who don’t want to work.

Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.

Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.

That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.

Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.

There will be no change. Punching down at welfare recipients is so ingrained in Australian politics it’ll never go away. If Albo tries it’ll be the perfect campaign basis for the Libs, your tax money given free to blue haired dole bludgers that want to turn your kids trans.

All her life my Aunt looked like she was on top of her business. Owned multiple houses around the world, travelled regularly, lived in the inner city of a top tier European city. She was found dead at home in her 70s. As the finances were unwound to deal with her estate, she’s flat broke, everything was loans on loans, her sister who rented one of her apartments is set to lose her housing. One of my family members commented “I thought she was good at business”, I replied that she was, she died without ever having to clean up the mess she made, her finances were a disaster and now they’re someone else’s problem.

Breast reduction is more common than enlargement as far as surgery goes.

Some guys might actually need a truck for truck stuff too.

Where do you place “be kind to each other” on the propaganda scale?

Can you get posts up about the free food?

Borrow a ute (pickup truck) and drive around poorer areas looking to give it away?

Contact other charities that might be able to cook it up to give to people? The Sikh’s do a lot of that where I’m from.

They’re going out of fashion here too but it means there’s a heap of cheap old trucks available. With our housing cost issues, I’ve been daydreaming about building a house-truck of sorts.

In Australia, you’ve got to show double clutching to pass the non-synchronised driving test.

Jackbox games on the PC/phones and various sandwiches cut into triangles.

I couldn’t get the double clutching timing right, and my instructor was a cunt who got on my nerves the whole day of training. Also because they’re a gated gearbox, you’re supposed to follow the H pattern and not cut desire paths.

Is reforestation not simply the best way to do this?

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Moby - long ambients.

Nine inch nails - ghosts.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient works 85-92.

There’s a whole genre called dark ambient.

A doctor will order scans of the area to see if there’s anything obvious requiring surgery, otherwise a physio or similar should be able to provide you some exercises to strengthen the body. You could probably just take yoga, pilates or calisthenics classes as long as you don’t exacerbate things.

You don’t mention doing any exercise.

Girl from ipanema melody. Sorry, it’s the rules.

Nah dude. You gotta respect your girlfriends wishes on this. Maybe consider getting a place when she’s 18 so she can get away? Will she be moving for university?

If her plan is to keep living with her family and never revealing you, there’s no outcome to that path. But if she is looking to move or study or whatever, you might see a future for the relationship.

Talk to her about the future and where this is going.

You can still play it. It’s got a large base.

If you go back on your son receiving this gift, it’ll be a dick of a dad move. Like some people have mentioned your best bet is probably to have a discussion about wealth and ethics with your son as well as letting him know your concerns. Like some people say, it’s a lot of money for YOU, for these people it’s not.

You gotta shoot your shot and then be prepared to walk away if they’re not interested. It’s as simple as that. I’ve ended a few friendships with women I’ve developed a crush on as once I had a crush, they weren’t really friendships anymore.