I'm grateful for modern medicine.

I had a heart attack 2 years ago at 41. I'm not obese, and I'm reasonably fit and active, I just made some poor decisions and lost the genetic lottery.

I got a re-sleeve and aparently my ticker is tip top again. I didn't even need "surgery". They just ran their magical fixerupper up my vein from my wrist.

Not very long ago I would just be fucked up for the very brief rest of my life.

Me too!

I've been wading through a swamp of misery lately - just a lot of pressure from work.

Every morning I try to think of 5 things that I'm grateful for, or to look forward to.

My kids are always high on that list because exactly as you said, they make it all mean something.

I love my ebike.

I've been big into bikes forever, but the ebike just makes it super convenient to bike to work.

arguing that Moscow's actions were undermining Trump's credibility as a negotiator.

This is how you manipulate a child.

It's a complex problem with no easy answers.

The tax benefits are what has made property a wealth creation scheme, so the problem will only get worse until that's addressed. Generous CGT exemptions, and negative gearing.

Sadly Shorten demonstrated how little appetite Australians have for addressing that.

The liberal policy of tax deductible interest, and the Labor policy of a 5% deposit, will only make the problem worse with increased demand.

If a majority of Australians wanted to address this (they dont) then IMO the solution is land tax. Land tax on all properties with an exemption for your home, and Australian owned farm land.

Then use the revenue from this for social housing. Build low cost housing, allow tenants to have some kind of rent-to-buy scheme.

This way you're making it less appealing to invest in property, and you're presenting more affordable options, both of which will rationalise pricing over the coming decades.

In west aus at least professionals are getting paid way above the award. My consultancy is paying about 25% over the award to attract good candidates.

Truck drivers hauling grain are earning $50 an hour plus super, where that was $30 an hour in 2019.

These numbers aren't "stagnant wages".

We're so far beyond this type of thing being relevant.

I don't think even an avid Trump supporter would genuinely think that he doesn't lie all the time.

He just says whatever he wants.

edit: ok I watched the video. He's not lying. He really believes the letters and numbers are tattoos.

Fair enough. That is a larger portion than I had realised. During the campaign I def thought that any Trump voter who wasn't a wealthy white male was voting against their interests.

Is this really a leopards at my face thing?

I'm aware that some Latinos voted for Trump, but surely that wasn't "most" of them.

Yeah it's subsidised for residents.

I think bachelor units are like $2,000 AUD each which is about 1.5 weeks full time average wage. 24 units in a bachelor.

Closer to $10k each for foreigners.

I very much doubt that.

There's blood in the water. Trump would be pretty desperate for this to go his way.

Not sure if you're talking about Australia or Canada but while it's easy enough to get a study visa for Australia the cost of studying here would preclude that option for most people.

Oh man.

What did this idiot give Bezos I wonder?

He's the worst negotiator in the history of US presidents.

My beautiful tariffs have worked and we've made deals with 376 countries that have made American dicks appear 74% bigger /s

I'm ... not quite sure about that.

I listen to a lot of podcasts and audiobooks and I find it difficult to get engaged with those from American presenters or narrators. I'm certainly not alone in that either.

That's not really my take.

Economically we're much more dependent on our exports to China. Any hickup in that relationship hurts. We also export heaps of grain, livestock, and gas to a variety of destinations.

IDK what we export to the US, other than some beef and bauxite, but it's not much in the grand scheme. We were hit with the 10% Tariffs and our politicians were a bit "meh" about it. We didn't bother with retaliatory tariffs.

Politically we have had a close relationship with the US. Obviously their military assets are huge compared to ours. The US military bases in Australia aren't here for our protection, they're here because the US want's a place from which to project power in our region.

There's a trilateral security treaty called AUKUS between Australia, UK, and US. That's not all one way either - all three nations are making significant contributions for everyone's benefit. There's been some reporting on whether Trump will withdraw from this treaty - it would be disappointing but not a disaster. We're a pretty enough dance partner.

My partner migrated to Australia.

There are multiple steps and the obscene waits at each step were awful.

That's a lot of jobs.

Sorry guys, the only way to pressure republicans to take action is a lot more of this.

Good luck.

I know this is a meme but if I were trans, and living in the US, I would 100% do my best to GTFO.

I was legit thinking a few days ago, we (Australia) should invite progressive voting Americans to migrate to Australia and ship our Trumpets over there.

There's a near-infinite number of better things trump could have done.