This is why, as an Aussie, I’m very disappointed in our subservience to the US all the time. It’s honestly pathetic. We abandoned our initial plan for, admittedly not cutting edge tech, french-built submarines to go with far better-specced US-built subs but who knows if we’ll ever actually get any of them.

Honestly, I don’t trust the sepos not to hamstring them somehow.

A decade? I had a Windows ME upgrade disc - M$ has been at this for a long time.

It’s funny. As much as I detest DJT and all the terrible things he’s brought to the world order/markets/general stability, I do have to be thankful that he’s helped spur on digital sovereignty and sparked a revival in independence rather than US hegemony. It’s also a shame, but the US has proved itself too volatile and an unstable partner.

Jefferies and Schumer.

It should be pointed out that it’s not like a parliamentary opposition as seen in many other democracies with political discourse over a dispatch box with the leader of parliament.

Southern Italian families about to have a hard time

Some people do be telling on themselves.

Yes, and no. It can be great tech but it’ll cost an extra 30% on top because Big G is paying.

Also true in government, if you don’t spend the entirety of your budget that’s been assigned to you, you clearly would never ever need it, so finance will take it away next year when you DID need it. So it’s easier to spend the entirety every year just in case you need that amount the next year. It’s dumb and annoying even as a government worker.

Fun fact: if by some miracle you find Fosters anywhere Australia, if you actually buy it and drink it, you get instantly deported to Manus Island because you’re clearly not from around here. Or worse, a pome.

As a former Gov contractor who now works for gov, yes. Price always goes up for government contracts.

Other countries won’t, because we don’t have spoilt children running our governments. It would be deserved, and we would be quietly glad someone gave them a slap, but we wouldn’t. And let’s be honest, the US would be insufferable if anything happened to them - they still bitch and moan about Pearl Harbour.

Edit: but also, as allies, even though it’s an abusive relationship, we would still come to your aid as that’s what we agreed to do. So we also wouldn’t want you to be attacked ever as you are our friends too and also, sadly, knowing it’ll be forgotten and not necessarily reciprocated if the shoe was on the other foot.

Are you on drugs?

Yeah nah cunt. You don’t include Alaska in that as it’s pulling a lot of weight.

Contiguous US is 8.08. Still slightly larger than Australia but only byy a dick hair.

What happened to the tradition of pelting Farage and his fascistic goons with milk-based drinks?

So now we know what to do with the bodies burnable items.

Dag, pash, mole, cobber, drongo.

Rarely hear any of them these days.

I have some bad news for you…

You just described going down a Wikipedia hole too. Always a good way to procrastinate

Cool beans is in regular rotation. My daughter has also banned me from taking her to school.

Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.

Nobody says "cool’ anymore. It feels weird when I say it unless I’m trying to be tubular or bodacious.

Or I’m hanging with my boys Fido Dido and Cool Spot drinking a nice glass of Sprite.