Iran cloned a sheep, launched its own satellites, mastered uranium enrichment, built most of its missile and drone arsenal domestically, manufactured 95% of its medicines domestically, and climbed into the world’s top 20 in scientific output, all under decades of brutal sanctions.
Yet people feel compelled to post videos of skimpily dressed Iranian women doing yoga and Pilates to convince the West that Iranians deserve dignity and shouldn’t be bombed.
1. Factory-farming tens of billions of animals in extreme confinement for food.
2. Flooding oceans and human bodies with microplastics from single-use everything.
3. Handing kids phones engineered for addiction and attention extraction.
4. Manually driving cars that kill 1.2 million people every year.
5. Dumping CO2 into the atmosphere while fully aware of the damage.
6. Treating cancer by poisoning the whole body and hoping the tumor dies first.
7. Making surveillance and data sales the default business model of the internet.
8. Using dry toilet paper instead of water.
9. Raising children primarily on screens as digital pacifiers.
10. Working 40+ sedentary hours a week that systematically wreck body and mind.
Australia has become one of the most overregulated countries imaginable.
Want to start a business? Permits, licences, fees, taxes and endless paperwork.
Want to build on your own land? Council approvals, restrictions and more fees.
Want to go fishing? Better check the rules first.
Want to make a financial transaction? Prepare to explain yourself.
But you know what’s even more concerning?
How unbelievably accepting Australians have become of excessive bureaucracy. We’ve developed a culture where people don’t just tolerate government interference, they actively defend it and anyone who questions it gets told to stop complaining.
We used to pride ourselves on being a laid-back, independent country that valued freedom and common sense.
Now it feels like we need government permission to do practically anything.
At what point did Australians become so comfortable being told what they can and cannot do?
Are we actually becoming safer and better off, or have we simply normalised excessive government control?
This might genuinely be the last game I’m truly invested in. My childhood is over, who knows what life will be like when there’s another gta. This is the closing chapter of a stage of life.. I can’t wait
Thomas Massie: The Epstein scandal is “deeper and darker” than anyone imagined.
“It’s bigger than Watergate.”
“It’s bigger than Iran-Contra.”
“It’s not about Joe Biden or Donald Trump.”
“There are degrees of evil here that we’ve never seen at this scale … ”
“Our government was compromised by wealthy, connected billionaires, and by Jeffrey Epstein himself.”
“At the age of 14, these girls that were being sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein were told if they could go find another girl to take their place, then they wouldn’t have to be sexually abused.”
“And some of them took that deal.”
“It’s one thing to be evil to a child.”
“It’s another thing to get a child to do evil.”
“The light sentence that was given to Jeffrey Epstein in 2008 that allowed him to victimize hundreds of more women, we want to know, why was he given that light sentence?”
Putin knows what is going to happen next
He just had a 3 hour face to face meeting with Iran’s Rezaee in Moscow. He knows if Trump hits Iran, Israel will be leveled
The new Australian dream:
Live with 4 other housemates.
Work 40+ hours a week.
Pay up to 45% income tax.
Spend half your pay on rent.
Give up on owning a home.
Have nothing left to save.
Be grateful for the privilege to live in the “lucky country”.
And if you complain? You’re entitled, selfish and need to stop buying coffees.
Apparently this is what progress looks like in modern Australia.
Lower your expectations, pay your taxes and don’t ask questions.
As a certified AI hater, I begrudgingly admit that Claude Code solved a hard, undocumented problem for me today in under an hour that I've been dealing with for nearly a year