It's not inherently racist, but I would conjecture that these puns occur more frequently with Asian names (unfortunate spellings are pretty popular e.g. Phuc, Bich, Wang, etc. despite pronunciation being completely different). One factor is probably due to their rarity in comparison to Anglo names.
Thanks for this, this is wonderful. I used to use bug.n for tiling, but it was terribly slow and buggy most of the time- haven't tried any other solutions since.
> The fearsome Chechenians were on the way to capture the leaders, and then turned out the Ukrainians already drone striked them including the general.
Once again, there is no solid source for this that doesn't circle back to some social media post.
I don't think there's currently way to confirm whether any of these claims are true or not, not until the conflict is over.
Every single piece of postal mail is scanned front/back. If you've signed up for the USPS's delivery notification stuff for your mailbox, that's where the scanned "previews" come from. And it's notable how often those previews show a pretty good representation of what's inside, even without messing with the preview image in an image editor to play with the levels/contrast/etc.
So yeah, if you'd like to hand the feds evidence you're using a VPN, go right ahead, mail Mullvad cash?
I would assume the person mailing them cash is not sending it from their mailbox on their property, but instead a public access mailbox in a town or city.
If you’re worried about being actively followed by the feds and they’re tracking you drop that letter, you have much, much more to worry about than your VPN usage.
> The people who are meant to die from COVID will die when you open up again.
Absolutely not true. The lockdowns have bought my family and friends valuable time for them all to get vaccinated, despite our shithouse federal government vaccine drive.
> By the way death is part of life as much as is birth. Without death we couldn’t live.
A meaningless platitude. Why not take it to the logical conclusion and consider all medical care unnecessary?
> If anything, the more people die by a natural cause like COVID the better for the world, because imagine how much carbon we set off by every person less eating beef, driving a car or flying a plane.
wtf lol, it's possible to simultaneously address climate concerns whilst having a half-coherent pandemic response. Unless this is just antinatalism a few steps removed.
> A meaningless platitude. Why not take it to the logical conclusion and consider all medical care unnecessary?
Because context is not meaningless. Someone taking pills or getting antibiotics doesn't impact the health of others. But locking healthy young people up, depriving them from education, exercise, social contact and work does decrease their life expectancy in order to increase someone else's life expectancy. That is just pure evil.
The problem is that this legislation wasn't introduced to deal with COVID.
The intense international focus on our public health restrictions is a huge distraction, and undermines the message we want to send regarding authoritarianism.
You're making the mistake of conflating Australia's COVID-19 restrictions with this legislation, when they're entirely unrelated. These digital powers were something Australia has sought for many years- under the good ol' reasons of terrorism and child safety.
The recent hubbub surrounding Australia's restrictive COVID-19 measures were possibly the best thing that could happen for our government- when our vaccination numbers rise, the public health restrictions will rollback, whilst the digital legislation will continue on unabated.
One can point to Australia's COVID death rates (~4 per 100,000) in comparison to the United States and the United Kingdom (~200 per 100,000) and make a case for that.
This legislation is far less justifiable, and should have no reason to exist. By associating the two issues, you are weakening the case against it.
There is some justification for nearly all authoritarian laws. One can point to the low crime rate in Singapore relative to the United States, for example.
People who oppose authoritarianism do so because it's not worth the cost, not because terrorism, child abuse, and disease aren't real problems.
Is it good practice compare a very large island that has 2/3rd the population of California, or it’s 1/10th the population density of the whole of the USA?
Seems like a flawed argument for at least a dozen more reasons.
I'm not interested in pursuing this debate, but I will point out that our highly urbanised population means that it's not as cut and dry as you're making it out to be.
The federal government have been frothing at the mouth to get states to open up since the start of the pandemic, especially focused on VIC. They've only changed their messaging temporarily to be pro-lockdown recently when NSW initially dropped the ball, and then pivoted again to focus on vaccines and "living with COVID" when it was clear NSW couldn't recover.
It's law, but it still gets abused quite frequently (outside of tech, at least).
Anecdotally speaking, all my mates who work in private construction office jobs regularly do quite a bit of unpaid overtime. It's very much a combined cultural and managerial issue, clocking off at the correct hours gets you the stink-eye, and the volume of work assigned necessitates overtime.
It results in terribly tasteless, low-brow "jokes" such as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaOkTKfxu44