Yeah ok so there’s a bit of a back story that I couldn’t be bothered explaining before.

During Covid our premier at that time was from the same centre-left labor party, Mark McGowan. We had an initial 2 week lock down, but thereafter we didn’t have any significant covid infections at all for 18 months or so (I think).

Our premier, McGowan just kept the borders closed and we all just went about our lives with no restrictions. The federal government gave everyone heaps of money (because people in other states actually needed it) and the economy just went nuts. Everyone could afford all the new fancy things. No one could go on overseas holidays so everyone spent all their money at local bars and restaurants and it was just an epic love fest of fun times and good things. I don’t recall the numbers exactly but I think something like 90% of people had 2x vaccinations by the time the borders eventually opened.

Our federal government and other state premiers gave our state premier a lot of shit because keeping the border closed made them look like idiots and it wasn’t great for the Australian economy. Our PM at that time (centre right) made a comment about how it was time for Western Australians to come out of our cave, which ultimately cost him the next federal election. Anyhow, by the time of the last state election Western Australian’s were lovingly referring to McGowan as “state daddy” because it was nice to have a rep telling everyone else to fuck off because we’re safe in our space thanks very much.

That’s why the Labor party won that last election 3 years ago with a bonkers majority. I will always vote Labor but even I can acknowledge that having such a huge majority doesn’t really support a healthy democracy.

Anyhow, McGowan resigned on good terms and stepped aside for our current Premier. He’s not state daddy but he’s cut from the same cloth IMO.

Sorry I don’t get the joke.

The point of LMGTFY is to obnoxiously remind someone

Nah, I’m pretty sure the point of LMGTFY is to identify yourself as an obnoxious asshole.

If you couldn’t be bothered providing a link then you could’ve just not responded.

It would’ve been easy enough to just link whatever you were looking at.

Instead you went out of your way to make the person asking feel silly.

For context, this guy is the current state premier, similar to a US state governor I guess.

He is from our Labor party which is centre-left. In the last election the Labor party won 53 out of 59 seats. His party had overwhelming support at that time.

Of course the pendulum will swing back to the right at the upcoming election on Saturday, but I don’t think it will swing far enough for the conservatives to form government.

In the article it was pretty much a non-apology made when journalists pressed him on it later.

Isn’t this more or less what T-bag said he would do?

FB can be easily replaced with Lemmy

Awesome. I hadn’t heard of this.

Quick look at their website shows they’ve actually achieved some pretty great things.

This is a great example. You can’t just stop buying everything. Boycotting specific companies with specific demands is the way.

Looks like they had some facilities on palestinian land.

https://bdsmovement.net/news/sodastream-close-illegal-settlement-factory-response-growing-boycott-campaign

If I’m really honest it was just because I’m a bit of a weird guy and just didn’t fit in.

I mean if all church girls loved me I would’ve probably just ignored the illogical nature of it all, at least for a while.

I remember posing this question to my mum and dad. Their answer was “that’s what missionaries are for”. Honestly they should’ve just said they didn’t know.

Yeah but to change our trajectory on climate change we need a dramatic change in political will

I wonder how a catastrophic global down turn would effect CO2 emissions.

Do people become more progressive politically during a recession? Or do you need a world war for that I wonder.

The rest of the world certainly is watching.

There’s been pretty much universal condemnation and acknowledgement that the US is no longer the leader of the free world.

That’s subjective as it depends on your definition of reverence and of plenty.

That said, it’s a very good point you raised initially and I wholeheartedly agree that it’s a bit weird.

I agree that the natural world is, for all intents and purposes, analogous to a god.

I also agree that everyone, particularly the most pious of us, seem determined to disregard this god.

Religion is the wrong word, but I do wish that there was more focus on building appreciation for the natural world.

I’m reminded of the “solar punk” movement. There’s an instance slrpnk.net which collates some of these ideas.

That’s a generalisation.

Plenty of people have reverence for the natural world.

Fair enough.

The only reason things burn up when they enter the atmosphere is because they’re moving so fast that the friction from the air generates too much heat.

So yes, if you slow yourself down enough then you could just float down like a feather in the wind.

I have no idea how fast is too fast.

The answer to this depends on how much the magic device with the oxygen weighs.

Also just going to set aside anything to do with sky diving and space suits and having friends and everything else that I don’t know anything about.

I only know this from playing Simple Rockets on android but basically you direct your thrust in the direction you’re moving in order to reduce your velocity, and you’ll fall down to earth.

Think of an orbit as the balance between falling towards earth and zipping past earth. If you fly past too fast then you just fly past and maybe the gravity pulls you a bit but not much. If you fly past too slow the gravity pulls you down to earth and you crash. If you fly past at the same speed you fall towards earth the two directions balance out and you end up just spinning around earth.

Therefore, If you’re in a stable orbit on the space station, and then you slow down, you’ll start to fall down towards it instead of “falling” around it in an orbit.

If you only slow down a little bit you’ll start moving towards Earth but you’ll be moving way too fast for an unshielded human to enter the atmosphere without burning up.

You’d have to slow yourself down, by directing thrust towards the horizon you’re headed towards, enough so that you’re not going fast enough to burn up.

Whether or not you can slow down enough, quickly enough, depends on how much thrust your magic device can provide and how much that device makes you weigh.

Yeah. Like 30 minutes or something. Why would I want to do that?