In Westminster parliamentary systems the opposition is the largest party or coalition that is not the governing majority party/coalition. There can be other parties or individual members in the parliament that are not part of the government or opposition, in Australia they are known collectively as the crossbench (referring to how they are seated on the benches between the government and opposition benches in the parliament chamber).

I like Fedora

tip M’lady

(I’m using Bazzite, which is based on Fedora though)

I tip my fedora hat to you kind gentlesir! Updoots to the left!

Fucking bullshit, but entirely unsurprising that a cop gets away with a slap on the wrist for something that would put anyone else away behind bars. NSW has never truly moved on from the Rum Corp

Says the administration where the president himself committed crimes without consequence.

Cults of personality fall apart when the leader dies though.

However, I agree that you can’t just assassinate your way out of a deep, societal sickness. You have to address the underlying symptoms or it will just flare up again.

And Putin didn’t even need Yuri to do it

They mean the Gilead Age

The sad thing is that it was fairly progressive then to have openly gay men on TV who weren’t there as either the butt of a joke or a flamboyant “gay bestie” stereotype.

Fuck it

OOPs your SQL

Select.new(table: "Users").columns(*)

“Surrender to my imperialism or I’m going to ruin your my economy”

It’s probably just the suit jacket, those things do restrict your arm’s vertical range of movement.

Please understand that this is not directed at you personally, but fuck you. Sincerely, the rest of the world.

Edit because I can’t just leave it at that: I’m furious at the US but I also despair for all of the innocent people (Americans and others) who are going to suffer as a result.

Only the good die young unfortunately.

Yeah, I am not reading this shit again. I will not reward the complicit media with clicks and attention for their part in getting him re-elected.

That’s a real dollar coin that could be used in circulation, but it costs much more than its face value to buy and it’s worth a lot more than its face value to collectors.

And being part of the Commonwealth, we still have the monarch as the head of state but have Governer Generals who perform the monarchs roles when they are not about.

This is true of Australia, but having the British monarch as head of state is not a requirement for Commonwealth membership - there are a few members that have their own heads of state.

Australia didn’t rebel like those dastardly yanks. We became an independent country in 1901.

Expanding on this a bit, while Australia did become its own country in 1901 our legal system was still linked to the British one and the British parliament could legislate for Australia until the Australia Act 1986 was passed, which cut all remaining legal and legislative ties to the UK leaving only the monarch as head of state.

Tuvok is the best depiction of a Vulcan in all of Star Trek too and I will die on this hill (Spock is half human, so I am not counting him). Tuvok seemed to me like he found humans (and Neelix) to be illogical, difficult to understand, and somewhat annoying; but nonetheless he couldn’t help but like them as well, though he wouldn’t admit that to them (tangential hot take: Vulcans claim to suppress their emotions, but they still make decisions based on emotion and rationalise them as being based on logic after the fact)

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy, but I want to see the former hurt the latter first.

“whether they like it or not”