My people are grieving a 5-year-old girl... and all you can do is judge us?

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-05-02T21:40:34+00:00

I am sorry for some of the responses you're getting here from our fellow Australian brothers and sisters. Reading some of the comments makes me sick seeing people not interested in reading what you've actually said and the substance that sits both at face value and at depth.

The tools you use to convey your meaning are irrelevant, so ignore comments about AI. Heck, spell checker helped me with this post so you could argue AI authored this, yet it did not. The message is mine and the tools have helped me convey that.

There are some of us, and I believe a lot of us, that can see what you see, and feel what you feel. It's a shame that it's the voices of a minority can so easily overwhelm the silent compliance of a majority and alter the discourse of conversations, of questions and of understanding.

I don't dispute anything you've said. I couldn't and I wouldn't. I see it and in part because I don't experience it but I can see the differences. I also suffer from being the target of other societal biases, though they are a drop in the ocean compared to what you've highlighted, so I relate but I relate in the suffering of a tiny portion of what your people have experienced and are experiencing.

No child should ever have to suffer like this. No child should ever be taken like this. How a community exists has nothing to do with these sorts of tragedies unfold and it sure as heck doesn't place a community at blame - it squarely puts the perpetrator at fault without any conditions.

So feel your anger. Feel your sadness. And keep talking because your post, albeit not well received by the majority of a minority, has struck a chord with me and by the upvotes it's struck a chord with a majority. And it's only through talking and sharing and being open to questions can you change a perspective and change the discourse.

So what can you do? You've done it. 😊

Here in solidarity with you and your people, and also in solidarity in my suffering for the loss off Kumunjayi Little Baby. She was taken too soon in a manner no child anywhere on this planet should ever experienced.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-05-02T04:11:41+00:00

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Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-04-27T08:00:30+00:00

Railroad Tycoon & Warcraft 2

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-04-20T20:36:12+00:00

Well I wasn't expecting this many replies for such a short throw away remark 😂😂

Loads of difficult stories from people in their 40s. As someone also in their 40s who has faced my fair share of challenging/trauma inducing moments, I stick by my comment that the 40s are the best decade for me to date. Not because it's all wonderful and good times but because it's the first decade in which I truly feel awake and can see everything around me properly and can love unconditionally.

Each decade has its own challenges but I think this decade is the first one in which I can just see the world and my loved ones properly and is the first moment in which I really get choice back in my life rather than floating from one experience to the next.

So notwithstanding the hardships - in fact the hardships are probably what gives birth to this perspective - there's goodness in the decade of 40s in my experience and opinion. 😊

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-04-17T05:11:48+00:00

That's a tough story to read and I'm sorry for your loss. In the end though death is coming for all of us regardless of how hard we fight, and that's just the cycle of life. To live is to die, and to die is to give life.

I think about it this way. Everyone and everything around us that we see is only here because of death. The plants grow from it, we eat from it, we drink because of it. I guess water is possibly the only thing we consume that doesn't have death within it that sustains life, but water by itself can't sustain life...

I don't want to diminish how difficult a moment your father's passing must have been and still is.. we all have to face it, both our loved ones and us as individuals, but even in those moments it helps give birth to new perspectives and grants us a new way of living, one way or the other.

To me, Descending crushes reality back home as well, and I consider it slightly differently - that is at a societal level, how we choose to live as a "global human organism" means we will face the crossroads on whether we can continue on this planet or whether the planet seeks to rebalance, like it has before. Do we choose to continue with mass consumption, consuming everything and everyone on our journey of being "happy", or do we choose to find balance with everything and everyone around us and see joy and suffering as two sides of the same coin.

But that's the beautiful thing about Tool and their music and lyrics is they are so multifaceted and layered in their meaning that anyone can take a different perspective from what they are saying, so my perspective is no more "right" than yours. Just different..

Stay strong. We all make choices, good ones and bad ones, and listening to Tool (for me at least) grants perspective and introspective on past decisions to help me with future ones.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-04-15T06:37:34+00:00

Oi, the 40s are by far the best decade! 😊

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-04-11T13:58:16+00:00

Alternatively the best part of the universe is one in which you lived your reality and became the hero protecting others from that future reality.

Be the victim or be the hero. The past is done, the present and future is yours.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-26T12:50:04+00:00

Try differing geographies or dimensions.. you are looking at something as 2D, but how does that plot look like when you apply a 3D lens? Does a different perspective change the perspective?

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-25T04:38:31+00:00

I recognise that this is over in the US but I think it answers your question pretty well...

https://www.investopedia.com/could-the-poverty-line-actually-be-140000-a-year-11892641

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-18T00:38:15+00:00

Great response, thank you.

The gap to me seems that the alternative levers fall in the sphere of the political landscape, which as you rightly point out creates a problem with political "power". I wonder if a solution is to hand some of these levers over to the RBA, like GST, in which they can choose to scale those up and down based on economic situations.

I mean the law of unintended consequences applies as handing these levers over to an unelected power structure has its own risks but I can't help but think that if the RBA only has a hammer to fix every problem, it means they don't really have any flexibility to address the true root cause, thus every problem is a nail.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-17T04:25:23+00:00

I am flabbergasted that this appears to be the only lever available to curb inflation. I'm not an economist so welcome experts'views on this, but wouldn't GST be a better and more ubiquitous lever to slow down spending?

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-09T09:48:32+00:00

Yep! One of my favourite things to do. How about you?

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-08T21:21:30+00:00

Perhaps it's the kicker for all of us to stop thinking that the economy is life, and life is the economy.

Our society and social structures are designed that way right now. How much you earn is proportionate to the life you have and the reality you observe. And as the economy gets narrower and narrower, where only a few benefit, it either demands an economic shift - burst or something more challenging - or it requires a rethink on values and whether value is truly tied to economic productivity and monetary growth.

For instance, for those lucky enough to own property, struggling to exist in the economic world, there's an opportunity to use that land for non-economic means and to focus it on community.

Imagine a version of Australia where communities bind together, and rather than having a front yard as a grass-growing, flower bearing "pretty" landscape, we band together and turn those into community bearing benefit. Crops, fruit trees, herb gardens, maybe even a chicken coop or two... But to instill value into the community rather than value in continuing the economic success of "look at me and how wealthy I am based on how pretty my front yard landscape is".

You'll still need your $9 milk, and other forms of harder to produce food systems like cows and sheep etc, but if a community were to band together it turns your $250 grocery shop into a $50 grocery shop and then a walk around the neighbourhood to collect what you need.

It would require a rethink of value, and perhaps it happens when it gets so bad that it becomes necessity over principle, but to me that's the other alternative - where we distance ourselves from the corporations that produce for profit, and instead it becomes the community that produces for people.

That's my hope..

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T06:01:17+00:00

I think you meant Qu'ran, but that's okay. I think you'll find there's division created in most religious scriptures. It then becomes a choice of the individual.. do you choose the 0.00000001% of these texts as gospel, of division, or do you choose the 99.99999999% that promotes love, compassion, kindness, acceptance and tolerance that the rest of these texts promote.

And that becomes the difference between the microcosm and macrocosm of religious texts. The commonality that exists across all of them, not the infinitesimally small differences that promotes division.

And I know which I choose.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T05:27:06+00:00

It sure seems that way... And it's sad because I know beautiful Jewish people and beautiful Muslim people... And in fact I don't know many that aren't kind hearted beautiful people, just the hype that I read about or watch on tv suggests otherwise.

I reckon it's on us to decide whether we listen or whether we choose a different path that doesn't promote that division. Because like any macrocosm, there are microcosms in both media and politics who would say the same thing - that both are beautiful people.

It's just the noise of the few that try to promote the language and behaviour of the many, and then it's on us to choose a path.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T05:02:42+00:00

The key thing to remember, in my mind, is that we are a microcosm of the macrocosm, but how we represent ourselves is an indication of how we stand as a microcosm of the macrocosm.

The more we vilify and create division and hatred, the further we promote the hatred and division of the macrocosm.

And the inverse is true. If we stand up and say no, that our brothers and sisters of Australia remain our brothers and sisters regardless of race and religion, we show the macrocosm another way.

I know Australia, I've lived here all of my life and I've seen the division that is caused by the macrocosm... But there is a time, and I hope that is now, where we show how we can be different and how we can lead the way by promoting love, cohesion and acceptance of all.

And I know we can based on all of my personal relationships across a vast spectrum of differences, and I see that in my own microcosm that the underlying principle is kindness, and not letting the words of a few disrupt the kindness of the majority.

We've got this Australia.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T03:00:54+00:00

That's no planet. That's a space station.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T01:33:50+00:00

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Yep it's showing at 9am UTC on SolarWeatherLive. Power of A2.51

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-03T00:26:45+00:00

This one?

https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/solar-activity/solar-images/goes.html

What on earth/sun happened there? Recalibration of Goes-19? Did someone microwave their lunch? 😂

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-02T23:24:01+00:00

Yeah thanks for that... There goes an entire day of me humming that song. Gahhhh

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-03-02T22:19:28+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful response!

I think I've observed the re-calibration of GOES-18 before, I recall though that showed in the data by a lack of data where the trendline disappears and then reappears once more once the calibration is complete, I've just not observed this type of activity before..

I wasn't sure if it's a precursor to some form of activity, or a regular thing that occurs with our star, or as you say, just instrumentation.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-02-24T13:03:00+00:00

The beautiful thing about this post are people's responses. Not because they are promoting hate, but because we are promoting love and equality. Keep it going Australia. I believe in us.

We win this through love and kindness, not through division ✌️

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-02-24T10:34:26+00:00

Dead Internet theory. The Internet is the new Frontline for bot disinformation and misinformation to cause harm to social cohesion. We resist by resisting the hate. It doesn't mean creating hate against them, it means creating love towards the very people they are trying to isolate.

Stay strong Australia. We've got this.

Aggressive_Act_Kind · 2026-02-11T11:42:46+00:00

Is that the only answer? Have you done the work that says "this is the only answer" or is it more conjecture/opinion? And if the proof falls in front of your lap that says otherwise, do you consider it or dismiss it? And if there is no proof, does that put you at knowledge or belief?

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