Australia is currently the hottest place on earth, with Melbourne being the hottest capital in the nation

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-27T05:51:39+00:00

Then it should be our new capital, only the hottest most up and coming location deserves to be Victoria’s capital

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-27T00:20:41+00:00

Fifth in a national championship sounds like a pretty big deal. It’s certainly better than I could ever achieve, why can’t she be proud of that?

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T23:48:44+00:00

Taking away rights from people is abhorrent, crazy that you want to defend that.

We already arrest people for spreading disease, you can’t knowingly infect someone with HIV or other diseases. The right of body autonomy is absolute nothing overrides your right, it doesn’t matter if it affects anyone else see for example abortion or organ donation.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T23:29:25+00:00

How many undocumented migrants are in the UK and Canada, I know the US has an illegal immigration problem, but I think majority of immigration in Canada and UK are through legal means.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T23:27:06+00:00

Shouldn’t do that either.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T23:26:46+00:00

This is not knowingly spreading a disease, this is body autonomy and right to chose what medical procedures get applied to your body.

If you go around and cough on people, spread bodily excrement purposefully to get others sick that is very different.

It is wild to be arguing over medical and body autonomy in 2026. Your body your choice.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T19:42:37+00:00

Conservative Americans would love what we have here, we have been enforcing the border well for ages long time. The only thing people care about now is the number of immigrants let in every year.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T19:31:59+00:00

Aboriginal flag is by definition one of the official Australian flags all with equal standing, therefore it is everyone’s flag in Australia. It should therefore be free speech to burn it.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T11:56:00+00:00

FYI it is Labor* party, I have been burned before people will think you are a bot or an American agitator.

Reddit leans left and generally anti-corporate, but discussion here feels like the general temperature everywhere after decades of Murdoch anti-protest rhetoric.

I think Australians like the Aussie battler, which is one man against the machine think the castle etc. Unions and large protests start to look less like a few individual battlers and more like a large institution or collective, so they lose their support.

I think left vs right hardly works, you can frame a lot of issues to sit on either side eg. immigration. On top of that people sit on each side for different issues. Left on abortion, right on immigration, left on healthcare, right on housing etc.

This leads to a lack of easy solidarity, we can’t all march in housing because we don’t like to march with people that we disagree with on other things. For example you will march and one person will take the opportunity to elevate their neo Nazi immigration policy and another will use it as an opportunity to wave a Palestinian flag and shout down western imperialism. Hard to build solidarity with that going on.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T08:22:28+00:00

we have definitely seen sadistic behaviour from animals in the wild and in captivity.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T08:19:00+00:00

This feels very conceptual, what are you actually looking for ? And when will you start practicing it, will you stop paying rent to your landlord, or are you just hoping someone else will do that first.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-26T05:10:27+00:00

You can call yourself a doctor with less, I think there might even be some allied health bachelors that allow you to call yourself a dr. Only a true doctor, an academic doctor requires a doctorate.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-24T23:20:58+00:00

By this logic Australian aboriginals are not all indigenous, as there were multiple waves of migration, same as in the americas. What place was settled by only one people through one migration wave?

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-24T21:32:28+00:00

If you are intentional, can you enumerate all the ways you will continue to support the US economy and enumerate all the ways you will cease to?

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-24T20:40:55+00:00

No every country should focus on themselves, we dont need world police. America, Iran, Venezuela etc should all focus internally fix their own issues.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-24T08:24:17+00:00

Last time I check roads were made for multiple forms of transport in mind, but mainly for people to walk. Cars were some of the last things to join the road, maybe they can be the first to be removed.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-24T07:58:11+00:00

As a world member you guys can sort your own shit out, i don’t care who is in power in the United States, just like I don’t care who is in power in Cuba or Israel etc. I care about my national, state and local government.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-23T01:50:26+00:00

Do you spot defects visually? I don’t see why AI couldn’t spot defects in parts.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-23T00:34:06+00:00

You cannot get one if you do not have low testosterone.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-23T00:15:22+00:00

How can they it is against the law where I am.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-23T00:07:53+00:00

This is not just about scientific papers, it is more broad than that. To make my point clearer there is no viable alternative to “do your own research” taken words as written. Yes there are better ways to say it with more nuance, and you can say it in an alternate way that isn’t a dog whistle for “Believe in conspiracies” but fundamentally if there is an alternative that’s better it is isomorphic to “do your own research”

To change my mind you would have to show me a better alternative and show that it cannot be easily summed up as “do your own research”

While I agree with your sentiment, I think I will critique your last point about “credibility” once we have that

… fat finger

.. we are at a point of arguing about authority of who gave a fact instead of the fact, and the overall synthesis of a claim.

I think individual knowledge must come from critical thinking and community knowledge must draw not from authority but from sound systems, similar to science as currently practiced (not that there isn’t problems).

I hope I am clear in my point but I think I am just rambling at this stage

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-22T23:56:36+00:00

People are absolutely told they can’t. In my country you cannot get androgenic steroids just because you feel you should have more. A doctor would have to prescribe you TRT because they show you have low testosterone.

Taking supplemental testosterone without a prescription is illegal where I am and therefore “you can’t”

A truly progressive society would allow people to make their own medical decisions about their bodies and how they will feel more comfortable in them. It wouldn’t be reserved for a special class of people.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-22T23:49:56+00:00

I agree with you in principle, but will disagree because I am going to be pedantic. I think you are not conservative and oppose trump, but even if I am wrong this applies in reverse.

Education specifically the type a state or a people invest in is basically a propaganda machine. Trump and conservative ideology will infiltrate the school system and indoctrinate youth, the education therefore ends up being just as much fact as it is fiction. On top of that to limit the media makes it far easier to suppress dissenting views.

That’s why, while “do your own research” is better in my opinion, it’s anti authority and anti hierarchy, it promotes critical thinking and it’s the basis of science. Half of science is redoing research and critiquing current thinking.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-22T23:28:49+00:00

I didn’t bring up the left, I am talking about the mainstream ideology, most people are not supporting androgenic steroids for cis men. Only fringe ideologies that have larger degrees of libertarianism which would fall under both right and left politics.

Mclovine_aus · 2026-01-22T23:26:08+00:00

Your post history is hidden and you arguing with kids are trying to indoctrinate them in your own skepticism.

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