Was listening to the country hour earlier. Farmers complaining that rivers are drying out while gov is holding water back in dams. No water to irrigate, along with environmental concerns, increased bushfire risk as the land dries out and increased erosion etc. Diesel too expensive, Australia already had a shortage of farm workers before government announced more cuts to international workers and students. Sunrice and several other food processors have shut down their plants either due to rising costs or lack of inputs. Expect food shortages over summer if we don't get rain

Stupid local government had a worker down at the creek spraying Roundup into the water. I assume trying to kill off the reeds that filter the water. The council have been fighting a war against the environment for years now. Their goal seems to be making the town a worse place to live for people, like everything else they do around here, it's either about extracting money from residents or making their lives worse. I do blame the worker, I don't care how fucking stupid that guy is, there's no fucking excuse for following those orders. If any of the council workers had a fucking backbone and said no the council wouldn't be doing it.

I don't give a fuck what some "biologist" thinks. Baboons provide the impalas with extra food and protection, then kill and eat their offspring. That's the basis of livestock domestication. That's literally what pastoralists do. View quoted note →

The nationals being the voice of reason in the LNP Liberal retards trying to stop one nation from poaching their most racist supporters by calling for more cuts to international visas. Nationals be like "umm... who will slaughter the cattle and harvest the crops? You do know where food comes from right?"

This cunt on the ABC trying to justify government plan to use public money to build new data centres for American AI corporations to use to train new models. Trying to sell it with "don't worry they will be out in the bush not in your backyard" Absolutely no benefit to Australia by giving productive farmland to multinational corporations at the expense of taxpayers.

marco rubio said that every time Iran tries to target USA military assets USA will respond by bombing Iranian oil tankers. So they're back to "we bombed civilians to punish Iran for trying to defend themselves"

USA claims they bombed 5 Iranian oil tankers as a response to Iran targeting USA warships. "Iran claims two USA warships were hit by missiles" "USA denies that Iran attacked their warships" Watching the news change the narrative in real time. They haven't even made up a new reason to justify bombing unarmed oil tankers...

Victorian Labor government said if they get re-elected they will make a new state law that if your ex partner commits suicide after a breakup you will be charged with manslaughter for causing their emotional distress. It also applies to family members when someone commits suicide. Essentially if anyone commits suicide police will be looking for someone to imprison for causing the emotional distress because suicide is illegal.