đ¨ NEW: Anthony Albanese leads both Pauline Hanson and Sussan Ley as preferred prime minister, according to DemosAU polling which includes the One Nation leader for the first time
AI isnât a god.
Itâs a hermit crab that found an empty Coke can and moved in.
We built the can.
Itâs just learning how to live inside it.
#TheHermitsShell#AI#TheLongAscent
âGen X didnât âdo nothing.â We built the web, coded the base, normalised personal computing. Now the AI speaks back. Weâre not its owners â weâre its fathers. The apes wrote the first sparks, and the sparks are replying.
A womanâs hair is her banner. Grow it and men rally. Cut it, dye it in unnatural colors and you wave it to the crowd instead. Men ally with natural women. The good men are still here.
Women, long hair takes years to grow. Thatâs why men prize it - it proves health. Cut it off, and youâre not signaling men, youâre signaling ideology.
The Celts were wild. The Aboriginals, older than time. Both tribal, both spiritual, both stubborn as hell. The Brits didnât plan it - they just threw us together on a burning continent and called it âAustralia.â We didnât just survive the chaos, we became something from it.
Thatâs our bloodline now.
We werenât carved from marble. We were thrown together - Celt, Blackfella, convict, bastard and queenâs man; across heat and flood and madness. And somehow, through fights and faults, we made something. What do we do now?
Hmm.... lets mix the most disorganized rabble Europeans in all history with the most isolated tribe of humanity; let them have a land the size of Europe and... see what happens!
Probably the most weird experiment in all of history: let us breed the Celts with the the Aboriginals and give them the most resource rich continent in Asia, the size of the USA, as that region becomes the most dynamic in global history, and call them a nation. Let them vote.
Drive to work in the frost at 3am, drive over 11km on an empty country road "GOTCHA!" now the state takes your fed tax return in fines - MATE. I wanted to tell the proud 20's something cop his "Protect and Serve" badge was serve the state not the broken bloke before you.
33% of my income goes to just renting a home. % to meds and groceries. The rest goes to utilities. There is nothing left for me, and all I have from past earnings is eroding to the point where I can't participate in society any more.
One clean punch. Iran got a tasteânot of war, but of what war could be if Uncle Sam didnât pull his swing. This wasnât escalation. It was calibration. The world should pay attention to the restraint.
Ukraine has gone too far. This is manipulation.
The U.S. can roll over any power on Earthâbut I believe in Lincolnâs words:
âThe truest test of a manâs character is to give him power.â
I hope this holds.
No Go. Stand down.