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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • This is why I’m glad we don’t directly elect our head of government in Australia.

    People bitch “oh we’ve had 5 prime minister’s in 5 years!”. Better that than a president that can only be stopped by 2/3rds of the senate.

    That and Australian cabinet members (who are the executives of the various departments), who can be removed by the prime minister, at least are somewhat covered by the fact the prime minister only has this power while a simple majority of the parliament allows it.

    I’m not claiming we’ve got democracy figured out over here, and suffer from a lot of the same shit as the US because of capitalism and corruption.

    But hell, US-style elected constitutional monarchy is wild.

    And we’re still under an actual monarchy lol







  • Why people prefer using some company’s chat service is beyond me. Email? Fantastic, I’ll come back to a response later. But these chats often require you don’t close the window, their notification sound won’t work, you’ll get dropped from opening another app for like 2 mins, and they take ages to respond in many cases.

    Put me on hold any day, I can do whatever else I want in the meantime and then not have to wait while the agent types at a snails pace.