The president represents the country.

The link you provide says we use the Transverse Mercator projection

I screwed up with ‘reverse’ but it was transverse I meant and it’s what’s popularly used.

Yeah I did, thank you

Edit: and yeah we definitely use the transverse

That’s right, transverse

Worse still, their people go on with some shit house excuses. They can’t pass good policy apparently, until they have the needed majority. This was on things like the media inquiry we wanted.

Now they have the majority and friendly Senate, they can’t because the media would slaughter them.

But when it suits these people, boy can Labor produce great policy.

To be fair, they did…what should be expected of them and fixed the tax concession issue in on housing.

The Greens are better by every metric. Even foreign policy now. Wong worked out real fast that Shoebridge wasn’t Michaela Cash and dumped her shit back on her.

Okay, the couple I’ve seen are pricier but seem to be the same screens, just without the bullshit that these companies make data or service provision money off.

I won’t argue with it though, I’d have to look further.

You know it’s the Reverse Transverse Mercator right?

It’s been the best way to transform a curved surface to a plane surface in a way that people understand.

No

Think of opening the earth up onto a cylinder and stretching it out and over its surface, then flattening that cylinder out.

It will be equal in the centre, but distorted at the ends.

The projection we use is the Reverse Transverse Mercator, as its ‘cylinder’ sits vertical so to speak, distorting the poles. Horizontally, it would distort across the Equator in a couple places, which wouldn’t be useable.

The only thing close I can think of are TVs made for hospital or retail screens.

They have all the garbage removed I understand.

They’re paying Palantir to boot people off the NDIS and scrounge money for AUKUS subs.

They’ve sold us out to the US and Israel.

They have betrayed the country.

We now know why Shorten left.

Well it wasn’t blocked in the end, it passed, with good concessions.

This position that they’re obstructionist is weak. They got better outcomes. That’s exactly why I voted for those Green and independent senators and I’ll do it again too.

That said, the Greens and the indies at the end of 24 passed a lot of bills, some in my mind they shouldn’t have.

Note also that anything really good, like those tax concession changes, don’t get a lot of obstruction.

Labor needs to produce better policy.

Honestly, if it’s this bad, why is this put up with?

For a country that has spent so much time telling others how free it is, its citizens take a lot of shit

If it’s that bad, no point waiting around any longer, shut the thing down.

Yeah well, we haven’t adequately replaced evidence most Americans won’t.

That’s fine, doubt away. Yeah we’ve always had issues but they’re worse now, since the US and its conservative PACS are getting involved

Yeah night shift warehousing where I am now pays around 40-45 an hour

Yeah same. We haven’t adequately replaced him either in my view.

If you want people to act

That’s not my job. I’m not American and I didn’t get agency in the decision. However, their policies and governance affects all of us, sometimes without our consent, so we have a right to be concerned.

Preservation of life and liberty is worth the sacrifice. As for the rest, that takes hard, collective work, which means working together responsibly to achieve that and if they can’t, that’s on them. That’s not something a foreigner can build or show a rally point around.

Excuses for everything ay? Sorry, reasons.

I’ve seen US people in here discuss this and give instructions on how to join in so they’re around. Wrote to any influential and friendly politicians and people on it.

But it’s not mine or ours outside to fix. We or I shouldn’t be having to tell you how. This is what we’d do if it was us.

In that case then, if it’s all that bad I have to ask what two more weeks of suffering, which is all it would take if enough did a shutdown, is going to add.

I’ll say this much, I would throw myself on it if it was that bad for me, because I’d have nothing to lose. I think Americans fail to understand that other countries had it better because they did that suffering and striking a while ago.

We all constantly hear how bad it is and how oppressed you are, well, what is there to lose? You’re saying it, not us, but you got no problem claiming we don’t get it or understand.

No one wants Americans to take violent paths but they are where they are because the easier options weren’t taken. That’s why there’s so much push from the outside for peaceful shutdowns. Yes, we know, you constantly remind us…jobs, kids.

There’s an excuse every time. Sorry, a reason, it must be remembered which nation that is and the filters applied.

The easier options work too, the Republicans prove that repeatedly. Or did. It might be gone now.

Don’t prove Churchill right again. The sooner it’s gotten out of the way, the easier it’ll be. It would have been easier if done earlier, though it’s got to be remembered this president was elected so there’s limited ways to get rid of him outside a vote or violence.

Shutting down the country (to paint a broad brush) to get enough influential people to act, Congress to act then enforce an impeachment seems to be one of those, looking from the outside.

I’ll add this; none of us outside and our governments, even if they wanted to, can help. We are having enough trouble with our own wingnuts and that in no small way has been driven by the problems with the US.

I honestly think I’ve commented on the wrong thing ay

You know you read things like this and you don’t have to spend much time working out what’s wrong

I was earning mid twenties in warehouses in the 1990s

Yeah there’s really nothing to lose by voting

It’s already shitcanned and they aren’t doing the thing that needs to be done. May as well turn up to vote.