This was a plot point in season 1 of Jessica Jones where Killgrave demanded Jessica do the same thing or he'd start killing people. This was after spending months literally mind controlling her and raping her so Australia has now moved on to shitty Marvel TV series villain tier.
And the latter helped the former at the time. Possibly just to fuck over the English more than anything since the abridged version of EU history is a bunch of countries ruled by cousins beating the shit out of each other over and over.
"I'm all for the second amendment"
"So you believe in an armed populace to overthrow a corrupt government via violent force if necessary?"
"Woah woah woah far right extremist larper. Violence isn't cool"
You see because the vaccine is a bit of a bust they can't ever let an outbreak happens because once they have community spread it's all over- and by "all over" I mean like every other fucking country except two years later and will make all this draconian lockdown completely pointless- which would make the government wrong- so they can't let that happen- ever.
Yep, that's pretty much exactly it. I saw a "journalist" (but an actual one, not your standard MSM psychopath) outline pretty much exactly that, on the Speccy, yesterday, and I've been thinking this to be the case for months, so you're right on the money, with that, I think.
I wish that were a comforting thing to acknowledge, and to know, but it's not. It's fucking terrifying... :-S
while your at it searching up the Internets greatest hits see if you can find a nice supply of blue waffles~ they go great with events like the lemon party! You don't need to bring much either! just one man, one jar, all it takes to pack it in. freshest squeezed lemon-aid is served at a 2 to 1 ration, that's two girls one cup for visual. some folks bring bbq along and cook it on site mmm watch that meat spin and sizzle. some folks might bring along dodgy bootleg movies for other partygoes to enjoy often with weird names like swap.avi don't worry perfectly normal there... so lost your lunch yet?
Japan has a similar system, but only for visitors from other countries, and only for the two weeks quarantine. There isn't a picture either it just detects where you are with GPS.
Still not great, but it's... Extra jarring, that we can't even freely travel interstate (in Aus), right now, even as citizens/PRs... Even from a state not in lockdown, to another state/territory not in lockdown...
I can't tell you how fucked it is down here. Seriously...
More broadly, though, if we hadn't all happily taken up fucking smartphones, then NONE of this would have been possible. This was inevitable, from then on. And I'm sure both Apple, and most governments, knew that. Which is why they gave Apple (and its competitors, depending on the country) so many fucking tax breaks, and so much development funding, because they knew how useful that would be...
People like to blame the internet as a whole (as do I), and/or social media, and yes, I think those are both massively important elements of this, but if it wasn't for smartphones, this whole "cashless", survellance-state based dystopia breaks down, an would not be possible...
I can't believe we happily trade in all our freedoms for a little "convenience" in our fucking pockets. To the point where now, in Australia, it is essentially mandatory to have a smartphone, and to carry it, charged and all, at all times, if you want to leave your fucking house/go to work. What an absolute nightmare, and we asked for it... :-(
How is this shit even enforceable? You can't leave your house without a smartphone? Are they going to arrest people for the crime of not giving Apple or Google money?
That alone would be as much of a red line for me as mandatory vaccinations. I'm already looking into getting rid of my smartphone. Nobody is going to force me to have one. (unless it's for work, then it's shut off after hours)
If this happens to me, I'll fucking refuse to comply, do a runner, and then when the stupid fucks come to take me down, I'll film it all for your benefit...
Seriously though, this is Australia now, guys... If you live here, this sort of thing, while extremely worrying, is becoming increasingly... Unsurprising. Which is fucked, because I know that is what they want. To desensitise us to this shit, and normalise it. Of course I want to push back, but that's... Kind of hard, when you know that even your own family would happily sell you out to the authorities, to benefit their own "social credit" (and yes, I realised that over the weekend. My parents would be quite happy to do that, if and when the opportunity arises)...
Weird advice. You ever play StarCraft? Or similar games. There's this tactic in the game and in real war but basically it's called harassing. You don't full on attack the enemy with your army. You do specific attacks here and there where they least expect it and the other player is forced to redirect attention to the immediate problem. The time and resources the other player loses/expends to extinguish your attack is greater than what you put into it. Done enough times it can really screw you over for no other reason than they've wasted a ton of time and not accomplished anything else for however long you've been getting harassed.
Think about things you can do which are low effort, low cost, low risk, but can have an outsized cost on the authorities. As a complete example, flattening someone's tires can take a few seconds, but filling them back up can take twenty minutes. Be creative. Wear them down. Talk to trustworthy confidants and brainstorm ideas. Make the govs life a pain in the ass.
The problem is that we don't have liberty in our constitution - and the only liberties which we have are granted by politicians. And what they grant (like freedom of speech, self, property, firearm ownerships) they can also take away. We have terrible defamation laws which make criticism of public figures into long legal fights and expensive settlements. The same sort of criticism which in the USA would be tolerated as fair.
The British had huge influence over the Australian constitution, and things have worked out as they have entirely by design.
I don't think having it in your constitution would have necessarily prevented this mess. Even in the US we get old farts applying creative interpretations to our constitution that suit their desires, or even occasionally violating it because they know how many years it will take before the justice system can correct a violation.
Like all written law, it's not written to protect the citizenry, it's written to protect the elites. Just, in the case of liberty, it's that not agreeing to back off and give us some freedom means we will perform very naughty actions that I may not legally describe on clearnet. The nature of liberty is steeped in violence, and aussie elites might get a unique chance to learn this if the citizenry discards the notion that it must be gifted from above. In other words: granting liberty in a formal document primarily serves as a boundary for politicians so they don't end up being violently overthrown by organic responses to tyranny.
What about the people who don't have phones or have flip phones? What if your phone is off? And I'm assuming GPS needs to be on for this as well.
Though if Australians had balls I could see having a lot of fun with this. Just not do it everytime even if you're home so the cops have to respond and be like "oh, left my in the other room," "was on a call when you texted me," "sorry was having a nap." See how many times the cops will actually show up.
This was a plot point in season 1 of Jessica Jones where Killgrave demanded Jessica do the same thing or he'd start killing people. This was after spending months literally mind controlling her and raping her so Australia has now moved on to shitty Marvel TV series villain tier.
lmao
Screw u Jessica Jones was amazing
there are people who are gonna get woken up from naps with "oi ya cunts gotta loicesne for that freedom ti not wake up for the gov?"
The only two western societies that ever fought for it were the US & France in their respective revolutions.
And the latter helped the former at the time. Possibly just to fuck over the English more than anything since the abridged version of EU history is a bunch of countries ruled by cousins beating the shit out of each other over and over.
"Trade" implies they got something in return. No, they just gave away their liberty.
Time to abandon phones
this is why we can NEVER give up our weapons
Just don't mention what they'd be used for, or some people around here will pitch a fit.
"I'm all for the second amendment" "So you believe in an armed populace to overthrow a corrupt government via violent force if necessary?" "Woah woah woah far right extremist larper. Violence isn't cool"
Ive been banned like 3 times here simply for implying that,
You see because the vaccine is a bit of a bust they can't ever let an outbreak happens because once they have community spread it's all over- and by "all over" I mean like every other fucking country except two years later and will make all this draconian lockdown completely pointless- which would make the government wrong- so they can't let that happen- ever.
Yep, that's pretty much exactly it. I saw a "journalist" (but an actual one, not your standard MSM psychopath) outline pretty much exactly that, on the Speccy, yesterday, and I've been thinking this to be the case for months, so you're right on the money, with that, I think.
I wish that were a comforting thing to acknowledge, and to know, but it's not. It's fucking terrifying... :-S
Great opportunity to start practicing goatse.
And what is Goatsee? you may ask.
Go ahead and search. We'll wait.
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god damnit.
while your at it searching up the Internets greatest hits see if you can find a nice supply of blue waffles~ they go great with events like the lemon party! You don't need to bring much either! just one man, one jar, all it takes to pack it in. freshest squeezed lemon-aid is served at a 2 to 1 ration, that's two girls one cup for visual. some folks bring bbq along and cook it on site mmm watch that meat spin and sizzle. some folks might bring along dodgy bootleg movies for other partygoes to enjoy often with weird names like swap.avi don't worry perfectly normal there... so lost your lunch yet?
you missed tubgirl
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couldn't rally fit it in the two girls one cup one i think was really stretching it
Good bot
What? No MLP cum jar?
I miss the old internet
Japan has a similar system, but only for visitors from other countries, and only for the two weeks quarantine. There isn't a picture either it just detects where you are with GPS.
Still not great, but it's... Extra jarring, that we can't even freely travel interstate (in Aus), right now, even as citizens/PRs... Even from a state not in lockdown, to another state/territory not in lockdown...
I can't tell you how fucked it is down here. Seriously...
More broadly, though, if we hadn't all happily taken up fucking smartphones, then NONE of this would have been possible. This was inevitable, from then on. And I'm sure both Apple, and most governments, knew that. Which is why they gave Apple (and its competitors, depending on the country) so many fucking tax breaks, and so much development funding, because they knew how useful that would be...
People like to blame the internet as a whole (as do I), and/or social media, and yes, I think those are both massively important elements of this, but if it wasn't for smartphones, this whole "cashless", survellance-state based dystopia breaks down, an would not be possible...
I can't believe we happily trade in all our freedoms for a little "convenience" in our fucking pockets. To the point where now, in Australia, it is essentially mandatory to have a smartphone, and to carry it, charged and all, at all times, if you want to leave your fucking house/go to work. What an absolute nightmare, and we asked for it... :-(
/endrant
How is this shit even enforceable? You can't leave your house without a smartphone? Are they going to arrest people for the crime of not giving Apple or Google money?
My work has a simple policy: If your cell phone goes off, you're fired. Lockers exist for a reason, phones are for on-break only.
I wonder if any businesses in Australia will be getting daily police visits because they have similar policies.
That alone would be as much of a red line for me as mandatory vaccinations. I'm already looking into getting rid of my smartphone. Nobody is going to force me to have one. (unless it's for work, then it's shut off after hours)
Damn dude. I encourage you to tell people. Pump it out online. If you are scared to then find a go-between to post the info for ya.
chinese virus
chinese society
Jokes on them, I don't have a phone any more.
I lost mine in a boating accident. Including my land line.
Mine was eaten by the 5G kraken.
Wut lol
If this happens to me, I'll fucking refuse to comply, do a runner, and then when the stupid fucks come to take me down, I'll film it all for your benefit...
Seriously though, this is Australia now, guys... If you live here, this sort of thing, while extremely worrying, is becoming increasingly... Unsurprising. Which is fucked, because I know that is what they want. To desensitise us to this shit, and normalise it. Of course I want to push back, but that's... Kind of hard, when you know that even your own family would happily sell you out to the authorities, to benefit their own "social credit" (and yes, I realised that over the weekend. My parents would be quite happy to do that, if and when the opportunity arises)...
Just start sending them goatse pics.
There's nothing like the classics.
Weird advice. You ever play StarCraft? Or similar games. There's this tactic in the game and in real war but basically it's called harassing. You don't full on attack the enemy with your army. You do specific attacks here and there where they least expect it and the other player is forced to redirect attention to the immediate problem. The time and resources the other player loses/expends to extinguish your attack is greater than what you put into it. Done enough times it can really screw you over for no other reason than they've wasted a ton of time and not accomplished anything else for however long you've been getting harassed.
Think about things you can do which are low effort, low cost, low risk, but can have an outsized cost on the authorities. As a complete example, flattening someone's tires can take a few seconds, but filling them back up can take twenty minutes. Be creative. Wear them down. Talk to trustworthy confidants and brainstorm ideas. Make the govs life a pain in the ass.
Yeah, that would make me play minecraft in real life.
I LOVE pvp.
So how’s that trucker’s strike going?
From what I saw on the ground Toll's customers broke it with scab labour.
And here comes location spoofing, roaring into the mainstream.
The only thing I can think of is people using big pictures of other places like on Peewee's Playhouse. "Oi, why are you by the Eiffel Tower?!"
I look forward to Australia returning to its aboriginal state after their society collapses.
They have to go through the Thunderdome phase first.
Let it belong exclusively to marsupials once again.
The right move is to always make them check on you, right?
The problem is that we don't have liberty in our constitution - and the only liberties which we have are granted by politicians. And what they grant (like freedom of speech, self, property, firearm ownerships) they can also take away. We have terrible defamation laws which make criticism of public figures into long legal fights and expensive settlements. The same sort of criticism which in the USA would be tolerated as fair.
The British had huge influence over the Australian constitution, and things have worked out as they have entirely by design.
I don't think having it in your constitution would have necessarily prevented this mess. Even in the US we get old farts applying creative interpretations to our constitution that suit their desires, or even occasionally violating it because they know how many years it will take before the justice system can correct a violation.
Like all written law, it's not written to protect the citizenry, it's written to protect the elites. Just, in the case of liberty, it's that not agreeing to back off and give us some freedom means we will perform very naughty actions that I may not legally describe on clearnet. The nature of liberty is steeped in violence, and aussie elites might get a unique chance to learn this if the citizenry discards the notion that it must be gifted from above. In other words: granting liberty in a formal document primarily serves as a boundary for politicians so they don't end up being violently overthrown by organic responses to tyranny.
What about the people who don't have phones or have flip phones? What if your phone is off? And I'm assuming GPS needs to be on for this as well.
Though if Australians had balls I could see having a lot of fun with this. Just not do it everytime even if you're home so the cops have to respond and be like "oh, left my in the other room," "was on a call when you texted me," "sorry was having a nap." See how many times the cops will actually show up.
Some people see no problem in living like cattle.
Liberty and Australia shan't ever be in the same sentence again. Hence forth they are the DPRA.
we need the apk's to these apps, hehe
Unfortunately you need a gun licence to buy ammo - and can only buy ammo for the class of firearm/s which are licenced.
Unless you 3D print ammo.
I'm partial to the FGC9, but I also have a copy of P.A. Luty's masterwork handy.