Yeah, that is true. There seems to be a lot of cases in this country where the government, or a government agency, makes some terrible decision, and the, like, 80%+ of this country who are NPCs then fall over themselves to justify it... :-/
Like, preventing people from seeing dying family members, which Palace-Chook obviously wants to make worse. Or preventing people from travelling interstate for a funeral, which happened to a friend of mine, even before poison jabs...
Or, and this is random, but my family is involved, and this is essentially my field, so...
Refusing to build the new Antarctic icebreaker in Australia (money!!!, and "besides, we don't want Australians to have SKILLED manufacturing jobs, anymore!"), which then resulted in the piece of shit new boat with its woke name being delayed by like two years. Never mind the fact that it is almost certainly full of Chinese spy tech, which will probably fuck us over in the future. Big, ugly floating blob that it is...
Instead of doing the rational thing, and extending the life of the existing, perfectly adequate, Australian-built ship, which everyone in my state loved, by one single season, they sold it off to the Middle East EARLY, ripped all of its groundbreaking scientific equipment out, and hired in some shitty European one, as a stopgap, to fill that season...
And then guess what? The European ship had so many issues that they couldn't use it, meaning it just sat there for six+ months, and they missed out on a whole other season of Antarctic research. Now that the new "woke ship" has arrived, it STILL isn't ready to go down there, either, because they have to retrain the entire crew, after sacking the last lot.
All because idiots, including a bunch of NPCs I know personally, refused to get the old ship (Aurora Australis 1) "re-surveyed". Because politics and money. It's an enormous clusterfuck, and yet I'm not allowed to question it, because the media thinks it is "just wonderful", and it means more $$$$ for the Antarctic flight service (because they can't use the ship, and have to get supplies in there somehow, right??!), with which my family is involved...
All fairly niche, I know, but just pointing out that this country does incredibly stupid shit all the time, which the NPCs bloody LOVE to justify...
Yeah, that is true. There seems to be a lot of cases in this country where the government, or a government agency, makes some terrible decision, and the, like, 80%+ of this country who are NPCs then fall over themselves to justify it... :-/
Like, preventing people from seeing dying family members, which Palace-Chook obviously wants to make worse. Or preventing people from travelling interstate for a funeral, which happened to a friend of mine, even before poison jabs...
Or, and this is random, but my family is involved, and this is essentially my field, so... Refusing to build the new Antarctic icebreaker in Australia (money!!!, and "besides, we don't want Australians to have SKILLED manufacturing jobs, anymore!"), which then resulted in the piece of shit new boat with its woke name being delayed by like two years. Never mind the fact that it is almost certainly full of Chinese spy tech, which will probably fuck us over in the future. Big, ugly floating blob that it is...
Instead of doing the rational thing, and extending the life of the existing, perfectly adequate, Australian-built ship, which everyone in my state loved, by one single season, they sold it off to the Middle East EARLY, ripped all of its groundbreaking scientific equipment out, and hired in some shitty European one, as a stopgap, to fill that season...
And then guess what? The European ship had so many issues that they couldn't use it, meaning it just sat there for six+ months, and they missed out on a whole other season of Antarctic research. Now that the new "woke ship" has arrived, it STILL isn't ready to go down there, either, because they have to retrain the entire crew, after sacking the last lot.
All because idiots, including a bunch of NPCs I know personally, refused to get the old ship (Aurora Australis 1) "re-surveyed". Because politics and money. It's an enormous clusterfuck, and yet I'm not allowed to question it, because the media thinks it is "just wonderful", and it means more $$$$ for the Antarctic flight service (because they can't use the ship, and have to get supplies in there somehow, right??!), with which my family is involved...
All fairly niche, I know, but just pointing out that this country does incredibly stupid shit all the time, which the NPCs bloody LOVE to justify...
/Endrant