Jake B

Underrated factor in why English-speaking countries have especially bad housing crises is their common law systems (adversarial and litigious) vs judge-led civil law systems elsewhere. Makes Anglo planning/permitting systems especially vulnerable to NIMBYs and other objections.

I count about TWENTY PUNCHES to the SIDE OF THE HEAD and KIDNEY. The man on the ground could easily die from a ruptured kidney, spleen, or brain injury. There needs to be an immediate enquiry. Were the police instructed to be this violent? It looks like it. #Auspol #Auslaw

"He can scrub his hands all he wants, he will not get the blood out.... this has happened because the Premier has created this environment." Timothy Roberts from the NSW Council of Civil Liberties blames @ChrisMinnsMP for the violence at the Sydney protests. #HerzogVisit

@SenatorWong Where’s your statement on the silencing of protesters in Australia ?

The Australian Government is gravely concerned by the sentences handed down to Jimmy Lai and his co-defendants in Hong Kong today.  Our thoughts are with their family members and supporters at this difficult time. Full statement: foreignminister.gov.au/minister/penny…

The Australian government - which rammed through a law in 24 hours that could ban groups and jail people for accusing Israel of genocide - said this today about Jimmy Lai: "The prosecution of Mr Lai and his co-defendants has had a chilling effect on free speech in Hong Kong."

3/ congratulations Chris Minns. You’ve been itching for a protest confrontation and you finally got one. Your govt could’ve allowed a march through the CBD as happened in Brisbane. But your anti-democratic impulses proved too irresistible. You’re an utter disgrace

What the hell is happening in this country right now? Snipers on rooftops in Sydney. Massive police deployments. Protests shut down. And in Queensland, up to two years in jail for saying “from the river to the sea.” Aussies are being silenced to appease Israel. It's madness. 👇🏼

Some social cohesioning from NSW Police.

The weekly protests against genocide in the city had not a hint of violence for over a year. Add 3000 cops and one Israeli war criminal and look what happens. Make no mistake. @ChrisMinnsMP is 100% to blame for today.

Jon Kudelka drew this in 2004 and it's more relevant than ever. We're all poorer for the loss

@homegymcoop Meanwhile where I live this is an illegal weapon for even an adult to posses 😭

My 5-year-old won a 14” stainless steel machete in his Pinewood Derby. Not kidding. I love this country.

@Etanarachel Seems common now for people to treat legal consent as identical to a normative sexual ideal/ethics

I feel like people really need to grasp that when it comes to sex consent mostly exists to determine whether something's legal or not. It doesn't mean you have to feel good about it or approve of it, it just means it's not a crime.

Is 500 years not long enough for it to be authentic culture ?

When historians write the chronicle of this scoundrel time (not in the Washington Post, obviously) they will point to what Bezos did for Melania while gutting his own newspaper as the most glaring symptom of cultural collapse in a democracy hanging on to truth and knowledge by the barest of threads.

Is Pat Rafter short on cash ?

@st_louis_stan @clairlemon I’m an Australian who knows nothing about American law enforcement, but if this video is an accurate example of “American law enforcement protocol” you guys have shitty protocols. Aren’t you supposed to be the land of the free?

@clairlemon I like a lot of your work but your lack of understanding of American law enforcement protocol is frankly embarrassing, and it's undignified the way you're doubling down over and over instead of gracefully bowing out of the conversation, just stop

The thing that strikes me is that I’ve never seen a cop behave like this—ever. If a man was aggressively circling my car while filming I doubt I’d get out of my car either. Professional law enforcement doesn’t do this.

@BGminimom @ToddSullivan @davidcarr333 We have the opposite law in Australia, they can talk an issue for which medicine is available, but they can’t name the medication

@ToddSullivan @davidcarr333 Where do you live? In Canada they can only name the medication. They can't say what the medication is for.

The government won’t allow advertisements for cigarettes and you can barely promote alcohol. Why the hell can I not watch five minutes of a sports event without being inundated with gambling ads. This is killing our society. Destroying young men. Time to reframe this.

@pclafferty @DavidAFrench Your comment to him for a polite statement of anger at a lengthy betrayal is utter hypocrisy

@DavidAFrench Why did you feel it necessary to say anything?

Horrible. I’m sad as well, but I think we should also be angry. For eight years the man was in an active adulterous relationship while engaging in ministry. Inexcusable.

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram. 100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show. I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell. You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures. Here is the actual science of what you are watching: 1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk. 2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time. 3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate. 4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared. 5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed. Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit. They didn't die because of Instagram. They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.