You are correct except for calling the white colonizers “settlers”.

Settlers in this context typically means immigrants who came over after Australia became a British colony. Usually non-white but there are plenty of Scottish and Irish families who are settlers because of the whole British enslaving them part.

I think the term you’re looking for is covert racism.

I’m Canadian and yeah… Even IRL a lot of people refuse to admit it.

I’ve been forced to educate people about the Chinese Head Tax and the 2 very distinct Chinese Exclusion Acts and how that on top of Yellow Peril still affects Chinese disapora today in government regulations including immigration and social programs, which is super traumatic as a Hong Kong diaspora who is also trans, queer, female-bodied, and neurodivergent.

I’m not sure why you’re confused because the first sentence of the article literally says:

Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in the country’s constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Which sums up why they were trying to make this happen, which also sounds like they don’t have an official group of Indigenous peoples advising the government on anything that is an Indigenous issue, which is super bad.

Also, from the article:

Opposition to the voice seized on this ambiguity, adopting a campaign slogan of “if you don’t know, vote no”.

Or the Japanese army during WWII.

Not even a he 🤣

And actually, my friends do fulfill 70% of my emotional needs and I’m pretty good at fulfilling my own needs as well. I have zero desire for a romantic relationship or connection at this point in my life.

Cute. I’m not the one who needs to date someone to be happy.

I hate that evolutionary part of me that cares about having sex/a mate so much that I actually allow myself to become depressed based on the goddamn preferences of one person.

Sounds like you don’t have friends and you expect your partner to be your only source of emotional support. You should fix that before you try to be in a romantic relationship.

My Lupe had been going strong and nearly all the parts are serviceable by the end user. It is cordless with a battery though.

I used to go over to my friends and they would feed me. They weren’t much better off than me but they could afford to get some extra ramen and KD.

A very short one. It’s technically open to everyone now!

What is Beeper/Matrix? Although I’m from the golden age of Trillian/MirandaIM 😆

Look into Beeper! It just got RCS support in its last update. Not sure if they plan on supporting Teams though.

If you’re tech savvy though, look into setting up your own Matrix server for a Teams bridge.

I have. The one time I got COVID, it felt like 40-50C all week plus humidity, I was masking with an N95 the whole time when I was around people, but because I was working an outdoor music festival, 95% of the people I was around wasn’t.

I especially could barely get out of bed, had to use my inhaler about 5-10 times a day cuz it kept triggering asthma attacks, my limbs hurt so fucking much, I was nauseous and light-headed and had insane brain fog. It got better after 2 weeks but I was only really ok for about 4 hours a day and could only be vertical for about 2 or I would get really sick.

I had long COVID for about 2-3 months after that, which included severe brain fog, struggling to breathe, and easily got tired all the time.

I also get COVID-like symptoms when I get the vaccine for 2 weeks all 3 times I got it.

I really wish people would understand that masking is to protect other people by not spreading it to them, not yourself from getting sick.

I mean with the cost of gas nowadays, it’ll end up the same /s