I got as far as "Gatorade bottles labelled in Mandarin" in the summary to know that it's shotty journalism lmao

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”.

I know the Western world still isn't into it, but kids should be allowed to wear masks if they're sick or trying to prevent illness. Like they do in Asian countries.

Especially by the point they're in high school.

Not isolated at all. Black kids (especially girls) get targeted all the time. It's usually ignored or doesn't make the news.

Or the Japanese army during WWII.

Really? My Google Sheets has so many formulas and conditional formatting. There's so much I can't do in Excel that I can do in Sheets :/

Also, adding checkboxes in Excel is a pain lol. They made it so difficult.

Society has moved on to attacking Trans and non-binary people, gays included in this ignorant lot (obviously not all gays).

People gonna hate what they don't understand or if something makes them uncomfortable.

Happens all the time IRL to me. I use both he and she pronouns and ignorant people always ask why bother just pick one. Well, I did, they're my PERSONAL pronouns and I chose both these.

I prefer Google Sheets over Excel but cannot tell you why.

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.

Unless they're Black drivers who don't even have to be speeding.

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 😆