A Caffeine Hit to Your Hip Pocket
Australia's coffee culture is set to experience a massive price hike. Are other sectors set to follow?
We have so many unnecessary rules and regulations because we've abandoned the concepts of personal responsibility and using common sense.
It's often not wise to admit to breaking the law - even well after the fact - but some offences are worth the risk.
The dystopian COVID nightmare is a case in point. I saw breaking the insane and illogical rules as a test of sanity and every act of deceiving authorities as a moral crime.
At that time, a strong group shared hacks and hints on how to function without taking an experimental poison.
I discussed it with my Spanish tutor this morning, which brought back so many memories about how our politicians and health experts failed us and paid no penalty for the lives destroyed.
I still lament how compliant and naive so many were in the face of such tyranny and it made me think the traditional Aussie disdain for authority was mostly lost.
However, this morning, there was a tiny glimmer of hope.
It took the form of dozens of dogs unleashed on a public beach.
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