Keep living your life however you want to. If you lean in to it that can solidify said stereotype, if you lean away from it people can see the opportunity to bully you further with it. Grey rocking the stereotype with simple disinterested answers will lessen it’s hold over you. Like the other person said, if you’re assumed to be a mobster, saying things like “yeah people have been making that joke all my life now”, “ohh original havne’t heard that before”, “sure, watch out or I’ll get the boys onto you.” Passively engage with it giving it as little energy as possible and people will usually match that. If someone thinks they’re hit comedy gold with your stereotype ask if they’ll ever have any new material or are they planning on using the same tired joke through your entire relationship?

I’ve never had luck dating, I seemed to attract messy alcoholic women where I could tell why they were single. Not that I’m without fault as a person, but that’s who I met with online dating in my 30s.

I’ve had heaps of luck getting together with women I’ve known for a year+ through hobbies and interest groups where we got to spend time together getting to know each other without the pressures of judging each other as a pre-partner.

I prefer labour work to office work, so no.

I reckon Australia should cancel all these expensive military hardware deals with USA. They’re no longer a reliable participant in the contract. Write off whatever money has been paid as grift and be done with it.

I got banned for suggesting Americans arm themselves. Reddit is complicit.

Mahayanan Buddhism absolutely has pedo issues that are handled in similar ways as in other major religions. The teachings may be noble but the teachers not necessarily so.

Edit: That said the Dalai Lama is an incredibly public and monitored person wherever he travels. Any references about him in the Epstein files would be able to be checked against where he was in the world at that time.

$400 little dog. +$1000/yr upkeep.

G’Day mate. I’d leave. With the student visa thing people are talking about, if you can get a few years study elsewhere, by that time the USA will have slipped so far down the toilet that asylum might have become a more legitimate option.

G’day from +40C.

House removals. 17hr day. 37 degrees celcius. Moved two three bedroom houses.

Used to load shipping containers in the Aussie sun but we’d start early. 32 ton in 25kg bags, 3x week.

Worked as security at a Serbian nightclub. It was not good. Violent, capable coked up Serbs.