The secret to success is five therapy sessions a day, the proof is Adele
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What's happening in (The) Oz:
🤑 Crypto bro Sam Bankman-Fried has been found and arrested
💰 The world's richest person is not a bloke who owns a bird app or online shopping empire, is also not American
🧘🏻♀️ Adele did more therapy that I did actual work this year
💥 The Covid "boom" is over, we're now feeling sick and stingy
🇳🇿 Jacinda Ardern swore, apologises after being 'caught'
🎾 Nick Kyrgios swore, isn't sorry
🗣 Elon Musk booed for 10-minutes, proving Twitter is, in fact, real life
🎂 Happy birthday Taylor Swift, you raging Sag
Hello. It's Wednesday,
Allegedly.
Everyone is feral. 'Tis the season after all. This year - 2022 - could offend a bin fire.
Even New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern is over it.
Granted she is under more pressure than my shapewear at a Pizza Hut buffet when it comes to political issues at home, like a looming election and many contentious policies like a proposed methane gas tax.But, she rarely makes a blunder when it comes to her "conduct" like she did in the chamber recently when she called the minor opposition party leader an "arrogant prick".
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Ardern has since apologised for the observation she made during NZ question time.
David Seymour - who is the the leader of the Libertarian Act party - asked Ardern if she could "give an example of her making a mistake, apologising for it properly, and fixing it", specifically in relation to the pandemic.
Responding to the question, she acknowledged that "managed isolation" had been difficult on the public, but she stood by the work the government had done over the past term in office.
After ending her reply, Ardern sat down next to her deputy, Grant Robertson, and quietly said “...such an arrogant prick”.
Ardern then texted Seymour later to say sorry.
“Some days I am a useless Maori, others days I am an arrogant prick," Seymour said outside parliament.
“The apology we are really looking for is for New Zealanders worried about rising prices and ram raids.”
“[She] said ‘I apologise, it’s not something I should have said and she said, as my mum would say, if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say it’.
“I agree with the sentiment and it is all good as far as I am concerned. I just said, thank you and I hope you have a very merry Christmas. At the end of the day, it’s not the end of the world.”
Queen of the court and the Court Jester
Despite retiring earlier this year, Ash Barty has been named the best Australian tennis player for 2022.
Barty may have played her last competitive tennis match in January winning the Australian Open, but the three-time grand slam winner was crowned Australia’s best...again taking out the coveted Newcombe Medal - the tennis version of the Oscar for Best Picture.
It was widely considered to be a tight contest between Barty and Nick Kyrgios for the prize, but the retired 26-year-old Queenslander was handed her fifth win.
Kyrgios, who made the final of Wimbledon in singles and claimed the Australian Open doubles crown, handled it as you'd expect.
Taking to Instagram to have a whinge.
“No respect at all. I don’t give a f...,” he wrote.
Elon Musk started his week as the world's second richest person
See? We're not having that much of a terrible time of it when old mate Musk is doing it tougher than most. He can barely afford to put artisan sourdough bread made my monks on his marble dining room table anymore.
Tesla’s shares fell by about 4% when the US markets opened this week after "a weekend of erratic tweeting by its CEO [Musk]" according to Forbes.
Due to all this, the world's richest person is not American, not a tech bro and not named Elon or Jeff, anymore as Musk has lost more than $1 billion in the past 48-hours.
Which has seen him slip to second place on the world's rich list rankings where the bloke born with a silver spoon in his mouth will finish the year with silver.
"Tesla shares fell by 4% Monday morning, shaving nearly $USD5 billion off of the fortune of CEO Elon Musk as of 10:30 a.m. ET. That was enough to knock Musk back to the number two spot on Forbes’ list of the world’s richest people, trailing Bernard Arnault of French luxury conglomerate LVMH, worth $USD186 billion. Musk was worth $USD184 billion," authors of the storied rich list Forbes reported.
Style always trumps sass Mr Musk.
Meanwhile his social stock is tanking too.
He was booed for 10 minutes on stage when appearing alongside Dave Chapelle and Chris Rock for a comedy gig.
Turns out Twitter can, in fact, be real life. https://t.co/FFpups1yEy pic.twitter.com/41jcZgdDR4
— Steven Goffman (@SteveGoffman) December 12, 2022
At the end of the show, Chappelle was talking about the need to get along and communicate with people with different viewpoints and perspectives.
He invited Musk onstage.
The billionaire obliged, wearing an “I Love Twitter” T-shirt (of course).
Loud boos filled the arena – with a sprinkling of cheers, too.
Chappelle joked to Musk: “Sounds like some of those people you fired.”
As the boos continued to ring out, the comic pointed out that, “All you people booing, and I’m just pointing out the obvious - are in terrible seats.”
The Karma bus is here
FTX founder and crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried has been arrested and is being held in custody in - get this - the Bahamas.
The US is "likely to request his extradition" following the unspecified charges, according to a statement issued by Bahamian' Attorney General Ryan Pinder on Tuesday.
“The Bahamas and the United States have a shared interest in holding accountable all individuals associated with FTX who may have betrayed the public trust and broken the law," Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis said in a statement.
— db (@tier10k) December 12, 2022
"While the United States is pursuing criminal charges against SBF individually, The Bahamas will continue its own regulatory and criminal investigations into the collapse of FTX, with the continued cooperation of its law enforcement and regulatory partners in the United States and elsewhere.”
Bankman-Fried was due to testify before the US' House Financial Services Committee on Wednesday, amid claims US federal prosecutors are building a fraud case against the former CEO.
The Australian's technology editor David Swan reported recently that an estimated 30,000 Australian customers and creditors are owed money after FTX's spectacularly chaotic collapse.
The company employed five people in Australia and had a board of three including Bankman-Fried.
He was worth a rumoured $47 billion before it went pear shaped.
Bankman-Fried was a prominent personality in Washington too. He also donated millions of dollars toward mostly left-leaning political causes and Democratic political campaigns.
FTX grew to become the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world.
It all unraveled in a matter of hours leaving millions out of pocket of millions.
They should have listened to Adele instead
Bros will do literally go broke before going to therapy. Not Adele. She's on top of the world, the charts and her finances, thanks to the fact she sought professional help when her marriage ended in 2019.
Not just some help, a lot of assistance was required to get her mental health back on track again.
During one of her Weekends with Adele concerts, the 15-time Grammy winner told the audience in Vegas she’s been seeing a therapist again.
“I started having therapy again because I went a few years without. I needed to start,” she said in between sets last weekend. She then shared just how frequent her sessions used to be, especially during her separation from her ex-husband Simon Konecki.
“Before, obviously, when I was going through my divorce, I was basically doing five therapy sessions a day,” she added with a laugh.
“I stopped holding myself accountable for my own behaviour and the things I would say,” she continued, before explaining that her reason for seeking professional help now is completely different.
“But now I am doing it because I just want to make sure I'm topping myself up every week to make sure I can give you everything.
“My whole therapy session this week was really interesting. It was about these shows,” she began. “I always get so emotional. I love making music, but there is something about performing live that actually terrifies me and fills me with dread.”
“That is why I am not a big touring artist. I did it last time to prove I could do it,” Adele said, though she was also quick to add, “But this experience of being in a room this size, I think I might be a live artist for the rest of my life.”
🥹🥹@adele you’re our therapy 🫶🼠pic.twitter.com/BJPYmiIqBe
— dcdaydreamers-103 days we do it allll agaain! ✨ðŸªâœ¨ (@dcdaydreamers) December 10, 2022
Covid is over(ish), now we're sick but also poorer
A bunch of consumer report cards were published on Tuesday and essentially shows our collective mood and sentiment when it comes to our personal finances is as bleak as The Bell Jar.
Despite not many of us not knowing what inflation was at the start of the year, it's now one of our biggest worries.
According to the Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer confidence index this month the "intense pessimism" about mortgages and the state of the economy has eased, but the mood remains "grim", as the sentiment gauge recovered from recessionary levels but remained "deeply negative" and comparable with the lows experienced during the Covid peaks and the GFC.
We're also pretty skeptical about politicians and the like can sort the economic mess out.
Canstar's Consumer Pulse Report 2022, also released on Tuesday, found 44% of people lack confidence that authorities can slow the surge in living costs, with women more pessimistic than men, and 33% are stressed about their finances.
It also found consumer concerns over everyday household costs have surged, and groceries are the biggest pain point for nearly one in five, followed by rent, energy, mortgage and fuel costs.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going back to bed. Wake me up on Taylor Swift's birthday...next year.
Thanks for all the beautiful wishes today!! I spent my 33rd birthday in the studio of course 😠Wouldn’t have it any other way. Love you! pic.twitter.com/axPfJT0d9A
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) December 13, 2022
Or until the world stops acting like her latest film clip.
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