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- Comment on Do you know the answer? 20 hours ago:
It was only the next day that I returned to this post realising that “this question” isn’t even defined.
- Comment on The hills are alive with the sound of music! 🎶🎵 3 days ago:
No different to most pop music.
- Comment on Father Whose Son Was Shot by Cincinnati Police Hits Deputy With Car, Killing Him 3 days ago:
The gun was drawn. Why would a cop wait for the kid to take the first shot?
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 days ago:
Not all tree species destroy sidewalks.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 3 days ago:
In Australian temperate climate areas we have the brush box whose roots do not cause these problems. Unfortunately evergreen, casting shade in winter.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives | MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs 3 days ago:
Ah yes, Musk called it a weakness.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok AI Has a Problem: It’s Too Accurate for Conservatives | MAGA folks can't believe their preferred chatbot won't reaffirm all their beliefs 4 days ago:
The Left appropriate the term “woke” from black jive talk off 90 years ago. That’s a smug term and it definitely is a major gripe by MAGA against the Left.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
I was asking about Senate but it is good to know about Reps too. Mind you, it isn’t hard to fill all the boxes on that tiny ballot.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
Like the last missing?
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
You champion! That makes sense. Sorry, I didn’t think the video would backtrack to correct their initial simplifiction.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
If an Independent senate candidate (eg Liz) reaches a quota after counting of first preferences and she is 129 votes in excess. Which 129 ballots get preferences distributed?
Not explained in this video.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
Your faith in bureaucracy being sensible was correct…
this time.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
Thanks a lot. I am just one insignificant vote but it has bothered me disproportionately all afternoon.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
Although my intention was clear I don’t think my vote will count. This is what the AEC says when I practice, numbering only 5 boxes. Image
And in the section on “vote saving provisions” it says:
For Senate ballot papers the requirement for a formal vote is that when voting above the line, at least the numbers 1 to 6 shall be marked in the squares on the ballot paper (see subsection 239(2)).
For voting below the line, the requirement is that at least the numbers 1 to 12 are marked in the squares printed on the ballot paper (see subsection 239(1)). However, there is a vote savings measure that can operate where only one square is marked above the line (see section 269), or where voting below the line, at least six squares have been marked 1 to 6 using consecutive numbers (see section 268A).
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
I stupidly only numbered 5 instead of 6 above the line in the Senate. Is my vote counted?
Even if I numbered 6, I risked exhausting my vote since I did not number Lab or Lib anywhere. One really should number as many as possible.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
I disagree 😜
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
I knew I would lure you in with the Witch Party link 🧹
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 5 days ago:
An email or SMS seeking to influence your vote or opinion is rarely covered by these rules – they do not need your consent to send it, and do not need to include an unsubscribe.
One friend was getting multiple spams on his phone each day from Clive (from different numbers) with no way to legally stop it.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 6 days ago:
People here probably don’t need the warning but the Trumpet of Patriot Image are disingenuous.
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🗳️ Saturday 3 May 2025 6 days ago:
-https://www.buildaballot.org.au/ -https://votecompass.abc.net.au
- Comment on Elon Musk's X lost 11 million users in the EU over the past 5 months 6 days ago:
Twitter would ban such Tweets.
- Comment on Data hoarding is more important than ever 1 week ago:
This week I learned that in NSW, Australia, historical electoral rolls have not been kept since 2008.
Before that they were kept microfische and you can still access those physical records but only in the national capital’s library in Canberra.
So even though it is easier now to archive (at about 10Gig per year) they have stopped.
- Comment on Bluesky may soon add blue check verification | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
Automation can verify that realdomain.com has much higher traffic/status/web-presence/google-ranking than raeldomain.com
- Comment on Tesla Stock Price Reaches 'Death Cross' Status 3 weeks ago:
By coincidence it recently bottomed out at exactlyv that same level as just before the Trump election.
Then we had last week’s 26.7% bump for the not quite accurate tariff 90 day suspension.
It dropped a little when Trump said not all tariffs will be suspended (most will stay at 10%) and now has stayed steady ever since.
This article is stupid.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 4 weeks ago:
Can you please explain? Is that like the amp prefix or more sinister?
- Comment on Tesla Stock Is Plunging Again. It Could Drop for a Ninth Straight Week. 4 weeks ago:
Weeks later, the quiet part has been said aloud.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 4 weeks ago:
She/it is the only spammer I have encountered here. Would have thought it would be easy to block because each time is almost an identical message.
- Comment on Gen Z's safe space - Sick of Musk and Zuckerberg, Gen Zers are flocking to Tumblr 4 weeks ago:
I get spammed on Lemmy each week by “Nicole the Fediverse chic from Poland”. Each time from a different instance.
I hope she isn’t the start of the end.
- Comment on Trump Accused of Using ChatGPT to Create Tariff Plan After AI Leads Users to Same Formula: 'So AI is Running the Country' 4 weeks ago:
You don’t need Chat GPT for that simple algorithm. The prompt is the algorithm. Seems to me the journalist sexed up the story by shoe-horning an AI reference into it.
- Comment on The Trouble With TikTok Is Getting Old 4 weeks ago:
Fair call.
