Yes, thank you. Withdrawing their labour is principled action, and in doing so writers are not encouraging people to attend / participate as though all is fine.

Great to hear. Spotlight needs to be turned into the dark corners.

Australia needs more 16 y.o. sole traders?

But this is a bit apples and oranges - Nats run LH candidates in regional seats they think they can win, Greens run in large number of LH seats they are far from winning. Nats also have a coalition partner they don’t run against in many places. V different strategies produce v different results.

So good as always. Thank you for plumbing the depths of the internet and social media so humble voters can can get their number order just right.

Doesn’t it incentivize reducing tax deductions for people who would generally be under $1k in deductions by removing the small tax incentive to be a union member, donate to charity…

I hope this means what I think it means

It’s an attitude of “if the policy is racist but they aren’t racist *in their hearts* then they’re not racist” that really misses the point. Intent doesn’t trump everything. Pragmatic exploitation of racism is still racist.

I don’t understand how Musk can be able to manage his own CoI (or however Trump waved the issues away) when he nominally should be making decisions on govt efficiencies that could harm his businesses - surely SpaceX shareholders and board shouldn’t be ok with him in that role?

Respectfully, Miami is a beachfront suburb with high rise buildings on the Gold Coast of Qld, Australia. This is an article in the Guardian Australia. I clicked the link because I thought it was about the Gold Coast.

So Miami, Florida, not Miami, Qld

Remember when ordinary people got financially ruined for sharing some mp3s in the late 90s?

Like absolutely devastated because they couldn't pay in a million years?

I think the AI companies have money.