There are a few roadblocks here:
– presidential immunity;
– statute of limitations;
– no crimes.

there's a problem somewhere in this space, but I really don't think it's in the moralization of food projected on some vague "ultra processed vs organic" spectrum

I was a little uncomfortable as to where this metaphor was going…

Simple maths shows that expanding parliament does not give Labor an advantage. The Coalition doesn’t actually believe this, it’s a lie they are spreading for propaganda purposes.

The source link to ATO shows this graph to be bullshit. It does not show “500 wealthiest people”; it shows top 500 *groups*, mainly companies, that employ a total of over 670,000 people. Also it shows gross income (revenue), not taxable net income.

But it will surely end the current approach (LLMs etc). Who is going to want to or be able to fund the giant data centres after the bubble bursts?

Penguin, Tasmania?

I would have less offended if they just gone with “Celsius 233”.

In case it isn’t obvious “values rooted in blood” means you should have the right genes. And they are not talking about DNA testing. Having the right “blood” is based on your appearance or perceived background, i.e., this is just racism, exactly the same as when the Nazis used the same language.

Completely non-functional on my mobile. It seems the Bureau can’t make a website that complies with basic web standards.

In the absence of relative stats I went looking for absolute stats. In Australia to date there have been 6 cases of battery thermal runaway of a parked EV. In 4 cases the cause was an external fire. The other 2 cases are still under investigation. So risk of spontaneous fire seems to be aprox. zero.

Also, I’d like to know what the relative stats are for a *parked* car. Because I am much more scared of a fire in my garage than anywhere else!

And not necessarily that common. My assumption is that all parts of constructing the LHC required highly skilled people, including the concreting!

Agreed, both points.

Maybe. But the process of deciding what’s in scope is going so slowly that it doesn’t look like everything will be included by the nominal start date in December.

There is a draft list by the E-safety Commissioner showing sites they consider could be in scope of the under-16 ban. The latest version I saw didn’t include BlueSky. Presumably they think not enough Australian children use Bluesky for it to be prioritised (yet).

I’ve played it through a couple of times now. After each CD I put it back into a different slot in the sleeve, to honour the “no particular order” diktat.

This hype seems related to bogus software development metrics like “coding 80% complete” which had already been debunked in the 1970s by people like Fred Brooks of “Mythical Man-Month” fame (“80% coding complete” might mean you are 10% of the way to a working product).