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Tenderizer

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  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • Officially Steam is not included but they reserve the right to add it back. https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

    As for gmail, I can't find a clear answer or even anyone who's asked the question. The whole account deletion thing is stupid, they should just remove all the safety consequences of having an account (limiting interaction, hiding public profiles, etc). Actually they should just make me e-safety commissioner, because I'd do a far better job.

  • Australia’s under-16s social media ban is weeks away. How will it work – and how can I appeal if I’m wrongly banned?

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  • I'm already fully prepared for all my social media accounts to be deleted (because there's no way in hell I'm giving google my ID).

    If they go after Steam or my email then I'd be in trouble, but I think those'll be fine.

  • Liberal Party formally abandons net zero by 2050 climate target

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  • Actual zero is impossible. "Actual net zero" is what we should aim for (climate accounting with offsets can get a bit freaky)

  • What are “rusted-on” Labor voters thinking ?

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  • This post misses another reason for voting being rusted-on Labor. The alternatives are more interested in virtue signalling than actually forming and keeping government. Labor have delivered meaningful results to Australians, in some areas they've not delivered but they've lost every election where they promised solutions to those issues.

    Minor parties have historically blocked forward progress. The ETS, the HAFF, the logging ban in Tasmania, etc. Labor has historically delivered forward progress (Renewables, Superannuation, etc).

  • Should Newcastle to Sydney bullet train really be first link built of Melbourne to Brisbane route?

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  • The first leg should be short and intrastate. The first step is building any high speed rail at all.

    The most important thing is to keep building. Once you stop the knowledge is gone.

  • At least three nations 'willing to kill' on Australian soil, spy chief says

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  • It's way more than three ... was my first thought, but I'm starting to rethink that. I don't think China would go quite that far, and once China's out a lot of other countries seem unlikely.

    India's definitely one. America two. Russia or Israel are three.

    I don't buy the allegations against Iran, I don't think North Korea's interest extends all the way here, and Myanmar's got bigger concerns.

  • In China's dangerous interceptions, see the breakdown of peaceful world order -- [Opinion]

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  • Reminder that ASPI gets money from the US government and US weapons companies.

    They say they're independent, but regardless I doubt a think tank that believes in peace would receive such funding.

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • I was going to comment on how Gillard's soullessness and treachery made the headline believable, but then I remembered Abbott eating the raw onion and I couldn't pass up the chance.

    EDIT: I just went to double check and the first autocomplete on "Tony Abbott" was "Tony Abbott Onion".

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • That was Abbott, not Gillard.

  • New BoM website has rolled out

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  • (inb4 irrelevant anecdote about yourself)

  • Julia Gillard endorses Donald Trump

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  • Gillard also support Israel.

    She was really an awful prime minister. Her legacy has basically been entirely repealed because she sucks at politics and put her own ambition above moving the country forward.

  • Health funding is one of our trickiest issues – here’s a politically sweet fix

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  • It's not that simple. The gas companies are powerful.

  • Barnaby Joyce in advanced talks with Pauline Hanson to join One Nation

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  • This is obvious rot, preferential and compulsory voting allows votes to go to smaller parties, not the other way round. Just a random jab at one of the more democratic features of our system.

    Compulsory voting means elections are actually won by winning over the center. UK and US centrist politicians like to believe their countries work that way, but in Austraila it actually does.

    As for preferential voting ... the main reason Reform is on track for a majority is because of vote splitting between all the other parties. It's unlikely reform could win in a 1:1 contest against a half-way competent opposition. In the case of the US the Republicans rose to power because people hated both options and with preferential voting the normal people could've been persuaded to turn up.

  • Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’

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  • And it's working far better than the social media ban ever could.

    It doesn't solve the issue entirely, but rather than get it over the line all the things the e-Karen is doing will take us in the opposite direction.

  • Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’

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  • You don't need to provide your ID documents, but you do need to provide your identity. I was being hyperbolic but technically what I said was still correct. I've already installed Freetube just in case my account gets deleted.

  • Two years after school phone bans were implemented in Australia, what’s changed? ‘The impacts were clear’

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  • Do this, instead of banning YouTube subscriptions and forcing me to rely on the algorithmic feed (I'm over 18, just don't want to give google my ID).

    Do this, instead of making Steam delete my library of thousands of dollars of games (allegedly).

    Do this, instead of banning accounts on a bunch of social media apps but NOT TELLING US WHICH APPS WILL BE BANNED.

    In short, it's only tangentially related but I wanted to vent about the e-karen.

  • University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat

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  • Remind everyone you can that AI detectors don't work. It does a lot of harm that people think they do, but they fundamentally can't work because of Goodhart's Law.

  • Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians

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  • After the last election the government needed to form a coalition with libertarian and right-wing populist parties.

  • Grattan on Friday: believe it or not, there would be a case for more federal politicians

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  • I don't think we should give the nutters the balance of power in both the upper and lower house. Just look at New Zealand.