Isn’t this really more of an inaptonym than an antonym?

The argument isn’t that they shouldn’t vote because they’re conservative. It’s that they shouldn’t vote because they literally won’t experience the long term consequences of their decisions.

My personal preference is to allow 16 year olds to vote without creating a maximum voting age, but if in some weird world the only way to allow 16 year olds to vote was to ban those over 80 from voting, I would support that in a heartbeat.

Does your area still use cash for bus fares? In 2025? Where I am it feels like we’re behind because only this year did they start letting you tap on with your debit card or phone. We’ve had transit cards since like 2007.

Honestly self checkout is the bare minimum for me these days. One of the two duopoly supermarkets in Australia rolled out “scan and go” where you can scan it with an app on your phone and pay on your phone and just walk out (with the occasional random inspection to deter theft) and it was such a huge improvement over even regular self checkout. I was gutted when they announced that option was being deprecated due to low uptake.

If we’re talking about Canberra, wait 'til you hear about Mike Hall. His killer didn’t face any punishment despite driving an unroadworthy vehicle and obviously not paying attention, to be able to not notice a cyclist in reflective clothing on a straight wide road. He was also probably speeding, but police used an outdated method of estimating speed which declared he wasn’t speeding.

I don’t know, but I can’t imagine it’s very large. Only things significant enough to be chains or similar have entries, and it’s one per chain not per node. Then each Wikidata entry might have a few to a few dozen akas at most. I’d be surprised if it’s more than a few dozen megabytes to download the entire globe’s data. Less if you only get your region.

Not sure how they found it. I don’t think they polished it up at all. I suspect the different condition is probably because of which side was face up and which was down. Not sure which though.

Yeah that’s a pretty good point. That’s for the discussion.

I certainly could do that. I don’t know that I’d want to do it if it goes against the community norms and expectations of OSM, though.

The captain is not Australian. “Mate” is First Mate, the 2nd in charge of the ship.

Larboard is the left side of the boat. These days it would be called port side, to make it easier to distinguish from the starboard (right).

In retrospect, I feel it would have been better to read these entries as they happened, rather than as the captain wrote them down. It would give us a much greater sense of the growing foreboding on the ship, I think, similar to the weirdness with Renfield’s pets.

The dates get weird here. All of this comes from within the newspaper clipping dated 8 August, but this part itself is a clipping of the Demeter’s captain’s log which was included in the newspaper clipping which was in turn included in the novel. I’m following the lead of Dracula Daily and including it on the date it was originally written (in-world), so the captain who wrote his log after he realised things were weird enough to need writing down, wrote all of the 6 July through 18 July entries on the 18th.

This isn’t a heel turn. This is Labor being typical Labor. If they had a heel turn it was back during the Hawke/Keating years.

has to stand up to scrutiny

But to what scrutiny, precisely? If a judge decides that certain specific problems with the evidence are inadmissible (including police misconduct and chain of custody issues), what other scrutiny could be given to the evidence?

Judges already have a lot of leeway over how they run trials even within the law, and we’re talking about a country that has removed even the pretence of rule of law in the past six months (more, if we go back to the Trump v United States ruling last year).

Just fyi, if cost is your concern, it costs more to give someone the death penalty than life in gaol.

Happy cake day!

This is assuming that everything you’ve just described is permitted into evidence.

But a strike can’t bring back in someone who has been eliminated. You can use your strikes to whittle away people who have a property likely to be bad for you, but you can’t use it to include people with a quality that would be good for you.

The jury will be told that they have to find according to the letter of the law, and they’ll almost certainly be screened by the prosecution during jury selection to avoid people who know nullification is a thing.

It’s certainly possible that it could occur regardless, but they’ll do everything they can to avoid it.

lemon stealing whores …

Dare I ask for context?

The truth is they didn’t drop it, because a carbon tax was never a Labor policy. Both Rudd and Gillard presented emissions trading schemes to Parliament. The difference was in the details of those ETSes, with Rudd’s being estimated by his own treasury modelling to not result in any decrease in emissions until 2035. That’s why the Greens pushed back and later worked with Gillard to pass a much better ETS that actually showed a decrease from day one.