quitenormal 8mo ago • 100%
We could actually improve our democracy by making voting mandatory.
In Australia, we've tried that. I have to say, that I personally, am not a fan.
The consequences of forcing politically ignorant or complacent people to vote is that they end up deciding the result of the election, and you just get skilled used car salesmen as your politicians. They know all the buzzwords and three word slogans to keep the politically apathetic tuned in.
quitenormal 8mo ago • 66%
I know you mrrrkns absolutely hate it when furriners' talk about your politics, but it saddens me to see a fellow democracy in such a state. Both these guys are demented old f&@ks! These are the best candidates your democratic system can give you? Really? I know we Aussies have plenty to cringe about, but jeez!
I know it's a little old. Thought it was more relevant given the recent confected outage over Labor and election promises.
quitenormal 9mo ago • 83%
This wouldn't surprise me at all, if it almost entirely be rental scooters.
Here in Adelaide, they have these rental scooters lining the sidewalks on the nightlife strips - on the weekend!
This seems to me to be almost criminally negligent. What do they think young people are going to do with these things, while drunk? They are going to ride them, while drunk, and they are going to have accidents, of course. Because they're drunk.
I like the rental scooters, as they're a great way of getting round the city when you're in a hurry, but they should shut them down on the weekend evenings, FFS.
quitenormal 9mo ago • 60%
I wonder whether there'll be this much outage when Jillian Assange is sentenced to decades in prison in the US.
quitenormal 9mo ago • 100%
Looks like we have a movement then. Only small, so far, but ......
quitenormal 9mo ago • 75%
I'm just wondering if we could substitute our current monarchy for the Danish one. Maybe if a Danish naval officer lands at Sydney Cove and plants a flag there? This has a precedent I believe.
quitenormal 9mo ago • 0%
I honestly don't know what happened there.
quitenormal 9mo ago • 100%
Cancel culture exemplified.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
There’s literally a standing US order to invade the Hague if a US military member is tried
Can I have source?
EDIT: Don't worry, found it
https://www.hrw.org/news/2002/08/03/us-hague-invasion-act-becomes-law
I went to Guangxi, China in 2014, to study Tai Chi for a month. I have to say that I had a lovely time. However, the people there all warned me that if I saw an accident, or anything involving the police, that I should not help, that I should just GTFO as quickly as possible! They said that the police would inevitably blame me, and I would have spend thousands of yuan in bribes to get myself out of trouble. I've since been to Việt Nam many times, where I have a few good friends. A couple of them have warned me that it's much the same there. Is that so?
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
Actually, that was a postal survey, before a parliamentary vote. Not a binding referendum.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
FWIW I'll be voting Yes, but I doubt it will do much good.
Referendums never succeed in this country, unless they have bipartisan support. So what was the point of this exercise? What's Albanese's angle in all of this?
quitenormal 1y ago • 95%
I had no idea that this was going on. I expect that, like me, most people are horrified.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
On the top of my head, I'd say a trust-level system would be great, both for instances and users. New instances and users start out on a low trust level. Posts and commemts federated by them could be set to require approval or get deranked compared to other posts and comments.
Good thinking, but devil's advocate here: might make it difficult for new users to post anything. I can imagine a lot of communities would utilise that feature, maybe even the majority.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
Great translate feature. Instant.
quitenormal 1y ago • 57%
Surprised to know they even had an account there in the first place.
quitenormal 1y ago • 10%
quitenormal 1y ago • 94%
Problem is that these Americans talk. A lot.
The grim reaper in Monty Python wasn't just whining. The struggle is real.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
I generally only use the Android client. But if there's any similarity, there's no way to stop them spamming you with their shorts.
quitenormal 1y ago • 100%
Yeah it's interesting to think what our world would be like if there were more than one surviving species of genus homo.
Some of us consider homosapiens with different colour skin to be intrinsically different for some reason. What if there were individuals around who were different again?
At least 3/5 times, my post gets removed either because: - it violates some subsection of some dot point in those extensive sidebar rules that I didn't study thoroughly enough, or - some mod decides it would be better if I posted as a comment in their dedicated mega thread on the subject, or - the Automoderator removed it without explanation, and the mods are all currently on holiday or too busy to GAF. Anyone else have this problem? And is lemmy any better?