Pup Biru

god i fucking love that we have compulsory voting in australia

literally solves so many issues

they’ll mug ya for a ciggie all right!

okay but like there are actual ways of doing gendered spaces in australia… or at least victoria

here in melbourne we have the laird - a gay bar that is a male only space. and australia-wide we have female only gyms. they have an exemptions to the equal opportunity act and are allowed to deny entry based on gender. you have to apply to the state for them

ignoring what you actually think about those examples specially, imo they’d have a pretty good case to get exemptions should they apply for them since it’s art… it’s more a case (imo) of not doing their paperwork and getting the correct permissions… boring? sure… necessary? definitely

though with those exemptions you must strictly adhere to your own gender requirements otherwise you’ll lose it

the actual way to solve “leftist legal crusades” (if they exist): anti-SLAPP laws that punish frivolous lawsuits… but that would hurt them more than “leftists”

that’s an easy solve though…

it’s pretty easy to put a number to how gerrymandered a region is: ungerrymandered means that if you were to look at all the votes in the state without districts that’s your ideal ratio… if you then add districts and that ratio is different, it’s perhaps gerrymandered

so if the goal is to stop gerrymandering, you get a bunch of states to sign some interstate compact that measures gerrymandering across the country and says any state that’s part of the compact will (perhaps in the next election, perhaps based on projections for the current voting maps based on prior voting behaviour) gerrymander to an equal or greater degree to offset or punish gerrymandering overall… ie you can gerrymander your state but at best it’ll mean nothing when it comes to the ratio of votes

i think these days the best practice for mobile apps re retention (other than sso or passkey) is to just ask for an email, then from the validate link continue with register

reason being that more steps to register means more ways people are likely to drop out of the flow, and this is basically about as short as it can be

when the user has validated their email, then they’re more invested so they are more likely to complete

that also fits nicely with what we’re talking about with good security

that was certainly in the back of my head the whole time… policy flip flop and lack of long term planning in modern politics is pretty much the norm anyway… but i think to encode that into a kind of standard way of operating is perhaps not a good thing… adding an extra layer that’s hard to undo before fixing the core problem is how the US got to where it is now

as an aussie that has a parliamentary system, and in that system has had a period where we frequently ousted the PM, it’s not that great of an idea

you want governments to be able to plan for the long term. really, even 4y is not great for long term planning because it kinda implies you need to show results before the term is up

we had a bunch of policy flip-flops during that period, which is very inefficient

i guess it doesn’t really matter if you get 2y no matter what: there’s no more after your 2y, but i think that’d lead to leaders doing a bunch of the “fuck it” last term stuff because they have no reason to make a good impression for their potential reelection

the french revolution was famously not about porcefully taking power from those in power

“not actively harmful” and “notionally the bare minimum” are pretty low bars and i’m glad that, for once in modern memory, mozilla cleared them

i read cringe instead of change and i think both readings are valid

geothermal typically uses chemicals other than water because they have a lower boiling point

the specific chemical being cheap is relatively unimportant if it’s a closed loop. the cost is next to nothing compared to the whole construction

my neanderthal ginger genes still work like this in the gay community

don’t write it off completely… yes there’s a bunch of bullshit, but it’s also not entirely quack shit

australia’s healthcare system covers chiropractic in limited circumstances, and our system is generally very good at evidence-based health (you’re allowed to get private health insurance to cover alternative medicines if you want but stuff the government pays for is well supported by evidence)

with a GP referral and chronic condition management plan (written by your GP: this is an offical well defined thing) you get up to 5 total visits to “allied health” professionals which includes chiro, physio, dieticians, etc