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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

idk about the US but in australia most ceiling fans plug into standard outlets in the roof, so a smart plug is usually all you need

i have a humidity sensor in the bathroom that turns the ceiling fan on, and the way that works is that it compares the bathroom humidity to humidity in other areas of the house, so it takes into account humid/dry days automatically

well it’s because of activist judges of course

certainly nothing to do with voting to allow it

yeah i completely agree with that part… just i think in terms of costs i wanted to know for real if its a good argument, and figured id document it

yall have some of the highest per capita healthcare costs in the world, and some of the worst health outcomes among peer economies. “too expensive” and “better quality” are both terrible arguments based on the reality of the situation (lol reality… because that matters)

… but it’s also interesting to put into perspective: that $2b/day doesn’t even come close to healthcare costs (although… it’s not an order of magnitude off, so there’s that i guess)

quick estimate because i’ve seen this a few times:

australia spends ~$279b/y on health (~$190b usd)

australia is roughly the population of texas at 27.6m

us population is 340m

so all things being equal that’s $2.2t usd for the us population

so after 6y at war you could have had 1y of healthcare

ngl i was really hoping it’d be closer :(

(but of course this is bullshit anyway because yall already pay for healthcare, and lives extinguished vs lives saved etc etc… thus the “all things being equal” like circular cow in a vacuum)

i moved one of those 8x2 cube storage shelves from next to my front door (where it didn’t get used) to my bedroom where i use it for “worn but not dirty” clothes

pile of clothes on the floor instantly fixed because now putting clothes “away” is the same effort as dropping them on the floor

in australia we don’t require photo ID… you register to vote exactly once (usually done in high school and they walk you through it - at least that was my experience), and then you just show up… your name is on a list, and they cross you off

requiring ID and voter role purges are not a requirement for democracy

i mean, i’ve heard phone screens are legitimately horrendous for hygiene, which i wouldn’t be surprised by (no real evidence provided)

i’m not a member of a church, i’m very atheist, but also i kinda put churches around the same place as sports clubs… they’re largely non-profit entities that exist for the benefit of members… kinda like a co-op too

i think given that - ie their mission isn’t based around making money, but providing free services - it’s fair to put them on the same level as other membership-based orgs

all of these orgs have a “not for me” crowd, but just because it’s not for you doesn’t mean that they don’t provide services to their members in the same way that sports clubs, maker spaces, car clubs, youth clubs, etc all provide things and shouldn’t be taxed in addition to the income tax that their members already pay

Maybe fix the way taxes are spent and I’ll support

not the way taxes work mate

don’t want to see the money people give out of their sense of faithfulness to be used to pay for

why does faith give them an exemption from participation in civilised society?

i’d love for tickets to various pride events not to be taxed, but they are… so why do i pay tax for participating in my culture and “faith” is exempt?

taxes largely only apply to profits, so if you’re being an actual charitable organisation, you won’t have too many profits and thus not a large tax burden… right?

yall already have 501c7 which is membership organisations like sports clubs

well, it’s probably a similar thing to a 501c7: membership organisations like sports clubs

they’d still have to pay various payroll taxes and things, and they still buy things: tax exemption in australia for example means you neither have to charge GST (our version of VAT) to customers, and you get to claim it back from any purchases you make

i’ve already linked the docs that state that native windows containers exist. whether or not specific images exist is not relevant

WSL, Hyper-V and Windows Containers are all options

they have to be built specifically for windows (of course the kernels are different, so the binaries are going to be different) but you can run Windows native applications on Windows kernel with a different implementation of containers using the standard Docker CLI and interfaces

Cgroups are just 1 (by far the most common) implementation of the container backend

it says self cleaning though

i’m guessing more like these

they’re all over in australia and generally pretty good. i wouldn’t call them clean, but for requiring very little maintenance they’re fricken spotless

fevers break if your immune system attacks and destroys the threat. if the infection wins, you die. if you’re immunocompromised and get a fever, it’s very very bad news

i’m not saying that the democrats are compromised and they’re the immune system in this analogy of course… no no no… im just commenting on the biology!