Long answer, it’s complicated as usual. Short answer: single member electorates.

Not surprisingly, the senate (our upper house at the federal level) is much more representative than the lower house, because they have very large, multi-member electorates.

If you live in a safe seat, your vote only counts for election funding (last I checked $2ish per 1st preference).

Anyone arguing FPTP is better than ranked choice is stupid or has sinister motives.

They’re just too expensive. Like, sure, it costs money to run, but 3.49€/month (the discounted 24 month rate) for the mail only plan, 15 GB storage. (41.88€, $45.17 USD, $67.28 AUD per year)

That’s really expensive if you just want mail.

The other stuff, is also really expensive. To the point that makes you think, “there is no way google is making THIS much to make up the difference in advertising to me for a comparable plan”.

A single region within a member country can veto an entire block’s will, even if the rest of the country assents? That seems very broken as a voting system, to me.

It’s very depressing, also for those of us in the imperial sphere of countries. Because we’re beholden to US foreign policy, and the worse the US gets, the more dangerous it is for us.

I mean, we (Australia) already we’re doing war crimes for the US in Afghanistan (look up David McBride, the Australian military lawyer), already buying $300 subs as some kind of tributary payment, already followed you into dozens of wars we had no business being a part of, I truly worry for what’s next under a more corrupt US regime.

Yikes.

Be mad that income tax is unnecessarily difficult to deal with. As has been pointed out by others online a lot recently, the US makes personal income taxes hard, where other countries you can fill it out in minutes if you have no deductions, and less than an hour if you do (and have kept good records).

No one likes paying taxes (usually) but since the process is so painless I don’t hear people complaining about income tax that much (outside of the right-wing media in my country, Australia)

This is interesting. Not a lawyer, but I’d encourage anyone in Australia to demand a free repair under Australian Consumer Law because the company bricked the laptop. I’d guess it would fall under the Acceptable Quality consumer guarantee, since the fault was caused directly by the manufacturer.

Not sure how you’d go about proving that, but you could then just take it to your state tribunal, like VCAt in Victoria and file a small claim.

Not a lawyer, not legal advice, but something to think about if you’re in this situation.

The graphic made me double take this also. I’m like, what new fresh hellish projection are we in for now.

I mean, trump pardoned war criminals. So I do not see why not (IANAL).

Most people would agree yes, they should be pardoned. I’m not against the idea of pardoning completely, just the idea of it being a single person questionable, since it seems a bit risky.

Someone could have a political opponent killed and then just pardon the assassin.

Doesn’t seem like a sensible thing to have around.

How are pardons a thing. Seems incredibly ripe for abuse.

I am dreading the day my company makes me “upgrade” my windows 10 laptop to 11. I really hope they’re paying for legacy support for 10.

I right click, soooooo often when managing files at my job. I’m going to pull out my hair if I can’t change the “see more” behaviour.

Also, I’m a top taskbar user (that’s where programs put their tabs, it just makes sense!)

I don’t know how they could fuck up windows this badly.

It’s also much harder to claim fraud when there is none (provided your auditing and multiple independent oversight is good).

Y’all need to just stop it with voting machines USA. Pencil and paper is far more secure.

I’m not doubting that trump wasn’t elected, reality has a left-wing bias, but damn, what if voting machines are hacked, or have a backdoor built-in in the future.

Pencil and paper folks, it just works.

This is a solved problem, in other areas of the world.

I would avoid 250g, that just means you have to multiply and divide by 4, which is more of a pain than multiples of 10.

In Australia, all food and grocery products (other than fresh produce by unit, like 1 avocado), must be labelled by weight, volume, or other suitable metric (number of toilet paper sheets, for example) by a suitable multiple of 10.

Spices, x$/10g, vegetables x$/kg, other stuff per 100/g. Whatever results in a reasonable $ number.

Even if it’s different it’s hilariously easy to compare.

This can of tomatoes $0.70/100g, is cheaper than $8/kg fresh tomatoes, easy peasy because you just move the decimal.

It really is nice, sorry to rub salt in the wound 😅

This is what will push me over to Linux too, just will be procrastinate a bit because I don’t have lots of time to work out all the kinks

Lol whoops

I realise I have Google account, convenience at the cost of privacy. Just irks me that it’s not opt in because if it were, their system would be less useful, and we can’t give people informed consent can we…

Wait, not only the POTUS can pardon people (to me, already insanity waiting for more abuse), but your state governors TOO?

Jesus Christ.

In most places (in the world other than the US), tax is included in the price. Are you not tired of seeing a price and it not being the price you actually pay?