Zagorath
@Zagorath@aussie.zone
- Comment on What do office workers actually do? 1 day ago:
Even construction companies need finance and HR
- Comment on The election enters the dirty-tricks stage 1 day ago:
I hope we see an update on this. Attack ads are bad enough when they’re properly authorised so people can at least sort of decide for themselves whether to disregard on the basis of obvious bias. Illegal unauthorised attack ads are absolutely appalling, and I hope the LNP supporters who did this are seriously punished.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4 days ago:
RES was around long before new Reddit and it does what it does based on what classic Reddit has in it, and what it gets itself. I don’t know much more detail than that, except that the devs basically lost interest in doing more than maintenance of it after the redesign came out.
should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time trying to accomodate specific shitty platforms?
That’s one way to look at it. I would pose it as
should Fediverse platform/app devs spend time providing the best user experience to the users who are on their platforms?
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4 days ago:
I’m sure RES doesn’t have a sweetheart deal with Imgur. It must be possible without their agreement.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4 days ago:
You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.
- Comment on Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 4 days ago:
A bunch of pictures smooshed together? Like a collage?
- Comment on In the not too distant past this was a thing 5 days ago:
Mine is primarily a sports watch. The smartwatch features are just an added bonus.
- Comment on 'Not the laws of Australia': Sex discrimination chief reacts to UK ruling on definition of a woman 5 days ago:
Ha. When UK Supreme Court judges have the same level of comprehension as a kindergartner…
- 'Not the laws of Australia': Sex discrimination chief reacts to UK ruling on definition of a womanwww.sbs.com.au ↗Submitted 5 days ago to australia@aussie.zone | 14 comments
- Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite 1 week ago:
Seems like that would be a case for ignoring fortified nutrients in rating foods, not for banning the process entirely.
- Comment on Australian owner of Toronto café chain fighting Ottawa to save $8K of Vegemite 1 week ago:
So, uhh…where’s the “both sides” to this? “High standards when it comes to food regulations” doesn’t work as an excuse for banning healthier food. That’s absurd.
- Comment on You see "him" everywhere including on ancient coins 1 week ago:
This is the #1 reason Norway should join the EU.
- Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 1 week ago:
Reading between the lines, this video is encouraging people to fuck with properties rented out through Airbnb, or at least trying to mess with the heads of the ‘hosts’.
I liked the comment under the video
suggestingwarning against the much easier method of sticking a bit of super glue in the mechanism. - Comment on Something's up with all those airbnb locks | Purplepingers 1 week ago:
Ha. Loved the sneaky plug for his Senate campaign in the background of the video.
- Comment on Do you use your blinker in a car? 1 week ago:
No. Not when the road curves. Only when changing lanes, turning at an intersection, or pulling out from being parked.
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- Comment on Go Private? 2 weeks ago:
I can think of a few downsides. Definitely not all equally weighted.
- Poor discoverability. I doubt many people are finding us on Google, but any who do would be unable anymore.
- Inability to send people links. This also hurts discoverability from being able to send people a link for them to check out.
- Problems with linking federation. At the moment, there’s no way to link to a specific post or comment in a way that users of other instances can see it on their instance. So most of the time, the best option is to link it in your own instance, and they can view it read-only in your instance. T his would break that.
- Problems for cross-posts with bodies. Related to the above, when using “cross-post” on a post with a text body, a link is provided to link back to the original. This link will be useless if the instance is private.
- Comment on LW delay is growing again 2 weeks ago:
Praise the fedigods!
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 2 weeks ago:
Federally, the Reps has always had compulsory preferential. Things are different at some state and council elections though. For example, in Queensland state elections it’s compulsory, but Council elections have optional preferential. It was an election promise by the LNP to change it to optional preferential in both state and council elections. Because optional preferential helps the LNP a huge amount, by causing some Greens and Labor voters to have their votes exhausted rather than going to the other.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 2 weeks ago:
For example, if you review the local candidates and determine that the Nationals candidate will best represent your interests then it doesn’t make any sense to vote for an independent just because a National candidate would ultimately support Dutton to form government.
Sure, that’s technically true. But the fact that a Nationals candidate would support Dutton is part of how they represent your interests (or fail to). If you don’t want Dutton to form Government, voting for the Nationals candidate is a grievous error. Because we have very strong party discipline in this country.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 2 weeks ago:
with the House of Reps using Instant-Runoff Voting with optional preferences
Not optional preferences.
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 2 weeks ago:
Wow, that’s interesting. I’m curious, if you don’t mind me asking, what in particular did you learn from this?
- Comment on Where will my vote go? 2 weeks ago:
Your vote goes where you want it. Preferences do not ever get fed anywhere in Australian federal elections anymore. There was a thing called “group voting tickets” prior to 2016, where you would vote 1 in the Senate “above the line”, and the party could send your vote where they wanted. But these were abolished. They no longer exist. And they never existed in the House of Representatives, anyway. I’ll address both houses separately, and pretend you live in Adelaide and it’s the 2022 election (just because Adelaide is first alphabetically).
House of Representatives
You’ll get a green ballot paper with a number of candidates on it. They are in an order that is randomly chosen by the AEC (but is the same for everyone in an electorate). In your case, 7 candidates, in order: Liberal, Labor, United Australia, FUSION, Greens, Australian Federation, One Nation.
All you have to do is number them in order, with 1 on your favourite, 7 on your least favourite. If your favourite does not achieve 50%, it’ll go to your second favourite. If they don’t get 50%, it goes to your 3rd, etc. In all likelihood, eventually your vote will be given to either the Liberal or Labor, unless you live in one of a small number of electorates where the last two candidates are different (e.g. Greens or an independent).
If you don’t number every box, your ballot will be discarded and won’t count for anything.
Senate
You’ll get a large white ballot paper with a number of columns on it, each column containing up to 6 candidates. There is an “above the line” section and a “below the line” section. Above the line is parties, below the line is individual candidates within those parties.
As you’re (in my hypothetical) from South Australia, your ballot contains 23 columns, labelled A–V, plus the “ungrouped” column. Independents can run entirely ungrouped, or they can form a small group together to get their own column. Like the House of Representatives, everyone in your state gets the same ballot paper, but it’s chosen randomly.
In South Australia in 2022, Liberals are column C. Labor are D. Nationals are G. Greens are P. One Nation is S. You can choose to do research on the others if you like, but to keep it simple I’ll stick with these.
If you vote above the line, you number at least 1 to 6, with 1 on your favourite party. For most people, this is probably what you want to do. If you vote below the line, you number at least 1 to 12, with 1 on your favourite individual candidate. The process is similar to the Reps, but instead of reaching 50%, they need to reach 14.3% (instead of 100%/2, it’s 100%/7, because each state elects 6 senators). And, if a candidate gets more than precisely 14.3%, your vote actually goes to the next candidate on your ballot, proportional to how much more than 14.3% they got.
Voting above-the-line is the same as voting below-the-line for those parties in the order that party wanted. But only in the order that party wanted for their own candidates. So, if you vote 1 Greens, 2 Labor, 3 Nationals, that’s the same as voting
- Barbara Pocock (Greens)
- Major Moogy Sumner (Greens)
- Melanie Selwood (Greens)
- Penny Wong (Labor)
- Don Farrell (Labor)
- Trimann Gill (Labor)
- Joanne Sutton (Labor)
- Belinda Owens (Labor)
- Lisa Blandford (National)
- Damien Buijs (National)
The only reason to vote below-the-line is if you don’t like the order a party puts their own candidates, or if you want to avoid some of a party’s candidates entirely. For example, if you kinda like Barbara Pocock, but you really love Melanie Selwood, and you’re ok with Labor in general, but really love Penny Wong and really hate Don Farrell, you could vote below the line to do this:
- Penny Wong (Labor)
- Melanie Selwood (Greens)
- Barbara Pocock (Greens)
- Major Moogy Sumner (Greens)
- Trimann Gill (Labor)
- Joanne Sutton (Labor)
- Belinda Owens (Labor)
- Lisa Blandford (National)
- Damien Buijs (National)
The other reason to vote below-the-line is if you want to vote for some of the candidates in that “ungrouped” section.
For the vast majority of people, there’s very little reason to do this, just vote above the line. Your vote for the Greens can never go to any other party without you choosing to number that party.
Because you only have to number up to 6 in the Senate, it is possible for your vote to be “exhausted”. In this case, it is as though you never voted at all. It does not make your vote for the candidates you did vote for any stronger than it otherwise would be. All it does is make it easier for the parties you disagree with the most to win. Because of this, I would strongly encourage you to keep numbering all the way until you have numbered every party with any reasonable chance of winning a seat. That means make sure your numbers include: Greens, Labor, LNP (or Liberals and Nationals), One Nation, Trumpet of Patriots, Nick Xenophon, any independents who are particularly strong, like David Pocock in the ACT.
You don’t have to do this, but I recommend you do, because not doing it increases the chance that the party you like the least will win. For example, you might dislike Labor 90% but dislike the LNP 99% and dislike One Nation 99.9%. If you don’t number all three of those parties somewhere in your list, it is more likely that One Nation will end up winning the seat, or the LNP will, rather than Labor. But it won’t increase the chance a party you like wins, such as the Greens or Animal Justice Party. If you think Labor winning would be better than the LNP, or the LNP would be better than One Nation…even by a miniscule amount, you should number them all.
At the last election, I made the mistake of not doing this. I stopped once I got to Labor, I think, or maybe a few smaller parties after Labor. But I didn’t number LNP and One Nation. And unfortunately, One Nation ended up winning the last seat in Queensland, by a small margin, over the LNP. I don’t like either party, but, well…one is clearly worse than the other. I won’t be making that mistake again.
Timing
Close of Rolls is 7th April. If you haven’t already, make sure you’re enrolled and have your address updated with the AEC by this date.
Declaration of nominations is 11th April. After this date you’ll know 100% everyone who is running in your seat for the House of Representatives and in your state for the Senate, and can do research. In the meantime, this Wikipedia page lists most of the major candidates from most parties.
I hope that helps!
- Comment on Trump unveils his double-digit 'Liberation Day' reciprocal tariffs on China, Taiwan, and a slew of other key trading partners 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, that country of European Union.
(Also, I bet Xi is ecstatic about Taiwan being listed as an independent country from China. And getting lower tariffs.)
- Comment on Bike paths and bus lanes approved by Bristol city council 2 weeks ago:
Cyclists are not some evil malicious group intent on making things worse for you. If they’re on the road, it’s for a reason. There are numerous possible reasons, and it’s not up to you to decide what that is. Just chill out and drive safely. Some of those reasons can include:
- Bike lanes are often blocked by temporary signs, parked cars, etc.
- Bike lanes often get debris like gravel, sticks, and leaves swept into them.
- Separated bike paths might not have convenient entrances that let the cyclist get on, forcing them to continue along the road.
- Separated bike paths might not have convenient exits where the cyclist is headed.
- Separated bike paths might not be well-designed to keep cyclists safe and ensure they have priority at driveways and crossing side-streets.
- Paths might literally just not go where the cyclist is headed (e.g. they continue straight, cyclist needs to turn right, which can only be done/is only reasonably quick when done from the general lane).
- Paths might be disconnected or temporary, and not worth getting onto in the first place.
Some of these might be, as you suggest, the result of them being “poorly planned”, but it can also be the inevitable consequence of historical bad planning even if the specific path here is good.
Looking at what I think is Wimborne Rd on Google Maps (because I don’t know the area, and what Google tells me is Wimborne Rd is clearly not what you mean, I’m assuming you mean what Google calls Hartcliffe Way or A3029), I note a few things:
- They appear to be a shared paths, not dedicated bike paths. If there are a lot of pedestrians around at a certain time, it can be a bad idea to use them. This may especially be an issue as it looks like a significant bus route.
- Street furniture galore. Lights, bus shelters, even an awful chicane at one point.
- Leaves.
- The path is not continuous across all driveways and side streets, including the one across the side-street Google calls Wimborne, and an extremely dangerous looking one crossing Headley Ln.
- You say it’s on both sides, and for a stretch that’s true, but the eastern side becomes extremely difficult to navigate (if it even exists) north of the turnoff to Parson St, and the western side disappears entirely south of Novers Ln, necessitating a multiple-stage crossing to get onto the eastern side if you want to continue.
- Comment on Six Australian universities close Chinese government-linked Confucius Institutes 3 weeks ago:
Universities that closed their Confucius Institutes:
- University of Melbourne
- University of Queensland (UQ)
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Adelaide University (probably)
- RMIT
Universities that still have a Confucius Institute:
- University of Newcastle
- University of Sydney
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
- Griffith University
- La Trobe University
- Victoria University
- Charles Darwin University (probably)
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- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 3 weeks ago:
That doesn’t disagree with what I said, though?
- Comment on IT'S ON: Albanese to call May 3 federal election tomorrow morning 3 weeks ago:
If it wasn’t for Cyclone Alfred, I reckon my prediction of 12 April (given WA went crazy good for Labor) would’ve been correct.
