Really happy to hear the move went well. Apparently their reopening is today, if anybody is in the area and want to drop in.

I am launching a late entrant campaign for takeaway american style hamburgers, its going up against the more convenient and cheaper pesto pasta. It’ll be a hard fight, but we’ll give it a fair shake a the sauce bottle…

Left over pizza is gooooood.

Its shaping up to be a pretty bad day for Australian swimming based on the ABC article on the Olympic team coaches comments.

We need our government to step in and create a situation where we don’t need environmental vandals to prop up our sports.

Not sure i’m fully there with you on that one. Government seems to fund sports in general quite a lot, lots of other costs i’d rather them use any extra money on.

I think this is more a case of special interest associations like this need to think about the designs of their funding models if they want to avoid low levels of duress like this

knee deep snow

Um, snow here? Where was this centrelink? Up top of Mount Clifford?

Instead of snow, are you sure it wasn’t asbestos? Theres lots of that in certain places around here.

Well thats a good point. They must feel an extra pressure in general to live up to the reputation the public has come to expect.

ABC article on Chicken salt inventor, Peter Brinkworth

Don’t they have the OG recipe as well?

rail is seven times more energy efficient than buses.

I think he might be quoting a best case scenario, ie fully occupied transit comparison, then spreading the energy use out per passenger, maybe then, but the trains and buses run when they’re not full as well, surely that would even out the difference in those peak times more.

ferries

Shit yeah! Theres a growing number of conversations starting to happen over here in Perth about using the river more for public teansit as well. Not sure about energy efficiency, but very cool.

rail is more comfortable

As a fan of buses this is a point that has to be conceded, but trackless trams are also an option.

Those old school double decker trams at the start of the video were interesting pieces of kit!

I qonder how quickly they’ll be able to knock em up off site? I think once you start talking about off site modular homes a lot of the vagaries of the building site must get oroned out pretty easily. Probably helps cut down on waste to.

Hahaha, well yeah, whatever happens we definitely want to avoid the bullshit artists… I mean, you’re stuck with me… at the moment… but we don’t want anymore. :p

Is it more a problem of un-managed scale though?

Unsurprisingly i know next to nothing about Google Search Console. Looks like it could help though. At the very least you’ve given me an avenue to explore and build my own knowledge. Thank you!

Couldn’t agree more with you’re sentiments @nath .

The thoughts i have leading to this post is, (in no particular order)

• On lemmy Aussie Zone has become the central gathering point for Australians, and if an event like ‘rexodus’ happens again its not necessarily easy to find us with a very general search, even if people were inclined to.

• I’m not confident organic growth will continue. Users and their activity have been pretty flat for months now on Aussie Zone, and i’m beginning to fear it might trend in the other direction. And like you, i actually quite like Aussie Zone’s communities, especially when compared to the maelstrom of everything else, so i’m keen to protect it.

• If Lemmy or the fediverse does begin to experience insane growth, and Aussie Zone along with that, isn’t it better to have a plan?

• I also would far rather a community and volunteer based organisation like Aussie Zone to have the strength to stand on its own, instead of completely ceding the social web to corporate interests. But this is definitely beyond the scope of my post today.

I thought i’d put this response separately to the other to break the topics up.

the freedom to vote should be inalienable right granted every citizen in a democracy.

Its more like a duty with a nudge (being a letter and a small fine).

Seeing everything through the lense of an individual’s inalienable rights is problematic. This individualist, or libertarian creed promulgated by the success of US culture has made the atomisation of the cultural and public sphere seem ‘the only way of things’.

But a Country where individuals have rights gives rise to a duty upon the rest. Its essential for the assertion of rights that the rest have agreed to uphold that standard in solidarity with the individual. So the individual still relies on the collectives consent, implied or explicit.

When considered its obvious of course, even in the US this of course occurs. But its easily forgotten when reversed, and the needs of the many come to the doorstep of the individual in the course of their lives.

We all have a tendency to self regard, just like the ‘angry at compulsory voting voter’ but at times, inconvenient or not, we have a duty to take account of others needs. In that case the rest need the individual’s vote to ensure democracy remains legitimate, and holds from sliding into autocracy or worse.

The example of euthanasia is interesting, related is Voluntary Assisted Dying. This is actually a case where the collective is quietly recognising a duty to help a person in permanent pain and suffering end their own life on their own terms. So, this is a right for the individual, but their recently recognised right is giving rise to our duty.

People in a well functioning democracy have a well balanced mix of rights and duties, explicit or implied. For democracy to work we need the people to be engaged in these. The higher the rate of engagement the better. This doesn’t mean everybody voting on every minute decision; there are many ways to participate in democracy.

Does anyone think its “Democratic” for Tasmania to have the same number of senators as NSW ?

It is democratic, as it is still “representative” rule by the people. But as you suggest it is unequal per-person representation. There are reasons for and against this. You’ve highlighted the against argument well.

The ‘for’ argument, which has prevailed so far is, without the levelling power of the Senate, the Commonwealth of Australia will be dominated by the larger populations of Victoria and NSW. In a place as sparse, and with as diverse needs as Australia the ignorance of a central power base to the needs and aspirations of periphery populations will lead to animosity and disunity, thereby inhibiting and hurting the centre and periphery more than any disfunction caused by equalised numbers of Senators.

Basically its a mechanism forcing us to listen and value, in substantive terms, each other in our geographic locations.

Also, this ‘for’ view of the value of the Senate’s equal representives, to my mind, makes the idea of equalising the number of Senators from NT and ACT with the States an uncontroversial and desirable proposal.

There isn’t enough use of trapezoidal buttons on webpages. What does the internet have against trapezoids?

Ugh. Not sure its their best move ever. Looks a bit like a cheap Guardian knock off page with the round corner blue boxes.

I thought the common Australian metric was the MCG. All this 2.5 Sydney harbour stuff is too confusing. What is that in MCG’s?

Oh cool picture! Stay safe up on those slippery roads @tau

Damn! I’s thinking i’d not seen Treevan in a bit.