I definitely find myself very disappointed by the performance of the cheiroballista at the moment. They no longer get buffed by (most) siege techs, but nor do they benefit from techs other ranged units do. They perform relatively better in larger groups, which is fine and what you’d expect, but they don’t improve by as much as you would hope as army sizes increase. Bennoloth’s idea of giving their attack pass-through like ballistas is one I quite like.

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Differentiating between blue and green was the real hard part for me today

Had 3 in each and 2 that could have gone either way.

At least where I live that’s a big if. Nuclear in Australia is most often used by fossil fuel interests as a stalling tactic because of how long it would take to get up and running and how expensive it would be, compared to renewables.

Wait are we supposed to agree with the guy on the left? Cos the last iteration of this meme I saw, the woman on the right (Summer?) was by far the more open-minded one. I just don’t know this meme well enough.

I used one for the first time at my last session. Just to write up some box text–style descriptions of something.

Geez it was awful. It had the statue of an archer “holding a bow taut with the right hand while the left hand was down towards the ground as though trying to grab the dirt”. Or something like that. And it took me three attempts at correcting in before it used both hands to hold the bow.

why people in this thread are defending much, much higher caps on donations

They’re not. We—I—have been very clear.

the stated goals of this bill are laudable. We should be trying to minimise how much influence Palmer can have over politics

But that must not come at the expense of transparency and proper procedure, or at the ability for minor parties and independents to be competitive.

you have completely disgusting stuff like the greens getting ~18% of the popular vote but only having like 1/151 seats

At the 2022 election the Greens actually received 12.25% of the popular vote, and won 4 seats. That’s 2.6% of seats, so still a pretty awful under-representation. And after the Qld State election last month I’m very worried that they’re going to drop back down to 1.

Side note, I applaud your patience and the eloquence of your response here. Frankly I had written off our interlocutor @[email protected] as a Labor/LNP diehard because everything you said in this comment was…so obvious to me I just assumed not thinking that way must be the work of someone discoursing in bad faith. Especially in light of the way the video linked and my own comments discussing it were framed.

Hey so there’s this idea people sometimes react with that if someone who is stupid or evil or whatever has some idea, then the opposite of that idea must be a good idea.

This is not a good way to think. While if you find yourself on the same side of an issue as your political enemies you should probably reflect over whether you’re being manipulated it is not necessarily true that you are.

A classic example: Rudd’s climate policy. The LNP opposed it because they’re climate change deniers. The Greens opposed it because Treasury modelling indicated it wouldn’t have any effect for a quarter century, so even now 6 Prime Ministerships later it still would be a decade off having any effect. And the ratchet mechanism would require paying polluters if we upgraded to better climate policy in the future.

Labor wanted (and today still wants) you to think the Greens are to blame for stalling progress and “siding with the LNP”. But pushing for good change in the face of bad change is not the same as saying no change at all is the best.

In what practical ways is Misskey different from Mastodon?

Parties may have a “nominated entity” which can pay unlimited amount into the party’s campaign account. The Liberal Party’s nominated entity the “Cormack Foundation” pays millions in share dividends to the LP’s campaign account. The new bill would not change this.

Independents are not allowed to have a nominated entity.

The bottom line is that established political parties end up with more sources of money flowing into their campaign accounts than independents or anyone trying to get into Parliament for the first time.

The ability of a party to fund advertising within a specific electorate, so long as it doesn’t specifically name that electorate’s candidate or the electorate itself, above and beyond the single-electorate spending caps, is another way the proposal favours big parties over individual candidates. They can redirect spending from safe seats to marginal ones, as long as that spending is on national issues and features party leadership rather than the local candidate, where an independent will always be running on themselves and therefore has only the limit per-seat.

But caps on expenditure are important, if done fairly, even against the cries of independents who might have gotten elected on the back of large spending. That’s why it’s important to get this right, and spend time seeking input from all the stakeholders including minor parties, independents, and legal scholars like Twomey herself. Rushing it through like the two major parties are trying to do is so fundamentally awful.

The repository in Git isn’t on the server, it’s on your local machine.

I understand the impulse to be empathetic and kind. But it’s very hard to respond in good faith to someone who just made a post where more than half the words are “fuck you”.

No, that brings painful war flashbacks.

Witcher 1 is the only game in the franchise I’ve actually played. And I definitely agree, it’s very worth playing. I was really enjoying it. The only reason I never ended up finishing was that at the time I was playing through a Wineskin, and…the damn game was crashing on me every hour at most. Which was pretty appalling considering I was playing on a platform that Steam said was officially supported…

But I have no doubt that if I had been running on Windows at the time I’d have finished it back around 2014 when I was first playing it, because I was really enjoying the story.

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There’s no universe in which it makes sense to pass a bill in a single sitting week which won’t take effect until after the next election regardless without allowing full scrutiny by independent experts. I’m not sure what more there is to discuss.

Seriously, your point of view here is fucking insane. Yes, the stated goals of this bill are laudable. We should be trying to minimise how much influence Palmer can have over politics. But not at the expense of minor parties and independents and in a way which reinforces the power of the major two parties. Any time a bill is rushed through this quickly, you should always be highly suspicious. You should also be highly suspicious of any bill that the ALP and LNP agree with but which smaller parties like the Greens and independents like Pocock disagree with. Doubly so if over 80% of ALP and LNP’s own voters don’t trust the process.

Have you even watched the video?

You don’t see how it’s beneficial to the big parties and very harmful to independents to have parties be able to amortise their advertising spend across all the seats they’re running in, where an independent candidate is stuck at the limit for a single seat?

But more to the point: you don’t think it’s problematic to be trying to rush through the legislation without giving it time to undergo proper rigorous scrutiny? Even if its goals are just, if the method by which it’s being achieved is not transparent, how can we trust their intentions? Especially if both Labor and the LNP are on board. That is what’s ridiculous.

Please elaborate.