The problem with ads isn't so much the time, it's all the BS they do to try and grab your attention. I'd rather a minute of peace and quiet than 30 seconds of my computer shouting at me.

That said on that front it's not like the entire YouTube platform is any better.

This is straight up treasonous. Writing directly to Trump (instead of speaking to the Australian public) to say she would reverse it is a not-so-subtle plea to get America to coup Albanese like Rudd and Whitlam.

I didn't realize she was that evil. This is why we can't have nice things.

I read that as less of a "belief" and more of an "assumption". Most people don't think about paraplegic sex at any point on their life, so her assumption went unquestioned until she was prompted to by sex work.

You think choosing your Linux distro is bad, imagine having to choose your electricity, water, internet, phone, banking, and insurance provider as well as your local councillor, workplace, school, career, entertainment, childcare, car, house, food, etc.

This "love choice, hate choosing" is a really valuable thing to understand.

I'm writing materials to teach Windows 11 to someone, and I literally explain Onedrive as "a computer in America".

Please don't scare me with a title like that so soon after an election.

This is REALLY bad. It'll require your age be verified by your ISP, operating system, email, search engine, and the site you visit. Fines of up to $49.5 million if violated.

If this is real, it is straight-up totalitarian.

Fair. There's no universe in which those three companies should be foisted on passive investors at this stages.

This seems like a really stupid solution and I have no idea what the government's thinking.

It's not piracy to shut your ears and plug your eyes whenever an ad is playing ... at least not yet. Give the lobbyists a few weeks.

Australia is very limited in how it can move away from America, because the Coalition enthusiastically sells us out to them any chance they can get.

Albanese, by repairing our relationship with China, is putting us on the right track. He can't get out of AUKUS and there may even be advantages to that such as giving Albanese Trump's ear and allowing him to potentially stop a war with China. I don't pay enough attention to what Albanese is doing behind the scenes to strengthen Australia's sovereignty.

Banning new gas installations is an easy one. We should not be pumping gas into people's homes.

Wood fireplaces is a tough one. The ACT did it, but we don't burn wood for electricity and wood isn't as prone to leaking. The problem is that wood smoke is carcinogenic.

It is. EV's are just slightly less bad cars. They still cause potholes, traffic, high housing costs, noise, and pedestrian deaths.

Last I checked they were ghoulishly waiting at the prison in the hopes of watching her be sent in.

The media is garbage. We did not need this many updates on the case, and they did not need to rub it in so much (I think she obviously did it, but on the off chance she didn't they're basically bullying her at this point).

Just make me CEO of a company. Surely I can't do worse than the crop of people they're currently finding.

Ballsy, especially after Republican threats. Here's hoping their idea of retaliation is cancelling AUKUS.

It's pretty damaging to your reputation to sue a rape victim for defamation. Or at least it should be.

I read that title as "facial transplant".

I will be taking no further questions.

Bicycle licensing systems are horrible. They discourage riding and push people to unhealthy and dangerous forms of transport like cars and they give kids bad interactions with police (or in America, gets them sent to El Salvador).

That said, e-bike licensing for under-18's makes a lot of sense. If it applied to all bikes, or to all ages then I'd take issue with it. But under-18's on e-bikes should probably be licensed.

I do take issue with it being a digital-only license. Kids should not have smartphones in the first place, and just imagine losing access to your driver's license because you forgot to charge your phone (or your mobile data plan lapsed).

Given his reaction, I take that to mean Australia's recognition of Palestine is actually a REALLY big deal. He didn't say this about France and Mexico (two much more powerful countries). I don't get how Australia in particular is so important though.

It's worth noting recognizing Palestine comes with a lot of political risk. Labor prime ministers have been couped twice, and the LNP made a joke of any efforts they tried to improve the country in the following years. These coups both happened for defying US foreign policy.