110F = 43.33C if anyone else was wondering.

Her take on the cost of living crisis was that it was good that I wouldn’t have the issue of hoarding things like her, as I would never be able to afford them in the first place.

Lmao. You’ll be so poor you wont be able to buy things. Great flex, boomer.

I’m glad the Greens keep bringing this up. Something needs to change.

Would the Australian (NSW) laws apply here because that’s where it happened? They updated their sexual consent laws not long ago and their easy reader is pretty clear that a kiss is considered part of that. Not sure how it would be charged under the criminal code: https://dcj.nsw.gov.au/documents/children-and-families/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/domestic-and-sexual-violence-hotlines/dcj_easy_read_sexual_consent_digital_accessible.pdf

TIL Australian Sushi is a thing! It never occurred to me that they don’t have the easy to hold rolls in other parts of the world. I think they make up like 10% of my diet haha.

As a result of this, and through careful deliberation, the final proposal for a National Voice is a 24-member model including 5 members representing remote regions, and one member representing the significant number of Torres Strait Islanders living on the mainland. (p. 12)

Members of the Local & Regional Voices within each state and territory would collectively determine National Voice members from their respective jurisdictions. (p. 12)

Members would serve 4-year terms. These terms would be staggered, with half the membership determined every 2 years to ensure continuity. There would be a limit of 2 consecutive terms per member. (p. 108)

• The National Voice would be an advisory body to the Australian Parliament and Government. These relationships would be two-way interactions, with either party able to initiate advice or commence discussion around relevant policy matters... The National Voice would have no power to veto laws made by the Parliament or decisions made by the Australian Government. (p. 109)

The Name of the Wind is sublime. I think because it sounds so different to the usual grand, bombastic, bellicose fantasy kick off. It’s all silence. And a man working in a bar. And that last sentence. Oof.

It was night again. The Waystone Inn lay in silence, and it was a silence of three parts. The most obvious part was a hollow, echoing quiet, made by things that were lacking. If there had been a wind it would have sighed through the trees, set the inn’s sign creaking on its hooks, and brushed the silence down the road like trailing autumn leaves… The Waystone was his, just as the third silence was his. This was appropriate, as it was the greatest silence of the three, wrapping the others inside itself. It was deep and wide as autumn’s ending. It was heavy as a great river-smooth stone. It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die.

Full text here: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9410716-it-was-night-again-the-waystone-inn-lay-in-silence

Microwave Watt?? Converts cooking instructions to whatever your actual microwave is (mine’s a shitty 700w beast so I have to add about 50% cooking time to most things). http://www.microwavewatt.com/

I think all the federal Greens MPs do free community meals now. If you’re in Max’s electorate check out the Events page: https://www.maxchandlermather.com/events

This is great. Making it available from pharmacies will hopefully help women in rural areas away from hospital services. Held up for way too long by wowsers like Tony Abbott.

Ah yes. Dutton inciting violence. He had to have known this would happen. What a flog.

Stynes posted screenshots to Instagram of the attacks she has received online. Much of it was anonymous, or pseudonymous, but other posts – including death threats, and violent, graphic abuse – were made under apparently genuine personal accounts.

Yikes. Hopefully the charges stick.

I mean, there’s a 270 page report about the design of the thing here https://voice.gov.au/resources/indigenous-voice-co-design-process-final-report

Probably a dissenter but I like having all those stories in one place now. I think the community is too new to start subdividing it up too.

Super good news and policy. It feels like a splash (rather than a drop) in the bucket for the cost of living though.

Surely a decent housing policy has to be next.

Looks like it’s time to introvert again!

“Before going into beta” is HIGHLY optimistic lol

Hopefully good sausage sizzle weather!

The Reddit migration was probably mostly people who know what an API is so that fits your demographic.

Also, people generally don’t take a stance on something unless it affects them personally. So API, privacy, data collection etc just doesn’t register.

I think her government’s greatest achievements were:

• legislating abortion
• legalising euthanasia
• raising the coal royalties
• lots of solar farms in the pipeline

I think climate change generally and youth justice were two areas not enough has been done.