The license people agree to, to use the software disclaim warranty and limited liability. So your analogy would be better if the bridge had signage explaining such that most people don’t read. So not a legal obligation, but maybe it hasn’t been tested in court yet.

Religion helps with being overwhelmed with nuance and grey (as in not black and white). I felt that I was capable handling/accepting the reality of life and was motivated by the few instances of pain that this same help can cause to other. What I really valued from religion was morals or the moral goal and a system that dictates which are okay to not worry about didn’t sit well with me. Not saying I’m doing any better, I just have the nuance to adjust my system to be better. Instead of faithfully following something.

My take is that it is all subjective, I feel like I busted ass, I feel like a god interviewed, I feel like it was my lucky socks. Without a study and metrics we can’t objectively measure reliably, but that would be overkill for every little thing. So we take our subjective shortcuts and move on. My advice would be focus on the sentiment, “that’s impressive, it’s good that hard work/gods intervention/lucky socks helped that outcome, because it seems so surreal otherwise.”. That or have the heart to heart and put in the effort to align if it’s important and they are important to you.

It seems like it will… eventually… stop the market growing like a safe asset. Doubt they actually want costs going down, but should at least allow people to catch up, or maybe the next generation.

NDIS is interesting, they have been rooting out a lot of corruption recently, I thought the cost was just scaling down with that. https://www.ndis.gov.au/news/media-releases

The idea is that people have built their retirement using these policies and given so much time has passed with them in place, its unlikely they’d have many working years left to change strategies. So the cut out is literally their death.

I enjoy the articles at https://michaelwest.com.au/ The editor was an ex-mainstream (I wanna say SMH?) journalist. I like them because they are quite evidence based. They have YouTube too but that is mostly just opinions going over the articles they have published.

https://independentaustralia.net/ seem to have a good repetition, but I personally don’t tend to find many articles that interest me.

I can see how that is basically privatising of the public housing system, otherwise it’s just a handout from what I can tell. I mean in the mainstream media the people who are listening are already hearing “This is terrible, this won’t affect me now I’ve had enough, but I feel for the other that need this “investing” crutch”. Now imagine how much sway they would have if it did affect them. Instead of boiling the frog slowly, it’s turning down the heat slowly.

And before that use a carrot to incentivise developers to make the majority of their income on the supply side so this stick wouldn’t have them yelling like the times before.

There isn’t so much of the story elements, especially if you’ve tried Braid, but The Witness has endless intrigue and abstract puzzles. https://store.steampowered.com/app/210970/The_Witness/

Yeah, so makes sense that they had to grandfather it. I’m not into fucking old people either 😜

As Kohler points out in his introduction, the demand for housing started taking off in earnest after the Howard Government’s reduction of the capital gains tax (CGT) by 50% in 1999.

Very much keen to see this divergence stop, that would be a big difference. Bigger if wages can catch up.

https://michaelwest.com.au/the-housing-crisis-we-didnt-have-to-have-and-how-to-fix-it/

And Plasma is part of their general branding too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KDE_Plasma

Pretty sure the bar for dystopia is above the bottom, so best not focus downwards too much or you’ll miss half the picture.

I think this depends on the speed of AI, If it’s a slow role out and unemployment/poverty is a slow boil over decades, it probably could be a manageable minority by the “super rich”. But if it does happen quickly like the hype would have you believe, well that’s a lot of unhappy people with not much to do or lose, which is quite a lot of bargaining power.

It’s a very slow roll, but it is a roll, most of the good policies probably won’t pay off for years. Turning property developers to make their money on supply instead of hording houses as assets should help eventually. And future made in Australia poised ready to fill the demand as fossil fuels slowly die out. Doubt there is much short term though with all this effort put into fuel supplies and only treading water as is.

Exactly, I very much meant perception and their own. Not weather it’s founded in outcomes or not. I think outcomes argue better that any reasoning about perception.

Everyone votes and everyone votes in their perceived best interests. Which could look like anything across the political spectrum. For those of us who can agree with your sentiment, we need to recognise that there are those that perceive or recognise correctly these repercussions as insurmountable. So a combined stance is just yielding ground to whoever isn’t a part of that stance. That said given how much ground Labor took last election, I don’t think they would be yielding that much. But who knows, maybe most people were only 51/49 for Labor.

It’s only good if you live in walking/driving distance from a train line or bus way. Assuming the destination is also walking distance on the other end.

His party did try, but the voters weren’t a big enough fan of that idea apparently. So bringing stupidity into the equation would probably just offend voters smart enough to realise that much.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/labor-calls-for-national-fuel-reserve/u5cjwpc36

In basic terms, your computer has to say something like I clicked here, to send it to the server and orchestrate with the other clients. On the flip side the server sends stuff back that your client can show you were the other clients are. All this raw data can be used by a cheater however they want. If we minimise the data available to you or a cheater to be the levellest, that would be the client only sends mouse and keyboard inputs, and all the client gets back from the server is pre-rendered frames. Think game streaming, from a cheating perspective is the problem solved? No, they just make a program to read screen and move the mouse when it sees an enemy faster than any human can, or more realistically to avoid that detection, just act slightly better than the cheaters opponent. As other comments have mentioned, game streaming for everyone would be expensive for the server. And if your clever you’ll realise that even BIOS level detection won’t stop a separate computer with a webcam doing keyboard mouse emulation, hence the comments about the developers wanting control. AI deepfakes can attest that even gameplay moderation will get more difficult as the input emulation gets more human like.

So the only hope is to do enough of all these things so that cheaters deem it not worth the effort/not profitable enough.

It is defensible in this kind of community, but I doubt it’s defensible in a board voter base. For instance people see billionaires and are saying the government should step in and do something, because as individuals we are somewhat helpless. In this instance we’re like we can fork/we can revert so the government ideally just needs to back off. But if you ask a non-tech savvy voter (and a parent in your example) they will just see big tech and say the government should step in and do something. Has this method of governance been compromised? Sure, is this law an example of that? Sure. But what can we do? The government… Well until people can agree on that, I think we are just trying to find a compromise so that most people can easily dismiss the perspective that parenting tech is too hard. And if people can believe that typing in an age for their child and see big penalties for big tech if they ignore that age, that seems to me the placebo this situation needs.