Unless folks are just flying elsewhere? then no, if they’re are staying home, excellent news!

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/life-after-oil/2016/02/11/how-far-can-we-get-without-flying

Hour for hour, there’s no better way to warm the planet than to fly in a plane.

This iai going to be as drawn out as the SCO thing isnt it

Or maybe more like the Jarndyce v Jarndyce in Dicken’s Bleak House

Apple is apple. They don’t make false claims about how walled off they are.

That’s doesn’t make it a good thing.

Canada is paying for it with tariffs

No, the argument you pulled out of no where that Mossad will deploly backdoors in open source is the strawman, the implication being open source bad, m’kay. Could they ? Of course but thats an entire separate argument.

the midterms are going to be a massacre for Republicans no matter how much money they throw at it,

I don’t think that assumption will age well

I think we should just go the Swiss-route and do direct democracy;

That’s literally the Anarchy system. I.e Laws and no leaders.

As an Australian who has ranked choice (we call it preferential) it’s not the panecea folks here seem to think it is to bring about the enlightenment.

I’m 58, have voted in every election from when I was eligible through to this year. We don’t have ICE but we have Border Force and we routinely deport non citizens, we inspect digital devices at the border, we off shore legal refugees in internment camps, we have zero care for the enviorment and love penis shaped defence spending, we are a car dependent shit hole with few redeeming qualities… It’s ever been thus, Donad Horne oponed on this in the 1970s.

We don’t have feedom of the press or freedom of speech, so often these things are unable to even be reported on at all and our most egregious atrocities have widespread support amongst the broader population. In that respect its not as big a divisor as. n the US as we’re all arseholes :) We’re happy to allow religious scumbags to discriminate against LGBQT folks, happy to have our privacy removed, are quite fond of fucking over our indigenous peoples and the wider enviorment and near zero concern for exestential issues like climate change. We’re happy to shit over homeless people and have unaffordable housing and racism is broadly endemic.

We have never elected a government that i think is anything but objectively fucking horrible, we have our tongue firmly stuck up the US foreign policy asshole and follow them into every stupid dumb shit military action. We have had the occasionally decent poltican but then so does the US (Bernie etc) .

Like us, your people are broken and you’re not going to cure what ails ya’ with RCV.

Nahh people will always bu fcukib’, its just contraception, it’s often why the “moral arm of government” /s aka religions, go after contraception.

Let’s hope so

You say booming ? But every woman needs to have 2.1.on average to have a stable population, so “booming” would be 4-8 at least, per woman. Is it that high ? Hungary ?

Australia’s first female member of it’s federal parliment had 13 kids for example, my mother was one of 8, I was one of three, my brother has 2, my sister and I none.

I was refused (tried a few tines from 18-20) and had it done overseas im my late 20s. Thay was decades ago though so it might have changed.

Am Australian.

Im 57, i tried to have a vasectomy at 18 and was refused here in Australia mutiple times over 2 years because “I would change mind” and I was told I would meet somone who would want to have kid with me and they’d be upset if i was unable to."

I flew to Thailand in my late 20s and had it done at the end of a holiday there in a hospital in Bangkok, no pun intended.

Centeist ? The slow drift to fascism as they appease the rabid right and dont work towards the issies that really need solvong ;(

Fuxk voters

And Australia

Indeed, looking at your Portugal, Australia, UK, NZ, Canada etal

Texas right ?

I say have at it.

How does that sqaure her circled with open carry ?

This reminded me.of this incident in Australia where a 95 yr old.woman with dementia using a walker was holding a knife and they tasered and killed her

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66229582

Fascinate the fools then muzzle the intelligent. (Bertrand Russell)

The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other. - Bertrand Russel