Nath

Adhere to the regulations, whatever the fuck they end up being

I'll send everyone a DM: "Hey, are you over 18? Yep? cool."

I have verified that all our users are over 18. 👍

It is kinda relevant. If you are hired to do a job for five days. And you are paid the agreed amount for those five days, even if you are told you don't need to come to work days 4 & 5, are you actually that hard done by? What damages are you seeking?

I mean - the court answered this question: Justice Rangiah said the "appropriate award of compensation" for non-economic loss was $70,000.
The ABC recognised they did her wrong. My biggest concern with Aunty's response is this "We extend our sincere apologies to Ms Lattouf and wish her well in her future endeavours."

That sounds like a 'we will not be hiring you again' to me. After recognising they shouldn't have taken her off the air. I think they should have her back.

Oh this again. I had forgotten about it. According to the bill's definition of "Social Media", we (aussie.zone) meet it. Which means we need to somehow adhere to whatever the government deems necessary to confirm our userbase's ages. Thing is: I can't see any instance outside the country caring about this law. Why should they?

I genuinely have no idea from a technical standpoint how you'd enforce this.

This is a really interesting case. I’m a little surprised at the result, to be honest. While I agree with it (she was absolutely taken off the air for her political opinions), I also concede that the ABC did in fact pay her to the end of her 5-day contract.

Hopefully the next time a bunch of special interest people put pressure on the ABC, they’ll have more of a spine about it. Honestly, what possible power did 100-150 or so people have over the ABC that the’d fold so easily? It boggles the brain. Oh no! 0.0008% of Australians really don’t like an employee! Let’s get rid of her!

It's taken all day, but I've managed to listen to this in the background at work in between stuff.
I finally got to the end, and realise there's a part 2! Oh man. I'm not entirely positive I can take another hour of talking about these loonies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIrcWtuLkdA

So far, the tl;dw is "These people are wrong. None of their bullshit actually works, and some have lost homes or ended up in prison over their idiot ideas".

Which brings us full-circle to this article of two guys being imprisoned over their mistaken belief of being outside the law.

My employer is a corporate identity that is giving me instructions all the time. I often even follow them.

Perhaps I'm not the living being?

Port Headland doesn't have anywhere near enough water to support a major population. They're already looking at borefields and desalination as options to meet current projected population growth there. That's overlooking the fact that it would need major infrastructure upgrades.

Cool, how long ago was this?

A couple of years ago at a University Open Day.

Isolation.

We are very far from anywhere. The nearest major city is over 2,000km and that only gives you Adelaide. Next nearest are another 1,000+ km further still.

It's such a contrast from Sydney, where 2,000km gives you Brisbane, Melbourne, Canberra (ok that one isn't very major), Hobart, Adelaide - even Auckland.

I have tried a tiny sample of what was meant to be a hamburger pattie/mince thing. It was not big enough to really judge - but it gave an idea.

It tasted different, the texture was definitely different to what you know. But it wasn't bad. I think we'd get used to it. They said they were nowhere near making a steak be similar.

Also interesting that Australia's population is now 28 Million. Which is a lot, but still doesn't put us in the top-50 nations by population.

After a threshold. You don't want to tax some poor pensioner who has lived in the same 2-bedroom cottage in Carlton for 60 years, simply because that location is now worth $2Million.

And now it's complicated. How do you find that threshold?
If it's per-person, you'll find rich people divvying up their portfolios to family members to distribute this tax benefit.
If you grandfather it in so it only affects future property purchases, you disincentivise retirees from downsizing to a smaller place, freeing up some 4-bedroom house.

Taxation policies are hard.