brisk

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[–] brisk@aussie.zone 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This isn't the Democrats, it's the FTC

Under Lina Khan's leadership they have been revitalised and started to act as an actual consumer advocacy and anti- monopoly organisation again. They have been prosecuting long-overdue cases since the start of her appointment.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Budget / priorities / interests?

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

Or parambulator if you're still trying to meet your daily syllable count

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The Dolphin Essential loses:

  • [...]
  • Connected Services Data Plan

That's a gained feature in my books

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Lots of little things that don't like being stepped on, but no really big predators. No wolves, coyotes, bears etc. Dingos, cats and tassie devils only really hunt small stuff.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The ideal is that a functional government doesn't change all the time, but a nonfunctional one can be removed before too much damage is done. Consistency isn't beneficial if it's consistently bad.

I can't argue against the potential for constant campaigning.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I do agree with fixed terms, and would probably vote yes in a referendum that only offered a package deal

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 15 points 7 months ago (5 children)

"If you've got a three-year cycle, in practice, that often means that you really only have a shorter window of perhaps a couple of years to bring about substantial reform, by which time you're looking at the next election," he said.

No, you have three years to bring about substantial reform. If you decide to prioritise campaigning over reform, that's your decision and a longer term won't change that.

There was a significant push for one year terms early on, I'd much rather see that than a reduction in our democratic voice.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Birds aren't somewhat related to dinosaurs, birds ARE dinosaurs. You can have a dinosaur dance party right now with a bunch of cockatiels.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago

The entire OS? SteamOS has custom repositories, but I'm reasonably sure for the most part it's a normal KDE Desktop running on Arch Linux with Steam Big Picture auto starting.

[–] brisk@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

All the mandatory labeling on the cans is in English, and based on the conversions the volumes are in US Fluid Ounces. My money is on the US, and an unmaintained labeller

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