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100%. This is just eleventh-hour arse-covering.
zero_gravitas
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Five Labor MPs defy NSW premier and vow to attend pro-Palestine march across Sydney Harbour Bridge
(www.theguardian.com)
Video from Aussienaut that was mentioned in the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-4xv0UxIhY&t=5554s (link should take you to timestamp 1:32:34)
I'm guessing it's phrased as a 'recall' because either
A) It's an 'optional recall' and you could return the phone if you want (in which case they will probably just factory reset and update the firmware and give it back to you)
B) The terminology the ACCC uses (possibly must use due to legislation) is old and just doesn't neatly fit the case of a fault that can be addressed by an over-the-air firmware fix
If we are banning wood heaters, then we should ban fossil fuel cars as well.
The article specifically mentions that fewer deaths are attributable to vehicle emissions than to wood heaters:
The Centre for Safe Air at the University of Tasmania estimates long-term exposure to wood-heater smoke causes 729 premature deaths every year in Australia, which is more than the deaths attributable to emissions from the national fleet of 20 million vehicles, or from energy generation, or even bushfires.
Yeah, looks like a normal weight even for a chihuahua is above 1.5 kg (https://dogslim.com/articles/dog-weight-chart.html), with grey-headed flying foxes (the largest Australian bat) weighing typically less than 1 kg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey-headed_flying_fox). It's maybe possible their 'leg-span' - excluding wings - could be similar, though? No idea.
But its findings have been openly mocked by journalists and publications it has found to have breached standards, including News Corp, which has allowed its journalists to call the body “foolish” and “idiots”.
Yet if the government ever tried to regulate, the first thing the Murdoch press would do is talk about the Press Council and how good the self-regulation system is.
Guardian Australia is not a member of the Australian Press Council but it has an independent readers’ editor who investigates complaints and publishes corrections and clarifications.
I wasn't aware of that. I'd be interested to know why. I guess it being a largely Murdoch-funded initiative might factor into it, but I suppose also that a publication doesn't really need a self-regulatory body to deflect from the introduction of government regulation if that publication isn't constantly doing the kind of stuff that warrants regulation (like News Corporation is).
User is on aussie.zone, post is on !environment@aussie.zone, article is Australian - yeah, might be Australian... 😜
You may have 'accidentally a word' in the title here, FYI:
and to avoid recording the names of MPs who on some motions
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You might be able to set up a user-script to bring it back if you feel strongly enough about it.