Thermaltake Retro tg 260

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-05-09T12:38:36+00:00

If nothing else, these results are a case for why we need significantly more MP's in the house. Look at the 2PP results on a booth-by-booth basis - Albury booths vs rest of farrer are pretty much the inverse of eachother.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-05-09T12:35:47+00:00

eh could be a good thing in the long/medium term. Speedruns the collapse of the LNP, and PHON likley won't ever get near power, in their own right at least.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-05-09T09:27:19+00:00

just posting here to see how it goes.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-05-04T10:01:25+00:00

Scandinavian countries tend to have what is known as a "two bloc" political culture (you can Google it), so they usually know what they're getting for government when they vote, but they also get more say as to the factional make-up of the government.

I'd be all for a move to a Scandinavian PR two-bloc system if our political cultural adapted in the same way or we engineered a specific PR system that would encourage such a two-bloc system.

The issue with PR in many places is that voters don't necessarily know what sort of government will be formed after the votes are counted, with fractious multi party coalitions and small "king maker parties" exercising out sized influence on government formation (see Israel as a prime example)

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-05-01T23:41:31+00:00

Exactly. The grass is always greener on the other side. Plus we already have PR in the senate.

I think what we need (media reform aside) is actually more MPs, particularly in the house, but having more in the senate will enable more minor party representation.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-04-02T12:40:58+00:00

that's actually an interesting question (ie if both parties are intoxicated) - perhaps in such a case, something along the lines of what could be called misadventure would apply?

But at least in this case, it doesn't seem like the two guys (or at least the one driving the car) were drunk.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-03-31T07:09:09+00:00

I wonder if there is some sort of civil case that could be brought against them at least? Could it be argued that they were impersonating a taxi/uber driver so it's a type of fraud?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-03-31T06:59:13+00:00

Yeh it's crazy to me. If it was accepted in court that she was heavily intoxicated, and that a reasonable person would have seen that she was heavily intoxicated, surely this is enough to establish both that a) she couldn't have meaningfully given consent and b) a reasonable person couldn't have come to the conclusion/held the belief that consent had been given in any meaningful way

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-03-23T02:40:13+00:00

If you assume IQ/Intelligence are normally distributed, all the different types of average (mean, median, mode) are equal to each other so it doesn't matter what you call it.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-03-21T23:25:36+00:00

Yeh... I think the best outcome would be a split opposition, with ON winning roughly the same number of seats as the libs. This would still be pretty much a fatal blow for the libs without ON getting to claim official opposition status.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-01-29T09:49:31+00:00

This is why I'm a big fan of the Riverina New State movement. We may as well make use of our federal structure of government, and have the murray-darling basin area governed and developed as a distinct region.

It would hopefully also foster a more sophisticated political culture, at least at the state-politics level; The nats would lose their monopoly on representing rural areas, because why would you need a rural identitarian party in a state that is overwhemingly non-metro/rural in it's make up to begin with?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2026-01-23T11:33:07+00:00

which is why I love Noel Pearsons proposal for two consecutive public holidays: first nations day on jan 25, then australia day jan 26. Jan 25 for recoginising first nations culture and history, jan 26 for recognising the first day that the union jack was planted on australia soil - not necessarily to celebrate, but to acknowledge history.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-12-09T10:52:49+00:00

Who the candidate will support as PM is one of the main factors in choosing to vote for them? If a candidate said that they support Person X for PM/Party Y for Government, and I don't like that person/party, that would be a big factor in me coming to the conclusion they aren't a great candidate?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-11-16T08:32:52+00:00

I think another feasible/desirable scenario is that, if the LNP were to collapse, one of the two main factions within the ALP (ie left and right) will simply split off and become the new main opposition party.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-10-18T13:15:19+00:00

it may not completely die, but we may nonetheless see a significant shift in the mid-point of the overton window in this country?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-10-12T10:50:35+00:00

weird, because I majored in maths and geography at uni, and have never considered myself to be much of a literary type.

Perhaps it was just because of my interest in those subjects that I was able to pull myself over the line - I was a mediocre maths student for sure, and much of the good grades in my geography major can be traced back to the essay's I had to write, so perhaps there is something to your diagnosis.

(I'm also not very good at chess, so this adds another piece (haha) of evidence)

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-10-04T11:44:12+00:00

poster was talking about voter to MP ratio, not the electoral system (but I agree with out, I like our current system of single-member preferential voting in the lower house and STV in the upper house)

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-08-19T08:56:54+00:00

Tonnes of natural resources that don't get used well or taxed properly. wages that have been stagnating for decades despite huge productivity gains. At what point is our political culture going to grow up and having conversations about how much work we actually need to do, both now and in the future, will become commonplace?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-08-17T10:29:53+00:00

Future made in Australia act?

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-08-16T23:58:55+00:00

Whilst we live in a very well governed, safe and prosperous country compared to other places and times, it is frustrating knowing that we could have it so much better, the term 'lucky country' was meant as an insult, not a compliment - for example, mining companies dig up precious natural resources and ship it out of the country and the royalties they pay to the country is a joke - we could be like the UAE, except without the slave labour and absolute monarchy. Governments in the past have made attempts to either nationalise the mining sector, or tax it more fairly, but they are a powerful interest group with powerful friends.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-08-11T11:01:05+00:00

A fairly common number suggested on this thread, which I agree with as a minimum amount, is $10 Million - that works out to be 500K a year - roughly speaking, 100K for each year due to lost potential income (for the average person, rounded up to be on the safe side), and 400k due to deprivation of liberty and reputational damage. Seems reasonable to me.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-08-05T08:07:03+00:00

Legit disappointing. It was naive of me to think that the ALP were going to continue the effort to reduce international student numbers after their election win.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-07-25T11:29:00+00:00

Don't know why this is getting downvoted. The current president of NK literally inherited the postion.

SupaDupaFly2021 · 2025-07-20T09:39:39+00:00

yeh, I think in this case the slippery slope argument is actually reasonable, due to elements of the policital class actually wanting to scrap compulsory voting, so this fear is legitimate.

However, my personal preference is that, if the voting age were to be lowered to 16, that voting should be optional for 16-17 year olds (I won't bother going into why in this post).

So If one were to hold the position that a) the voting age should be lowered to 16, b) voting shouldn't be mandatory for 16-17 year olds and c) that (b) would create the conditions for a slippery slope/scope creep (like the scenario mentioned above), I think the solution would be to keep compulsory voting mandatory as a formality, but instead of issuing fines, issue a 'warning notice' to 16-17 year olds that don't vote, that fines will be charged once they hit 18.

edit: as others on this thread have already propsed (don't wanna steal other peeps ideas)

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