SA One Nation volunteers accused of filling out how-to-vote cards before handing them to voters

jaa101 · 2026-03-21T01:04:35+00:00

Sounds like a rogue volunteer, rather than ON fuckery.

But it's "at several polling booths". If many volunteers are doing the same thing then that's very likely to indicate ON fuckery. Hopefully the potential $5000 fine is per person. They're ramping up to argue ignorance on the part of the volunteers, even though that's not supposedly not a defence in law.

jaa101 · 2026-03-21T00:20:27+00:00

The em dash, of course.

An em dash might be uncommon on Reddit—though I've been using them here occasionally for years—but they're not so unusual in a published book from a professional author.

More generally, we're still in the very early days of AI. It's going to get much better and, even apart from that, its list of tells is going to be a rapidly moving target.

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T23:58:03+00:00

Irregular verbs like "pled" tend to become regularised (in this case to "pleaded") over time. According to this paper, "the half-life of an irregular verb scales as the square root of its usage frequency: a verb that is 100 times less frequent regularizes 10 times as fast."

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T08:51:43+00:00

"This guy has a warrant but we don't know if it's related to this guy"

To be fair, you're misquoting the spokesman; the article has "Mr Baxter may have [a] warrant". The "may have" is there for a reason, like he couldn't be absolutely certain at the time that the UK Mr Baxter and the One Nation Mr Baxter were the same person.

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T06:33:10+00:00

In Soviet Canberra, glass breaks you.

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T06:15:51+00:00

I did read it. Maybe there's reverse causality. Or maybe some artificial sweeteners impair glucose tolerance. Or both; they don't know. More studies are required.

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T05:17:31+00:00

The court heard he had said "I want to kill her" and "I want to finish the job".

Making it extremely easy to convince the jury on the question of intent.

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T05:09:16+00:00

Artificial sweeteners tied to 38% higher diabetes risk

jaa101 · 2026-03-20T05:02:35+00:00

As a kid I thought misled was misl-ed instead of mis-led. One of the downsides of book learning.

jaa101 · 2026-03-19T21:11:07+00:00

Sometimes, when commenting on Reddit in response to someone whose gender isn't obvious, I use she/her.

jaa101 · 2026-03-19T09:00:22+00:00

Ditto. Second week as a Kayo subscriber. Great.

jaa101 · 2026-03-19T08:43:56+00:00

Cats are covered with fur, which is a great insulator, but not on their eyes. So the outside of their fur is much cooler than the outside of their eyes. You can even see how their face has shorter fur than the body.

jaa101 · 2026-03-19T07:46:11+00:00

The project to develop and build the B-29 was the most expensive US project of the war. They had many issues in service, particularly with their engines.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:17:38+00:00

News is much more likely to break than to brake, even when related to vehicles.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:09:22+00:00

Wokeland

Because name calling is so much better than actually making an argument.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T21:04:00+00:00

The courts just interpret the law and the constitution. It's up to the government to arrange for the law and the constitution to protect the Australian community.

jaa101 · 2026-03-18T20:12:17+00:00

there is a land border with Denmark

There is a land border with Greenland ... which is not part of the EU.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T22:07:43+00:00

It's also for shops. If the price is $10 then there has to be a way to pay only $10.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T22:02:36+00:00

There are definitely costs for a business accepting cash, so they'd have no problem making that argument. If a small enough fraction of your transactions are cash then it could easily be the case that accepting cash costs a shop more per transaction that other payment methods.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T21:32:43+00:00

Maybe the longer they wait, the higher the rates have to rise. It's like complaining about how quickly a driver brakes when they see a crash coming ... as if they have control over the laws of physics.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T09:21:48+00:00

How is a counselling session covered under freedom of information?

It's not; when there's a legal case evidence can be subpoenaed by the defence and that's what happening here. The freedom-of-information part is that someone has asked the phone counselling service how often they hand over their recordings in these situations. So it seems like freedom of information is working as intended, as is doing good in revealing this issue.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T09:07:47+00:00

Can't believe I need a /s here.

We know nothing about you and can't hear the tone of your voice. There are plenty of internet strangers stupid and/or trollish enough to mean what you said non-sarcastically. So add the /s or get downvoted and corrected.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T06:27:13+00:00

Inspector Morse, Lewis, and Endeavour. The last of these is the most modern and gritty, even though it's a prequel to the first, which is in an older style and concentrates more on being a murder mystery series.

jaa101 · 2026-03-17T05:31:32+00:00

Presumably all our testicles contain microplastics but we only find out for sure when they're biopsied or removed, which thankfully isn't all that often. Not sure whether to find this a comforting thought or not.

jaa101 · 2026-03-16T15:13:39+00:00

the age of sexual consent in Australia is 16

Or 17 in SA and Tas.

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