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They just need to carve out a religious exemption.

Before Milton Friedman and his colleagues popularised the term “trickle-down”, it was known as “horse and sparrow economics”, in reference to the distribution of oats.

Given that Labor have a lower house majority but not one in the Senate, where the Greens hold the balance of power, this will not change the need to negotiate with the Greens (or the coalition) to get legislation passed.

It still sucks, though. Bandt has been a capable leader and has presided over the transformation of the Greens from a mostly-single-issue environmental protest party to a broad party of the left of the sort that Labor can no longer claim to be, pushing issues like rights for non-homeowners and expansion of Medicare. Fingers crossed that he scrapes through.

They should at least outlaw the exclusive deals with venues and artists which they use to crush the competition.

At Facebook, that sort of thing would just be called an ordinary workday.

and ducks evolved opposable thumbs

Except perhaps in the UK, where there’s a Labour government who are triangulating rightwards Blair-fashion, but who (if recent local elections are anything to go by) look likely to be replaced with a far-right populist party that’s actually a private company controlled by donors.

The Coalition has been a stable political entity for generations, and is structurally more like a party with two formalised factions and centres of power than like two parties temporarily cooperating. (In Queensland, they have even merged into one party.)

The ALP are hardly Whitlam-style socialists, but they’re somewhat more progressive than UK Labour, in that they at least purport to be progressive, rather than banking their capital, rewarding donors and distracting the public with culture wars inherited from the Tories.

Mind you, they do most of that when the Greens hold their feet to the fire. With Labor having a lower house majority, it will depend on the Senate to force them to do the right thing.

Israeli security industry: builds virtual CPUs out of memory overflows in image libraries to crack open iPhones, can McGyver data across air gaps by writing to RAM in a pattern that generates radio frequencies

also Israeli security industry: sells an app that archives Signal messages by emailing them in plain text

Next, he’ll write the foreword to a new edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, now reclassified for the Inspirational/Self-Help/Business section.

Wonder if this will improve or worsen their safety

The good news is that the shutdown in Chinese container shipping will give them plenty of time to grind through Duolingo

Those new Xiaomi phone cameras are something else

Apparently seating on aircraft is allocated similarly.

New tattoo design just dropped

If Canada had Australian-style preferential voting (i.e. you numbered your candidates in order of preference, and if your first choice got eliminated, your vote cascaded to your second, and so on until it was tallied for your least-disliked of the two leading candidates), the Liberals would have a significantly more comfortable margin (assuming that they got most of the Greens’ preferences and at least half of the NDP)

Then maybe she’s not the one

also known as hydric acid

Their business is being on show. Not having a black outfit in case of a relative dying or some period of national mourning would be a case of you-had-one-job.