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Sorry I meant 5 million individuals, not $5m

I disagree. It should have been a complete landslide.

The fact that Pierre Poilievre received any votes at all suggests that almost 5 Million Canadian Voters are still fuckheads.

As evil as Graham Lineham is, I do need to post the parody of these forwarders that was in The IT Crowd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALZZx1xmAzg

I am sure the AEC will do everything in their power to make sure that is an honest and legal election.

I really fucking hope that the people of Dickson vote in their own interest.

I think that the key would to not have the bookings managed by an outside contractor, but monitored by an outside auditor.

I reckon that half of the Ghost Camping issue in Victoria is either ParksVic don’t want too many people at a campsite or the Bookings contractor gets paid a commission on bookings, so add fake bookings to boost KPIs.

The other half are arseholes who think that they would enjoy an empty campsite more than a campsite with other friendly people.

Which isn’t even a slap on the wrist. For modern commercial journalism, being called out on MediaWatch is a promotional opportunity! “Look how much we can corrupt reality, advertise with us”.

Commercial “Journalist” needs to be held to a higher standard.

They should voluntarily do a retraction article of the same duration in the same time slot explaining exactly how they screwed up and how they will restore their integrity in the future.

If they don’t, the industry regulator needs to call them out on it.

Fun fact; osteo-archeologist and palaeontologist students used to be given thylacine skulls to identify as a hazing ritual. They would usually be misidentified as Canine (fox or domestic dog).

They do have different teeth to Foxes and they are smaller than Wolves but the similarity with Domestic Dogs and Dingos are uncanny!

Convergent evolution at its finest!

Taco Bill however is a staple of day drinking mummies and 17 1/2 year olds who want to polish off a whole fishbowl margarita while eating inauthentic TexMex that (while not as good as GyG or any of the independent Mexican restaurants) is much better that Taco Bell.

I have a Tent with built in LED lighting and the switch is illuminated, so you can find it at 3:00AM when you go for a wee. It uses 5V over a USB-A plug. Quite nifty!

The problem is that it does not adhere to the USB spec so after a minute, the power bank decides that nothing is connected and stops supplying power (as a safety feature). You then have to wake up the power bank back up to can find the light switch, which you can’t do without lights on.

Anyone who uses gMail knows (or should know) that their data is being used for commercial purposes. Any business that uses Google.Business or MS Office should also be aware that they are giving away all their corporate secrets, regardless of any “Opt-In”/“Opt-Out” broken promises.

If they get Apple Intelligence into a functional form, (and not an embarrassing hilarious punchline in an anecdote), the will be profiting of my data.

They can claim that it is Opt-In only (until a bug the next software update ‘accidentally’ changes my Opt-out status) and they can Anonymize my data, but that still doesn’t change the fact that they inferred that hey wouldn’t use my data.

At least their user abuse is still less than Mozilla and Google threw out the “Don’t be Evil” motto decades ago…

Is this the same “Opt-In” as keeping Apple Intelligence disabled between software updates?

Apple are haemorrhaging a lot of hard earned goodwill every time they try to move forward with their own AI.

That still doesn’t give them the right to mine the data that their users entrusted to them though a paid service.

It doesn’t matter how anonymised their harvesting is, they had an agreement with their subscribers not to invade their privacy like this.

We are better off with a LLM that doesn’t work than abusing the data entrusted to them by their users.

It won’t be long until the LLM bubble bursts and we all laugh about how stupid we were to think they had any use whatsoever.

The only How-To-Vote card anyone should ever read is the one published by the AEC. It is called a ballot.

The spruikers loitering at polling booths (who are all contractors and don’t give a rats arse who’s junk mail they are foisting upon voters) should all be banned.

Whenever I get political advertising (by email, phone or SMS), I advise the caller that I am on the Do Not Call List.

When they bring up this excmptoon, I reply that I will vote for whichever politician removes this exception.

I am confident that my feedback does not get passed on…

I think CopyWriting is an under appreciated art form.

I had an apprentice that was moonlighting doing contract CopyWriting for a large advertising conglomerate.

First he tried writing himself, then he outsourced to India, then he used ChatGTP, finally, he just submitted nonsensical Lorem Ipsum text. He still got paid and still kept getting contracts.

I think this is more critical about the Advertising industry than CopyWriters.

They do fine for themselves but they are detrimental to the rest of the business.

Should have cost him his job.

I recently found out that a major health insurer is encouraging all staff to use CoPilot for everything.

I am so glad that they don’t have my health data.

It’s not the competitive pricing that is the issue, it the forced upgrade cycle and invasive user policies.

(Except for system admin costs and Mail/File Hosting) a Linux-based solution is literally Free. I would assume that Mail and File hosting for Governmental Entities should be hosted in-house anyway.