Where will my vote go?
Zagorath @ Zagorath @aussie.zone Posts 165Comments 3,657Joined 2 yr. ago
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Out of interest, are the alternatives compatible with Lego? As in, made to the same sizes?
Mainly it's just a typical conservative culture war thing. Bikes are for the elite leftists, so we must get rid of them.
The usual argument against bike lanes is that they take away space from cars and therefore make traffic worse. It doesn't matter to conservatives that this isn't true, and they actually reduce traffic.
Cyclists are not some evil malicious group intent on making things worse for you. If they're on the road, it's for a reason. There are numerous possible reasons, and it's not up to you to decide what that is. Just chill out and drive safely. Some of those reasons can include:
- Bike lanes are often blocked by temporary signs, parked cars, etc.
- Bike lanes often get debris like gravel, sticks, and leaves swept into them.
- Separated bike paths might not have convenient entrances that let the cyclist get on, forcing them to continue along the road.
- Separated bike paths might not have convenient exits where the cyclist is headed.
- Separated bike paths might not be well-designed to keep cyclists safe and ensure they have priority at driveways and crossing side-streets.
- Paths might literally just not go where the cyclist is headed (e.g. they continue straight, cyclist needs to turn right, which can only be done/is only reasonably quick when done from the general lane).
- Paths might be disconnected or temporary, and not worth getting onto in the first place.
Some of these might be, as you suggest, the result of them being "poorly planned", but it can also be the inevitable consequence of historical bad planning even if the specific path here is good.
Looking at what I think is Wimborne Rd on Google Maps (because I don't know the area, and what Google tells me is Wimborne Rd is clearly not what you mean, I'm assuming you mean what Google calls Hartcliffe Way or A3029), I note a few things:
- They appear to be a shared paths, not dedicated bike paths. If there are a lot of pedestrians around at a certain time, it can be a bad idea to use them. This may especially be an issue as it looks like a significant bus route.
- Street furniture galore. Lights, bus shelters, even an awful chicane at one point.
- Leaves.
- The path is not continuous across all driveways and side streets, including the one across the side-street Google calls Wimborne, and an extremely dangerous looking one crossing Headley Ln.
- You say it's on both sides, and for a stretch that's true, but the eastern side becomes extremely difficult to navigate (if it even exists) north of the turnoff to Parson St, and the western side disappears entirely south of Novers Ln, necessitating a multiple-stage crossing to get onto the eastern side if you want to continue.
2 pi is tau, which is what I said it's less than 0.1 away from, but still not equal to.
Universities that closed their Confucius Institutes:
- University of Melbourne
- University of Queensland (UQ)
- University of New South Wales (UNSW)
- University of Western Australia (UWA)
- Adelaide University (probably)
- RMIT
Universities that still have a Confucius Institute:
- University of Newcastle
- University of Sydney
- Queensland University of Technology (QUT)
- Griffith University
- La Trobe University
- Victoria University
- Charles Darwin University (probably)
What's the significance of that number? It's less than 0.1 away from tau, but somehow I doubt that's it...
Fwiw Stanford was basically a scam. The story as it's usually told is a lie, and its results are in serious contention, even beyond the usual replication issues psychology studies have.
Milgram is a good study, and even seems to have survived multiple replication attenpts, but its results are often overstated in their broader applicability. Notably: there are issues around the idea that it is "authority" that causes people to comply, as is usually claimed, instead of a belief in "expertise" or trust in the system (e.g. that a university-authorised study is obviously not going to kill people). Still, the conclusions are good enough for the purposes of your comment here.
The dirty little secret is...there is no "true markdown". There are multiple different implementations of markdown that have been created by different people at different times, all vaguely based on the original not-very-robust definition created by John Gruber with assistance from Aaron Swartz in 2005. But their definition never mentioned superscript at all.
Because of how unrobust it is, in 2014, some people got together to define a robust specification and called it CommonMark. But again, this does not mention superscript.
The closest you'll find to an "official" specification for the extra bits of markdown that aren't in the CommonMark spec is probably here. But this is really more attempting to describe extended markdown as it is used on the web at large already. In addition to super- and sub-script, it also deals with tables (which work the same way Reddit does them) and fenced code blocks (the triple backtick method, which Reddit does not support—instead supporting only code blocks via four spaces). Though both fenced and indented code blocks are actually in the CommonMark spec.
Reddit, obviously, is one site that famously implements markdown, and has done for a very long time. On Reddit, superscript is done with a caret before the superscript text, and whitespace after it. Unless you use brackets, in which case the superscript lasts until the closing bracket. e.g. normal^superscript text would make "superscript" superscript, but nothing else. But normal ^(superscript text) would make "superscript text" superscript. But then there's a second caveat, which is that Reddit supports double (and triple, etc.) superscript. But in these cases, brackets do not work. They unintuitively completely break things.
Lemmy also uses markdown. The Lemmy specification for how to use markdown is located here. You'll note that it supports both superscript and subscript, which Reddit does not. It does both of these according to the method explained in the "markdown guide". Though there are a few issues with inconsistent parsing of the markdown on lemmy-ui (the default web front-end) and some apps (including Jerboa, the 1st-party app).
The big advantage of the markdown guide method is that it is most similar to how other markdown works. You don't implicitly close italics on a word with just one asterisk; you need two asterisks—one to open italics, one to close them. Likewise, bold with double asterisks. By using a character to both open and close your super/sub-script, you are making a much clearer and more deliberate intention about what you want, and allowing people to learn things more intuitively, because it all works the same way as each other.
No need to escape the carets. On Lemmy, superscript is done by placing a caret both before and after the text you want to be superscript. So
x = x^1/2^ * x^1/2^
becomes
x = x1/2 * x1/2
Ah, but postage stamps are completely fungible.
I was thinking of the HTTP verb, you're right.
You forgot the third group, !fuckcars@lemmy.world
Some even have sinks in each stall so you can go from wiping your ass straight to washing your hands
See, I emphatically do not want that.
If I could rely on everyone else washing their hands properly it would be great. But I don't want to have to touch the stall door that has Aleppo been touched by people who haven't washed their hands after I've washed mine. I want the hand washing to be the very last thing I do before exiting, preferably via a push door that I can push with my foot or in a spot that fewer other people would push it.
Why would someone on a help desk be expected to know what POST is? A software engineer, sure, but helpdesk? If it's needed knowledge…that's what training is for. Businesses' expectation that people will come into the job already knowing exactly how you do things and never require on-the-job training is absurd.
That doesn't disagree with what I said, though?
Luckily, splintering is generally-speaking not an issue, because of how our voting system works.
If it wasn't for Cyclone Alfred, I reckon my prediction of 12 April (given WA went crazy good for Labor) would've been correct.
The Greens range from centre-left to genuine communists. There aren't many of the latter, but it's more than you'll find in Labor. And even Labor's centrism is closer to communism than the LNP's far right.
The pinging would be done by the back end, not the UI, so no, I don't believe it would ping them.
It leads to their profile on your own instance.
Your vote goes where you want it. Preferences do not ever get fed anywhere in Australian federal elections anymore. There was a thing called "group voting tickets" prior to 2016, where you would vote 1 in the Senate "above the line", and the party could send your vote where they wanted. But these were abolished. They no longer exist. And they never existed in the House of Representatives, anyway. I'll address both houses separately, and pretend you live in Adelaide and it's the 2022 election (just because Adelaide is first alphabetically).
House of Representatives
You'll get a green ballot paper with a number of candidates on it. They are in an order that is randomly chosen by the AEC (but is the same for everyone in an electorate). In your case, 7 candidates, in order: Liberal, Labor, United Australia, FUSION, Greens, Australian Federation, One Nation.
All you have to do is number them in order, with 1 on your favourite, 7 on your least favourite. If your favourite does not achieve 50%, it'll go to your second favourite. If they don't get 50%, it goes to your 3rd, etc. In all likelihood, eventually your vote will be given to either the Liberal or Labor, unless you live in one of a small number of electorates where the last two candidates are different (e.g. Greens or an independent).
If you don't number every box, your ballot will be discarded and won't count for anything.
Senate
You'll get a large white ballot paper with a number of columns on it, each column containing up to 6 candidates. There is an "above the line" section and a "below the line" section. Above the line is parties, below the line is individual candidates within those parties.
As you're (in my hypothetical) from South Australia, your ballot contains 23 columns, labelled A–V, plus the "ungrouped" column. Independents can run entirely ungrouped, or they can form a small group together to get their own column. Like the House of Representatives, everyone in your state gets the same ballot paper, but it's chosen randomly.
In South Australia in 2022, Liberals are column C. Labor are D. Nationals are G. Greens are P. One Nation is S. You can choose to do research on the others if you like, but to keep it simple I'll stick with these.
If you vote above the line, you number at least 1 to 6, with 1 on your favourite party. For most people, this is probably what you want to do. If you vote below the line, you number at least 1 to 12, with 1 on your favourite individual candidate. The process is similar to the Reps, but instead of reaching 50%, they need to reach 14.3% (instead of 100%/2, it's 100%/7, because each state elects 6 senators). And, if a candidate gets more than precisely 14.3%, your vote actually goes to the next candidate on your ballot, proportional to how much more than 14.3% they got.
Voting above-the-line is the same as voting below-the-line for those parties in the order that party wanted. But only in the order that party wanted for their own candidates. So, if you vote 1 Greens, 2 Labor, 3 Nationals, that's the same as voting
The only reason to vote below-the-line is if you don't like the order a party puts their own candidates, or if you want to avoid some of a party's candidates entirely. For example, if you kinda like Barbara Pocock, but you really love Melanie Selwood, and you're ok with Labor in general, but really love Penny Wong and really hate Don Farrell, you could vote below the line to do this:
The other reason to vote below-the-line is if you want to vote for some of the candidates in that "ungrouped" section.
For the vast majority of people, there's very little reason to do this, just vote above the line. Your vote for the Greens can never go to any other party without you choosing to number that party.
Because you only have to number up to 6 in the Senate, it is possible for your vote to be "exhausted". In this case, it is as though you never voted at all. It does not make your vote for the candidates you did vote for any stronger than it otherwise would be. All it does is make it easier for the parties you disagree with the most to win. Because of this, I would strongly encourage you to keep numbering all the way until you have numbered every party with any reasonable chance of winning a seat. That means make sure your numbers include: Greens, Labor, LNP (or Liberals and Nationals), One Nation, Trumpet of Patriots, Nick Xenophon, any independents who are particularly strong, like David Pocock in the ACT.
You don't have to do this, but I recommend you do, because not doing it increases the chance that the party you like the least will win. For example, you might dislike Labor 90% but dislike the LNP 99% and dislike One Nation 99.9%. If you don't number all three of those parties somewhere in your list, it is more likely that One Nation will end up winning the seat, or the LNP will, rather than Labor. But it won't increase the chance a party you like wins, such as the Greens or Animal Justice Party. If you think Labor winning would be better than the LNP, or the LNP would be better than One Nation...even by a miniscule amount, you should number them all.
At the last election, I made the mistake of not doing this. I stopped once I got to Labor, I think, or maybe a few smaller parties after Labor. But I didn't number LNP and One Nation. And unfortunately, One Nation ended up winning the last seat in Queensland, by a small margin, over the LNP. I don't like either party, but, well...one is clearly worse than the other. I won't be making that mistake again.
Timing
Close of Rolls is 7th April. If you haven't already, make sure you're enrolled and have your address updated with the AEC by this date.
Declaration of nominations is 11th April. After this date you'll know 100% everyone who is running in your seat for the House of Representatives and in your state for the Senate, and can do research. In the meantime, this Wikipedia page lists most of the major candidates from most parties.
I hope that helps!