Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government
My naive guess is that if the Turkish government ban access to BlueSky for not complying, that cuts into user count and therefore profitability.
If a tenant isn’t home they will have the key with them, it won’t be in the box.
I was thinking about if a key was taken when it was there, then the attacker leaves to have a duplicate key cut, returns it (to prevent suspicion and the lock being replaced) and infiltrates with it whenever they want.
insurance
I don't know how that kind of property insurance works, but surely there are limits to what is covered? Plus, as another motive, it might just be out of spite, rather than to devalue property.
If you wanted to sabotage surely a molotov through the window would be more effective.
Yes, but there's surely a larger chance of needlessly getting on the federal shitlist for firebombing.
I suspect people mainly use the lockboxes only because other people do
I suspect it's a cheap and easy hack, I don't work with locks but I assume they don't need to 𝙿̝̃𝙰̤͙̑̇𝚈̲̠̤̪͒̉͐͑ ̲͇̳̺͈̽͌̇̓̄ ̟̝̹̞̩͔̼̀͂̓͑͒ͦ̓𝙼̞̹̩͎̣̥͇̟̒̊͂̽̇͗̓͌͊ͅ𝙾͚̲͎̰͔̖̼̐͑͒̀́ͩ̚𝙽͇͍̖̖̙ͮ̓̎ͤ̿𝙴̪̺̜̱̅̋̆̊𝚈̯̘̇̚ to install a whole new locking system on the door itself, just change the lock cylinder and put the new key in a cheap box.
Even if someone picked the lock or cloned a key… all they can steal is some shitty ikea furniture and maybe make an instant coffee.
Well, they could also sabotage the AirBnB if they wanted to devalue the property, or they could steal from a tenant who isn't home.
You can just cut them off (or knock them off the wall), and open them at your leisure.
When it comes down to it, there's usually a brute-force way through most standard locks, say, bolt cutters, pin raking (or bumping), unscrewing the door hinges if they're on the wrong side. But in populated areas, a loud break-in isn't ideal, especially for squatters who plan on sleeping overnight. So for all intents and purposes, I'd assume the point of the lock is just to make it not worth a basic squatter or thief's time and tempt them to search elsewhere for an easy win.
Everyone hides the keys instead now.
I'm curious - if you went to a new construction site, do you reckon you could find their key/s within an hour or two without already knowing where they were?
0/10, didn't recommend an equally-weak lock at the end and call it "unbreakable, apparently, from what I've heard"
Def consider telling them somehow, might be happening to other people too.
+1 for the Thunderbird alert.
Why would they suddenly not vote if it became optional? The problem isn't that they're voting, it's that they don't have the class consciousness to recognise and investigate their core interests in federal politics.
From Condorcet's jury theorem, it's clear that having a few million less voters won't solve the problem, but improving the political literacy of voters can.
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At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he’s doing, and what a load of bollocks his promises were.
Australia election polling:
Canada election polling:
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Voldamort might win for the same reasons trump won.
Which reasons?
It's an important question - we have a very different political environment. That doesn't mean abhorrent reactionaries like Voldy won't take power, nor we won't see similar trends like you mentioned, but, for example, there is high voter turn-out due to mandatory voting and less voter disenfranchisement (~90% vs. 64%), our closest analogues to Trump (Palmer, along with their party leaders) are uptight and lack the public speaking skills to inspire confidence, they sound like generic posh politicians reading scripts rather than casual and approachable, with their party polling under 2%, and with the Lib-Nat Coalition nosediving after the US inauguration (similarly to the conservatives in Canada).
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it’s an indication we need to spend more on education.
Or, rather, better education. I obviously can't speak for everyone's schooling experience but most people I've talked to all had a pretty sterile one, where the most political thing you'd hear is a teacher subtly saying Whitlam was great for arts and education. Yes, there's a trip to Canberra and a bit about how the electoral system works, but that's extremely neutral for obvious reasons.
Now, political and religious neutrality in schools has its benefits (look to some places in the US where some regions are biased so hard they're outright lying) but at the same time, we don't learn about important history. Honestly, as interesting as it is, substitute out ancient history for our country's own history, including post-WWII history.
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I don't know what difference that makes. That's what the money's for, buying media propaganda.
Can you tell us how, so that we can spot and avoid dodgy studies in the future?
Confidential, cross-sectional online surveys were conducted with 4702 Australians aged 18–35 years. [...] A total of 57% reported ever being sexually strangled (61% women, 43% men, 79% trans or gender diverse) and 51% reported ever strangling a partner (40% women, 59% men, 74% trans or gender diverse).
There's no way I could guess the number would be that high. It's very unintuitive.
If I'm reading that chart correctly (disclaimer: im tired) then of the 57% who reported being strangled, the last time it happened, 25% of them didn't consent, and of the 51% reporting they strangled a partner, 16% report their partner didn't consent.
I just can't empathise with that. How are that many people convinced it's ok to just spontaneously strangle a person. I'm always shocked by how common SA is because it's just not talked about as much as it happens.
A couple of months ago (on the anniversary) I listened to one of the Freedom Riders talk about their trip, and they made a point that the eager reception they received was really encouraging, and also allowed them to talk with enough locals to better understand all the different places segregation and oppression existed in towns and how horrific it could be. Understanding their situation was a big piece that enabled labour organisations (incl. unions) of all stripes to unite and fight segregation and end the "Aboriginal Welfare Board". So good on her for showing up, it meant a lot to them to be welcomed and invited in.
I can't find much of it on sites like Wikipedia or ABC news, but I found this interview with Ray Peckham talking about the same events here:
Ray talked with us about a campaign at Port Kembla in this period to illustrate the crucial role of unions. Residents of the Coomaditchie Aboriginal reserve were demanding new houses, but some of the only remaining land in the area was being taken over by the adjacent University.
“Bobby Davis [a local Aboriginal leader] was a wharfie at Port Kembla and he worked with Joe Howe, a delegate from the Waterside Workers Federation.
“They set up a campaign, naturally it was through the Trades and Labour Council and backed by the union. They won that strip of land and had eight houses built on it from that fight.”
In Sydney and Wollongong too, union power was used to fight segregation. Pubs that refused to serve Aboriginal people would be confronted by crowds of trade unionists. Ray explained, “We would get the Liquor Trades Union to put a ban on the pub. Force them to change that way, with a black ban.”
It's important to recognise and remember how united worker movements have historically built movements that forced governments into listening to us - both major parties were resistant to removing the White Australia Policy in the early 60s. That's why Labor's renewed attacks on militant unions like the MUA and the CFMEU are particularly disturbing. Both these unions have been at the forefront, sticking up for protester's rights and social justice, and it will be devastating to all of us if they are successfully squashed.
I didn't know until pretty recently that plenty of segregation existed in Australia within living memory. I didn't learn a word of it in school despite us learning about the Civil War and Jim Crow in the USA, in fact I only knew about the US Freedom Riders.
Whoops, I was going from memory based on last election. You're right.
(only addressing this part, as the other comments have the important part covered)
I feel like this should be a legal obligation, that we are all given this kind of information in a flowchart. But I can’t find it. Can anybody help?
I'd say the Australian Electoral Commission is the most authentic resource for getting facts about our election (seeing as they run it). I wish some of this information was shoved in our faces more.
The information sheets PDFs linked on this page summarise how the vote count works: https://www.aec.gov.au/learn/preferential-voting.htm
Further reading: The preferential voting system we use in Australia is Single Transferable Vote (with the House of Reps using Instant-Runoff Voting with optional preferences. IRV is just a single-winner version of STV), but you'll often hear it just called 'preferential voting' here (other preferential voting systems exist, e.g. Borda count).
Disagree as much as you want, but assuming you're a user, will you keep using it? This isn't a whoopsie, or unexpected. As you pointed out, it will happen again. And it was always the safe, profitable choice for them - they're a for-profit business beholden to VC money, not a political organisation or community project like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.
It's far easier to make that decision before they gain critical mass like twitter and reddit did.