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You're missing the point. This anecdotal evidence is where it did happen and is verified by the media It's painting a patter of vis refusal for online criticism of Trump.

There is lots of anecdotal evidence of people who have been critical of trumps on social media being denied entry, including high profile cases.

Yes, but the data isn't being used to silence criticism, like in the USA. However, that just goes to show how important privacy laws are in principle, not just based on who's in power. Who's in power changes.

lol, I’d forgotten about threads. So, it’s still a thing?

Yep, ive applied for visas in many countries and loved in multiple, long term. You follow the rules or risk being deported. I've friends that were deported, and friends that took advantage of amnesties when they were available.

I know there are au pair visas in some countries to allow similar work with few restrictions and payment in kind. However, I think they mainly include child care.

What all those who think she shouldn't have to follow the vis rules aren't aware of is that she's likely undercutting those that followed the rules and also that human trafficking takes advantage of people in arrangements like these and use your visa breach as leverage. Less commonly for people from countries like the UK, but it can happen to anyone.

It's fine to hate on the oppressive state of America at the moment but those in breach of their visa conditions are not the best martyrs for a cause. The ones unfairly prosecuted for non visa breaches, like ethnicity and sexual orientation are what we need to fight.

If it wasn't me, the owner who did it, but it was someone on the payroll, like a manager. If they were on holidays, and had to do it as it's their responsibility, is it now considered work?

Of course it's work. It's spending your time, doing a task for a business.

If they are a friend. If you're doing so as a trade, then it's not a courtesy, it's a transaction.

It's not work because you're depriving someone of the job, it's work because you are doing a task for a benefit. It's just a non cash benefit.

Lol, you clearly have never done payroll. Payslips need to be generated timesheets entered and payments need to be authorized. Not all staff work full time or work on a fixed schedule, so set and forget a standing bank order is not viable. I would imagine that's the case for most companies and businesses that employ hourly paid employees. Salried positions are generally in offices but even then they can vary.

She was doing work for a benefit. It wasn’t cash, but it had value. If that wasn’t work, and therefore not taxable, everyone would just switch to getting paid in services and benefits that aren’t cash.

She was treated extremely harshly but she was working illegally. There are lots of digital nomads that do similar. They work in places where they are staying on a tourist visa, it’s illegal. I run a small business. When I am away on holidays overseas, my staff need to be paid. I log in and pay them while away. Technically that is in breach of my visa for most countries, I’d say.

Yes, the more people see that what they observe is not reported in legacy media, the.mkre they seek alternatives.

Labor, who are in government have been pretty milquetoast, so they were rising in the polls. Even as preferred prime minister for Dutton, the (conservative) libs leader. However, as it became clear an election was to be called imminently, Dutton has dropped significantly in the polls. It seems like a grass is greener situation, but as people check out the other grass, they realise it’s just green paint on shit.

It probably hasn’t helped that they linked themselves to trump in the past and have recently tried to fawn over musk in the hopes he would fund them. I think, similar to how Canada is rallying with nationalism against trump and the libs there had a turnaround in fortunes. However, the situation the USA is less real here as we don’t trade as much and the tariffs don’t really affect people, just billionaires, who were already unpopular.

I'm quite surprised by this. I grew up in Ireland. There is no swimming lessons in school. My kids who are growing up here had lessons for most of their lives, except where not permitted during covid. They also do nippers.

Most other kids I know do swimming lessons (privately) weekly ongoing, whereas I grew up learning to swim with weekly lessons in bursts of a few weeks. Nippers is less common unless you live near a surf club.

I'm sure it's dropped as the article suggests, but I'd say it dropped from a high starting point.

Yes, that was Russia's plan on Ukraine. So, likely the same going forwards.

I think the rise of a platform like substance is a good thing. It does provide a way to monetize independent voices. The rise of Ghost is a direct descendent of that. It's a shame that we are all so easily corralled, with 'friction' to other sites being such a problem. I fully expect substance to enshittify as per Cory Doctows original meaning. I just hope that enough alternatives are in place that this becomes swifter migration each time.

I think open source web, with independent media is actually starting to take off, and be taken seriously. Legacy media is broken and long form reads are gone. It's 24 hour news cycle speculation and constant breaking news instead.

Yeah, I think the indie scene is more creative with all aspects. Art, mechanics, themes. However, they still follow previous work and develop on it. All games would be necessity be more creative if all parts were patentable.

I think there is a case to be made for parents as they protect innovation. However for software, which develops rapidly, it's more a choke on innovation and development as innovation is more iterative.

It's the same in all art. gaming just has mechanics and code that is more easy to fall within the patent system. Don't get me wrong, I don't support parents on game mechanics. However, I think for many games we are rewarding derivative dross rather than innovation and novelty. There is a middle ground.

Perhaps parents for a shorter period, maybe 10 years. With development lead time, this would actually be shorter in practice. However, the flip side would be that if you apply for a patent, your code becomes open source after the patent expires. For that game and all derivatives of the patent sold during the period. So make the option to patent something have an upside for consumers and other companies too.

Or we'd have a huge variety of different games that are more creative.

Gosh, who hasn't made disparaging comments about Trump online. No way of book a flight to the USA if I might be stopped at the border.

It's getting pretty crazy, pretty quickly, as expected.

There is an old agave. The voters always get the candidate they deserve. There is plenty of blame to go around. Voters deserve some of it. Non voters deserve some of it.

When the ira was bombing the uk and thatcher was lucky to not die in a bomb, there’s a famous quote that they only need to be lucky once, she needs to be lucky every time.