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https://www.betootaadvocate.com/world-news/australia-moves-to-ban-maple-syrup-because-fuck-you-too-canada/

Australia Moves To Ban Maple Syrup Because Fuck You Too Canada

Non-AMP link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-16/yeppoon-council-suspends-electric-vehicle-charging-project/105177008

Purplepingers is an anti-landlord activist currently running for the Australian Senate with the Victorian Socialists party: https://pingers4parliament.com/

He's previously done a lot of 'naming and shaming' of landlords (https://www.shitrentals.org/) and compiled lists of unused properties that people could squat in.

Reading between the lines, this video is encouraging people to fuck with properties rented out through Airbnb, or at least trying to mess with the heads of the 'hosts'.

You don't need to vote below the line to choose your own preferences in the Senate anymore. 'Above the line' voting is now preferential, with at least 6 boxes needing to be numbered.

Is there any resource out there that can show me where the preferences get fed to, so I can make an informed choice.

You choose your own preferences.

On the House of Representative ballot, this has always been the case. You must number all the boxes.

On the Senate ballot it used to be the case that if you voted 'above the line', you could only vote '1', and nothing more, and the parties decided the preference flow. That is not the case anymore. Now, the Senate ballot has partially-optional preferencing 'above the line'. You must number at least 6 boxes if you vote above the line, but you can number all the boxes above the line if you choose. I would encourage numbering as many preferences as you can with the knowledge you have. (You can also number below the line if you want to pick your own ordering of the candidates for each party/group.)

See: https://www.aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_Senate.htm

Or: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/senate/ (and the one about House of Representatives voting: https://www.chickennation.com/voting/).

I'm happy to answer any further questions if you have them, don't hesitate to ask 🙂

Good point, thanks. I've added a content warning.

This SMH live post provides a bit more information: https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-news-live-accc-puts-most-profitable-supermarkets-in-the-world-on-notice-israeli-strikes-kill-dozens-in-gaza-20250321-p5llcp.html?post=p58d1c#p58d1c

9.01am

Government pledges $2.9m to help suppliers stand up to supermarkets

By Josefine Ganko

As the ACCC supermarkets report reveals how the duopoly exerts power over consumers and suppliers, the government has announced $2.9 million in funding for produce industry associations to support education programs that will empower farmers to enforce their rights under the Food and Grocery Code.

Speaking at a press conference in Canberra, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says the funding was about “strengthening the arms” of the groups that represent farmers and producers. Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra

Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher at a press conference in Canberra Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

“We want to make sure that when our supermarkets are negotiating with our farmers, that we can strengthen the arguments of the people who produce our food.”

Chalmers added that Labor’s move to make the code mandatory and to introduce bigger penalties would also benefit suppliers.

Assistant Minister for Competition Andrew Leigh added that there were particular concerns around fresh food producers being required to agree to annual contracts, but then being subjected to week-to-week bidding, with the notion they will face much lower prices at the markets if the big supermarkets don’t stock their produce.

“This new initiative does ensure that the suppliers are going into those negotiations better able to take on the big supermarkets,” Leigh said.

RIP 😢🍆🐋

Gotta keep the working class divided somehow, because if we're united...

In the article, the AEC says Starlink is only a backup.

Also, there's a lot of remote polling locations where the only options are satellite-based - so if they're planning to use the NBN satellites (Sky Muster), but a backup is required, Starlink makes sense for that.

Absolutely. Some of those fucked-up stars look like maple or cannabis leaves 😆 It's not like Palmer couldn't have afforded an illustrator, either. Right-wing boomers just love AI garbage for some reason.

Oh, and as a bonus, the Latin is wrong 😆

@quokka1@mastodon.au Lion go 'doot doot'

Barcode numbers can sort of give an indication.

The first three digits are determined by the country the barcode was assigned in. The barcode can't tell you the country of origin of the product, but it's fairly likely the company that made the product is headquartered in the country indicated by the code (or at least has some administrative presence there).

Here's a list of country codes for reference: https://www.barcodestalk.com/learn-about-barcodes/resources/barcode-country-codes

Here's a Snopes article about what the country codes can't tell you: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-code-origin-point/

In some states, but not in federal elections (in House of Reps).

Right now, I have a cron job set to run on Monday and Friday nights, is this too frequent?

Only you can answer this. How many days of data are you prepared to lose? What are the downsides of running your backup scripts more frequently?

Europe is closer to China than us. Why aren’t the Brits, French and Germans doing this?

Australia is slightly closer to any part of China than Germany is, but Australia is much closer to the Paracel Islands (Germany is about 9000km, Australia about 4000km).

The rest of your comment is spot-on, though. There's no way we're getting those nuclear subs.

Yet another case of China aggressively placing its territory near American military assets. They must be stopped 😡😡😡

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Roman_emperors_murdered_by_the_Praetorian_Guard

'The Hague Invasion Act'

While I was looking for a Christ the Redeemer keycap (posted pic in another comment) I came across another statue keycap that is even pointier than the one in the original post:

source: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1830835231/statue-of-liberty-keycap3d-printing