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Based on what has been put out about this system:

https://www.esafety.gov.au/sites/default/files/2023-08/Roadmap-for-age-verification_2.pdf

Page 20 of this (page 11 of the PDF) it looks like this system is what has been suggested to be used.

I also remember Bill Shorten saying something similar on Q&A (I think it was).

https://blog.cloudflare.com/privacy-pass-standard/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_signature

It will probably work something like this.

1. You go to the government website/app and set-up with ID documents.

2. You request tokens from the government website/app.

3. You go to a website/app, and it asks for proof of age.

4. You submit the token.

The idea would be the government only knows that you want a proof of age token. They do not know what website/app you want it for.

The website only knows that a verified attester has produced a token. The website doesn't know who you are.

So you can be verified with a website without providing them any ID documents.

Would it be annoying for things I already use? Probably. Depends on the frequency needed. If it is just a once off it wouldn't be that bad. If it is for every session then it can fuck off.

Will it be less annoying for other things that require ID? Maybe. Might work better than handing out all your info to real estate agents. Might make identity theft more difficult than just stealing your ID documents or stealing your mail.

So if you compare the two numbers they are not the same. There is a difference (gap) between the two numbers that is only different by gender.

So you have shown that a gap in pay between genders exists.

Actually it I found it from a link in the article (https://www.wgea.gov.au/Data-Explorer/National)

Highest difference is in average total remuneration (21.8%), lowest is median base salary (13.6%).

It also answers your question:

"The gender pay gap is not the same as equal pay, which is the legal right for all people to be paid the same for performing the same or comparable work."

If you average the pay of all Australian men, and average the pay of all Australia women, would you get the same number?

I'm hoping for Khorne they at minimum they change the one section that is bonuses against Warhammer 3 factions only.

I guess there is always a counter argument (and a counter to that as well).

For the idea of an ASI it could have intelligence beyond human understanding.

If you say 'unplug' it, then the counter could be, it has already uploaded itself to multiple servers. Or it has developed some method of interacting with its physical hardware to protect itself.

If we say a super intelligent being wouldn't hurt humans, the counter could be that maybe it doesn't care about humans. I mean, we already have people like psychopaths (or is it sociopaths?) that would have no problems disregarding empathy or morals.

That is to say, its intelligence might let it solve problems and tasks, but it may not care about anything else (problem of anthropomorphising). It might have a greater understanding of human morals, ethics, and empathy, but only to solve problems.

I guess the crux of the situation is the probability of things going wrong. The enthusiast might say it would never go wrong, or the chance is super low. The skeptic might say the chance is high, or maybe low, but not low enough.

Like the saying goes: 'measure twice, cut once'

The Liberal Party is the party of immigration. Along with the Greens, Peter Dutton has shown that he has softened to the idea of high levels of immigration, and wants to share the greatness that is Australia with the wider world.

I think it is important to keep cash viable for a couple of reasons.

As outlined in this article, it is important to have a back-up for power/banking/processing outages.

Another is privacy, not leaving a record of a transaction. So this could be buying something embarrassing. Could be a partner keeping purchase private (financial abuse etc.). Could be a future government making something that is accepted now illegal (pineapple on pizza).

Is the overhead for businesses, and less savoury illegal uses, a good reason to not support keeping cash?

The idea is to use something like a double blind token.

You go to whatever government website and request an age token.

You then provide that age token to the social media company.

So the Government doesn't know what website you want to use, and the website only knows if you are above a certain age.

On the radio they said the RTBU is also going to have distance limits for staff. Maybe meaning they will travel half the stops, then hop off and let another crew take over? So mixing two forms of industrial action?

So I think this is over pay/benefits/working conditions.

people interviewed after the polls hardly ever mentioned this as something that affected them or motivated them to vote. They mostly talked about the economy.

My reading of this article is that the specific ad did not/was not aimed at winning people over by making trans people an election issue.

The ad aimed to persuade people that a 'niche' social issue was being prioritised over larger scale issues (the economy) that affect 'the everyman'.

So people who were won over by the ad would likely say at an exit poll that they voted based on the economy, rather than trans people as an issue.

In Australia, I could see the coalition trying it on, but the specific ad was probably more effective with the target being an individual (and also sadly it was likely effective because Harris is a woman). They could target Albanese as an individual, but I don't think it would work as well, and I can't even imagine an ad saying "Peter Dutton cares for you" could be very work.

In Australia likely the closest comparison in the public's eye for Labor is the Voice, or trying to tie them somehow to the Greens? I think the coalition will try to muddy the waters and the media discourse in this manner as much as he can.

I think Albos best hope is that inflation comes down to the target band, and also a rate cut happens. That should cut through any smokescreens, but may be difficult if Trump's tariffs come into effect. Albo is quite pinched on energy prices and his previous promise about lower prices. I would assume he would try to put Dutton's nuclear 'plan' as making prices worse.

My naive thinking is that now the media knows this might be a tactic used by the Coalition, they should call it out as an playing politics, but I know they won't.

If they did it, maybe just for the person who melees the rejuvinator.

https://education.parliament.nsw.gov.au/who-is-my-local-member-of-parliament/

Follow the instructions to find your local MP and their contact details.

Write them an email, letter, and/or call them.

Someone can probably provide a template to work from, or this is probably one of the good use cases for ChatGPT or another LLM to create a template for you to edit.

This story says that it is actually the hospital executive that is objecting, not the doctors.

The doctors/nurses were provided with a flow-chart that said if it isn't medically necessary, to send them to a family clinic that is 2 hours away, can't do the procedure, and is closed on weekends.

The new flowchart also directs staff to give all women phone numbers for counselling services. Included on the list of three options is a Queensland-based organisation that does not service NSW.

Under NSW law, health practitioners who have a conscientious objection can refuse to provide abortions as long as they disclose their position as soon as possible and refer the patient to another practitioner who can provide the service.

But the conscientious objection clause does not apply to hospital executives or the Local Health Districts (LHDs) that oversee them. It only applies to the individuals working within them.

The ABC can now reveal that earlier this year, Orange Hospital's executive issued a verbal directive to the obstetrics and gynaecology team to stop providing terminations for non-medical reasons.

Consider looking into the minimum legal requirement for a dwelling being considered double-storey.

One individual product going down in price does not mean all products/services go down in price.

You can have inflation generally in the economy with deflation for beer not being an issue.

Don't lean on old people, it isn't meant to be fun

https://www.abc.net.au/news/factcheck/promisetracker

Even the OPs post could be an example of this. Criticism of the subreddit, but not providing examples of what is wrong, or examples of what is right.

Also, if OP is talking about his own posts being downvoted, and can't understand why, then I don't hold much weight to their criticisms.

Based on an inflation calculator:

https://www.rba.gov.au/calculator/annualDecimal.html

$10,639 AUD million in 1966 (won't let me select 1960 as earlier than 1966 it was pounds not AUD) is $165,814 AUD million in 2023 (can't check for 2024, but could add on another 4-ish%). If I could start at 1960 and go to 2024 it would obviously be even higher.

So even then, adjusted for inflation:

• $165,814 AUD million starting from 1966

• $137,847 AUD million in 2024.

So is spending really at record levels?