I’m always looking for alternative browsers, can I ask what you use?

First past the post inherently reinforcers a two party system as voting for a third party benefits the parties that you least want. That’s the spoiler effect.

Approval voting doesn’t have that problem, so alternatives can actually show up and be viable.

RCV (actually IRV) has less of a spoiler effect than FPTP but it still has a substantial “centre squeeze” effect as moderate candidates — with broad support but few first preference votes — get eliminated early.

There are much better voting systems that actually attempt to identify the Condorcet winner. The only advantage AV or IRV have over Condorcet methods is simplicity

Definitely regional in Australia. Drinking fountain gang here.

How close do you want it to be?

I’m a big fan of the OpenBook

https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/moon/pink.html

The Full Moon in April is named the Pink Moon after the pink flowers that bloom in spring

It’s literally just a full moon in April.

“We can coordinate the next steps together.”

The reference to “next steps” is ominous because it’s not clear what they are.

What a dramatic platform to say nothing of substance on

Because anti-trust has not been enforced this century, with the exception of Lina Khan’s work as the FCC director.

Companies have been pushing the boundaries further and further for decades, with almost no push back.

Not enough brass, though

If I were designing a representative democracy from the ground up, I would have only one house with full proportional representation. I’m not compelled by any of the arguments I’ve seen in favour of multiple systems side by side like we currently have, they generally seem to sacrifice democracy in favour of convenience or “stability”

I’m strongly of the opinion that “government” as applied in the Australian political system (ie, cabinet) should not be a single party, but nominees collectively agreed by parliament (assuming ministers are necessary).

Going from where we are now, the lower house needs to change. Multi member electorates would be great. Otherwise, the smallest meaningful step we could take would be transitioning to a Condorcet method of counting lower house votes. That wouldn’t even require us to change the ballots!

I’m not much of a musician, but I’ve used MilkyTracker for some chiptune work

There are two contradictory headlines (both with stats to back them up!) posted within an hour of one another.

I couldn’t comment on which is accurate or if it’s dependant on perspective, I just found it amusing.

The school thing is irrelevant, it was just between them on the feed.

A string has two ends

What level are your students (primary school, high school, technical college, university)?

You said it’s not a core skill, so what is their core skill? IT? Machinist? Electronics engineer?

C is an excellent “fundamentals” language that anyone with a software engineering and maybe computer science should have exposure too, but if their programming is purely practical (e.g. scripting for IT?) C is essentially irrelevant.

Javascript is very narrow in scope but if they’re web designers then it’s essential.

I’ll back the other commenters that if they need a language they can do useful things in (e.g. simple automations, calculations), Python is hard to pass over.

For me streaks are a double edged sword; if I break a streak then the stat becomes a disincentive

Live update has moved on since the headline but there’s a article now https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-18/al-minhad-air-base-attacked-by-iran-no-australians-hurt/106468378

This graph is pretty good too

In the basket. Plate either sat too high or more likely got pulled up by air movement. Those curves you can see in the burn pattern mirror the heating element at the top of the air fryer.

Source: I have been similarly silly