Will the Libs use their freedom to move back towards the pragmatic centre and bring the teals back into the fold (or replace them with better-supported candidates of a similarly moderate persuasion), or will they instead invite One Nation and Family First to dance?
The upmarket ones can advertise having new CRT monitors. By then, surely someone will have started a factory somewhere making them in artisanal quantities for well-heeled retro-gaming enthusiasts.
Tomorrow’s bingo halls will instead be net gaming centres, and the old men sitting at tables in bars playing cards will be playing Balatro.
They abandoned the gold standard because it suffered from acute boom and bust cycles.
Technically, the stress drills in IDF Krav Maga training would count
You know those hipster events where they see how many people can gather riding penny-farthings while dressed in tweed or something? Perhaps this is that only slightly modernised.
I’m more interested in which Reform councillors are facing allegations of not having shared enough racist content.
The lower house, which legislates, is not proportionally represented, so even with preferential voting, Duverger’s Law applies and pushes towards two main parties (though not as strongly as under FPTP). The federal Senate is proportional, and there there are plenty of parties, with the government needing to deal with crossbenchers to pass legislation.
Sweden should strike the same deal with Ukraine and base its Maguras on Gotland (which will be a flashpoint should any shenanigans happen in the Baltic).
Maybe if they bring back the Tory-era cabinet ministry of “Anti-Wokeness”, that will do the trick. If not, it’s time to beat up migrants and trans people again.
If your soda machine is not a Sodastream, you’re under suspicion.
They just need to carve out a religious exemption.
It’s ingrained to avoid attraction to siblings we grow up alongside, though anecdotally there have been many cases of siblings who grew up apart discovering they were siblings after meeting as strangers and feeling mutual attraction, so the biological instinct may just have evolved around the most common case.
Given that Labor have a lower house majority but not one in the Senate, where the Greens hold the balance of power, this will not change the need to negotiate with the Greens (or the coalition) to get legislation passed.
It still sucks, though. Bandt has been a capable leader and has presided over the transformation of the Greens from a mostly-single-issue environmental protest party to a broad party of the left of the sort that Labor can no longer claim to be, pushing issues like rights for non-homeowners and expansion of Medicare. Fingers crossed that he scrapes through.
Farewell to a real one
Mullvad or Proton. I use Mullvad and am happy with it.
“fertility totems”, surely, “for religious or ceremonial uses”.
Maybe the uses were only masturbating oneself to orgasm with them, though it must be noted that this was done as solemn, mystical propitiation to fertility gods, rather than purely for sexual gratification.
Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions
Some anti-Europeans in the UK still refer to the metric system as the Napoleonic system, after the French dictator who threatened to invade England.