So I should spend more money and natural resources on an overpowered EV so I can save a little bit of money on a wine tour?

Also, I’d just take the bus or train. I wouldn’t really fly domestically because planes suck.

No I’m not. I’d take a bus or train if I were going interstate.

A war criminal is someone we’re obligated by law to arrest. We are not obligated by law to arrest the president of Israel (only the prime minister).

Why would you drive between capital cities? There’s public transport for that.

I need to drive from the bush into the nearby major town and back again. 50km round trip.

I’m guessing the sales of emotional support vehicles would drop overnight with that policy.

People are surprisingly unkeen on tracking in their car. So kilometers driven wouldn’t work.

I’d say just go with a fee based on the weight of the vehicle, exponential of course. We need fewer heavy cars, fewer kilometers driven will be a side effect. And as a bonus effect maybe I’d be able to buy an EV without a range that’s 8 times what I actually need.

It’s more like 1.001th class citizens. Gun ownership is not a right, it’s not statistically significant in terms of the classing of citizens.

It’s not common sense that a permanent resident should have all the same rights. It’s perfectly valid that if someone isn’t considered worthy of being a citizen they should also not be considered worthy of owning lethal weapons.

Yeah, you’re right.

But I think today what needs to change is that only gun clubs themselves should be able to own guns, not members of gun clubs.

The optics are bad of restricting gun ownership to citizens, but guns ought not be something people are entitled to like they are in America. It’s common sense that to use a gun within Australia someone should be a citizen of Australia. A non-citizen can always buy a bunch of guns, sell them, then hop the border to their home country.

In short, there should be the absolute maximum restrictions on guns. Every lever possible should be pulled.

They’re just as personalized. Google knows everything.

Apparently there was some academic research making the rounds a few years back about this (and legislation moves slow). Of course, the law is still written by tech-illiterates.

There’s a really simple solution to this that e-safety refuses to consider. Let anyone make an account but limit public interaction until age is verified. That way they could apply the ban to everything from Reddit and 4chan all the way to Steam and Github without major disruption (well, maybe with Github it’d be a bit disruptive).

And while they’re at it they should do something about algorithmic brain rot.

And Gen Alpha is pretty cooked. They’re gonna forget entirely about the ban in a week, if they even notice (because the ban only applies to accounts and not many even use social media logged in).

They won’t.

They shouldn’t need to.

They will still need to under the current form of the social media ban.

I don’t know about you, but in every circle I’m in the concern is just the abysmal implementation that not only doesn’t address the actual problems but kind of makes them worse, and it’d be really easy to write a better policy that properly addresses that without any ID being involved.

So … it gets worse. Apparently they’re quietly rolling out a porn ban, and part of that is that you won’t be able to “log in to a search engine” without verifying your age. As I understand it a YouTube account is kinda different from your google account but the same isn’t true for google search.

In the past I thought that even though I don’t like it, social media addiction is the issue of the decade. But half the issue is also digital privacy. This not only fails to meaningfully address social media addiction but it also actively worsens digital privacy. This whole crusade is counterproductive.

Officially Steam is not included but they reserve the right to add it back. https://www.esafety.gov.au/about-us/industry-regulation/social-media-age-restrictions/which-platforms-are-age-restricted

As for gmail, I can’t find a clear answer or even anyone who’s asked the question. The whole account deletion thing is stupid, they should just remove all the safety consequences of having an account (limiting interaction, hiding public profiles, etc). Actually they should just make me e-safety commissioner, because I’d do a far better job.

I’m already fully prepared for all my social media accounts to be deleted (because there’s no way in hell I’m giving google my ID).

If they go after Steam or my email then I’d be in trouble, but I think those’ll be fine.

Actual zero is impossible. “Actual net zero” is what we should aim for (climate accounting with offsets can get a bit freaky)