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@peterbrown @benroyce @nuintari @Strandjunker I periodically suggesting using "percentage of the population who vote" as a measure of how democratic a country is.
By that measure the US falls from "at risk democracy" to "somewhat democratic", but amusingly Aotearoa with optional voting matches Australia with compulsory because it lets more people vote.
It's contentious because to most people not letting everyone vote is just obvious common sense
@rupert @twobiscuits @Lats @benroyce @nuintari @Strandjunker voting at the NZ embassy in Sydney was similarly easy. They had signs on the footpath and all the way up to the 20th floor, then a very efficient system for actually voting. Good enough that I don't remember it because it was so quick and easy.
Voting is important to the governments of Oz and NZ, they *want* people to vote.
@daveburb @Lats @benroyce @nuintari @Strandjunker most people vote early now. It's much easier to pop past an early polling booth than deal with the polling day crowds (queues can be more than 10 minutes on polling day! Unpossible!)
@silvermoon82 @ascentale @realSiegfried @MarkBrigham @Trailanderror @bikenite oh, and if I'm ever round serious cyclists I call myself an unserious cyclist or a lighthearted cyclist.
@ascentale @realSiegfried @MarkBrigham @Trailanderror @bikenite transport cyclist.
Or "everywhere all the time" cyclist, because a lot of the cyclists I know are either recreational or commuter cyclists who default to cars outside of the niche they cycle in.
@yantor3d @ascentale @bikenite Yay! Congrats!
@ascentale @bikenite A1: Sydney, Australia.
I'm back from shopping and my "it's not *that* worn out" front tyre is apparently that worn out after all. So last week's purchase of spare tyres will be in use earlier than planned.
I have also bought cheap generic "M5 - 0.8 Coarse x 5mm Stainless Steel 304 Cup Point Grub Screw" rather than 5x the price Rohloff oil drain hole plugs because I couldn't find my spare one of those. It's in the garage. Somewhere. Probably.
@cstross that one is such obvious garbage that even if someone tried to follow it they'd fail.
The danger is with plausible but wrong. OTOH the one showing phase and neural linked is going to go bang quickly, where swapping phase and earth is a known killer. Maybe that's why the LLM wanted a fused earth?
