the real question I have: is this more than the same rural/city divide

Could be just that. Take a look at the booth breakdown. Almost every booth inside Albury (the largest city in the electorate) went for the independent. The 2nd largest city, Griffith, is the home to the only other booth that went that way. The rest of the mostly-rural electorate went orange.

Welp, time to hoard milk and bread I guess.

I honestly think articles like this are irresponsible reporting because they create panic and invite precisely the kind of hoarding that will make the problem more likely to occur.

I wish he had a proper lawyer.

Yeah seriously. FFS.

Oh, I misread. The headline I read (not this one) said that he was pleading insanity.

Honestly disappointed. I’d have liked to see a straight up “not guilty” plea, and go hard and direct on the constitutional angle. It’s pretty obvious that the laws violate the implied right to freedom of political communication. They serve no function but that.

The threat of being sued or charged with criminal fraud.

Particularly dangerous in an environment where the courts are in the pocket of fascists.

Is the title’s curious parallel to a certain illegal phrase intentional? I can’t see what reason it would have for being so, but I equally can’t see how such a specific phrasing could have arisen accidentally.

Not trolling. A genuine Nazi. They support Israel’s invasion specifically on the grounds of “lebensraum”.

Reminder to everyone that the person No1 is talking to here is a Nazi.

Cool. I stopped paying for it back when it was still called “YouTube Red”, during one of their many crackdowns on creators’ freedom in the name of benefitting advertisers. I dumped it and installed an adblocker, and eventually YouTube Vanced and its successor Revanced.

Oof. Lumo wrong too, in a different way. There’s no federal electorate of Aspley. The suburb of Aspley is in Lilley and Petrie.

Stop looking to LLMs for answers

You don’t look for it. Google shoves it right there where it’s unavoidably the first thing you see.

The “critique” is a non-issue pushed mainly by uppity Europeans

fwiw I’ve seen it most often from Latin Americans.

The first woman (Christina Koch), non-white person (Victor Glover), and non-American (Jeremy Hansen) in deep space. And Reid Wiseman.

Higher speeds increase fuel consumption

I believe most cars are at their most efficient at city cruising speeds of 50–70 km/h. Because there’s a trade-off between air resistance and the efficiency of the engine & gearing.

Yeah that’s a fair point actually. Nicely done.

You’re trying to argue with a Nazi. It’s not worth your time.

I don’t care what a Nazi wants.

You’d think it’s obvious, but every time any government or council tries to do something to improve public transport options or bike paths, both of which also take cars of the road and make it easier for drivers, people come from all over to complain about how they have to drive and therefore it’s a bad idea!

Reduces demand and reduces the amount of traffic on the roads, which has the dual effect of further reducing demand (since the trucks themselves get places faster and more smoothly, using less fuel) and also improving operational efficiency because trucks arrive sooner and more predictably.