Paradoxvoid

I'm using 'didn't vote' to include submitting an empty ballot, which for the purposes of the Electoral Act, is the same thing.

It forces politics to the centre. Parties put a huge amount of effort into 'bringing out the vote', and do things to appeal to the fringe which is how you get characters like Trump finding success. When this isn't a concern, parties can focus on policies that appeal to the majority of people rather than fringe groups that they can use to guarantee voter turnout.

Yep, this is why the Senate is much more representative, and why the big parties who control the House of Representatives hate it so much.

Australia has mandatory voter turnout, but you do not need to submit a vote. You just need to show up on polling day.

So just to clear up a technical misconception here - the wording in the Electoral Act is quite clear. All enrolled electors are legally required to vote. It's only a consequence of the secret ballot that makes this provision unenforceable, so someone can turn up and get their name marked off while not submitting a vote without facing any consequences, but it is technically an illegal act.

If the AEC were to come up with some way to determine that you didn't vote without betraying that secret ballot, they would be within their rights to issue a you a fine.

Yeah that's what made me jump ship to Boost - I sincerely doubt that even if I used Sync for ten years, the value of the ad impressions I give would be worth A$35. I can basically buy a huge number of high-quality games for that amount.

Ultimately this won't change unless young Democrats actually take over the party and shift the overton window back to the left.

This generally, and specifically electoral reform is the only way to get the USA out of its two-party hellhole.

It's still a marathon, but a significantly less annoying one that doesn't have large sticky mud sections randomly throughout (the metaphor breaks down a bit here...)

I used One Pace to catch up recently and it's very good - downside is a lot of the earlier arcs aren't complete yet, but the OG anime isn't quite as bad with those so it's typically ok to just watch the real one for those arcs.

Americans merely adopted the nonsensical measurements. The Brits were born to them.

I think it'll actually be Xarmageddon, which is like Armageddon, but much more woke.

I'm surprised he hasn't changed his name to Elon Mux by now.

Ok but who actually doesn’t know what a magazine is

Kbin devs, apparently.

Android Debug Bridge - it's a tool you can use to access parts of Android you don't normally have access to directly on the phone.

Well Google has recently been forcing through its awful Web Environment Integrity proposal so...