driving while unhealthy, tired or whatever or taking drugs known to increase violent tendencies like alcohol.

If it was up to me, alcohol would be banned as well but such a ban would be largely impractical and there would also be a large black market formed just by how easy the stuff is to make—it literally used to be a learning exercise in year 12 chemistry in QLD. When it comes to driving when unhealthy or tired, there is generally a choice to not drive and if you do crash you will almost always be identified as being at fault. So it’s not like there is no recourse for those poor decisions. With vapes the user cannot stop anytime they want, they’re addictive and there are companies exploiting that.

It’s a lot easier to avoid fog machines than it is people vaping. I’ve never seen a fog machine at the train station…

Not exactly, as they won’t be promoting the vapes as they’ll be plainly packaged and they’ll be heavily regulated. They will still profit but not encouraging it

Are you saying that vaping is a good thing and a net positive?

A bunch of businesses will basically be shut down because of this … they can’t exactly pivot to something else

It’s a damn shame too - I don’t know what we’ll do without all those businesses built around exploiting drug addicts

Thanks for linking that, their position makes a bit more sense now, at least by restricting them to pharmacies there won’t be as much of a black market

I’m not sure I understand the Greens position on vapes. Are they pro-tobacco or something? or is it about creating a black market?

Why? Because he held the US to account?

I’m not sure about it either, but I heard about it from someone who works in school IT so I’d figure they know. There’s probably exemptions for social media, since they’re all run by large powerful offshore companies

I think there is a legal requirement that it should be hosted in Australia as it involves children

I used to generate locally and then delete everything and then upload on the old host, which took way too long with my shitty internet connection so I moved to CloudFlare pages but would rather host in Australia - I guess if I want to automate things I could go with a VPS

If you don’t know, vote no!

I just saw an opinion piece by Chris Kenny in the Australian whinging that the “majority” of the media isn’t giving Dutton a free ride on nuclear. Bro you are the majority of the media. ABC and the Guardian have much smaller audiences

I can’t remember where but they mention in the report that SMRs were the most suitable form of reactor for Australia according to some industry consultation and it being difficult to realise the full costings of the large scale “traditional” nuclear reactors due to government subsidies, lack of transparency and different labour costs in Australia VS somewhere else 50 years ago.

Do you think the Coalition (or any hypothetical but still possible Australian Government) could actually deliver nuclear by 2040? Given the lack of expertise and experience, as well as pushback from States and lack of private investment I think it’s really unlikely

For anyone interested the full report may be found here: https://www.uts.edu.au/sites/default/files/2024-06/20240612 UTSACRI BIDA Poll 2024 - Australian views on the Australia-China relationship_Introduction and executive summary_0.pdf

However, the report fails to say what the actual questions are…

Some interesting excerpts:

Acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines under AUKUS: Nearly half of Australians (48 percent) agreed that ‘The Australian government’s plan to acquire nuclear submarines under the Australia–UK–US (AUKUS) trilateral security partnership will help keep Australia secure from a military threat from China’, a four-point increase from when the view was first measured in 2023 (44 percent).

Victoria residents (71 percent) were significantly more likely to agree, while Australian Capital Territory residents (29 percent) were significantly less likely to agree.

so the subs aren’t terribly popular.

The possibility of military conflict with China within three years: Half of Australians (50 percent) said that ‘Military conflict with China within three years is a serious possibility’, a continuation of views expressed in 2023 (51 percent). Twenty-three percent disagreed and 27 percent expressed neutrality.

And the media/LNP narrative about war with China is kind of working.

better bang for your buck

No, you’ll definitely get bang with nuclear 💥💥💥

They’re on a mission for their coal mining buddies here. They’re disparaging the CSIRO, pretty much all of Science and Engineering, Energy companies and now Andrew Forrest.

Maybe they need to consider that they are infact wrong

I’m sorry I did that, it was out of lack of experience and a knee-jerk reaction to reports from users who weren’t happy about posts all being lumped in the one community. I’m not proud of the mess that was early on, and I’ve switched the priorities to look after this community first, and allow the others to grow in their own right alongside this one. Pretty much the advice you gave when questioned, just quite some time later. Thank you for your contributions to this community.

I can’t filter by community but you’ve got the most posts out of the regular posters:

1. You: 392
2. Me: 328
3. @zero_gravitas@aussie.zone: 304
4. @vividspecter@lemm.ee: 261

Special shout out to @MHLoppy@fedia.io who has been doing a lot of posts here as of late and @Mountaineer@aussie.zone who made a lot of posts here in the beginning which really helped to get this community going.

Here you go:

You’ll have to chase up Melbourne if you want your medal for highest points