Yes, the Labor Party have demonstrated they’re inadequate to solve our ongoing crises. The Greens appear to have kept their strong crossbench position in the senate so I can’t be too disappointed.

Well, if this is some attempt at a virgin sacrifice, I don’t think they’re doing it right.

Disagree as much as you want, but assuming you’re a user, will you keep using it? This isn’t a whoopsie, or unexpected. As you pointed out, it will happen again. And it was always the safe, profitable choice for them - they’re a for-profit business beholden to VC money, not a political organisation or community project like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.

It’s far easier to make that decision before they gain critical mass like twitter and reddit did.

My naive guess is that if the Turkish government ban access to BlueSky for not complying, that cuts into user count and therefore profitability.

If a tenant isn’t home they will have the key with them, it won’t be in the box.

I was thinking about if a key was taken when it was there, then the attacker leaves to have a duplicate key cut, returns it (to prevent suspicion and the lock being replaced) and infiltrates with it whenever they want.

insurance

I don’t know how that kind of property insurance works, but surely there are limits to what is covered? Plus, as another motive, it might just be out of spite, rather than to devalue property.

If you wanted to sabotage surely a molotov through the window would be more effective.

Yes, but there’s surely a larger chance of needlessly getting on the federal shitlist for firebombing.

I suspect people mainly use the lockboxes only because other people do

I suspect it’s a cheap and easy hack, I don’t work with locks but I assume they don’t need to 𝙿̝̃𝙰̤͙̑̇𝚈̲̠̤̪͒̉͐͑ ̲͇̳̺͈̽͌̇̓̄ ̟̝̹̞̩͔̼̀͂̓͑͒ͦ̓𝙼̞̹̩͎̣̥͇̟̒̊͂̽̇͗̓͌͊ͅ𝙾͚̲͎̰͔̖̼̐͑͒̀́ͩ̚𝙽͇͍̖̖̙ͮ̓̎ͤ̿𝙴̪̺̜̱̅̋̆̊𝚈̯̘̇̚ to install a whole new locking system on the door itself, just change the lock cylinder and put the new key in a cheap box.

Even if someone picked the lock or cloned a key… all they can steal is some shitty ikea furniture and maybe make an instant coffee.

Well, they could also sabotage the AirBnB if they wanted to devalue the property, or they could steal from a tenant who isn’t home.

You can just cut them off (or knock them off the wall), and open them at your leisure.

When it comes down to it, there’s usually a brute-force way through most standard locks, say, bolt cutters, pin raking (or bumping), unscrewing the door hinges if they’re on the wrong side. But in populated areas, a loud break-in isn’t ideal, especially for squatters who plan on sleeping overnight. So for all intents and purposes, I’d assume the point of the lock is just to make it not worth a basic squatter or thief’s time and tempt them to search elsewhere for an easy win.

Everyone hides the keys instead now.

I’m curious - if you went to a new construction site, do you reckon you could find their key/s within an hour or two without already knowing where they were?

0/10, didn’t recommend an equally-weak lock at the end and call it “unbreakable, apparently, from what I’ve heard”

Def consider telling them somehow, might be happening to other people too.

To be honest, it’s a bit disappointing to end up alongside Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy), which is a cover of an existing hit. At least we weren’t robbed as hard as L’Anamour.

It’s insightful to compare the different ranking methods: by average score our submission was ranked 9 but by number of #1 votes, we were ranked equal 5. That suggests we submitted something more divisive than middle-of-the-road pop, and while I don’t think that this inherently makes art good, I believe it’s a hallmark of outstanding art, and a submission worth making.

The list seems to skew towards more aggressive or punchy music (punk, metal, heavy electronic, rock song all landing in the top helf).

+1 for the Thunderbird alert.

I put it 3rd, even without the lovely french sign language visuals, the lyrics itself were enough to put it half way up the list. I gotta say, I’m disappointed to see a couple of generic vapid pop songs rated higher…

Why would they suddenly not vote if it became optional? The problem isn’t that they’re voting, it’s that they don’t have the class consciousness to recognise and investigate their core interests in federal politics.

From Condorcet’s jury theorem, it’s clear that having a few million less voters won’t solve the problem, but improving the political literacy of voters can.

At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he’s doing, and what a load of bollocks his promises were.

Australia election polling:

Canada election polling:

Voldamort might win for the same reasons trump won.

Which reasons?

It’s an important question - we have a very different political environment. That doesn’t mean abhorrent reactionaries like Voldy won’t take power, nor we won’t see similar trends like you mentioned, but, for example, there is high voter turn-out due to mandatory voting and less voter disenfranchisement (~90% vs. 64%), our closest analogues to Trump (Palmer, along with their party leaders) are uptight and lack the public speaking skills to inspire confidence, they sound like generic posh politicians reading scripts rather than casual and approachable, with their party polling under 2%, and with the Lib-Nat Coalition nosediving after the US inauguration (similarly to the conservatives in Canada).

it’s an indication we need to spend more on education.

Or, rather, better education. I obviously can’t speak for everyone’s schooling experience but most people I’ve talked to all had a pretty sterile one, where the most political thing you’d hear is a teacher subtly saying Whitlam was great for arts and education. Yes, there’s a trip to Canberra and a bit about how the electoral system works, but that’s extremely neutral for obvious reasons.

Now, political and religious neutrality in schools has its benefits (look to some places in the US where some regions are biased so hard they’re outright lying) but at the same time, we don’t learn about important history. Honestly, as interesting as it is, substitute out ancient history for our country’s own history, including post-WWII history.

I don’t know what difference that makes. That’s what the money’s for, buying media propaganda.

Thanks for pinging me, I’ll try again :)

Ah, I missed the deadline! Top 5 were a tough pick for me.