It's way more than three ... was my first thought, but I'm starting to rethink that. I don't think China would go quite that far, and once China's out a lot of other countries seem unlikely.

India's definitely one. America two. Russia or Israel are three.

I don't buy the allegations against Iran, I don't think North Korea's interest extends all the way here, and Myanmar's got bigger concerns.

This. If I was designing the social media ban I'd have 3 rules:

1. To post content of any kind publicly requires age verification (messages are exempt).
2. To receive algorithmic content recommendations requires age verification.
3. To install a social media app to your phone requires age verification (desktop apps and PWA's are exempt).

I was going to comment on how Gillard's soullessness and treachery made the headline believable, but then I remembered Abbott eating the raw onion and I couldn't pass up the chance.

EDIT: I just went to double check and the first autocomplete on "Tony Abbott" was "Tony Abbott Onion".

In America elections are fought on turnout. The Democrats in their infinite wisdom thought swinging right would allow them to win on swing voters while losing massively on turnout. To top it off one of the few swing demographics is unions (who are often conservative and, obviously, pro-union) and Schumer lead the charge in abandoning them for the suburban progressive vote a few decades back, and then they threw away the progressive vote by going in hard for Israel.

In Australia, swing voters genuinely do decide elections. The most effective leaders in Australia are radical pragmatists. Furthermore Labor never really abandoned the unions (despite some hickups). If the Liberals get their way with optional preferential voting then Labor may be stuck between a rock and a hard place and we'll end up like Japan with a century of uninterrupted Liberal government though.

It's not that simple. The gas companies are powerful.

The electricity grid may not yet be able to handle the sudden influx in demand that replacing them would cause. Once electricity prices come down due to renewables naturally it would make no economic sense to use a wood-heater anyway.

The names of the Members who are in the minority shall be recorded in the Votes and Proceedings.

Given the amount people are up in arms, you'd assume they're hiding who those 6 people are entirely (and even if they were, it'll really only benefit fringe mp's like the Greens). Sure, it lumps the yes votes with non-attendance but if the vote is overwhelming I don't think a few people not showing up is of much concern to the public interest. Plus the crossbench is well over 6 people so if it's just the major parties this won't even trigger.

Not really, but it's mass-producing garbage content. It's only useless for cost-cutting at the expense of quality and that reality is undeniable, the more it's used the lower the quality of everything we engage with.

Because it's too vague.

It could mean the useless silicon-valley venture that is being slotted into everything and making it worse (generative AI), or it could mean clustering algorithms that are indispensable in everything from medicine to meteorology (machine learning).

I wouldn't really know. I just know there's some kind of issue with that.

And regardless it's true that it'd be a waste of resources to duplicate a "margin-for-error" on every single house to ensure the fridge keeps running all year round.