It's so unfair, I've been in grippysockjail three times and they never gave me the socks!!

To the left? Good.

I dunno, I grew up in Ballarat and went to Uni in Bendigo, and I think the latter definitely skews further right. Ballarat is the home of Australian democracy, and folks are really proud of that fact. It's always refreshing going home because people fly the Eureka flag without being racist cunts.

Catherine King is also just very popular locally. She makes sure to be quite responsive through her electoral office.

Anyway, all this is to say that if the Nationals tried a similar run on Ballarat they would have failed spectacularly in my opinion. There was a 2.5% swing to Paula Doran (Lib) in Ballarat, but King held it still with a 10.5% margin.

Y'all have first past the post / winner takes all, don't you? There was a vote recently and "labor" won from what I'm reading?

Others have answered you that we have preferential voting, but I'm still really confused about why you're asking in this way? It makes if sound like FPTP would have stopped them from getting elected, and preferential would have prevented it.

As for what's going on, Dutton, the leader of the Coalition, and members of that group of parties associated themselves with Trump, who's really unpopular here. They also provided literally no policies to genuinely help with the cost of living issues people are facing, instead engaging in culture wars stuff. We have mandatory voting here as well, you can't just sit it out, so it makes the sort of apathy+populism that has gotten Trump elected not possible. The silent majority of voters rejected Dutton and the only other major choice was Labor.

You know what, that's actually a really interesting perspective, thank you. I agree with that.

I think that any one voter can still have voted "wrong" in terms of their own beliefs and desires though?

I hope Tara Burnett gets elected in Cooper, the first trans MP would be such a big win!

It's not powerful enough to affect those things, you usually need a stronger electromagnet to start causing issues. I have tried to make the mag-strip on a credit card stop working. As for MRIs, you can actually, they just need to treat it like non-removable shrapnel :)

Oh gosh, I can't even imagine a body modder carving some flesh out to implant something! There's definitely a little bulge but it settles in closer than you'd think.

Here's the BME (Body Modification Encyclopaedia) page about it (TW Blood): https://wiki.bme.com/index.php/Magnetic_implant

It was invented by Steve Haworth and he's trained folks across the world on implanting them. The magnets he gets made and sells on to body modders are the gold standard because they're chamfered to be pill shaped before being encased in body safe plastic, so there are no sharp edges that can split. I got it done at a place here in Melbourne called Piercing HQ back in 2017 for AU$300, and last I checked the price hadn't gone up.

The coolest thing about it is that it's not just a magnet in your body. It actually hijacks your sense of touch to provide a "magnetic sense". It does this by basically squishing the skin between the magnet and whatever you're holding it against. So I can tell when something is magnetic, versus ferromagnetic, I can sense electromagnetic fields, I can feel when the field around an electric motor is particularly "dirty" bc it's a cheap brushed motor, compared to the "cleanness" of a good brushless motor.

One really weird/uncomfy thing that happens is that a large external magnet can flip the internal one around so the poles are opposite again. It's an incredibly weird sensation.

Anyway, let me know if you have anymore questions <3

If this is actual silver, then it's not a perfect spoon to me. I had a magnet implanted into my right pinky finger for stimming reasons, and for me a perfect spoon must be ferromagnetic (i.e. attracted to magnets, steel).

I think that's not quite right, otherwise you could say that Rufus is the same. Ventoy is a Live USB tool that allows you to drag and drop ISOs onto a storage device and boot them without needing to image the device at all. It has its own interface that it boots into, that lets you select which ISO to then boot up.