Trish Fraser

Oh, I like this. Yes indeed.

I'm loving this, but the dishes won't do themselves (dammit). Carry on, I'll be back later to see where you get to!

This has been a grand thread, quote posting it before it gets any more away!

Although you might like a few folks with experience?

Markets, capitalism. Which qualifications? And how do you tie the media down? Outlaw media handling of pre-election stuff? Make it be candidate to electors only? Might be a way to squish the russian bots...

So, would you keep capitalism (or some version of it)? The current one rewards people who make lots of money at it; would you maybe penalise them for not contributing? (They think of taxation that way, you could just make that come true...)

I think we're saying they won't hop on said fleet on their own...

In between the lovely thread I'm in the middle of, I'm reading the Murderbot books. 😁

So, instead of being geographic, you could go by groups? Or do some kind of version of Shute's multiple votes thing - give folks from more disadvantaged groups more votes?

All the same, it's necessary for a government (for a nation) to also look at things from a planet-wide point of view.

Any government that doesn't include a diverse roster of people - including ALL groups except people with an income over a certain size - is going to stomp on almost all that diverse roster of people, isn't it?

And you have to keep Lidia Thorpe!

You're reminding me of Tomorrow When The War Began. 8-) Wouldn't we have a go at an alliance which included the next-door neighbours?

Yep. (And Porleen's mob, and all the single-issue parties.)

If you're taking the whole thing apart, you wouldn't hang on to states. Shires, maybe (although they're kind of prone to the party system too, so problematic).

You'd deport Mehreen?

Yes, and it wouldn't hurt to have secondary alliances with other bits of the planet - it might then be possible to work up groups that were of a size to give russia and the us pause, even if China weren't willing to actually take them on?

Yep. (Some of Europe is bearable, but.)

Have to agree (except you could keep Shoebridge, and Mehreen, and like that, no?)

Fibonacci, yes?

Looking at how the Greens got rolled in Nightcliff on preferences, I think we might be on a hiding to nothing, doing it the polite way...

Arvo, three!

In an excellent cause.

Morning, Rob...

Arvo, three!

Arvo, Rob.

Arvo, you three!

Morning, Rob.

Hey, @support.bsky.team , what about this then? ⬆️ Do you not do accessibility testing?

The latest Bluesky update has made it impossible to type in ALT text for users who require large text.

So low vision users can’t provide image details for blind and low vision users.

It’s almost as if Bluesky wants me to leave.

Thanks!