The heart-shaped targeting reticule is a nice touch

And possibly are Jesus

That’s probably just RMS being RMS

Maybe after that we can have a ‘Third Reich of the left’, only with free healthcare, schools and housing instead of death camps and racism?

Were any of the original writers left, or did the new owners of ZA/UM hire some hacks and/or use a LLM, prompted to write something in the vein of Disco Elysium?

Or you just revealed the porcine equivalent of Lovecraftian cosmic horror to it.

IIRC, Napoleon III came up with that term, as a way of staking a claim to the Americas south of the US as in a separate sphere of influence to the US/Canada, and one in which the European continental powers may prevail. (He sent a Habsburg to be Emperor of Mexico, but I imagine he had a theory for why those German-speaking Viennese were more latin than teutonic.)

This doesn’t necessarily hold in the fediverse

Oh dear, how sad

Mastodon: everybody you know is tending a garden

They speak a weird form of Brazilian: the differences between Portuguese Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are considerably greater than those between British and American English.

Presumably that’s the entire Australian motor vehicle industry these days, after Ford, GM and Toyota pulled the plug on local manufacturing

True; we’d get some Labor/Greens seats in inner-city areas, some conservative areas where the Coalition split it among themselves, some Tory/cooker seats elsewhere, and possibly other combinations. It may force the big parties to the centre to harvest the vote of those who don’t think that the Greens or One Nation represent them.

The Australian system currently has unusually many constituents per MP, so I’d double the number of MPs.

Brevenance

Are there reasons drone feeds are unencrypted? Would encryption add unacceptable cost/battery drain/latency?

One change that could be good would be having two members per electorate rather than one; that would allow voters who were not in the majority to feel represented. Though that would work better in a system with more than two parties, so that you don’t have a stalemate with an equal number of centre-left and centre-right MPs.

* Viipuri, temporarily occupied Karelia

I do. Only a few of my contacts look at them, though, and even fewer post things to them.

JG Ballard was right

Utter clownshow.