Australis13

Maybe he's just transfixed by the camera. Shiny!

Why not both?

His efforts were only a dismal failure if the original intention was to improve government functioning whilst lowering costs.

On the other hand, if it was to gut the government and funnel money to Musk and co, then it's been a roaring success.

Yeah, he raises a good point.

The question then becomes: how do we make the people who feel excluded (and hence want to burn everything down) feel included?

Thanks for this. Nice to see someone following the money back to actual companies.

Yeah, it took a bit of getting used to when I started following politics and everyone was referring to "liberals" as left-leaning! The Liberal/National Party (LNP or Coalition) is more libertarian than liberal.

Labor (the ALP) is centrist. The biggest left-leaning party are the Greens. There are a host of smaller parties and independents that usually get a handful of seats too.

This expert hasn't been paying attention if that headline is a true reflection of their views (I suspect it's just exaggerated for effect, though). The Trump Administration has been consistently pushing the limits with ignoring/disobeying the courts to see what they can get away with.

The LNP has appeared to back down from MAGA-esque policies, but I don't believe they are being honest with their "change of heart". Their established behviour and lack of support for workers' rights, etc., almost guarantees that if they were to get into power, they'd eventually go back to their original policies of ending WFH, gutting the federal government, etc.

This happened a while ago. The US has technically been in a constitutional crisis for months, as Trump was not actually eligible to run for president. There's been multiple violations since then, too.

That has to be Chaotic Evil.

I would probably put that as being similar to the "Chaotic Good" with ffmpeg.

If on Windows, there's Irfanview and its batch processing.