I don't think anyone is going to like this answer but... it's just not how global politics works.
Why would other governments demand copies ?
Australia is a close ally of the US. We don't really have any basis to make such a demand. Additionally, they're not going to give them to us because obviously they want to protect pedo-in-chief.
So the answer is, if we tried the answer would be a hard "no" and the request would damage our relationship.
This is the obligatory response copypasta to that Koala copypasta:
I don't know why it is that these things bother me---it just makes me picture a seven year old first discovering things about an animal and, having no context about the subject, ranting about how stupid they are. I get it's a joke, but people take it as an actual, educational joke like it's a man yelling at the sea, and that's just wrong. Furthermore, these things have an actual impact on discussions about conservation efforts---If every time Koalas get brought up, someone posts this copypasta, that means it's seriously shaping public opinion about the animal and their supposed lack of importance.
Speaking of stupidity and food, one of the likely reasons for their primitive brains is the fact that additionally to being poisonous, eucalyptus leaves (the only thing they eat) have almost no nutritional value. They can't afford the extra energy to think, they sleep more than 80% of their fucking lives.
Non-ecologists always talk this way, and the problem is you’re looking at this backwards.
An entire continent is covered with Eucalyptus trees. They suck the moisture out of the entire surrounding area and use allelopathy to ensure that most of what’s beneath them is just bare red dust. No animal is making use of them——they have virtually no herbivore predator. A niche is empty. Then inevitably, natural selection fills that niche by creating an animal which can eat Eucalyptus leaves. Of course, it takes great sacrifice for it to be able to do so——it certainly can’t expend much energy on costly things. Isn’t it a good thing that a niche is being filled?
Koalas are no exception, when their teeth erode down to nothing, they resolve the situation by starving to death
This applies to all herbivores, because the wild is not a grocery store—where meat is just sitting next to celery.
Herbivores gradually wear their teeth down—carnivores fracture their teeth, and break their bones in attempting to take down prey.
They have one of the smallest brain to body ratios of any mammal
It's pretty typical of herbivores, and is higher than many, many species. According to Ashwell (2008), their encephalisation quotient is 0.5288 +/- 0.051. Higher than comparable marsupials like the wombat (~0.52), some possums (~0.468), cuscus (~0.462) and even some wallabies are <0.5. According to wiki, rabbits are also around 0.4, and they're placental mammals.
additionally - their brains are smooth. A brain is folded to increase the surface area for neurons.
Again, this is not unique to koalas. Brain folds (gyri) are not present in rodents, which we consider to be incredibly intelligent for their size.
If you present a koala with leaves plucked from a branch, laid on a flat surface, the koala will not recognise it as food.
If you present a human with a random piece of meat, they will not recognise it as food (hopefully). Fresh leaves might be important for koala digestion, especially since their gut flora is clearly important for the digestion of Eucalyptus. It might make sense not to screw with that gut flora by eating decaying leaves.
Because eucalyptus leaves hold such little nutritional value, koalas have to ferment the leaves in their guts for days on end. Unlike their brains, they have the largest hind gut to body ratio of any mammal.
That's an extremely weird reason to dislike an animal. But whilst we're talking about their digestion, let's discuss their poop. It's delightful. It smells like a Eucalyptus drop!
Being mammals, koalas raise their joeys on milk (admittedly, one of the lowest milk yields to body ratio... There's a trend here).
Marsupial milk is incredibly complex and much more interesting than any placentals. This is because they raise their offspring essentially from an embryo, and the milk needs to adapt to the changing needs of a growing fetus. And yeah, of course the yield is low; at one point they are feeding an animal that is half a gram!
When the young joey needs to transition from rich, nourishing substances like milk, to eucalyptus (a plant that seems to be making it abundantly clear that it doesn't want to be eaten), it finds it does not have the necessary gut flora to digest the leaves. To remedy this, the young joey begins nuzzling its mother's anus until she leaks a little diarrhoea (actually fecal pap, slightly less digested), which he then proceeds to slurp on. This partially digested plant matter gives him just what he needs to start developing his digestive system.
Humans probably do this, we just likely do it during childbirth. You know how women often shit during contractions? There is evidence to suggest that this innoculates a baby with her gut flora. A child born via cesarian has significantly different gut flora for the first six months of life than a child born vaginally.
Of course, he may not even have needed to bother nuzzling his mother. She may have been suffering from incontinence. Why? Because koalas are riddled with chlamydia. In some areas the infection rate is 80% or higher.
Chlamydia was introduced to their populations by humans. We introduced a novel disease that they have very little immunity to, and is a major contributor to their possible extinction. Do you hate Native Americans because they were killed by smallpox and influenza?
This statistic isn't helped by the fact that one of the few other activities koalas will spend their precious energy on is rape. Despite being seasonal breeders, males seem to either not know or care, and will simply overpower a female regardless of whether she is ovulating. If she fights back, he may drag them both out of the tree,
Almost every animal does this.
which brings us full circle back to the brain: Koalas have a higher than average quantity of cerebrospinal fluid in their brains. This is to protect their brains from injury... should they fall from a tree. An animal so thick it has its own little built in special ed helmet. I fucking hate them.
Errmmm.. They have protection against falling from a tree, which they spend 99% of their life in? Yeah... That's a stupid adaptation.
Just at the moment I have a special hatred for mice.
The mice around here are tiny and often don't trip a mouse trap.
IDK if we have one or several dozen in our house but one of the little bastards was watching me watching it this morning. It's infuriating.
Imagine a person just standing in your living room watching you because they know you're too slow and decrepit to catch them with your bare hands. The moment you turn your back they're eating your food and shitting under your sofa.
We haven't had a problem in the last few months. The weather has changed so I guess the little bastards are on the move. Yesterday I put baits outside and a few traps inside, but I'm going to escalate later today with more traps and more baits.
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I don't think the "moon landing was faked" is here anywhere?
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Transport too. For a poor person getting to a specific place on a specific day is a thing. It's probably doable but if it's not a priority... and both sides are the same... and your kid is unwell... and your vote doesn't really make a difference.
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For much of government, the underlying objective is to contribute to GDP. For example, funding healthcare means a healthier population who can be more productive.
So by saying "this policy won't contribute to GDP" its a very general way to say this is not what's best for your population.
At least I think thats what theyre saying.
As an aside, savings dont directly improve GDP, by definition.
Sure. I didnt say musk couldn't be assassinated or otherwise disposed of. Im responding to the commenter that wanted him homeless and poor.
Regardless, things have changed somewhat since the French revolution. A population cant simply rise up and start guillotining billionaires. They can literally just fly away.
Not to mention they effectively control the minds of the population that would take up arms against them.
You haven't really explained how Musk could ever be poor and homeless?
Any billionaire could discard their wealth "state side" or in a bunch of countries and still be obscenely wealthy.
If you could press a button and instantly delete all of his wealth the world over, he could land a well paid board position with any number of large companies who would pay him many millions just because his name would increase share holder sentiment.
He could just call any multimillionaire who has benefited from his association and say "hey I'm destitute, can you give me a place to stay and some pocket money" and they would gladly agree.
Musk will never be poor and homeless.
Tldr:
You seem to be arguing against a claim that you imagined I made, and / or seem to exist in an alternate reality with dragons and guillotines.
Logically I don’t understand how I can help you understand this, and that’s the only way I know to explain things, I’m sorry.
Maybe my memory is faulty, but I never remembered having to pay a surcharge to use a credit card. Now everywhere I go there are signs saying that there is a 2.5-3.5% surcharge to use a car (and others that say that there’s a 2.5-3.5% discount for using cash, I assume to get around wording)
When people generally carried cash they would've been reluctant to pay with a card if it was 2% more expensive.
When banks provide a business with a card reader, they want that business and it's customers to use it - if customers continue to use cash then the bank isn't getting 2% on those sales. So they did their best to avoid card charges being passed on to the customer. The business would pay the 2%, and just build it in to all their pricing.
Depending on jurisdiction maybe the clerk could add a card fee manually, but my point is the merchants weren't encouraging it.
Now that people generally don't carry cash, the banks / merchants are in competition with each other rather than competing with cash. About 5 years ago a new merchant / card facility operator emerged in Australia which gave businesses the option of automagically adding the charge to sales, so the customer would pay instead of the business owner.
For a restaurant or something that's a pretty great deal. For even a relatively small restaurant with a half dozen staff, it might be a third or half of one annual salary in savings.
The majority of restaurants in my area have changed over to merchant facilities offering this type of fee structure.
In the long run, customers aren't really paying more. Restaurants are always going to charge as much as they can. If every restaurant is doing the same thing then everyone is on equal footing, charging as much as they can, just like before when everyone absorbed these fees.
This looks quite cool. We don't have anything like this here.
Ours come in 2 forms.
The first is just a designated shoulder - a line on the side of the road, no physical barrier, but formally designated with markings. These are meaningless to cars and I'm certain that almost all drivers (and cyclists) don't realise that there's any difference between this and an ordinary road shoulder.
The second is really daft. It's basically a lane marked on the pavement in the right of this video. It stops at every intersection, so each section is only 1 block long and then you just become pedestrian traffic and have to negotiate intersections.
No solution is perfect and I can see some potential issues here but it's pretty good.
I'm an accountant and spend all day every day looking at, thinking about, and talking about people's businesses.
Keep in mind we're not talking about multinational conglomerates owned by billionaires, but real businesses that people have bought, inherited, or created because they thought they could make money doing it or because they're passionate about it.
Firstly, most businesses are not successful, at least not monetarily. Secondly, those which are successful required loads of money, or effort, or rare qualifications, and luck.
The thing you're up against is day 1 economic theory - everyone wants to make money with the least effort. Everyone. In that sense you're competing with everyone else on the planet.
I suspect that the kind of entrepreneur you're thinking of started with many millions from Mum and Dad.
You might be interested in the "Financial Independence / Retire Early" (FIRE) school of thought, but this basically involves working like everyone else but being smarter with your spare money.
I went to visit my GP about a year ago and he said something like "We're trialling this AI thing that's going to listen to our conversation if that's ok".
I like the guy and understand that most people don't really understand tech so I said something like "I'd prefer we disabled it if that's ok". He reacted as though I'd asked to finger his butt hole.
I spared him the following rant but... I just don't understand why anyone would actually want that. I want a doctor that listens to me when I talk to him. If he actually remembered me and kind of got to know me over the years that would be a bonus but it's not really necessary.
I just want to talk to a human and have that human listen to me.
I do not want an LLM to listen in and prompt the GP to refer me to their in-house dietician because I mentioned I'm feeling a bit flat.
Depends on the nature of the catastrophe and how long you want me to survive.
I live in a regional area with loads of farms and produce.
However, if the area is overrun with refugees then it gets much more difficult - a question of protecting a farm or something, and i have no skills or experience in that regard.
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Sure a few FOSS projects might re-locate, and I hope they do... but we've seen time and again that large user bases are happy to suffer any abuse their corporate overlords want to throw at them.
I'm a bit triggered by this, so let me apologize in advance for the incoming rant.
You might be kind of right etymologically, but bikes, e-bikes, motorcycles, and likely in the near future e-motos, are specific things defined by law. The confusion between these vehicle classes is causing harm.
An e-bike is a pedal powered bicycle with an electric motor that assists the rider while pedalling up to 25km/h. You might be able to switch modes between more assistance and less assistance but there is no throttle.
If you purchase a cheap walmart / k-mart bike, swap the rear wheel with a powered hub from alibaba and strap on a battery from temu, that's not an e-bike. They have a throttle and no limiter and in most cases can propel a 12 year old idiot at 50km/h but some times more than 70km/h. This is not an e-bike and more accurately described as an unregulated electric motorbike.
The frame isn't built for this kind of stress, and the riders often have no capacity to understand the danger they're imposing on themselves and others - zipping past kids playing and so on.
It's an emerging disaster in Australia and I imagine other places as well. It's turning the population against e-bikes when they're not the problem.
We urgently need more appropriate legislation drafted to clearly define the classes of vehicle, and we need police with the right skills and equipment to enforce those laws.
In Australia and most other jurisdictions an "e-bike" is defined by law as a bike with pedal assist up to 25km/h.
If a bike has an electric motor which is propelling it faster than that, then it is by definition not an e-bike. It's most likely an unregulated electric motorbike, or e-moto. They're incredibly dangerous for everyone involved.
Yeah I've seen photos of something like this. The one I saw was UK police I think.
This might work in high traffic areas but where I am there just isn't enough people on bikes to set up something like this.
If the po-po stop a kid on a bike they believe is illegally modified, just confiscate and impound it where it can be assessed.
No one cares if a bike can propel you 3km/h over the limit because you changed the tyre diameter. Even if you updated the software to remove the limiter, that's not really going to make much difference to safety if I'm honest. It's the bikes with throttles and big hub motors that spin you up to 20 or 30km/h over the limit that are the problem.
It's a long tail, so both my kids can sit on the back. System weight is probably 150kg with all three of us on board. By the time we wind up to 25km/h the torque provided by the motor is pretty minimal honestly.
It's comfortable at 40km/h on a downhill slope.
I would've already figured out how to remove the limiter if I thought it would be helpful but... I just don't really think it would make much difference.
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E-bikes are just bicycles with a motor. Therefore, e-bikes are motorcycles.
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