Olives @olives@qoto.org

If you don't know, the Liberal National Party is a coalition of the Liberal Party and the National Party.

Also, while they're called the Liberal Party, they tend to be a more conservative party. I suppose it might be more about the right economics.

For an idea of the sort of inappropriate flags they have embraced over the years, one is homosexual activity. There have been others too but this is the most glaring one.

One of the reasons I use Dr. Lehmiller's study is that it is a general study on sexuality, and looks at, basically, normal people (the general population), not an ultra narrow assessment of a handful of criminals carried out by a criminologist (also, let's face it, their job is to look at people through the lens of being "potential criminals") who might get too hung up on superficial patterns.

"revolutionary" "radical"

Interesting way to frame taking someone's rights and burning them...

For the next update, I'm not planning on changing any underlying points, it is going to be more of a supplement.

One thing I'm thinking on commenting on is Covid (although, sometimes there is a better way to bring up a particular point, so that plan might change).

Well, they tended to fund various weird faith-based therapies and things without him being personally slotted into a position.

Rather curiously, he even appointed himself as the minister of science, and there were indeed bad science takes at that time, although maybe it's a coincidence.

An odd thing about the previous LNP Federal Government in Australia though is that the Prime Minister actually secretly appointed himself to various ministerial positions without even telling the people in those positions.

Things like this do happen. For instance, the Shadow Minister for Youth from the Liberal National Party in NSW, Australia appears to have been arrested for child abuse (and historically, his party have had bad takes).

I see someone has accused conspiracy guy of being a secret child abuser for being so obsessed with small things.

Well, I think there are reasons other than being American to not know about that.

If you don't know how shadow cabinets work, maybe you are American, there is the Prime Minister who leads up the government, then there are various "ministers" who are appointed (from elected politicians) to run particular areas.

The opposition (the largest party other than the one in power) creates their own "cabinet", a shadow cabinet, basically, with people who sit there criticizing the government.

Also, going by commentary on it, Mozilla seemed to run their fedi instance really badly, so is one less badly run instance that much of a loss?

That aside though, launching new projects, wasting time on them, only to shutter them later, is something which Mozilla seems to do a lot.

"Mozilla is closing their fedi instance and diving into AI."

Remember that Mozilla has always been a company which chases "new things". In fact, one of them even blames wasting time on trying to build an OS or whatever for failing to improve their web browser.

They're still doing the thing with KOSA where they change the language a bit but there are still plenty of problems...?

Let's see if I can compile some asks with surveys.

I don't use these particular surveys though for a number of reasons, including relevance.

The grifter flies in, poops everywhere, flies out, and leaves it to others to clean up the mess.

Can I go back to just working on my draft and stuff? Don't want to deal with grifters.

As a rule of thumb, if it comes from an org with a title about saving the children or something, then they're probably not going to come up with quality data or claims.