Comforting and Terrifying.
Comferrifying?
Terriforting?

So you won't use your banks website?
Or your utilities (gas/water/electricity/internet)?
You won't let your kids use the portal at their school for submitting assignments?
Your government sites for renewing your drivers license or scheduling hard refuse pickup?

I can think of lots of reasons that will force me to have chrome installed if this goes ahead.

I'm a big fan of both raising the payment floor and the cutoff ceiling.
People claiming benefits shouldn't be going hungry if they can't find work AND we want to not discourage people who are currently claiming benefits from getting work.
Whether that be through simply raising the ceiling at which point the benefits are reduced, or perhaps having some sort of "earnings bank" where earning too much in a single fortnight doesn't effect your payments until it happens several fortnights in a row, or some other clever mechanism.

This is a very specific and nasty example of a trend I've witnessed becoming common on a whole bunch of issues: climate, health, economy, pedophilia, etc etc.

Useful idiots online are spreading "I'm just asking questions" garbage about "pizza gate" and the "covid hoax" and the "climate hoax" etc etc, and anyone who has to deal with this just gets beaten down and withdraws their participation.

I don't even know who the hell could possibly benefit from damaging the BOM/CSIRO, without some multi-party and honestly contradictory conspiracy of china + russia + resource companies.

I'd sign up to Titter.

The annoying thing to me is that it's taken a further 13 years to reach a point where another social network is feasible.
I'm not saying there haven't been attempts like diaspora and the early mastadon etc, but now we're actually reaching a critical mass of participants where a move is worth it.

The same is true of Signal. I've been using it for nearly a decade, but it's only in the last 2 years that people haven't rolled their eyes when I mention it's my preferred comms app.

The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time.
The last 10% of the task takes the other 90% of the time.

This is fraud, definitely the inspection company and probably the real estate agent should face repercussions for this.

It's one thing to say "the industry will self regulate", it's another for the government to do nothing when the industry doesn't self regulate.

His calling out Shorten for gleefully politicising the bad actions of the Liberal party is some "pot calling the kettle black" bullshit.

Threads will mainstream threads.
Any good content here will be available to the Threads users, who will be oblivious to where it is coming from.
Eventually, Meta will take steps to break compatability, and lots of the most prolific contributors from here will move to Threads exclusively (for a host of valid reasons).
When it is no longer in Meta interest to federate, they will stop.

The fediverse will continue, but it will be weakened by it's temporary reliance on Threads (who could afford to host large images/videos/etc, have lower latency, etc etc).

To jump on my soapbox for a minute, we as a society need to recognise that times have changed.

Once upon a time, most households survived on a single income, with one partner (normally the mother) staying at home to do the necessary work there and raise the children.

This is fundamentally no longer the case.

Now both partners have to work, perhaps multiple jobs.
The grandparents still have to work.
The parents may have had to move away to find that work.

Full time child care should be free for tax payers.
Yes that will be expensive.
Yes people will rort it.

I don't care.

It pays a societal benefit to have educated, well fed, healthy children.
Even the poorest ones.
Perhaps especially the poorest ones.

That single point of failure is to facilitate ease of use, with minimal reduction in security.
The messages are e2e encrypted and the server is designed in such a way that attempting to listen in would bring it down.
The signal org doesn't even have your address book.

If your concern is "I don't like signal", you're not going to make much traction.