Zagorath

Zagorath, 5 months ago

Does Reuters actually operate in India? What’s stopping them just ignoring a blatantly immoral ruling?

Zagorath, 4 months ago

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Zagorath, 4 months ago

True, and unjust laws should be broken.

Murder is not unjust.

Zagorath, 4 months ago

I do think that there are different degrees of value. Blocking the roads is certainly a much less effective tactic than blockading a harbour right as coal ships are trying to leave or blocking the direct entrance/exit to a specific place of business.

But that doesn’t mean broader action is completely useless. In some cases it’s honestly the best thing you can possibly do (this example comes to mind as a brilliantly targeted action despite the thing being blocked being a whole major road). In others, it’s the simple fact that office workers do contribute to the economy, and you’re damaging the economy, which frustrates the elite.

Zagorath, 2 months ago

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Zagorath, 3 months ago

I think a post body should usually be empty if it’s a link, or at most should provide a summary or key points.

If you as the OP want to editorialise or provide your opinion on the article, do that in a top-level comment. And most of the time, you should do that. If you’re posting it, you probably have an opinion, so get the conversation started by sharing it!

Zagorath, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago)

So for reference, I’m still active as a moderator on Reddit, though I’ve pared back my work there to just helping facilitate these AMAs.

We’ve sent invites to every candidate for the upcoming BCC elections. Unfortunately so far, the only AMAs we have scheduled are from Greens candidates. One Labor candidate expressed interest and asked for more detail, but since providing that detail I haven’t heard back. The only independent Councillor also expressed interest, but wanted to know personal details of the moderators, which I wasn’t willing to provide over email, but did offer to meet in-person and talk over any concerns. Since letting her know that I haven’t heard back. The only reply I’ve gotten from any LNP candidates was one person who I suspect was trying to give me a polite “no”, but they left it ambiguous enough that it could have been a “we’re discussing it and will let you know when we have an answer”, so I played dumb and replied assuming the latter prodding them to give me an answer. Haven’t heard back.

We did the same thing at 2022’s federal election (every candidate in the greater Brisbane area and for the Qld Senate). There, we got at least one candidate most newsworthy parties, apart from the LNP. And when I say “most newsworthy parties”, yes, that includes One Nation and United Australia Party.

The one Labor candidate we got did it pretty early on and explicitly told me when I caught up with him in person afterwards that he had done it without getting approval from the party leadership, which earned him a lot of respect with me. His seat ended up being one of the closest races in the entire country, so the fact that both he and the Greens candidate did AMAs legitimately could have been the deciding factor in that race.

The one thing I would say is that I would encourage any voters to reach out to their local candidates and express their interest in seeing the candidate do an AMA. If they’re hearing it from multiple places, it might increase the chance that they do it.

Zagorath, 2 months ago

The article’s discussion of voting systems and their flaws is what makes this article excellent and worth reading.

Optional preferential voting is hugely flawed. The final four paragraphs especially:

The LNP is not overwhelmingly popular – the LNP hasn’t won a majority of the vote at either the 2020 or 2024 elections, but look set to win a significant majority in addition to the mayoralty. There is no single centre-left party that can rival them in popularity, but Labor and the Greens did poll a majority of the council vote between them.

It is true that the result would probably do a better job of reflecting how people voted under CPV than OPV, but I don’t think that should be the end of the story. Any single-member electorate system will do a very poor job of representing a community that is voting the way we saw in Brisbane last night.

It doesn’t have to be that way. New South Wales, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and to a lesser extent South Australia and regional Victoria have proportional electoral systems that do a better job of representing voters. Even three-member wards would produce much better results and make the question of whether voters are forced to mark preferences much less important.

The Queensland government has now been in power for nine years and has totally failed to tackle the poor state of Queensland local government electoral systems. The block vote system used for undivided councils is an embarrassment, and the single-member wards used in the south east aren’t much better. Queenslanders should demand better.

And to make things even worse, the LNP has indicated it intends to move to optional preferential voting in state elections as well, if they win the state election in October.

Zagorath, 4 months ago

Believe it or not, that’s what they usually do.

They point to specific laws, which they wildly misinterpret, and say that these laws have loopholes which allow them to opt out of regulations, or even contain flaws large enough that the entire authority of government is invalid.

Zagorath, 3 months ago

This is frustratingly light on details of what exactly the kids will be doing for the 7 hours after regular classes end. The best we get is this one paragraph:

Before the public debate, Yoon attended a K-pop dance class and an abacus math class – part of Neulbom School programs provided at the elementary school Hanam, one of 459 institutions that applied for the state’s pilot project since last year.

So it’s still a little unclear how much these fit the definition I would provide for extracurriculars. When I was in school, extracurriculars were fun—various music bands and sporting clubs probably made up the majority of options, with various other miscellaneous options also available. A K-Pop dance class definitely fits in with that. Abacus maths? Uhh, maybe? I know I never learnt that in school and I don’t think it’s an especially useful skill. So it could be a thing people are doing because they enjoy it. But it could also be an excuse for getting extra conventional education.

What you’ve got to measure this against is the pre-existing prevalence of hagwon. Hagwon is essentially privately run extra schooling, designed entirely to provide kids with more regular school than what regular school provides. Nearly every child in Korea goes to hagwon. Heck, Korean students outside of Korea overwhelmingly attend, if there’s a strong enough Korean expat community to support it.

If schools are providing an alternative activity in the evening for students which is event a little bit lighter on the educational content and heavier on fun, and offering it to parents at a lower cost than private hagwon, I see this as a win. Not nearly as much of a win as parents finishing work at a reasonable hour and being able to spend it doing things with their child themselves, but a modest improvement on Korea’s status quo.

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For context, I spent some of my childhood years living as an expat in Korea, and then my teenage years as an expat in a different country at a school where I’d guess about 20% of students were Korean. I’ve seen a lot of this firsthand.

Zagorath, 4 months ago

That doesn’t help if you want a satisfying conclusion to the story…