Ok mate. Good luck with the stickers. Meanwhile…

So… the copy pasta isn’t applicable and your best practical advice is putting up stickers?

The answer to OPs question is to build strong, inclusive, local communities with friends and neighbours, as well as charities and existing community groups.

Also, prep. Figure out what you’d need at home to avoid leaving for a week. Assemble a bug out pack. Improve basic skills for independence like sewing, preserving, first aid.

The stuff you copied seems to have neglected to mention these practical, actionable tasks.

Strong, inclusive communities are the antithesis of fascism. If everyone had a sense of belonging and camaraderie with their community it would be a much less fertile population for fascist ideas to spread.

Settle down mate.

As far as that web server is concerned displaying that abstract in your browser is the same as downloading a pdf. Your browser just downloaded that web page.

Regardless, while posh universities might produce right leaning graduates, the academics that staff them are predominantly left leaning.

Here’s the main points from the executive summary anyway…

Build and maintain a large-scale, multiracial, cross-class, pro-democracy united front that continues to push for structural/institutional reforms and contest for power, even after authoritarianism has appeared to consolidate. The coalition should use ongoing local, county, state, and national elections as flashpoints by which to build a resilient and expansive pro-democracy movement, document election malfeasance, and promote anti- authoritarian platforms, reforms, and talking points for campaigns to take up at all levels of government.

Protect, hold, and build local and community power through alternative institutions to address urgent communal problems, protect minority rights and lives, reinforce an oppositional pro-democratic culture, develop leadership, and build capacity for collective mobilization when needed.

Build pressure to induce defections among those loyal to the autocrat or authoritarian alliance, including through widespread economic noncooperation and labor action.

Prevent, deter, and strengthen resilience to increased threats of state or paramilitary violence through strategic planning and organized and disciplined actions, including building a capacity to anticipate, induce, and exploit defections; broaden inclusive participation

Emphasis is from the original document

I’m not sure how applicable this is to the current situation.

out if everyone who didn’t vote you would get an even spread

I don’t think that’s necessarily true. I suspect that the median non-voter is less wealthy than that of the voters.

Take other countries where voting is compulsory

We have compulsory voting in Australia. Presently we have a progressive (left of centre) government. It’s possible or likely that we will elect a right of centre government this year, but not extreme right clowns.

Hmm, it’s not “pointless”, I just wouldn’t buy one given that it’s inevitably going to be prone to failure.

I guess we will find out in 5 years or so.

I guess we don’t go to the same libraries?

What even is your angle here? No one cares what you think about my set up, my self least of all.

how many libraries you see with laptops on em and people with second monitors attached that people also carry

A lot, actually.

Sure. How silly of pretty much every office in the world to issue employees with laptops instead of mini PC’s.

Walk in to a library or Cafe anywhere in the world and you’ll see laptops, on desks and not on laps.

He certainly seems to be labouring under the mistaken impression that he’s a business genius.

No I didn’t want to add anything to the discussion, thank you.

“We made a minor incremental improvement to our manufacturing process using existing technologies what will improve battery cycles by 1%! Amazing!”

If only the claim were accompanied by a detailed explanation of what the people involved have actually achieved.

That’s fine, you do you and all that.

The thing is, laptops haven’t been "lap"tops for many years. Many workplaces have infrastructure where you carry your laptop around and dock it into your desktop monitors & peripherals at your desk.

I personally really like to work at our public library. In my backpack I have the laptop, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. It’s a really great set up and I can be just as productive as I am in my home office.

I have a lenovo external usb-c monitor.

I love it. Use it every day. It’s great.

I’d never buy this rolling screen gimmick.

I’m not sure you understand what dichotomy means, maybe look it up.

I didn’t say privacy laws don’t regulate social media.

Yeah I don’t really understand the pile on.

Enforcement is not important in any way. If most kids are on social presently, then by making it illegal it just won’t be a place for kids to congregate any more. What would be the point of lying about your age to create a facebook account if none of your friends are there.

Sure, some kids will still be on social, perhaps most kids will be, but there’s no doubt in my mind that their usage will diminish dramatically. That’s how public health works.

With great sadness I have to agree with you.

It’s just one shit show after another. Voice to parliament, live export ban, and now this. Meanwhile Australians are being ground into the dust by price gouging corporations and interest rate hikes.

That said I am in support of this legislation, but it’s just not enough.

This is a false dichotomy.

You can regulate social media platforms and have great infrastructure.

Your own childhood sounds tough, but advocating for social media as a way to mitigate shitty communities is a weird take.