You receive a penalty notice in the mail and have to pay a fine. Similar to a traffic infringement or parking fine.
All elections are held on a weekend and voting booths are everywhere, to make it a little easier for everyone to vote.
You can choose to not mark the ballot, no one would know. As long as you turn up to a booth and get your name marked off, then you are considered to have voted.
As a result, voter turnout is generally over 90%.
For general browsing, news, technology, mainstream topics etc.. it's much better than reddit, less toxic, better vibe.
It's very small though, so I've found two areas where it is just not a replacement:
Specific, smaller niche interests, they might have a community here but it is often empty and quiet or just non existent.
Sports, specifically a place to chat during live events. There's not enough people to support that.
So it depends what you are looking for and how niche your interests are.
I've mostly stopped using reddit and am in here now. But I still end up there occasionally. Not much these days though.
"Analyzing several high-profile accidents involving complex and automated socio-technical systems and the media coverage that surrounded them, I introduce the concept of a moral crumple zone to describe how responsibility for an action may be misattributed to a human actor who had limited control over the behavior of an automated or autonomous system. Just as the crumple zone in a car is designed to absorb the force of impact in a crash, the human in a highly complex and automated system may become simply a component—accidentally or intentionally—that bears the brunt of the moral and legal responsibilities when the overall system malfunctions. While the crumple zone in a car is meant to protect the human driver, the moral crumple zone protects the integrity of the technological system, at the expense of the nearest human operator."<
Great. Humans taking the fall for technology.
Same as Australian carriers. Mine is $A10 /day (about $7 USD). If you're travelling for a long time the cost can eventually add up and it's possible to get some cheaper travel sims. But it's just so much easier to not do anything and use your phone as normal.
Big improvement from the old days of roaming.
Affinity just sent out another email. Amongst other things, this includes a pledge to continue offering a perpetual licence.
Hmm, I hope so, but the temptation will be to price in a way that disincentives buying the product and pushes people into a subscription.
I will not be subscribing if they do.
Time will tell. Anyhow, here is what they have said:
The Affinity and Canva Pledge
By the Affinity and Canva Teams
We are committed to fair, transparent and affordable pricing, including the perpetual licenses that have made Affinity special.
We share a commitment to making design fairer and more accessible. For Canva, this has meant making our core product available for free to millions of people across the globe, and for Affinity, this has meant a fairly priced perpetual license model. We know this model has been a key part of the Affinity offering and we are committed to continue to offer perpetual licenses in the future.
If we do offer a subscription, it will only ever be as an option alongside the perpetual model, for those who prefer it. This fits with enabling Canva users to start adopting Affinity. It could also allow us to offer Affinity users a way to scale their workflows using Canva as a platform to share and collaborate on their Affinity assets, if they choose to.
Happy with our Nvidia Shield TV Pro on the main TV and Onn 4K Pro on the secondary TVs.
In both cases with the superb Projectivity Launcher, so we don't need to see the default Google front end and any promoted content.
It's perfect.