No, your local Git knows the branch isn't tracking any upstream branch, so it never makes a request to the server.

I have little doubt they'll come back eventually, but it's going to require some serious soul searching on their part first. After 2013 Labor improved their leadership process which is what led to the internal instability that led to their incredible unpopularity back then.

Right now, the Liberals' problem seems to be a trend away from the so-called "sensible centre" into embracing extreme-right Trumpian politics. This is caused in part by the more moderate Liberals losing their seats, giving the moderates no leverage in the party room. And also by their party preselection process being overrun by Sky After Dark fans. They need to find a way to re-embrace the former "wets" and win back the voters who abandoned them for the teals. That requires them to win back the trust of women and to begin to take climate change seriously for once.

A different option could be for the teals to be folded into the Coalition itself. Turnbull suggested that as a possibility in a recent interview, if the teals were to form into a party which could then negotiate with the Liberals and Nationals into a broader Coalition.

But without a doubt, something will change. Whether it takes them until 2028 or 2031 or longer, the Liberals in some form are unlikely to go away for good.

This is a surprise. And a disappointing one. A week ago it looked likely that Labor would win 3 Senate seats in all states apart from Queensland (where One Nation slot itself in) and Tassy (thanks to Lambie). And now in the final stretch, One Nation also picks up WA and even NSW‽

Not contenting himself with false imprisonment, now we see Dracula committing theft.

Portmanteau is an interesting word. "Port" is, I think, a relatively archaic word meaning "bag" that probably evolved from the even more archaic portmanteau. In some sub-dialects of Australian English, "port rack" is (or was, over 20 years ago when I was in primary school) a term for a rack where school kids would put their schoolbags, but I don't think the term port was much used even for the schoolbag itself.

Ah interesting.

Unfortunately yeah there's a lot of inconsistency with how different Lemmy clients display markdown. Even on the first-party platforms, ^multiple words of superscript^ or ~multiple words of subscript~ works some (Jerboa) but not others (lemmy-ui web interface).

The problem with this specifically though is with neither the Connections site nor with any of the Lemmy clients...it's with the interplay between Connections and the basic markdown specification. The markdown spec very specifically allows you to break one paragraph down into multiple lines, so that you can write like I am right now, and keep individual lines small while having it all display as a single paragraph. If your client is showing this as separate lines, it is misapplying the markdown spec.

If you want a new line in markdown, you can add a blank line in between (like I did just before this sentence), to create a whole new paragraph.
Or you can end your line with two spaces (like I did the line before this)
or with a backslash, to escape the newline and tell the markdown parser "treat this newline as an actual newline". Both the double space and the backslash methods insert a "line break".

Here's how this comment should display (apart from the superscript and subscript parts):

And how its script looks:

I like their company. Just wish their product wasn't all these bizarre unappealing flavours.

“Labor has the labour movement, the Greens the environment, Nationals the country,” the source said. “The Liberals aren’t a movement. Maybe, back in the day, they were an anti-communist movement but there are no communists in Labor any more.”

White ant is another name for termites. Just as termites literally destroy the structure of a house from the inside, a person "white-anting" is acting from within to take an institution down. In the case of Rudd, the goal wasn't to destroy the Labor party per se, but to take down the Gillard government by, for example, leaking details of what were supposed to be closed internal discussions to the press. And it had the effect of helping Labor lose the following election, giving Australia 9 more years of conservative rule.

So, were you going to answer the question?

Rudd is probably correct about this, but You Should Know that he's also an arrogant fuckwit who tried to pass climate legislation that his own treasury modelling said wouldn't reduce emissions for 25 years (since this was in 2010, that means we'd still be a decade away from emissions falling). Since the conservative Coalition was never going to support any climate policy, and the left wing Greens refused to suppose such a lazy token effort, that meant his centrist Labor party's policy failed to pass.

And because he's such an arrogant prick, he absolutely refused to negotiate to bring about a better policy. Instead, he eventually got ousted by his own party, and the replacement leader did negotiate and did pass real, meaningful climate policy. Until those fossil fuel interests helped the Coalition win the next election, Australia had world-leading reductions in CO~2~ emissions.

Oh, and that election loss was not helped by Rudd's own white-anting from inside the Labor party…

I love fuck! I can never be bothered creating upstream Git branches when I've branched locally, I just type git push and it complains there's no upstream, and then I type fuck and it does it for me.

What's disgusting about 1989?