You're conspiracy bullshit doesn't work on non-cookers.
I completed the form incorrectly.
On purpose? That's so much worse than just not filling it at all. That's a total arsehole move.
You're meant to have received your code, along with other details, in the mail.
It's tied to your address. Every address with at least one person staying in it on census night has to fill out a form.
I agree that that isn't a good argument.
A better argument is that this is how the government gets a sense for what the population is. For example, a growing percentage of "non-religious" or (to a lesser extent) non-Christian religious makes it harder for the government to continue justifying subsidies for religious schools and special status for religious organisations. A higher percentage of people saying they travel to work by bike or public transport helps justify increasing funding for those methods over continued motornormativity.
I’d pay the fine if that’s what it came down to.
This isn't the token fine for not voting. It's $364 per day.
We can blame the religious organisation as much as we want, but the fundamental problem here is payment processors. They should be common carriers. Content-neutral middlemen who facilitate payment to anything that isn't literally unlawful. This is no different to an ISP throttling access to Netflix because they operate their own streaming platform. If the storefront, the developer, and the buyer are all ok with a transaction, there's no good reason for a fourth party to stand in the way of that.
Fake and gay.
No way the engineer corrects the mathematician for using j instead of i.
The CIA wrote a manual on how to do this. It's a bit old and parts of it are outdate for some times of work, but a lot of it is still useful.
apparently he didn’t even get paid and covered his own travel costs
Holy shit that's bad. Can't even try to claim the excuse of "a job is a job" and claiming there's no politics to it.
Safe, sure. Efficient? Not even close.
It's far, far more expensive than renewable energy. It also takes far, far longer to build a plant. Too long to meet 2030 targets even if you started building today. And in most western democracies you wouldn't even be able to get anything done by 2040 if you also add in political processes, consultation, and design of the plant.
There's a reason the current biggest proponents of nuclear energy are people and parties who previously were open climate change deniers. Deciding to go to nuclear will give fossil fuel companies maximum time to keep doing their thing. Companies which made their existence on the back of fossil fuels, like mining companies and plant operators also love it, because it doesn't require much of a change from their current business model.
wtf are you talking about?