wtf are you talking about?

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.

Unfortunately it still seems off. I just submitted this 20 mins ago but it's not showing up on AZ.

Are these actually smart glasses, or just glasses with a camera in them? Because that is not the same thing. We've had glasses with cameras in them for like 20 years. They can be great for recording a ride or run, for example.

with a rolled r

If you're being super strict, that's technically what /r/ means. But in practice, it tends to just get used to mean "your rhotic consonant". That's why you'll note the same symbol is used for that part of the word in both English pronunciations and the Nauruan* pronunciation.

* do we need to update the spelling of the demonym?

I had HFC from 2020 until about a year ago, when I moved somewhere with FTTP. To be honest, in normal operation I don't really notice the difference. It was plenty fast enough. I'm on the plan that used to be 100 down (20 up I think? Not actually sure.) but got upgraded to 500 for free.

The real difference is that the ageing coaxial part of HFC used to cause it to cut out completely every few weeks and require me to restart my router, the NTD, or both. The brand new fibre is so reliable.

did you get verbally abused because of this

It didn't quite rise to the level I would describe as verbal abuse, but it was only one step below that. At first I'm pretty sure the pedestrian was waiting for me to go. But after a while of back and forth, the blue car then started to try to turn. At that point I moved forward so I was physically blocking the intersection. It could not have been clearer that the pedestrian was completely safe at that point but he just wanted to argue.

This was right at the very end of my ride, which put a dampener on what was otherwise an incredibly lovely morning commute. Trip home was excellent without any real issues.

but I’m sick of it dropping out

Wow that sucks. I thought the whole point of it and the reason people went with it was supposed to be that it doesn't do that…