Australia has targeted support for people who are studying, unemployed, or retired without significant funds. There are various criteria (gotta be studying a certain amount of classes a year, applying for jobs and participating in job application training classes, etc), so it's not a real UBI.
But it's one thing that helps keep Australia's crime rate down, because it reduces the relative poverty rate.

Is this more than a rear guard action considering how common mass bleaching events are? How more coral can we re-grow between bleachings?

It'll be really interesting to see whether it actually makes/saves them money over 5-10 years.

Fortunately at least in the current mid-terms it seems as if humans who have spent multiple years building up personal profiles, proving their character time and again to real humans, have a significant impact on the outcomes of elections.

But I'm not sure how many years this will continue to be a major factor.

Lots of people have done that, or tried, and Meta just buys them and folds the data into the same algorithms again, and again.

Exactly, and there are real limitations on the other options. Don't like FB? Well, Instagram is also owned by Meta, as is Threads. And WhatsApp...

If you do significant business in a country, you normally need an office in that country, someone who can be held accountable.

FB has an office on Barangaroo Avenue in Sydney, X closed its offices but has people working at home in Australia, Google has offices in Pyrmont NSW.

If these major companies don't have people who can be held accountable in the country and are working outside the law, the Government starts working on banning their services in the country, potentially losing major revenue and taking a reputation hit.

In Australia the big supermarkets were 'encouraged' by the national Government to start a plastic packaging recycling program that actually produces usable materials

I've been through residence hall fire drills where the alarms were so loud it was hard to think and found one guy still in his bed, dead to the world. I think the firefighters who were part of the drill just carried him outside.

Por qué no los dos?

If the new staff are getting through the paperwork faster, isn't that kind of Less red tape though?

Time spent figuring out old code is a problem for Future Manager!

Oof, those are some brutal realities that make me want to wait a few years to get an EV, although perhaps I shouldn't hope so much that they won't introduce Different major problems in that time!

Is the workman supposed to create his own tools from scratch that meet national standards because the state level body didn't furnish them with tools that actually work?

Yup, without humans in the loop doing sanity checks, uncorrected errors can have huge impacts. But this also raises the issue of how people leave detention, what the State does when this happens. etc. Poorly used AI, and poorly designed/run state bureaucracy!