Everyone knows with absolute certainty some world ending catastrophe is going to happen, let’s say a nearby star has exploded and shot some death beam directly at us which will explode earth. Everyone will die with no exceptions. How many days / years / centuries does this event have to be from happening for society to basically continue as normal?
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~30+ minute delays on the Caboolture line heading from Central after work today. Anyone know what’s causing it?

I just realised that land literally votes in Queensland. From the ECQ website:
“For an electoral district with an area of 100,000 km2 or more, two per cent of the total area of the electorate is taken to represent the number of 'notional electors'. This figure is added to the number of actual enrolled electors in the district to make the total number of electors fall within 10 per cent of the average number of enrolled electors for an electoral district. For example, an electoral district with an area of 250,000 km2 would have 5,000 'notional electors'. This is added to the actual number of electors when calculating whether the number of enrolled electors is within 10 per cent of the avera
Question as in the title. I have heard that Manichaeanism is one of the only world religions to have gone extinct, and that it at times was practised from the Mediterranean, to Iran and to China, but I am struggling to find approximate numbers. Was it a fringe religion that was just geographically dispersed, or were there times say, when the majority of parts of Iran or China for example would have been Manichaean? Cheers





