No problem. I’m keen to know what you think of it.

That’s 500,000 coming in via immigration. This includes returning citizens. What is the number that left Australia during the same period? The data is available at the same location. You need to subtract one from the other and then look at that number and how it has changed over the last decade.

Fwiw, I do think we should cut immigration significantly, except for work visas for those sponsored for residential construction roles. I do agree that immigration is being mishandled right now. I just want you to look at the right numbers, as right now the shit you say dramatically weakens your arguments.

• Those were neo-nazis at the protests, not government plants
• The cost of living is fucked
• The people organizing those protests don’t give a fuck about the cost of living
• Housing is fucked
• Immigration numbers are actually down significantly under the current government
• The cause of the housing crisis isn’t immigration
• Immigration policy is an issue right now and should be altered to help with the housing crisis

These can all be true at the same time. Your argument will be stronger if it is backed by facts.

Fyi, the real cause of the housing crisis is the CGT discounts brought in by the Howard government. That is what started the obscene increase in house prices, and it just keeps getting worse.

Each contestant is on their own. They place cameras themselves to record their activities. The goal is to be the last one remaining.

They get to bring a limited amount of equipment and supplies with them, there is no way for them to get anything additional from outside. They need to build their own shelter and find their own food.

They each have a satellite phone they can use to call for rescue or to notify the organisers that they would like to leave. Doing either means they lose.

The winner will be told when they’re the last one remaining, they have no way of knowing how many are left at any point otherwise.

That’s the show, it’s extremely good.

This article is literally “some architect built a tiny home, could million dollar tiny homes on million dollar land parcels be the answer to housing?!”.

The answer is no.

The government said it would work with states and territories to pause further changes to the National Construction Code. It would then consult on ways to streamline the code, including the use of artificial intelligence to help tradies, small business and households in using the three-volume, 2000-page code.

No fuck, don’t strap AI to this shit.

“Chief executive [of the Property Council of Australia] Mike Zorbas described the announcements as “sensible” and a “win” for housing supply.

“Let’s also put AI to work turbocharging housing delivery. A smart rollout of AI into planning and assessment systems will give decision-makers the clarity they need and save valuable time in delivering new homes,” he said…

Oi, I said no! Fuck.

So this is a property investment lobby group pushing for a freeze to further improvements to the national construction code and calling for the implementation of AI to weaken environmental protection.

Fuck off knob.

But former industry minister Ed Husic said this week he was concerned about a pause to the code.

Husic said the former Coalition government had frozen new homebuilding regulations, only to rush through a mass of changes in a short period of time. “People who’ve lived in older homes with regulations that weren’t as strong understand why livability is such an issue.”

This guy gets it though.

I wonder where these were published. Any reputable journal should have rejected them outright since the authors are speaking outside their areas of expertise.

No way, any reputable journal would use a process of double blind peer review. The background of the researcher should have no bearing on the decision to publish.

The papers should have been rejected for being shit.

My sister worked at a sorting facility. It is shutting down permanently at the end of the year.

Not a good sign :(

Fuck suffering. The system should be focused first on rehabilitation and second on seperating the person from society so they can’t harm others.

The infliction of suffering does nothing to help society at all. It just creates horribly broken people in prisons and encouraging hate outside.

If someone can’t be rehabilitated I see no issue in providing a comfortable isolated environment for them. Hell, give them whatever drugs they want too, who cares, just keep them away from society.

I absolutely paid attention to these things, even spending more on more efficient appliances after figuring out the break even time on the price difference.

I consider the power usage of everything in my home. I’m down to 300w idle draw from more than 700w.

I’m pretty annoyed to find out the star scheme is bullshit :(

Your idea works great as described. The system has grown beyond that though. Capitalists receive these IOUs because they own a portion of a company that owns a thing that neither the company nor the capitalist has ever had anything to do with. They receive these IOUs in perpetuty, but they never provided any contribution to the creation of anything.

Then you stack this a billion times, with IOUs servicing IOUs, amplifying the amount of IOUs, and skimming IOUs at every point from people who actually do the work, just to increase the number of IOUs held by a handful of people, until those people who contribute nothing, now hold the majority of the worlds IOUs.

This is fucked.

It’s pretty obvious, it’s right there in the name, capitalism.

Shit sucks.

That’s absurd. Reporting super details to the government for 80,000 Australians would not be a significant ongoing cost for any competent provider.

There would be an initial cost to develop the reports, the ongoing cost would be minimal as it would be spread across the existing costs to maintain their reporting infrastructure.

If somehow this is true for some super providers, you should avoid those providers as they are already operating with incredible inefficiency.

I do wonder how it would work for those in defined benefit schemes, but I doubt any of those are above the $3m threshold.

He should be fine, his Australian girlfriend should help him out with the normal stuff here.

One thing that might be useful, when visiting the US many Americans would express concern about Australian spiders. I explained that it wasn’t really much of an issue, you just make sure to check for spiders before putting your hands in places, putting on shoes, etc.

The shoes thing seemed particularly outrageous to them. It’s pretty simple though, you just look at your shoes before putting them on. Any spiders in there? Any sign of webs? Don’t put them on. Easy!