rainynight65 @ rainynight65 @feddit.de

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Why the fuck do neo-nazis get to march through Ballarat (or any other place, really)?

The Coalition want Nuclear to be the next coal and gas. Meaning big, long-running industries that will receive tons of taxpayer money. Everybody knows that big nuclear projects almost always run over budget and over time. If they start building big nuclear reactors in Australia, I'll take almost any bet that we are going to see ludicrous cost 'blowouts', just so they can maximise the amount of money they extract from the taxpayer. And who will run these projects? Coalition donors. Also it's going to be the Coalition-affiliated mining companies who dig up the nuclear materials.

According to this article, the lump of coal was supplied by the Minerals Council. If I recall correctly, it was one of their exhibits, so it had been sealed for that purpose. They didn't specifically prep a fresh lump of coal just so he could take it into the chamber.

This kind of segregation of topics didn't work on Reddit - I doubt it will work here on Lemmy, where there's way fewer users. In my opinion, post traffic is not high enough to introduce fragmentation at this point.

Just my $0.02.

Please proofread your memes. Two typos in this small amount of text is quite egregious.

Having worked in tech for two and a half decades, and in places that were this direct - no thanks. There's a fine line between being clear and direct, and being toxic - what Torvalds did here was toxic, and in many workplaces of today would be classed as bullying. Being subjected to this 'directness' for any given amount of time will do a number on most people's personality and self-esteem. People don't improve themselves if all you do is shit on them.

If there are 15 million vacant homes now, then a company made up of wealthy investors buying up heaps of them at the current inflated prices isn't going to change anything. Those houses won't become living spaces for poor and homeless people - they'll sit vacant until someone comes along who's willing to pay the exorbitant rent.

Only if these corporations are actually required by regulation to make these houses available for rent, and at market-adequate rates. If a company is as cashed up as this one is likely to be, they'll only rent to people who are willing to pay higher rents, and if there's nobody who wants to rent a specific property, they'd rather leave it sitting vacant than lower the rent.

This isn't hypothetical, it's happening in practically every property market where wealthy investors are buying up housing stock.

If you do have debts - try to consolidate them wherever possible. Don't have more than one credit card adjacent means of payment (store credit cards or similar).

If you find yourself with extra money, try to pay off debts first, or at least make extra payments. Reducing debt repayments over the forward term can have a huge effect.

Changing the oil in your car only requires a spanner, pan, and household stuff like cloth rags. You can do it in your driveway faster than you can drive it round-trip to the dealership. I’ve saved heaps over the years.

Are your car services limited to changing the oil? Because mine aren't. They include all kinds of checks for degrading parts (filters, brake pads etc), and while I could possibly do all that myself if I had the time and could get hold of a shop manual for my car, I'd also need to acquire the parts first. On the other hand, my car doesn't need changing oil outside of the 15000km service interval.

What you absolutely should learn is how to change a tyre. So many people don't know how to do it and have to get assistance when they have a flat...

The plural of 'crisis' is 'crises'.

This isn't about assets though - it's about government services. Things that aren't designed to be profitable, that naturally will cost money to operate while not generally making money. By privatising these, they are now entities that have to make a profit, and that generally happens by extracting taxpayer money, as well as cutting cost, by reducing staff, service levels, equipment et al. That doesn't make it more efficient - just more painful to use for clients. $9.5bn per year? Someone's laughing all the way to the bank.

Privatisation is the result of capitalists looking at everything and asking themselves "how could someone profit from this"? It's not about running services more cost-effectively or making things easier on clients - it's about filtering taxpayer money into private pockets.

Private companies aren't naturally more efficient or less wasteful than government-owned entities - the streams of taxpayer money going to big banks, resource companies and others as subsidies should disabuse anyone of that notion. And arguably a large part of perceived government 'inefficiency' is due to the fact that they contract government projects out to private companies which then keep extracting money via "cost blowouts" and delays.

Noting that he wants this to apply only to trans people, where the name or pronoun are 'incompatible with the person's sex'.

That leaves himself nicely and neatly out of scope for a bill like this.

Hey, I'm not American, and I never claimed they were rational or logical. It's just funny that I've had this exact discussion only recently.

This is nonsense. Burgers are sold in damn near every country.

Except Americans will only call it a 'burger' if it's a beef patty and garnish on a burger bun. What we call a chicken burger, they call a chicken sandwich - which is ludicrous because a sandwich is something between two slices of bread, not two halves of a bun. Heck, the even call Subway's fare 'sandwiches'.

So what do you imagine the state premier and government can do to address the problem right now, that will bring meaningful change in a short time?

Precisely this. American terminology applies in America only.

We were even going to kill Johnny Depp's dogs at one point but settled for the "hostage video".

That was just Barnaby Joyce grandstanding and making a big deal out of 'we apply the rules to everyone, no matter if they're rich or famous'. No fucking way he would have ever laid hands on those dogs. The man was and still is a fucking embarrassment to politics and Australia.

I have zero doubt that youth crime is a problem in many places, and I am certain that a lot of speed enforcement is purely revenue-generating. I simply bristle at reductive statements from politicians like Knuth who only have complaints and no plans. Both of these issues are non-trivial to address, but nobody wants to hear about complexities, because that means change will take time. They just want things to change now, and that's not happening.