threeduck @ threeduck @aussie.zone

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My brother convinced me not to, as Coles and Woolworths are often franchised by families. Head office takes their cut regardless, whatever you steal comes out of the franchise owners wallet. Happy to be proven wrong as I'd love to knick from em.

Our PT system (Melbourne Australia) is privately owned and costs $5 each way. Consider not paying and paying a fine if caught - it often works out cheaper. Fines are $200, and I've only had my ticket checked maybe 4 times in 6 years. Odds are good!

I mean, I feel like all the older generations said a good pair of shoes would net you $300, that's gotta have increased with inflation now. It's probably worth investing a LOT of money into good shoes if you spend a good chunk of life in em

"Specious reasoning" is all I can think of. That's what Lisa Simpsons says when Homer thinks the Bear Patrol is working like a charm (because there's not a bear in sight).

Refrigerate your mangos before eating! So much nicer than a lukewarm mango.

That might just be the weirdest turnaround. You can't hurt a fly, but you're okay with a cow being bolted through the brain because they're a bit tastier than mock meets?

Like, you can't be "sympathetic to animals" if you're paying an industry that mass slaughters them. Especially when you're only paying that out of simple preference. I sure hope you don't find humans tasty, because it sounds like you'll set aside all of your morals for a yummy lunch?

You'd hope so, the more the better for the planet

Focus on something up close in your dream, like the texture of a wall or table, it'll pull you back into the dream. Works for me!

The other suggestion is to spin around, but I did that to stay in a dream once and noclipped through the floor. Which woke me up.

you are hitler

It sounds like your morals are beholden to whatever reprehensible things are allowed by the government, if you are competitively incentivised. If slavery became legalised today, would you buy yourself some slaves to make sure you're keeping up with the Jonese's? Just because the government allows you to negatively gear and buy stacks of houses off of an initial investment, depriving others of their first home - solely because you legally can - doesn't mean you have to, or should. This opulence of multiple home ownership, where you literally charge your tenants more than your mortgage costs, profiteering during a housing crisis, is really reprehensible. Look, I'm sure if we were at the pub together we'd have a great time, but buddy, you're objectively an immoral person.

Being complicit in the system is what props it up. If everyone acted like my partner and I, there would be no housing crisis. Your "the system is broken so I might as well take advantage" mindset is the cornerstone of so much wrong in this planet. It's why slavery existed, it's why factory farming exists, it's why child sweat shops still operate, it's why global warming runs rampant. Your hamburger analogy also isn't very applicable. A hamburger salesman provides me with a product that I choose to occasionally enjoy. If hamburgerlords suddenly bought up every hamburger and started scalping them, I'd go without hamburgers. Whereas you've used your wealth to scalp houses, something people can't go without.

The Mrs and I have agreed we'll never buy and rent out an investment property, even if it makes financial sense.

To fight with other investors over someone else's first home to boulster my own portfolio and then harvest other people's wages because I had a higher initial deposit seems dirty to me.

I refuse to pull the ladder up behind me if and when we can buy our first home.

I mean, to be fair, the original comment DID say he was the ONLY adult in a room full of children...

Am I missing something or is this really the bare minimum of a joke? Is the only "comedy" here that tan is also in the word tangerine? You could rearrange this and have cos lettuce instead, right?

The success of this veneer is indicative of my point. You can't hand wave social media away, this upcoming generation is deeply involved in it. The success of these trends means they're being actively consumed. There are loads of studies suggesting youth develop mental health disorders as a direct result of seeing (often financial) success amongst peers on social media. I did posit that my point was fairly speculative, but at least I cited commonplace social trends bolstering my point. You've just said "no, not true".

Cost of living troubles aren't unique to America, and yet 45% of OnlyFans content creators are American. There's something else at play, and I'd argue it's cultural.

Yeah possibly. Although rents over there aren't any worse than here in Sydney Australia, or Auckland NZ, and yet 45% of onlyfans content creators are American.

"Being rich" is idealised by Americans, their culture is baked in it. The Kardashians, every YouTuber flaunting their exhaustive fortunes, people showing off wads of cash on Snapchat/Instagram. The whole bit about having an android phone being a turn off, which seems to be almost entirely isolated to Americans. If I had to guess, I'd say it stems from African Americans requiring money to "escape the hood", and that culture permeating to other ethnicities (likely via music). If my theory is correct, then it would follow that people might go to greater levels to attain wealth in a culture that idealises it so heavily. Did that explain my viewpoint?

Pure speculation here, but I feel like it's an American thing. With the minimum wage over there being stupid low, coupled with "grind-set culture", the young generation is doing everything it can to make money to meet their fame-obssessed ideals. The effort to reduce sex-worker stigma probably helps a lot too.