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- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You’re falling for it. Of course reasonable immigration is reasonable. The issue is they are twisting the narrative. Immigrants are not to blame for the things they are protesting about, such as housing costs and cost of living. Immigration certainly doesn’t help those things, but it provides many other benefits, which are generally greater than any negatives.
The reason they are being called racist is because these rallies were started by neo Nazis. Have a look at their website. The flyers they have for printing to hand out in your neighborhood call out specifically Indian immigration.how is Indian immigration somehow worse? Before that it was Chinese. Before that it was Muslim. Before that it was Vietnamese.
They don’t have any solution for the problems they raise. Cut off immigration and our economy is in the toilet. Housing market collapses? Nobody can get a loan for this cheaper housing and nobody can afford other things either.
Yes, they blame the current government as well as immigrants. ~~~~They fail to blame the precious government whose policies were largely more to blame. They fail to acknowledge that the greens policies have mostly been about addressing their concerns without vilifying immigrants for many years.
Remember, they are using dog whistle language too. March for Australia for them means March for white Australia. It doesn’t mean that for all those that turned up. It means that for the organisers.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
The per capita affects all aussies at all levels. Thats the problem. If it was just more poor immigrants, people would not be protesting. Immigration increases gdp, not reduces it.
Most immigrants that come are working age without kids. The pay taxes but get very little out from their taxes. Some choose to stay, if they can, and have kids, but if so, those kids are aussies, not immigrants.
It’s not crap about us needing skilled migrants for many industries. We don’t have all the skills we need. However, those skilled workers are also the ones earning more than average, paying more taxes and increasing per capita gdp.
If we turn off the immigrant tap, our education system collapses, as it’s now dependent on exports. Our hospital system is also understaffed and underfunded, so it worsens. Our inflation is generally seen to be under control currently, although it is at risk. Prices won’t drop if inflation drops, prices drop in a recession. That’s what we will have. A housing crash is not how you make housing affordable, look at Ireland, USA, Greece. They’ve all had one, their housing is not affordable, those that couldn’t afford houses when out priced can’t afford them when there is no bank willing to lend.
What will get worse? Our economy. It’s already in recession, except for immigration. So, we will go into actual recession. Those extra numbers propping up retail, gone. Those workers doing jobs aussies won’t, like farm work. Gone, food inflation, not easing.
We don’t need lower immigration numbers. We need services for the number of people entering. New schools, new roads, new hospitals, more public transport and more medium density housing.
So, don’t blame the immigrants, they are here from the policies of both sides of our political system. Blame the libs who didn’t want to,pay for those services and just wanted cheap labor,
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
The per capital drops are not the fault of immigrants nor immigration. Immigration normally helps with productivity and gsp growth. As you say it’s the only thing propping up the economy.
Blaming immigrants is misguided and an easy way to foment racism, as per the march for Australia rallies today.
If immigration drops suddenly, due to policy change or otherwise, we’ll all be even worse off and could trigger an even worse recession.
- Comment on Why the cost of living crisis will not get better 2 weeks ago:
Per capita gdp has been dropping for years and productivity gains has been poor in general compared to our other western peers.
The big problem is consolidation of mega corporations that suck all the profits up from smaller businesses and take those profits overseas, paying no tax here,
That, and treating housing like a commodity and not a human right. We need to build more houses and tax large multinationals fairly.
- Comment on WTF, Harris Farm 2 weeks ago:
lol, I’ve seen it in Harris farms lots, but never had staff accuse of anything. I actually like that if something is on special, you don’t have to buy multiple hat you might not use.
However, I’ve never checked enough to know what the original price was.
- Comment on Benjamin Netanyahu says Anthony Albanese 'betrayed' Israel 4 weeks ago:
Coming from someone who betrayed humanity, his words mean little.
- Comment on AI to cut paperwork to free up doctors’ time for patients 4 weeks ago:
I’m a medical professional and I use it in my work. It’s good at remembering the details that might otherwise be forgotten. However everything still needs to be manually checked.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, I find with any remake or reboot, you have to be ready to abandon preconceptions of what you wanted or expected. Fan service is good and bad. There is no point in a remake where it is all the same. Generally, of it’s a ground breaking classic, the remake is bound to disappoint. It can never be as groundbreaking or original, by definition. Subverting expectations can be good but it requires reference to the original, that the original can stand on its own without
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
For me, I found the bits that were most a copy of the anime to be most disconcerting and disappointing. What they did differently was more interesting.
I did like Major, I didn’t like Dr ouelet but I like Juliette binoche. It was a bit stilted. Michael Pitt was a bit one note and underwhelming but it might also be the concept has dated since the original.
The actor for Major is currently in foundation, of that’s your jam.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
Haha, yes I did. It got criticism for whitewashing. That’s not on Herz that’s in the producers. She did as fine a job as of expect anyone to do, but it’s a pretty robotic role.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
But was still a fun character and it was a ludicrous but fun movie. At that time, they were leaning into the cheesez rather than trying for gritty, in the Daniel Craig era.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 5 weeks ago:
Independence day was great when it was released. Men in black, too.
Lucy was interesting. Ghost in the machine wasnt as good as the (amazing) original, but was still good.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but requires decent hardware and energy to do so. If the cost to host keeps dropping, people will self host and the ai companies won’t make money. If the cost remains high, the subscriptions won’t provide value and they won’t make money.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
Do any of them like it enough to pay for it? The figures say no.
I use it daily but I won’t subscribe. It’s like news. Why pay when you can get it for free. (I do subscribe to news outlets, though, but like ai subscriptions, I know I’m in the minority).
There is a specialised ai tool that is useful at my work. It’s got a free tier which does most of the functions and the next tier up is crazy expensive on a per user basis for the amount of time it saves. If there was a reasonable subscription, perhaps I’d subscribe but I assume that a reasonable subscription doesn’t cover costs, so they’d rather a free user to pump their numbers than lose a subscriber. That yells me it will enshottify over time or they hope that the cost will drop. The problem is that if the cost to host drops a lot, people will self host instead. It’s a rock and a hard place, without a sustainable business model.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 weeks ago:
There are degrees of collapse too. I don’t mind if all the billionaires and corporations are left holding the bag. I am concerned that we have a collapse of the stock market and lost jobs and recession globally.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 weeks ago:
True, but I still don’t hope for a collapse. A soft landing is better, if unlikely.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 weeks ago:
A collapse will lead to job losses in the short term.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 5 weeks ago:
No, the general economy is pretty poor right now, the AI collapse will cost lots of jobs, incomes and lives. A collapse doesn’t just affect that industry. It spreads and affects finance and lending globally.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, it does, but at the price needed to make it profitable, it’s not desirable.
LLMs are not useless; they serve a purpose. They just are nowhere near as clever as we expect them to be based on calling them AI. However, body is investing billions for an email writing assistant.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
Yes, but that’s not taking over jobs. It’s a minor convenience occasionally. That won’t justify monthly.pricing they need to turn profitable, not will it have the wide range of applications for.every industry that they hoped for.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 5 weeks ago:
That’s the usual business plan. However, people don’t really like ai. The results aren’t great, so, if they jack up the price, people will likely cancel. The lock in is poor as the product and convenience is poor. It doesn’t really save money as promised.
- Comment on Reddit pauses its paywall plans 1 month ago:
Oh, I know the mods of larger mods tried to monetise but I thought that was more in allowing posts from advertisers to appear as grass roots and to silence other voices. I didn’t realize they were being baited along with promises of payment.
It’s funny that the value in reddit over lemmy is the small communities. While they could certainly be monetise, doing so makes them lose their value. Lemmy has the same generic large communities but lacks the volume of users to have as many niche communities. hopefully that changes over time.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch Console & Accessory Prices Are Going Up In The US 1 month ago:
Lol, you think steam decks won’t go up in price too? Sanctions affect everything. If you already have a deck you’re unaffected but if you already have a switch you’re also unaffected, for now…
I have a PS5. I don’t intend to ever buy a console again. That era is dead.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Most 20 year olds are less mature than a 30 yo. What I mean is that some 20 yo are less mature than a typical 20 yo. Some are more mature.
Op could be predatory, but it’s not predatory by virtue of age alone. there is also a big difference with, say, an 18yo. Or conversely a 23 yo. After 20, a 10 year gap is no big deal.
There are predatory relationships at all ages. From OPs description, this is not the relationship type they are looking for, as they themselves feel less mature. I’d say 25 to 18 is worse than 30 to 20. It’s not the age gap that matters but the maturity difference and power imbalance.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Worry less about your age, their age and what people think. Focus more on what will make you happy. If you feel like dating someone in their early 20s is not predatory, then go for it. Remember, some 20 year olds will be less mature, too.
- Comment on Russian lawmakers say 'security threat' WhatsApp should prepare to leave Russia 1 month ago:
You mean like TikTok?
- Comment on Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs 1 month ago:
The new star trek, strange new worlds is also good. Modernised but keeps the flavour of older ones.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 months ago:
It’s common to get caught. It’s less common to get gmcaight lots of times. Particularly for someone who doesn’t drive a lot. Like wealthy people with drivers. She should sloelw down. Matthew Broderick too
- Comment on China is still coercing Australia—with implicit threats 2 months ago:
It seems really silly to me…china was picking a fight with it’s one geographically close, trade neighbour that is considered western, while instead they could have shown they were easy to work with as a contrast to Trunos america.
From Australias.point of view, we trade with them a lotz but for us, there is nothing they provided that we can’t get elsewhere, but it would come at a cost. Howeverz for them, they don’t have alternative sources for some of our trade.
- Comment on The Lottery is state-sanctioned fraud. 2 months ago:
Your lottery is like that. Many places, the winnings are tax free and not an annuity. Look at Euromillions in the eu, Australian litter and national lotteries in Europe.