DavidDoesLemmy
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Two months into the social media ban, a teenager says it's 'useless' 1 day ago:
Having a law the adults can point to helps them enforce boundaries. That’s what the social media ban was meant to be about
- Comment on Is Australia a Good Place To Be Transgender? | FairyPrincessLucy 6 days ago:
Yes
- Comment on 6 days ago:
That’s also true. I don’t think this change will fix everything.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Come to sunny Melbourne and get grand final day and Melbourne cup day
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Man this is so overblown. If it was moved to the 28th, all these whiners wouldn’t even remember in a year or two. As long as I get a holiday in late January, I don’t care about the date. These people always say the sky will fall if we change anything (gay marriage, banning smoking in bars, etc) then we do it and nothing bad happens.
- Comment on Science teachers from Queensland Open Brethren schools told to teach students about vegetarian dinosaurs on Noah’s Ark 1 week ago:
There were a lot of herbivorous dinosaurs. Vegetarian sort of implies an ethical choice. But still it shows we don’t need meat to grow big and strong.
- Comment on Happy Hottest 100 Day! Countdown starts at midday 1 week ago:
It goes so long these days. I remember when it would be finished at 6pm.
- Comment on In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it 2 weeks ago:
Or were you asking about a non war-time hedge? In that case, I have no answers.
- Comment on In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it 2 weeks ago:
True. But often when you’re fleeing a war torn country you don’t have a lot of other options. Local currency is often outlawed or devalued. And if you only hold Bitcoin for the X weeks it takes to flee the country, the odds of it imploding in that time are pretty small. There’s more chance you’d lose the passphrase or lose the gold.
- Comment on In a world going to hell, investors are flocking to gold. Australia could have had much more of it 2 weeks ago:
Bitcoin, it’s a better hedge because a known amount will be added to the supply (good supply is notoriously lumpy. A good mine might open on the other side of the world and lower the gold price). lighter weight if leaving a war torn country. Not financial advice.
- Comment on Ebike ‘swarms’ descend on roads and parks across Australia as meet-ups gather pace 2 weeks ago:
I think it points to a lack of good pastimes for kids. Maybe we need more sport clubs and other kid friendly activities. Maybe we need an ebike park to get them off the roads.
- Comment on Australian billionaires increased their wealth by almost $600,000 a day on average over last year, report shows 2 weeks ago:
It’s a quirk in how companies are valued. All shares of a company are assumed to have the value of the last ones that sold. Even though 99%+ are not available for sale on a given day.
- Comment on Ebike ‘swarms’ descend on roads and parks across Australia as meet-ups gather pace 2 weeks ago:
They’re just kids having fun. Let them have fun. Better than them being on their phones on social media.
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- Comment on Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but if they have legit expenses that mean they don’t make profit (in the article it says they’re reinvesting all profits back into the business) then they shouldn’t pay tax. We tax on profits, not on revenue. If they’re cooking the books to make it look like they have no profits, then accuse them off that and provide some evidence.
- Comment on Four-year-old boy dies after car crashes into shopping centre in Canberra 2 weeks ago:
Cars are unsafe at any speed. They should be banned from public roads.
- Comment on Debt collector hired to chase unpaid taxes for the ATO pays zero corporate tax itself 2 weeks ago:
“There is no suggestion the company or its directors have acted illegally.”
Yet the title is clearly a dog whistle suggesting they’re doing wrong.
- Comment on Melbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities 2 weeks ago:
That’s very optimistic of you to think that because this electrician did it, it must be a rational financial decision.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Wikipedia and this site put it around 70k. areasearch.com.au/suburb/point_cook
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Does point cook really have 405k people? Seems wrong.
- Comment on Supermarket giant [Woolworths] to slap customers with additional charge [$2 delivery fee on Sundays & public holidays, $20 for all island deliveries, even for people who pay for Delivery Unlimited] 3 weeks ago:
The whole place is an island!
- Comment on Scam Tickets Costing Australians $400+ On Average, Says New Research 5 weeks ago:
The official ticket reseller is a rip off taking a huge cut of the resold tickets price.
- Comment on Entertainer Kamahl, now 91, reflects on life, career spanning 70 years 1 month ago:
Legend!
- Comment on The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it 1 month ago:
Negative gearing should definitely be limited. Maybe 1 property of X dollars per year.
CGT discount is meant to account for inflation. They could change it to be dynamic based on inflation rate each year, but it’s always a balance between simplicity and perfection. People complain when the tax system is too complex and they can’t do their own taxes.
Note that all costs are deducted before CGT discount is applied, which makes it fairer.
- Comment on The stats don’t lie. Australia’s tax system is designed to benefit the wealthiest and the rest of us pay for it 1 month ago:
This article didn’t outline which parts of the tax system it thinks benefits the rich unfairly. We have a very progressive tax system. Top earners pay 47% tax on their top earnings, plus GST of everything they buy, plus land tax, rates, etc and extra taxes on luxury cars, fuel, etc. Plus there’s div 293, and 2-3% inflation each year. Well more that 50% of the marginal earnings are paid in tax.
I used to be in the top tax bracket, and now I’m in the bottom tax bracket. So I’ve seen both sides.
- Comment on Breaking: NSW Police responding to reports of shooter at Bondi Beach 1 month ago:
Imagine how bad it would have been if they had automatic weapons.
- Comment on Victorian premier delivers formal apology to Australia’s First Peoples for ‘rapid and violent’ colonisation 1 month ago:
Is this just lip service or is it accompanied by any meaningful policy changes?
- Comment on Demand for water cannot be an 'afterthought' in AI push 1 month ago:
Hank Green did a good video on this yesterday
- Comment on 2 months ago:
This is bad for people with face blindness
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- Comment on E-bike rules in Australia will soon change with possible ban on sale of bikes faster than 25km/h 2 months ago:
It’s not max output of 250w. It’s a motor rated for 250w, which often means peaks of 400w or more.