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- Comment on Australian film and TV industry calling on content quotas to revitalise struggling local scene 1 week ago:
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.
They each have a satellite phone they can use to call for rescue or to notify the organisers that they would like to leave.
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.
- Comment on Could living in smaller houses redefine the Australian Dream and help fix the housing crisis? 2 weeks ago:
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.
- Comment on ‘We want builders on site, not filling in forms’: Albanese government cuts red tape in bid to boost home building 2 weeks ago:
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 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.
- Comment on Going to waste: two years after REDcycle’s collapse, Australia’s soft plastics are hitting the environment hard 5 weeks ago:
My sister worked at a sorting facility. It is shutting down permanently at the end of the year.
Not a good sign :(
- Comment on Driver who killed a father and injured his 6 year old son sent 44 Snapchat messages while driving 100km/h before fatal crash 1 month ago:
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.
- Comment on Australians losing billions in savings due to poor management of appliance efficiency scheme, audit finds 2 months ago:
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 :(
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 2 months ago:
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.
- Comment on Wealthy Australians are worried we might realise how rigged the system is in their favour 2 months ago:
It’s pretty obvious, it’s right there in the name, capitalism.
Shit sucks.
- Comment on Taxing actual rather than unrealised super gains would mean ‘significant’ costs for millions of Australians, Treasury says 2 months ago:
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.