Bill Stickers

Apparently the average is up in Germany, you just haven’t had any extremes this year.

https://twitter.com/rarohde/status/1688486834890854401?s=46&t=041FqqqpppFjW7CoNV9wDw

Wait. Do people go into Kmart and target weekly?

If it’s not built to code to code it can pose all sorts of safety hazards to your neighbours or future owners of your property. If you don’t bother getting approval you didn’t bother building it properly either.

At the slightly more silly end, your shed could lower the value of the neighbours property (because it looks like a meth lab, or just a general hillbilly grotto) and the law holds financial harm higher than physical harm most of the time.

Edit: also it’s not just you, it’s any meth head who decides to build their own shed. Laws need to cater for the lowest common denominator.

I see a lot of people claim the training model included copyrighted works particularly books because it can provide a summary of it. But it can provide a summary of visual media too, and no one is claiming it’s sitting there watching films.

If the argument is it has quite a detailed knowledge of the book, that’s not convincing either. All it needs is a summary and it can make up the blanks, and get it close enough we can’t tell the difference. Nothing is original.

Why do you think the laws exist in the first place. Because there is some hurt to somebody else. You just can’t see it.

What @hanni said. But they also split out the unemployment payment as the disability support payment. So it’s all the disabled pension too.

Greedy ? They’re both free products?

For a lot of people, the family home is the only investment they have outside of super. They’re estatic as it goes up.

Don’t get me wrong, It’s unsustainable that house prices double every ten years when the price of money only doubles every twenty years. But whilst it does nobody wants to rock the boat.

How do you think so many people afford 80k+ cars? They use the equity in their property and only have to pay mortgage interest rates on it (over the mortgage term too,not a 5 year car loan). Not growing equity will mean they can’t get the 4WD, boat and pool of their dreams.

There’s a strong incentive for the landed gentry to keep the status quo.

as this will bring down the pricing of housing…

Most Australians don’t want this. 2/3rds of Australians are in the property market. They all want housing to keep going up. W

To be fair that is a national treasure in my country. And we’re happy to share.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

I think the idea is that by being the largest player they could take over and add features that the rest of the fediverse didn’t have. And then the people here (mastodon) would move there to keep following their favourite celeb.

I don’t think there’s any good argument why you couldn’t keep both for different things. Or why Facebook would even care about the ~200k users on mostodon when they cracked 70M in 24 hours

Okay. The person you replied to was talking about subscribing to a threads user in Lemmy.

What are you on about? Thread’s algorithm only affects what you see in the threads app home page. If they federate fully/properly it’ll operate no different than mastodon does now.

Sounds good. And rate rises aren’t an excuse. We don’t care that you paid a stupid amount for it and are struggling to afford your loan payments. Sell it like you would any other investment that suddenly went negative geared that you couldn’t afford to keep.

To Philip Lowe: the market decides rent rates only holds as long as the market is elastic. And most people have a huge barrier to moving.

Wait who got a payday out of it?

Looks like they just made a fancy google keyword alerts notifier to cash in on the AI craze. Poor marketing example but feels like blaming google for indexing storefront

What AI stuff? I use freedly as a backend for Reeder so never touch the website. This might be the push I need to either go local or roll my own.

I can see where you’re coming from. But a no vote will make australia a shittier place for our nonwhite members. So I don’t see it as voting for the voice, I see it as voting not to empower racist shitheads. Voting yes will at least not make the situation worse.

Thanks. I hadn’t seen your message, but I did come to the same conclusion. I do honestly want to have my mind changed. It seems to be the progressive stance, but I cant see any upside and there is plenty of downside.

Correction. I don’t believe anyone can be trusted to run their own affairs. And I’ve explained why. The best we can do is group together and try and make the world a better place.

Why do you think it would be a good idea? And do you think that marginalised groups losing rights and equality is an acceptable trade off ?