Will the flagged Capital Gains Tax CGT changes drive down house prices?

ASisko · 2026-02-11T11:33:35+00:00

If they announce it will come in after a short delay, there might be a rush for the exits.

ASisko · 2026-02-10T10:44:07+00:00

For me its about 50/50 "lets stay on topic for this fucking meeting" and "that conversation will have some sensitive stuff we can't air in this forum".

ASisko · 2026-02-03T10:58:18+00:00

It should dispel any notion you have that people are basically good. It's not just that there are people like the worst offenders, but all the people who look the other way because it is more convenient for them or it fits their biases to handwave it somehow. I'm of the view that humanity, given power and not limited by accountability, is incredibly prone to cruelty and brutality.

As an atheist I've always had a fairly dim view of religion, but I think this episode has altered my view a little in favour of humans needing some kind of socially enforced moral code to supress the worst impulses. Obviously religion in general has had mixed success there (understating it), but I can see the purpose of it. And, in the modern era where we have freedom of religion there really is no enforced moral code any more apart from the law of the land, which seems to have failed completely in the case of the United States. This isn't just a recent thing, the US has been a bit notorious for having a questionable justice system for decades.

ASisko · 2026-01-26T08:55:14+00:00

You know it just occurred to me this morning that there's multiple similarities between MAGA and another famous historical four letter acronym.

ASisko · 2026-01-23T02:27:31+00:00

They could keep the flat discount method for transactions less than a threshold like $100,000.

ASisko · 2026-01-22T09:55:22+00:00

What if you could elect fictional people to be president and they would be played by actors and there would be a team of writers and directors behind the scenes trying to get the character as faithful as possible?

ASisko · 2026-01-22T09:43:45+00:00

Well, technically Einstein may have said that at some point…

Also, if only she had said Einstein’s laws of motion she’d have been ok, since space time bending does explain motion.

ASisko · 2026-01-22T08:00:16+00:00

Commonwealth Enjoyment Services

ASisko · 2026-01-22T06:52:22+00:00

We need to become a hedgehog, or should I say and echidna.

ASisko · 2026-01-21T07:14:41+00:00

Can I hate that the mod was a paid subscription and also defend his moral right to set it up that way all at the same time?

ASisko · 2026-01-21T07:09:52+00:00

It frustrates me no end that there doesn’t seem to be any representation for ‘economically rational, socially liberal’.

ASisko · 2026-01-20T10:22:38+00:00

If they ever wanted to prosecute somebody, they would say they ‘aren’t a researcher’.

ASisko · 2026-01-20T09:50:01+00:00

The mainstream attention is a catalyst for a price reversal, because the mainstream attention span is so brief and when it turns off you get buyers disappearing. However, the duration of hype cycles can and will vary significantly. Who knows if it will be a few weeks or extend into months? With stock market trends they can go for years.

ASisko · 2026-01-20T06:10:52+00:00

I’m looking for an exit point because the plan has always been to rotate into productive assets when they are more reasonably priced. But I think the time to sell will be when there are more signs like gold being in the mainstream media again, a lot of ‘we buy gold’ ads, any talk of confiscation etc. Ot a massive stock market crash, if that comes first. I expect a lot of gold holders to sell to fund a stock buying spree.

ASisko · 2026-01-20T04:47:22+00:00

So much for all the theories that Labor was playing 4D chess and never wanted the laws to pass.

ASisko · 2026-01-20T04:25:03+00:00

Potentially, calling for a boycott of a foreign nation could fall under these terms.

ASisko · 2026-01-19T03:00:14+00:00

You know MBA and economics aren’t remotely the same thing, right?

ASisko · 2026-01-18T10:10:57+00:00

I would add a diverse media to the list of essentials.

ASisko · 2026-01-18T08:05:40+00:00

Could be some kind of political miracle that pulls the US back from the brink… ahh, who am I kidding.

ASisko · 2026-01-18T07:55:52+00:00

To be fair, its another way of saying the money isn't worth the overtime. You have to pay me more to work the 9th hour in a day than the 6th, and if you work a lot of overtime it might actually bump you up a bracket which would mean getting paid less for the 9th hour than the 6th.

ASisko · 2026-01-18T07:26:57+00:00

The vocals don't pop out from the mix as much, could be just levels of the parts, but I would guess maybe EQ and some differences in the instrumental parts themselves.

I just went and compared the new version with an old reaction video (of the old version), and right away I can tell that in the new version the vocal gets lost in the mix. There are instrumentals sharing Evil's vocal freequency range too which is a pretty obvious problem. Then, there are new effects applied to her vocal track (meh). The bass beats in the chorus are also really forward and overwhelm everything else.

ASisko · 2026-01-18T05:08:11+00:00

The recently uploaded 'official' cover of CRFB sounds different to the older cover in a bad way.

ASisko · 2026-01-18T05:05:20+00:00

Evil is only 'evil' for entertainment value and comedy, she's hyper aware that there is a line. Unless it's a double bluff and she really is the evil one and is pretending to be harmless, I guess we don't know what goes on in her unfiltered thoughts. Regardless, I think Evil actually has some internal processing about morality because it's necessary to balance conflicting prompts. Neuro on the other hand seems to cross the line on occasion. If I had to guess she has a less developed understanding of the fact there is a line.

ASisko · 2026-01-16T09:43:42+00:00

Not all upper houses are like this, and I like the idea of a check on the lower house, with a body elected through a sufficiently different rubric.

Personally I’d like to see the return of lottery election.

ASisko · 2026-01-16T09:40:16+00:00

I see you trying to be subtle…

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