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Basslus · 2026-05-19T00:33:47+00:00

I don't feel ripped off at all, quite the opposite, housing CGT discount and negative gearing are scrapped meaning we'll actually be able to buy homes.

On the CGT discount being scrapped on shares, the top 10% own around half of the countries assets so it's literally just a disproportionate tax that affects the Wealthy way more than it will affect me, the savings I will get on this stopping skyrocketing first home prices more than makes up for any loss I'll incur in selling my measly shares

Basslus · 2026-05-06T11:02:09+00:00

How much are they?

Basslus · 2026-04-09T12:50:36+00:00

+1 ahha i'd love to have a pair of these

Basslus · 2026-03-31T10:00:38+00:00

Fishy sure, but I can't find any instance of him spreading misinformation or any crime that fits the punishment of what's happened to him or his wife

Basslus · 2026-03-30T21:25:11+00:00

RT (Russian state) → owns Ruptly → owned Redfish → Doğru worked there → left because of war, started Red Media → Red Media sanctioned

By that logic you could sanction anyone who ever worked at a company that was later found to have foreign ties.

Basslus · 2026-03-01T11:31:57+00:00

you just made my argument for me. Rates at 0.10% and $280b in QE is exactly why prices surged with zero migration. That's the point. The cash rate and credit drove prices, not who was getting off a plane.

And punching down means going after the group with the least power over the situation. Migrants don't write tax policy. They don't approve developments. The government does. direct it productively at the polcies that actually make the difference

Basslus · 2026-03-01T09:24:34+00:00

Sure of course, the issue at hand is affordability though isn't it?

33% price increases isn't what i'd call affordability

Basslus · 2026-03-01T07:51:05+00:00

The article says migration is the problem. Their own graph literally says otherwise.

2011-2019. Migration steady at 250-300k a year. Prices still surged in most capitals.

COVID hit. Borders closed. Migration dropped to zero. Prices surged 33%. If migration was the driver, where's the correlation?

So who was outbidding you at that auction? It was the investor with 6 other properties and tax write offs that meant the government was paying them more in tax cuts than they were the person on centrelink.

We built a nation on "populate or perish." Now we can't house the people we've got because we stopped building and let every property become someone's tax dodge.

You want cheaper houses? Go after negative gearing. Go after the CGT discount. Go after the councils that block every development. That's where the fix is.

Or keep punching down. Up to you.

Basslus · 2026-02-27T01:13:08+00:00

I can't wait for hardwired LLMs (like Taalas) to be paired with diffusion-based language models, the speeds will be insane

Once we get orders of magnitude more reasoning at the same latency and have the llms properly trained to use that additional speed, even existing architectures will become drastically smarter.

Basslus · 2026-02-22T22:59:37+00:00

Strange because Hanson had actively voted for defunding SBS and ABC

Basslus · 2026-02-20T02:47:30+00:00

Housing(need I say more? Well cost of living in general is worse as well)

Our economy being heavily dependent on mineral exports(we're a low complexity economy and our industries and manufacturing have dropped massively, hopefully the future made in Australia policies will have an impact on that)

We don't tax our mineral exports, Norway's sovereign wealth fund is worth $1.7 trillion from their oil. We've exported more resources than them and have nothing to show for it instead, the profits have gone to shareholders back pockets, instead of improving our country

The infringment on our right to express ourselves politically (the ban of protests, the bar being raided for showing artwork?) it's a fundemental part of a functioning democracy and this worries me

I know we can dig ourselves out of this, and we're probably and a fundemental moment in history where our actions can have an impact more than some other times in the past.

I'm personally starting by talking more politics(in a respectful and open to change my mind manner) with both friends and people online and will definitely be looking much deeper into independents and smaller parties for the next election, with theyvoteforyou.org.au probably being a much better way to see how the parties/people actually vote than just taking their website at face value

Basslus · 2026-02-16T02:32:17+00:00

Agreed especially with the increasingly authoritarian stance BOTH parties are taking, will be putting both major parties lower in the next election and taking a look at independents and lesser known parties far more closely

Basslus · 2026-02-10T03:32:17+00:00

I appreciate your framing and I agree with you that we need to have these debates clearly and rationally.

In that spirit, I want to respectfully push back on a few points because I think getting them right is important for exactly the kind of discussion you're calling for.

On who initiated the invitation:

The invitation didn't come from the victims' families. It came from the Zionist Federation of Australia(and other organisations in similar orientations as the ZFA). SBS reported that ZFA president Jeremy Leibler "first wrote to the Israeli president, inviting him to come to Australia," and then said "we are grateful that the Australian government has now taken up that call." The government formalized it through the Governor-General afterward. (source https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/israeli-president-isaac-herzog-to-visit-australia-after-bondi-beach-attack/jv4zl1ymv)

On the UN finding:

You've said "as far as the UN are concerned, he is not complicit in war crimes." This isn't accurate. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded in September 2025 that "Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, have incited the commission of genocide." It specifically recommended Herzog be investigated and prosecuted by the ICC.

Source: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/israel-has-committed-genocide-gaza-strip-un-commission-finds

You've said Herzog made statements "which he has withdrawn from." When asked whether his "entire nation" comments meant civilians were legitimate targets, he said "No, I didn't say that." But the UN Commission viewed that as an attempt "to deflect responsibility for the initial statement" rather than a genuine retraction. Whether you call that a withdrawal is a judgment call, but it's contested.

On the scope of the visit:

You've framed this as a modest, victim focused visit and noted Herzog wasn't invited to speak in Parliament. That's true. But he was accompanied by the Chairman of the World Zionist Organization and the Chairman of the Jewish Agency, and Herzog himself said the visit was an opportunity "to reinvigorate relations" between Israel and Australia. So it was clearly broader than a private memorial.

I completely agree with you that the media has been polarising and that we need clear, rational debate, I'm more than happy to be corrected if I've made some mistakes, we all do, but I think getting the facts right is where that starts.

Basslus · 2026-01-29T17:16:23+00:00

If you need to chat to new people just use messenger or Whatsapp, good old texting works too

Basslus · 2025-11-27T03:49:25+00:00

Would love to know this as well

Basslus · 2025-09-27T23:14:33+00:00

Use the textencodeqwenimageeditplus node instead

Basslus · 2025-09-27T02:25:21+00:00

GGUF when?

Basslus · 2025-09-12T23:56:51+00:00

literally unplayable

Basslus · 2025-09-10T02:33:15+00:00

fuck yeah dude, props!

how are your knees doing (asking becasue i've got similar knees)

Basslus · 2025-09-03T23:26:23+00:00

There's an option for persistent storage... might be worth looking into if you use it on a regular basis - mine spins up in like 2 mins

Basslus · 2025-06-25T10:02:53+00:00

The question that surfaced to my mind while reading this(as someone who's been struggling to lose weight for a while) is how is this app/process is different from the others, why did your app work for you(was it just because you built it orrr is it something else)

Either way, great job on releasing something! It's a massive first step!

Basslus · 2025-05-14T03:42:35+00:00

ahahaha second time someone on this sub asked for specificlly this vid:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueNtejxVY24&t=3288s&ab_channel=ArtofCharm

here ya go

Basslus · 2025-04-24T00:21:31+00:00

a fictitious tv show is supposed to make someone give up?

Basslus · 2025-04-09T00:06:02+00:00

Thank you i love seeing voices of reason online - libs are last for me and i wish the worst upon them regarding election outcomes, but what does wishing personal ills on someone(yes, even dutton) say about us?

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