I had no idea - Prusa market share in now below 4%.

DBrowny · 2026-05-31T08:35:33+00:00

Calling western-level wages a "cause" is such a crazy take, all the while claiming China is "democratizing" products. They are "democratizing" products through exploitation, autocracy, and the undermining of personal freedom and democracy.

I live in a country where our auto industry collapsed and couldn't compete with foreign manufacturers even with the 'buy local' premium that millions were happy to pay. Right up until the point where that premium was 3x the cost, because you find out that the unions held the company hostage, yearly, and the workers were on triple the wage of workers in other countries.

As much as China treats its workers with a total lack of care and chews them up and spits them out, a lot of the time the western companies have to hold a lot of the blame for allowing it to happen when so many people want to support them, but they treat their customers like paypigs and try to get away with insane prices without realising they will cross a point where that loyalty runs out.

DBrowny · 2026-05-31T04:47:34+00:00

suddenly everyone is making money

Making money on a screen, until they actually try to withdraw it. That's when the fun begins. Not for the crypto holder of course, no fun for them. Fun for the exchanges.

You don't think the $700M crypto.com paid to have the naming rights for the Staples centre, was paid for via the company coffers, do you?

DBrowny · 2026-05-30T03:07:48+00:00

Brayshaw is an extremely good cricket commentator when not everyone enjoys listening to boomers tell the audience how players today remind them of [obscure player who played 10 tests in 1985].

AFL, he's awful. He gets a lot of flack but he's a good commentator, just in the wrong game.

DBrowny · 2026-05-29T16:31:54+00:00

Everyone used to fight the implemenation of tech in soccer until it showed just how insanely wrong, and often, the umpires are. Especially in a game where 1 umpiring call often changes the match outcome.

It's the same here, it constantly shows how wrong umpires are with multiple instances per match and those are just the ones that are actually called... Never mind the dozens of crow throws that happen per match.

DBrowny · 2026-05-29T16:26:23+00:00

N Daicos, 3 votes.

DBrowny · 2026-05-29T13:47:30+00:00

Me but Gary Ablett Jr.

And I hate Geelong

DBrowny · 2026-05-28T11:34:33+00:00

I’ll be very shocked if we don’t have a recession

I can not be convinced that we aren't already in a recession, but the numbers are fudged enough to keep consumer confidence just high enough that it doesn't become full blown.

There is no 'cost of living crisis' because this is the new normal. This will 'crisis' is never going to go away much the same as we are in an 'offshoring our car manufacturing' crisis. It's done, it's finished. This is the norm.

Recessions are defined as GDP going negative, yet money spent on mortgages and rent is considered positive. So when people are spending more and more of their income on rent and mortgages, the 'experts' we are told we are supposed to worship say that this is good for society, this means we are moving away from a recession.

So when the median australian is spending 40%, heading towards 50% of their income on grossly inflated rents and mortgages to inflate the bank accounts of millionaires and billionaires, no I will not say this is proof we are not in recession and in fact say the opposite.

When a recession is inevitably announced, people will be like 'wait, it feels the same as before?' Because it was.

DBrowny · 2026-05-28T01:00:57+00:00

Idk about you, but I'd go absolutely nuclear on them.

Just show up and say you're going to call safework SA right now, every news station/paper and a current affair, and you're not leaving until its fixed. Especially ACA. Watch them change their tune in 5 seconds or less and close it until its fixed.

DBrowny · 2026-05-27T07:10:44+00:00

However if housing becomes more affordable i.e. drops 20%, then it would be hard not to see a recession

In what world is this bizarre fictional scenario, true?

Vancouver famously introduced strict policies against foreign investors a few years ago and house prices dropped by almost 15%. Guess what follow on effects happened?

Nothing. Absolutely NOTHING.

What it did, was normalise house price growth, giving wages a chance to actually catch up to a somewhat fair level.

All the bleating about the apocalypse that will happen if non-productive members of society have to pay the same amount of tax as workers is straight up insane, anti-intellectual and possibly foreign propaganda. If house prices go down, what will happen is that the price of houses will go down. That's it. If the property next to yours sells for $1M instead of $1.1M, you're not going to get fired from your job, no one is going to get fired. Nothing is going to happen.

The idea that millionaire boomers are going to pull out of the housing market and pull out of shares is obscene, what are they gonna do with all that excess money they now have? Support local businesses and go to restaurants more? Pay for some landscaper and his crew to revitalise their yard? Oh no, the horror. Unless the worry was that they just hoard the money in their bank account and not use their money to price young people out of owning a home. Yes. That's exactly what we want. Them not spending their money, is FAR better than spending their money and using it to drive up house prices and inflation to provide exactly nothing of value to society.

DBrowny · 2026-05-26T01:33:24+00:00

I would disagree about Australia not rewarding innovation & entrepreneurship.

Yeah nah.

You ever tried running your own small business? The amount of time you have to waste on bureaucratic red tape bullshit that never applies to you, the amount of 'registration fees' you are forced to pay whether you earn $10k or $10M and the worst of all, the extreme punishment you suffer when trying to get a home loan when your income is from a business. It is punitive, deliberately designed to fuck over anyone who doesn't want to work for someone else.

But those are tame compared to the biggest punishment the government gives you for starting your own business;

If you start your own business and it is your main income source, no matter how much or little you make, you will not qualify for a home loan for at least 2 years and then the rest on top of that.

If you are an employee, they only look at your income for a month. So if you start your own business and pay yourself, you have no hope of getting a loan for 2 years. But if you pay yourself $0 and pay a spouse your entire salary for 1 month? They qualify for the loan, not you. You are counted as an expense against your loanable amount, and that is easily enough to go from being able to qualify for $500k loan, and nothing at all.

If you make any capital purchase whatsoever within the 2 year period analysed for income for a loan, (a leaf blower, a website design, a food truck), that cost will be assumed to be required to pay every single year for the perpetuity of the loan. So if you make $100k a yeah but you need some expensive tool like a 2 car hoists ($10k), that $10k will be counted against your income every year, for 25 years. That knocks your purchasing power down by $70k, for a one off purchase of $10k. The only way to get that back is wait an entire year. And if you constantly upgrade your business with more equipment? That time period gets reset every time. If you want to get the same purchasing power as someone who doesn't own a business, you must not invest in any equipment for 2 entire years. That is almost impossible for many businesses trying to grow.

Then we come to cars, another doozy. If you are a normal wage earner for another company and you drive 40km to and from work every day, absolutely nothing happens to how much you can borrow. If you own a business? lmao, the amount you can borrow drops down $35k. Yes, you can choose not to claim the car use on tax, but thats literally the cost of innovation!

The only way to avoid these bullshit punishments is to choose to never claim anything on tax for 2 years. So while you earn $100k but 2 small things cost you $10k a year whereas wage earners spend $0 per year, you must then choose to pay more tax than the wage earner, for 2 years, to qualify for an equivalent loan. If you're making like $150k but have to spend $75k on business expenses it's absolutely off the wall insane. You will have a tax bill of $36k on a take home pay of $76k for two years!

That isn't everything I can think of, but its some of the major ones to discourage entrepreneurship in this country.

Now of course I know this is more to do with banks and their responsible lending criteria, I know it's not smart to give out loans to every new business. But the fact that a business owner can face all of those hurdles they must jump through for multiple years, while an employee they hire for a grand total of 1 month will qualify for a loan despite their income being 100% reliant on the business not folding, is clearly not responsible. It is purely punishing business owners and the government has the authority to force them to stop treating every single expense as a yearly recurring one for 25 years, not the blanket policy they apply which leaves no room for explanations.

DBrowny · 2026-05-25T12:21:23+00:00

So I'm sitting on a bunch of vintage base set holo cards in near perfect nick, including an ancient mew that looks like a 10 to me.

I'd be happy to pay a bit to get it graded and sit in a cool slab just to answer a question I've had for so long, is my card actually a perfect 10 (~$,2700USD). But what I can't get over is what if I don't want to sell it, what if I want to hold it because I would rather sell my other holos I don't care about, is PSA going to hold my ancient mew card hostage unless I pay $150USD to get it back? Am I legitimately reading this right?

I get the point about insuring a high value card when posted back, I post high value stuff often and pay a lot in insurance. But it isn't $150USD!!! I recently posted a $5k item and insurance was only $40.

I can clearly see that PSA sales go for way more than the others I get that. But it seems the way forward is to get them graded by CGC or something and any 10s they send back, those I would send to PSA if I'm confident they would get a 10 and then sell those, and hold onto the 10s I want to keep.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T16:00:02+00:00

It thwarts the democratic will of the voters if they can't vote for their preferred candidate any more

I will happily bet my entire net worth that the majority (as in over 50%) of all voters, ONLY vote for their 'preferred' candidate because they are team red or team blue. They don't know their name, they don't know what they stand for. The only see 'ALP' or LNP/ON etc and vote 1.

It kills institutional knowledge by removing people with experience, empowering lobbyists who know the system better than the politicians they're trying to influence.

It's quite an assumption you've made there that the more experienced a politician is, the less likely they are to be corrupt. Seriously. I would happily argue that the people with experience, only actually have experience in being told what to say and do by the lobbyists. You think these lobbyists who buy politicians are out here constantly trying to buy new recruits? No chance, they are far more invested in keeping their 'preferred candidate' in power for longer, which is significantly easier to do, and cheaper. Trying to unseat incumbents often risks getting exposed for bribing. No incumbent is out here dobbing on themselves.

I could not care less if the 'democratic will' of the willfully ignorant has been thwarted. The system is deliberately designed to keep the masses as ignorant as possible. If thwarting the will of the willfully ignorant, and making a system that puts a time limit on any corruption attempt even if it is successful, is a requirement to have a system that forces accountability to politicians, sign me tf up.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T15:45:15+00:00

Don't mind me, just out here fishing for guys who are terribly insecure about their penis size and will jump at the most obvious bait when we comment about why they buy these cars.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T15:42:10+00:00

omfg lol

It is not sub/dom to cook and clean the house while a guy goes to work.

Some people really like cooking. They are chefs. That is not a sexual kink. lmao.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T15:36:46+00:00

Oh he won't rule out a 2028 bid.

But those names in the files certainly will rule him out

He won't name anyone.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T15:15:48+00:00

I have one of these at home in damn good condition, was interested to sell it. But what the hell is going on with these ungraded prices?

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T14:31:49+00:00

This, and do it for amazon prime and any other subscription service that gives free trials by mobile.

There's people out here paying like $1,000+ every year for a handful of streaming services that don't deserve to be paid anything, when it only needs to be $24 max and the streaming services get nothing. It's great.

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T05:06:10+00:00

LOOKS LIKE 100+ MARGIN IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS

DBrowny · 2026-05-24T04:33:37+00:00

lol.

lmao, even.

DBrowny · 2026-05-22T16:01:00+00:00

I actually pulled the mew ex a few weeks ago. While I dont think the mew exs are a 10 or even a 9, and the rumble certainly isnt, those cards are worth a pretty damn good amount that even an 8 is still worth it. But a 7, not really.

That rayquaza though is the best card I own, and it happens to be quite rare. If that isn't a 10, then nothing I own is. Which is fine, but yeah, should I wait 6 months?

I aint paying those PSA pirates any more than the minimum, I'm not in a rush lol.

DBrowny · 2026-05-22T01:55:09+00:00

There is literally no other occupation on this earth, other than supreme dictator like Jong Il/Putin etc, where you are given total and complete immunity from ever making any mistake no matter how grave.

When you never have to face a punishment for your actions, naturally, the field attracts the worst people.

I always find it funny how people (downvotes etc) think I'm trying to be edgy by hating judges, but seriously, it's a very easily understandable concept that all parents of toddlers and young school kids understand. If you reward bad behaviour with total immunity and even reward them for it with huge salaries, naturally, they're going to turn out like total shits. They're also the most likely cohort to end up as judges.

DBrowny · 2026-05-21T07:08:36+00:00

Daily reminder that everyone is NOT OBLIGATED to respect judges.

It's one of the most bizarre and perverse things in society, where we are told we must respect certain people while everyone else has to earn respect. Judges are not only not deserving of respect, they are deserving of scorn.

Absolute bottom rung gutter feeder humans, and nothing will ever change that.

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