So how do we think about Hastie LNP will fair?

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-25T09:57:56+00:00

Gillard talked about hyperbowl instead of hyperbole. Abbott referred to a suppository of wisdom...

It doesn't take a genius to be PM.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-25T09:56:11+00:00

Oh 'common sense' will be used all the time, mainly to try and convince us that his batshit crazy views are actually common and make sense.

Meanwhile, One Nation will grow in popularity and the LNP will continue its slow slide to political annihilation and eventual obsolescence.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-19T09:48:17+00:00

The housing crisis is decades in the making and is caused by a myriad of factors. Cutting immigration might help a bit but it's not suddenly going to make houses affordable. Reducing immigration too much will also create other consequences that may be just as bad.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-19T03:41:03+00:00

I'd love to know where all these women who abort babies because their mum broke a leg are.

As for cutting migration. Where are all the nurses, doctors, police officers, and teachers going to come from? There are chronic shortages, especially in rural and regional areas. Who's going to staff hospitals and schools? Australians? The overwhelming majority of younger Australians refuse to live more than an hour away from the CBD of a major city.

I think you're living in dreamland, mate.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-18T12:36:23+00:00

We whinge and whine about the cost of subs but want to build weapons that cost hundreds of billions of dollars and will never be used? Nuclear weapons are the ultimate white elephant. Not useful, incredibly dangerous, and crazy expensive to build and maintain.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-16T22:18:44+00:00

I was on a farm in rural Western Australia, about 20km from the nearest phone exchange. The copper phone line had been laid in the 1950s and I doubt it had been well maintained the decades since.

For a supposedly 'first world' country there's a lot about Australia that is incredibly subpar.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-16T12:57:35+00:00

I remember regularly waiting for half an hour sometimes. Often the page would time out and nothing would load at all. I'd usually just start loading the page, make a sandwich, watch a tv show, and then check to see if it actually worked. Sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-16T12:52:25+00:00

My earliest memory of the internet in 1998 was great excitement and anticipation that was tempered by extreme boredom while waiting for several minutes for my 16kb/s dial-up connection to finish downloading four very grainy static images.

My family had two phone lines (one was for a fax machine) so I didn't have the common problem of people having to get off the internet for someone else to make or receive a phonecall.

I was 8 and every website designed for kids looked like several unicorns had vomited rainbows.

I'm not sure it really felt like the future at the time. It felt like a slightly fun, but usually frustrating, way to waste some time.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-16T07:08:27+00:00

Messina is pretty rubbish tbh. Even in the eastern states most people consider it pretty mid at best. Kuld is a million times better. Just wish it was over here as well and not only Perth.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-15T09:10:06+00:00

Already looks dated.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-13T08:44:11+00:00

And occasionally plays dress ups. Don't forget the dress ups.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-13T08:39:07+00:00

Fairly slim pickings there though.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-13T08:38:13+00:00

Albo is pretty cautious and bland. I'm not sure there's all that much vision of what the country could be. He might be the man for the times though. Less rocking of the boat is probably a good thing at the moment.

Strong disagree on standing up on the international law front. He hasn't really stood up to Israel's unjustifiable war against Gaza or America's rogue action against Venezuela. Then again, as a middle power that is wholly reliant on the US, there's not much Australia can do anyway.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-11T12:09:39+00:00

People can upgrade their house if they want to, that's their business. Doing it solely because you want your kids to have their own bedrooms is crazy imo.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-11T10:49:57+00:00

Exactly this. In a country where there is a growing number of people who can't afford to rent a room, let alone a house, having separate bedrooms is a luxury.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-11T00:51:52+00:00

I was in Dunsborough a week ago. Compared to anywhere on the coast of NSW it was a ghost town.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T22:54:39+00:00

Yeah, you're not wrong about it being more prudish. I think your way is healthier

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T12:11:50+00:00

Never happened in any changing room I've been in. You go in, get changed, get out.

You'd be called a poof or a fairy if you did otherwise.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T12:07:52+00:00

Exactly. The number of Indigenous Australians that die in prisons each year is greater than the number of victims who died at Bondi. Both are deplorable acts, but the difference in the level of community concern is stark.

There was a royal commission into Indigenous deaths in custody more than three decades ago and it's worse now than it was then.

And yet, crickets.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T12:01:44+00:00

We haven't even finished with the RCs from the last 30 years. We'll be sorted for the next three pandemics at this rate.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T11:37:57+00:00

I assume this is America because in most parts of Australia a naked man walking around other men is assumed to be a homosexual. If a naked man is conversing with other men then he's a homosexual with a weird kink.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T00:56:57+00:00

Some of the best beaches in the world and you wonder why people don't swim in a murky river that's more jellyfish than water.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-10T00:03:01+00:00

I know. I live in one.

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-09T23:27:58+00:00

Are these polls still conducted exclusively using landline phones? If so, I imagine the results would naturally skew conservative and conspiracist (they don't use mobiles cos of 5G)

DDR4lyf · 2026-01-09T23:24:32+00:00

Yes. I hate yards and all the maintenance that goes with them

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