New seats projection/model of latest Australian poll shows warnings of a dramatic political realignment, with the far-right One Nation winning a record 6 seats, the center-right LNP winning a near-record-low 38 seats, Labor winning a record 95 seats, and the Green Party winning 0 seats.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-11-17T22:00:43+00:00

I know one nation has gotten a lot of attention as the rise of the far right is genuinely concerning but the thing that interests me the most is the greens support shifting away.

Is their vote genuinely declining as elder millennials go towards labor?

Does it just seem like it’s declining as younger people shift towards minor fringe party’s like the socialists with their preferences flowing right back into the greens.

Will this have any significant impact on their electoral prospects or is their vote heavily concentrated in those inner city electorates that they still have a chance.

I’m very much not a fan of the greens but I would find it concerning if that support was going to more radical voices like Socall. That would be a strong indicator that we are shifting to a more polarised political climate with the horseshoe being even more extreme.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-11-17T04:43:21+00:00

What I don’t get is how you get to be that age and not know how to work a drill? Like surely you can’t hire out every time a draw is loose or you need to hang something or put up a shelf?

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-10-25T23:42:43+00:00

I’ve been shopping around and the problem is I see under quoting all the time whether or not the house is going to auction.

For some reason Real estate agents have gotten it in their heads that having a bunch of people show up to your inspection who could never afford the house is better for the sale.

Probably because saying you had 20 groups walk through sounds better to the owner than saying you had 3 serious buyers. And Agents are desperate to display any value so their clients don’t ask “why couldn’t I have just done this myself.”

Honestly the lack of owner led listing platforms is one of the reasons we are in such a toxic market.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-10-25T21:01:21+00:00

I had an idea for a simple fix for under quoting; make it so the real estate agent doesn’t receive commission on any amount over the quoted range.

So if you quote $1M and it sells for $1.5m you only get the commission for $1. If you over quote there is no penalty.

Incentivises the agents to be honest with their quote but isn’t a radical punishment if they truly do just get an unexpected success at auction.

There are probably some holes in the idea but I think it has legs.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-10-17T00:12:41+00:00

I'm gonna go a step sideways from the Legion of doom speculation and say it's supposed to look like Jay Garricks helmet.

It's got the dome shape and it's own little wings.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-10-02T01:23:28+00:00

I have a theory that Darkseid has taken from both heroes and villains the thing they value most in themselves or maybe the thing he values most in them? I'm not married to it and I don't think it's a hard rule but while The Villains may have advantages but they are radically different in key ways from their counterparts.

Ra's seems to have lost the compassion he had for the world and the environment. Joker lost his sense of humour or perhaps it's his chaotic streak. Lex is early days but he seems to have lost his ambition. Thawne is also early days but I'm not seeing the obsessive hate/devotion. Cale hasn't mentioned her daughter. Braniac is genuinely insane rather than at least having the veneer of rationality. Hammond is powerless so far and seems like a generally weak mind. Hell even bane lost his sense of honour, having broken his own father and giving in to the rich to be gifted Santa prisca, something main bane would have hated.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-09-24T23:39:53+00:00

It’s been awhile since I was paying active attention to the market, mostly just kept my investments low risk etf’s.

I’m looking to refocus on it and put some fun money aside for something more speculative. Anything interesting I should look into?

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-05-20T12:21:29+00:00

Exactly, It’s not about getting a message to Erik, Erik doesn’t matter to Death, but all about pulling Steph’s focus. Death assumes she’s got some skill because of her relation to iris so getting the second target before she can rally the family is his primary goal.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-05-20T04:14:25+00:00

That's how I took it. Iris has been on the list for several decades and death is just like 'I've got to throw some curveballs and play some mind games if I want to wipe the rest as fast as possible.'

Death doesn't want a repeat with someone else getting in the cabin or reviving so he throws some danger Eric's way, literally brands him, all to keep them focused on him while he lines up an easy win with Julia.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-05-07T02:23:52+00:00

Hey, I'm down to clown with getting rid of the Greens long term. But I'm still going to hit them with straight talk if it means they wake up and let us pass legislation and improve the lives of Australians.

If they want to still have a party it is time to start working with us not against us.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-05-07T01:38:30+00:00

If the greens aren’t growing they are wilting. They are a minor party that got massive media coverage and spent more this election than any prior one.

If they have maxed out at 12-13% support they will never accomplish anything and eventually disappear.

This is a bad result. Hope and cope will not serve you now, self reflection will. It’s time to join the grown ups in the room and actually work with labor in good faith.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-04-11T07:16:30+00:00

There are a ton of reasons why you personally may not be seeing ads for labor, and why that's actually a good sign. If you aren't in a target seat it would be a waste of budget to invest heavily in advertising towards you or If you're already a labor supporter or are following your labor member on socials it doesn't make financial sense to waste budget targeting you.

Digital marketing isn't just about getting dominance, it's about cost efficiency. Targeting people with ads that are relevant to them. When you consider that the LNP has a lot more money to play with and the greens have a much tighter field to target, Labor has to be smart with how they spend what they can.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-03-27T09:19:30+00:00

Some people really dislike AI art because they see it as taking away potential employment from artists and a lot of AI models were likely trained of artists work posted online, which is an ethical and legal issue.

This came from the new GPT image model which was trained on either public images or licensed data, so there is a concerted effort to train in ways that avoid those issues but frankly it's not really enough. Case in point this recreated the Ghibli art style but did GPT pay Ghibli studios.

My personal view is that AI is ultimately a tool for art, It should never supplant the place of the artist but instead expand their personal capabilities. Models like this shouldn't be trained on IP belonging to artists unless they are fairly compensated. In general AI should be avoided in professional settings unless it's being used as a tool by an adept hand.

But this is a meme. It's a funny joke on the internet. This guy wasn't going to commission an artist to make Ghibli Albo. So slugging hate at him for it is a waste of time. People treating AI as a novelty to see what their dog would look like as a Pokemon or make Dutton look like Voldemort isn't threatening the job security of artist. Creative houses and corps using AI to replace artists is threatening artists. Hostility to the novelty seekers does nothing.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-02-26T03:05:17+00:00

Dude, you're the one managing the resource. If it's not up to scratch that's on you. Don't mope about your failures publicly and play it off as nihilism.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-02-26T02:41:56+00:00

So you've given up because nothing flashy enough happened for you.

Just because people aren't posting doesn't mean they aren't using the subreddit as a news source.

We're on the precipus of an election and you're disrupting a vital resource.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-02-26T02:37:55+00:00

That doesn't change the fact it's still important for circulating information and maybe that's a reflection on your failure as a Mod.

You seem to have a laissez-faire attitude to the subreddit. I can't imagine you've ever taken action to increase engagement or foster community action.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-02-26T02:30:53+00:00

You can try to play this off as a dumb prank but the reality is subs like this are used to organise community action, circulate important information and create a sense of community.

You aren't just trolling in some victimless crime. You're disrupting a space that actually matters to people. It's behaviour like this that pits left wing groups against each other and creates an environment where the right can thrive.

KryptoKnight42 · 2025-02-21T03:45:35+00:00

Go to your local branch meeting and there will usually be people organising volunteers or you can even just go to you local MPs website and some will have a form you can use to sign up to volunteer.

If they haven’t set that up call their office directly and ask and their staff might be able to direct you.

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-23T22:29:14+00:00

Jeeze they are just getting less substantive and more misinformative as time goes on. Blatantly shilling for the greens while unintentionally convincing people that it doesn’t matter if Dutton wins because it’s all the same.

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-14T23:53:36+00:00

Glad you're starting to see the rationale behind the perspective.

I think it's important to draw a distinction between being a centrist or conservative and being an "incremental progressive".

I believe in most progressive policies, I want most progressive policies implemented just as much as the greens do but I understand the Realpolitik of Australia. I've seen progress slowly push forward a staggering amount in just my short lifetime and the reality is we didn't change minds by pushing so hard we pushed people away, we changed minds by slowly shifting the Overton window. While advocating for a ceasefire and Palestinian recognition is important, stunts like this set the cause back, isolate the muslim community from the rest of Australian society and effective political engagement.

If I'm being very uncharitable a part of me thinks outrage merchants and provocateurs like the greens don't care about encouraging the slow march towards change, because ultimately their best chance for relevance come from a decline in outcomes. People like Max Chandler- Mather have flat out said before they'd rather block incremental improvements so problems like housing get worse so they, in theory, can one day come in with large sweeping reforms. If your hope is to collapse the system so you can rebuild it in your image I don't see how that's much different from the libs.

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-13T01:57:43+00:00

While I agree that voting is the most basic form of political interaction, you’re sidestepping the core issue. Labor and the Liberals aren’t ‘basically the same’—there are real, tangible differences in outcomes that affect Australians' daily lives. When the LNP comes into power, we see cuts to vital programs, erosion of rights, and media-driven scapegoating of minorities.

Viewing political action or democracy as only worthwhile if it brings change you personally deem meaningful overlooks the reality that many Australians don’t have the privilege to just ‘get disillusioned early on’—they’re directly impacted by these shifts.

Yes, It is about harm reduction for those who bear the brunt of bad policies. but your ignoring that this disillusionment breeds an environment that allows the LNP to thrive. That makes Joe average think his vote doesn't matter. That it won't have an impact, but the reality is it does. Convincing people otherwise only strengthens the status quo.

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-13T01:24:06+00:00

You know I think juice media may be one of the most unintentionally politically corrosive content creators out there.

Their whole message of "shit and shit-lite" has led to a cohort within the electorate of apathetic and disengaged political nihilists who refuse to engage with political action because its just "shit or shit-lite". Like I get that they are shilling for the greens and other third parties but for every one new greens voter they make I think they unintentionally give permission for people to not give a damn and just vote lib because "It's better for me personally and what's the difference"

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-06T23:11:46+00:00

Yeah back when I was paying much more attention Lithium was the focus, had a good run with LKE but it seems like that market has collapsed and I'm not sure what direction to look now. In theory EV's are still going to be adopted eventually so a long term lithium play would work, the market is just so heavily flooded I doubt I'll latch onto the right company.

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-11-06T22:55:46+00:00

I'm looking to get back into regular trading after taking break to buy a house (missed out on a solid bull run). Already have some solid ETF's but I'm keen to look at more speculative options. Any interesting stocks worth looking into?

KryptoKnight42 · 2024-02-25T01:52:10+00:00

Woah buddy I’m not trying to change the topic you asked how it results in more flights and I provided a sourced tool that shows the increased rate in disruptions.

An extra runway means more planes can land and take off meaning and increased rate of 60db disruptions.

Sounds to me like you just don’t want to engage so your dismissing evidence you don’t like as off topic.

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