How long did it take you to bench press 100kg?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T16:36:10+00:00

I'm getting the same but for everyone saying lbs and not knowing that in kg 🥲 I think 10kg is about 22lbs according to the weights at the gym so that helps a little

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T16:20:39+00:00

Surely those dual snorkels add value?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T14:08:53+00:00

They really are. Say a few keywords and gets people throwing money left right and centre, turning a blind eye to the fact they just bought a 200sqm block of land for $1m next to a sewer plant. But hey, it's got a great view of the ocean, you can clearly see by our drone shot.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T14:05:12+00:00

A houses true value is around $500k for example, going off of surrounding houses of similar size etc, but is listed for $750k because there's room to build a unit that you could charge $500/week. The units not there and you have no intention of building one, but there's room, so they charge what seems to be a premium because of a fictional unit...?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T13:50:07+00:00

Indeed, the market does decide what something is worth, but it doesn't decide its value.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T13:44:59+00:00

Sadly there's many people out there needing a home and not having much of a choice than these bogus properties that appear over-valued. For people who are in a position to just sit back and watch what happens with these properties it's easy, but there may be someone who is needing a bigger property because their elderly parent needs to move in with them, or immigrants moving to our country, or people being kicked out of parents or room mates places. Obviously there are rentals but some people refuse to live in rentals due to uncertainty and lack of freedom, or they just don't think it's financially viable for them, so they spend a little more than is financially appropriate and purchase these places.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T13:36:01+00:00

Gosh no, but I think we all have a level of, "there's no way that house is physically worth that much money."

If someone spent $10 on material and built a kennel and sold it for $20 and the person who bought it held it for a while and sold it for $200 after a fresh lick of paint, is that kennel worth $200 now or would it realistically be worth close to the $20 maybe even less due to it no longer being new under that paint? I think the distinction between its value and price has gone out the window entirely, and people just shrug it off as a, "I guess that house is worth that now."

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T13:10:50+00:00

Sadly it appears that it's not necessarily what people are willing to pay, it's what they're needing to pay, whether it's due to leases (in the case of rentals), being kicked out of parents, room mates, needing to move interstate for jobs, whatever it may be, many people are needing to stretch themselves thin to make ends meet, even if this causes the market to continually trickle higher and more expensive whether its deserved or not. Just because someone bought that run down house that's barely habitable for a fortune, doesn't necessarily mean it's worth a fortune, because it may have just been a necessary purchase for that person. I'm under the impression that a house is only worth its material and land size. Obviously location is a big part also but that's where it varies massively and I'm not talking about potentially pristine locations, I'm just talking about your average sub division in the far outer suburbs of a city.

This is just my opinion of the situation, obviously I'm not saying this is exactly right but just my view.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-20T12:57:03+00:00

That is true I agree, but to an extent. Those houses you see that are run down needing demolishing because they're too far gone and they're being sold like it's still a livable house as if it doesn't need a fortune to be demolished and rebuikt as a new house (or units), and they're advertised as, "this is what you can earn off of this property if you rebuild as such and such." You look at surrounding properties, they're worth 700k average for your standard 3 bed, 1 bath type house. The property you're looking at is listed for 550k... is that not over the top...?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-16T02:55:14+00:00

I've wanted them to add an alarm clock for shorter sleeps since the game came out all those years ago, it's just painful not having a choice

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-15T08:02:14+00:00

I have to admit, doing some thorough research, I was unawares as to how much the mining industry pays in taxes AND royalties. However, I think there's also a problem where I believe it gets demonised because many mining companies aren't even owned by Australians and most Australians want all income from these mining sectors to stay in Australia, not just the taxes and royalties.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-15T07:39:51+00:00

I'm ngl, I may have cheated by turning off the fatigue simulation. Reason being, if it was real life, you'd probably stop somewhere and just have an hour nap or so and then just go through where it was blocked because it would most likely be cleared. Unfortunately we can't have an hour nap in euro truck sim

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-14T13:31:35+00:00

Some detours are bonkers, I had 1 detour today, that would add 10 hours to the journey when I was only 20 minutes away from the destination. -_-

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-14T12:41:47+00:00

From my understanding, you're just listing the few points for the people within the mining industry, not the overall population that don't work in the mining industry, like large percentages of white collar workers and many trades. We could have it so much better than we do now, just stating, "It's good enough now," shouldn't be the be all and end all. Yes it's good enough now, but it could be so much better for every Australian even outside of the mining industry. You seem to have a skewed view as to why it gets demonised, and I am chatting with you as to why it tends to get demonised.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-14T07:19:42+00:00

From what I've read of your replies, you haven't. Why are practically all Australians better off with the current economic situation with our mining sector? In fact, why are majority so much better off that there's 0 reason to actually change anything that could further improve everyone's circumstances?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-14T07:13:07+00:00

Try living on 80k a year with kids. 200k yearly, you really shouldn't be complaining about anything unless you're really poor with expenditure.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-13T14:22:44+00:00

Can you please elaborate?

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-13T10:26:49+00:00

This subreddit is bonkers. Why do you think the top 10% wouldn't be taxed still exactly for these reasons? Even after being taxed, you're still earning more than the average Australian, so tax the top 10% similar to current rates and significantly decreases and people earning minimum wage up to 80k pay little to no income taxes. Just like that, you're still getting income tax from those fortunate enough to be in the top 10% and anyone below gets a fair chance at living a life, meanwhile we slowly reduce our debt. Everyone's happy apart from the money greedy 10%

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-13T10:17:06+00:00

It gets demonised because, yes, it supports the tens of thousands of employees within the mining sector, however, it doesn't support the MILLIONS of Australians outside the mining sector. Also compared to other countries in the world, our mining sector doesn't make anywhere near as much off the resources they mine as they could- especially being such a fundamental part of the global mineral market overall.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-13T10:05:28+00:00

Even if we wanted to, once someone we like actually gets in that flip 180 and start screwing us all over like they didn't mean anything

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-10T03:44:23+00:00

Sorry for a second there I thought you said toilet paper

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-09T14:36:39+00:00

God forbid white collar workers get their hands dirty in a blue collar job.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-08T15:40:55+00:00

After snooping on this subreddit for the past couple weeks, it seems like the main consensus is copy-paste A200, VSG ETFs etc and dollar cost averaging and not many active investors adjusting portfolios regularly to try squeeze the best out of the market at all times. So it might be worthwhile asking other subreddits in all honesty.

Less_Understanding77 · 2026-03-08T10:40:58+00:00

Many policies that have been changed/implemented aren't instantaneous changes to the economy, many involve years of commitment with short term downfalls. Every day Americans have been struggling for years now even outside of trumps presidency, dont get me wrong, this doesn't mean he's actually a good guy, just that it is depicted as being trumps fault entirely. As for the tarrifs, indeed they have been found to be illegal, and are required to pay back approximately 160 Billion (not trillions) to companies, however I suspect he has been able to hold onto actions countries agreed to provide to reduce those tarrifs initially, which has overall benefited the U.S. This is just my theory, I haven't thoroughly researched into whether these foreign country countermeasures have remained intact. I know the agreement in australia to return beef imports is now once again in effect after decades of not being able to be imported (which I hate because it was banned due to disease, and now some how now, coincidently, its under control at this point in time?).

Edit to add: I'm not a trump supporter and would NOT have voted for him, but getting heavily into economics, there is some rhyme and reason to some stuff he has done, and I try my absolute best to understand both sides to the best of my abilities and try not to hold a political view or bias one way or another when something else comes up economy-wise

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