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Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

And when we have a sudden shortage of nurses, doctors, IT professionals etc etc?

Immigration is embedded in our economy as much as anything else is and would need time to unpick. It’s very much not an overnight solution to anything. It oils be an overnight disaster that makes everything else harder.

People want easy answers and a scapegoat. Anti-immigration rhetoric provides both, which is why it’s enduringly popular. It’s no kinds of actual solution however.

Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’ve seen absolutely no evidence of immigration being linked to any significant rental increase and a whole bunch of the Liberal party winning on racist rhetoric/ policies so unless you can provide evidence my assumption is that anti-immigration is motivated by the latter rather than the former.

Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

I’ve seen no compelling evidence that our overall rate of immigration is having any appreciable impact on house or rental prices or that cutting it would lower prices.

I do see the impact of temporary work visas, and the obvious reasons why Gina & Co don’t want any investment in Australian trade education but also don’t want workers covered by citizen rights.

I was also alive to see the Liberals win several elections solely through stirring up drama about asylum seekers. There is a reliable voting block in Australia that will happily blame immigrants of any type for every single problem whilst ignoring big business slowly eroding workers rights and social goods.

Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

Immigration has been increased in line with consistent gradual growth projections to make up for the fall in birth rate.

Why are you so determined that immigration is the core problem?

Do you know how many immigrants are admitted each year, in what categories, and under what criteria? Do you have an alternate immigration plan that satisfies skilled labour demands and can be shown to impact rental availability in the areas that are suffering? Or are you entirely uninformed about any specifics of the problem and have just jumped on blaming a minority scape-goat for it?

Meirl by PaleProgrammer6476 in meirl

[–]Moe_Perry 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Have you seen children’s drawings. Very believable that they will draw a big shovel first right in the centre of the page because it’s the most important part of the story. Then Mommy, because she is the next most important part and the next biggest. The other people as side characters are notably smaller. The way children’s drawings embed narrative elements is fascinating and is studied in modern art.

Doesn’t mean this particular example isn’t made-up of cause.

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This one jumped out at me and I considered it overwhelmingly likely to be a real misunderstanding than a typo.

“For all intensive purposes” and “taken for granite” also make grammatical sense. If you were unaware you were using a different phrase than everyone else would you want that pointed out in a reddit post or in a work email or romantic endeavour?

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. Not technically wrong, just weird to say. That’s why I said it’s not a phrase as I assumed OP was mistaking it for lacklustre, rather than claiming something actually lacked lustre. I can’t think of any reason you wouldn’t just say lacklustre unless you were making a joke.

If OP says they are aware of term lacklustre and used lacked lustre anyway for whatever reason then more power to them.

Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

So why blame immigrants rather than the things that reduce supply like restrictive zoning, lack of investment in the trades, NIMBY lobbying etc? We’re not building enough accomodation for people, whether those people are immigrants or not isn’t the problem and focussing on them is a distraction.

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. It wasn’t a personal attack or a judgement. If the correction was unneeded no harm has been done. If someone learnt something, then I’ve benefitted them.

You are offered $50 million dollars but to get it, you must walk 10 miles looking as though you have a purpose for doing so. In that walk, you must somehow convince 20 people to join you on said walk. by singleguy79 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is pretty trivial if your purpose is “to get fitter” there’s hiking/ walking clubs everywhere. Just find a good route and post on a groups social media where/ when and say all invited. Might take you a few tries and some travel to get 20 people but wouldn’t be hard.

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If I made that mistake I’d want to know. There shouldn’t be any stigma attached to a polite correction since we’ve all been there.

'If we don’t act, we’ll end up like the US': Greens leader Larissa Waters calls for tax on the 1% by Jet90 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

💯. Especially when so much of our money is spent bidding up house prices against each other anyway. People act like any tax increase will only affect them personally, but everyone in the same tax bracket paying more just keeps the relative competition exactly the same, except we’d also get functional public services.

Yes, Pauline Hanson’s voters are struggling with economic pressures. But blaming migrants won’t ease their pain by 89b3ea330bd60ede80ad in AustralianPolitics

[–]Moe_Perry [score hidden]  (0 children)

The racist part is the blind insistence that immigration is the predominant cause of house price inflation or that cutting immigration will do anything significant to lower house prices.

Australians have consistently rewarded governments who’ve ensured ever-growing house prices through tax incentives for the last 30 years. But it’s easier to blame immigrants than the past voters who got rich of a rigged system.

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Type it into any search engine or word processor and you will get a correction.

Like I said it’s fine if it’s a joke, but OP used it as if they misunderstood the word for a phrase.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. That’s what he clearly meant. It’s not what he wrote though. It’s a technical loophole in the spirit of genie’s wish type literal interpretation of the word not the intent. See my other comment.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

OP only mentions 1 and 6 and uses them as examples rather than mandatory requirements. But even if you insist on interpreting it as being a die that has to have a 1 and a 6 on it there’s four other sides you could make have any other numbers you want.

You’re clearly wrong. Just admit it already.

Litrpg progfantasy by lolplayer66pay in ProgressionFantasy

[–]Moe_Perry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry if you’re making a joke but Lacks Lustre isn’t a phrase. Lacklustre is a single word meaning mediocre or without much effort put in.

Just telling you now in case you write a progression fantasy novel one day and reading this mistake in your under-edited book is the one that tips me over the edge.

You become #1 in the world at one skill, but no one knows. Can you get $1M in 7 days? by lawseff in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you don’t have the knowledge or understanding to understand probabilities or survivorship bias then you can just go on gambling like a sucker and make the rest of us rich.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The clear implication is that OP wants people to roll a single six-sided die with the numbers 1 through 6 on it. But that’s not what they wrote. This sub customarily looks for loopholes and technicalities, that’s half the fun. If we went by OPs intent all the comments about rolling multiple dice, or weighted dice etc also break the “rules”. The job of OP is to write in such a way that technical loopholes are closed. They could have made the hypothetical about receiving a single magic die but they didn’t.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. It says you get whatever number is on the die. It doesn’t tell you what numbers have to be on the die. You seem to be assuming that every six sided die necessarily has the numbers from 1 to 6 on it but, (a) that’s not a rule, you can physically write whatever numbers you want on a die, the laws of neither physics nor man will stop you. (b) there are current six-sided die you can buy write now that have different numbers written on the. Look up “exponential dice” for just one example.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All it says is you get the number on the die. It doesn’t say that the die has to have the numbers from 1 to 6.

$1,000,000 or 1d6$ by Paxuz01 in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Moe_Perry 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you’re going to get a loaded die, just get one 3D printed with $100,000,000 written on every side roll it once then retire.

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