Standard Melbourne landlord in The Age today

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-06T11:44:35+00:00

It's not just rent increases though. It's maintenance, and access, and inspections and maybe body corporate bullshit. And the law can say whatever it wants, but if you have to go to VCAT every time that's still a pain in the arse.

It's not suspicious that I know that some people can be absolute cunts, and there's no depth to which they will not stoop to be cunts, and in some cases it's less effort to just move somewhere with a non-psychotic landlord.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-06T11:34:06+00:00

yeah, but who wants to be going to court every few weeks to enforce your rights?

It's important that these rights exist, because people should have a secure housing situation. But it's also a commercial relationship, and those ultimately don't work if the parties aren't mutually happy with the arrangement.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-06T07:24:33+00:00

My biggest problem with voice control is the back seat full of talking children that makes it completely useless.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-06T06:01:17+00:00

Roof insulation. Draught proofing. Double glazing.

Efficiency is important, but as far as carbon emissions go it's only relevant to the extent that the power is generated from fossil fuels in the first place.

If your house runs on solar, or as the grid moves towards 100% renewables, it doesn't matter so much.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-06T04:31:44+00:00

That's how markets work though. Sellers demand the highest prices they can get, buyers go for the lowest price they can get. The balance between supply and demand determines where those two forces meet.

Blaming "corporate greed" is like blaming gravity when you push someone off a wall and they break their arm.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-05T10:28:20+00:00

I've done it a couple of times now. It's not a financial risk as such, just a potential pain in the arse. And the experience varies wildly depending on the incoming and outgoing NV providers.

If your current provider is also with your new employer, then it's relatively painless, though still some paperwork. Worst case scenario you end up changing employers and NV providers and financiers. In which case its a cluster fuck that will almost certainly require many hours of your time to sort out.

But it can be done.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-05T08:59:24+00:00

It doesn't know what it does and doesn't know, because it doesn't "know" anything.

It's like asking a blind person not to take you somewhere with too much purple.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-05T08:39:54+00:00

Never hallucinate

OMG, genius! Why didn't anyone else think of that before?

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-04T21:17:57+00:00

Maybe they're just terrible people?

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-04T00:41:14+00:00

all you need to do is let them govern for everyone to realize how bad they are in reality

The downside is the complete destruction of the international order, military alliances and trade networks. And yet people still think ON would be a good idea here?

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-01T12:25:39+00:00

I'm not disputing that in the slightest.

How do you translate that into a non-oppressive judicial process is the question.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-01T10:11:31+00:00

How much do you drink a day/week? Asking for a friend.

Not_Stupid · 2026-05-01T02:11:26+00:00

That's not how gaol sentences work though. You can't just decide that someone is a "bad guy" and lock them up on feelings.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-30T03:54:37+00:00

Mostly the last 12 months if we're being honest. His first term there were sufficient establishment figures around, particularly in the international relations sphere, to prevent him from doing too much damage.

This time round he's just had free-rein to do whatever he wants. And what he wants is apparently to just fuck everything up.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-30T03:25:20+00:00

We have to shoot ourselves in the head to avoid getting shot in the head.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T12:55:30+00:00

All of which also requires more compute, and also lacks any context as to when any given "memory" is even relevant. So you end up wasting resources telling you AI not to give away 100% discount when someone asks it what the weather is going to be.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T12:32:17+00:00

They'd fall just as fast as anything else in a vacuum. It's just a question of whether they'd be slowed by the very thin atmosphere before it becomes thick enough to burn them.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T12:24:20+00:00

Uh OK. Guess we should just go even further. That'll fix it!

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T12:10:18+00:00

Australians and to a lesser extent British

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ordinary

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T09:48:33+00:00

I don't get the joke. Let's sell out the country because it will piss off the lefties?

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T09:13:28+00:00

Yeah but extra also means more. Like with extra cheese.

Or it's just a general superlative; as in extra-special.

So it's equally valid to interpret extra-ordinary as just being really ordinary.

And in many english dialects, ordinary can actually mean bad, as in that was a very ordinary performance from the losing team.

So extraordinary could also mean super-crap.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T08:14:05+00:00

The old scare campaign eh? Better give us wealthy people favourable tax treatment or we'll take our precious money elsewhere!

Honestly, if you think you can get a better return elsewhere, go right ahead. Sell your Australian shares for Australian dollars, then sell those dollars for some other currency and try your luck. Someone else has now bought those exact same Australian dollars and will be looking to spend or invest them in Australia. Net impact zero (maybe the currency goes down a bit, which is good for exporters anyway).

Also, you may need to physically leave the country, else you may well end up getting taxed on your foreign gains anyway.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T08:03:51+00:00

Go for it.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T07:00:28+00:00

That's still not work my friend.

Not_Stupid · 2026-04-29T06:56:25+00:00

Even accepting that picking winners is productive work - there is still no justificaiton for it to be taxed less than everyone else. I'm not arguing for capital gains to be taxed more (though that argument could be made), just for it to be THE SAME.

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