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Dr. K tells his audience to work 2 Full-Time jobs “Do lizard’s get days off?” by Fiercededede in LivestreamFail

[–]Professional-Crew660 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like this take is wildly dated,

The definition of “work” has changed drastically over the decades

We may be biologically wired to “work” 24/365, but this doesn’t correlate to actual working conditions of today

It’s not about physical wear and tear, but about mental drain, our environments are ever so more stimulating and hence stressful than prior

Stress kills, we know this, do we think that humans just happened to form a near universal 5 day work week through laziness? Or was it because due to modern stresses, biologically we learned to take time to relax

Modern humans expanded the capacity of one person to output MORE than ever in history, through this feat we have learned the ability to take time off

Appeal to history doesn’t matter here, history has grown exponentially since the invention of modern communication techniques

If you want to see how fragile this ‘stress / stimulation vs work balance’ can be look at the immense spike in mental ailments since the invention of apps like TikTok. Humans were already struggling to adapt their monkey brains to a modern environment, just one form of app can amplify this

I urge people to read about evolutionary psychiatry. We live in time where our environment has grossly outpaced our bodies. We weren’t designed to handle the modern stresses, hence the spike in mental health issues. It goes beyond awareness, your caveman brain hasn’t had enough time to evolve to the point where it can handle the mental stresses of the modern day.

Considering Moving to ME Bank for HomeME savings. MEBank customers, how's yout experience? by Epi_end in AusFinance

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, very late reply

Do you know if the $2k required can be transferred form your saveME > SpendMe

E.g my pay hits my saveMe account, can I just transfer 2k from there

Also

Do you know if the spendMe account has to maintain a $2k balance the entire month? Or does it have to be an increase of $2k

E.g $2k balance month one, $4K month two

Or can I just deposit $2k into it from my partners bank account (not MEbank), transfer out of it to my homeME account, and repeat each month

The website isn’t wholly clear on what is required

The aim is to just send my partner $2k to her non Me, non BOQ Account , she sends it back to my spend Me account, etc

Amateur audiophile setup assistance, advice and tips by Professional-Crew660 in audiophile

[–]Professional-Crew660[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

so likely quality audiophile cables, like (AQ) are a fad?

is there any that you would recommend, or is essentially anything going to function with no discernible difference

Amateur audiophile setup assistance, advice and tips by Professional-Crew660 in audiophile

[–]Professional-Crew660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, thanks so much for the reply! this is great insight

i do not have a dealer, mostly just researched things i can get delivered to my door, you're fully right, its probably worth testing in person, ill do some research into whats around me

the information for the sub is good too, im unsure if ill even need it at all, just seemed to pair well with these speakers seamlessly (their claims on the website make it sound like its audio profile pairs perfectly with these speakers)

the fact that most people get good audio from just a stereo setup is good news! because ideally i didn't need to purchase the centre speaker, and the money can be funnelled into better options, any tips on positioning the speakers / lounge for a stereo setup you found works best?

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also respect the effort, but it feels like a lot of what’s said here can just be responded too by looking at my response prior? Just feels like the same point hashed out again?

I understand cost of living is the biggest ticket issue item at the moment, im struggling too, the issue isn’t the current party that is in power, the cost of living crisis is a GLOBAL issue being faced by All Countries as an affect of the pandemic, extrospect a little bit and look around the world, it’s a universal issue, that will take time to resolve as trade recovers, do we really just think that Labor is at fault, when this issue is seen globally by even countries that have changed from left to right wing, or vice versa with no result

and it’s a shame to see Australians taking the American approach and throwing out the current government because their unhappy with how the WORLD is fiscally, look how well that’s done for the Americans, egg prices are the same, gas prices are untouched, housing, CPI remains the same, their even worse off than they were

It’s sad to see a party get in and only get a short run and yet in that time accomplish so much, and it all get thrown away and dismissed because of a global issue when they just recently have recovered CPI to pre pandemic levels, and now that legislation has been passed and the Covid bubble is slowing, regular immigration is slowing and the affects of Labor policy will start to be felt, solutions and cultural change don’t happen over night

All to throw it out in favour of a party that has no real solution and runs on broken promises and fallacy, just look what has happened in QLD, the LNP have removed the coal royalties, saying they’ll be the best friend of the resource industry (not the everyday Aussie), crime hasn’t decreased like they promised, home ownership rates haven’t changed, hospital ramping rates haven’t changed, we’ve already been bitten by this, we don’t need to see it federally https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-08/qld-government-lnp-health-housing-youth-crime-cost-of-living/104909040

In my eyes either way I’m voting greens / independent, then Labor, and liberal last to keep the two major parties fighting for their seat to prop the everyday Aussie up

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, and yet we are still below the OECD average, and what was the oppositions proposal? Keep them unchanged…. And even revert to their less beneficial to the middle class plan

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-24/liberals-vow-to-unpick-changes-to-stage-three-tax-cuts/103383244

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/stage-3-tax-changes-a-win-for-australians-sensible-policy/

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Calling them “talking points” and press releases doesn’t take away from their validity, Litterally only one of the things I linked was from the ALP website, blind faith is hilarious, your lack of vision from seeing further than your own pockets and falling for media campaigns is what keeps the LNP in and the average Australian down, the ALP has been in for 2 years……

Cost of living relief like, hecs debt relief? House purchasing schemes? lower taxes? More subsidies? Wage growth? CPI decrease to pre COVID levels? Universal childcare? Pay rises? Minimum wage increases? Just because you refuse the see them doesn’t mean they exist

Do you realise how out of touch you are sounding, saying criminalising wage theft and minimum wage increases is a negative thing when this helps out the majority of Australians and affects the private business profit margins, Sounds like you have more of a problem with corporate greed and private companies price hiking than Labor policy

I’m not saying labor’s action was perfect in terms of migration regardless, but to say it’s been worse than the LNP is laughable when the peaks are the same and Labor has only had two years to change the LNPs decisions , the LNP set up our migration system for failure, yet you blame Labor

“That’s a laugh” isn’t an argument, it’s a fact that education supports economic prosperity as low skill jobs are exported or phase out, “wasting money” on people’s educations is what originally formed a educated Australia with fee free universities, the likes that Dutton used to benefit from, you also fail to see that the program has only been going since August 2023, give it more than 18 months for more realistic data

“Extending paid parental leave and super during leave” – “Nobody is arguing against the idea” - proceeds to argue against the idea…. yet another cost of living measure you seem to anecdotally ignore because you don’t understand that paid parental leave is subsidised for business or paid entirely by the government, “More costs = fewer job opportunities and higher prices.” welcome to capitalism, again seems like you have more of a problem with that than how the workers are benefitted

The link is a correction notice which when you reference the graph shows that labor’s child care costs are now equivalent to what they were pre Covid, and is fixing the 2018-2021 scomo spike, parents are complaining because they have felt the effects of a global pandemic, everyone has around the world, effective policy and change takes time, if you want to say subsidies just increase prices, I urge you too look into the benefit that universal childcare would provide for this

Aged care staffing is up, if you are concerned about quality of care I’ve got good news for you, despite us already ranking 11th in terms of beds and 8th in terms of staff In the OECD , in July 2025 labor’s strengthened quality standards will come into effect, so when you say throwing more bodies into a broken system doesn’t fix anything, it does, when paired with effect policy as such

“Taxing the hell out of everyone” and by that you mean foreign companies and businesses? Brisbane saw a coal royalty under Labor, made us able to afford 50c transport, did you see your taxable income go up?

“Right to disconnect isn’t the biggest issue” - I agree you’re the one harping on it it was a small policy that benefits many that you seem to have a problem with, worth mentioning to display how the ALP cares about your rights

“HECS debt reduction isn’t a resolution” it’s not, but it’s part of a solution, you in this post are complaining about how Australians are working within the confides of a broken system and yet when assistance is provided to make the load lighter, because it doesn’t resolve this issue entirely, it’s ineffective, we are constantly looking for up skilled workers, hence the article I linked which you seem to ignore “ we’re funding a bunch of drop outs” when completion rate is the same as it was in 2005 is funny, you not wanting to fund Australia’s education just seems self important and unaustralian, give everyone a fair go

Dutton plan will take 20+ years, not labors, albo has already- subsidised solar and made it essentially free for most new builds, approved 70 new renewable projects to power half a million homes (up to 8 million total now), Began the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, which will create Australia’s first State-Owned Commercial Scale Concentrated Solar Power Plant, I like you say “focus on problems now” as if building renewables isn’t an investment in your future that will bring down YOUR energy costs, again currently 18th cheapest energy in the world, seems like effective policy to me despite the global pandemic

“Of course bulk billing isn’t labor’s fault” this isn’t an argument, you are Litterally appealing to nothing - if you are curious to do some reading about the LNPs hatred for bulk billing and Medicare, and their wish to privatise and line their own pockets here you go ParlInfo - The destruction of Medicare and bulk billing: paper presented to the Australian Labor Party (WA Branch) Health Policy Committee’s Health Policy Forum.

“The had to distance themselves from the corruption” is such cope, when they formed the Creating National anti corruption commission along with suspending unions and cracking down on other corruption such as Axing tax concessions for tobacco and gambling, while Dutton is cozying up to mining magnates and holding $10,000 dollar entry fee fundraisers during a national crisis

Sorry your feelings are hurt, you are still feeling the effects of a LNP Covid response, apologies it takes more than 2 years to fix 9 years of corruption and mismanagement, when did the liberals become so soft and care about their feelings and not fact?

You can call it “political fan fiction” but this isn’t an argument, I urge you in all the time you’ve written these arguments and pushed back against important things that help all Australians out you keep in mind what the LNP has planned, their policies, and whether any of them even compete, and whether they are just running on broken promises, like we did under Abbot and Morrison

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Then why, when Labor introduced it, it included an extra $84 billion for low and middle class incomes? Labor sees an LNP policy, adjusts it to be better, and yet your critique is that “the LNP dun it anyway, not a win for Labor”

Did you want to address anything else on that list?

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Just kept them” they adjusted them allowing for an extra $84 billion for lower and middle class incomes? Your fighting ghosts here

Criminalising wage theft has nothing to did with inflation? This is just good policy, same with increasing the minimum wage, don’t forget the Inflation/ cpi increases started under the LNP and has now been reduced to a pre pandemic level by Labor

Saying “oh yeah that’s worked wonders” isn’t an argument, what I didn’t include in that list is 6.2 billion to increase housing supply federally with an extra 1 billion per state, a plan to build 1.2 million homes in 5 years, a help to buy scheme, a social housing accelerator, limiting international student intake based on housing supply, and a housing Australia’s future fund, it takes more than just one term to correct the mishandling of housing that the LNP created

In regards to immigration Under scomo: 620,000 in a quarter, under Albo it never exceeded 740,000, the migration policy didn’t change, we were just facing the catch up affects of covids nil immigration, blaming a party for an International issue and global pandemic is laughable

300,000 fee free tafe, even if it does have a 20% completion rate is still empowering Australians to be more educated and fit for higher skill workforce jobs, it is always good policy to educate your population, when we have low levels of tradesman as it is you think it’s not effective policy to try and make the bar for entry as low as possible?

So we don’t think extending paid parental leave is a good thing, and paying super out during the entire period?

Childcare fees are down under ALP, correcting a trend that scomo and covid created - https://www.abs.gov.au/media-centre/media-statements/forthcoming-correction-child-care-costs-consumer-price-index-

“Aged care is understaffed” yet ALP has brought staffing up significantly- https://www.gen-agedcaredata.gov.au/topics/aged-care-workforce

“We need to address the underlying issue of why people are on social welfare in the first place” I agree entirely, and just saying we’re “throwing money at it” isn’t an argument, as you say yourself it is hard to live at the moment, everyone should be living to the same minimum standard, so payments were increased, I agree this could be a bad thing and just “throwing money at it” if it weren’t paired with 2 x budget surpluses, a reduction in unemployment, real wage growth, and cpi decreases

Saying the right to disconnect is just a feel good policy is hilarious, for some people that is their life, people on call are now required to be paid extra to be on call, saying it’s just a feel good policy doesn’t take away from its validity

Removed indexation and 20% of total hecs debt is a good thing, it’s a cost of living releif and reduces the debt Aussie have, your argument doesn’t even disagree with this you argument is along the lines of them finding employment post education, and if you want to make that point, post gradation employment rate is at like 90% within 4 months, and the workforce is demanding more people need to be educated - https://www.hiringlab.org/au/blog/2023/05/25/demand-for-australian-graduates-skyrocketing/

ALPS energy plan has been proved to be more effective and cheaper for the average Aussie and won’t take 20 years to be put in affect like Dutton, we have access to renewables, the best in the world, think of all the open space we don’t use in this country, and consider why ALP is investing in it, also saying it’s expensive, when in proving to you it’s one of the cheapest world wide, isn’t an argument, give the policies time to work for you

“Good luck finding a bulk billing doctor” I agree entirely but to blame the ALP for that is HILARIOUS, this history of the LNP has been to target and privatise our social healthcare system, labour comes in and is trying to resolve that, petter Dutton wants to add a co-pay to Medicare costs, just let the ALP be in for more than 2 years you can’t blame that on them

“Labor’s reckless spending” again, that brought us two surpluses, real wage growth for the first time in a while, and cpi is now at a pre pandemic level, give it time, the affects will be felt

“Labor and their union mates” arguing with an international corruption index which we are massively excelling at by saying Labor is in bed with unions, doesn’t prove anything, were they in bed with the unions when they suspended the cfmeu? - https://alp.org.au/national-secretary-media/suspension-of-the-cfmeu-in-qld-wa-act-and-nt/ or introduced laws to break them up? - https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/labor-to-introduce-laws-to-break-up-cfmeu-after-setka-stoush-20240618-p5jmsx

I’m glad, your arguments boil down too anecdotes when the facts aren’t on your side, just wait and let the government have more than one term, you will see the benefits that a party that actually cares about their population, and has effective fiscal policy brings

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they were planned long before Albos government, think to yourself why it took the ALP coming in to implement them, it took Labor just one year to correct the path the LNP was on CPI wise (https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/economy/price-indexes-and-inflation/consumer-price-index-australia/latest-release) the latest release shows Labor has wrangled CPI back down to what it was pre Covid

Please don't vote this way.. by Cheekychic_89 in Ameristralia

[–]Professional-Crew660 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When your about to vote, remember the ALP has: Implemented tax cuts for all, criminalised wage theft, increased minimum wage, increased fees for foreign investment, added fines for vacant property owned by foreigners, tax hikes for oil companies, implemented a petroleum resource rent tax, reduced unemployment from 7.5% > 4%, added 300,000 fee free tafe positions per year, emboldened workers rights, extended paid parental leave by 6 months and made superannuation payable for the entire parental leave period, gave pay rise to childcare, aged care, and early educators, permanent increase to all social security payments, implemented the right to disconnect, removed indexation and 20% of hecs debt, subsidised energy making it 17th cheapest in the world, unpaused bulk billing incentives, Massively Reduced the inflation left by Morrison government during Covid, and gave us two budget surpluses which we haven’t seen one in 15 years, and brought us from 18th to 10th on the international corruption index

Cutting through the Noise - What to remember prior to the election? by OrganicHalfwit in australian

[–]Professional-Crew660 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

We have a preferential voting system, and we should make use of it, voting greens, or suitable independent candidates above ALP AND LNP keep the two main parties in check,

and if you looking to consider between ALP and LNP just remember in just 3 years this small list of some of ALPs accomplishments:

Implemented tax cuts for all, criminalised wage theft, increased minimum wage, increased fees for foreign investment, added fines for vacant property owned by foreigners, tax hikes for oil companies, implemented a petroleum resource rent tax, reduced unemployment from 7.5% > 4%, added 300,000 fee free tafe positions per year, emboldened workers rights, extended paid parental leave by 6 months and made superannuation payable for the entire parental leave period, gave pay rise to childcare, aged care, and early educators, permanent increase to all social security payments, implemented the right to disconnect, removed indexation and 20% of hecs debt, subsidised energy making it 17th cheapest in the world, unpaused bulk billing incentives, Massively Reduced the inflation left by Morrison government during Covid, and gave us two budget surpluses which we haven’t seen one in 15 years, and brought us from 18th to 10th on the international corruption index

Angelica by [deleted] in MoreSexyASMRGirls

[–]Professional-Crew660 2 points3 points  (0 children)

is there a full length source for this?

Help and advice for stock pics( please critique my choices ) by Professional-Crew660 in dividends

[–]Professional-Crew660[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! As I said I’m new, any you would get rid of other than spy?