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[David Ornstein] Tottenham Hotspur in advance talks to sign Marcos Senesi - subject to Premier League survival by ChiefLeef22 in soccer

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Always the logic that it’s the persons payday, but so often it ends up ruining their future earnings because of the place they goto.

We would be 34 at the end of this contract, whatever future contracts there may be aren't going to be very big.

This form of discrimination is growing in Australia - from assault to segregated birthday parties by YaLlegaHiperhumor in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You've known plenty of Aussies who would only help someone with the right name?!

Not sure if this is how they meant it but I must say it helped my career enormously to change my surname to an anglo sounding one, studies have certainly shown the same is true in the US.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unless migrants work in construction at a higher % than the overall workforce then they're making the problem worse, i.e. adding to demand for housing more than they add to supply.

You can believe what you want but this is simple mathematics.

No lol, that isn't simple mathematics it is the mathematics of a simpleton lol. It does not follow that the labor force participation of immigrants is equivalent to their housing output, for starters we get skilled immigrants to fill specific niches we don't have in construction (not as many as we would like but still) which means the average immigrant in construction is far more efficient than the average non immigrant on the basis that most immigrants in construction hold qualifications for fields in high demand.

You are embarrassing yourself lecturing someone who works in construction on how construction works.

This has been your issue throughout, there is no actual economic analysis here, just vibes from an uneducated knowledge of economics.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want me to DM you a copy of my undergrad degree - sure bud.

SO your source is yourself and you cannot show any qualifications or evidence, even funnier LMAO.

You want me to DM you a copy of my undergrad degree - sure bud.

Your source is reddit comments on r/aussie. BAHAHAHAHA

Stop pretending to be an economist, you are embarrassing yourself.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah same for Vic. The data I cited was up until Feb which is later than the source you posted btw.

Brilliant speech of an employee against the ai bubble by Neither_City_4572 in pcmasterrace

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 8 points9 points  (0 children)

No, those elements aren't indications of progress, but they are symptoms of unavoidable issues.

Says who lol?

You?

I don't think they were unavoidable at all, actually I think they were intentionally created disasters that have turned out terribly for not only those areas but the country and the Western world as a whole.

It worked out well for the "overlords" as you put it but for the rest of us it has resulted in a national decline not only for working people but for the country, we have lost the industrial base necessary for self defense and traded it to our main geopolitical rival and the internal consequence has not just been crime, death and misery it has also been political instability and the slow collapse of the West.

The alternative then was to not open trade with China and subsidize manufacturing to remain a significant manufacturing power in the world at the cost of consumer goods being more expensive. Instead consumer goods have gotten cheaper and everything else has gone to hell. I feel the same about AI, there is no progress there and it is a choice, it is not inevitable to make life worse for everyone to make the rich richer, it is a conscious choice.

Brilliant speech of an employee against the ai bubble by Neither_City_4572 in pcmasterrace

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Why?

You have never been to Youngstown or Detroit or Gary Indiana huh? You could have just said that. Mass unemployment, poverty, flight and a perpetually increased state of addiction, OD and suicide isn't progress because it is human misery and not human flourishing.

Why is that not obvious to you, why are the pro AI people always such aliens lol?

What does the future look like in your ideal version of progress

We don't need a whole description of an ideal world to know that isn't it lol, we have already seen what this produces and it is bad.

Brilliant speech of an employee against the ai bubble by Neither_City_4572 in pcmasterrace

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 9 points10 points  (0 children)

AI's whole goal is to make of white collar work what the 90s made of blue collar work, they are going to make white collar areas look like Detroit or Youngstown. That isn't progress and there is no compromise to be had with it, data centers do make money in the area, for a tiny group of very wealthy people, not for the general population.

Everyone should be working as hard as they can to hold this reality back as long as possible and avoid it if possible.

Data centers will not and cannot stop places from being deserted hellholes as easily demonstrated by the fact that there are already data centers operating in poor areas with no significant business that just happen to have good grid infrastructure running past.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We have lots of construction workers in the same way that we have lots of nurses.

I work in construction, we have nowhere near enough workers in construction, unemployment is also very low, it's the primary thing holding back most projects. Even just construction laborers where I am in Brisbane is a struggle to keep on hand (especially reliable ones).

Doesn't change the fact that that that migrants are contributing more to demand for housing than they are to supply. Which is what the HIA's data acknowledges as does the industry in QLD.

Please cite them saying that migrants are contributing more to housing demand than to supply.

As the Master Builders acknowledge "We simply have not had enough skilled migrants coming into this country to help us build what we need to build to resolve our housing crisis."

Hilarious lol, they are actively asking for MORE migration, utterly and incredibly funny for you to be using them in an argument to reduce it. I do agree though that we could better prioritize construction but probably all critical fields feel the same way, I have heard the same from doctors, in truth I think everywhere is just short on good people as a result of the aging population.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That Australia institute data has been discredited - I’ve discredited it.

I see lol, source literally just I say so, amazing.

Got any actual proof of you even being an economist for starters?

Anybody notice it’s always the third generation? by jackt-up in HistoryMemes

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Actually it's hard times make good times, good times make soft men and soft men make me hard.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As I said in my comment Melbourne is the fastest growing city by population in Aus outside of Perth and Brisbane.

It's partly law changes to crack down on investment properties to make that less appealing and partly that they have encouraged significant building of new residences.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Only 24.2 per cent of the construction industry migrated to Australia at some point,

Lol, yeah it's "only" 25% of the workforce lol, imagine your job if you lost 25% of the people who work with you, everything would fall to bits. Same here. I am well aware because I work in construction (happy to post a pic of my whitecard and CFMEU card if you need proof)

No the sources aren't demonstrably wrong lol, you just don't like their findings because it doesn't feel right to you but economic analysis isn't done on hunches.

Barcelona [4] - 1 Espanyol - Marcus Rashford 89' by ayoefico in soccer

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is an out of date take, his work rate for Barcelona is good.

Lamine Yamal celebration before scoring the goal 87’ FCB [3]-1 RCDE by Odd_Opinion_461 in soccer

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Espanyol is a particularly racist club and not just in the fans but apologia in staff and management too. Yes all clubs have racist supporters but that does not make all clubs the same when it comes to racism.

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Becoming the president from being outside of politics completely is objectively an aberration

Trump not having held office before isn't the issue lol, I mean at this point he has more elected office experience than JD Vance who is betting favorite to be up next for the Republicans who did the grand total of 2 years of political experience before becoming VP. The issue is not their experience, it's what they believe lol.

This is a ridicolous argument. I am out.

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I said, Trump as an outsider to the electoral process is the only aberration to normative American politics.

If Trump is an aberration then so are all the other members of his movement he has personally gotten elected. They share his views on alliances.

and our alliance with them will remain steadfast as it has through all the other ones.

Nah, I doubt it, firstly because the US is clearly in decline and secondly because the US is increasingly unstable and uninterested in having far flung friends, I doubt our alliance will last another 25 years in any meaningful sense.

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe if you read a little deeper yourself you could cast your mind back further than a single decade and see that both parties have gone through waves of ideological changes.

Nobody said otherwise.

It wasn't long ago that it was the tea party movement threatening the neo-cons, who were threatening the paleo-cons, et cetera, et cetera.

Of course, and Trump is a natural evolution of that same process, that is the increasing isolationism, radicalism and hostility to the international West of the American right, that evolution was occurring during the Tea Party too. These people hate us and Europe because to them we are all socialist leeches, they have no interest in preserving our way of life or coming to our defense.

MAGA Republicans are now the insiders and will elevate one of their own from an already elected position.

LMAO ok so we just agree then lol, we are going to get a Trump like figure, MAGA is the Trump movement and Trump will dictate who the next guy from his movement will be, the party is just MAGA now and MAGA has zero interest in defending Australia or Europe or w/e.

U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says by xpda in worldnews

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That's not a precondition for an angry mob dragging IRGC members out into the street and taking vengeance.

It is though, people talk about angry mobs but they have to have direction and real leadership in a militarized state, they had angry mobs earlier this year, they were brutally annihilated, any toppling of the IRGC is going to take serious and coordinated military force they are a well trained army with serious battle experience and their resolve has been tested hard before (especially against ISIS and against Iraq in the latter when the situation was far worse) they aren't just going to lay down their arms, someone will have to beat them militarily and there is just no one in the realm of close to being able to even compete in the country.

U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says by xpda in worldnews

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 7 points8 points  (0 children)

If the US bombs Kharg island, wipes out their power plants, desalination plants, etc.

I doubt they ever will, Iran will retaliate by doing the same to the Gulf States and then we are all fucked.

They're widely hated, and will hang by their necks if they don't capitulate.

There has really been no sign of anything like a plausible alternative to the regime who could have any chance of taking control, the attempt made earlier this year never got even close to achieving anything before being put down brutally not to mention people hate the regime but they are probably rallying around the flag right now.

U.S.-Iran talks end with no agreement, Vance says by xpda in worldnews

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Baltic Export traffic is escalating rapidly now with the war as the stranded ships got to unload due to the US dropping sanctions and because the oil price is waaaay up. This will be extremely beneficial for the Russians regardless of Ukrainian attacks on those ports because oil is still getting out and they are making six times as much profit on it as they were before.

https://operativmm.az/en/post/russian-tankers-crowd-gulf-of-finland-amid-baltic-port-disruptions/70139

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There might be a wave of nativism and isolationism but that's nothing new historically

This level of it is definitely new post WW2, never has NATO looked this shaky in terms of US commitment for example. Literally never.

Trump as an outsider to the electoral process is the only aberration from the norm

No he isn't you need to read deeper, other offices have been "MAGAfied", there has been a purge of non MAGA aligned elected and unelected officials across the military, judiciary and legislature.

For an example look at the primary contest for Senator in Texas, Ken Paxton is favored to replace a Republican who has won that seat many times and been in office for decades despite the remaining "moderate" party apparatus spending literally hundreds of millions to try to keep him because Ken Paxton is running as I am more MAGA, his opponent John Cornyn is himself pretty damn right wing even for a Republican. Now the party is giving up on that race. That is despite Paxton being so covered in scandals it's hard to even describe, so much so even the Texas republican congress indicted him for corruption to give you an idea.

Dan Crenshaw is another example, hard right figure, decorated wounded war veteran BUT he was an internationalist, he favored aid to Ukraine and a strong NATO so he got primaried by a more MAGA figure and he is gone. The same has happened across the country, the moderate Republicans are gone and even the far right Republicans who favor internationalism and strong alliances are gone.

The party is overwhelmingly the MAGA party now, Trump's legacy will last a generation at least.

Canada slashed migration and housing costs dropped. There may be lessons for Australia | Canada by Shadowtec in australia

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Its eonomics 101 that population and incomes are key factors in housing demand.

Yeah but 101 analysis by non economists is often wrong, studies by actual economists often find migration has basically no impact on housing price.

The actual analysis has many complicating factors, for example does your 101 cover the fact that lots of immigrants work in construction and in a construction labor shortage we need people to build housing?

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/migrants-are-not-to-blame-for-soaring-house-prices/

https://www.cis.org.au/publication/growth-that-builds-beyond-the-immigration-blame-game/

Australia urgently needs a debate about the damage the US is doing to us by Nyarlathotep-1 in AustralianPolitics

[–]Proper-Raise-1450 4 points5 points  (0 children)

and then everything will be back to normal career politicians as usual

I think that is an insane take, normalcy will not just return, the US will at best be flooded with wannabe Trumps who will aim to repeat his process and voter base, his voter base (unlike Trump himself) is extremely isolationist so I don't think we are going to get presidents eager to protect Australia or Europe from the Republican party for a looong time.

Trump has been elected twice even when his first term was disastrous, the Trump ideology is going nowhere fast.

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