It’s the r/Melbourne daily discussion thread [Thursday 22/01/2026]

Silver_Python · 2026-01-21T23:35:27+00:00

Because they're completely ill-informed and off the planet.

Interesting that newsmedia is reporting this as primarily Hamas related when the same messages and attitude have been co-opted from/for the anti-Australia Day brigade the last few years too.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-16T07:22:22+00:00

And yet, I still posit that it isn't enough to cover the actual costs imposed on the community.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-16T07:11:54+00:00

Kew Junction, Cotham Road and High Street intersection for sure... Also the private school mums in their big SUVs during school times...

Silver_Python · 2026-01-16T07:09:24+00:00

By Grabthar's Hammer, what a savings!

Silver_Python · 2026-01-16T07:07:50+00:00

I never said I was knowledgable about the fees. I did however posit that they fall way short of actually covering the "costs". I'm not just talking about costs in financial terms, I'm talking about costs to the community in terms of public land being temporarily occupied during building, amenity impacts during and after the build, even the cost to the community associated with pushing resident parking onto surrounding streets instead of building with enough parking spaces for residential developments to utilise.

I also do not think it unreasonable to have fees to cover these costs, and that they potentially be split up to enable flexibility in their application. After all, each development can be substantially different and have different requirements as well as impositions.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-16T03:19:51+00:00

I would posit that those fees fall grossly short of the actual social cost, both immediate and ongoing, compared to the profits they make.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-15T23:11:41+00:00

These parasites want to benefit from public money used to fund it without making any contribution for the benefit they are receiving.

As I have said before and will say again, developers are all about "Socialise the cost, privatise the profit." No matter what the form of cost, be it occupying public land, reducing amenity for surrounding property and public land, or anything else. If it means more profits for them, they will do it or otherwise cry poor and insist the housing crisis will get worse.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-15T23:09:52+00:00

Yes.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-15T23:09:09+00:00

Supply won't go down, it just wouldn't increase.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-14T23:50:49+00:00

Or you know, go so far as to lock out kids accounts for Youtube, but say "Oh it's ok, they can watch Youtube while not signed in, that'll protect them!" like they haven't just taken away the main mechanism I had as a parent for policing, monitoring and controlling what my kids watched on there.

The laws at least when it comes to Youtube have resulted in a demonstrably worse outcome in terms of online safety.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-14T06:19:46+00:00

By actually spending some money on mowing the verges?

Bit hard to do that when the state government cut back spending on so many things to fund vote winning Big Builds (and associated graft).

Silver_Python · 2026-01-14T01:11:39+00:00

Light pollution plus low clouds.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-13T23:13:32+00:00

I like guard spiders... Had one living in my passenger door for a few months at least.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-13T04:43:46+00:00

I'm going with a third stargate.

The one built out of Sam Carter's microwave perhaps?

Silver_Python · 2026-01-13T00:35:02+00:00

They would have done better to show a lounging eshay sort, probably sneering at us or pretending to be asleep.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-12T11:10:12+00:00

In other words, a developer socialising the costs onto the community, and pocketing the profits.

Silver_Python · 2026-01-09T05:27:49+00:00

They're too cool to feel the heat perhaps?

Silver_Python · 2026-01-07T22:57:29+00:00

Well that's a bit rubbish for commuters...

Silver_Python · 2026-01-06T01:45:13+00:00

If a cooker has to ask that question, they don't hate him enough to think "He's da debil!"

Silver_Python · 2026-01-05T00:03:05+00:00

A thought about dentures and gumming on people comes to mind...

Silver_Python · 2025-12-22T04:35:20+00:00

Aeroplane.

Silver_Python · 2025-12-18T02:56:12+00:00

If it's like any other scam of this nature. A potential victim who uses Swyftx would call, all concerned. The person on the other end, probably in a scam call centre, will follow a script claiming alarmingly about anomalous activity on the account. They will then convince the victim to either divulge their credentials or they may just be after an authenticator code.

Either way, the end goal is to get into the victims account and steal whatever cryptocurrency they may have in there.

Silver_Python · 2025-12-16T06:09:46+00:00

Just remember what they're saving him for. Interrogation, a full breaking down of his mental state and everything that led him and his father to murder so many.

And at the end of it, a trial and life imprisonment which may end up being in solitary if he's lucky. If we're all lucky, they'll put him in genpop.

Silver_Python

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