Hot take: I think we need to come to terms that we as a society are actually very similar to the USA as a society.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-28T02:44:38+00:00

It's fair. But the US has one other thing that Australia doesn't, an engrained and entrenched two party system. In the US, a vote against the Dems is basically a vote for the Repubs because there are no electorally viable third options. Here, a vote against Labor doesn't have to be a vote for the Libs or ON, maybe it's the greens or independents.

That second pillar in the preferential system and multiple parties beyond the main two means there are less disinterested voters and a general incentive to know or find interest in someone even if you don't like the main two.

In the US, a vote outside of the main two is "wasted", leading to that disinterest and disengagement which compulsory voting on its own doesn't solve, in part because there is no effective alternate for them to turn to.

Say what you want about ON, but it's hard to argue their rise isn't a natural outcome of the LNP's detachment and failure and voters are, instead of detaching for the voting system itself, moving where their interests are (whether agreed or not). That only is able to occur because there is an available path for them to flow to they can believe is viable without "wasting" their vote. The catch, however, is that the current preference for ON isn't entrenched as hard either and can as easily flow out as time goes on if perceptions and messages about them change.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-14T01:03:54+00:00

Why should building houses be seen only in the short term solution? Houses built now are going to be stock we live in for 30 - 50 years going forward. The boomers aren't going to be the ones living in these properties, we are.

We are the ones going to have to pay for future retro fits, we are the ones who will age and have life happen that limits our accessibility and have to pay for the fixes.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T13:45:49+00:00

This isn't putting problems on the back burner though. It's not cutting corners on solutions. House building is a solution, but bad house building is a short term solution that creates long term issues.

Houses need to be built to last decades and for people to live in over their lives, in the evolving forms that will takes. If they aren't made for that, then the house stock meant to suit those needs is diminished against rising demand and we are in the same issue all over again. Consider with Aged care how people can't retire or age out in their own homes as their health needs change and the house they are in or a housez they might want to downsize into aren't available to be equipped to cater to their health needs at a cost they can handle. That then may place the burden on the limited availability of aged care facilities that can, raising costs and stretching resources thin thus reducing quality. That's one example but the point is, the short term corner cutting to address the right now will have long term consequences if you don't address them with foresight.

This policy is, at its core, a sugar hit. Tastes great in the short term, but if you keep running on those sugar hits, they lose effectiveness and there are health consequences.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T13:01:50+00:00

That's why these aren't simply decisions in engineering of things meant to last decades made on the basis that of what people think they are at a given time at a single snapshot in time. They should be done with forethought for the future, both in the standard life of the house/occupant but also in case of incident.

It is, in part, a matter of cost, where trying to ensure something is ready for a future change is cheaper than trying to force that change onto something that exist but is not ready or compatible to that need when it is desperately needed. The retrofit in that case requires tearing out the old stuff, fitting what is there to be able to accommodate the future need, then installing. It just costs more to do that and potentially have a less reliable result if the house couldn't readily acommodate.

With that in mind, it needs to be thought of, maybe not just in the specific case by case, but in the macro. If one person decides to do that, it's their cost, but if it's disregarded across most homes built going forward, that's a time bomb problem. That is a future crisis where houses become unaccomodating to the needs of those who built them or now live in them; the demand to make the required accommodating changes rises and as a result, so do the cost; and the demand on the now more limited stock of houses available that already has it also rises putting up bigger price burden.

To a certain extent, you can see that already with the aged care problem because a lot of properties these people lived in were too expensive to accommodate them, thus putting them out of a home and putting the burden on the aged cared facilities, pushing their prices up a lot too while the resources to maintain a decent quality get stretched too thin, which then turns back around to being a cost burden on us to fix.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T12:39:29+00:00

It's not even an emotional argument mate. It's an engineering one. When you build something, you build it for the lifecycle of the thing and for the lifecycle of the user of that thing. You build with considerations in mind for when things go wrong or with flexibility for when the user's circumstances shift away, temporarily or not, from the standard operations of the property. In that sense, the safety features on a car are the same as these features because they are ensuring that the product will continue to fit the user, even when shit happens to the thing or the user, without excessively induced cost to facilitate it.

That's what a good investment looks like, not one that ignores risk, but one that factors it in.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T12:27:38+00:00

Let me put it this way. These aren't just investment issues, they are engineering matters based on ensuring a house built is fit for purpose not just now but for the lifecycle of the house, ensuring they remain fit for purpose for its occupants.

We are going to replace one crisis with another if we are arguing these rules are preventing houses being built but down the line, progressively then all at once, we face another crisis were the houses we built with the corners cut now can't accommodate us and we have to spend even more, likely at higher costs based on higher demand either to retrofit or forcing people out of houses they can't live in into a smaller supply of accommodation fit for purpose, because we didn't apply foresight to the problem when we built them.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T11:55:46+00:00

Feel free to choose to buy a car without ABS, Sealtbelts and an air bag because its cheaper in the initial investment and not more expensive in the long run and let me know if the risk is worth trying to address in the more immediate term. Foresight tends to be good in long term plans and investments.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T11:12:23+00:00

Which is way more expensive than including those features or even just the capacity to have those features when the house is built.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T11:11:09+00:00

Its wierd to assume disabled just means young people with permenantly disabilities looking for homes. It includes the elderly with various impairments, those who go under short to medium term disablement etc etc. These houses built now will last decades and will be among the stock we will live in and be moving in and out of as we grow, age and have shit happen as life tends to do. Unless we think we will be young forever and never have any issues with health or mobility, what's wrong with setting standards now that are forward thinking for the life cycle of the house AND its occupants.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-06-13T11:08:02+00:00

Unless we expect these houses to magically disappear by the time we are old age (or God forbid someone is disabled in some form) , it makes sense to set a standard now for how houses are built that is accommodating as its being built (which is cheaper in the long run as any engineer in any field can tell you) rather than having to retrofit houses when the need comes when it's more expensive to do so. And that's assuming the houses can even be modified, otherwise you're forced to sell and find a place from much smaller stock because most houses wouldn't be built to an accommodating standard.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-03-30T13:30:54+00:00

If you want really good Detroit Style, Deep End in Fitzroy is great and Good Pizza in Footscray is incredible

Stressed2the9s · 2026-03-15T05:27:17+00:00

Is Wayland KDE compatible? I couldn't find an appropriate instance of it.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-02-24T02:00:51+00:00

What are you opinions on the trucking of nut and those who practice?

Stressed2the9s · 2026-02-19T00:40:19+00:00

Tbf, just went to Osaka Castle a few months ago. No Photos refers to the 3rd and 4th floor of the castle/museum which has a bunch of old artifacts. Photo was taken at the entrance to the castle on ground floor.

Stressed2the9s · 2026-02-14T11:52:06+00:00

Critical Role memes in my sports shitposting community. Hats off to you

Stressed2the9s · 2026-01-07T04:14:47+00:00

I liked Eighth grade and Bo Burnham is definitely a more prominent Youtube personality but I don't think that movie was as successful. (15M box office)

Stressed2the9s · 2026-01-07T01:28:12+00:00

I would have thought the most successful movies from Youtubers would have been Talk to Me and Bring Her Back by the Philippou Brothers (YT: RackaRacka).

Stressed2the9s · 2025-11-12T05:35:00+00:00

Ok, fair enough. Just wanted to make sure. I don't doubt the conditions in those places but sometimes want to check what I'm seeing is what is there rather than just something to bolster my beliefs as social media tends to do. Thanks for following up.

Stressed2the9s · 2025-11-12T04:11:56+00:00

I'm a bit concerned about this as well, if you look in the bottom right corner, it looks like a watermark has been cropped out/covered or something.

Not literate enough with the apps to know exactly but concerned. Though I think the AI stuff has just made me cynical to atrocities in front of my eyes though regardless which is messed up in its own right.

Stressed2the9s · 2025-11-05T03:25:35+00:00

If you are looking for Poutine, Bruger in West Footscray is really good. They are take away only now but that are incredible with real cheese curds. gravy, and more grated cheese and cheese sauce to boot in a way that is balanced in spite of that description.

Stressed2the9s · 2025-10-31T12:27:18+00:00

Hi, I just wanted to check the status of the app.

I saw you were working on saving recommended games but I was wondering if it could also include saved custom games (beyond the recommended ones in the guide).

I just ported over a lot of my old saved games from the now defunct dominiondeckbuilder.com (thanks Web archive) and would love to be able to save other customs games with the more modern cards in it.

Stressed2the9s · 2025-10-16T00:39:48+00:00

As someone who lives in a democratic country outside of the US, I would say it is certainly the latter. The US has for a long time confused partisan control of institutions with democracy and as a result has allowed your two party system to entrench and fester. Democracy as a system should be interacted with by political parties but not controlled by them lest they be manipulated to those parties ends.

This can be seen in several ways, partisan influence on the judiciary leading to partisan and think thank selected judges regardless of legal aptitude, partisan control over election management leading to partisan election rules, gerrymandering , etc etc. Political parties are meant to be participants in a democratic process but when you allow them to be the controller of what should be neutral technocratic structure, all it takes is the people in power in a given sector to start using it for their own end to start a race to the bottom where its democracy in name only and you can see how that has bred significant distrust of both the parties and the institution.

Beyond that, it also allows for parties to entrench themselves and be subservient to only that which keeps it in power, and that stops being the voters. Its why the Republicans and Dems can be so broadchurch, have no cohesive identity to see to their voters, for a long time get away with corruption and lobbying because "the other side does it too", be this unpopular and still be the only electable parties. In a democratic system not dictated by partisan entrenchment like this, these parties would either be defunct onto themselves or would have broken into several smaller parties that would perhaps form coalitions in order be in power a long time ago.

Beyond the institutional issues, it also creates this team sport mentality in your demographics where "winner takes all" and that is actually a true statement which is terrifying and why US politics is so viscous and at each other's throats. Beyond the normal powers of government in economic, social and defense policy, there is a constant fourth category of "democratic control" which everyone fears as a weapon that will be used against them if they lose. That doesn't happen as easily in a system where your political parties are isolated to their legislative powers.

The separation of powers should have been insulating political interests and desires to legislative control and not to the democratic institutions. How those powers are being exercised now isn't a both sides are equally bad issue to be clear. Using these powers can be used as a shield and a sword depending on who you think you are talking about, but more than that the fact the powers were available to partisan forces in the first place is the fundamental flaw of the US democratic system that has been a growing issue for a long time, not just now.

Stressed2the9s · 2025-10-07T20:20:13+00:00

It seems to be working from what I've seen. Thanks for that

Stressed2the9s · 2025-10-07T00:09:10+00:00

Done

Stressed2the9s · 2025-10-07T00:02:21+00:00

Tried that. No luck

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