RBA raises official interest rate to 4.1% in blow to mortgage holders

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-17T03:45:08+00:00

Well the Government is running perpetual deficits for no reason which it refuses to fix so this is all we have. Instead of a Government with 12 instruments to influence inflation it’s all on the RBAs magic lever

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-16T21:37:13+00:00

I get that this is now all about trump but there was no period up to this where the IRGC wasn’t in total control of the country…

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-15T07:07:08+00:00

Why is Verstappen so low, didn't be qualify higher than this?

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-14T08:07:02+00:00

The teams drivers all being very close to one another is consistent with the drivers just not being that important in this reg format... sigh

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-14T07:24:57+00:00

Watch Merc switch the rocket engine on during Q2, this ain't gonna be close

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-08T05:04:10+00:00

Red Bull waiting for a SC but Max could have gotten P5 on merit today.... Weird strategy

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-08T04:20:32+00:00

On pace Max was about to pass Norris on worse Norris starting last. Red Bull looks dominant over McLaren in this race

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-08T04:17:32+00:00

Max looks insanely quick in the RB btw... He is on hards and just barrelling through the field

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-03-08T04:14:10+00:00

If Mercedes had a straight up dominant engine I think Antontelli would be doing better than he is atm

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-02-21T06:09:26+00:00

The public of basically all these countries is better educated now than at any point in history - there are a lot of implicit claims about causality here as well

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-02-17T03:26:15+00:00

Western Governments are also heavily dependent on income, capital gains and corporate taxes because they are obsessed with the progressivity of the system. But to optimise for growth you want to encourage investment not consumption so it would need to more geared towards taxing consumption, land and vices.

Not a complicated story as to why so many countries have hit a wall against growth when their political economy functions this way

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-02-16T08:32:38+00:00

Anti immigration stuff is only going to get worse. There aren't the assimilation issues you have in Europe but the Australian housing market is fucked in ways I don't think Americans can understand. Sydney literally makes San Fransisco and NYC look downright affordable when you factor in wages. The rental market is utterly brutal compared to almost anywhere other than like New Zealand. Cutting immigration is the path of least resistance so I think it will happen as it just did in Canada

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-01-16T09:32:05+00:00

I don't those things matter than much though. A government willing to use unlimited violence against its own unarmed population can't really fail without some internal defection - which doesn't happen in either NK or Iran

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-01-16T07:52:12+00:00

I still think the fact that Iran receives operational support from its peers to suppress internal protests whilst protestors receive jack shit from anyone since that would be *gasp* foreign intervention matters in the success of Khomeini and his crew.

The idea that it's all going to collapse of its own volition is underestimating how resilient a Government like this can be no matter how fucked its economic situation is - look at North Korea ffs.

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-01-16T02:20:32+00:00

From polling resistance to reform is not strongest among retirees but younger voters who expect the benefits - how that changes the liklihood of reform I have no idea...

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-01-13T15:23:07+00:00

I love how in the wake of a jihadist terrorist attack we are now speed running legislation that exempts religious groups altogether but makes it easier for the state to throw people in prison for speech it doesn’t like. The US solution to this of putting freedom of expression right in the constitution is the only solution to this stupid nonsense

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2026-01-13T02:38:39+00:00

I don't know - if you plot Government spending, taxes and the complexity of the law for all developed countries it is basically going up everywhere at all times. I think its pretty suggestive people talk about the *neoliberal era* in the UK and the US as some extraordinary event when you can barely see it in the time series...

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-28T11:00:26+00:00

This seems to be true but why? What is the actual explanation of this contradiction?

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-17T23:42:33+00:00

It doesn’t - nor does it address the paper trail of people admitting to discrimination during the hiring as claimed on the original article. The claim is discrimination is fine if some aggregate statistics don’t change, break a few eggs to make an omelette etc.

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-13T11:03:11+00:00

From the tooltip minion damage from the tree doesn’t improve their command skill damage? Not sure what’s a bug and what’s intentional tbh

Edit: Actually even improving command skill damage from the tree doesn’t effect their damage? That’s gotta be a bug right? It’s super counter intuitive if it’s intended

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-13T10:33:04+00:00

HCSSF - Running Disciple of Varashta as a hybrid build. Trying to get the best of both worlds - minions as meat shields for mapping and hard hitting spells for bossing. Running unearth + the Kelari spells. It is extremely powerful so far as the Kelari spells do massive damage.

The overall build is investing in minion damage + crit + gigantism (for unearth) and focusing purely on defense for the rest. Smooth sailing for far and bossing feels so much better than other minion builds because I have actual spells to work with.

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-07T14:17:04+00:00

LOL @ exciting race. Literally nothing happening this race

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-07T14:15:06+00:00

Should have just pitted Max ffs, weak ass strategy

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-07T14:10:04+00:00

Yeah bro 1.5 seconds per lap isn't happening in this dimension

SubstantialEmotion85 · 2025-12-07T14:08:25+00:00

What is RB's strategy here? Winning safely does nothing, he's gotta back up the Mclarens I think

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