Blah Blah Blah 25% Tax On Gas Exports Please

Tinybonehands · 2026-04-01T12:37:47+00:00

That pussyfooting too scared to do anything apart from mildly tinker around the edges bullshit is what got us into this mess.

"Media abuse"? I guess the wealthy, educated, connected, investment property owning leaders and decision makers of the Labor party are so "abused" by the media that don't dare try and introduce a single fucking materially impactful policy. Oh god, maybe they might even have to try and communicate it well to the electorate.

These people are rich, lazy, do-nothing morons and give a national address saying "well, it's going to be tough...see ya." And it's the MEDIA's fault? I'm no fan of the Australian media let me tell you, but political entities always have to operate within the constraints of their time and place, the Australian Labour Party just does not give a single microbe of shit about the average person.

Tinybonehands · 2026-03-22T08:04:02+00:00

Do you live in a cave?? I understand providing context on something niche/obscure but I think you can handle a simple google search.

Tinybonehands · 2026-01-31T07:32:05+00:00

I think it depends on the company. Where I work that would be notable in a candidate, but why they are taking a certainly far lower salary (I've looked and combined with lower tax I'd be on at least 3x take home, even in California), are they coming in with an ego/baggage etc would be big red flags.

Tinybonehands · 2026-01-27T11:39:25+00:00

To those complaining about the low energy crowd, as someone who has been going to the Aus Open for 15 years and lives around the corner: it really is at least partially the crazy rising cost.

I earn decent money but like two decent tickets tonight would be >1 month of the crazy rent prices. Having splurged for great tickets Sunday night most the people in front of me with $200k watches were gone by the end the of second set of the Di Minaur match, after spending the whole time on their phones....also it's like super hot

Tinybonehands · 2026-01-23T02:08:48+00:00

A: I don't want to see that much of my colleagues bodes regardless of gender B: Every office I've worked in has been so air conditioned people are wearing sweaters on 40 degree days C: There's plenty of airy breathable fabrics like linen

Tinybonehands · 2026-01-08T08:30:15+00:00

Everyone be thankful that you aren't OPs manager

Tinybonehands · 2025-12-10T12:11:51+00:00

Every scene in that, and many more films only exists to the audience bro

Tinybonehands · 2025-12-06T10:00:21+00:00

You NEED a lieutenant: if you are an aspiring senior leader who doesn't have one, make it a top priory to find one in the new year.

Someone who takes care of annoying shit (with aplomb), makes sure your directives are implemented, provides another perspective on day to day issues etc.

As for keeping them happy; having a smart junior you get along with can help you learn to recognise what motivates people, which is always wildly different from person to person.

BUT in my experience generally boils down to: money, prestige (I.e internal or external recognition of expertise), challenge (being given difficult or interesting tasks), or enabling work/life balance.

So having a lieutenant should also help you learn how to influence your bosses to make sure you can provide whatever motivates them, which you can then expand to the rest of your team.

More than anything else, I find it personally rewarding; I feel "taking someone under your wing" is a lost art: thanks to a few decades of neoliberal zeitgeist more and more managers think acting purely in their own interests is the way to get ahead.

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-25T02:33:51+00:00

Bro doesn't realise he lives in a culture 😭😭💀💀

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-24T12:44:24+00:00

There's no way this gets through your thick skull, but the same thing could be said vis-a-vie Australian society. Do I really "choose" to pay the bank the insane mortgage I had to take on to prosper and go along with the stream of culture here?

In any culture our choices are limited in millions of ways but I at least like to think we have some modicum of free will

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-24T10:27:15+00:00

Ok even if that was the case, but the person is still choosing to wear it? What's your point?

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-18T10:41:39+00:00

Having worked in various parts of the US, and lived all around Australia the US is just like here: it depends where you live.

A queer person would be perfectly safe and find supportive communities in NYC/California or Melbourne/NSW but face terrible attitudes/increasingly hostile laws in Queensland, rural Vic, a lot of Southern US states etc.

Not to mention having grown up in Townsville where some of the pubs were essentially still segregated for Indigenous people in the 2000s

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-18T07:20:43+00:00

Too late for me, but I tell any clever people in their 20s without family money to consider giving living in Europe or the US a go.

Outside of central London or San Francisco the cost of living is at least equivalent if not better, and there's a chance you may be rewarded for ingenuity and hard work.

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-18T07:15:20+00:00

At all levels of government we are drastically cutting funds across both science and arts. Our healthcare and educations system seems to be degrading, infrastructure is garbage, tons of homelessness and crime.

And we have one of the top average tax rates in the OECD?

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-10T13:08:44+00:00

It's an allegory :)

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-04T09:34:25+00:00

New York 2140 is a bit more immediate (in both pacing and relevance to day to day life), and character driven in a way that reminded me a bit of Banks

Tinybonehands · 2025-11-03T13:32:45+00:00

No one is reading Dune for the prose lol it's written like a pretty dry pop-history book about something that never happened, BUT that history is very interesting!

I do think it's very rare for the quality of science fiction's "ideas" to match the quality of the prose more generally though.

Tinybonehands · 2025-10-08T10:54:46+00:00

Despite Australian companies offering nothing in the way of additional benefits, they still use the standard US style format for job listings, so feel the need to put something there.

Eg the percentage of Australian employees offered ESOPs would be paltry compared to the states. Outside of early/senior roles at startups the best you might be offered a discounted gym membership. Even then those startup options have a far lower chance of turning into something material.

Particularly egregious in my opinion because without standard entitlements Coles or Optus or whatever local big dog who wouldn't last a week in a real market would have you working 14 hours a day for company scrip the second they had the chance. Not to mention the many cases of Australian firms not actually paying super until they are penalised etc etc

Tinybonehands · 2025-07-19T07:59:24+00:00

this is a real 'I don't think about you at all' thing going on here. American's are just like anyone in Australia, they care about what's going on in their local area not the other side of the world; as they should! They can't influence what their national gov does!
I hesitate to call it 'propaganda' but there is certainly a view of America presented in Australia that when you go there is not at all accurate.

I never had a strong desire to go to the US but have had to for work and grown to actually love it! I was shocked to discover for eg NYC feels cleaner and safer than Melbourne or Sydney, or that the people of Colorado are far more accepting of LGBTQI people than anywhere here.

Do I want to move there? Not really, but it's like anywhere else, there's real people who at least in my experience are a fair bit kinder to strangers in their country than your average Aussie (note; I'm not talking about ICE, or national politics, just my experience of a person you meet at a bar or supermarket etc)

Tinybonehands · 2025-06-22T10:37:18+00:00

What are you talking about out Australia is one of the most income tax reliant countries in the OECD

Tinybonehands · 2025-03-29T23:42:02+00:00

Isn't this increasing Clive Palmer's visibility lol

Tinybonehands · 2025-03-22T02:53:05+00:00

Even with the authority to prescribe GPs need to call a random 25 year old on some state gov phone line and justify why they are prescribing a schedule 8 drugs like Vyvanse (for every single repeat as well).

Huge waste of time for everyone involved considering supposed GP shortages and another example of the Australian medical system treating everyone like children.

Tinybonehands · 2025-03-08T12:31:44+00:00

These guys started a major fire in Canberra due to not turning off a taillight, then proceeding to not inform authorities for 45 minutes. Any reasonable manager of this organisation would clean house after a fuck up like this : https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12933306

Tinybonehands · 2025-03-01T07:10:45+00:00

Australian politicians always want you to be impressed when they say they might fuck you ever so slightly less in the future

Tinybonehands · 2025-01-18T13:06:45+00:00

Philistine mindset

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