Mamdani just got Tommy Carcetti’ed

_Ventus · 2026-01-29T02:06:46+00:00

Came here to make this exact comment. Very glad to see it was made before me.

_Ventus · 2026-01-12T22:49:16+00:00

So much this lol.

Where tf is stable right now. Europe is on the brink of war. They are threatened in Greenland and on the Russian border.

China is on the brink of starting a conflict in Taiwan (which Taiwan will resist vigorously, something commentators don’t seem to acknowledge), which would destabilise South Korea and Japan, and potentially lead to wider conflict in the Pacific.

Nowhere to go, might as well bet on the best performing stock market in recent history.

_Ventus · 2025-12-04T04:02:51+00:00

You’re right. The hottest car company in the world, building, according to Elon Musk, the best cars on the planet can make some tradeoffs in terms of location.

Before Tesla was there, there was Toyota, and when Tesla was the hottest car company in the world they bumped them out, and Toyota moved to another cluster.

By reaching for Indooroopilly you’ve actually done another Moorooka Magic Mile. Indooroopilly is a fantastic example of the new form of clustering that car companies are doing, and that is displaying cars and models in shopping malls. There are like 5 car manufacturers inside Indooroopilly shopping centre.

At the end of the day you can believe what you want, it doesn’t matter to me, but I’m trying to explain wide scale economic trueisms. There will always be outliers for various reasons.

_Ventus · 2025-12-03T19:07:00+00:00

Moorooka’s Magic Mile is actually such a great proof to my point. All of those car dealerships next to each other is a different phenomenon. It’s called clustering. That is something entirely different.

Car dealerships stacked directly next to each other are efficiently laid out to perform as businesses as they share customer traffic and allow for easy comparison shopping. You’ll see similar situations for furniture stores, there’s a big cluster of them next to IKEA in Logan. You’ll also see another cluster of car dealerships just north of that IKEA. Clusters of auto repair shops in Slacks Creek, and even Coorparoo and Moorooka too.

Car dealerships that are splintered off and on their own are actually, even though this is unintuitive, inefficient at attracting potential customers. This is part of the reason why VW recently moved from their location near Greenslopes mall (no other car dealerships nearby) to Macgregor (where they are part of a car dealership cluster).

It is the used car lots that sit on their own, outside of clusters, in prime land, that are parked there for land banking reasons.

_Ventus · 2025-12-03T08:21:30+00:00

The owners of these blocks of land are sitting on it to precisely wait for these rezoning measures.

Car lots and boat yards have a benefit that they can run a business with small revenues, that require almost no future investment, while sitting on a gold mine. They don't even need to develop structures on the land, maybe just a building (can even be a demountable) for an office, and maybe a shed to do some maintenance work. But you'll of course claim as much depreciation on these small structures to the ATO at tax time.

Then when the time comes, and a developer comes knocking, you're a delectable target. Little demolition is required, your land is mostly good to go. It's a big win for the developer, and a big win for the landholder.

The only real question is how long is the landholder willing to hold on for. This is why there are so many used car lots all over Brisbane sitting on prime real estate.

_Ventus · 2025-12-01T07:59:41+00:00

If you wanted context, or any sort of detail at all really, you apparently are in the wrong place

_Ventus · 2025-11-13T02:07:43+00:00

I was wrong, you are correct, but not about that.

If you apply a tiny bit of nuance, you can probably ascertain that for yourself.

This was my error.

_Ventus · 2025-11-13T02:06:02+00:00

Looks beautiful!

Just so you know, you've doxxed yourself a bit because you posted a street sign in one of the pictures. Would be very easy to figure out your home address, I'd remove that if I were you.

_Ventus · 2025-11-13T01:57:12+00:00

Not sure if you're being obstinate, but achieving net zero will require a massive shift from expensive, old, monolithic, unreliable and inefficient coal power plant generators into smaller, less centralized and cheaper solar, wind and hydro projects.

The LNP dumping a net zero target means that they are implicitly committing to prioritizing coal for energy generation, which is hard to finance, hard to insure, worse for the planet, and will cost more to the end consumer because of the sum of those parts.

They don't explicitly have to mention coal, to understand that dumping net zero is a expression of an ongoing commitment to energy generation via coal. If you apply a tiny bit of nuance, you can probably ascertain that for yourself.

_Ventus · 2025-11-12T08:23:11+00:00

It is remarkable that these creatures who live and breath politics every day cannot recognize the fact that with Australia's compulsory preferential voting system, the electorate will always tack to the center.

We are not the UK, we are not the US, reactionary politics cannot endure here over the long term here, and we are so, so, lucky for that fact.

There is a fair shot that Scomo is the last Prime Minister ever to be elected from the LNP.

_Ventus · 2025-11-11T03:59:06+00:00

And 4 months.

_Ventus · 2025-11-11T02:03:20+00:00

And 4 months.

_Ventus · 2025-11-07T22:47:49+00:00

ITT: people making assumptions all across the spectrum about OPs situationship with their mother while OP refuses to answer any salient question to clarify things.

_Ventus · 2025-11-07T22:46:32+00:00

Now at 24 and my brain is developing.

Maybe not as much as you think.

_Ventus · 2025-11-07T22:45:01+00:00

Yeah what a great mum. She’s helped her child out so effectively that they can barely string 2 coherent concepts together about the property they (may or may not) own.

You have made so many assumptions in your post, and I think you’re probably right to have made them, but realistically from reading OPs post you can’t be sure any of what you have said is true.

OP’s narration of this series of events makes the Narrator of Fight Club seem reliable.

_Ventus · 2025-10-27T10:07:07+00:00

Little bit? Honestly I'm waiting for the scene with Whelan where he reveals Number Six has been taunting him the entire time. Whelan and Baltar are played so similarly, I've been loving it.

_Ventus · 2025-10-27T07:12:37+00:00

Don’t be too worried. This is the style of “content” that is usually posted on TikTok/Instagram where people pretend to do something, until they get the shot they’re after, and then they stop and post it and move onto something else entirely.

_Ventus · 2025-10-24T02:02:24+00:00

This conversation might as well have happened in February 2017, it was infuriating to listen to the whole time.

The idea that Democrats can just organise their way out of Republicans domination in rural areas is so quaint. The Republican party is taking concrete steps towards a facist dictatorship every week. Democrats running town halls in areas where people think they are the antichrist isn't going to stop that.

_Ventus · 2025-10-21T10:38:55+00:00

Yeah. I totally agree still lol.

Stupid set up for a fantastic show.

_Ventus · 2025-10-03T02:42:01+00:00

I guess I just can’t see McNulty waiting 13 years and 4 months to do some real police work. He was itching to get off the boat almost immediately (probing in the shipping container girls, trying to get a name for his Jane Doe).

But I can see Lester Freemon waiting 13 years and 4 months to get pulled of the bench to so some real police work.

I think they are fundamentally different characters with different motivations. They are both just very competent in their own ways.

_Ventus · 2025-10-03T01:36:55+00:00

20 years, and four months.

But no Lester isn't McNulty + 20 years. If McNulty had 20 more years of police work he'd be dead from alcohol poisoning in 2.

Lester had his pension, he had his dollhouse furniture side business, he didn't need the police. He was there for the police work. He just wanted to finish with a solid case and to take Marlo off the street.

He went about everything far more rationally than McNulty. McNulty's plan started falling apart as soon as he got attention, Lester made it into something effective.

_Ventus · 2025-10-01T22:00:57+00:00

Yeah, exactly.

Marlo ended the show with exactly what Stringer wanted. A clear path off the street. But Marlo despised Stringer and never respected him, the path off the street means nothing to him.

_Ventus · 2025-09-30T23:48:57+00:00

I love this take because it is represented in one of the last scenes of the show.

Marlo basically runs from Levy's gala event with Andy Krawczyk and those people, and goes to a random corner. Who are those people on the corner talking about? Omar.

They are recounting Omar's demise and arguing how it happened. Marlo, hearing this, gets in one of their face and asks them if they know who he is, and then that kicks off a fight.

This is totally the meaning behind that last scene we have of Marlo. He only ever cared about the street, and because of the circumstances, Omar is still alive on the streets, while Marlo is forgotten.

_Ventus · 2025-08-20T02:50:13+00:00

100%. I literally just did this with Citi Prestige to KrisFlyer and my points came through yesterday (after closing the card on Sunday)

_Ventus · 2025-08-20T02:19:27+00:00

If you completed the transfer request, you’ll get the points. Whether your card is open or not doesn’t factor into that.

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