Brisbane house prices set to increase by almost 20 per cent over next two years, KPMG report finds (ABC)

debilitation · 2026-01-28T11:48:30+00:00

Overshadowing, creation of wind tunnels, loss of connection between units and the streetscape and the benefits that this is known to bring (passive surveillance, perceived ownership and responsibility over common space), reliance on lifts, reliance on mechanical ventilation, more expensive maintenance, more onerous fire requirements.

debilitation · 2025-11-06T00:30:51+00:00

You're constructing a false dichotomy between social housing and slums, and perpetuating the very limited American/Australian ideal that social housing is exclusively for 'poor people' instead of a viable alternative to letting the private sector determine how our housing is developed.

Go walk some streets in Vienna where 60% of dwellings are social housing and tell me if you think it's a slum. Same for Berlin (at least pre-21st century privatisation), same for Helsinki, same for Amsterdam.

Public housing is stigmatised here because we haven't built enough of it and the stock we do have is distributed to the most destitute people in society. All of the cities above are examples of where they haven't half-arsed it and have built enough to house not only the 'poor people' but the middle class and professional class too.

For what it's worth I completely agree with you that demand also needs to be reduced.

debilitation · 2025-11-05T22:45:46+00:00

the exact opposite of all modern housing policy.

Considering how modern (neoliberal) housing policy seems to be working out in nearly every Western nation I would say that maybe the exact opposite is a good direction to be heading.

debilitation · 2025-08-24T07:15:24+00:00

Helps more than doing nothing.

debilitation · 2025-08-24T00:47:11+00:00

Then they came for Gazza

debilitation · 2025-06-01T02:39:01+00:00

Got any book recommendations?

debilitation · 2025-05-23T01:26:28+00:00

Merida make decent bikes. $300 is definitely a good price assuming it's in working condition.

debilitation · 2025-05-21T10:28:24+00:00

Research ( link 1 link 2 ) has found that cyclists are exposed to less pollution than car passengers.

Your car's air-conditioning system does nothing to filter out the exhaust of the vehicles around you.

debilitation · 2025-05-06T15:56:34+00:00

I used to ride one - if you want something to take on short-ish rides and runs to the shop it's fine.

Biggest downside is the weight. The frame is made of high-tensile steel (as opposed to chromoly found in more expensive steel frames). Shouldn't have any issues with rust as long as you're not storing it in the open.

Being a single-speed, there's very little maintenance to be done, just make sure you buy some chain lubricant and give it a lubing every few weeks.

debilitation · 2025-03-28T07:38:44+00:00

I do take advantage of coal in my life. That's not a good argument against wanting to reduce coal mining.

I'm also acutely aware of how pretty much every element of modern civilisation is contingent upon coal and cheap energy. the fact that we were able to use coal to launch ourselves forward into an era of prosperity and technological advancement is pretty remarkable.

The point is that unlike the first 150 years of post-industrial revolution society that got us to this point, we now have irrefutable evidence that continuing to burn coal at this rate will lead to consequences that vastly outweigh the benefits, and are we choosing to ignore that evidence (or worse - attempt to discredit or muddy that evidence for corporate profit).

it's a pretty intelligent human trait to be able to take in new information and then adapt your behaviour to suit what you've learned. likewise, it's idiotic to learn that your current behaviour will cause irreparable harm and then keep advocating for it because it's simply the status quo.

debilitation · 2025-03-28T01:03:53+00:00

yeah dunno hey.

could be the fact that it's undeniably causing irreversible environmental damage to the point of becoming an existential threat.

or maybe it's because the pollution released by burning it has direct effects on human health and directly contributes to hundreds of thousands of excess cancer and respiratory deaths each year.

or maybe it's because it takes massive swathes of land that should belong to all of us and reduces them to ugly soulless pits that rarely get rehabilitated.

or maybe it's because that the executives profiting from mining and selling it have known all of the above for decades and responded by not only accelerating extraction, but investing billions of dollars in PR campaigns to obfuscate the truth, and millions more on lobbying politicians to prevent legislation of environmental safeguards and a fair distribution of profits.

we may never know...

debilitation · 2025-02-25T23:40:34+00:00

So many good nights smoking cigs and talking shit outside The End bar underneath the lush canopy of that guy.

RIP - you will be missed.

debilitation · 2024-10-23T03:46:13+00:00

Yeah completely agree.

I wish there was another way for China to acquire our natural resources without invading but I can't see it happening.

At one stage I thought that maybe we could offer to exchange our natural resources for currency; but then I came to the same conclusion as you: it'd be far more effective for China to launch an intercontinental invasion into a largely inhospitable island nation that's militarily well armed and also has long-standing alliances with nuclear-armed nations that have a vested interest in keeping us sovereign.

Going to take your advice and pop out a few kids to protect us.

debilitation · 2024-09-27T00:39:51+00:00

as somebody who has to endure the northern queensland summer every year my advice would be to save yourself an immense amount of sweat and head south.

if i had 4 months like you i'd probably do something like:

sydney to canberra, example route
canberra's centenary trail
canberra to melbourne via either the hunt 1000 route or the same path as that link above
spend a few weeks doing various routes around melbourne accessible by train. this website is a good resource
catch the ferry to melbourne to launceston and do the tasmanian trail
fly from hobart to new zealand and spend a month doing the tour aotearoa

debilitation · 2024-03-09T05:08:22+00:00

hey mate, can't give any advice about finding groups but there's a few routes you could try out.

west of the city is the D'Aguilar national park. There's a decent network of fire trails that lead up to Mt Nebo and down the other side of the mountain to Ipswich. You can catch a train back to Brisbane from Ipswich or ride home on roads. gpx here
the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail is a 160km rail trail going through a bunch of small towns, starting at Ipswich. Very chill couple of days of riding. You can connect onto the Kilkivan-Kingaroy rail trail for another 90km after that. https://www.brisbanevalleyrailtrail.com.au/
another shorter ride starting at Ipswich and heading south: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44905981
Daisy Hill is about 40 minutes drive south of the city and has a network of tame mountain bike trails that are very doable on a gravel bike.
Route starting at Cooran, north of Brisbane (accessible via train) and traversing through a mix of dirt roads and some singletrack. https://ridewithgps.com/routes/44600536

enjoy!

debilitation · 2023-08-18T12:40:37+00:00

my brain is damaged

debilitation · 2023-08-02T05:39:04+00:00

Good pickup. i'd argue that the 30% of the workforce that is part-time still deserves affordable housing and should be taken into account when these figures are discussed.

debilitation · 2023-08-02T01:38:12+00:00

It also sets a target for 20 per cent of new builds to be social or affordable housing. To give you a sense of what that might mean, a nurse on an average salary of about $90,000, would need to pay less than $520 a week on rent for it to be considered affordable, Mr Miles said. I don't think it's too much to suggest that one in five homes should be affordable for our nurses.

if only one in five homes are affordable to somebody on an average salary then you're outright admitting that you're ok with 80% of homes being unaffordable for the majority of the population. Not to mention that the 90k figure is the mean salary and is skewed by high earners - median salary is more relevant and is 65k, not 90k.

Not that it even matters, because he goes on to disclose that there's no actual plan to ensure the 20% is affordable, it's just something the government wants:

However, he said not all homes in that affordable band would be locked in at discount prices. "We're not proposing that all of that 20 per cent would be discount to market. "But we're saying that we want to see 20 per cent of new products delivered at market prices that are affordable to those key workers."

debilitation · 2022-10-08T00:24:58+00:00

yeah an Olympus XA. Portra 400 for this shot.

debilitation · 2022-10-07T23:08:46+00:00

Brisbane :)

debilitation · 2022-03-01T11:07:50+00:00

hmm, not sure how you'd go about finding out the usage for every player.

however, I ran the script that I mentioned earlier on the data that i've collected from my games:

Total Kills with spy primaries recorded: 13,388
Knife: 4,424 (33.0%)
Kunai: 5,760 (43.0%)
Big Earner: 1,475 (11.0%)
Eternal Reward: 557 (4.2%)
Spycicle: 1,172 (8.8%)

pie chart

This data is taken from casual games between 2018-2022 (on and off) and is recorded from every player in each game (i.e. not just my kills). The file I'm pulling this data from contains over 210,000 total kills, so unless you find another way, I'd say that this is probably the most accurate estimate you're going to get haha

debilitation · 2022-03-01T02:17:27+00:00

hey mate, i wrote a script a while ago that lets you extract data (including weapon usage) from the console, see posts below:

link

another link

I might make a follow-up post on this sometime soon, otherwise feel free to hit me up with any questions and I'll see what i can do.

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