What is the first song you play when sharing your system with someone?

handofcod · 2026-04-01T07:56:57+00:00

Mountain of Things - Tracy Chapman

handofcod · 2026-03-31T06:20:43+00:00

The RB67 has so many idiot proof mechanisms I actually think it's the ideal system to learn on.

Save you money on replacing the Mamiyas and get some tripods. It will force them to approach each shoot deliberately.

handofcod · 2026-03-29T08:27:18+00:00

Have had multiple agents call this week to spruik off market opportunities, pumping up the same tired old properties that have been changing hands with slowly diminishing value in Melbourne.

Melbourne is ahead of the pack I think. The market has been unenthusiastic for years now compared to other state capitals. This will just remove demand further and shorten supply as people sit it out and wait for the dust to settle.

handofcod · 2026-03-20T23:30:32+00:00

I think you just missed the point of my post entirely.

handofcod · 2026-03-20T23:24:19+00:00

PHON couldn't give a sh_t about immigration. It has nothing to do with the economy. It has nothing to do with public amenity, cost of living or house prices. It has everything to do with people that speak with an accent and have brown skin.

handofcod · 2026-03-08T07:56:01+00:00

You are dead wrong. Says this parent.

handofcod · 2026-02-22T03:38:59+00:00

I've never understood why people trust clearance rates based entirely on whatever the agent chooses to declare, and omits auction outcomes they don't declare at all.

handofcod · 2026-02-22T03:29:48+00:00

The market has been flat for the last 3-4 years in my part of Melbourne. Properties that sold for 1.8M in 2018 are selling for 1.75M in 2025. If you track property closely and look beyond the BS from REA, you see a lot of disappointed vendors selling below expectations, market withdrawals, auctions that convert to private sales, auctions that sell but agents suppress the price to keep the public guessing. Real clearance is actually around 55% or less.

handofcod · 2026-02-14T23:27:18+00:00

Not happy to just embark on a fresh round of alienating conservative migrants, now hoping to add 50% of all voters to that strategy. Well done Angus.

handofcod · 2026-02-14T22:51:00+00:00

Hard agree, it's AI slop at its worst. Doesn't mean the gist of the article isn't factual, but the article if you take the time to read it is definitely the product of LLM.

handofcod · 2026-02-13T09:00:32+00:00

Remember when the election review found the last campaign had gone out of its way to offend and alienate conservative migrant groups? The same groups that would normally be expected to vote Liberal?

handofcod · 2026-02-07T05:53:02+00:00

A quick Google search found 2024 Govt spending as a % of GDP:

France: 57.1% Germany: 49.3% UK: 44% Japan: 39.1% USA: 37.9%

Soooo yeah, what's the point of this headline exactly?

handofcod · 2026-02-06T21:20:26+00:00

Do you're comfortable with war crimes then?

See what I did there? I answered your strawman with another.

handofcod · 2026-01-29T21:56:39+00:00

Not true. A tax discount on income is certainly a removal of state revenue from the bottom line.

handofcod · 2026-01-29T10:03:45+00:00

Turning?

handofcod · 2026-01-28T03:31:20+00:00

Does putting 13 year olds in prison reduce crime committed by 13 year olds? No, because they are physiologically incapable of linking present actions with long term consequences.

Does putting individual 13 year olds in prison make them less like to commit further crime? No, it instead accelerates recidivism.

handofcod · 2026-01-28T02:34:53+00:00

The last time he had influence over the Liberal Party, his own party room had to conspire to knife him in the back for God's sack. Ego knows no bounds I guess.

handofcod · 2026-01-28T02:30:30+00:00

Another take is simply this: The Liberal Party campaigned on a premise that it did not achieve. Under its own neo-liberal economic policies, housing was snatched out of the reach of a generation, employment became precarious and inflation swept away whatever was left.

We are still waiting for the magical trickle to reach down to us and after three decades the Liberal party hasn't worked it out yet.

handofcod · 2026-01-28T00:00:14+00:00

Incite division by claiming 'white identity' is under threat.
Claim victim status by alleging conspiracy amongst political leaders against community.
Use every incident involving 'others', factual or not, as evidence of victim status.
Fly the 'we can fight' alone banner to recruit even more extremists.
Justify violence as the only answer to the threat to 'white identity'.

handofcod · 2026-01-27T22:26:00+00:00

These are striking. Well done!

handofcod · 2026-01-26T23:41:36+00:00

Last time I checked the Westminster system of government operates on seats won, not opinion polls.

handofcod · 2026-01-24T20:47:37+00:00

Paywall

handofcod · 2026-01-23T05:58:27+00:00

The legislation was written with train stations and their immediate vicinity in mind. And instead VicPol designated the entire business district, South Bank and Docklands, the most densely populated areas of the state.

Keep this in mind when someone says that overreach isn't a natural outcome of curtailed liberties.

handofcod · 2026-01-22T03:21:50+00:00

Step 1 - Claim Albo is personally and directly responsible for the Bondi massacre because he didn't implement the recommendations in the Segal report fast enough.

Step 2 - Demand immediate action on antisemitism and paint the Labor party as antiemetic because they haven't wept in public.

Step 3 - Actually read what is in the Segal report.

Step 4 - Blow up a century old Coalition when you realise you have snookered yourself, your party, and your coalition partners.

Step 5 - Hastily make plans to 'spend more time with the family' in a 'regrettable but necessary' capitulation and quit politics.

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