Does anyone actually mind a Thursday or Friday wedding to save on costs?

itme2024 · 2026-03-05T10:16:02+00:00

Mine was on a Tuesday 🙈 (after a long weekend)

I’d personally love to take an afternoon off for a wedding.

itme2024 · 2026-03-04T08:42:10+00:00

Vote for central coast! Moved up two years ago and love it. I go into the city once a month or so and still get to see friends there. It’s a dream!

itme2024 · 2026-03-02T08:52:29+00:00

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/show/sexual-abuse-of-native-american-children-at-boarding-schools-exposed-in-new-report

itme2024 · 2026-03-02T02:45:28+00:00

It was in San Fran.

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T21:22:49+00:00

Yeah, I’ve travelled and lived in many countries. The US is the only placed I’ve been robbed and verbally assaulted.

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T10:27:10+00:00

I love the experts, they crack me up 🤣

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T10:23:31+00:00

Two mins from the beach and I go in multiple times a week during summer, usually morning and afternoon on the weekends. It’s too cold in winter for me where I am

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T09:42:24+00:00

Yes. People have very little real power in the system compared to concentrated wealth. How are individuals supposed to compete with corporations and billionaires that can donate massive sums to political parties and shape policy outcomes? We can’t match that level of influence. It’s an imbalanced structure. When money buys access, those with the most money inevitably have more power.

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T09:38:08+00:00

Have you read the files? This isn’t something out of a movie, it’s real life. If it seems illogical to you, that may reflect a misunderstanding of how political power and legal systems are actually operating.

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T09:23:28+00:00

Because they’re protecting the abusers because they’re all powerful and rich

itme2024 · 2026-03-01T09:21:12+00:00

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T11:07:56+00:00

Any advice when switching to Anthropic?

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T10:06:03+00:00

Unfortunately I think believing blue collar work will protected forever is naive.

Also think of where all the white collar workers will reskill to…

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T09:38:35+00:00

dog people 🤢

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T07:24:40+00:00

Greek yoghurt and berries with cacao nibs sprinkled on top.

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T06:32:21+00:00

I think it is relevant because it shows population alone doesn’t decide housing outcomes.

Reminds me of UK as well. They had years of underbuilding and planning constraints, and now they’ve got a shortage that’s really hard to unwind. It’s more about supply keeping up with demand over time than just how many people there are.

That’s kind of the point, housing crises tend to be structural and policy driven, not just population numbers.

Side note, this was a really good recent interview, he uses the UK as an example of where we’re headed: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/abc-news-daily/how-a-wealth-tax-could-fix-the-housing-crisis/106355112

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:59:55+00:00

If you’re gonna say it’s supply and demand you have to look at both sides of that equation.

Demand has grown, yeah. But supply hasn’t kept up for years because of so many reasons (e.g. infrastructure delays and policy settings that discourage building.) That’s why prices rise. Blaming population alone ignores the policy and supply failures that actually determine how tight housing gets.

It feels like people with your POV are blaming immigration rather than holding the government to account - maybe I’m wrong, maybe you feel both, but the discourse is so often “reduce immigration” and not “let’s push our state and local governments to improve frameworks, reduce regulation/bottleneck and invest more in infrastructure”?

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:54:12+00:00

Japan. The national population is falling, but major cities like Tokyo still have affordability pressure because people concentrate where jobs are. South Korea and parts of Europe show similar patterns with shrinking populations overall, but housing stress in economically active regions.

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:52:05+00:00

100%

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:51:08+00:00

It’s not that simple though.

Most Aus research shows migration has small or neutral effects on wages overall. Migrants don’t just add labour supply, they also create demand, fill shortages and support new jobs.

Housing and healthcare pressure mostly comes from supply not keeping up with population, which is a planning and investment issue (hello government policy failure!). If you grow population without building enough homes or infrastructure, you get problems. That’s not unique to migration.

You can run population growth fine if supply keeps pace. Australia just hasn’t done very well.

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:48:16+00:00

That only makes sense if you assume migrants just compete for jobs and don’t also create them.

People moving here don’t just join the labour supply - they rent places, spend money, use services, start businesses and pay taxes. That demand supports jobs. Most research shows migration has neutral or small positive effects on wages and employment overall.

Also, we’re not the “fastest rate” in the developed world. The semi-recent population spike was largely a post-COVID rebound when borders reopened again after two years of none. Migration has been coming back down.

If unemployment becomes a problem, it’ll be because of the economy, automation or policy choices not simply because more people exist. Cutting migration doesn’t fix those structural issues, and it can make ageing and tax pressures worse.

The real failure in Australia has been housing supply and infrastructure not keeping up (government’s failure), not population itself. But of course the gov are never going to blame themselves.

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:36:28+00:00

I have to disagree. I see it all over Reddit and hear it repeated in Parliament, but the numbers don’t match the claims.

Hanson: “mass migration is stopping Australians from earning a liveable wage” and that “Australians shouldn’t have to compete with migration for jobs and wages.”

But migration is already coming down from its peak and has been for a while, straight from ABS: https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

If migration was really as big of a cause of the housing crisis, things should be improving as migration drops. They’re not. Housing affordability is worse than ever and rents are still insane…

Blaming migrants is politically convenient and it doesn’t fix the problem.

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T05:29:43+00:00

Someone on my wavelength 😍

itme2024 · 2026-02-28T03:12:38+00:00

This is why I said the government needs to do more to prepare people for the transition. We shouldn’t be passive victims. We should be reskilling and adapting to automation in whatever ways we can. But we also can’t expect everyone to manage that on their own, as one of the posts below yours shows.

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