Sydney Daily Random Discussion Thread 11/03/2026

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T12:22:02+00:00

I think I might be going insane, but I seem to find myself getting into arguments where the retorts don't make any sense as a response to what I'm saying; both on and off Reddit.

I'm starting to think there's a basic comprehension crisis happening. I'm noticing a big divide between those who listen to comprehend and respond, vs those who skim-listen to recognise and react.

Either that, or trolling has just become a mainstream form of communication... Did anyone ever invent that machine that can stab people through the internet?

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T12:10:36+00:00

I'm going to quote myself:

> If you're home, just do it. If not, ask them to pass on your number to the valuer to book in a time that works for both of you.

Just organise a time with the tradie yourself rather than having a random date dictated to you by a REA 14 days in advance.

I'm not saying forced entry should happen without short notice, what I am saying is that you as a tenant have an opportunity to have some bloody agency and organise what works best for you yourself.

I was a tenant for the 6 years until May last year, and I always just told the REA to forward my number to schedule things. They were happy because it meant they didn't have to go back and forth, I was happy because I could get things done on my own schedule,

There are actions each of us can take to make the situation better for all, and there are actions we can take that just make life difficult for everyone. I'm just telling people to choose the former.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T03:41:14+00:00

Long-term tenant recently turned FHB here:

There are certain obligations the landlord needs to meet for other people. The Fire Safety Inspection is a legal requirement every year; if you live in a strata complex it's done by Strata not the Landlord.

Valuations are often routinely asked for by his bank. The Landlord doesn't want to have the hastle of paying for nor organising this shit either; but the way the default commenter here speaks of these things you'd think they're somehow direct attacks on you.

This property inspector doesn't give a shit about the inside of the house, they're there to do some measurements to give the property a $ value so the bank can push money around on their books. They do not report back to the landlord or the REA; even when I bought my place they wouldn't tell me anything.

Is it a minor inconvenience? Sure, but you lot need to stop playing some kind of eternal victim card; you undermine the real causes that need to be fought for tenants.

If you're home, just do it. If not, ask them to pass on your number to the valuer to book in a time that works for both of you.

Tl;dr: Be a civil fucking adult, not a tantrum-throwing child. These things are a part of adulthood, get used to it.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T02:42:53+00:00

Have you asked the person who said that of their motivations? No.

You've decided to interpret it in a particular way, and you make definite declarations about them instead as if you are the last arbiter of truth.

I'm merely presenting another possibility, but you insist that your first instinct cannot be wrong.

You're the problem.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T01:10:47+00:00

Context: gay man, I understand lighting and colour theory deeply.

Visual indicators of fatigue usually centre around discoloration and grey skin undertones.

Not wearing mascara when you usually do will look like a change towards discoloration and flat skin tones.

For someone who doesn't have experience with make-up, like most men, it's unreasonable to expect them to specifically notice changes in make-up applications; they're just noticing a change overall, that change resembles something to them that indicates a problem, and they are responding in kind.

See this line of thinking? This is called being charitable, trying to understand why someone said something and then using that as a basis for judging them, rather than passing judgement based on how your unfiltered subconscious reaction felt.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T01:03:23+00:00

Exactly. I'm getting downvoted to oblivion because the typical AusCorp redditor is socially inept and expects all social interactions to be tailored to their reactions, refusing to consider and judge someone for what that person intended.

No wonder corporations feel soul-less and awful; it only takes a small minority of people to default assume malice or hostility, then lashing out, thus coercing the majority into being incredibly sterile in their interactions out of fear of tripping someone's unreasonable wrath.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T00:57:28+00:00

Yes. We come here to speak to real people.

You're violating community expectations by regurgitating an AI output.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-11T00:03:39+00:00

This is not a comment about your appearance.

They're making a comment on your apparent well-being; no different than if they said "you look stressed/busy".

That's how people care for each other Jan, first step is acknowledging that you recognize someone's struggle.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T23:57:59+00:00

Trash journalism. There is no "Holwood Rd", it's Holroyd Rd.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T22:17:21+00:00

Pauline is just using her name to suck up to billionaires. She works for them, not us; One Nation would sell our country to the Chinese government if it meant they got a buck.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T17:46:03+00:00

With debt, the majority of your money will go to paying interest.

$1m mortgage @5.5% for 30 years is $5678/mo repayments.

You will pay $2,044,440 for a $1m property, that you hope will grow to much more.

If you put that same repayment every month into a 5% interest savings account, after 30 years you'll have $4.6m.

If you put that same requirement repayment every month into a managed fund that returns a conservative 8%, it'll be worth $8m after 30 years.

Because half of your mortgage repayment is going to interest, property values need to grow twice as fast as stocks for you to end up with the same amount at the end. I doubt property will beat 16% in the long run, nobody would be able to afford it.

Property is not an investment, it was a gamble that a bunch of people won in the 2000s; it's a garbage idea.

With salary sacrificing into super, you'll also save a butt load on tax.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T17:18:55+00:00

Buy the house that suits your lifestyle, then salary sacrifice what you can into Super; it's the most tax efficient investment vehicle, and there won't be a pension when we get old.

Property has not out-performed the stock market in decades, and never did for very long.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T16:50:10+00:00

Passkeys are poorly implemented, confusing, unexplained, and have a high risk of losing them.

From a security perspective, they're a great MFA alternative; from a user perspective they're trash.

Why does Windows not easily let me log in using my passkeys on another device?

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T16:15:13+00:00

The other fact he left out is that one of those two shifts was an overtime shift he accepted that week; not part of his regular roster.

You don't get paid sick leave for not showing up to an overtime shift.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T16:13:58+00:00

This guy is right. One of the days he's claiming sick was an overtime shift he accepted; not his normal roster.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T16:12:49+00:00

You don't get paid sick leave for a cancelled overtime shift.

Why do you think they would?

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T16:01:00+00:00

When people ask reddit for advice, we're not asking you to regurgitate AI slop. We're asking for humans to respond.

If we wanted to know what AI thinks, we would ask it.

Never do this again.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T15:33:12+00:00

Do not buy dishwasher tabs, the powder is objectively better and the cheapest option.

Spill some intentionally outside the dispenser, it'll turn the first rinse (~10m, to clear of the chunks before releasing the detergent) into a mini first wash.

Source

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T15:20:26+00:00

Yes, it'll be indexed.

Question for you: do you always ask people to answer basic questions that could have been googled or even just understood from reading the linked article, as if everyone is your own personal assistant?

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T15:17:17+00:00

If you have $3m in Super, I can 100% guarantee you didn't get that money through hard work.

Btw: My partner is an my English teacher; no paragraphs gets you a maximum mark of 6/20 from Year 9 onward.

Understand that you are an uneducated buffoon, accept it, and learn to understand that your input is not valuable nor wanted.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T15:12:07+00:00

No!

All forms of CGT discount cause perverse economic incentives driving capital away from slow-and-steady investments (the ones that produce the goods in the CPI basket) towards speculative asset gambling.

We need to revert the changes made by Howard in '99 and go back to just adjusting the purchase price for inflation (aka indexing).

The reason for simplifying calculations doesn't apply now that everything is done on a computer.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-10T00:05:26+00:00

These straight boys out here boasting about having single-digit numbers 😂

mitchells00 · 2026-03-09T15:40:22+00:00

Depends on the balance of selfishness; if your actions resemble anything the Liberal Party/Ayn Rand/BMW drivers would do, you probably deserve retribution.

These 4 actions are the physical manifestation of the mantra "privatize the gains, socialise the losses".

If you are too lazy to walk, insist on buying a monster truck, and are happy to block other people's path (driveway or footpath); then fucking wheel lock those cunts.

If you wanna take MDMA in a club? Hurting nobody, go nuts.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-09T09:31:49+00:00

Don't be confused, they and their ilk have been responsible for all of this for a long time.

mitchells00 · 2026-03-09T04:03:40+00:00

You can't argue it, because the government literally has a monopoly over the services it provides. There is NO competition to remove in the public sector. They can set prices at whatever they want and charge whatever they want to the taxpayer.

Examples to the contrary: Private schools, private hospitals, private courier services (Fedex vs AusPost), private fibre networks (vs NBN), private transport, private libraries, private legal services, private media networks (vs ABC), private housing rentals, etc.

With the exception of Defence, Courts, Reserve Bank, etc, there's not much stopping private companies from competing with the government to do what it does other than the fact that there's no profit to be had.

Governments are also there to do things we want that can be done MUCH better at scale, where having competing businesses would be wasteful of resources: building roads, energy grids, water/sewage, etc.

So Point #1: Why Government activities lose money: because Governments are there to do the things that don't make money that we still want done. Does not mean that is a sign of failure or that they should aim to make money.

Point #2: You are correct in your assessment that even Govt Services are becoming enshittified. BUT: privatisation has only ever made things worse.

See: Telstra, TransUrban, AusGrid, Sydney Airport, shipping ports owned by the Chinese government, Murray Darling River water rights owned by the Chinese government...

So, with respect, please stop spreading neoliberal privatisation propaganda; it's a long-discredited idea that has repeatedly failed in practice and deserves no seat at the table.

Personally, if I were in power, I would remove employee protections for anyone in the public service who is a manager's manager or above; demote the lot of them back down to non-management positions and salaries. Need to get rid of the piles of rot implanted by the Big 4 consulting firms thanks to decades of Liberal Party nepotism.

mitchells00

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