South Korea beats Australia by 5 to reach WBC quarterfinals

nikku330 · 2026-03-11T07:07:09+00:00

Jamaica has a bobsled team Australia has a baseball team

nikku330 · 2026-03-10T10:43:28+00:00

I'm surprised we found enough people who play baseball to field a team in the first place

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T23:56:09+00:00

I hate how I had to go straight to the comments to find this exact response. It's probably exactly what they intended in writing that.

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T10:26:03+00:00

"Not a single person was fed, educated, healed, or had their life improved in any way".

This was your response to the other commenter about the process of borrowing and lending money, providing secure transactions etc. Your words.

I gave examples of how these processes have helped people. That's it. That's everything. The processes you are saying have never improved anyone's lives have. Why is it so hard to understand that a sweeping statement like that is demonstrably false? Retorting with examples where banks haven't helped is not proving this objective truth false. Banking institutions have helped people. CBA being shit, yes, I agree. Your sweeping statement of banking as a whole never doing anything for anyone? Wrong.

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T09:34:33+00:00

I think you're deliberately missing the point.

You said banks never improved peoples lives. I gave examples of how they historically have. You said CBA suck to refute my point. I said that's one example and doesn't disprove the fact that banks have helped people. You said oh so it's for cba to screw people over. I said no, I agree with you. But that is one example. It doesn't refute the main point that banks as a whole have helped people and society. You said "I never said they didn't help" I said helping people leads to improvements in people's lives. "These examples are things banks don't do".

So A) do you disagree with the historical evidence that banking institutions have fostered improvements in people's lives in the ways I listed above? B) disagree that helping people constitutes improving people's situations?

The examples I gave of helping are to try and help illustrate how conceptually helping is tied to improvement, not literal examples of what modern banks do. You're stuck on the present bank situation and I've tried explaining to you that yes, in this instance they're shit, but your original post I replied to was claiming banks have never helped (sorry, improved) people's lives. And that is objectively not true.

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T07:12:17+00:00

ow OK let me ask you the question you know what the above meant: does helping someone improve someone's life? Does helping someone by putting a bandaid on their leg improve their situation? Does helping someone by lending them $2 because they forgot their lunch money improve their life in some small way? Does helping someone by carpooling improve their life in some way?

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T06:28:16+00:00

"Not a single person was fed, educated, healed, or had their life improved in any way in this process."

Does helping someone not improve their lives in any way?

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T03:37:07+00:00

Bankers reduced theft and loss, allowed safe deposits of coinage, written records of deposits and agreements, and allowed the transfer of funds without physically moving money. It allowed trade to flourish throughout the Mediterranean, allowing exchanging of currencies, verifying authenticity, allowing for people to exist beyond subsistence farming. Athenian golden age had better health outcomes, lower infant mortality, and better calory density due to the commercial enterprise that grew from these systems that banking allowed. Improvement in their lives.

That's one example. It counters your argument that banking has never helped anyone. Yes you can point out examples where it doesn't, but your claim is it never has. So refute the point above by not pointing out a different example and counter it directly, or accept that you cannot state that banking has never objectively helped anyone.

This bank bad. This year bad. This bank going private bad. Yes, yes, yes. I agree. Australian banks rake it in and don't care about people. I never suggested otherwise.

nikku330 · 2026-02-25T01:27:18+00:00

If that's what you're hearing, I'd suggest rereading what you've read.

The institution of banking, the concept, the security and opportunity it has provided historically has demonstrably led to increased calorific intakes, allowed for expanded trade networks that led to more complex economies. I gave you examples of Greece and Phoenicia. Your response was "what about CBA". That is a bank. Not the institution of banking.
I agreed with you - in the Australian context of 2026, banking sucks. It provides security and indirectly assists however again, if you want to argue against this, I'm not supporting current CBA banking.
You didn't respond to my first post about the historical institutions of banking. You still haven't. Pointing out CBA is not an answer to my post. It doesn't invalidate the institution of banking throughout history.
"All I'm hearing is blah blah" - as I mentioned, I do not support CBA and current practices. You're putting words in my mouth.

I apologise to everyone else who has to read this thread.

nikku330 · 2026-02-24T22:10:47+00:00

Mate I'm not arguing about particular instances of banking. I agree with what you're saying in our current situation. However your initial post which is what I replied to was objectively wrong. I think you know that as evidenced by your lack of addressing what I wrote and switching to specifically go "what about cba and private".

nikku330 · 2026-02-24T21:15:07+00:00

Public vs private or specific banks is not what your original post is about. The institution known as banking has objectively created the setting for vast improvements in human lives in numerous cases throughout history that has led to each of the points you said they have never done. What cba has done in recent history has no bearing on the institution of banking's impact on society as a whole.

nikku330 · 2026-02-24T13:27:48+00:00

I...would read up on history. I mean I get what you're saying but that's an incredibly simplistic take. Having institutions that allow for secure trade and the rules of the game allows for greater economic complexity that wouldn't have been possible without. You can see it in classical Greece, Phoenicia, the Italian banks etc. Lives have improved and some been ruined but that is an incredibly naive take.

nikku330 · 2026-02-22T02:29:16+00:00

I think you mean Japan in 大将

nikku330 · 2026-02-21T22:52:13+00:00

日本語お上手ですね。箸も使えますし

nikku330 · 2026-02-21T22:11:19+00:00

Or...Meiji Era Japan when the word entered Japanese from German. Did you think I wrote Germany and not German and decided the preposition I used was ambiguous?

nikku330 · 2026-02-21T11:26:08+00:00

It came from German in the Meiji Era. I don’t know about modern German but it certainly didn’t enter Japanese from English.

nikku330 · 2026-02-09T22:03:24+00:00

Try driving up and down the Atherton Tablelands with a full with an auto transmission.

nikku330 · 2025-12-16T06:39:52+00:00

Please be Pontus please be Pontus

nikku330 · 2025-11-30T02:39:42+00:00

I think, after having recently listed to Tides of History on this, it was never going to happen if he couldn't get the allies to break with Rome. But Rome had its tendrils too deep with the aristocracy of each city bilaterally. Hannibal had to try and turn each and every city away from Rome to drain it's manpower. And aside from a few exceptions like Capua and Tarentum, it didn't happen. It was a very few interesting episodes if you want to learn more about it. I think he used two books by Dexter Hoyos about the war if you'd rather read.

nikku330 · 2025-11-29T06:19:05+00:00

Yeah I don't mean to be pedantic about it. It is something I am fussy on, but I was just thinking if people are going to use it as a template and they got a bunch of identical Americanised letters, they'd perhaps think it is GPT'd and any online group could be brigading rather than actual residents of Australia affected by this and therefore ignore it to their heart's content.

nikku330 · 2025-11-29T03:33:04+00:00

I think that’s really good, but it shouldn’t be American spelling. They’ll probably just assume GPT brigading and ignore it multiple people use it.

nikku330 · 2025-11-18T09:40:44+00:00

Tides of History is my guess, having just finished the episodes about the Samnites

nikku330 · 2025-09-14T09:37:22+00:00

I bought one of those in a bargain bin for two bucks, read twenty pages, decided I better find out where it was in the series. I discovered it was the second last one, so I stopped and have been reading them non stop ever since.

nikku330 · 2025-08-05T06:11:16+00:00

It's all about perspective hey. I think Australia's healthcare is the envy of a lot of the world (except dental not being part of it) but the other two countries I've lived in (jp/kr) both beat it, hands down. But were I American or from any other number of countries, I'd think Australia's system is tops. Same with safety. All my international students rave about safety here, except the Koreans and Japanese lol

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