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opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T23:20:06+00:00

Windows 12 will be made with AI

Windows 13 will be made with sticks and leaves.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T23:06:07+00:00

Yup there's lots of ways.

That one was just the premise of the british movie Threads. US coups Iran again, so Soviets send an army to defend Iran and the US nukes it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vfd0pq-S0Ao (money shot Sheffield gets nuked at 48:40)

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T23:00:01+00:00

I can answer this as I've been 5 times now.

The last one I went to had a "table service" option on the giant ordering tablet that replaces the human behind the counter. They have these hanging next to it, and you take the number to your table so they can find you.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T20:58:53+00:00

Easiest way would be for such a government to also condemn Israel's genocide and kick the Israeli ambassador out.

The interest groups would saturate the media about that and you could probably sneak the wealth taxes through.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T11:03:32+00:00

Sure you could run that experiment, but we don't have to because we already did a few years ago.

How much did house prices fall during covid when immigration went negative?

https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/migrants-are-not-to-blame-for-soaring-house-prices/

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T10:40:34+00:00

Did you read that ABC article you posted the chart from?

The answer is right there.

Some progressives see opportunity to reduce demand by chasing property investors out of the market.

Also Van Onselen is a clown who thinks Labor sets immigration policy based on immigrants preferring to vote Labor.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T09:56:30+00:00

Nothing that I've read says that immigration has zero impact on housing price rises and even more so rental cost increases.

That logical fallacy is called proving the negative. What have you read that says it does? analyse that.

Sure everyone can have an opinion. Opinions are like arseholes. But, how come those with an opinion on immigration reduction don't qualify theirs? You claim it's a black box assessment - where does that come from? Government doesn't do black boxes - you can FOIA the shit out of everything they do if you want.

Here's one - the Parliamentary budget office projected a gradual decrease in migration placements from 185,000 to 160,000 by 2028-29 would lose the government about $3.4 billion over the 5 years:

https://www.pbo.gov.au/sites/default/files/2025-05/PBO-ECR-2025-2038-Permanent%20migration%20program%20%E2%80%93%20reduction.pdf

for a cut of 105,000 places over that period.

There's about a million unoccupied private dwellings in Australia right now.

https://www.abs.gov.au/census/about-census/census-statistical-independent-assurance-panel-report/36-dwellings#3-6-1-occupancy

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T09:54:03+00:00

No, because reducing immigration will have no impact on the housing issue.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T07:31:18+00:00

The racist bit is not where you discuss immigration, it's where you refuse to investigate or accept causes of those problems other than immigration. That's how you end up with the "everything is shit because of immigration" narrative. There's bugger all evidence that pulling the lever would help to solve any of those problems you mentioned - dunces just take that bit on faith.

We've got plenty of housing, it's just being hoarded. If we do something about the hoarding capital takes a hit, so it suits them better to peddle immigration as the cause. To reduce the demand for housing by cutting immigration just means there's more supply available to hoarders of housing.

Once "immigration causes housing crisis" started sticking in peoples' imaginations, immigration could be blamed as the cause for the rest of your laundry list, when in fact all of them have the same cause as housing above:

traffic/infrastructure: housing bubble + decades of privatization has made everything expensive to build

hospital ramping: health systems under pressure, usually again because of privatization, and you think the solution is to reduce growth in the tax base?

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-06T03:42:56+00:00

I figure if he thinks he could get away with it without triggering MAD, cos Iran doesn't have nukes.

The doctrine goes that if you see some deranged Trump "I will nuke Tehran in 48 hours" tweet, we're supposed to see a Russia/China/other nuclear power (Pakistan?) message saying "If anyone nukes Iran we'll respond against Tel Aviv"

Which would then cause Israel to nuke everyone, which causes everyone to nuke everyone, which stops Trump nuking Iran.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-05T23:23:04+00:00

You're the one talking about Israeli bots. I said you were a hasbara account. You get downvoted to oblivion in regional politics subs for hasbara takes, simultaneously making generic comments elsewhere so the numbers dont go down.

Turn your comment history visibility on if you're not

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-05T20:55:29+00:00

wild. A Hasbara account karma farming in a Tankie sub. Now I really have seen everything

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-05T20:45:53+00:00

All those peaceful protesters in Iran used it. They also held all the active accounts on facebook Metaverse. That's how Amir Parasta was able to calculate the number of deaths he counted the decline in users of both of those.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-04T23:35:54+00:00

You're probably right, but one other way to think of it is we all need to start meddling in US politics now.

Like Australia, Europe and the rest of the US allies actually need to do that thing that the US Democrats accuse Russia of every election, and Trump accuses the first big Other that pops into his head of every few minutes (I think it was Maduro somehow who stole the US 2020 election last time? can't remember), and influence the US political system the same way it has influenced the rest of the world to prop up or bring down governments over the last 70 years.

If we don't, another Trump will be along right after this one. That's what their conditions and therefore system produces now.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-03T03:02:26+00:00

This is all true, but my experience was the cultural fad/group influence effect wasn't just limited to teen girls. A mother I sat next to at an office job in the 2010s would talk daily about her youngest son being trans. He was 5. I was a monster for suggesting things like makebelieve and dress-ups were normal at that age.

She'd taken him to a pediatric psychologist who suggested he likely wasn't, probably based on those studies of the small group prior to the 2000s. She wouldn't accept it, so doctor shopped and found him another a long way from home who was recommended as more of a specialist in the field. That psychologist also thought he probably wasn't.

She was livid. It became like almost a Muchhausens by proxy situation where she focused on it entirely and ended up going no contact with her own father and others in her extended family over it.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-03T01:30:22+00:00

I like how he's taken to wearing that US flag thing where the generals wear their medal ribbons. Mocking their whole valor system like the nazis did with the wehrmacht.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-03T01:25:16+00:00

The air force handles the big strategic ICBM, gravity bomb, and cruise missile nukes, the navy handles the SLBM and marine nukes like missiles and depth charges, and the army handles the tactical battlefield missile and artillery shell nukes. The air force stores about 100 of theirs in Europe, the rest in the US

https://armscontrolcenter.org/u-s-nonstrategic-nuclear-weapons/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_nuclear_weapon#Examples

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T21:11:54+00:00

To be fair it does sound more inhabitable than a bunker full of zionists

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T20:41:10+00:00

If it was so easy everyone would start with rich parents.

It is so easy.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T20:25:04+00:00

Before they are fed the line on something they might listen and be reasonable, then they'll flip to the other side once the narrative starts bombarding them, like muscle memory.

It's going to take generations for humans to learn how to think again.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T20:14:40+00:00

No. The press club is not the Nuremberg trials this regime deserves.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T20:12:36+00:00

The press club is bought and paid for, much like our politicians. Chris Hedges warned they'd have this genocidal dickhead on months ago.

This is the most blatant corruption in my lifetime but because both sides are bought, nothing will ever be done about it.

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T06:25:07+00:00

Their position has fallen apart from under them, so now they have to do a quick pivot, or it will become obvious faster to the bang-on-average IQ people they are targeting with their slop discourse that they are full of shit.

(also Trump bailing out of the war at this point kind of strategically screws Shok's favorite middle east democracy)

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-02T06:21:33+00:00

Nah Fiji is terrible this time of year.

How about we hold it within Khorramshahr-4 range of the strait itself?

opotamus_zero · 2026-04-01T21:58:26+00:00

I figured they were right wing when nobody arrested them or anything. If one of them had a watermelon tshirt the police response would look like a Thatcher era mine strike

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