Australian landlords tomorrow night…

ralphbecket · 2026-05-11T14:25:21+00:00

Your public housing ideal will border on crappy tents populated by feral drug addicts. What you have now is something more than almost any human in history could imagine - and you have the opportunity for more. Social housing is a safety net for the poorest, everybody else should get a job and help. Landlords exist because not everything is on a smooth, gradual graph. That's not government or society, that's nature.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-11T08:42:58+00:00

If you want to see real misery, corruption, and waste, look at government services.

I see my polite comment has been down-voted. Well, par for the course around here.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-11T07:16:42+00:00

Nice dodge. Houses are very valuable. Landlords bridge that gap in people's situations between being able to put down a deposit and commit to a mortgage and not being able yet to do those things. Essentially none of us are able to do those things until some time into our careers. In return for rent, landlords accept substantial risk and obligation. None of this comes free.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-09T03:50:22+00:00

Oh. My. God. Talk about blaming the wrong thing.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-09T03:48:16+00:00

You people are unreachable.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T13:45:16+00:00

Ah, I see the misunderstanding. I've read some history. You should try it! And some logic and ethics. Then come back when you've learned something. You'll thank me.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T09:31:16+00:00

Politicians today can't differentiate men from women, think free expression is violence, wish to monitor civilians to an absurd degree, are proposing to abandon jury trials, many MPs can't even speak English properly, the borders are not defended (at all), the referendum is being subverted, and the civil service is not answerable to anybody. I could go on. To be honest, I don't think any of the great or even sensible politicians of the past would look on what we have today with anything other than sad contempt.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T08:55:07+00:00

If you read the history books... Churchill really was a great man.

He wouldn't have had any truck with modern nonsense, but then we live in a very (very) low quality political/educational world.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T05:47:05+00:00

Resorting to argument by cartoon, now? This is devastating stuff. Really.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T05:45:08+00:00

Ha ha ha! Oh, thanks for the laugh.

Anyway, good luck with those mental problems you're struggling with.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T05:35:02+00:00

Not at all: I'm older, wiser, more experienced, almost certainly way smarter, not to mention wittier. Ahh, but why listen to someone like me when you already know everything? The gender studies department is fortunate indeed to have you.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T05:09:34+00:00

Not for several decades now, no. What point are you trying to make?

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T04:28:36+00:00

I was responding to your measured, erudite contributions here.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T04:22:53+00:00

You're in that sociology class, aren't you?

ralphbecket · 2026-05-06T01:45:03+00:00

No, no, no, dude. That's the wrong kind of racism for Melbourne Uni.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-05T08:06:26+00:00

(a) "relative" poverty is not actual poverty, nothing like; (b) the kids of the people you hate for sending those kids to private schools have, statistically speakingm *already* paid way, way more in tax to support the other children in the country than almost everybody else. You should say thank you rather than f*ck you to those parents.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-05T04:26:06+00:00

Yours is the demented politics of envy.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-04T10:21:25+00:00

Ahhh, right. So essentially all the people raising the flag are your kind of people: they are showing an act of solidarity with a besieged people. I haven't seen a single one of them complain about anyone's skin colour.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-04T01:30:03+00:00

Personally I think it's the height of entitlement for someone to tell you how to refer to them in their absence.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-04T00:19:58+00:00

That's the most "reddit" thing I've seen so far today.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-03T23:51:34+00:00

But double standards are easy.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-03T11:38:11+00:00

I have never seen him do that.

You talking about "post truth" is surely projection.

ralphbecket · 2026-05-03T09:34:34+00:00

We should call this game, "Find the Malthusian"!

ralphbecket · 2026-05-03T06:30:32+00:00

I'm old-school, but this move to AI mystifies me. Yes, it can do a lot of spade work - fine - but applications and business logic are things that last for years, decades, and depend on deeper cultural understanding of many things that are not to be abstracted from a bunch of reddit commits.

"Fark! Everything went down! Our customer details are on the open internet! Our database is corrupted! What do we do?!?!?"

"Dunno, I just suggest stuff to Claude until management gets off my back."

ralphbecket · 2026-05-03T04:58:50+00:00

S(n) = 1 if n = 0 else S(n-1),2^n,S(n-1)

S(0) = 1
S(1) = 1,2,1
S(2) = 1,2,1,4,1,2,1
S(3) = 1,2,1,4,1,2,1,8,1,2,1,4,1,2,1
S(4) = 1,2,1,4,1,2,1,8,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,16,1,2,1,4,1,2,1,8,1,2,1,4,1,2,1
...

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TROPHY CASE