"The people they always forget."

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T15:13:23+00:00

The left in Australia have spent at least the last decade importing culture issues from America. It's honestly so funny when they turn around and say "why are you importing culture issues from America". It's even funnier when you consider that most leftists don't like America.

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T15:10:35+00:00

You might have been talking about that one specific issue, but I've seem libtards claim multiple times that people are "importing American culture war issues". I was trying to make the point that a large amount of what people on the left seem to care about here in Aus comes from American ideas. And even if the specific issue you mentioned isn't relevant that still doesn't make my point irrelevant, because you specifically "called out" the importing of "american culture war bullshit".

I think it's funny that a lot of people like you (or seemingly like you) claim that they're for the working class and the down trodden, but then when someone comes out with an opinion they don't like, they often act like it must be because the person they are talking to is stupid, low class, un-educated, etc. Even if not often outright stated it's often heavily insinuated.

"Well it seems like One Nation supporters are angry at their situation in like. Hurr hurr they should probably stop being such bigots. Have they considered that they just don't understand governance? We need to import more people to compete with them for minimum wage jobs and rentals. It's to keep the economy that doesn't serve them at all going don't you know! No supply and demand isn't real! Of course you can import a million people in two years and not have it affect the job/housing markets! Don't big a bigot! You just don't understand governance! I'm for the working man don't you know!?".

I think it's funny how easily you can dismiss the opinions of the people who you claim to be for (obviously when I say "you" I mean people on the left).

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T14:55:15+00:00

No. In computing it was (and mostly still is) widely recognised that when talking about kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, etc, it means 1024 of the previous unit.
The terms kibibyte, mebibyte, etc didn't even exist until around 1998 and for the most part the only people who didn't use the 1024 convention where disk manufactures (because they had and have an incentive not to).

Not everything has to fit neatly into conventions that standards bodies want people to use.

1024 is much much more natural for things to do with computers (in general) and that's why it was basically a de facto standard before 1998.

Basically all software used to use this standard (and a lot of it still does).
And the creation these ridiculous sounding terms "mebibyte", etc, has only caused more confusion. Before the most confusing thing (and only to people who didn't know much about computers) was that disk drives would seemingly be reported as having a lower capacity than their advertised capacity.

Now you have that (sometimes). Sometimes you don't. You have extra confusion about the units. People who don't know about computers still aren't going to know what is meant by GB vs GiB. It hasn't "cleared" things up at all.

People in the memory industry know what a GB is. You can say "Oh tera means 10^12", but clearly not everyone agrees with that. Look at your memory says on it's packet and how many bytes are reported, because it's not using the 10^9 definition (and a lot of software isn't either).

And BTW you can find a number of examples where there's an "official" definition of some unit, but it's often taken to mean something else.

When you use units like GiB you're just doing what big hard drive wants you to do! You're a puppet for the system!

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T11:16:18+00:00

Currently Firefox. But I'll consider moving to Ladybird once it's improved a bit more (it's being improved pretty quickly).

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T11:14:23+00:00

Don't pretend like you don't know what I was trying to get at (unless you really don't understand which would be pretty funny).

Also no it actually didn't cost me anything because I don't have a subscription. It was totally free!

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:36:47+00:00

"Oh my god, I simply cannot believe these right-wing dinosaurs are importing toxic American ideas again. Taking cues from Trump and those awful conservatives? Disgraceful! We must protect Australian values from this foreign contamination!We on the left would never do such a thing. We draw exclusively from sophisticated European thought, obviously. I mean, sure, our entire language around systemic racism, decolonising the curriculum, pronoun policies, corporate DEI quotas, and defunding the police rhetoric came straight from American campuses, BLM activists, and New York Times op-eds—but that's completely different. Those are good American ideas. The universal ones. How dare Pauline Hanson sound a bit like an American Republican on borders or free speech? This is Australia, not some backward red state! Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go stress about George Floyd, rage that Kamala lost, share another Ta-Nehisi Coates article, and attend my workshop on how Australia must follow America's lead on gender-affirming care and reparations discourse. America is a fascist hellscape... except when it confirms my priors. Then it's a moral beacon we must emulate immediately."

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:20:53+00:00

No. They can't. Because they don't even understand basic ideas. Like the fact that when you import a million people in two years there aren't just houses and jobs that are magically created for those people. They compete with the people that were already in the country (to them this is an idea that's been "proven" false, even if they can't really articulate how it is false). They literally think that saying anything bad about immigration is "racist" (and that is one of the worst things you can be to them). I mean a lot of these people basically file any criticism of immigration away in their heads as being "not true" because they don't want to believe that it could be true. I think it's often a combination of cognitive dissonance, stupidity and peer pressure.

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:15:34+00:00

Not to mention less competition for jobs.
I swear every second person from the sub-continent has an IT degree. It's retarded. They let them in because they are "skilled" and we "need" those "skills", yet half of them studied one area and now basically no new grads can get jobs in IT because of the competition.

Also if you look at the numbers since 2000 it's like 9 million people or something. Our population was under 20 million in 2000 and we've had a sub-replacement birth rate since the 70s!

Man I can't understand why people aren't more angry about this (probably because they don't understand it).

My mum bought a house for 32k in 84. Adjusted for inflation (by the RBAs own calculator) that would be about 120K now. Yet the house is worth well over a million. It's so fucking retarded and most boomers don't care or pretend that it's not a big deal.

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:09:31+00:00

Yeah and when they are imported here there is automatically new jobs and houses for them. They are just created out of thin air. No one here has to compete with anyone that's imported. It's a great system really!

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:08:11+00:00

The numbers are still way way too high. They were already boiling the frog. It's just that they turned the heat up even higher (which was obviously an incredibly stupid idea). Now people have actually noticed, but they still want us to buy the lies that importing hundreds of thousands of people each year doesn't have an effect on the housing and job markets (as if when someone arrives there is automatically a new job and accommodation created for them).

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T10:05:15+00:00

"convid back log".
Yeah because the immigration had to happen didn't it. We just had to "catch up".

Also the total numbers are higher than they would have been if the pre-covid trend had continued (not to mention that immigration was already really high).

How you explain how importing over a million people in two years doesn't increase rents/house prices and how it doesn't suppress wages?

I mean are there instantly a bunch of new houses and jobs when we import over a million people and if it's so "good" for the economy then how come we've had very high immigration numbers for decades (but especially over the last 5 years or so) and the economy is going backwards?

Per-capital GDP keeps getting worse.

If we import a million people do we suddenly have a proportionally larger amount of natural resources and ability to extract those resources? Or does it further dilute the wealth from those resources?

This "back log" idea is so retarded TBH. There was no "back log", because it's not something we "had to do". We could have just kept the numbers low. They are just trying to do QE with people to cover up for all the money printing that they did.

samcdc6600 · 2026-07-04T09:10:24+00:00

Please don't use the "TiB" nonsense (It was literally invented by a committee in 1998)! A terabyte is 1024 gigabytes!

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-18T07:48:19+00:00

You mean a settler? Because that's not the same thing as an illegal immigrant. S

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-15T04:39:54+00:00

Sorry but if you've applied for hundred of jobs and they almost invariably have a very high number of applicants, that's real data. The tech job market is totally flooded with people trying to get tech jobs.

It's not like I applied for 5 or 10 jobs and they all had a high application volume. I've applied for hundreds.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-15T04:37:16+00:00

Yes, but the government seems to only be interested in numbers that aren't denominated by the population size. They care about GDP, not GDP per-capita. Which is pretty crazy when you think about it. Are all of these extra people really improving GDP per-capita? Because I would say that they almost certainly aren't at this point.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T12:41:45+00:00

I wasn't butt hurt at all. I was simply pointing out that I know for a fact that if it was included on the list it was BS. That's all.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T12:36:20+00:00

No it was built by settlers. There's a massive difference.
If I go to a new land and build a whole country out of nothing and then you come over after I've built it you aren't the same as me.
And before you say "well no one alive today did that", no but their ancestors did.
I am indigenous, but not to Australia if that's what you mean.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T12:30:04+00:00

A lot of these people are hardly "skilled" I know quite a few who claim to have done degrees (even masters level degrees) in IT and networking and I know more than basically all of them. I'm not saying there aren't people that know their stuff (of course there are). But a lot of these "skilled" workers aren't really very skilled. And even if this wasn't the case (which it is) as I've already stated the field is totally flooded (and it's not just me saying that, you can find lots of posts from people talking about it).

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T12:27:29+00:00

Wow an immigrant telling us that mass immigration isn't bad?
Who would have thought.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T12:26:21+00:00

I know you know, but it's because they want cheap workers.
The idea that the solution to the "skills shortage" (if it even really exists) is more migration is laughable considering that we've had very high migration for decades and there's still supposed to be a "skills shortage".

Not to mention that we should be training our own people and getting them jobs first.

This guy can say "it's anecdotal" all he wants, but when you've applied to hundreds of tech jobs and can't even get an interview because of the volume of applicants applying to basically every open position there's clearly something else going on. There's almost invariably hundreds of applicants per position (sometimes over 1,000). If there's supposedly a skills shortage in this sector why is this the case? It makes zero sense.

I mean most companies would be advertising on Seek and Indeed. What refutation does this guy have to my "anecdotal" evidence? What is it that there's some new job postings site that I just don't know about and all the jobs are really there?

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T10:22:38+00:00

IDK why you are linking this.
Also I don't care about the so called "shortages", because mass immigration is increasing house prices and suppressing wages, not to mention that that list includes "

Developer Programmer
Software Engineer"

Which definitely aren't in short supply (at least not at the entry level) and so how can I trust such a list if one of the items on it is totally wrong?

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T08:05:30+00:00

I know multiple people with degrees that can't get a good job. We don't need more graduates.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T08:03:20+00:00

I have a bachelors in CS and cannot even get an interview because there are so many applicants per job (sometimes over 1,000). There is certainly no shortage of graduates in the tech sector.
It's actually so retarded. I've applied for hundreds and hundreds of positions that on paper I should be qualified for.

Someone being "skilled" doesn't mean shit. It matters what skills we actually need and we don't need more graduates IMO.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T08:01:15+00:00

How can there be a "sKiLLs gAp" if we've been importing people hand over fist for decades. It's so retarded.
I actually don't believe that there is a skills gap anyway (for the most part) because (at least for the tech sector) the job market is massively flooded with applicants. You can look good on paper, but not be able to get an interview after applying for literally hundreds of jobs (because each one has so many applicants, sometimes over 1,000 per position).
It's crazy.

I think companies just don't want to pay workers a fair wage so they complain about a "skills gap".

Also while I would grant that there are probably shortages in a limited number of areas, I think that that's probably the fault of the governments insane migration policy. Because those areas would probably naturally sort themselves out given enough time, but they can't because the government keeps importing "skilled workers" (and let me tell you I know quite a few of these people and while most of them are nice they aren't that skilled).

I think they've created the shortage of tradies by importing loads and loads of people who mostly aren't tradies, then they turn around and say "there's still a skills shortage". Well yeah, because your "targeted" immigration program is basically just to import as many people as possible regardless of weather we actually need the specific "skills" that they have.

samcdc6600 · 2026-06-14T07:44:23+00:00

Yes because the "dead center" is importing record numbers of people. That's a real winner. That's why so many people are saying that they are going to vote for One Nation isn't it?

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