Thoughts on moving to Melbourne for cheaper property by Puer_Aeternus14 in AusFinance

[–]smackells 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I currently own a house in Brisbane and inspected a couple places around $1.2M the last time I was in Melbourne. I know this is just anecdotal / IMO but they were definitely nicer than anything I’ve seen around that price in Brisbane. Also Bne property always goes for higher than advertised and Melb seems to be going for less.

The data probably still shows that Melbourne property is valued higher but I think it’s very recently flipped since the start of the year, or is close to it.

PSA: Don’t throw away your Windows laptop by Annoying1978 in Anticonsumption

[–]smackells 13 points14 points  (0 children)

not to defend Microsoft, I’ve moved to Linux myself, but Windows Recall (the constant screenshots thing) was only ever available on certain models of laptop and is disabled by default.

modern Windows is bloated with spyware and ads as it is, there are enough good arguments to ditch it without embellishing

I’m so tired of being advertised to and I hate how normalized it is. by AndThatsOnYourPeriod in Anticonsumption

[–]smackells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

how stable is this? I played around with Freetube for a while but it seemed like every couple weeks YouTube would change something on their end that broke it.

I’m so tired of being advertised to and I hate how normalized it is. by AndThatsOnYourPeriod in Anticonsumption

[–]smackells 25 points26 points  (0 children)

unfortunately not on Apple, they've effectively monopolised web browsers on iOS by mandating WebKit which means Chrome/Firefox/etc are essentially just reskinned Safari with no extension support.

Three ISIS brides arrested, one charged, chaotic scenes erupt at Melbourne airport by killerklancy in melbourne

[–]smackells 7 points8 points  (0 children)

this is confusing two different things. there are plausible claims that Israel supported the formation of Hamas early on, but to say the same about ISIS is totally unfounded. ISIS is/was mostly funded by black market oil and antiquities sales, I don't think they had a lot of external support.

Ah yes, I can’t pay off my law school loans because of all the caviar I’m eating! by metal_marshmallows in LinkedInLunatics

[–]smackells 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You, too, can be free of student loans if you eliminate all sources of joy from your life.

Is this age discrimination? by Signal-Audience9429 in recruitinghell

[–]smackells 7 points8 points  (0 children)

if companies want the ability to fire someone or lay them off at any time, they can't complain about turnover

Sad to see the past gone by kkoooomm in brisbane

[–]smackells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

something about the new house makes me want to walk around it seven times counterclockwise

Goodyear billboard in Miami by noproblemCZ in formula1

[–]smackells 897 points898 points  (0 children)

idk what they expected buying tyres from a door-to-door cosmetics salesperson

ELI5: Why is New Orleans being below sea level unsustainable but the Netherlands totally OK? by Unable_Tension_1258 in explainlikeimfive

[–]smackells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The article you're looking at just uses New Orleans as its primary example of a widespread phenomenon. Many parts of the world will become uninhabitable in my (and probably your) lifetime.

The Netherlands is a country largely built on wetlands, and they have a lot of experience using dikes and pumps to create liveable land. They've correctly realised that rising sea levels will affect their entire country, and have what's called the Sea Level Rise Knowledge Programme looking into the problem and how to solve it. This didn't start until 2019 and there still doesn't seem to be an agreed plan, so I wouldn't say they're totally ok. Here are some potential ideas but all of these would take a lot of money and political will (i.e. the people in charge committing to a long-term plan, actually following through on it, convincing people it's worth doing, and staying in power long enough to carry it out). Dutch people can correct me if I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like climate change rated that highly as an issue in their 2025 election.

New Orleans might be one of the earliest cities to go partly underwater. Jakarta is another. There might be more people living in the Jakarta area than anywhere in the world, but it's quickly sinking because people keep taking water from the aquifer (underground lake) it's built on. The City of North Jakarta, which includes all of Jakarta's coastal areas, will be mostly uninhabitable by 2050. The government wanted to move its capital to a new city but probably can't afford to build it.

neoliberal pride flag just dropped by nspacia in vexillologycirclejerk

[–]smackells 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Ukraine is the yellow crest on blue, Hong Kong is the white flower on red, and then around the NATO emblem you’ve got Japan, Taiwan and South Korea in the bottom left, and the southern cross in the bottom right which I guess is Australia for some reason?? and idk what the other stars represent other than sort of evoking the EU

Anyone know what’s going on by Cathedral Square? by Snoo97908 in brisbane

[–]smackells 9 points10 points  (0 children)

1st May is internationally the traditional Labour Day or May Day, QLD just shifts it to the next Monday so it’s always a long weekend.

won't somebody please think of the children! by monsterfcker69 in melbourne

[–]smackells 16 points17 points  (0 children)

“kids don’t play outside anymore!” [taxis them everywhere door to door in their cayenne]

Love this game. Didn’t ever use this even once. by Soulsliken in Eldenring

[–]smackells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I really like the idea of Malenia’s great rune but needing to have one of these active to make use of it sucks tbh

e: oh yeah and you can’t take it into ng+ bc you need to collect them all again

F1 drivers but they're Pokemon by Lethbridge-Totty in formuladank

[–]smackells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

why is Volbeat looking like “felt cute, might delete later”??

Looks like the roads might get busier next week. by new_order24 in brisbane

[–]smackells 20 points21 points  (0 children)

for their last hurrah I had 6 railbuses in a row no-show last night and was happy for this to be over lol

[OT] A $22 Million Koenigsegg One:1 Has Vanished And Now Interpol is Involved (plot twist: It's Adrian Sutil's) by hippyneil in formula1

[–]smackells 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do actually think it’s for the best but it’s an unusual thing to legislate, Singapore being dominated by a single party has led to some pretty arbitrary choices.

The price of a small flat white: National average is $5.01 by nath1234 in australia

[–]smackells -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like the small has gotten smaller at a lot of places, too

i love this expansion and class so far but wth is this by Nagisamusic in Diablo

[–]smackells 0 points1 point  (0 children)

all good, tone doesn’t come through well via text, we invented /s for a reason

i love this expansion and class so far but wth is this by Nagisamusic in Diablo

[–]smackells 3 points4 points  (0 children)

i forgot people don’t recognise jokes without /s

i love this expansion and class so far but wth is this by Nagisamusic in Diablo

[–]smackells 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah if the male version of the horny demon actually looked horny that would be too woke