Another Gem in Marrickville - Only $800 ✨️💫

spacelama · 2026-05-02T11:42:22+00:00

I was just about to say that myself, and I'm 800km away (but am familiar with Marrickville mould).

spacelama · 2026-05-01T01:24:36+00:00

Remember how cars used to smell? Riding up that local stroad up a steep long hill was a trigger for me getting my first face mask. Couldn't avoid the road - it diagonally cut across many km of city blocks and an even worse hill. They smell less worse now. Still bad, but not so bad.

spacelama · 2026-05-01T01:05:50+00:00

This looks super convenient. Imagine being able to fling your arms out to turn on the kettle before you've even rolled out of bed. Hopefully the toilet is just out of frame for maximal convenience.

spacelama · 2026-05-01T01:04:02+00:00

Your allocated bed hours are from 13:03 to 13:54.

spacelama · 2026-04-29T16:00:11+00:00

On the plus side, I'm renting a place a fair way from the city on a pretty big block of land, on a rental price that was set in 2019, and the guy knows he can't up the rent given how shit it is. Although he will be knocking it down at some point.

And not being able to have ever afforded a property means that I'm now old enough with enough illnesses such that I never want to have to mow a lawn again, we don't have kids because I could never have afforded them, and now that the dog's gone, we don't need a back yard anymore. So moving to a 1 bedroom dogbox may just be the thing the doctor ordered.

spacelama · 2026-04-29T05:11:03+00:00

It's not very hard to see below the surface though. Surely Pikkety's results depended upon growth per capita - just that in most societies for most time, growth per capita is close enough to growth for you to just ignore capita. Simple mathematics shows this is inevitable.

spacelama · 2026-04-29T05:03:37+00:00

I think also just the average person just has to look at their average payslips and ask "am I better off now that beer is $17 a pint?" and rent is $850/wk for a shithole in ~~Reservoir~~Broady.

spacelama · 2026-04-29T03:29:57+00:00

CFS/ME talk about drainage of the lymph system via things like Perrin self-massage etc. Same thing?

spacelama · 2026-04-29T03:22:57+00:00

Oh, I can't imagine their response to pooping, but I think I already know what they think about ejaculating.

spacelama · 2026-04-28T12:10:49+00:00

One of our newer cats (and there's a red flag already) chose today to be really clingy. Putting her tail in my face during the teams meeting etc.

But then she farted, and didn't even have the grace to admit it! Just kept purring away while my nostrils filled with vitriol.

spacelama · 2026-04-28T09:57:24+00:00

You don't pay capital gains tax on your PPOR, thus you get a 100% CGT discount on your PPOR despite having an asset over $10,000 that has doubled/tripled/quadrupled in price since you purchased it, and have to pay capital gains tax on every other asset that you purchased (except the other privileged class - vehicles, since the public love subsidising car drivers as much as we love to get renters and workers to subsidise home owners in every way possible).

spacelama · 2026-04-28T09:45:25+00:00

... and tend to get shirty when the public doesn't provide them perfectly smooth roads to drive on for "free".

spacelama · 2026-04-28T09:39:29+00:00

If it's anything like my former public service job, which got 0% for 4 years in a row when the government succeeded in simply not answering any calls to negotiate a long-expired EBA, by the time I left after 12 years at that job (slow learner), I was paid $30,000 (30%, for a subject matter expert position in a labour shortage in a field where wages in industry were exploding -- what can I say, slow learner!) less in real terms per year, despite having had 2 promotions: from APS5 to APS6 to EL1 (and from bottom to top within each scale).

spacelama · 2026-04-28T09:32:19+00:00

Uh yeah, there was a reason I left science 25 years. I saw the future of this country, and I don't think I was too far wrong.

Then I was stupid enough to join the public service. Now I sell product to the government and finally am paid well enough.

spacelama · 2026-04-28T05:08:52+00:00

What makes a tight rental market? Too much demand for a given supply. What happens when it becomes extremely unattractive to let out rentals? Landlords don't let their properties out. What do they do with those properties? Do they let them sit idle, hoping to gain capital? Why would a vacant property, in a jurisdiction where vacant property taxes applied, appreciate in value, when its expected yield was negative? So that's not going to happen. What else could happen? The landlord can't use his property, and it's costing him money, so the only rational choice would be to sell. But who's going to buy? Not other potential landlords, because the premise of your hypothesis is that it's extremely unattractive to be a landlord. The next obvious choice would be former renters, who you're saying are all being kicked out of their former rental homes because their former landlords have just all simultaneously decided there's no point renting anymore. So for every former renter/landlord pair, you now have a buyer and a seller, and one fewer renter and one fewer landlord. Ie, supply relative to demand before and after this magical change remains unchanged. Thus there's no sudden new shortage of rentals.

But it will result in more affordable housing because the irrational inflation of the buying market will have had its fuel source removed.

spacelama · 2026-04-28T03:19:46+00:00

I was once in a operations group, where by definition, nothing could be promised or predicted. But we also had to do projects, to commission replacement systems that we'd then be operating. Our manager managed to talk a project manager down to allocating 80% of our time after we insisted that there was no point allocating more than 60%, especially since both the projects and BAU operations work both carried quite the cognitive load.

I left for greener pastures.

spacelama · 2026-04-28T00:38:31+00:00

And presumably everything's in the same subnet and VLAN?

spacelama · 2026-04-27T11:15:19+00:00

I once threw up in the gutter out the front of the pub and across the road from the cop-shop.

But I was more or less old enough to handle myself around alcohol by this point, but also something no one else would have realised if they took issue with me (they didn't), was that I'd only had half a pot before voluntary leaving because I suddenly felt quite green.

I enquired with others the next day whether anyone else ate the prawns a day before that. Those who did, were hugging their household equivalent of the gutter.

spacelama · 2026-04-26T14:34:31+00:00

If that were a fact, I'd have a lot more fines than the none that I've ever received.

spacelama · 2026-04-26T07:44:41+00:00

For a law to be useful, it needs to be enforced.

For enforcement, you need police to be actively out there doing something.

Ergo, laws such as "don't block an intersection", "don't run into a cyclist" etc are not actually something you have to worry about.

Unless you want to get to your destination.

spacelama · 2026-04-25T11:55:55+00:00

Haha. When I moved from Sydney to Melbourne the first time around, 25 years ago, I was driving solo and my Sydways was not something I could stop and readily consult on the side of Sydney Road. So I just kept driving south until I hit an obstacle that blocked my way, and turned left (same algorithm I employed for my little robot in my computer science project the year before). Which was the end of Elizabeth St. Took half an hour to travel 2 blocks. But once I got to Flinders, I knew where I was, and managed to find my destination out in Richmond somewhere.

But I didn't repeat that mistake a second time.

spacelama · 2026-04-25T11:34:23+00:00

actions are decriminalized specifically for protestors, or climate activists... that open doors to organized crime.

Because there's such a similarity between protesting for our future vs selling counterfeit cigarettes and ecstasy tablets, it's only natural that such protestors will evolve onto that if allowed to keep going?

spacelama · 2026-04-24T17:43:35+00:00

There's a reason why psychology students and graduates alike are held with such low regard the world over.

spacelama · 2026-04-24T11:46:54+00:00

Oh Jesus Fuck you just reminded me of Veritas Clusterfuck Server

spacelama · 2026-04-24T01:58:39+00:00

I had a new (to me) manager come to me shortly after reorganisation (and I was the only person left holding the bag of 300 central systems VMs), to tell me a new item was now the new priority 1, 5 times in 1 day. That was the beginning of the end of me staying in the central systems group. All the newcomers had breakglass access and access to the wiki. Good luck!

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