Marty_d
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They can be amusing sometimes. I remember an old Croatian bloke telling me once, in all seriousness (although with a few shots of slivovitz on board) - "My wife, ok, I get home a bit late, and my wife, he say to me, 'What in the hell have you been??'"
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Californication. Great song.
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Could have been worse. Severe flatulence for example.
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Winnie the Pooh. But instead of all that rubbish about a P with a ghost saying "boo" without the b, why didn't they just use the 💩?
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There are many good tenants needing homes. I don't see that as a reason to leave a house unoccupied.
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If investors only BUILT new houses for rental there wouldn't be an issue. But they buy up existing housing stock which pushes prices beyond the reach of owner occupiers.
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Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence
Marty_d replied to old man emu's topic in Science and Technology
Apparently Claude is good enough to convince Richard Dawkins, possibly the world's most recognisable atheist, that it's conscious. Utter BS, of course. -
It's not just housing. The ratio of working age people to retirees continues to drop. It's only fair that income from assets is taxed at the same rate as income from labour.
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So when circumstances change, you would rather the government of the day either stuck to their election promises or call an election every time they needed to pivot? What the hell do we elect them for then? When Howard and Costello brought in the CGT discount in 1999 (from which the wealthiest 10% get 80% of the benefit), did they take it to an election?
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Good article by Saul Eslake correcting some misinformation that's doing the rounds about Jim Chalmers' budget. I think it's a step in the right direction, and good on them for having the courage. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/19/death-tax-startups-and-a-rent-spike-its-time-to-correct-misleading-claims-about-labors-budget
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What a lovely thought! Let's just hope the next White house resident is more like Obama, and not a Trump-like replacement.
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It's far easier to count the number of times he's told the truth. You don't even need to take your shoes off.
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Wealth accumulates wealth. You can't tell me Gina "earned" 40 bill. With that saying of yours, I'd be asking where the "someone else" got their money, because it was most likely them or their ancestor being a robber baron.
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Oh, how's that? I'd really love to know how the government works out who voted for them and distributes what it's "taken from everyone" to those people only. You've obviously lived through more governments than me, but I've lived through 3 worse governments than this - Howard, Abbott and Morrison.
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This is an interesting read. Stick with it, it's long but puts it all in perspective. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/may/17/america-china-energy-oil-renewables
