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[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have tried a tiny sample of what was meant to be a hamburger pattie/mince thing. It was not big enough to really judge - but it gave an idea.

It tasted different, the texture was definitely different to what you know. But it wasn't bad. I think we'd get used to it. They said they were nowhere near making a steak be similar.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 3 weeks ago

Also interesting that Australia's population is now 28 Million. Which is a lot, but still doesn't put us in the top-50 nations by population.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

After a threshold. You don't want to tax some poor pensioner who has lived in the same 2-bedroom cottage in Carlton for 60 years, simply because that location is now worth $2Million.

And now it's complicated. How do you find that threshold?
If it's per-person, you'll find rich people divvying up their portfolios to family members to distribute this tax benefit.
If you grandfather it in so it only affects future property purchases, you disincentivise retirees from downsizing to a smaller place, freeing up some 4-bedroom house.

Taxation policies are hard.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Sorry Willie, you can't upload a video to YouTube and then say it was a private setting.

I doubt you'd get away with calling the lecture private even if it weren't broadcast.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.

/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago

Remember that whole thing 15-20 years ago about "Occupy" and taxing the 1% etc?

This whole thing affects the top 0.3% of the population. 99.7% of us won't be affected by it. There should be very wide popular support for this.

Hell, I wish I were affected by this policy. This is an awesome problem to have!

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It will be interesting to see how popular this line is. It has to mainly be for people along the line to connect to the city lines, right?

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

Unless you are a teenager, you'll be retiring far sooner than 50 years. Less than 20, for me (hopefully).

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.

The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.

Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it's my wife's birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I've never regretted doing it.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She's gone from "oh she definitely did it" to "maybe she's innocent, I can't be say beyond reasonable doubt" after this week's testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.

I haven't been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn't provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn't have one - it was all pretty damning.

 

Ok, so here's my newest phobia. Happily driving along a bridge I've crossed over a thousand times before, only tonight I'm suddenly in the dark waters below!

 

Reddit > Mastodon > Lemmy because why not? 😁

 

Try and get past the fact that this is sort-of about Facebook. Because it's more about the demise of news than it is about Facebook, specifically.

news organisations were never in the news business, Amanda Lotz, a professor of media studies at QUT, said.

"They were in the attention-attraction business.

"In another era, if you were an advertiser, a newspaper was a great place to be.

"But now there are just much better places to be."

The moment news moved online, and was "unbundled" from classifieds, sports results, movie listings, weather reports, celebrity gossip, and all the other reasons people bought newspapers or watched evening TV bulletins, the news business model was dead.

News by itself was never profitable, Professor Bruns said.

"Then advertising moved somewhere else.

"This was always going to happen via Facebook or other platforms."

It's a really fascinating read. We can all agree that independent journalism is valuable in our society, but ultimately, most of us don't so much seek news out as much as we encounter news as we go about our day.

I'm sure the TL;DR bot is about to entirely miss the nuance of the article. I recommend reading the whole thing.

 

That's right Cronulla, your likely next local member isn't actually local. But, he promises he will be real soon!

Good luck with that!

Having lived in super safe-seats and marginal seats, I promise it's far better to live in a seat that flips every election!

 

I don't think this movement really got off the ground in WA, we never really had the lock-downs and remote working culture introduced through the pandemic that the Eastern states got. Still, this makes for fascinating reading.

 

I get that WA is financially far better off than 2017 projections.

What I don't really understand is why it is so unfair for WA to get back 70-75 cents per dollar its populace puts into GST.

 

 

Aotearoa Daily Kōrero 23/1/2024

Welcome to today’s daily kōrero!

Anyone can make the thread, first in first served. If you are here on a day and there’s no daily thread, feel free to create it!

Anyway, it’s just a chance to talk about your day, what you have planned, what you have done, etc.

So, how’s it going?

 

I picked up a couple of pairs of jeans at the end of year sales.

I paid $20 for one pair, down from $110. Does anyone actually pay that $110? That sounds insane to me.

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