I'd be curious in a further drill-down... where I used to live (Meadowbank), 4-5 story builds were common late 2000s, but by late 2010s it was definitely 8+. My reading on it was that once you got to 3+ everyone expected a lift, so it was a bit of "in for a penny in for a pound" effect.

Now come on, I have made many deals like this with a toddler because they put no more screaming on the table to close the deal.

It's definitely a bit of both, the politicians themselves being in the landlord class and a sufficiently large portion of the electorate being fearful of their decades long Ponzi scheme collapsing.

My fear of a gradual ramp would be that it doesn't show benefit in time for the subsequent election.

Oh wow @demilardner.bsky.social the pity wizard is real

But Greg if they touch anything they'll probably fuck it up!

Yes. Or more accurately, every time my credit card is used, whether I'm present or not (e.g. subscriptions).

It's definitely helped me catch fraud and immediately call to request card lock once. Now my card issuer lets me lock right from the app.

Some of that comes down to electing Bob Hawke in the 80s while the US got Reagan and the UK got Thatcher. We got the version filtered through a populist union leader.

She points out to meet our carbon reduction targets we need it basically double the cuts we’re currently doing

Fair call, there's little that would be able to match Guu.

Yeah sure, it's just that we're marching towards capitalist based feudalism without any compensating the broader public through increased taxes to fund social payments. Henry Ford paid his workers enough to live and afford to buy the products they were building; what happens when it's all robots?

It is a smarter business model, when the only thing that matters is profits. And when it gets extrapolated to the obvious conclusion, we end up with the owners getting richer while the rest of us hope they throw off some scraps for us.

I have some PS2 games that I swear I'll get around to finishing one day 😖

COD4? That was just... *looks it up*... oh shit 18 years ago. Never mind.

Look at Mr Moneybags here buying a whole GPU instead of renting it by the hour

I reckon there might be $360bn or so of budgeted spend on some boats which could be better applied...

I would guess grille with no front plate spot is not available outside the US. I don't know anywhere outside the US where front plates aren't mandated.

You know @albomp.bsky.social if you want to revive Australian manufacturing, make Aussies lead in STEM, have a more diverse economy than houses & holes, this is the trend to reverse. Fund research and you get to invent the industries of the future.

#auspol