SaneMartigan

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[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 3 days ago

Back in the 90s phones used Windows CE, which appropriately abbreviated to WinCE. Fuck that OS, worse than Vista/ME.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's the key point I reckon "if coding is your thing" many people are trying to learn a complex thing they have no interest in.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 4 days ago

I've got some more:

Wind back private health insurance. It leaches money from the population while providing worse health outcomes. The finance side has lobbyists to encourage the government to lean toward private health and away from public services. Private health at the very top, is just money and bankers, so when the global finance system shifts ever so slightly one way or another, entire branches of our health care services come under fire.

Microtransit. Lean on states to regulate eBikes and eScooters with some reasonable legislation. Improve micortransit freeways around the cities and frankly through the country as well.

Fast trains for transit and freight.

Remove mutual obligations from centrelink payments effectively making it a soft UBI. If people want to work they will or at least will try to. If they don't want to work they wont. It's a waste of money to try to punish people who don't want to work.

Buy back our god dam services. Telco, utilities, government departments (eg, vicroads), public transport.

Manufacturing. How much fucking raw ore do we ship overseas? At least process that here into iron, steel, etc.

That Norway citizens fund thing that Whitlam got shafted over, do that.

Build commie blocks for housing in every major city on top of train stations. 1-3 br apartments, with services on the ground floors.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

There will be no change. Punching down at welfare recipients is so ingrained in Australian politics it'll never go away. If Albo tries it'll be the perfect campaign basis for the Libs, your tax money given free, to blue haired dole bludgers that want to turn your kids trans.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 5 days ago

All her life my Aunt looked like she was on top of her business. Owned multiple houses around the world, travelled regularly, lived in the inner city of a top tier European city. She was found dead at home in her 70s. As the finances were unwound to deal with her estate, she's flat broke, everything was loans on loans, her sister who rented one of her apartments is set to lose her housing. One of my family members commented "I thought she was good at business", I replied that she was, she died without ever having to clean up the mess she made, her finances were a disaster and now they're someone else's problem.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Breast reduction is more common than enlargement as far as surgery goes.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Some guys might actually need a truck for truck stuff too.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 5 points 6 days ago

Where do you place "be kind to each other" on the propaganda scale?

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Can you get posts up about the free food?

Borrow a ute (pickup truck) and drive around poorer areas looking to give it away?

Contact other charities that might be able to cook it up to give to people? The Sikh's do a lot of that where I'm from.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

They're going out of fashion here too but it means there's a heap of cheap old trucks available. With our housing cost issues, I've been daydreaming about building a house-truck of sorts.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In Australia, you've got to show double clutching to pass the non-synchronised driving test.

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Jackbox games on the PC/phones and various sandwiches cut into triangles.

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