Here’s an update: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/07/yimby-useful-idiots-spread/
Universities and unions are behind this movement (because they benefit directly from it)…
Hahaha I hate this country (and California). FML…
This is a song (by a well-known left wing Sydney band), from 1999, about pretty much exactly this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B49zI5UrAQ
The subject of said song (former member of this same band) ended up killing himself, shortly after its release, partly over gambling debts/addiction, and also probably partly because of the way said band had treated him...
The song, and that context, summarises the complexity of this issue, and the difficulty of controlling/legislating around it, better than I ever could.
All a bit sad.
Here's another one, about a similar topic (i.e. Sydney pubs, pokies, etc.). "God" is a presumably homeless bloke. The Sando is the most iconic pub in Newtown, a famous suburb of Syd, that is now a fucking putt putt bar:
I just don't see this as in any way effective in "stopping the issue" of problem gambling, and I also see it as inherent class war, both in that it will decimate the venues and the people employed by them, but more importantly, laws like this target the poor and disenfranchised, who a) won't be voting for this sort of thing, b) hold very little political power anyway, and c) should be free to make their own poor choices, whatever they may be (if legal, i.e. smoking, drinking, gambling), in regards to how they spend their money...
I don't necessarily agree with two out of your three paragraphs. But the middle one? Sure, I guess.
But no, I can't agree with what you say, sorry. I don't see it that way.
And yes, I accept that these things have consequences. But so does banning them. shrug
Yes, gaming, in this context, = gambling.
For some reason we have a different word for this specific type of gambling, which is almost always "poker machines", or fruit machines/slot machines in other countries...
Here, those are called "pokies", and they are ubiquitous, in most of the country (in pubs and "clubs", which are... Hard to explain. Not nightclubs!), but very much especially in NSW...
Personally, I'm not a fan of states destroying industries (or, in this case, dealing them a death blow, after years of "lockouts", followed by "lockdowns" and all that bullshit), or making nanny state decisions like this one.
But I love that the average Labor voter thinks that banning dragons and coins from external signage will somehow help "those problem gamblers over there". Never them. Always the people they look down on.
Has any of them ever owned or managed a pub? Lol, are you fucking kidding?
Anyway, it's essentially this: https://www.health.gov.au/topics/smoking-and-tobacco/tobacco-control/plain-packaging
"Plain packaging" for pubs, if you will.
Which I am not really a fan of, either. But some here may disagree.
Anyway, fuck this country. I'm so fucking sick of the state just randomly up and "deciding" shit like this. But hey. That's definitely not unique to Aus, of course.
It’s PoLi. Which is owned and run by AusPost.
You mainly see it on flight booking pages…
It’s “controversial”, because of the way it works, but nonetheless, it was fucking useful…
Not sure if you’ve used it much, but yeah, CommBank essentially killed it off, by refusing service.
It goes dead at the end of September, sadly… 😑
Australia is currently trying to ban (the purchase of) old farm equipment (40/50+ years old), under the guise of “accidents”, so that’s an appropriate point!
When people actively choose not to buy the new, centrally-controlled, all-digital shit..? Then they just ban you from being able to buy and use the alternative, old stuff, lol…
Australia just introduced the same sort of laws…
What a coincidence! /s
Also (and this is not just a millennial thing), the number of people who say “I’m a small business owner”, to try and sound modest (at least in Australia, this happens), while blatantly actually owning vast assets and making millions of dollars while employing, say, 50+ people:.. I mean, come on…
False modesty is not that much better than bragging, IMHO…
No, they're not in any way comparable, and that false equivalence is bullshit.
I don't hate the guy. I just think he made poor choices, here, from the crotch-grabbing onwards.
Regardless of their "personal relationship", there's a difference between potentially acceptable private behaviour, and doing something like that, on stage, in front of millions of people.
You're just taking it to an extreme, while attempting to strawman me at the same time.
Initially, she didn’t, but then she decided (or was convinced) to make a huge thing out of it, which is how we get to this point…
But Rubiales behaved like an utter dickhead throughout (from before this happened through to today), so…
Unfortunately I don’t think this is undeserved.
Man had his chances to defuse the situation, instead of doubling down (and threatening to sue her, lol)…
Having just spent several weeks dating an English girl, I would say we’re actually probably happier here. And certainly more outgoing (in general. Though it depends where in England, of course!)
And that’s coming from someone who does not like this country very much at all…
I think people here are much more open and upfront about things than the English/Welsh norm (this doesn’t apply so much to the rest of the British Isles), and I actually like that…
I think Australians have a lower bullshit tolerance, in general… But I guess it depends.
As she said to me, “This is like paradise to us” (which seemed ironic).
Even more ironic, as I’m about to move to Sweden - land of the cold, utterly direct, no-small-talk folk. Which, having dated a couple of Swedes… I’m genuinely somewhat nervous about.
But it should be interesting.
Having watched it happen live (on tv), with how he did it to all the players (the lifting up, and the kissing), I think a) she blew it out of proportion, and b) this is just the icing on the cake - they (the players) already wanted him gone long before that…
But admittedly it did also look incredibly dubious, in this day and age, when he kept doing it to all of them…
It was just… Nit a good look. Even without knowing about the lip-kissing bit. 🤷🏻♂️
Guy seems like an entitled prick, tbh. So probably good he is gone…
No I know that. I still just assumed the “K” on (at least some of) the bottles was in reference to that…
The Kosher symbol has always been a separate thing, on food and drink products, at least over here…
It’s 100% a cultural thing.
Which carried over to Latin America, but not to the US…
Noting that the largest proportion of European settlers in the US ended up coming from Germany, and Northern Europe more broadly, I guess may be somewhat relevant…
But I would say Australians are less… Cold, than the British, without the sort of… Veneer, that many Americans put on. Despite Australia being like a strange combination of US + UK + Canada…
So I’d say it is more complicated than just this.
Regarding Hermoso’s comments - even the woke mainstream media admit that she was initially fine with it (even if they caveat that with “she was intimidated against saying otherwise” or similar) - it’s not hard to find…
That never had currency in Australia anyway. This man is just insane. And has a weirdly specific obsession with that particular term…
*if you’re insane. Which Hagan is.
To any normal person..? Almost certainly not…
Does it not relate to Vitamin K..? That was my logical assumption…
This. Exactly this.
See also: Michael and (his daughter) Nala Mansell…
Have fun with that can ‘o’ worms!
Hagan is a destructive, revenge-seeking, racist cunt. I wish him great ill, especially after the fucking cheese bullshit (coon is not a slur, in Australia). That is all.
That’s good!
We never got taught how to even do that much, sadly…
Awesome about your grandfather!
Mine were sort of good with practical stuff (boats, cars, and woodcraft/model-making, respectively), but never taught me that sort of “key life skill” stuff, I guess!
Although those other skills could still come in handy, of course.
But yeah, literally no one ever taught me about taxes, ever, lol. Which has really sucked, tbh!
See, I’m not ignorant (at all), but I agree with Lethn, because I just fucking hate higher ed…
I’m not sure what it is, but something about the University environment just does not work, for me…
Beyond all the wokeness, and the terrible excuse for “teaching”, I just do not seem to be able to get it, yet no one, in conversation, unless they asked what work I do, or bring it up, would know I don’t have a degree, because I know a whole bunch of random (mostly self-learned) shit, and I “act educated”, I guess…
Hard to describe, but it makes for a weird situation, when the norm for people around me is post-grad, and I haven’t even finished Undergrad, lol…
Kids should also learn stuff like basic personal finance and taxation, in school, in some mandatory class…
Because they don’t, here. The expectation is that parents teach that stuff, and mine, for example, flatly refused to do so…
Which I think is not good enough, personally, because there are/were definitely others like me…
Full version of the article, on MacroBusiness (didn’t want to archive, apparently) :
https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/06/yimbys-are-useful-idiots-of-the-development-lobby/
Talks about Vancouver as well, as an example of what is happening and what has happened to lead to this situation…