From what I’ve heard adopting is actually very difficult and arduous. There’s way more families trying to adopt an infant than there are infants that can be adopted

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Time: 1:09 crossherd.clevergoat.com 🐐

Society collapsing due to half the population disappearing, yes.

All women dying out in “days” without men, no. 😂

Even if in work like water treatment and electricity generation/distribution that are mostly men, there are still plenty of women. And huge swathes of the world live without these things anyway. It seems like you’re only thinking of cities becoming unlivable, or only thinking of a very narrow microcosm of women.

As someone who has known extremely competent and intelligent women all through my life, and also lived in really remote and rural places, I can say with absolute certainty that if men just blipped out of existence one day women would be just fine.

Yes, life wouldn’t continue as it had. There would be changes. Just like there would be changes for men if women all disappeared. But to suggest that women would just let rubbish and bodies pile up, and that they wouldn’t give any thought to or take action about food supply is delusional.

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I thought how young she looked. Then read the wiki article, yep 17.

I do think this kind of tendency is fairly common. Most humans find it easier to be kind and giving when everything is going well for them. And conversely most humans, when their life starts going to shit, really find it difficult to care about other people’s problems.

Of course there are examples of people who are going through the worst time ever and still manage to muster up empathy and patience for others. I think people like that are remarkable because they are not the usual.

(Not to defend Dwayne Johnson, I have no feelings at all about him or knowledge about what he has and has not done. Just a side note thought)

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PASH? 😆 really??

So AirBnB/Stayz/etc is a contributing problem.

Ah yes. I’m sure it was 100% the children’s decision to fuck their dad, he was completely unwitting… 🤢

Where is that 2million number coming from?

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release

https://factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com.723F2CQ

An acquaintance at work (in Australia) went to work as a developer for Amazon in the US a few years back. According to him, the hours he was expected to work meant that his really great salary actually translated to a quite shitty hourly rate. And he never got to go sightseeing and tourist-ing with his wife and kids because he was always working.

My friend and her husband also worked in the US for years, in mining, and said similar things. Terrible leave offerings, and a culture where even if you have leave you feel extreme pressure not to take it.

Is that what a flatworm looks like?

I would not describe that as flat. It looks like some kind of dragon imo.

For our son, it’s the daycare pushing us repeatedly to get the autism diagnosis.

We have seen an occupational therapist who cost $280 for a 1 hour zoom call without my son present and advised it would be around $350 each time she did a visit. Medicare covers $48 that, or our top tier extras cover covers $50.

Or NDIS provides 6 totally free sessions per year. So of course I have started the process of trying to get him on NDIS. I’d be silly not to.

I think the solar stalking thing is much less interesting than the secret comms tech hidden in inverters which is discussed further down.

I’m an almost life long QLDer and ‘a port’ to me would mean a fortified wine…

Or where the boats come in

I found this a long but very interesting read. Particularly the repeated idea throughout it that US foreign policy has long had the goal of suppressing other powers and maintaining dominance, but that their actions this year are actually having the opposite effect.

Very long but interesting interview

Yeh I think a lot of people don’t seem to get this. My husband and I have an “investment property” (super rural, was sub $200k, all we could afford for a first house, not much more than a shed) that my parents live in now after we moved to a city for work. They pay a tiny amount of rent which only covers a portion of the mortgage repayments, so the place is negatively geared.

But the money we’re spending on keeping my parents housed is not free money we get back in full at tax time. Some of it just comes off our taxable income, so we get a very slight tax break. I cbf doing the full maths right now but if we spend $4000 on rates and water and interest for that house we might get something like $1000 off our owed tax. Still down $3000. Plus down the principal mortgage repayments not covered by rent (~$4000), because they can’t be claimed.

Which is fine. I’m grateful to be in a position to be able to support my parents, and I know it’s not a typical landlord situation.

I’m also certainly not saying negative gearing is totally fine and should never be questioned. There are definitely too many consessions that parasites with huge portfolios of properties take advantage of. And I’m sure there are people that game the system to their full advantage.

I just, yeah, for me negative gearing just very slightly reduces how much it costs to not charge my parents much rent. It’s not a golden goose or anything.