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reasons i haven’t replied back:
- i’m socially exhausted - i don’t have the time right now - i don’t know how to reply - i have a bad memory and got distracted - i’m having a depressive episode and don’t have the energy to socialise
not reasons i haven’t replied back:
- i’m ignoring you just because - i hate you - i’m fed up with you - i don’t want to be your friend anymore
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How do you start your day?
Raest is so funny now.
"Apologies with caveats are worthless, you know."
-Sister Spite, Toll the Hounds
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I often see people criticise the way romantic relationships are done in Malazan, but somehow I’ve always enjoyed most of them. I wish I could properly articulate why… but I’ll try.
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Me: I won't repeat my father's mistakes
Me [2 hours later]: I should build a porch
who says brunette girls with dimples can't build patios…. not me thats for sure! I have sandy hair and am male and don't have dimples and I built this patio alone, but I just wanted to let you all know that i support women.
(so 1000 people don't "um actually," yes 1st post says porch, I meant patio, got my P words mixed up)
i thought australia didnt have water bc its so dry
You're right it doesn't, we import good water genetics from Finland and breed them on water farms to provide water for the Australian population
This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes
reblog to feed her notes
How is she doing this
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am i currently reading a 37-page bibliography in a monograph about a fictional species of fucked up squid? yes.
am i enjoying the hell out of it?? ALSO YES
KICK THE CAN!
Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.
To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.
The vast majority of One Nation MPs quit before the end of their first term. They're either expelled or quit because of internal bickering and dysfunction. Pauline Hanson herself was kicked out of the party and wasn't part of it from 2002 to 2013.
Barnaby Joyce will not be a One Nation MP by the next election. David Farley will likely quit or be expelled by the end of this year.
What's missing from all this media obsession with how much One Nation is rising in the polls because of all the oxygen and hype the media is giving to it is the issue of longevity and stability. One Nation has never been stable. Barely any of its members maintain party allegiance after a year in office. Why aren't journalists bringing that up?
One Nation is not a viable alternative. It's the gutter where those too dysfunctional to be part of real political parties go to see if they can whip up enough racist scaremongering to keep their paycheck at the next election.
It doesn't matter how many seats One Nation wins at the next election. It won't have kept most of them by the time the next election afterwards happens. One Nation is a grift. A con. A trap for the disillusioned and angry who want change but don't realise One Nation is the worst way to make that happen.
Steven Erikson's insanity!
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REAPER’S GALE SPOILERS / TOLL THE HOUNDS SPOILERS
BEWARE SPOILERS BEWARE SPOILERS Let’s focus on two scenes. The first is from Reaper’s Gale and the second’s from Toll the Hounds. 1)Reaper’s Gale–>Seren Pedac’s chitchat with Mockra. A character has an interesting conversation with a warren. With a magic system. Not with an animal, or a tree, or a bottle of beer. She conversates with a damn…I don’t know…energy? Magical world of peoples’ thoughts? Her own mind? And it’s not her imagination. Chapters later she mind-beats Clip into a bloody pulp. Who else can imagine,think, write and execute in paper such a conversation? It’s like a Jedi speaking with the Force (not just sensing things and stuff, but actually talk with about the contents of a magazine). It’s like a Dragonlance mage speaks with the moon from which it draws power. Is there anything like it in some other book? You have to be extremely open-minded (for a start) in order to come up with something like that. 2)Toll the Hounds–>Kadaspala'a ritual. The Tiste Andii’s spell isn’t just the muttering of some words and the waving of his hands in a specific manner. That blind lunatic had inscribed upon flesh the name of every god, godling, ascendant, spirit that ever existed. We speak of billions of names here. And not only that. He had created words which consist of words, letters that their parts are not straight lines but other words and so on. The scope is beyond imagination. This is not mere spell-creation. This extends to origins-of-languages, philosophy, arithmology, evolution and so on. The above examples show what a fantasy fiction book/story is capable of. The possibilities are endless, restrained only by imagination. And me Erikson proves time and again that his imagination is maddeningly vast. Thank God!
hot take: public transport shouldn't be free
it's not about paying for pt. i think pt should be accessible to anyone and everyone.
however we need a way to track patronage. free pt doesn't give us any insight into how people are using the service, because nobody touches on
queensland's 50c fares are great because it's next to nothing for most people and it still incentivises people to touch on, thus logging the trip and providing valuable insight into our network's characteristics for organisers
it's not whether pt should be self sufficient or whatever (it shouldn't), it's a public service and it should match the needs of the public. it's just one of the best ways to find out what those needs are is to have people pay just enough to make it worth touching on
who says there would be AOs and fines 💀
but also! ridership is not the same as patronage. we still need a way to figure out where people are actually going, and how they're going there, not just how many people are using the system.
also worth noting the distinction between PSOs and AOs. PSOs are from victoria police and aren't there to check your ticket. they still harass minorities (raises hand) but they can't detain you for fare evading. AOs are from the operator and it's their job to harass people into paying fines. they're particularly evil because they're not actually cops and get compensation out of your fine. both are evil, but one is more evil than the other. AOs also probably wouldn't exist in an affordable pt system!
peer reviewed, this is good
It's also pretty well established that fares are not the main blocker to increasing public transport ridership; frequency and route utility are. It's much more effective to invest money in increasing frequency and developing new routes that go where people want than free fares. Public transport is already, most places, significantly cheaper than owning and using a car. What it needs is to be more convenient as well.
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The negative gearing/capital gains tax changes are really simple and benefit regular people
The media (owned by rich people) are currently going "WOW? SO CONFUSING! BAD LABOR BUDGET BAD! MASSIVE TAX HIKES!" but what actually is happening?
Negative gearing ISN'T being abolished. Literally everyone who already benefited from it on their investment portfolios continues to have it. Anyone complaining and saying they're going to raise the rent because it's made things less profitable for them is lying and a scumbag.
The change is going forward any ADDITIONAL properties an investor wants to get tax breaks on can only be applied to NEW builds, thus encouraging investors to build new properties (instead of buying all the currently existing ones and driving prices up). So who is negatively impacted by this? Literally no one. Who does this benefit? Anyone who wants to live in a house because it increases housing supply and makes the housing market less competitive for investors vs home owners.
Really simple.
What about capital gains tax discount? Basically, in the 90s John Howard made it so that when you sold a house you'd get a 50% discount where half of the profit wasn't taxed. Investors went woohoo! Bought up all the affordable houses to drive prices up and make a big profit. It fueled the housing crisis for the past 30 years. But Labor went "actually, what if we just tax it at 30% instead with no discount?" So instead of half of the money being tax free, it's all taxed. You know... like how making money normally works???
30% is still actually lower than the top two income tax brackets so rich people will still manage to make lots of money without having to work BUT... they'll just have to pay a little tax. BUT only on profit. If a property makes a loss it's not taxed. The amount of tax is also adjusted down relative to inflation so a $100,000 profit isn't taxed $30,000 but actually less depending on how much inflation happened during the time the asset was held.
Also capital gains tax doesn't apply to the home you live in so unless you're a property investor YOU'RE NOT GETTING TAXED! THE VAST MAJORITY OF AUSTRALIANS ARE NOT BEING AFFECTED HERE AND YET WE'RE SEEING WIDE PUBLIC OUTRAGE OVER A TAX DESIGNED TO MAKE THE HOUSING MARKET LESS COMPETITIVE AND THUS EASIER FOR HOME OWNERS TO ENTER IT.
This budget literally mostly just slightly inconveniences the 1% of investors who own a WHOPPING 25% OF INVESTMENT PROPERTIES IN AUSTRALIA.
The capital gains tax discount was never for working Australians! It was never for you! It was always just a tax perk for investors to encourage them to buy up houses away from those who needed them and hike up rents. Labor fixed that.
No wonder the rich media moguls and politicians who make most of their money off property investments like Pauline Hanson and Angus Taylor are mad about it and want YOU to be mad too. They don't want to pay taxes! Booo! The problem is: if we can't get the uber-wealthy to pay a little bit of tax then YOU will NEVER own a home!
So the changes are really simple. They're mild. And yet the right is outraged over how it even slightly benefits working and ordinary Australians.
Fucking ridiculous.
I badly want to romanticize train travel. But train companies seem bound and determined to not let me.
