This was my early childhood. The Bugaloos! Sigmund and the Sea Monsters! RIP.

If it’s multi million dollar property it’s likely 4+ bedrooms.

And are you perhaps in line to inherit and therefore perhaps don’t want to lose out? Some of us never inherit property at all, and the taxes on inherited property in Australia are generally minimised. How is that fair? People like to blame parents that don’t “work hard” to build wealth for their kids, but the reality is the bulk of wealth is dynastic and protected: the poor will always be the poor. The tax burden should be very much be on the wealthiest 1%, but no one should be penalised for not inheriting property, so granny (and get inheritors) shouldn’t be given government money when other options could be fairer across the board.

So if Grandma’s kids want to inherit, let them take out a reverse mortgage to fund her retirement, so that when she kicks the bucket they pay a chunk to the government if they can’t stomach her being forced to downsize instead of live in the massive 6 bedroom mansion she no longer needs (or is able to look after without help). That would be the fair option.

yup. the one I hate the most is people on the full age pension living in multi million dollar mansions while others are homeless, and then they pass that untaxed wealth on to their children when they die. A fair system would require they downsize to something more reasonable and live off the proceeds if they genuinely don’t have any other source of income in retirement.

tbh I am surprised this is getting so much downvoting, I think the arguments are pretty reasonable and appropriate to the sub. Haven’t seen it spammed elsewhere.

I am saddened by just how many people in my immediate real life can’t give up Facebook (99%) and are deaf to my pleas as to why it is truly evil. They honestly think they aren’t being manipulated.

I have been saying for the last week or two I expect fuel restrictions to come in after the Easter weekend. Not before, because that would go down like a lead balloon. But this portends my prediction, I reckon.

Ask first.

Then waggle the finger and say “I asked nicely, but you are not making a smart choice, so daddy has to be mean now”.

this is quite good, thanks for sharing!

thanks for sharing!

we are such a garbage species.

Meshcore in Australia is taking off and recently made the first Victoria - Tasmania link. Long distance comms are viable within state with many hops - if you are within range of a repeater hooked into the existing network is possible to go hundreds of kilometres quite easily. We have people participating in synchronous conversations that are occurring over a dozen hops from regional to inner urban anew back again. Yes messages do sometimes get lost but people are creating tools to troubleshoot and track. It’s genuinely doing what I had originally hoped Meshtastic would, but could never get messages far enough due to hop limits and telemetry cruft.

yeah they really are trigger happy over there, any excuse to delete something. While it is political I think it’s very relevant to collapse.

one reason I’ve been impressed by podcasts: they resurrected rss when it was looking like Google was winning. podcast apps are many and varied but you can use any rss app to follow podcasts too 😊

I also think this is fair comment, but it also kindof misses a bigger point: and that is that the experience of media in our lives before social media kindof conditioned us all to separate ourselves into the categories of performer and audience, with the publisher in the middle with the power: and media has always laid the power in the hands of content publishers vs content consumers.

I loved early social networks pre-Facebook (newsgroups, messageboards, LiveJournal) as power was not yet consolidated in the larger publishers. The clever publishers always saw this potential to consolidate power and control media consumers more than ever before. Which has happened, as we’ve been trained for so long to be passive consumers.

The most important element of Burning Man culture for me was the focus on participation: no spectators. The media world wants the opposite and always has.

My collapse awareness has been cyclical, and acceptance for me has been an arc over decades. I think Buddhism has been incredibly helpful in buffering many of the difficulties of accepting the reality that contraction is inevitable. I know one day the sun will burn out, and I have been aware of deep time since a young age, and that awareness has grown as I have done decolonisation work and become more conversant in the ancient cultures that had more awareness of the cyclical nature of life. This is the greatest collapse, but these cycles have happened before, and may happen again.

And now I have 4 of the first and 1 of the second on their way to me. Thankyou!!

omg this is brilliant. I have had mini screwdriver sets taken from me at airports, so effing annoying. this is perfect and they appear to be from $2.50 if you want to wait to get it from China, or around $10 in AU on ebay, so possible to still get. what exactly is the usb (device?)

Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don’t believe in 🤦

I guess one of the upsides of Limits to Growth is that if industrial production drops 50% in the next 10 years then the production of plastic pollution at least should fall too (unless I misunderstand things)

yes, I am getting closer and closer to reaching this conclusion, may as well simply leave the internet altogether. The Fediverse is pretty much the only good thing keeping me here.

I’m quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.