i guess bc its less than 2 days before the referendum we can have this thread to talk about it and other stuff its most likely going to lose, it really went down hill after the liberal party came out against it. the thing is i think for the most part it probably wouldnt matter … Read more
Hamas attacks Israel. Forces seen inside Israel. Netanyahu declares a state of war. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/7/israel-palestine-escalation-live-news-barrage-of-rockets-fired-from-gaza Telegram channels full of photos and videos of fighting, one Merkava IV MBT on fire, IDF equipment seized, Hamas controls settlements inside Israel. Shit is getting realer and realer every day.
Yeah so there was a Bloomberg (gay) video posted a day ago that Matt Barrie over on Twitter talking about Australian housing and rents. We all know shit is fucked here but maybe it has become fucked enough that analysts (that aren’t Harry S Dent or Mike Martins) who live in other countries have started … Read more
Time for a new post. not a good week for me, so I’ve got nothing to write.
It’s been a few days since stagmal went offline and I miss him. it has got me wondering, where he might have gotten to and where he is going. My guess is that he has headed north, cruising towards the Queensland border. The weather is warmer, as are the girls. Which is good, if you’re … Read more
DLS writes today: “One of Australia’s biggest economic paradoxes is that while we have a record number of university graduates, productivity growth stinks and there are never-ending “skills shortages” https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2023/09/labor-wants-a-nation-of-toilet-paper-degrees/ I said it first. Here. I think. Apolgies for the recycled image. It was in the library begging to be seen again.
In the EZFKA we can’t ever have the real thing. We severely lack the substance but we desperately want scale. So we dilute the little substance there is, by blowing it far beyond reason, smearing it so thin, so very very thin that it would make an old homeopath blush. So EZFKA can have a … Read more
There’s a place, where nobody dared to go….. Please post all the names of people you’d like to see here from MB. That way, maybe when they search for themselves this page will come up: Also, I heard some serious chat this week about crypto likely becoming the alternative to SWIFT for the BRICS world. … Read more
With the first day of spring upon us, enjoy various memes that have been collecting in my odd file folder. Some political, some not. Add your own. And have a fun weekend! Dictators Bread and Circuses War in Ukraine ‘Straya Above caption says President (of Estonia) cannot afford to fly to Australia. Not verbatum. Family … Read more
The AFR has decided to attack Qantas’ Alan Joyce, which is fun to watch: Here: Qantas’ enviable dominance now comes with a big cost Here: Qantas says Canberra cancellations minimise network disruptions and here: Qantas CEO Alan Joyce first testimony under oath in nearly a decade Joe Aston let loose this: “Joyce answers the questions … Read more
See for yourself: I don’t have a statisica membership or the desire to collate the raw data…but if anyone here does, it’d be great to do a proper productivity growth vs population % gone to uni and get the r value.
We’ve been hearing a lot more in the media about immigration lately. Prior to the covid era, the primary approach in the media towards the issue was not to address it at all. Never talk about it, never even defend it; there was no one criticising it with any degree of public prominence anyway, so … Read more
