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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Dual income households are only essential as incomes haven’t kept pace with the increase to living costs. The working class were conned into it being the new normal.

You’ve taken it a step further by saying that even grandparents are working longer which reduces babysitting options.

Yet at no point have you identified you’ve been hoodwinked. You just want to keep pressing forward, working harder for longer with free childcare. Worse still you don’t seem to understand that it is a fall as we are all worse off because of it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (17 children)

It’s interesting to me that you point out how far we have fallen as a society, yet your suggested solution is free childcare to enable more of the same.

As humans shouldn’t we be asking harder questions? Why is our entire family structure working longer and harder for less?

The change we need is single income households being viable again and our elderly being in a position to retire.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

It’s rare for inflation to be tamed without a recession, so we will wait and see. Setting the goal at 2 - 3% by 2025 hurts everyone as inflation stays above the range longer.

Moving hard to bring it down sooner hurts a few who borrowed too much for a place they can’t afford, yet helps everyone else as lower inflation benefits all of us. The RBA is playing it too safe imo and hoping for this narrow path which seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

A temperature system would be good for aged content. Content that isn’t considered hot is dropped from federated instances and only lives on the parent.

If some old thread goes viral years later it is hot again and refederated until it cools. Old content would be replaced with a link back to original instance.

Edit: Drop temp to be server side config as some instances may want to be archives

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

With the quality of vehicles produced in Germany you’d have to mad to buy an American Ford F anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (6 children)

On cue, there's been a sudden spike in homes, owned for two years or less, being sold for a loss.

During the pandemic first-home-buyers splurge, just 3 per cent of properties held for less than two years were sold at a loss. That's suddenly now leapt to 12.3 per cent.

Will be an interesting number to watch going forward.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

The alternative is what we have now, the premier of NSW found guilty of corruption with zero accountability or consequences. Nice paid role at Optus as head of government business acquisition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Concrete? Wood and a tiny bit of metal is fine in the earth.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

IF found guilty of corruption. So it can find them guilty and the government of the day can just ignore it to maintain a majority.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I thought Adelaide was the forest city.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It’s never been about protecting anything. It’s just wealth projection.

Handmade organic hemp bags project wealth far more than generic 15c plastic ones.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

As far as work text chats go ya’ll fills a gender neutral inoffensive spot so is getting plenty of air time at the moment.

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