jonne
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- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 2 days ago:
So this guy is paying $500/mo for this property over the income it generates and the only reason this works out is negative gearing? I have a hard time believing he’s not at least breaking even on rent charged over a mortgage, he’s not telling the whole story there, or he grossly overpaid for the property.
- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 2 days ago:
Yeah, generally property investors don’t build shit.
- Comment on Property investors fear forced sales under negative gearing changes 2 days ago:
Shorten’s plan included grandfathering in and the media just lied about that part, trotting out pensioners with one investment property etc.
- Comment on Nancy Pelosi's husband sold more than $500K in Visa stock ahead of DOJ action 2 days ago:
They still shouldn’t be trading individual stocks, whether they have inside information or not.
- Comment on Hoggies 6 days ago:
This is turning into the whole ananas / pineapple thing where English is the outlier again.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 week ago:
Because of you, Bezos isn’t a trillionaire yet, I hope you’re happy.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 week ago:
You probably need to stay within a certain ratio of returns vs keeping stuff, and as long as your score is good, they’ll honour returns without asking too much questions. We definitely return a lot of stuff without having any trouble, but we only return like less than 1% compared to what we buy.
- Comment on Amazon's system marked an item I returned a year ago as not received and charged me for this return, but the chat bot already knew they had received it. 1 week ago:
Yep, I doubt the chatbot has direct access to the inventory.
- Comment on Valve heads to PAX Australia for the first time, maybe they'll finally get the Steam Deck 1 week ago:
I bought it recently as a grey import, it’s still worth getting if you want to do some gaming on the go.
- Comment on Can anyone ID this succulent? 1 week ago:
I think his name’s Bruce.
- Comment on A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks 2 weeks ago:
You could charge VAT on it in the countries where that’s applied.
- Comment on how do I accept I'll never know why any employer rejected me? 2 weeks ago:
Until you get rejected for a job at your own dad’s company.
- Comment on Australia's internet watchdog says she received "death threats" and that her children were doxxed after she was targeted by Elon Musk for attempting to regulate Xitter 3 weeks ago:
He got rid of everyone else when he took over, he’s still dealing with court cases about how he handled that.
- Comment on The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful Computer Scientist and a Woman 3 weeks ago:
Having worked with designers in an ad agency (although not a designer myself), the male designers didn’t ever have a good thing to say about the work of any of the female designers. Consequently, none of them stuck around for long (one of them is a creative director in a big agency now, so presumably she wasn’t that bad).
Then again, they were assholes in many other respects as well, and the guys in the next companies I worked for were a lot better.
- Comment on Kotaku being Kotaku 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, it’s not like Minecraft itself is marketed to the hardcore gamer demographic. It’s essentially a kids’ movie. I suspect it might still suck at that though.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 4 weeks ago:
Yep, do we want to have 2 parties where the candidate isn’t accountable to viewers, or just the 1?
- Comment on Big year! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, sometimes it’s hard to tell which of those is happening at any time.
- Comment on Big year! 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, is this AI generated or something? Wtf does this mean?
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 4 weeks ago:
Yep, handing out a flyer, or even just talking is an engagement. This means nothing.
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 4 weeks ago:
Since HEART has launched, the county has engaged with roughly 215 people on the street, according to the commissioner.
So in 2 years they spent $3 million dollars to “help” 215 people. And the article is very vague and full of euphemisms that make me suspect they’re just pushing them out to Denver.
- Comment on Community solves homelessness... By paying cops over 3 million dollars 4 weeks ago:
That’s probably exactly what happens. Or they get a bus ticket to the nearest big city that does have some services, after which conservatives can rail about how the city has become a hellhole that’s full of homeless people.
- Comment on Etsy forcing arbitration starting Sep 15 1 month ago:
I won’t sign up for Etsy+.
- Comment on I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling 1 month ago:
Love the podcast, yeah.
- Comment on I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling 1 month ago:
Not really, unless I wanted to know more about a specific part of it, like an explanation for a scene or the screen writer or wherever, and then I’d Google with keywords specific for that, not just the movie name. If I’m just searching a movie name it would probably be too know whether stuff Google throws up on top of their results, to be fair to them.
- Comment on I remember a time where you would get multiple results from a search with no scrolling 1 month ago:
You’d think that if you knew the answer to the poll question, you wouldn’t have Googled the title of the movie. I just don’t understand the thought process that led to this happening.
- Comment on CHIPS Act update: Intel runs out of time and money, announces layoffs in US to double down on China 1 month ago:
It pissed people off so much when they did it in 2008, and they just kept doubling down on the strategy. Never learning any lessons (even when they partly did the right thing during the pandemic by cutting everyone a check, they had to pair that with the even larger TPP program that had barely any oversight).
- Comment on Why Are So Many Americans Choosing to Not Have Children? It’s probably not selfishness, experts say. Even young adults who want children see an increasing number of obstacles. 1 month ago:
Yeah, they keep writing this same article about falling birth rates while it’s fucking obvious to anyone who lives a real life why. Most of us are stuck renting, all the social benefits boomers got have been rolled back, and there’s the uncertainty of global warming and the American Empire declining while their leaders are in total denial about it instead of trying to manage it.
You don’t want to start thinking about kids if you know that you could end up living in your car next week even if you’re doing relatively well right now.
- Comment on Anon saves their vacation days 2 months ago:
In Australia they accrue, and I have mixed feelings about that. It’s good in the sense that you can do like the OP and save up for like a 3 month vacation, on the other hand, you’ll end up overworking yourself before you get there.
- Comment on Real Facebook ad that doubles as a god-tier shitpost 2 months ago:
They’ll never get a huge chunk of the market, but the customers they will have will be loyal and can be leveraged to sell other stuff to. Wouldn’t surprise me if these razors are just repackaged stuff from another brand.
- Comment on Google's goo․gl links will stop working in August 2025 2 months ago:
Probably like $50/month in cloud resources if you turned off all the extra stuff and only did redirects and kept it around in read only mode. You’d need to do some dev work up front and price that in as well, obviously.