DavidDoesLemmy
@DavidDoesLemmy@aussie.zone
- Comment on Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death 23 hours ago:
I think we have shot in cities if we separate cyclists. In rural areas we have no hope. Lots of bored kids getting drunk and driving too fast. You can’t legislate away stupid.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 1 week ago:
Because you work for 2 weeks then you get paid for those 2 weeks. If you earnt $1000 in 2005 and didn’t get the money until today, you’d be upset because $1000 doesn’t buy what it used to.
They say on average the market goes up 7% per year and inflation is about 3% per year. So it’s about half.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 1 week ago:
I think it makes sense to limit negative gearing. But it would be a tough sell to remove it entirely. They could limit it to a max amount per year. Maybe 20k per year.
- Comment on Negative gearing reform is back, but young voters now hold the power 1 week ago:
It’s to counter inflation. If you have an investment that you sell for 10% more after a few years, you haven’t actually made 10% because inflation ate up some of your returns. So for simplicity they say after a year we’ll count half of your returns as inflation and half as profits.
- Comment on Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like you have an axe to grind with gen AI.
- Comment on Decoding a voter’s poor handwriting is subjective – let’s enlist AI to help with the Bradfield recount | Simon Jackman 3 weeks ago:
AI is an umbrella term that covers many things. Why would we stop using it?
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
So we all go back to the country our ancestors were in 500 years ago? Tear down all the cities and towns? Rip up the roads? Unfortunately I don’t think we can undo colonialism
- Comment on Discussion Thread 🍄 Saturday 19 July 2025 3 weeks ago:
You can usually pick up last year’s model for a major discount and it’s often not much different to the current model.
- Comment on Flu numbers rise while vaccine rates remain low, overwhelming hospitals 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people doing their own research
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The Australian people have had access to it. Property is theft.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
This sets a bad precedent for all. This land was here long before humans. No group should have exclusive rights to it.
- Comment on Australian government backs US strikes on Iran but urges ‘peaceful settlement from here’ 1 month ago:
Cowards. We oppose all violence and advocate for peaceful solutions
- Comment on Machetes to be banned from sale in Victoria the wake of Northland Shopping Centre brawl 2 months ago:
Cars kill way more people and they’re not suggesting we ban cars.
- Comment on Labor made plenty of promises at the last election. Did they deliver? 3 months ago:
They broke their promise on the stage 3 tax cuts. That’s unforgivable
- Comment on Murica 5 months ago:
Also an ebike is an EV, you galah !
- Comment on Murica 5 months ago:
More likely to turn someone else into a meat crayon.
- Comment on Murica 5 months ago:
Sure there are situations where bikes aren’t suitable.
- Comment on Murica 5 months ago:
That freedom comes at quite a cost. Both to the driver and society. Riding a bike puts the “free” in freedom
- Comment on Murica 5 months ago:
Ebike?
- Comment on Two NSW Health nurses have been stood down after video emerged showing them allegedly bragging about killing and refusing to treat Israeli patients. 5 months ago:
In this day and age, couldn’t they just claim AI deep fake?
- Comment on Seasonal depression 5 months ago:
It’s more exclusive here, away from you northerners
- Comment on Seasonal depression 5 months ago:
Wtf? What hemisphere are you in?
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
The fact that Bitcoin works differently to fiat is what gives it value to some people. Being different is the point.
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
How many Bitcoin millionaires do you know? Do you think there’s a selection bias there and only the douchbags make a big song and dance about it.
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
They’re somewhat correlated, but I think this is more related to times when people have money to invest.
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
Does the US government really make the value of the US dollar? When inflation was out of control in Mexican America, the US government had a lot of trouble stopping it.
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
I don’t know why you’re connecting paying taxes with a currency with it being legitimate. I don’t think those things are related
- Comment on Anon gives up on Bitcoin in 2010 6 months ago:
That’s not how the complexity of the mining works. It doesn’t increase with every block. It scales depending on how many miners there are (essentially). So if many people stopped mining, the complexity required would decrease.
- Comment on TikTok goes dark in the US as Trump says he's likely to give ban 'reprieve' 6 months ago:
I was thinking a social media app without Americans sounds wonderful.
- Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video 6 months ago:
Small sample size. Hard to draw conclusions. Let’s end our disagreement here. All the best