u/Ash-2449

What is going on with the federal trans healthcare review?

Havent heard much but I assume unless its done by transphobes on purpose, similar results will be found

This was more of a niche subreddit but now, i keep seeing "posters" coming here to defend the status quo against Garry's message, which isnt even that revolutionary.

Did they finally realise he is getting traction so their bot farms are on their way

A lot of people say wealth taxes never work but they have never actually been implemented, more often than not its just high income taxes combined capital gains taxes(which is at the point of sale), the system remains untouched.

What am I referring to? The current system of assets being valued not based on their utility but as a store of wealth.

What does a yearly wealth tax for people above 5 million do? It makes assets without utility toxic to them, the system is now very different.

The more assets they dont use they have, the higher the taxes they will need to pay, and since those assets hold no utility they will need to be sold as a way to reduce the tax burden.

This means an enormous crash in prices because all the asset hoarders will need to sell their surplus of assets, and other asset hoarders wont buy either cause they dont want to pay more tax.

This breaks the cycle of crash, rich people buying everything on the cheap because they know values will rebound in 10-20 years, but if a wealth tax is implemented, we are never going to see the ridiculous out of touch asset values we see today.

Because assets wont be used to store wealth, assets will now only be valued based on their utility.

A lot of propaganda likes to use central bank inflation figures to hide the fact that worker purchasing power has is dropping to the floor fast.

The reality is my inflation is very different than someone else's inflation because it is based on what items we need to use our money for.

In the same regard, worker inflation is very different to a rich person's inflation or even a politician's inflation who isnt ultra rich.

Groceries, rent/housing, insurance, medical costs have sky-rocketed in most of the western world and are actually the biggest part of a worker's paycheck, so their inflation is far more relevant than inflation in something many workers dont even touch.

And even then, data can still be manipulated, for example they ll replace a specific food with a "substitute" that nobody buys to try reduce inflation % saying everyone will definitely be forced to buy the cheapest product even when data suggests they much rather stop eating a product than buy the literal garbage option.

This is more of a cultural question I guess, out of curiosity.

A ton of danmei have this trope where the main character is transported to the body of somebody else from a novel, or another universe etc etc.

I recently heard of an MMO called lord of mysteries and apparently there's a donghua for it that is planned to keep going for 10 years, crazy dedication if true.

Watching a review, first thing I notice again is the main character transmigrating to another world into someone else's body, this concept is not really very common in western novels, which lead me to this question.

Someone here mentioned sometime ago that some banks dont like lending for high rise CBD apartments because their value isnt guaranteed infinitely go up or something, and thus demand way above the 10% deposit, something like 30%.

I made a call to ubank, they said as an owner occupier, for a pre existing high rise apartment (I wont be buying new, too expensive/limited), they still work with the 10% deposit.

So what banks have that 30% rule specifically for high rise apartments so i know to avoid?

I am specifically referring to the people who have been taught and now promote the idea of feminine or masculine actions/hobbies/behaviours etc

The very notion that something is only for women or only for men even though it is factually found in both even at early age but its often punished/rewarded if it doesnt fit or fits the stereotype respectively.

Its genuinely upsetting that so many people really dont want to think about the influence a sexist society had on them from an early age and just pretend everything is their choice actually when you can see where the thought pattern originated from, and it was definitely not their own original idea.

Havent played since the start of that annoying mandalorian storyline, never liked mandalorians.

Anyway, i ve seen a few trailers and characters coming back and they all seem to be big empire sith lords, meanwhile does the republic even get anything?

I remember they had a sexy dinosaur general or something but not much else is memorable in the new eras, jedi are pretty boring too, I havent seen any grey jedi count Douku figure like figure that could have been interesting for a big republic focused storyline.

Just thinking a bit and wondering, is the republic simply too boring of a faction? I mean empire gets cunning evil sith infighting all day every day, so many unique and fun and interesting personalities to write that will clash against each other.

Meanwhile the republic has what? a corrupt chancellor? we already got that in real life, actually we probably got a worse version in real life cause even fictional corruption aint that bad xD

Recently moved in the inner city and got to enjoy to shop without getting high robbed by colesworths.

As of now, the only product I had issue with was the bread, i got a loaf and it turned out to be the same as sandwich bread, definitely not what I would call pane di casa, texture is way off for the things i need it fir.

But other than that, Aldi has been great, great chocolate, great chocolate cookies, great green apples, great bacon and pork, the steak fries were to die for, I got no idea how they got steak flavour on them, and everything way cheaper than colesworth.

Other minor issues were the lack of:
rigattoni
Spaghettoni (specific size)
dononi feta

But since they are so few, i can literally do 95% of my shopping there and only go to colesworth for a handful of items.

By neoliberal I am referring to a state that is subservient to capital, you know the type, the whole "we need to design our government for stability to attract billionaire investment money".

Read something about On wanting to cancel indigenous land rights or something, my first thought would be that they just unlocked free real estate that they can sell to their billionaire owners for cheap, and many other parts of Australia will also be sold to private billionaires for peanuts.

Then after that disaster of a government labor gets back into power, but they cant take back the things On handed out to billionaires because that is "illegal" or something even though the initial sale was an obvious scam.

Isnt this system kind of absurd? Like billionaires just pay in order to try to get a government elected like in murica, then pillage the country by having their puppet government sell them everything for cheap, then next governments arent "allowed" to take things back.

So all a billionaire has to do is get their puppet government elected once and buy the country for cheap, and then the next governments cant do anything about it without paying absurd costs.

Seems to me that the neoliberal state as a concept has been exposed to be a giant scam, the government should never be powerless against capital simply because a previous corrupt government sold out everything.