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Samuel Goodwin
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More people using public transport means less people buying fuel means more fuel available for people who don't have the option of public transport.
Hope that helps x
Rachel Baxendale@rachelbaxendale
The Victorians most adversely affected by high fuel prices don’t have access to public transport. Now their taxes will be subsidising tens of millions in free fares for those who do have the option of public transport. #springst
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@AdamCharbel @TheKennyDevine If only there was a case study we could look at in modern Australia (with even worse PT) to see if lowering the price to practically fee through out the whole state had any impact on ridership (it did)
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@TheKennyDevine This implies people aren't using public transport because of the price. There isnt a person in Victoria who thinks this, we dont use it because it is shite. The price wont change anything
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@lurkingnobody @db_econ The small urban area might only be 150k ppl but it takes less than an hour to get into the centre of London on the train. If England were built like Australia there would be suburban sprawl and not a patch of farmland in that 50km distance between the two urban areas.
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@db_econ Cambridge is the headquarters of AstraZeneca (UK’s largest company with 400B market cap)
It has a population of 149k which is smaller than Toowoomba 😭
The wider built up zone is still less than Townsville 🥀
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@plzbepatient The GFC resulting in mostly millennials losing their jobs when it would have been a formative time to pass the torch. Instead old boomers kept theirs and the job market went cold for 10 years
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Millennials (now nearing 40) have constructed this reality where positions of authority like cops can only be performed by people who are older than them. When they’re 70 they’ll be mad a 55 year old is arresting them
VacksceneGaming@VacksceneGaming
LOLOLOL What a fucking joke
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@Yebbil13 @heroOfLabour @PerryALPHA @grok You say that like Mark wasn't treated like a God by West Australians. 70% of the vote and 53/59 seats for Labor in 2021.
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@heroOfLabour @PerryALPHA @grok You don't need grok to answer that. West Australians had this insulting shit in our faces during convid. We remember it well.
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@undefinedhandle The end point of a large council is not a city being run with good urban policy, it's a metro area where suburban political preferences overwhelm the inner city, see: Brisbane City Council, 1.1 million people, carbrained & effectively banned townhouses in middle-ring since 2020.
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it’s great Gold Coast Council is allowing these
things you can do when you’re one large council that can’t be captured by a few freaks
7NEWS Queensland@7NewsBrisbane
A first home buyer on the Gold Coast is about to build a brand new house, in the heart of the city's CBD, for under a $1m. There is however, a small catch.
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@JakeLandauTO Look into your heart and drop the snobbery and ask yourself: if Quebec had always been an independent country and Canada always a sole British one, do you think you would have changed the flag?
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As a Canadian it's funny that Australia and New Zealand still haven't managed to come up with original flags for themselves, how are you still stuck on a British Ensign in the year 2026?
Ten Years Ago Today@tenyearsnow
New Zealanders vote to retain the current flag over the proposed design in the nation's flag referendum. More than 2 million people vote in the referendum.
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@thamoonman_ A kid being able to actually string a few sentences together in German and learning about grammar in European languages is far more useful than a kid learning 10 words in Chinese they forget after a year
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@thamoonman_ If you were utilitarian you would need to consider how likely it is a kid is even going to bother and have capacity to learn, and also how it might impact their ability to learn more about English as well. In this respect Western European languages are x10 more useful to teach.
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Hot take, but why are Italian & German anywhere near the top 3 languages in any state?
Civixplorer@Civixplorer
🗣️ Top three languages taught in Australian school by state or territory.
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@JasperQLee @succintreject1 @NLSDartCaucus Very common name in Australia, don't think there's anything special about it that signifies class or religion like it might in America.
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Proof of nominative determinism in Australian politics. Like yes I could guess each candidates party based entirely on their name
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@Mitchel73161374 @profholden Sure but ideally we want to lower the corporate tax but still keep revenue from resource rents. In an ideal world corp tax would be lower and resource companies should still pay quite a bit more. That the corporate tax gets some economic rent isn’t an argue not to optimise.
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@profholden Is it that needed if they already pay a lot in corporate taxes?
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The PRRT is one of the most poorly designed pieces of public policy in Australia’s history. Questions should be asked about how it was bungled so badly back in the 80s.
Kate Chaney@ChaneyforCurtin
Good news! Right now we are giving away our gas. When prices soar, we should all benefit. A super profits tax makes sense. The PRRT is not fit for purpose. This is a promising sign the govt is finally listening. This budget is the opportunity. #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-03-2…
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@Mikeachim Looks like a garden gnome holding a wand and packing something in its pants
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This is a really cool map from that high fantasy book you’ve been wanting to read for AGES.
Except - it’s actually a reimagining of the Mediterranean by artist Sabine Rethore, with the text flipped to complete the illusion.
Sometimes you just need a change of perspective.
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@NewsCop9000 @shashj Ppl with memories longer than gold fish have seen enough “evil dictatorships” fall thru US interventions that the result being actually positive for the people of that country is a big gamble, one Americans have zero skin in the game for.
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@shashj It's amazing to see - the US/UK/Irl left-liberal media *does not want the Iranian regime to fall*. I mean, it makes sense for a lot of reasons, but its still astonishing to see an institution so blinded by partisanship that it can't even hold out hope for a battered population.
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@ChrisWordbox @jonatanpallesen The political centralisation and sophistication of the English state is clearly evident against the continent in much of the late early & high Middle Ages. The continent benefits far more from the Medieval Warming Period and overtakes England but then is hit harder by black death
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@ChrisWordbox @jonatanpallesen I would say from around the time of Anglo unification ~900 to ~1200, at which point France kicks English claims out and greater stability in the HRE leads to a booming economy. Venice obviously very rich too with a trade focused port economy. I said Latin to exclude Eastern Rome.
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It's an interesting fact of human history that we have these two similar sized islands, Japan and the UK that are close to a mainland, and have had outsized influence and power throughout history compared to their size.
Having an island of a certain size or above separated from the mainland really seems like a powerful starting position.
Both held their own historically against the significantly larger continental rival (France, China).
Madagascar and the southern African mainland present a similar geographical arrangement, but it hasn't had the same historical importance.
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@ChrisWordbox @jonatanpallesen England was the richest kingdom with most advanced form of centralised statehood in Latin Christendom for most of the Middle Ages. PARTS of HRE, Italy, France were comparable but they were fractured and decentralised.
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@jonatanpallesen Britain hadn't had outsized influence or power throughout history..
1815-1814 hegemon level, perhaps max 400 years of being a large player..
Before the 1550s it was entirely periphery.
Japan wasn't relevant before 1895
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@Jimdrix_Hendri @WKCosmo They change, but each change is gathering MORE insight into what the truth is. Quantum physics for eg breaks traditional physics but we'll figure it out eventually & once we do, we'll have a new baseline of the right answer. It's iterative in one direction. Humanities, not so.
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@SamuelWHG @WKCosmo The entities perceived to make up the physical universe change enormously with every paradigm shift.
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There is a fundamental disconnect between STEM and humanities/philosophy in that STEM by its nature does not value the wisdom of the ancients in any special way. We understand a lot more about Einstein's theories than Einstein did, because we have had a century to find deeper, simpler, and clearer ways to think about the physics. Contemporary scientists by and large are not confused about the things that Einstein was confused about, we are confused about new things, that Einstein barely imagined.
Zena Hitz@zenahitz
Once again, are we assuming a contemporary scientist is *not* confused? Science is always incomplete, no? Or do we live in an age of exceptional enlightenment?
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@WKCosmo A better way to think of humanities is an eternal struggle to quibble over what are even the right questions to ask and what are the right assumptions of what humans value are at any point in time. It's why what someone wrote 500 or 1000 years ago is still relevant.
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@WKCosmo It doesn't need to value ancients as the universe doesn't change over time. You can always just build onto the answers of what came before. Humanities ask 'how and why do HUMANS do things'. Problem is humans change across time & place and are never predictable.
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@oscarcsims A useful heuristic is if anyone ever complains about tall poppy syndrome assume they’re an outrageous narcissist cursed by avarice and aren’t worth talking to. I’m not saying it doesn’t exist but for someone to outwardly complain about it speaks to something deeper in them.
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