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@ANIDEEZY Elaine Benez vibes

i'm crying dude I checked the quotes for 10 seconds & they were roasting her in English, Indonesian, Spanish, Japanese, AND Italian 😭

@metrotrains bit embarrassing if new signage blocks your PIDs? Who’s coordinating this stuff

@chinafutureclub I have to agree. It’s Asia in general. SE Asia is also making big progress. Huge changes in Jakarta in the past 10 years. Population may be a factor. Asia has a huge work force which can make things happen. Aus with its low population is quite limited.

The mismanagement of Australia has become a serious generational problem. I left Australia because it has no future energy. It has low opportunity value. Careers. Dating. Socialising. Technology. Australia is falling behind. Whenever I go back, nothing ever changes.

@DaveShapi White collars have already lost jobs to low cost centres like India and phillipines. Low costs centres will be the first affected by ai rise. Btw ai is terrible for real world engineering questions. Knowledge custodians still have high value

False. As white collar people lose their jobs, they will displace towards remaining job opportunities. We're going to be saturated with plumbers and electricians, driving the value of their labor down. The Uber founder is a fucking idiot for saying this.

@SBSNews What’s the baseline for mortgage? 5% deposit? 10% 20%?

@SBSNews Misleading and should include all fees such as councils rates, owners corporation fees, utility fees for an apples to apples comparison. owners corporation fees in cbd are easily $2K+ which can be an additional $200/month on top of mortgage.

Melbourne's CBD is one of just four areas in Australian capital cities where mortgage repayments for a unit are cheaper than rent, according to a new analysis comparing mortgage repayments on median property prices with median rents. Learn more: bit.ly/4rp1aoB

@SandyHorne61 I think it’s an Adelaide thing.

More and more in Australia, we're hearing the word 'route' pronounced the American way.

@techAU Hear me out they should flip the back seats. Entry from the boot!! increased leg room. Good view of the back!!

3 kids, 2 parents and a spare seat for a friend.

@hamhammer27 Electrification of lines back on the agenda!!

vline diesel fuel bill about to cost about a quarter of the Victorian GDP

@davebeerflog Asking for a friend by why are parties pies offered in one flavour only? Why now shepherds party pie, curry flavour etc ?

I’m home on my own tonight and I am going to eat party pies for dinner and nobody is going to stop me.

@lukechristensen Are they trying to one up American pie? Take it’s to new levels of depravity. 🤣

Wellington truly is the innovation capital of New Zealand.

@sciencegirl Stick fighter 2

For those who used a computer between 1995 and 2001, what's the computer game from that time that sticks with you the most, and why

@Diond408 @hamhammer27 Testing would see how the payment responds to smaller demand before testing how it responds to statewide demand, different bank cards, edge cases, etc

@hamhammer27 Why does it need to be a trial? If it works it works. We've had it in nsw since pre covid

The next stage of the contactless payment trial on Victoria’s public transport network will go live on parts of the train network 💳📱⌚️ Try contactless payments from Monday, 16 March 2026 on the Craigieburn, Upfield, Ballarat and Seymour train lines

@hamhammer27 Would be interesting to see how they have tested edge cases. Ie change of mind within 15 minutes, tap on and tap off completely within zone 2.

Absurd reasoning from grok. Confidently espousing wrong mechanical engineering answers to fool green engineers.

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

Japan's situation screams for disciplined, multi-decade long-game planning rather than the flashy, election-cycle populism that's more at home in American politics. Takaichi's fresh supermajority (LDP securing ~316 seats alone in the February 8, 2026 snap election, pushing the coalition well over two-thirds) gives her rare room to actually commit to 10-year horizons if she chooses. Instead, the mandate is being cashed in on immediate, visible wins: the massive ¥21 trillion+ stimulus already pushed through, the promised two-year suspension of the 8% consumption tax on food (a ~¥5 trillion annual revenue hit), accelerated defense ramp-up toward 2% of GDP, big subsidies for chips/AI/semiconductors, and cost-of-living relief—all while doubling down on tight immigration controls (stricter foreign land ownership rules, caps on residents, tougher enforcement on taxes/insurance for non-citizens). This is textbook populist American-style playbook: promise big tax relief and spending hikes to juice short-term approval and growth, rally voters around nationalist themes ("Japan First," cultural preservation, security hawkishness), and defer the hard structural fixes. It energizes the base—especially younger "Sanamania" fans drawn to her personality and energy—but it clashes head-on with Japan's reality: - Demographic math doesn't bend to mandates. Working-age population shrinks ~500k–700k/year; fertility ~1.2–1.3; elderly dependency ratio keeps climbing. - Debt math is unforgiving. Gross public debt ~230–240% of GDP; even modest fiscal loosening risks pushing super-long JGB yields higher (they already spiked during the campaign on tax-cut talk), yen volatility, or eventual BOJ/market pressure. - Growth math requires supply-side expansion. Without major labor inflows (which her platform restricts), productivity would need to surge dramatically—yet much of the spending tilts toward demand support and industrial policy subsidies rather than deep deregulation, education overhaul, or protected-sector liberalization. Japan has tried versions of this before: repeated stimulus packages since the '90s, Abenomics' "three arrows" (which delivered some inflation but modest real growth and no primary surplus), endless can-kicking on entitlements. Each round buys time but compounds the problem—higher debt stock, narrower window for fixes, more reliance on low rates that may not last forever. What Japan actually needs (and has needed for decades) is boring, incremental, 10–20-year consistency: - Phased, selective labor-market opening — targeted skilled visas, caregiver programs, stronger integration/language requirements to address backlash fears without cultural dilution panic. - Entitlement calibration — gradual pension/medical tweaks tied to rising life expectancy, higher retirement age, better incentives for older/female participation. - Productivity-first investments — deregulation in agriculture/healthcare/retail, serious R&D tax credits, education reform emphasizing STEM/innovation over rote learning. - Fiscal anchors — commit to a realistic debt-stabilization path (e.g., primary balance targets stretched over a decade), use nominal growth to erode debt ratio slowly. - Avoid boom-bust cycles — resist the temptation to front-load big giveaways for political points. Takaichi could pivot here—with her mandate, she has leverage to sell painful reforms as "responsible proactive policy" (her own phrase) and frame them as strengthening Japan against external threats (China, aging itself). But the incentives right now pull the other way: deliver the tax cuts and subsidies voters rewarded, ride the approval wave, let future administrations (or crises) handle the blowback. Sticking to American-style short-termism in a country whose biggest threats are slow-motion (demographics, debt accumulation) is exactly what Japan doesn't need. It risks turning a manageable (if tough) long transition into a sharper, more disruptive crunch down the line.

@harukaawake @grok what‘s her program/vision?

🇯🇵 It's over. We won. Sanae Takaichi's party has a large majority. Perhaps the largest in Japanese post-war history. What an amazing night. I love this country so much. 日本万歳！🎌

@J_S_MacIntyre @latikambourke Agreed it’s a bit counterintuitive. With ageing population and high debt ratio she’ll need to import population to pay for these spending increases. Precisely what she campaigned against

@latikambourke A program of tax cuts and increased government spending will result in a debt spiral. Could be a short honeymoon.

🇯🇵 Incredible result in Japan. Japan's first female PM Sanae Takaichi vaporised her opposition, secured a massive majority and will now have the ability to deliver on the security policy of her mentor Shinzo Abe. Xi Jinping's bullying tactics backfired bigly. This also shores up her standing and position with Trump (who backed her) ahead of the April summit. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ne…

Pop tops no longer have the safety seal?

@ShangguanJiewen Costs probably driven by the ability to pay rather than production costs?

US citizens are paying, BY far, the most for medicine in the world. We are literally paying more then MORE THAN 100 TIMES as much for some medicines. Facts.