[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

@PeelerSheila @melbaboutown Not to mention the way the outsize returns from property investment once you're rorting the tax breaks and negative gearing means it is sucking investment money out of the productive sectors of the economy, and thus hurting the skills base and our capacity to continue as an advanced economy.

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 5 points 4 weeks ago

@mysticgreg Yeah if the whole family are flying, no checked luggage, the difference is worth the misery. If it's just one ticket, real airlines ftw.

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

@Baku woah that's an interesting backstory thanks. I was thinking like "me=unstable parents, him=military parents" level of detail lol.
I was asking coz I've noticed that I (child of hippies, always movin') have a lot in common with children of military folks (always posted elsewhere, always movin'), and wondered if you'd hit a parallel dynamic.

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 5 points 5 months ago

@maegul @vividspecter
Yeah... I'm a100% YIMBY, but the issue I'm seeing for Straya is our status quo of large property developers calling the planning shots can't lead to any of the good outcomes some parts have Europe have seen (e.g. Vienna) and instead seem to point towards entrenching the growing divide between those who can afford a house and those who can't.

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 5 points 7 months ago

@CEOofmyhouse56 @RustyRaven
one a week because I hate fun and life

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 3 points 7 months ago

@halferect @ajsadauskas yet simultaneously a lot smaller than it looks in Mercator

[-] jaystephens@mastodon.social 5 points 7 months ago

@CEOofmyhouse56
Two things can be true at the same time right.
I'll help out whenever and wherever I can to get the sick date that commemorates the start of a genocide shifted to a different day, but whenever my day off work is granted by the powers that be, I'm gonna party on that day.

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