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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

After a threshold. You don't want to tax some poor pensioner who has lived in the same 2-bedroom cottage in Carlton for 60 years, simply because that location is now worth $2Million.

And now it's complicated. How do you find that threshold?
If it's per-person, you'll find rich people divvying up their portfolios to family members to distribute this tax benefit.
If you grandfather it in so it only affects future property purchases, you disincentivise retirees from downsizing to a smaller place, freeing up some 4-bedroom house.

Taxation policies are hard.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

The problem is I love all three publications and would struggle to choose one name.

/c/NotBetootaShovelChaser ?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It will be interesting to see how popular this line is. It has to mainly be for people along the line to connect to the city lines, right?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Every Saturday is much the same: Hockey, Shopping, Extra thing.

The kid lost hockey to the team on top of the ladder, but still scored a goal. Shopping was mostly a success, I need to go back for more stuff soon.

Not sure what Extra thing will be at this stage, but it's my wife's birthday soon, might take the kids shopping for that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I hate getting up early for parkrun. But I've never regretted doing it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Emergency Cheese has a tendency to become a self-fulfilling prophecy. If I have emergency cheese in the fridge, I find I suddenly have an emergency that requires cheese.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My wife has been fascinated by this case and listens to the daily podcast about it. She's gone from "oh she definitely did it" to "maybe she's innocent, I can't be say beyond reasonable doubt" after this week's testimony. So Erin is clearly doing some good for her case on the stand.

I haven't been following the case closely, but I listened to one recap podcast a week ago where they describe the multiple phones, the missing phone seen on camera that wasn't provided, with the one provided to police being factory reset first, and taking her dehydrator on CCTV to the tip after telling police she didn't have one - it was all pretty damning.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would be in favour of banning them in the city.
But a complete car ban? That won't have popular support in the near future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Full disclosure: I honestly thought everyone could. 😆

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (10 children)

As annoying as some escooter users are, I don't think this is the best solution. Far more idiots cause deaths in cars, no calls to ban those.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That sort of vote manipulation wouldn't be posted to this community. 😄

I'm a little surprised at how many people have seen this post. More people subscribe to Meta/browse Local than I would have guessed. Whichever it is, I love how engaged our users are in the health of the instance. You guys are great!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

You are absolutely allowed to downvote anything you'd like to see less of. Yours was one of the two legitimate downvotes I was speaking of.

 

We had a couple of reports today of vote manipulation happening in the Australia community. After investigating, I'm seeing a trend:

https://aussie.zone/post/21203876
https://aussie.zone/post/21124048
https://aussie.zone/post/21194319
https://aussie.zone/post/21130833

The votes in all these posts look like this. In this example, only two of the downvotes look legitimate. The rest are coming from three instances that don't appear to be real Lemmy sites. One of them doesn't even resolve.

 

Wow this dude has had a fall from grace. Police have reviewed his dashcam and well, he had a bit of a night of it.

Feeling a bit bad for the Uber driver. The doctor killed his passenger, but hospitalised the driver with injuries he'll carry for life and put him out of work/income for who knows how long. The article doesn't even mention him.

 

Anonymous survey from the people behind Vote Compass. They're interested in hearing from people about how and why they voted.

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Star Ownership (what-if.xkcd.com)
 

I don't see the issue with a party after midday. Yes, ANZAC day is a special day for remembering troops - in the morning. The afternoon is for celebration.

Two-up games, beers at the RSL, annual AFL Match with Essendon and Collingwood. Go ahead and have a dance party as well. What's the issue?

Yes, I'd have serious problems with it if they were holding it in the morning. But the party was scheduled for 6pm. Go nuts boys and girls, have your party.

Honestly, did anyone outside politicians actually have an issue with this?

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