Not Enough Gravitas
@notenoughgravitas.bsky.social
Just another victim of the ambient morality. Safe from Covid since 2019. No, I won’t take my mask off and please give me a bit more space. Yeah, maybe a bit more than that even. Nope, still more. Actually, can we do this online? Thanks.
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@grogsgamut.bsky.social re housing supply, how much would we have to build in order to sate the appetite of the wealthy to accumulate assets and make housing affordable again in Australia? Or is supply maybe not as big a part of the solution as we've been told?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlU...
The REAL reason behind the housing crisis
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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July 21, 2025 at 5:48 AM
@grogsgamut.bsky.social re housing supply, how much would we have to build in order to sate the appetite of the wealthy to accumulate assets and make housing affordable again in Australia? Or is supply maybe not as big a part of the solution as we've been told?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlU...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTlU...
Talking to my kids about everything that's happening in the world right now. I let them know that when they tell their kids and grandkids about their childhood, they will either never believe that things could have been so good, or that they ever could have been so bad.
We're hoping for the latter.
We're hoping for the latter.
February 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Talking to my kids about everything that's happening in the world right now. I let them know that when they tell their kids and grandkids about their childhood, they will either never believe that things could have been so good, or that they ever could have been so bad.
We're hoping for the latter.
We're hoping for the latter.
Looking at America this week, I am reminded of that time Ned Stark confronted Cersei with a valid document and he expected her to honour the established laws and traditions of the land.
It doesn't matter if what Trump & co are doing is illegal if no one is going to actually stop them.
It doesn't matter if what Trump & co are doing is illegal if no one is going to actually stop them.
February 6, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Looking at America this week, I am reminded of that time Ned Stark confronted Cersei with a valid document and he expected her to honour the established laws and traditions of the land.
It doesn't matter if what Trump & co are doing is illegal if no one is going to actually stop them.
It doesn't matter if what Trump & co are doing is illegal if no one is going to actually stop them.
Surely no one is surprised that he would do this? Doesn't diminish how craven and harmful the act is, of course, but we should have seen it coming.
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Surely no one is surprised that he would do this? Doesn't diminish how craven and harmful the act is, of course, but we should have seen it coming.
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This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
CDC Data Are Disappearing
The agency has already removed scientific data from public view. More could follow.
www.theatlantic.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:15 AM
This is how autocrats throughout history have endangered the people they govern by erasing factual information vital to health and well being
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
'Baby Boomers' has nothing to do with anything they have done. The name refers to what their parents did (had a bunch of kids).
I suggest that we should rename them based on their collective accomplishments.
I suggest that we should rename them based on their collective accomplishments.
December 28, 2024 at 11:59 AM
'Baby Boomers' has nothing to do with anything they have done. The name refers to what their parents did (had a bunch of kids).
I suggest that we should rename them based on their collective accomplishments.
I suggest that we should rename them based on their collective accomplishments.
Wow MIT. Just wow.
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I really struggle these days to see any government who uses their military ethically. Given that, I don't understand how any scientist could work on any technology with military applications. Surely they know how it will be used.
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
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I really struggle these days to see any government who uses their military ethically. Given that, I don't understand how any scientist could work on any technology with military applications. Surely they know how it will be used.
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
Despite censorship and intimidation we continue to demand: no more research for genocide at MIT
An MIT lab is collaborating with the Israeli military to develop AI surveillance algorithms and the university censored a campus publication that tried to expose it. We refuse to be intimidated and co...
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December 21, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Wow MIT. Just wow.
😞
I really struggle these days to see any government who uses their military ethically. Given that, I don't understand how any scientist could work on any technology with military applications. Surely they know how it will be used.
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
😞
I really struggle these days to see any government who uses their military ethically. Given that, I don't understand how any scientist could work on any technology with military applications. Surely they know how it will be used.
mondoweiss.net/2024/12/desp...
Someone tried to prove that 8/2(2+2)=16 by posting a screenshot of chatGPT confirming it.
Except that if you remind chatGPT that in science implied multiplication always takes precedence it flips its answer and gives you the correct result.
Using AI is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.
Except that if you remind chatGPT that in science implied multiplication always takes precedence it flips its answer and gives you the correct result.
Using AI is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.
December 20, 2024 at 3:50 PM
Someone tried to prove that 8/2(2+2)=16 by posting a screenshot of chatGPT confirming it.
Except that if you remind chatGPT that in science implied multiplication always takes precedence it flips its answer and gives you the correct result.
Using AI is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.
Except that if you remind chatGPT that in science implied multiplication always takes precedence it flips its answer and gives you the correct result.
Using AI is no substitute for knowing what you're doing.
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December 15, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Q for 2025:
Exactly how useful is median income for guiding policy? Does it distract us from examining more closely the situation of people who earn significantly less or more. Maybe the extremes are where we should be looking because it is here that public policy can do the most good (or harm)?
Exactly how useful is median income for guiding policy? Does it distract us from examining more closely the situation of people who earn significantly less or more. Maybe the extremes are where we should be looking because it is here that public policy can do the most good (or harm)?
The last Dollars & Sense pod for the 2024 is up - listener Q&A and me informing @elinorjohnstonleek.bsky.social that there is this thing called a "gender pay gap"
australiainstitute.org.au/post/its-all...
australiainstitute.org.au/post/its-all...
It’s all Greg’s fault
We answer your burning questions about the economy in the final episode of 2024.
australiainstitute.org.au
December 13, 2024 at 7:42 AM
Q for 2025:
Exactly how useful is median income for guiding policy? Does it distract us from examining more closely the situation of people who earn significantly less or more. Maybe the extremes are where we should be looking because it is here that public policy can do the most good (or harm)?
Exactly how useful is median income for guiding policy? Does it distract us from examining more closely the situation of people who earn significantly less or more. Maybe the extremes are where we should be looking because it is here that public policy can do the most good (or harm)?
Regardless of the systems we construct, there will always be a percentage of the population for whom that system doesn't work.
Especially in a wealthy country, how we treat those people, whose only crime is being built for a different system, reflects a lot about a society, and about our humanity.
Especially in a wealthy country, how we treat those people, whose only crime is being built for a different system, reflects a lot about a society, and about our humanity.
December 13, 2024 at 7:26 AM
Regardless of the systems we construct, there will always be a percentage of the population for whom that system doesn't work.
Especially in a wealthy country, how we treat those people, whose only crime is being built for a different system, reflects a lot about a society, and about our humanity.
Especially in a wealthy country, how we treat those people, whose only crime is being built for a different system, reflects a lot about a society, and about our humanity.
So, let me see if I've got this right...
The RBA will keep hitting Australians until more of us are unemployed; then the government (and society in general) will act like they're justified in keeping unemployed people in poverty.
I'm beginning to suspect it might not be their fault.
The RBA will keep hitting Australians until more of us are unemployed; then the government (and society in general) will act like they're justified in keeping unemployed people in poverty.
I'm beginning to suspect it might not be their fault.
The RBA continues to believe we need an extra 85,000 unemployed because it believes we need an unemployment rate of 4.5% in order to stop inflation from accelerating... even though it is currently... err decelerating
December 13, 2024 at 7:14 AM
So, let me see if I've got this right...
The RBA will keep hitting Australians until more of us are unemployed; then the government (and society in general) will act like they're justified in keeping unemployed people in poverty.
I'm beginning to suspect it might not be their fault.
The RBA will keep hitting Australians until more of us are unemployed; then the government (and society in general) will act like they're justified in keeping unemployed people in poverty.
I'm beginning to suspect it might not be their fault.
You can't brazenly commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, ignore all internationally agreed standards of behaviour and decency, and still expect to be treated like you have a legitimate right to exist.
If we tolerate that, it says a lot about us that we should be ashamed of.
If we tolerate that, it says a lot about us that we should be ashamed of.
The year since October 7 has shown us that Israel can neither be accommodated nor reformed. It must be dismantled, and Zionism must be brought to an end.
The true lesson of October 7 is that Israel cannot be reformed
The year since October 7 has shown us that Israel can neither be accommodated nor reformed. It must be dismantled, and Zionism must be brought to an end. Only this will finally alleviate the…
mondoweiss.net
November 23, 2024 at 11:18 PM
You can't brazenly commit war crimes and crimes against humanity, ignore all internationally agreed standards of behaviour and decency, and still expect to be treated like you have a legitimate right to exist.
If we tolerate that, it says a lot about us that we should be ashamed of.
If we tolerate that, it says a lot about us that we should be ashamed of.
Between funding caps and extra public money, the major parties have found a way to hamstring independents without hurting their own bottom lines.
I think this shows that they're more scared of the teals than they are of the Greens.
And rightly so. I advocate preferencing any sane independent.
I think this shows that they're more scared of the teals than they are of the Greens.
And rightly so. I advocate preferencing any sane independent.
Greens and some independents are biggest winners from Labor’s proposed donation cap, data shows
Greens and some independents are biggest winners from Labor’s proposed donation cap, data shows
Labor and Coalition would have missed out on $4.1m and $4.7m in donations after public funding boost, while the Greens would have been $2.9m better off
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The Greens and independent MPs who ran low-cost campaigns have emerged as the biggest winners from Labor’s proposed donation cap and increased public funding of elections, data shows.
According to a Guardian Australia analysis of 2021-22 data, the Greens would have lost just $2.7m in donations if Labor’s proposed $20,000 cap had been law at the time, a sum more than made up for by a $5.6m increase in public funding. In net terms, the Greens would have been $2.9m better off.
Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
Between funding caps and extra public money, the major parties have found a way to hamstring independents without hurting their own bottom lines.
I think this shows that they're more scared of the teals than they are of the Greens.
And rightly so. I advocate preferencing any sane independent.
I think this shows that they're more scared of the teals than they are of the Greens.
And rightly so. I advocate preferencing any sane independent.
300 characters doesn't leave a lot of room to make a nuanced point. This will take some getting used to.
My engagement tends to oscillate between writing nothing or an essay.
Oh well, my rants were probably due for some enforced brevity.
Apologies in advance if my meaning is skewed in the down-si
My engagement tends to oscillate between writing nothing or an essay.
Oh well, my rants were probably due for some enforced brevity.
Apologies in advance if my meaning is skewed in the down-si
November 22, 2024 at 12:59 AM
300 characters doesn't leave a lot of room to make a nuanced point. This will take some getting used to.
My engagement tends to oscillate between writing nothing or an essay.
Oh well, my rants were probably due for some enforced brevity.
Apologies in advance if my meaning is skewed in the down-si
My engagement tends to oscillate between writing nothing or an essay.
Oh well, my rants were probably due for some enforced brevity.
Apologies in advance if my meaning is skewed in the down-si
Throw-away lines about drug dealers and buskers ignores how many Aussies rely on the cash economy.
For people living under the poverty line, buying kid's clothes, books, or furniture 2nd hand is a necessity.
I'll assume ignorance, but was disappointed by the casual privilege in that episode.
For people living under the poverty line, buying kid's clothes, books, or furniture 2nd hand is a necessity.
I'll assume ignorance, but was disappointed by the casual privilege in that episode.
I made a joke in the podcast today that the cash mandate is due to lobbying from Big Cash.
Only for Greg to tell me that yes, it in fact kind of is.
Only for Greg to tell me that yes, it in fact kind of is.
The latest Dollars & Sense pod is up - talking GSP and cash!
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November 22, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Throw-away lines about drug dealers and buskers ignores how many Aussies rely on the cash economy.
For people living under the poverty line, buying kid's clothes, books, or furniture 2nd hand is a necessity.
I'll assume ignorance, but was disappointed by the casual privilege in that episode.
For people living under the poverty line, buying kid's clothes, books, or furniture 2nd hand is a necessity.
I'll assume ignorance, but was disappointed by the casual privilege in that episode.
They need to give us another Gough or get out of the way so the independents can make the changes that we need to revitalise our communities. We haven't seen any real, sustained progressive leadership from the ALP in far too long. It seems anyone who isn't right of Fraser is too weak to last, sadly.
The very best thing for the ALP would be to have to govern with independents - a lot of them.
It'd also be the best thing for the nation.
The federal ALP is no longer up to the task of governing with a majority. They don't have the talent or policy core.
Anyone with that gets rooted out early
It'd also be the best thing for the nation.
The federal ALP is no longer up to the task of governing with a majority. They don't have the talent or policy core.
Anyone with that gets rooted out early
November 21, 2024 at 10:58 PM
They need to give us another Gough or get out of the way so the independents can make the changes that we need to revitalise our communities. We haven't seen any real, sustained progressive leadership from the ALP in far too long. It seems anyone who isn't right of Fraser is too weak to last, sadly.
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This is DESPICABLE. It will cut people off from the world- their families, friends and legal advice- and will lead to suicides. Absolutely fucking shameful.
Labor to confiscate phones from non-citizens in immigration detention in new bill
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Labor to confiscate phones from non-citizens in immigration detention in new bill
Greens and legal advocates say bill will make it harder to hold authorities accountable for conditions in detention facilities
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2024 at 5:07 AM
This is DESPICABLE. It will cut people off from the world- their families, friends and legal advice- and will lead to suicides. Absolutely fucking shameful.
The UN Security Council just voted, for the 4th time, for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. For the 4th time, the US, as the sole voice opposing the end of hostilities in the region, vetoed that decision.
I think we can dismiss the pretence of a universally applied international system of justice.
I think we can dismiss the pretence of a universally applied international system of justice.
According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Israel has killed at least 17,400 Palestinian children since last October.
November 21, 2024 at 11:01 AM
The UN Security Council just voted, for the 4th time, for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. For the 4th time, the US, as the sole voice opposing the end of hostilities in the region, vetoed that decision.
I think we can dismiss the pretence of a universally applied international system of justice.
I think we can dismiss the pretence of a universally applied international system of justice.
Just rewatched s06e14 of Star Trek: Voyager (Memorial). It's crazy to me today that the writers at the time assumed that we'd be appalled by the military murdering civilians.
We've been watching this and worse for over a year now and we still allow it.
It seems our sensibilities have changed.
😢🍉
We've been watching this and worse for over a year now and we still allow it.
It seems our sensibilities have changed.
😢🍉
November 15, 2024 at 10:38 AM
Just rewatched s06e14 of Star Trek: Voyager (Memorial). It's crazy to me today that the writers at the time assumed that we'd be appalled by the military murdering civilians.
We've been watching this and worse for over a year now and we still allow it.
It seems our sensibilities have changed.
😢🍉
We've been watching this and worse for over a year now and we still allow it.
It seems our sensibilities have changed.
😢🍉
In the wake of Australia’s failed referendum I was searching for some good news. The best I could come up with is that we are closer than ever to eradicating hypothermia as a cause of human mortality.
I’m not sure if that really qualifies though.
I’m not sure if that really qualifies though.
October 15, 2023 at 9:37 AM
In the wake of Australia’s failed referendum I was searching for some good news. The best I could come up with is that we are closer than ever to eradicating hypothermia as a cause of human mortality.
I’m not sure if that really qualifies though.
I’m not sure if that really qualifies though.