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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Jesus Christ is this just a Sydney thing or do all office buildings have this BC I think I'd rather be poor It's common for newer buildings to have an index on a screen then direct you to a lift.
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Yeah my office building in Sydney has that, though it’s always showing headlines from the Oz which shits me to tears
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Jezza of OZPOS posted:Jesus Christ is this just a Sydney thing or do all office buildings have this BC I think I'd rather be poor Adelaide here, and yeah there are smart lifts What they are supposed to do is limit the number of people in each individual lift as a health and safety measure. In practise what they do is they just add more and more people until you've got 30 people in a single lift while others lay idle. The algorithm that managed traffic for them was so horrendously busted that usually you'd only have two of them operating at any one time out of a bank of about eight, and if you were on one of the lower floors and wanted to get out of the building at knockoff time, it would be faster to press the up button, ride all the way up to the top, and then ride it down because if you just hit the down button you would be presented every 5 minutes with a lift that was completely full of people from the upper floors. And yes, it is one of those newfangled lifts which doesn't have buttons on the inside. You just press a button for the floor you want in the the lobby before getting into the lift. They operate so terribly and the impact of hitting your required floor button too many or too few times for the number of people who want to go to that floor is so bad that the company who installed the lifts has now also installed a video screen on the ground floor that has a 2-minute video presentation on a loop about how to correctly use this newfangled lift system. And if that isn't a case of failing at the first hurdle for operability, I don't know what is.
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the lifts in my office building have ads for things on at the club next door because i guess they own the building as well
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https://www.theage.com.au/politics/...429-p5fnan.htmlquote:The opposition is also considering repealing responsible lending laws – which oblige financial institutions to check how much a potential borrower earns and spends – among other tools to reduce lending barriers for people trying to break into the housing market. 
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Spend all your super on the deposit and then take out a loan you can’t service, effective policy for emptying our pockets.
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I guess we can have a sub-prime mortgage crisis, to go along with our housing crisis, as a treat.
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Expect these policies to become bolder and more visionary. Dutton's election dream is for voters to put pencil to paper in the booth and "hear house keys jingling".
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I had my bank, the Bendigo, call me several times asking me if I wanted to take out a home loan simply on the basis of being old with a steady income. Sure as hell wasn't because of my bank balance, or the size of my income. Pretty sure my rent, as bad as it is, is less than what I would be paying for a home loan when the price of an average 2 bedroom near me is over $650,000. Felt incredibly weird. Like how, in the 80s, credit card companies would send you "pre-approved!" sign up forms so you could easily get yourself into life destroying debt.
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Breetai posted:the company who installed the lifts has now also installed a video screen on the ground floor that has a 2-minute video presentation on a loop about how to correctly use this newfangled lift system. I saw one recently where the terrible touchscreen layout could only show some of the floors and someone from the office had printed out a sign explaining how to scroll through to other screens to select the other floors
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All that Super just lying around that would be better for Australia in a cashed-up boomers pocket.
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hooman posted:I like how in the rest of the forums it's like "Don't talk to the Australians, they're all insane." and we're standing behind them, bug-eyed and nodding emphatically. Well yeah, we're all mad here. Caring is a maddening For crying out loud, surely it wasn't that long ago there were shocking news articles about people being loaned way more than they could reasonably afford??
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SecretOfSteel posted:All that Super just lying around that would be better for Australia in a cashed-up boomers pocket. That’s about the extent of it, supply side efforts to improve housing affordability risk reducing house prices. Much better to simply increase the amount of cash people have access to.
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Lucy Zelic doing a solid public audition for any potential Sky After Dark sports show. Vocal support for Sydney Ustase FC Terf brain melt Yelling about globalists https://x.com/lucyzelic/status/1785202755273179619 
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Solemn Sloth posted:Lucy Zelic doing a solid public audition for any potential Sky After Dark sports show. Holy gently caress am I not reading all that garbage
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MysticalMachineGun posted:Holy gently caress am I not reading all that garbage TLDR: globalists, pedophiles, the far left
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Lehrmann is apparently considering an appeal again Do it you dickhead, it worked out so great for you last time
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Eediot Jedi posted:what's the worst that could happen if he loses? He gets lionized by right-wing psychopaths as being a true Australian hero and makes more money in grift than he has to pay in fines.
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RIP bonza
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Eediot Jedi posted:what's the worst that could happen if he loses? He declares double super bankruptcy
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Eediot Jedi posted:what's the worst that could happen if he loses? Hopefully they brand the word rapist onto his forehead
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Regular Wario posted:Hopefully they brand the word rapist onto his forehead That's already his entire face
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Good news everyone!Guardian AU posted:House prices have set a record high for a sixth consecutive month, after rising an average of 0.6% nationwide in April. Guardian AU posted:The principle of detention as a last resort will be removed from the Queensland Youth Justice Act, under legislation introduced by the Labor government on Wednesday. Thanks Labor, Thrlaborgh.
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Watching Labor Left darling Steven Miles implement LNP crime policy on the run is giving me extremely  vibes.Yes you may lose this next election to a gold coast real estate agent but i don't think copying his tough on crime positions is going to fix things.
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It’s the Small Target Government strategy
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it's been a minute since i studied criminal law but iirc there's centuries of data that establishes severity of punishments has no effect on crime rates, unless i dreamed that.
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I had an idea that perceptions of your chance of getting caught is a bigger factor.
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Im sorry but you haven't been sufficiently beaten by your spouse
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Regular Wario posted:Im sorry but you haven't been sufficiently beaten by your spouse Means tested domestic violence payments.
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hooman posted:Means tested domestic violence payments. Welcome to the labor party
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My guess is Lehrmann's going to have to go bankrupt. Defo lawyers costs tend to run high and it has been a big trial. The judge also mentioned it on today’s costs hearing - when discussing Wilkinson getting her cut from Ten rather than the defendant. The piece of poo poo ex-seven producer thinks he can make some money from his day in court. ABC live blog posted:Justice Lee has once again, put something bluntly.
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The main driver of crime is poverty. That's why increasing the gap between rich and poor and laura gnaw her are the LNP winning combo. Structurally way ahead of even 'loving browns am I right". https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs...f%20drug%20use. quote:In Australia, high crime rates are often associated with poverty, unemployment, low levels of educational attainment, family relationship problems and high levels of drug use. https://www.aic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2020-05/tandi028.pdf quote:despite government attempts to limit overall unemployment levels in Australia, unemployment is now much more concentrated amongst school-leaver age groups Fixing socioeconomic disadvantage is the silver bullet. Everyone knows this. Yet we keep widening the gap. gently caress us.
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thatbastardken posted:it's been a minute since i studied criminal law but iirc there's centuries of data that establishes severity of punishments has no effect on crime rates, unless i dreamed that. I dont know about centuries and I don't think it applies to all crime but for sure there is lots of evidence that severity of sentence has absolutely no impact on levels of family violence
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Cartoon posted:The main driver of crime is poverty. That's why increasing the gap between rich and poor and laura gnaw her are the LNP winning combo. Structurally way ahead of even 'loving browns am I right". bettering society? sounds woke to me
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