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  • I think it's going to depend on if he's just about deregulation. The over regulation was causing problems. Inflation is still ridiculous. The priority is to stabilize and allow trade internally and internationally.

    I think it's more a political gamble at this point. For instance, winding back trial periods from 3 months to 8 months will only affect a small sunset of workers, so it's not a huge economic risk, but it might give businesses more certainty to hire. So it's not completely loopy, but if it's all deregulation and no plan, with no future, better regulation, it'll become more of a banana Republic.






  • It could be her bowing out as they fired her Co star for voicing support for Palestine. It was called anti semitic but from what I've seen it wasn't.

    It could also be that Ortega has made supportive comments and prefers to walk than be pushed. Or was pushed, but has better PR.

    Timing is certainly odd.

    To be fair, she was already doing well from TV, and scream was a big win, but Wednesday made her a household name. If it really was scheduling, it still makes sense. The timing of the announcement makes that super unlikely.



  • Privatizing infrastructure is not necessarily a bad thing. Competition in telecoms is a net benefit to society. However, there needs to be minimum service standards.

    For instance, with telephones, there was redundancy for electric failure. However with nbn there isn't. It's especially a problem where you have outages like Optus where someone might rely on them for phone, internet and mobile service, in face being incentivised to do so. At least with mobile, there is redundancy of 000 calls through any network. We should look at how we can do similar. For instance, in the event of an Internet outage, a code could be entered into eftpos terminals to accept offline payments for 24 hours or similar. Sure, there is a higher risk of fraud for this period, but that's better than no commerce.





  • Yes, but that's partly my point. The teens and adults that are fans are only fans due to playing as kids, likely due to marketing to them. That's not to say any game is good or bad, but to me it's a sign of immaturity to bring it up. I'd have similar red flags with someone discussing non kid hobbies if I showed little interest. If someone wants to chat football or handbags, I'd equally want out. It's a know your audience problem. If have no problem dating a Pokemon fan and I'd probably take up the game to play with them. My issue is being so into it it's all you want to talk about on a first date. It would strine me as immature.

    If we were discussing hobbies and they briefly brought it up, that wouldn't be a red flag, per se.




  • It's a show marketed at kids. Manu adults like it as they grew up with it. Manu adultsike the games, but those unfamiliar are not starting as adults.

    For me, it's not about having a childhood hobby you still enjoy. It's about not having the social awareness to not being it up on a first date. In context, sure, why not, if you walked by a poster or kid playing and it became a topic of conversation. But as a topic of conversation whose purpose is to get to know each other, I'd be worried they never matured.

    I still.play video games from my childhood almost daily, when I get the chance. I won't chat about combos or new sf6 characters with strangers or a first date.