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

Apparently the average is up in Germany, you just haven’t had any extremes this year.

https://twitter.com/rarohde/status/1688486834890854401?s=46&t=041FqqqpppFjW7CoNV9wDw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If it’s not built to code to code it can pose all sorts of safety hazards to your neighbours or future owners of your property. If you don’t bother getting approval you didn’t bother building it properly either.

At the slightly more silly end, your shed could lower the value of the neighbours property (because it looks like a meth lab, or just a general hillbilly grotto) and the law holds financial harm higher than physical harm most of the time.

Edit: also it’s not just you, it’s any meth head who decides to build their own shed. Laws need to cater for the lowest common denominator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I see a lot of people claim the training model included copyrighted works particularly books because it can provide a summary of it. But it can provide a summary of visual media too, and no one is claiming it’s sitting there watching films.

If the argument is it has quite a detailed knowledge of the book, that’s not convincing either. All it needs is a summary and it can make up the blanks, and get it close enough we can’t tell the difference. Nothing is original.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Why do you think the laws exist in the first place. Because there is some hurt to somebody else. You just can’t see it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Mostly agree with you but some context is required

Cluster bombs historically have a 30% failure rate. The modern American ones have ~1%.

Historically they were used indiscriminately against unknown targets in a large area (they’re really good at that), in Ukraine the Ukrainians are using them against known targets and are logging their use so after the war the area can be cleaned of any duds.

This also isn’t introducing a new weapon to the war; the Ukrainians and Russians have been using their own stocks of cluster bombs from the start, the Ukrainians are just asking for a resupply of the better American ones.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just checked all 43 unis in this list and only Monash and carangie melon, which is an international uni, break the trend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au

Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either.

2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)

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

What @hanni said. But they also split out the unemployment payment as the disability support payment. So it’s all the disabled pension too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greedy ? They’re both free products?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure they plan on selling the apartments. an article I read describes them as premium apartments which make more sense to sell I think.

But even if they weren’t selling them, woolies (group) is just capitalising on the land they already (or will) own. I.e subsidising the cost of building a Woolworths store. It’ll be run as a business through a real estate agent with all the protections you already have. Probably be better for the tenant as there isn’t an owner with an ego on the other end.

And there’s nothing stoping you from getting groceries where ever you want. You could even get coles delivery if you wanted.

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

No. We sell our services overseas. Most of our education industry (in dollar value) is international. We provide STEM services, legal services, financial services, etc to other countries etc.

Taking a step back there is no difference in your question between a national economy and the entire world economy. 64% of the world economy is services.

So no, services aren’t an inferior category of the economy. Manufacturing is fundamentally a service there are just foods involved. You can fuck up manufacturing by making something you can’t sell for more than it cost to make or even sell for less than it costs to make. This is harder to do with services, or at least feedback is quicker because you don’t hold inventory of services.

So then how do we grow the economy if all everyone is just doing is Services for everyone else. This is the fundamental problem with capitalism. There are only two ways. Population growth and debt. But that’s a lesson for another day.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hate to shatter your world view but mining is only about 5.8%% of the economy — same size as our manufacturing industry coincidentally. Realestate only makes up 3.1% of the economy.

Most of the economy is services at 68%. Our health care industry (part of services) is larger than our mining industry. Our education industry(again services) is 4.8% of the economy. We actually have a pretty diversified economy.

Manufacturing isn’t the be all of an economy and it isn’t where the wage to profit ratio is equitable. We all earn more as a service economy than we would as a manufacturing economy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Australia

https://web.archive.org.au/awa/20190308031902mp_/https://publications.industry.gov.au/publications/industryinsightsjune2018/documents/IndustryInsights_1_2018_Chapter2_ONLINE.pdf

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