to me $10 billion for social housing is a massive win and huge progress over previous governments, the greens demanding cherries on top by blocking it right up until the last minute in the middle of a housing crisis is a joke, they took credit for forcing labor to go around them and give money directly to the states as well
the greens are free to pick their battles, in my opinion they picked the wrong one, for that after 15 years of preferencing the greens above labor they are now behind it
No idea I'm in Brisbane but are you talking about federal labor or victorian state labor?
No thanks
The Greens and Liberals Joined Forces to Block Labor’s Housing Bill
Unforgivable
because it’s stupid, pacifism doesn’t lead to less war, it leads to more suffering
it’s the equivalent of saying don’t stand up to your bully just let him get away with it, in the end you lose and suffer more
damnit you got me, i actually did read it afterwards and realised my comment was wrong but then just left it as it has 9 updoots
hell yeah! rest in hell
but tbh it’s not, old people love it
yeah right, trump might be mental but you’re still a dictatorship
Facebook is a disaster that is happening in real time and yet
Facebook has for some reason decided I need to see a constant stream of compact, cutesy studio apartments with a variation of “this is all I need” captions.
Oh you still use it
There's still a lot going on globally:
https://www.marinetraffic.com/
But I don't expect the US to have a fun ride
This economist says there’s a 90% chance of a recession. Here’s the math.
During the 2018 trade war with China, the U.S. average tariff rate increased from 2% to 3%. Studies show that the impact on gross domestic product was between 0.25% and 0.7%.
Using the low end of the estimated impact, and Trump’s plan that at the moment calls for double-digit tariff rates, Slok says the negative impact on GDP in 2025 could be almost 4 percentage points — and that doesn’t even include the negative impact from uncertainty for consumer spending decisions and business planning.
So a 4% hit to GDP when GDP last year in the US increase by 2.8% does not sound good
I appreciate the news, but keep it realistic and well sourced. As in, link to the actual publication that makes this statement.
Yeah the post was pretty low quality, I did find this though:
Power-sector CO2 hits ‘all-time high’ in 2024 despite record growth for clean energy
tldr: power demand went up faster than renewables could be installed because of heat waves particularly in India, if it was an average year then renewables would have outpaced new demand, so on this basis renewables are still expected to outpace new demand over the next 5 years as there's still tons of projects being implemented
tbh I've been complaining about India for a while now, all the gains the west is making are being undone by them
I wish more countries were helping India install more renewables, low interest loans, lending tech expertise, whatever it takes
He did get a lot of things right:
Pope Francis says Trump 'is not a Christian,' Trump responds
What is going on in Sydney??
they aren’t obligated to block critical funding for housing either, they made their decision and ive made mine
the real pain for me is that when i went to vote there was like 5 nutter parties all of them right wing, the libs and then just labor and the greens on the left, limited choices for anyone left wing :(