FreedomAdvocate

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[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

if I type excel in the search with app filter it can’t find it.

Lol ok so you're just straight up lying. Good to know it's not worth interacting.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 0 points 1 month ago

Ask it to divide integer 1 by integer 2. Explain to me why the CPU hands back 0 and not 0.5.

Because integers are whole numbers by design. You don't get 0, you get 0 with remainder 1.

Blindly saying such issues can be overcome is, imho, the truly stupid statement

I'm not saying they definitely will be - I'm saying that blindly saying that they definitely will not ever be overcome is stupid.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 1 month ago

So they're not outnumbered then, are they?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Cool story.

Do you disagree with the principles of supply and demand?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Free money being handed out in the billions, and yes - supply and demand. A lot of people got very rich during covid, and a lot of people took advantage of those that could no longer afford their houses so had to sell them. More people were wanting to buy than were selling, and lots of them were in desirable areas where previously houses weren't really available. About 6 houses in my street who all bought their house and land for ~$300k sold for over a million during COVID to cashed up out of state-ers, and prices just kept going up and up as more put their houses up for sale to cash in, with massive bidding wars. More demand than supply does that.

[–] FreedomAdvocate -3 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Even reddit gets things right occasionally I guess.

Do you think supply and demand isn't what drives prices up, or do you not understand how supply and demand works?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 1 month ago

To everyone saying buy an OLED - that's way overkill for PS2/360/PS3 games lol.

To play those consoles games, just get any 1080p 60hz tv or monitor that has a game/pc mode. Anything above that is overkill and literally a waste of money. Basically any cheap no-name brand TV will be fine, because for those generations the input lag from the tv is the last thing you have to worry about.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 11 points 1 month ago

You're talking about America, which has nothing to do with the UK doing this.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Russia? You think Russia is the reason why the UK, Australia, and other countries' left-wing governments are all forcing digital identification verification laws?

[–] FreedomAdvocate 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is the needle we need to thread as a nation, and it’s a bloody hard one.

It's essentially impossible. We've been hearing "the housing bubble is going to burst" for what, 30 years now? It's not going to burst because the government won't let it, because if it did the entire country would be completely and utterly fucked because everything is tied up in property. There is no lowering of house prices by any significant amount in our future.

What we need is to cut red tape and ridiculous fees on new developments/builds to encourage building (especially on secondary dwellings/granny flats - there should be ZERO council fees to build a granny flat on your own property) to increase supply, drastically reduce migration temporarily to reduce demand, ban foreign investors - even temporarily, and get rid of the fucking ridiculous 5% deposit mortgages they just introduced.

That's a few very easy things to do that would go a long way to getting things back under control. Prices won't go down, but most of them will stop going up. Inner city/beachside/"exclusive" places etc are always going to go up in price because that's where people want to be the most, and there is no more supply coming for those really.

Another thing that the government need to be doing is building some new big cities, and investing in existing ones to try and make people ok with moving 3 hours from Brisbane for example, because the city there is no longer just a single petrol station, a coles, and a bottle-o.

At the end of the day, if demand keeps outpacing supply at the ever increasing rate that it is now, there's literally no fixing it.

[–] FreedomAdvocate 2 points 1 month ago (6 children)

They’re outnumbered by the rest of us, but they are a large enough voting block to decide any election.

If they're outnumbered, how are they deciding the election?

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