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Depends, even if you’re a nice landlord who treats tenants fairly, if you’re voting for things that make house prices higher, or the rental market tighter, then you’re an arsehole.

If you’re using periods of rapid rental inflation to also massively raise the rent, then fuck you. If you’re standing in the way of up-zoning, fuck you. If you leave your rental empty for a long time because you’re looking for at or above market rents, fuck you.

However, if you’re just playing the capitalist game at the kiddie tables (2 properties like juuuuuust counts, maybe), while doing everything else in your power to work against capitalism, then I’m willing to grant there being landlords who aren’t arseholes, just people living in the system.

Don’t hate the player, hate the game, and hate the players who aren’t trying to undo the game in some way.

I’m inclined to agree not all landlords are bad, just most.

WHO IS USING AI TO RESPOND TO EMAILS? Like, by the time to “craft” the ultimate response, you could have just written the email.

This may be my bias as an engineer (not software, but chemical), there’s not really much faffing about in an email. You just politely respond, or politely make a query. It’s not very long, typically, and even if it is, an LLM isn’t gonna help you.

You don’t have to sugar coat anything unless there’s some fuck up you’re trying to soften. You just go “Hi xyz, could you please clarify when the design temperature is changing here?”.

Wtf is there you can use an LLM for in an email?

I have only used it for software troubleshooting, as it’s quite nifty there, even if it’s information is out of date, it gets versions confused, etc, still gets me out of a bind or spits out random ideas to try.

But emails? Those short form messages, just barely longer than texts?

Are we actually serious? It’s not a report

I’m kinda mad they didn’t give him a contrasting smile line

Ice breaking is so much easier when you’re just chatting, people just chat at the start of the meeting and it performs the same function. It’s weird if you make everyone go around the circle and force people into it

He did nothing wrong, and even if he did murder the executive, he still did nothing morally wrong all things considered.

It was self-defence of the people.

Violence shouldn’t be the answer, but sometimes it just is the answer.

4 weeks vacation 38 hour work week.

I look on at countries in Europe with their 5 or 6 weeks and 35 hour weeks with envy.

But yeah, we (Australia) do have it pretty good in comparison to many other places.

In addition, cooperation with traffic police has intensified and more traffic cameras and automated enforcement systems have been introduced.

Man, if I had a dollar for everytime I’ve read someone from Australia write online: “they’re just revenue raising!!!” I’d be rich.

We’re not as brain-dead as the Americans with cars, but still not great.

They mean not guaranteed the same way by law.

Practice of course is a different matter

Damn, this is some serious beef if y’all are taking it between posts.

Surely internet arguments are siloed to the post. I literally remember none of the usernames of people I’ve had arguments with haha

Indeed, and I personally hate it. “&” Is right there if they want to save space.

I really dislike when the reason to continue doing something is tradition, and that’s what is going on here. It would be so easy to just start using “&” instead of commas, which outside this context are not used this way.

Get with the times, silly journalists.

(Just an extra gripe, that journalists are often really shitty at citing. “A report from XYZ organisation says” yes, which one? Y U DO DIS TO ME?)

This headline is proof this newspaper convention is stupid. If they’re so keen on holding on to this weird tradition of “saving space” in headlines for a medium in decline (print), just use an “&” symbol. It’s much more recognisable, comma has a clearly defined function and they’re misusing it.

Their tradition be damned.

Just my 2¢