This.

He might discontinue his role formally but will still be involved.

This is a long way off, at least in Australia. Probably not for any good reason though.

Any time you propose some sort of citizen ID number scheme nutters start talking about “the mark of the beast”. It’s a biblical thing in which someone envisaged a dystopia in which everyone had an identifying mark on their forehead.

In Australia for example there was a lot of resistance to everyone being assigned a tax id number in the 80s. The law is still structured around this cultural anxiety to this day. For example, you can’t be forced by law to provide your tax id number, and every different government agency will assign you their own number.

Biometrics have their own problems. An iris scan or finger print might be ok, but I would be extraordinarily reluctant to provide my DNA to anyone under any circumstances.

Additional 100% tariff on everything except anything imported on days starting with “t” except Tuesdays.

You don’t have to go that deep and convoluted.

You can’t have peace when you have an invading army in your country.

To have peace the invading army needs to want peace. They don’t.

I wonder what Volvo was doing in September / October. Did they make any political donations? Did they explain to staff that this would be the likely outcome if trumping tariffs were imposed?

Edit: not saying it’s Volvo’s fault necessarily, I’m genuinely curious.

I can really only do several hours of real actual cognitive work a day.

After 6 hours the likelihood that i’ll make a mistake or waste hours of time increases dramatically.

Well, anytime someone says “small government” what they really mean is outsourcing.

While I’m sure there will be a lot of that, I don’t think that is “the plan”.

Trump campaigned by saying he would be mean to immigrants, cut government services, and implement tariffs.

He got elected, so he’s doing those three things.

Additionally, for all intents and purposes he’s the king of the US, so he can do these things in such a way as to maximise offence to the left because he finds it gratifying how powerless we are to prevent him.

In short, there is no plan other than gratifying Trump each day.

Yeah I don’t really understand this claim.

My partner and I disagree on a lot of things, but I can predict with near certainty where she stands on things because she my partner, we have shared a life together, and I know her.

That’s nuts.

The mice here are very small and very fast. There’s just no way I could get one with a knife and I’m pretty spry.

I’ve learned a few things about dealing with mice in my time…

If you’ve seen one you probably have dozens.

If they die in a wall cavity there’s nothing you can do. They will stink, you’ve just got to wait it out. Used ground coffee in a dish or whatever tends to absorb the smell.

There’s lots of different types of traps. You probably need to experiment with different types. For example the spring loaded ones don’t work for very small mice. Also I dislike the no-kill ones because then you have to deal with a live mouse. One of the most impressive I’ve seen is like a lid on a bucket with a trapdoor - it’s what farmers use in a plague.

Poison is another good option but be aware it usually has an attractant. If you can hear mice in your ceiling you don’t want to put the poison in your ceiling because you’ll get more mice in your ceiling. Put the poison outside to draw the mice out.

Generally insurance won’t cover something like that.

Most people just aren’t equipped to decide how much someone else should earn. Firstly they might be unable to be objective about people they know. Secondly they don’t have the appropriate skills and experience to evaluate someone’s performance.

Due to the first issue, that would make the whole thing a popularity contest. You’d pretty much have to “campaign” to ensure everyone liked you. Who cares about productivity when all that really matters is that everyone likes you.

Instead of voting for someone’s salary, key personnel are evaluated by asking stakeholders to score them on whatever metrics. Stakeholders should include staff and clients and suppliers, et cetera.

Based on their performance you can determine an appropriate bonus.

Yeah. Taxing investors is going to take the heat out of the market. The only question is how much.

It was a broad progressive platform. I remember how disappointed I was when he lost.

I have young kids. This shit terrifies me honestly.

I can’t help but wonder what Dad’s take on this situation was.

Yep. That’s what I said.

I think an all out strike as in, not paying rent, is a very serious and aggressive option that you’d only exercise in extreme circumstances.

Unionising provides a lot of power to tenants long before going that far.

For example, as a group you can afford legal representation.

I absolutely agree that both parties’ housing policies are just throwing fuel on the fire.

Assisting first home owners increases demand which increases pricing. The obvious beneficiaries of these policies are people that already own houses.

The solutions are addressing tax concessions like negative gearing and capital gains tax, increasing annual land tax, and providing concessions for tiny homes and pre-fab homes.

That’s not really the focus of the article at all.

I think prefab has the potential to ease the housing crisis here in Australia.

Garcia is not an illegal immigrant?

I’m sorry that she lost her daughter but… this is not the way. Imagine feeding her pain and hatred for that photo OP.

Isn’t it her daughter that died?