At least Trump was elected a few months before our election, so people can see what a piss-poor job he's doing, and what a load of bollucks his promises were.

It looks like at least news.com.au in Australia has turned on him a bit (Sky news though is still out there brainwashing people 150% though to make up for it)

Thats definitely fair.. To be honest, I keep deleting my account on reddit / Lemmy to keep out of the debates.

Rather than downvoting. This is a good teachable moment

I used to think this way, that it was about efficiency exclusively

But the reality is, any contribution is better than none, and a lot of these things implemented you don't really understand how important they are until a while later often

One consideration also is that Germany is apparently considering to continue their Linux migration, so things like this may also be based on feedback from admins

Suse has definitely carved their own niche as a Linux distro and it's actually sad they're not more successful because a lot of their tools are pretty cool

Yep. I'm sure people will be jumping at the opportunity to give you cheap rent with no profit to them, absorb all of the property ownership risks and all the stress.

Unless the rental property is owned by the government, fuck all chance mate 😂

Everyone wants freedom to move around including me. But, this is the real world...

At least on Reddit, i was getting blasted because I pointed out vapers here in Australia were constantly breaking the laws and were using vaping as an excuse to vape inside "because it's just water vapor".

If it's just water vapor, then you don't need to do it in the cabin of a train mate.. or right at the entrance of the supermarket so every one needs to breathe in your smoke when they enter

Over smokers in general. To make things worse, a lot of "free thinkers" tend to be smoking. Because nothing demonstrates your ability to think independently by being conned into using an addictive substance that harms you

It sounds like you want the best of all worlds

If you want cheap rent and all that, the solution is to buy, not to rent

Yes, it requires more responsibility, but that's life.

So what's your solution then for rentals?

You complain if they put incentives to stop buying multiple properties and increase the availability to people who want to stop renting, you complain if they don't?

Negative gearing mainly benefits wealthier people, and I know we had customers with 14+ houses they owned. They're the main problem, because the more properties they buy, the bigger power they have over the market (monopolies).

There already is a first home owners grant which benefits first home buyers (I know, because I used it).

They need to add incentive for people to stop buying multiple properties, so more people can stop renting, and eliminating negative gearing could help with that.

Unless of course you're complaining because you never want to buy?

As others have said, would be good to have it mandatory for investment properties (with less subsidy). But still not a bad thing to have it for property owners too. Every bit is needed.. A better solution to rectify the rental situation is eliminate negative gearing.

That being said, I own my property and really looking forward to these changes. Home batteries were something I was considering (but was waiting for a rebate). I was also looking at new insulation too, as my neighbors have been f**king loud and there are too many dickheads on dirt bikes illegally traveling down my road (and wanted to reduce the noise in my house)

So, happy with these changes. If Greens can match them, I'll be super happy with voting for them.

An issue solvable with Brute force anyway

I wouldn't be surprised if there are people in the Republican administration with a few they're hoping to keep secret.

They definitely love to normalize their problems