Christopher Giffard

@cgiffard@aus.social
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While suffering a bad flu and feeling generally miserable, I did discover somebody on YouTube meticulously cataloguing vintage hard drive… sounds. https://m.youtube.com/@bigbluebananabread
Before you continue to YouTube

@mhoye @joannaholman I've been thinking over the last couple of weeks about what the soft-landing approach to exiting capitalism would look like.

Could we gently switch to socialism in a capitalist manner — i.e. in the same way we might incentivise emissions reduction via a trading scheme, come up with some kind of aggregate wellbeing credit that could be bought and sold by private enterprise, into which is built some kind of inflationary effect requiring more aggregate wellbeing year over year, and gradually turning a "value for shareholders" incentive into a “value for the public” system?

@NewtonMark The boomers (and a segment of gen-X) got their houses for pennies. While it's true that millennial (etc.) homeowners will benefit from house price rises, there's no sustainable price increases that will confer the same benefit as that afforded to boomers.

I'm a millennial homeowner. Even stripping back to my most selfish motivations, the one thing I care about is that I don't take a bath on my place if we need to sell because the economy tanks (or all white collar labour is redundant) and I lose my job & can't secure another. The idea that a coalition government would leave me in a better position is laughable — in their vision of the world I'd be more likely to be out of work with less support, and a small capital gain on my place that I was forced to sell isn't going to last me until retirement without work.

@sortius You can see the dissatisfaction building over multiple elections if you (the figurative you rather than you personally!) were paying attention. It’s just a non linear effect when it comes to the selection of candidates for seats — it looks like nothing is happening until it crosses a threshold and then suddenly everything is on fire everywhere.
The ABC somehow has greens with zero seats? Did Bandt get abducted by aliens or something? #auspol
Samantha Rathnam still pulling ahead on primaries. Got me on the edge of my seat. #auspol #wills #brunswick
ABC reckon wills stays with Labor (but in doubt.) I guess they think the pre polls will trend more conservatively. #auspol
Samantha Rathnam looking pretty good in wills. #auspol
Labor full of shit again, insulting our intelligence about how minority government works and who the greens would form government with.

I think I did a decent job. It’s my first attempt at a kawari-musubi. It was a lot easier than I anticipated.

#kimono #着物