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Non-sport tweets. Some planning, the rest random. For the sport follow @idlesummers
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Minimum wage rises are a good time to remember that unless you are working more than 30 hours a week on that wage the majority of the increase goes back to the government (from reduced Centrelink payments and tax).

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This is a useful primer on why the Greens lost seats, even as their vote held up pretty well. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

AI is great. Billions of dollars to recreate Serdar Argic but for South Africa and with even less relevance in the replies.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Blog post summarising the night is up, and I'm going to bed www.tallyroom.com.au/60426 #ausvotes

submitted 54 days ago • 5 comments

This advice is not entirely helpful...

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

We're free now. We can evaluate ideas and institutions from the U.S. with new clarity. Thrown out Euclidean zoning, get Japanese zoning. Get rid of American traffic engineering. It's all chaff.

submitted 144 days ago • 4 comments

Must admit I wrongly thought Ukraine would be abandoned to Russia by the USA. Apparently it is more of a "carve up of Poland" type situation.

submitted 128 days ago • 1 comment

I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.

submitted 138 days ago • 44 comments

Rather than efficient, markets are self correcting, like a bicycle. They wobble but return to upright regardless of power exerted through the pedals, exogenous road and wind forces or shifting weight. We have never really seen what happens to a market economy if you jam a stick in the spokes.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting side note to the Colombia tariff story is that coffee prices are already at an all time high because of Brazilian rainfall. Sticking a 50% tariff on top of a price that is twice the average is wild.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

I love a good street tree. They mitigate against urban heat through evapotranspiration, they provide homes for birds, they look nice! Why do we keep planting them such that they block already tiny footpaths?

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment