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by massive_field_goal
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:10 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: When AI generated images are not quite on point
Replies: 6
Views: 396

Re: When AI generated images are not quite on point

Not image related, but chatGPT had me wondering the other day with this exchange: Me: list of ww2 inventions ChatGPT World War II was a period of significant technological and scientific advancements, driven by the demands of the war effort. Many inventions and innovations emerged during this time. ...
by massive_field_goal
Mon Mar 11, 2024 2:28 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: BTC
Replies: 73
Views: 6208

Re: BTC

we've been through this before

it's a giant scam

wash traded in an unregulated environment using tether. it's so blatantly obvious to anyone with experience in financial markets that it is laughable.
by massive_field_goal
Sat Mar 09, 2024 6:06 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: War in Ukraine...
Replies: 52914
Views: 2288933

Re: War in Ukraine...

Sense I got is that he's a master manipulator of people who can show them what they want to see but also keep his true motivations hidden.
Spot on. A vertiable Machiavellian psycopath. I dare say he's got Trump over a barrel too.
by massive_field_goal
Fri Mar 08, 2024 12:57 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Dispute with employer over pay
Replies: 28
Views: 652

Re: Dispute with employer over pay

what happened during the mediation?
by massive_field_goal
Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Replies: 666
Views: 26781

Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?

An unpaid caterers’ bill was the reason tickets are still not on sale for the Melbourne Rebels’ season opener against the Brumbies on Friday. Rugby Australia urgently worked out a renewed agreement with the AAMI Park caterers, who have not been paid in a year with the Rebels in a dire financial sit...
by massive_field_goal
Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Capitalism in its current unsustainable incarnation be damned.

There is no meritocracy that can exist and thrive when people are paid to do nothing in their sleep. And democracy rests on at least a semblance of meritocracy.
by massive_field_goal
Sun Feb 18, 2024 3:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Replies: 666
Views: 26781

Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?

And here is the statistical summary collected over time in all its glory!!! https://i.ibb.co/fnxjz16/Screenshot-2024-02-17-at-06-58-14.png 30k+ kids play rugby in schools on: - ovals that do not exist - under referees that do not exist - with jerseys that I bet my left-nut do not exist Four-fold in...
by massive_field_goal
Sat Feb 17, 2024 2:59 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Replies: 666
Views: 26781

Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?

Since taking over, RA has to renegotiate the hiring of AAMI Park for the Rebels to be able to play there... Apparently they're aiming for tickets to go on sale later today. Ticket sales, however, have been put on hold for all Rebels home games while officials wade through $20 million of debt, inclu...
by massive_field_goal
Fri Feb 16, 2024 12:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?
Replies: 666
Views: 26781

Re: Melbourne Rebels goooooooone… soon to be Rebels Pasifika?

Since taking over, RA has to renegotiate the hiring of AAMI Park for the Rebels to be able to play there... Apparently they're aiming for tickets to go on sale later today. Ticket sales, however, have been put on hold for all Rebels home games while officials wade through $20 million of debt, inclu...
by massive_field_goal
Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:13 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Kiptum GONE
Replies: 13
Views: 458

Kiptum GONE

Kelvin Kiptum, the only person to run the marathon in less than 2h, has been killed in a car crash.

Damn. :|
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

It's like people in here can't read. Where did I propose to stop mortgages and make people pay cash for assets? I'll say it again for the 3rd time. I propose to CONSTRICT BANKS ACCEPTING HOUSING AS COLLATERAL FOR LOANS FOR HOUSING. " just build more and increase supply is the only real answer" - ye...
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 1:43 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses. Wtaf is this utter shit ?! :lol: You’d stop the whole concept of mortgages and o...
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 8:01 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Where did I argue for infringing on people's property rights? Constraining what asset classes people can invest in or borrow money for is restricting the right of people to deploy their capital for productive purposes. I didn't propose either of those. I proposed to restrict the ability for BANKS t...
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 6:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Where did I argue for infringing on people's property rights?
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 3:45 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses. So all other business is conducted on a supply and demand basis, but for housing...
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:30 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

In fact, if you really want to help solve the housing crisis you'd prevent or seriously hamper the ability of banks to lend against housing. You want housing priced in terms of real economic activity, not other houses.
by massive_field_goal
Thu Feb 01, 2024 2:24 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Equity funded is worse. When housing equity is used as collateral to create more debt subsequently plowed back into existing housing and so on and so forth, debt is being created with no associated increase in economic activity. The debt is cancerous. The price of housing detaches from the actual ec...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 10:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

You’ve no idea what work a landlord did or does to secure the investment capital. True, but most of that investment capital comes from the bank bimbo. You just have to have enough to get the loan. So how do you “just get enough” to get that loan? Most would do it through hard work and sacrifice, un...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:41 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

All landlords just have this asset fall in their lap with no work? No one said they did no work. But the renter's doing more work to secure them that asset than the landlord is. I'd love to see someone try to argue the contrary. To a degree it's a necessary condition, otherwise no one would be a la...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

All landlords just have this asset fall in their lap with no work? No one said they did no work. But the renter's doing more work to secure them that asset than the landlord is. I'd love to see someone try to argue the contrary. To a degree it's a necessary condition, otherwise no one would be a la...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:48 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

I defined work. The renter works to pay his rent. The landlord does some menial tasks to maintain the property, find new renters, organise repairs etc. Work smarter not harder? That's a piss poor effort at justifying the assymettry. I'm not making a case for renters to live rent free. I'm merely hi...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 9:19 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

I defined work. The renter works to pay his rent. The landlord does some menial tasks to maintain the property, find new renters, organise repairs etc. Work smarter not harder? That's a piss poor effort at justifying the assymettry. I'm not making a case for renters to live rent free. I'm merely hig...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 31, 2024 8:09 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

the point is, despite the fact that the renter is paying off the landlords asset and even if the landlord is making a loss each week (a) he can claim the loss against his income (in australia) (b) he'll still pick up the asset after 20-30 years for cents in the dollar, the renter having paid off mo...
by massive_field_goal
Tue Jan 23, 2024 9:53 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

the point is, despite the fact that the renter is paying off the landlords asset and even if the landlord is making a loss each week (a) he can claim the loss against his income (in australia) (b) he'll still pick up the asset after 20-30 years for cents in the dollar, the renter having paid off mos...
by massive_field_goal
Mon Jan 22, 2024 9:53 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Typical comments section of the paper: My rent was increased by $400 per month, I tried to negotiate for a rent increase that was more sustainable for me but the landlord wouldn’t budge. My wage has not increased so it’s a struggle to find that money. Meanwhile the bathrooms have mould, water leaks ...
by massive_field_goal
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:16 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Apparently earning £100k a year, 3x the average wage, is a struggle these days....
Replies: 89
Views: 4259

Re: Apparently earning £100k a year, 3x the average wage, is a struggle these days....

It boils down to the middle and upper income classes being taxed in an attempt to compensate for increasing inequality, substituting government spending for money that the lower and middle classes would have historically earnt and spent themselves.
by massive_field_goal
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)
Replies: 55648
Views: 9377780

Re: The Entertaining Pics Thread (definitely with NSFW content)

could have gone horribly wrong for both of them
by massive_field_goal
Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:57 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

any thoughts on saving for housing discrepencies between guys and girls?

although there are some exceptions, my experience is girls generally plan to travel/party their life away and don't think about the consequences until it is too late
by massive_field_goal
Sat Jan 13, 2024 11:23 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

I dunno bimbo. It's somewhere on that list, even if subconciously. I know it's on mine.

House -> work (+ kids) -> stress, to excess.

What will make it any better for the children? I'd love to know...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Jan 10, 2024 1:49 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!
Replies: 914
Views: 44140

Re: Natwest boss says stop bitching, buying a house is easy as f##k!

Always the 80s interest rates chestnut...over and over it is trotted out.....

It's elementary mathematics that one is better off buying a house with high followed by decreasing (variable or reneogtiated) interest rates compared to the inverse. I'm not even going to bother to explain it.
by massive_field_goal
Mon Jan 08, 2024 12:35 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Cost of living - Queensland
Replies: 146
Views: 15912

Re: Cost of living - Queensland

Where I am at the moment, it’s a mix of locals running the joint and back packers working. Good luck finding any Anglo Australians to work behind the bar or at the cafe on Stradbroke island at the level required to actually let the business function normally! Is there any prospect whatsoever of set...
by massive_field_goal
Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:24 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Replies: 8911
Views: 277510

Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)

This feels like it’s just about a done deal https://www.theroar.com.au/2023/12/06/exclusive-wallabies-star-on-cusp-of-signing-with-nrl-powerhouse-in-reality-check-at-start-of-golden-decade/ To be honest I don’t blame him. Rugby in Australia is an absolute shit show. At the time I was thinking the R...
by massive_field_goal
Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:39 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Where to live in the world on 2500 euros
Replies: 54
Views: 3021

Re: Where to live in the world on 2500 euros

if you can't survive on 2500 euros a month in many, many parts of europe there is something seriously wrong. 1000E on rent (easy for an apartment or even more outside major cities) leaves you 50E a day for food and fun. would be easy to top up with the odd job here and there too. plenty of places in...
by massive_field_goal
Sun Dec 03, 2023 12:51 pm
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Guyana
Replies: 33
Views: 2447

Re: Guyana

It appears every allie/friend of Russia, China and Iran have been given the greenlight to start opening conflicts. The authoritarians are on a roll..... Wonder why... :| https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/PortalPictures/March-2022/biden-confused_trans_NvBQzQNjv4BqqVzuuqpFlyLIwiB6NTmJwfSVWeZ_vE...
by massive_field_goal
Thu Nov 23, 2023 2:56 am
Forum: Rugby Forum
Topic: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)
Replies: 8911
Views: 277510

Re: Wallabies 2024 (2023 never happened)

Harvey Norman GONE