

Reduced the price to the consumer, never even thought about increasing the price to the producer
Clean hands, Cool head, Warm heart.
GP, Gardener, Radical progressive
Reduced the price to the consumer, never even thought about increasing the price to the producer
It is fine, unless you want a brand that doesn’t have a deal with Bunnings, or unless you want garden furniture that is remotely durable, or unless you want some advice from someone who has experience in hardware.
Back when Bunnings was one of several large chains and small local hardwares were much more common it was easy, even Bunnings was made better by the competition. Monopolies are bad for consumers.
I don’t understand how the heck Bunnings manages to have so much public good will.
It’s a total monopoly that has run all of it’s competition out of business and over the past 20 years has become progressively shitter at customer service.
I miss other hardware stores 😔
I think this is a bit of a misrepresentation of political correctness. I think the term political correctness is a bit outdated but I’ll use it here.
Reclaiming derogatory language by minorities is obviously very empowering and has been done successfully. It’s also the case that words that are offensive in one context can be neutrally used, demented and retarded are often used in medical contexts without anyone becoming offended.
Now one can come up with hypothetical situations where it can be difficult to negotiate whilst being politically correct, especially if the person speaking may not have the vocabulary. But in almost every real life instance of someone complaining about political correctness all that is being asked of them is to be considerate, kind, and inclusive. It can be taken too far but that is the exception, overwhelmingly people are understanding of slip ups or of people not knowing the correct terminology.
Empathy and kindness are important for their own sake, whether it’s labelled as political correctness or not.
I have always thought we should go back to our earliest national day of Wattle Day.
Australia day is hugely problematic, Jan 26 ought to be a National day of mourning and Jan 27 our national day of reconciliation.
States the statistics back this up, provides no statistics.
Haven’t dug into the data but from reading this article it seems like having untreated diseases/poor health in general increases the risk of dementia rather than these classes of drugs directly reduce risk.
I’d also suggest that being vaccinated and being prescribed these medications is correlated with being in regular contact with the healthcare system which may be the more relevant factor.
My wife and I are moving from the Midwest to the Southwest in a couple of months and I wanted to get her a classy warm jacket as a Christmas present, must’ve visited 15 clothing stores in Perth and couldn’t find anything. I see why your silly fast fashion places don’t want to use the space but there is a market for winter clothes out of season.
We need to start letting people and organisations know that this isn’t acceptable. I’ve been guilty of just using an anonymous account or letting it slide but having a mailing list is not much effort for example, honestly having a basic website is pretty cheap and easy.
As always I have serious reservations about calling representative government democracy at all, that being said I think that fixed term lengths is a greater step forward in democracy than a longer term length would be a step back. If that’s the compromise I think it’s worthwhile.
The observation I found most interesting here is obvious but hadn’t occurred to me. That is that the RBA is going to find it increasingly difficult to justify not reducing interest rates going into the election. As much as that has almost nothing to do with the government if voters are feeling economic pressures lifting and the ALP can get some media traction with it they’ve got a chance.
The idea that capitalism and liberal representative (I refuse to use the word democratic) government are the only viable option are so ingrained. It makes it difficult to engage anyone in serious discussion of alternatives.
What I do is point out injustice when you come across it and suggest a socialist solution. Don’t mention socialism, talk about unions, worker ownership, workplace democracy, social housing, structural injustice.
If you get pushback I will say something like “I feel like our political system is so focused on capitalist solutions that often good sensible policies don’t get considered”
With people you interact with frequently this approach will usually, over time, result in them no longer thinking you’re a crackpot and often soften them up for a more detailed discussion in which you can discuss revolutionary change.
This is the best I have been able to do. Interested to see other responses.
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