PTV app somehow is not great at pulling data from the PTV API, I can’t recall exact examples, but I’ve seen nonsense like this quite a lot.

Fines for negligence are far too low. The fine needs to be large enough to incentivise the bean counters to actually invest in safe operations. (Applies to all industries).

$525,000 is peanuts, can barely buy an apartment for that much

Turns out the City of Melbourne have a reporting form for illegally parked cars, which they action in real time.

Just got a Tesla fined for parking in a car share spot lol

Wouldn’t normally do this, but it’s always a Tesla or BMW parking in car share spots.

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/illegally-parked-or-abandoned-vehicles

It’s honestly incredible we manage to elect anyone other than right-wing parties at all, given the media environment.

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They’re just worried they’ll lose next year because of their 2019 election loss, which was largely seen as a rebuke on negative gearing reform proposals.

Make no mistake, this minister is trying to keep their older voters, who have sizable housing investments.

Anyone who thinks rising house prices (in real terms) is actually good for society is brain-dead.

Supply is at least part of the solution. Just we need way more of it. And way less of this short-sighted, inefficient, isolating, detached housing sprawl.

I’d put forward all new complexes be made x% public housing, that would put a dent in the problem, and also reduce stigma to public housing, because it’ll be everywhere, and people are integrated into the community, not shoved all in one, under-maintained spot.

While I am massively pro human centric transpiration (walkable cities, bicycle infrastructure, public transport), this take makes no sense.

Cars have their place, for certain deliveries, disabled people, emergency services.

Cars are unsafe at any speed, but we can’t just get them off the road tomorrow. We need to stop over funding more road projects and instead plow it into overhauling our infrastructure.

Bob and Betty citizen living in the outer suburbs because we keep building detached houses can’t afford to not drive. There’s no bloody train.

More trains, more apartments (with better Owners Corporation laws), more bike lanes.

Bit by bit, we can take the cars off the road.

This ban is garbage because hate speech is already illegal.

If you’re a Nazi “protesting” outside a synagogue, yeah off to jail you go, no new laws required.

This is anti-protest, pure and simple.

Ah heck, thanks for the tip. That’s not terribly convenient 😅

As much as we’d prefer to go back to free uni like we used to have, you could adopt something like Australia has. Minimum repayments based on your income, interest tied to inflation only. 👍

Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunately many of the ones I want to find are “no longer listed” and the internet archive didn’t have any snapshots.

We really ought to prevent any further loss of fertile land. Want to expand housing? Time to build up, our sprawl and lack of PT connections in the fringes of the “city” is getting out of hand.

On the internet whoever you’re conversing with is male unless explicitly stated

“OH mY gOd, aRE yoU a GiRL???” In a game lobby.

Same vibes.

Just reiterating, that the original poster was German as I suspected, and pointing it out might spare them being misunderstood in the future. I have no regrets.

Yeah I guess I reordered it “Just let the user decide themselves…” in my head.

As I guessed the commenter was a German speaker. This is a very common occurrence and not something malicious (check like every boardgame from Germany referring to “the player” as “he”), just lost in translation.

Never meant to be annoying or holier-than-thou, people can genuinely misunderstand that it’s some sexist remark, and so I pointed it out. Just said it so the commenter hopefully isn’t misunderstood in the future.

So, if you feel that’s some woke-ass snowflake nonsense, be my guest lol

Yeah that’s what I guessed! Alles gut :)

Can you blanket block comments from other instances users?

I am not a fan of Beehaw’s decision, but I can’t a setting where you can actually do this.

I’m gonna give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you’re a second language speaker where “user” is a masculine noun, but other genders exist lol. I encourage you to use “themselves” instead.