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All people have the basic needs of food and shelter. The rest are wants. Ownership of shelter is an aspiration of anyone. Without it, one is at the mercy of market forces. There is a housing affordability crisis in Australia. There is also a rental affordability crisis. People on any form of pension or welfare who don't own the roof over their head are paying out 80% of their income in rent. How would you like to be in that situation?

Please tell me how anyone's geographic location is relevant to what is being discussed on the thread. The same old BS, only Americans can understand America.

The world is changing due to wealth inequity. Something is wrong when billionaires pay less tax than a janitor. Effectively, the Boomer generation is saying we're alright Jack, tough luck about you.

The twin Nazi salute he did at Trump's post-inauguration celebration could have got him locked up if he did it in Germany, Austria or Slovakia. I call it as I see it, based on evidence.

Funny you should say that, seems you are projecting.

You are assuming everyone has the same ability to make online work pay a reasonable wage. I am guessing here, but I would say that's probably only 10% of the population in most countries. Feel free to contradict with statistics, if you can find any.

No, the loan term was 25 years. The bank manager was none too pleased when I paid off the loan in 18 months. It helped I was working in the remote area, so could rent it out. I bought the house in 1970 for $14,000. 4 bedrooms plus a bungalow. In hindsight, I should have stayed and pyramided my property purchases. An Indian guy I worked with did that, and finished up owning a dozen houses in Perth. From 1972, I have bought 5 houses, 2 townhouses. and 2 apartments. I paid cash for every one. I feel sorry for young people today, their path to home ownership is so much harder.

Do not ignore the symptoms. See a urologist ASAP. Bladder cancer has high survival rates if caught early. BCG immunotherapy is one of the most successful cancer therapies. Posted by someone who was first diagnosed with bladder cancer in 2006.

I am responsible for the mistakes I make, and try to learn from them. I've made good decisions, and bad ones. You sound as if your experiences are the fault of others. IMO that's a cop-out. But then, what would I expect from the supporter of someone whose immediate response to failure is to blame everyone else?

IIRC Trump was convicted of falsifying business records on 34 counts, by a jury of his peers. A felon is the President of the USA. Your post contains the usual deflections and evasions trotted out by MAGA acolytes. They only prove you live in the same moral and ethical vacuum as your hero. As far as reputation goes, your post put yours lower than whale feces.

Musk backed the NSAFD financially. Musk is South African. The Ossewabrandwag was a pro-Nazi Afrikaner nationalist organisation which opposed South Africa's involvement in WW2 on the Allied side. Make no mistake, he's a neo-Nazi.

It's nice to have all the mean-spirited posters identify themselves.

NMC and NCA batteries have a significantly higher risk of thermal runaway than LFP batteries, and i'll bet there are still quite a few of them around in scooters, phones etc. Zeekr, Xpeng and NIO are EV carmakers that still use NMC and NCA battery technology.

My GF was 23 years younger than me when I met her. I was 67 yo. Please tell me why I should settle for someone my own age, when I don't have to.

You may be right. Putting it another way, would you take the risk?

I would not be concerned about the risk either, if I bought an EV such as a BYD or MG. I'd be more wary of el cheapo products, where the bean counters have their pencils sharpened. I understand one of the Japanese carmakers bought a BYD to strip down for the purpose of reverse engineering, and were quite shocked by the level of technical innovation.

IMO the one on the right would be barely legal age, if that.

IMO you are missing the key fact of a lithium battery fire vs ICE. Yes, it is statistically indisputable ICE fires are far more frequent than Li battery fires. BUT ICE fires do not have their own oxygen supply. Battery fires do, which is why they are so difficult to extinguish.

My only experience with an electric scooter is in Australia. The stand-on type, not seated. While they are fun, IMO one is extremely vulnerable to side winds or passing traffic. They have no mass to speak of, to give stability. With the very small diameter wheels, they also don't handle road corrugations at all well. I am not aware of electric scooters being made with the same dimensions as a Honda Click, although I have not been looking.

Apart from the fact the ones I worked with were bone lazy, they were also delusional. In the aftermath of the Six Day War, Israel captured the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Old City, and Golan Heights. The guys I was working with were listening to Radio Cairo, and were convinced the Egyptian Army was hammering on the gates of Jerusalem.

If Trump said everyone with 2 legs gets $5000, he'd be lying, as usual.

We can accept what our mentors and peers teach us, or question it. My father hated Jews. He said Hitler had the right idea about them. I can only assume sometime in the past, a Jew bested him or cheated him in a business deal. When I was in secondary school, there were a few Jewish kids in the class i was in. As far as I was concerned, they were the same as everyone else. OTOH, I don't have any time for Arabs. That is based on my experiences working with them.

If the OP just wants coffee, buy tins of it with milk already included, such as Nescafe Latte. The smallest six-pack of milk in cardboard is another option.

Expect more of that to happen. If Kash Patel fires everyone in the FBI, the cases of kidnapping and home-grown terrorism will probably skyrocket.