Alan Austin, via Independent Australia, has been publishing articles about the state of the economy in an effort to counter the current backyard barbecue headcanon that everything has gone to pot and Albanese's government are the devil.

Austin's latest points out that, No Pauline, 63 per cent of Australians do not use candles, and he gave solid stats on previous governments in this one: Specialists refuse to correctly diagnose best economy ever

However, national figures are never going to communicate a true picture of who's doing it tough, who's doing fine, who's doing well because they're doing good, and who's living the high life by extracting from others and trashing the planet. Means, and even medians abound, but what are the modes of Australian life? Anybody have good data sources they'd like to share?

For example, nationally, luxury spending is apparently up, on private schools, overseas trips etc, but at what income do people do that spending? In what parts of the country? National employment figures are 'good' but what about graduates?

In his bio, it says Austin currently lives in the south of France :) I guess he has a traveller's perspective on how good Australia is.

Australia take note - they're tackling supply!

Reduce fed. regulations, streamline environmental reviews, speed up construction process, limit corporations' ability to purchase single-family homes.

If AI doesn't become super profitable, at least we'll have some big data centres to store and process government surveillance data? Underpants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpnM37A4P_8 Profit: https://stories.theconversation.com/can-australia-build-one-of-the-worlds-largest-data-centres/

Wondering what will become of the schools, college, retirement village across the road. They're already surrounded by industry. The article doesn't mention noise and vibration, which is the main complaint, apart from electricity costs, from neighbours of data centres in the US.

Go Annabel. The history of taxation is not only interesting but vital knowledge.

Government increases mental health funding after mass murder by schizophrenic… I’m sorry, I read that wrong.

I understand what pon farr is, but where is the photo from? Which is the original? When was it taken and why? Is the original negative/print held by a particular organisation?

“Check surroundings for safety”. Fuck you, man.

Functional Neurological Disorder aka Dissociative neurological symptom disorder aka Conversion Disorder?

The latter has the following diagnostic criteria in DSM V:

1. One or more symptoms of altered voluntary motor or sensory function.
2. Clinical findings can provide evidence of incompatibility between the symptom and recognized neurological or medical conditions.
3. Another medical or mental disorder does not better explain the symptom or deficit.
4. The symptom or deficit results in clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other vital areas of functioning or warrants medical evaluation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_neurologic_disorder?wprov=sfti1

We don’t seem to have a Lemmy community for any of these yet? True? Maybe we need to get together on ‘Diagnoses of exclusion’?