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  • b1_@kbin.socialtoMelbourne@aussie.zone•Victoria to axe Commonwealth Games plans due to financial concerns
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    1 year ago

    The Olympic Committee specifically asked for bids that emphasized no-budget-blowouts due to many previous Olympics essentially bankrupting cities and the bad rep that was causing to the Olympics brand, and Brisbane’s bid was the only one that stacked up to scrutiny, is what I understand. So at least it wasn’t just politicians by themselves blowing smoke up are collective arses for a change - there was some kind of scrutiny.

    I think the Gabba is a special case. They have been wanting to expand/fix the Gabba district for ages - the two 4-lane roads on either side that the back of the stands over-hang has been a problem forever. Olympics has given them a chance to fix the whole thing, link it up with the river better. They put in the bus tunnels to fix access fairly recently. Adelaide Oval had similar growing pains - that stadium put in large sail structures back in the 2000’s that were completely redone only 5 or 10 years later. The Gabba is a signature bit of infrastructure in the inner city worth doing - they will probably use it for big concerts and so on. The whole of the inner Brisbane city is coming along nicely, Southbank and bikeway upgrades and bridges, docks - it’s getting there.

    The Olympics aren’t the Commonwealth games, it’s a global audience - think commonwealth games + china, north and south america, the rest of Europe. And Brisbane is an obscure city on the world stage, but has amazing weather and natural tourists attraction, theme parks - I think Brisbane will get value for money, put it on the map.

  • b1_@kbin.socialtoMelbourne@aussie.zone•Victoria to axe Commonwealth Games plans due to financial concerns
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    1 year ago

    Brisbane won the Olympics on an everything-is-already-built-so-no-blow-out-in-cost-likely campaign, and they were basically the only credible bid so got it with no contest. I think the Gabba is being upgraded because it was due for a face-lift anyway. Something like that - bris olympics is different situation.

    And I think Bris Olympics only lacks accommodation facilities which will be built, then those apartments will very much help with the housing crisis after Olympics, so it all works and helps the city in the long run.

    And pretty large satellite cities share the load, Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast, is a point of difference also.

    Thats’s my vague understanding, but don’t quote me.

  • b1_@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•And then comes the wonderful realm of the BSDs and the OpenSolaris derivatives
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, okay, I am a little bit techy, but so far I haven’t had to employ any of my limited techy abilities in Linux Mint. I didn’t even notice I was using it more, it just happened over a few months that I was finding there was no need to go back to Windows. To load programs on Linux Mint I just google “How to load program X on Linux”, and there will be a page saying, type “sudo apt install <program_name>” in Terminal and it always works and I’m done. (I’m a beginner programmer who was told to try Linux for the Unix stuff) .

    If you’re a gamer, I would look up any discussion of gaming in Linux - that would be my only proviso.

  • b1_@kbin.socialtoMemes@lemmy.ml•And then comes the wonderful realm of the BSDs and the OpenSolaris derivatives
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t say I’m that techy and I recently jumped over to Linux Mint from Windows because it has the C-compiler gcc pre-installed and it’s UNIX seems to be a better experience for programming. It was easy to install, I find I’m going back to Windows less and less. I used to use Photoshop a lot, now I’m just using Krita. I’m lovin it so far. Only games are a problem maybe, although the game I play has a linux version, I just can’t be bothered loading yet.

    Linux Mint is supposed to be the easy for-the-layman Linux distro and that’s been my experience so far - everything has worked, no issues.

  • b1_@kbin.socialtoAustralia@aussie.zone•Australia’s baby drought underscores challenges facing young workers
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    1 year ago

    We need a plan not just one fix. Governments are supposed to look at the whole picture and make changes so that the economy and society as a whole ‘sings’. They are supposed to make plans for the near, medium and far future. All we’ve had for the past decade is right-wing governments getting into power and then everything they did from then on was about winning the next election at any cost - they were parasites that did nothing to improve pretty much anything, and now we are suffering because of that.

    We need a plan like Germany and Japan had after WWII to transition their destroyed countries into economic powerhouses 30 years later. We need long term planning like Norway has done with their resources and their sovereign fund. Yes we need big-australia immigration but combine it with education improvements and so on - do this and this other thing, and combine it with that because of this reason, and the result of all these things combined will be greater than the sum of their parts.

    If we don’t start planning we will continue to suffer and living standards will continue to nose-dive.