How long did the 70s oil shock last? Any chance we see a turn to smaller cars?
13.03.2026 09:10
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How long did the 70s oil shock last? Any chance we see a turn to smaller cars?
*waves*
It makes zero logical sense to require speed limiters on e-scooters & e-bikes but not SUVs that weigh 100x more.
Useful research here.
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100% this. Itβs not visibly queer, but it also feels very very safe. Like, the folks doing tβai chi or yoga donβt care.
I bloody loved this report of Maxie Shieldβs funeral and after party. Absolutely cackled when I got to the bit where it was streamed in venues along Oxford street and that they called the wake an after party.
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
LMFAO SOMEONE MADE IT A REAL THING
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I think every single day about βThe ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks donβt.β
if there tiktok videos sending up your software, and they go uber-viral because *everyone has experienced your software doing what they're making fun of*, maybe it's, like, bad software?
Stosur not even youngest on WTA: Hingis was only 16 from memory.
Gosh, I sure hope the AI industry isnβt reliant on oil, otherwise weβd have some kind of looming economic disaster on our hands
Chart showing Brent Oil over the last week, now at 112.87 up from 101.69 at the start of trade.
You know that post I had a few hours ago, about oil spiking to 100 dollars a barrel.
It did not age well.
Now over $113 a barrel and still climbing.
Oh great, it is now 113.29 in the time it took be to do this post.
there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran
The Iranian regime is properly awful, of course, but any pundit or analyst who cannot think beyond that to ask if this war is a good idea or if it has been well-planned or executed in a legal and constitutional manner or if it is wise to bring a democracy to war with zero debate is frankly a fool.
97th percentile for height as a kid. I was often assumed to be older than I was and expected to behave βresponsiblyβ. Never even think about it as an adult, except that my wife and I literally see the kitchen differently - I regularly put things in places that turn out to be invisible to her.
Oh my gosh this is the CUTEST thing β¦β¦
Love is a choice between two people made every day.
there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for
The deep secular vs religious between Australia and Indonesia is so underrated imo 'we need to know each other better' means understanding a dimension of religiosity that Australians are really disinclined towards.
My latest article for Educate magazine is all about verse novels. In it, I explore how they can help make reading possible for children who might feel overwhelmed by the amount of text on a page, why they work brilliantly as read-alouds and how they're helpful for developing empathy.
They're calling it the imperial boomerang, folks. They say it's the biggest boomerang they've ever seen, maybe even a plane of some kind. Whatever it is, it's coming right back to us, right back to us. The haters say it's not returning to the imperial core, but folks it's called a boomerang for a re
A platypus lower jaw and upper jaw, showing one remaining horny pad and three empty sockets where the pads have fallen out. From the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
The #platypus has solved the key flaw of mammal teeth - that they can't be replaced*: #platypuses got rid of teeth. Instead they have horny pads to smash the crayfish & larvae they eat. As they wear down, they just regrow like fingernails.
*Unless you're a nabarlek, a rock-wallaby with endless teeth
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
Back at it observation sketching again
Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor
Youβre welcome. Happy day! π
*You know that Ursula Le Guin myth about "Omelas"? Well this world is the opposite of that. There's this secret, ritual chamber holding eighty moguls in luxurious contentment, while the entire planet and everyone in it is in obvious suffering and decay
"The Knight hadn't signed up for this. This was Debate. Debate was why the gods had created priests and trade union committee members. Not knights." π
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Let me get all of this straight in my head. They want their allies to join in an ill-thought-out war of choice with unclear aims and an uncertain chance of success for any of the myriad aims stated so far. They want everyone else to just absorb any of the externalities like influxes of refugees, disruptions to shipping, higher oil and commodity prices and maybe even some incoming missiles. And then they also want to tariff everyone at 15%. I'm not sure they can keep pushing at everyone all at once indefinitely. There seems to be an inability here not just to anticipate second and third order effects, but even just to model a response from any other party, much less every other party.
Sure: they looked at decades of obsequious grovelling to one President after another and concluded - we can do whatever we want, and these clowns will just wear it and come crawling back to us begging for more. And what, have we seen any indications that this is wrong? No.
people's minds would be BLOWN if they found out why Trent Lott resigned as republican leader nearly a quarter century ago
Thing I discovered: Name, Name Jr., Name III = TrΓ©/Tres/Trey/Trip[le]. You meet a Tre or Trip, thereβs good chance they are βthird of his nameβ. American Southern thing mostly.
interesting that it's taken as a given that the US should have a hand in shaping who the iranian people choose as their leader
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