This should also have been immediately obvious to anyone with even a fleeting memory of the constant Somali pirate hostage-taking that was a big deal only like 15 years ago!
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This should also have been immediately obvious to anyone with even a fleeting memory of the constant Somali pirate hostage-taking that was a big deal only like 15 years ago!
Baby refused to nap in her crib so I had to drive her around in the car for half an hour. It’s like she doesn’t even realise the Strait of Hormuz is closed 🙄
Fascinating glimpse into flying over Afghan airspace (this is an industry piece full of incomprehensible lingo which I nonetheless found as pleasing as Stephen Maturin listen to Jack Aubrey talk about sailing) ops.group/blog/2026-af...
Anyway I do sincerely think Melbourne is one of the world’s best cities to live in, esp. if you take cost of living into account, but also that it peaked 15 years ago; the fact that I was in my early twenties 15 years ago is surely coincidental
The Guardian for some reason exploring the methodology without pointing out the obvious: as with e.g. Lonely Planet, the editors’ thumbs are on the scale to select a different city every year because that’s what creates buzz and sells Time Out subscriptions www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Lol that the first person the Age quotes here cites Melbourne’s “slower pace” as its best feature - famously an attribute people seek in cities!
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My pet peeve was people applying it literally to self-driving cars. We aren’t going to program self-driving cars to do anything other than *brake* in an emergency for the same reason we don’t train human drivers to do anything else.
Glanced at X and Americans are furious that Australia has refused to grant asylum and sent the Iranian women’s soccer team back to their deaths, if you were wondering how the American information environment is going
Had never heard of UKMTO before this and assumed it was a global body that was UK-administered from historical inertia, but apparently it’s specifically a Gulf thing. Still an interesting quirk that it’s UK-led.
A good thread about “handmade slop” as opposed to AI slop
I think the reason for this wilful blindness, on the part of the American commentariat, is just a deep-seated unwillingness since 2016 to accept that this is all really, actually, truly happening
Sai Wan surréaliste, années 1950 - Fan Ho (1931–2016), photographe et cinéaste hongkongais d'origine chinoise célèbre pour ses images en noir et blanc poétiques et très contrastées du Hong Kong des années 1950-60, marquées par un jeu magistral d’ombres, de lumière et de composition.
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Generally speaking, yeah, but in this specific example the US has allegedly already spent $4b, not “millions.” So how many billions are we talking in terms of what’s being defended?
I realise that’s just the surface level meaning and it’s actually a racist dog whistle, but it’s funny that even the surface level cover is unappealing
A stirring tribute by new Nationals leader Matt Canavan to the party’s traditional values of close-mindedness, parochialism and fear of change
Why do smoke alarm batteries only ever decide they’re low and start chirping at 2:00am?
It reminds me of the way foreign heads of state have to deal with Trump. Everyone else is required to continue to behave like mature adults while the Trump White House is just sticking paperclips into electrical sockets to see what happens
*Most* Aussies and Kiwis, *most* of the time from early 2020 to late 2021, did not have to fuck around with masks and restrictions and remote learning and all that shit. Even in the places that also had to do a few cumulative months of lockdown, I’d take that over the European or American experience
I think it’s a mistake to focus solely on lives saved/economy preserved as the positive for zero-COVID jurisdictions. The biggest difference between Aus/NZ and the outside world is that, despite some harsh lockdowns, across the 18-month period we were generally freer and had fewer restrictions!
my prediction is this kind of gleeful anti-social, low-trust behavior is going to be stigmatized by Woke 2.0 www.curbed.com/article/whol...
Is “have only just begun to fight” a famous quote? I recall it from the end of Herman Wouk’s Winds of War (in response to Pearl Harbour) and it looks like it was also used by FDR on the campaign trail. Gross and unsurprising appropriation either way.
Yes, this has dangerously exposed Australia to the possibility that the Iranian regime might - just to pick a possibility at random here - pay local criminal networks to burn down synagogues and Jewish businesses in Australia
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Utterly infuriated that a clue on today’s Movie Grid is ‘set before 1980’ and for Christian Bale my wife picked Howl’s Moving Castle and it was an accepted answer
The relevant point of comparison is not “what did gas used to cost” it is “what does gas cost in other countries”
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It is funny that Americans think this is expensive
The US agrees to stop bombing Iran in exchange for Iran keeping the Strait open. Basically a TACO return to the status quo.