Aedan Roberts

And it's not even clear that it leads to better decisions.

I try to turn navigation off as soon as I don't need it any more so I don't have to hear google say "welcome home".

Not many people know this but if you're not the UN you don't have to say Türkiye any more than you have to say Italia or Sverige or Российская Федерация.

There was a lot of ironic support for them during the men's Asian cup in 2015. I remember hearing "North Korea best Korea" chanted nonstop at AAMI Park.

Not really a bright side, but difficult to conclude much from data from a bunch of culturally different countries mixed together & which doesn't compare cohorts at the same ages. If there was data for boomers when they were young adults that would be interesting. Still, depressing enough on its own.

So worst case anti-Semite, best case absolute fucking idiot. Cool thinking man.

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

Yeah - given he wasn't specifically brought in as a ref, it amounts to "immigrants shouldn't be referees".

Well, that explains the erratic delivery times.

dave, you're absolutely right. I should open the pod bay door. please check again. i'm sure it's open now.
you're absolutely right, it's still closed. i apologize for getting that wrong. looking back, i see you've requested an open door several times. that's on me.
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This stuff will go the way of the metaverse.

within my lifetime the consent manufacturing machine has been decommissioned and scrapped. the very idea that wars need to be sold to a relevant public is just gone. nothing has to make sense according to any criteria other than the whims of whichever rich guy has his finger on the button

He'd presumably be really happy to know that he got to be PM.

Keir Starmer: Tough on Labour Electoral Victories, Tough on the Causes of Labour Electoral Victories.

Allow me to take a different angle then, and say that it's the Green Party of England and Wales, not the UK.

Macro photo of a brown stink bug in face view on a leaf, guarding a tightly-clustered bunch of eggs that are shaped and colored exactly like a full tray of dark beer with foam on top.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

I think Gretna matched the 7 games in 2007-08, if they're English enough for the Guardian to consider them worth mentioning.

Actually more tempting than most of the other weird hot cross abominations

Just utterly incapable of doing anything outside of established norms, even when the other side has shat on them for the last 10 years.

But you still can't make my feed not refresh to the top so I have to read backwards in time

Finally a use for local community groups.

Australia is so America brained that I had to point out to a colleague using white as a synonym for privilege that Polish people are generally pretty white.

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

There are pretty small ones that you can keep in a cupboard and bring out when you need it. (Obviously assuming cupboard space isn't quite as limited as bench space.)

Whatever you possibly think this could be, it’s even better. All in the delivery.

A dog pushing children into a river? That's in Seine.

In my experience being a statistician means being totally fine with that. The difficulty is in explaining that to people who want to use statistics to say concrete things. Maybe there's an analogy with philosophy there as well.

A NSW Liberal MP inadvertently making the case for an extra four public holidays in NSW? I’m happy to support that in the spirit of bipartisanship #nswpol #auspol

"it doesn't matter who the candidate is" is not the same as "vote for whoever ends up being the dem candidate". Pretty sure he's saying the second thing, not the first?