Seems relevant - all news organisations, including public broadcasters, don't care what you think about their programs. They only care about your eyeballs. Hatewatching a program is identical to being a fanboi of it. They die when eyeballs stop.
Anyone got any recommendations for how to do family history interviews? My mum wants to get her life story down & I’ve volunteered to interview/tape/transcribe/assemble it. Had our first go yesterday and what emerged was not 6000 words of publishable, coherent, emotionally precise reflection.
So Taco tacoed
celegraph Trump calls Iran war 'complete' after call with Putin
“Mission accomplished” - the (even more of an) idiot’s version.
And he didn’t just call it complete - it’s “very complete”.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi says several countries, including China, Russia and France, have contacted Iran about a possible ceasefire.
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
NATO shoots down an Iranian ballistic missile that entered Turkish airspace TODAY, Turkish Defense Ministry says.
He also said that a “large tanker” went through the Strait of Hormuz “about 24 hours ago.” He did not identify the tanker, and a spokesman for the Department of Energy did not respond to requests for more details on the ship. A small tanker apparently carrying fuel oil went through the strait in the last 24 hours, said Dimitris Ampatzidis, a senior risk and compliance analyst at Kpler, a global ship tracking firm. Its transponder, a device that transmits a ship’s location, was on, which is why it could be tracked. Vessels sometimes turn off their transponders to avoid being spotted in the strait. Mr. Ampatzidis said the vessel, the Parimal, appeared to have connections to Iran. “I don’t believe this vessel can be used as an indication that traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is returning to normal,” he said.
This confirmation that Energy Sec Chris Wright was boasting that IRAN was able to get a tanker thru the Strait raises an interesting possibility: That China resume shipping oil, but no one else can.
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I know someone in Fitzroy with three wheelie bins full of diesel. Nothing to do with me but he says good price for you cash.
Using Shoebridge’s logic, aus shouldn’t have sent Bushmasters to Ukraine, which I am sure some of his most ardent supporters would have issue with
the profits have spoken
Musk isn't putting a server farm in space and he isn't launching a million rockets. Don't say "it will be v bad for the environment if Musk launches a million rockets", say "this man is a fraud, his pyramid scheme will collapse at about the time his crony [redacted], and all of this shit is pretend"
Matt is one of the truly good ones of the film critic community, and is always thoughtful and kind in both his online dealings and his writing.
Now's a good time to strongly consider purchasing some of his stuff.
You won't regret it.
When talking about the enshittification of something, we need to work out a scale of bad to really bad and call it the enshittifactor.
Former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern has criticised the dominance of “strongman” leadership in global politics, arguing the model has failed to deliver the stability and unity many voters once hoped it would.
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Get the facts on fuel supply.
All these people whining about a entry fee to the new Twelve Apostles visitor centre better not visit Cradle Mountain then. Victoria really is full of whingers. 🙄🙄🙄
To try and shore up public support Charles X invaded Algeria in the hope a quick victory would be popular. He didn't see out the year but France was still fighting there 130 years later
They don’t think they are intelligent, they think that they are right
One of the most wholesome online communities I've accidentally joined is the Facebook one where the chief engineer maintaining the retired UK HST trains that were exported to Nigeria asks retired UK railway people for tips that aren't in the formal manuals, and they provide it with great enthusiasm
I regret to inform you that if tariffs were any guide equities need to go -20% soon to avoid more war, more damage to oil and gas infra and a more durable supply shock. The harder and faster we go down the faster the TACO and the sooner we go back up.
Energy crises are food crises:
- fuel costs increase, fertilizer costs increase
- higher food prices, lower yields
- increased hunger, malnutrition
That the manual makes the users of the product feel that way really highlights how much they don’t value consumers at all!
Every year with my flu shot
I often have small panics before I use a new power tool, or undertake some repair work around the house. But eventually I work it out after lots of reading and watching of YouTube vids. If you aren’t comfortable right now, set it up once you feel more confident
Other Presidents have wanted to invade Iran, they had people around them to tell them why that was a bad idea so it never happened. Trump fired all those people and replaced them with weirdo Jesus freaks and yes men.
Vietnam to remove fuel tariffs amid supply disruption due to Iran war reut.rs/3PoqpK6
“…privatized employment services impact the social determinants of health care, are detrimental for well-being, and contribute to inequities.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #auspol
Markets are *very* unhappy about developments in Iran.
We're enjoying a public holiday today for Labour Day/Eight Hour Day, and it's a good time to remember those who fought for more humane working conditions back in the nineteenth century.
