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For a director he compiles a powerful soundtrack album, that’s what I’ll say for Tarantino [more]
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That mysterious font is Festive, not Stymie
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Kiwis! Whimsical champions of deadpan humour! What could be more irony-laden than building tunnels as transport nodes in one of the most geologically active places on the planet? Now that’s John Clarke level humour IMO [more]
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I guess the male equivalent of an fantasy economic system I was thinking about just this question, implied in the whole discussion. What does this look like for men, and indeed why don't any men want to be tradwives? When I asked myself why I… [more]
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Right-to-left Cartesian planes
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It all depends where. In common law countries you would not have a ‘default’ ruling, guilty or otherwise; you may have a mistrial. In NSW where I am, first, intimidation like this would be its own separate [extremely serious] offence. Secondly,… [more]
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The thing about film isn't just that it's an endpoint to a complex industrial infrastructure (though it definitely is, an extraordinary one, maybe one of the most interesting of the 20thC). It's also that the use case for film has completely altered… [more]
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It's not just because their coffee sucks (though it does). The other reason why Starbucks has been a failure in Australia is because our economy of retail commercial rent is incredibly marginal, especially in the centre of our [few] major… [more]
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When was the last time you had a holiday? When I feel like this it's usually because I haven't had significant time off in too long. [more]
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Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert, Found
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He recommends that struggling navigators ask themselves which way is north 10 times a day, This is the thing though the article identifies that people from cities with complex/irregular layouts have different core assumptions to people from grid… [more]
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The bizarre thing is that as instantly recognisable and culturally important as this bus is, it’s not even the most famous bus from a movie in 1994 [more]
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‘Viva Cristo Rey’ was a slogan of the Carlists (who were monarchist absolutists, and opposed to liberal parliamentary democracy and communism both, and of course, to Jews) who fought, most recently, in the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War on the Francoist… [more]
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it's pretty effective to deter a crime to punish it by putting someone in prison for a few years, but increasing that punishment doesn't do much to deter the crime any more There's a distinction between deterrence and denunciation, both principles… [more]
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Re. Ray Bradbury. He belongs IMO with a much earlier generation of American literature of writing about frontier and anxiety about expansion. He’s far closer than anyone realises to Jack London, who has really compelling stories about sled dogs and… [more]
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Came for the oysters, note the inevitable Star Trek joke. In another alternative universe Gene Roddenberry, instead of writing a series with a Captain Cook figure, chooses Captain Arthur Phillip instead and comes up with a gritty space prison drama… [more]
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Drunk -> very drunk -> extremely drunk -> Rugby League Drunk [more]
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Keep your water bottle antiseptic by adding 1:25 hand sanitiser in it. Adds a certain zing to the work morning. [more]
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5/5 and I expected nothing less. In fact I have a [correct] cup of tea just like this in front of me right now; a hot drink made strong with a mild stimulant, and milk to provide sugars and fats. It's the workplace drug of the Industrial Revolution… [more]
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My mother had a t-shirt, in the 1980s, with the slogan 'it will be a great day when the air force has to hold a cake sale to buy a bomber'. Since February 2022 I've often been thinking of that t-shirt. [more]
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But Zannini warns that protecting these places will require more than simply integrating them into national protected-area networks. Many sacred natural sites, he says, are distinctive precisely because they exist separate from official conservation… [more]
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I am begging you, Americans, please stop doing this. When Ukraine-supportive watchers (as I am, and as there are a lot of in this thread) express concern about the fucking Azov, please don't jump in to say 'but actually America does this too'. At the… [more]
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Gently, the way you and others here define 'faith' 'belief' and 'spirituality' seem so broad as to be useless for actually identifying what it is about how people interact with the world that's numinous. In the twentieth century, the Soviet Union… [more]
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This is all set for a years-long playoffs-style knockout tournament to find the Best Rougon-Macquart novel of them all. (It’s Germinal FWIW) [more]
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This is all extremely silly. To the comparison that the US had slavery which retains profound effects, you can easily say that Alexander III emancipated the serfs, and wind up in favour of Tsarism. This kind of relentless comparisonism robs any… [more]
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Moon Train
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Elsewhere a friend suggested that the lunar environment (low gravity, no wind) would make aerial ropeways and gondolas a viable technology for this. So what we’re really talking about is spies fighting Lunar Nazis on top of a cable car; Where Eagles… [more]
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Sounds like vertigo symptoms, which can be brought on by inner ear complaints. [more]
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who owns the 'land' rights to the moon? There is a Moon Agreement, which is in force with power given by the United Nations, but neither the USA nor China (nor any other country that would realistically be engaged in moon rail) is a signatory. [more]
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Even then the comparisonism of prison to prison society fails, and serves to elude the genuine differences. The US has an extensive prison industrial complex. It does not yet offer pardons at a mass scale, to inmates willing to join storm-Z units for… [more]
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It's a young men's (under 30s) thing in Australia. See it all the time. [more]
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One of the most carefully used, and historically consistent anti-western propaganda tropes is that only the West ever has agency, such as that Ukraine is reduced in this to a proxy force fighting on behalf of NATO, which in turn is a paw of the… [more]
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Everyone wants to reintroduce koalas. Real heads want to reintroduce diprotodon. [more]
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OTOH, God Emperor of Dune, filmed live-action with all the pompousness and Jason Momoa of it all, except that Leto II is a felt sandworm muppet. Make it happen Hollywood. [more]
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Consider the characteristics of the Royal Family. They're they're to talk about, and for people to tell tall stories about, they're very famous but essentially local symbols (to the UK, and to England more specifically), they straddle the line… [more]
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[non-American reading] oh right, not *that* IRA [more]
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On December 29, armed with binoculars, his PI badge, golf clubs, Nicorette lozenges (for during), and weed (for after), he began a stakeout in his black SUV. His legion of off-duty security guards, out-of-work 20-somethings, and ex-cons took relief… [more]
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Similar to beccaj’s example, Sydney had Ernie The Fridge Man. [more]
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I am a huge Davies fan. For readers new to him, a great entry point is his Lying for Money, about the history (and economic-sociological theory) of frauds. [more]
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One such is in The Road To Wigan Pier (pp191--192): Under the capitalist system, in order that England may live in comparative comfort, a hundred million Indians must live on the verge of starvation--an evil state of affairs, but you acquiesce in… [more]
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If you haven’t done Sloth On A Hot Tin Roof I don’t know why you’re even trying. [more]
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Tired: single link youtube post Wired: single link obscure single-interest Old Web post Inspired: single link mystery meat post [more]
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Arthur pulls a sword from a stone, famously, yes, but there’s a lot of ambiguity here in the Arthurian canon: Excalibur is also a gift from the Lady of the Lake and includes a special scabbard, which has healing powers; literally a magical vagina. [more]
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A lot of what you're smelling on the airport tarmac is unburned fuel and fumes, as well as exhaust from fully burned fuel. Aircraft engines, especially jet engines, are most efficient at high altitudes and at cruising speed, and very inefficient at… [more]
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I have seen this musical, and from my best memory he’s about right. [more]
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Step By Step Repair
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My father, who learned to cook in the Australian 1940s and 1950s, used to make a ‘curry’ which involved lamb, butter, curry powder, sultanas, apple, flour, all kinds of things. Obviously it bore absolutely no resemblance to any food from SE Asia or… [more]
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I can believe that the whole thing was a well-funded artificial campaign by a secretive set of bad-faith actors, using disinformation and black propaganda to advance the causes of autocratic governments and dictatorships, because let's face it… [more]
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Mostly I’m sorry for Flava Flav who needs his catchphrase back, and the KLF who *really* know what time love is [more]
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