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see also: Elon Musk and the Thai cave rescue
not sure why everyone thinks this is such a big problem when an obvious solution exists
light sweet crude sounds delicious
what if we built a sick skate ramp jump and shot oil containers onto the ramp with rockets and then caught them at the other end. can this be a solution??
Robodebt was the great test of Australia’s accountability mechanisms – and they failed
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Most economists agree that by the time you're 50, you should be living in a book-filled cottage at the edge of the forest and solving minor mysteries in your village with the aid of a curious ghost cat.
If we're doing it right
I have a chart / blog post about this I could write, but the gist is that most conservatives fundamentally don't understand the reason why people are having fewer kids and so will never be able to address the issue.
When introducing yourself to voters, it’s good to make sure you don’t get off to a creepy start
Reaching net zero by 2050 ‘cheaper for UK than one fossil fuel crisis’
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Been really getting into makeup tutorials lately, and I know Canavan loves a bit of coal cosplay
I spent 4 months trying to answer a simple question: has this book been translated into my language?
Turns out no one tracks this. Not ISBN registries. Not Amazon. Not Google. Not libraries.
So I built a tool that crosses four databases to piece it together.
zenodot.app
Claims from the Liberal Party's new leadership team that half a million migrants have entered the country each year under Labor are misleading, experts say www.aap.com.au/factcheck/li...
As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy
Thinking about the 60 emoji again
Five members of Iranian women’s football team reportedly seeking to remain in Australia
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
unfortunately I am on secondment in the UK without my ipad so I can't personally be drawing barrels 😢
Rather than show him wearing his golf hat throughout the ceremony while he saluted cases carrying the remains of the first six US troops to die in his war on Iran, Fox News hid it from viewers by using old video footage of Donald Trump
O God!
is this a thing outside of romantasy/romance fandom? if you take the big dawgs of regular fantasy for example, like Brando Sando, many still write and sell third person
The US doesn’t seem to understand how many targets there are for Iran in the Gulf.
Attacking the desalination plant in Iran is monstrous in itself as so many people depend on them, but it also opens up the way for Iran to target the Gulf’s desalination plants, which would also be monstrous
Water returns to Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre after summer evaporation almost dried it out. link.dataspace.copernicus.eu/jeac
A cool little Mycena that I photographed in Oxapampa, Perú. Never seen one with this cool stem texture before, no idea which species it could be.
Olympus OM-1 / 90 mm macro lens / 180 images stacked, ISO 200, f/5.
#mushrooms #mycena #fungifriends #olympus
Cladonia sp lichen. NWT, Canada.
Lichen is about 3cm high. #lichen #fungi #fungifriends
Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success
I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”
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