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"you stole a horse, rode off with only that clothes on your back and a peasant's standing, and somehow came back with enough money to buy a lord's manor?"
"Yes"
"Oh cool, no further questions" *love eyes*

Not to contribute to discourse (TM), but – amidst a sea of valid complaints about how Wuthering Heights neither follows the novel closely enough not stands up on its own – the fact Heathcliff turns up after years, looms in the mist, and is simply just "rich" now, with no explanation, is pretty funny

Seriously though, I think we turned this around in under 24 hours during the last crisis and it holds up pretty well, if you want the broad strokes, if I say so myself

The Strait of Hormuz is the most important oil choke point in the world. Use our interactive map to explore it Australia has committed to joining the US and the UK in a mission to protect oil ships in the Strait of Hormuz. But why is the Strait the source of so much tension between the US and Iran?

Ah, first Strait of Hormuz crisis?
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I don't know man, maybe this is why you *fucking regulate gambling and futures markets you sick fucks*

I guess the Department of Defence really needed Claude *this* weekend

Man, if your phone is doing the AI screening thing, and you need it for work, I have to imagine you could be missing a decent number of legitimate calls.
I don't think it's once got my name right, often using whatever other noun in the sentence is available instead

The ‘gentle’ yet profitable solution to Melbourne’s housing crisis A popular style of housing offers more homes in parts of Melbourne where people want to live, and it’s already on the rise.

The townhouse is (quietly) probably the number one solution to increasing density and supply of houses in Melbourne without annoying NIMBYs or pushing apartments that aren't commercially viable (in places they aren't wanted). And we already love them.
www.theage.com.au/property/new...

The Shepard Tone but it's the opening bars of Waterloo Sunset

Man, season two of The Night Manager is a hard watch if you love Le Carré.
The story may be vaguely interesting but the spycraft is dreadful. Like obvious, no hoops stuff.
So disappointing.

I think it depends on how you define colonial. Also not trying to be pendantic, but just because we became a nation we didn't stop being a colony, in respect to how we end up here/policies etc. And a lot of the coveted inner Melbourne stock is Victorian terrace housing. But yeah, O'Brien has a pov!

Is season 2 of The Pitt just a massive PSA about not riding motorcycles?

It's not wrong though, however we feel about it

The surprising feature Melburnians want in a home Home owners are looking for prestige, character and scale, even though that can sometimes come with hidden complications.

Melburnians bloody love heritage homes. But ... Y tho? www.theage.com.au/property/new...

The surprising feature Melburnians want in a home Home owners are looking for prestige, character and scale, even though that can sometimes come with hidden complications.

Melburnians bloody love heritage homes. But ... Y tho? www.theage.com.au/property/new...

'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

[Lindisfarne]

Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth-

Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH

British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!

When I realise I'm only 1/3 of the way down the waterslide

Thank you!

If China's emissions had kept growing at previous levels emissions would like, what, maybe a full GIGATONNE higher....the area of avoided emissions here is like deleting the emissions of entire countries. This is happening at a scale that will very clearly have an effect in lessening disasters

It's a great laugh!

Comedians pick on me for my loud laugh – but nothing will make me stop | Jane Howard It’s the part of myself I’m most frequently embarrassed by – but as comedy festival season approaches, I’m prepared for the worst

It's me in the Guardian on how comedians bully me 😂 www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Obviously proper orgs are going to be vetting, verifying, etc, we're just in a time when everyone can go through these (or any public info dump) and has tools they think they can trust to do the work... And they're pretty clunky

And part two, because of the 3 min limit here (2/2)

If you're combing through the Epstein files with an LLM, or are reading people who are, I'd exercise a degree of caution.
Watch this test from tiktok of various models to do something simple like count the spells in the Harry Potter novels & think about the complexity of typo ridden emails (1/2)

How far house prices would fall if the capital gains tax discount changed House prices have risen more than fourfold since the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount was introduced in 1999.

House prices have risen significantly more than inflation since the CGT discount was introduced in 1999... Cutting it won't cause them to fall.
But there could be other benefits.

Frank Woodley and I sampled boutique ice creams in a supermarket and waggled our eyebrows at each other about how good it was.

How far house prices would fall if the capital gains tax discount changed House prices have risen more than fourfold since the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount was introduced in 1999.

House prices have risen significantly more than inflation since the CGT discount was introduced in 1999... Cutting it won't cause them to fall.
But there could be other benefits.

This is sort of like when the FBI was listening to that Louie Louie song in the 60’s to figure out if it was obscene but here they could ask 900 million people what the words are

The world is so much poorer for not having Jon Kudelka in it