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  1. Sitting at the departure gate in Copenhagen airport waiting for my flight home. Arghhh… I hate long haul flights
  2. Binge watched Wednesday... loved it. Just my kind of humour
  3. I wonder if that difference is a difference in quality or a difference in time zones? Being a GMT+1 kid living in a GMT+10 adult (and lived for a few years in GMT+12 too), I'm painfully aware of the effects of time zones...
  4. I thought North Koreans spent their entire lives practicing conformity?
  5. Managed to squeeze in the two Dune movies on the flight to Singapore. Not sure what to think of it (I haven’t read the books). It reminded me of a Moebius comic, except his stories are usually more internally consistent
  6. Unless they are looking to build naval bases on Africas west coast, it’s hard to see how it would be worth the investment of resources for Russia. Propaganda? Prestige points? Ego boosting? edit unless they’re trying to pull a “Xi” on the country and strip mine it before abandoning it again
  7. Boob plate I can live with in a pinch. I don’t mind sacrificing real world physics for a bit of “aesthetics”. Chain mail bikinis not so much. Just too silly. Anyway, sitting in the airport at the moment and waiting for my plane. Next stop Singapore then Copenhagen. Going to enjoy a few weeks in Europe
  8. Heh, the internet is full of it. Finally showing his true colours and why Putin and Xi are his idols... finally doing away with that pesky democracy is going to be what his supporters are voting for. Showing his true lack of class with his "taking a bullet for democracy" statement. Besides lacking class, also lacking in truth. The only one who took a bullet for "democracy" was the maga cultist that got killed, all trump did was finally getting within earshot of a disagreeing Republican.
  9. A UK export that was played a lot during my younger years. I never had any of her records (not sure why really), but the radios (over)compensated for that I suppose...
  10. It would be interesting to follow shark meat prices the next couple of months
  11. To be fair "the system" usually came with some specific goals as well as a time limit (typically 6 months or until crisis resolved, whichever one happened first). If needed for more than 6 months, it would have to be bestowed by the senate again for another period up to 6 months...
  12. Just submitted my tax return. I usually don't mind doing that. For one, it's easy with little detail to fill out manually and two, the calculator says business as usual, getting a couple of thousand back (Australian dollars) edit: I consider 20 minutes spent to get $2000 time well spent
  13. Nah, this one looks less linear
  14. Tl;dr; they want *you* to do what they say, not what they do....
  15. CrowdStrike is the Boeing of software companies?
  16. Also an important part of a number of amino acids. It may smell rotten, but life as we know it wouldn’t be around without those proteins relying on it
  17. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cnk4jdwp49et Apparently some cybersecurity package has decided that Windows is malware and tries forcefully to remove it… all over the world. Affecting everything from cloud hosting over airlines to scheduled surgeries and tv stations There have been reports suggesting that a cybersecurity company called Crowdstrike, which produces antivirus software, issued a software update that has gone horribly wrong and is bricking Windows devices - prompting the so-called "blue screen of death" on PCs.
  18. You’re laughing, but a Danish comedian once got elected on promises of more tailwind for bicyclists and free Nutella on the school kids lunch meals. He was shell shocked when he realised he had to spend the next few years in parliament. Not just as a faceless pm, but that one crucial vote needed in a hung parliament to get legislation through
  19. Bocchi was made by some of the same people who were behind Frieren btw Edit: Keichiiro Saito being the overall project director for both (he used to work as an animator, but ended up being the lead producer/director on both https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9065841/
  20. I sat down yesterday and started to think... (I know, better late than never, right?). How many bands and records I listened a LOT to in the 80's but haven't really played much the last 20 years. It's a staggering long list, so I try to stick to a self imposed limitation of 3 videos per post (as said, self imposed to keep my spamming urges in check) Ozzy... bought most his early albums on CD in the 90's. Both the Zach Wylde era and the Jake Lee era albums Oldie but goodie, bought this on vinyl in the 80's, then on CD in the 90's W.A.S.P. I have most of their early records on CD. Bought them in the 90's. I should dust them off and put in the player again Warning, video title contains profanity, hence the spoiler
  21. There, fixed it for you
  22. Very hard to say something that doesn’t come across as utterly tasteless… no matter how tempting
  23. Yeah, naming Putin as the ruler of Ukraine was somewhat of a faux pas
  24. To be honest, I think Europeans managed quite well doing exactly that, long before the US was a factor on the world stage? Europe seems to have some kind of "Phoenix Like" qualities, rebuilding from ashes of previous civilizations, over and over and over. It's Darwinism in action. Shed old cultures and civilizations like dead skin cells and grow new ones.
  25. This has to be a caricature of some kind...
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