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I do. I mentioned in the past, part in jest part seriously that the governing Australian Liberal Party (ALP) is 100% owned by the mining industry and the fossil fuel industry, Only subject up for debate is which of the two owns more of the party. The banks have been running their own thing without any real oversight for decades, so they don't really count in that equation. The latter could use some summary execution of corporate "fat cats". Since Australia doesn't have the death penalty, life in prison would do for a number of them. The party's latest idea is, in order to fight covid, they want to ban all internal borders so people can travel freely between states again. Not fair if only one state has all the covid. Could also be because Clive Palmer (a local billionaire and stakeholder in the ALP) said it was bad for his business (see above comment about who really rules Australia)

In a bit of good news... sort of I guess. He and his fellow executives are getting off too easy imho Rio Tinto chief Jean-Sebastien Jacques to quit over Aboriginal cave destruction On Friday, the company said in a statement that "significant stakeholders have expressed concerns about executive accountability for the failings identified". The board said Mr Jacques would remain as the chief executive until March, or until a successor was appointed. Other senior executives, including the heads of the miner's iron ore and corporate relations divisions, will also leave the company at the end of the year. Tl;dr; stakeholders in the company, from pension funds to the Church of England were *very* unhappy with the actions of the boss, his henchmen and the light slap on the wrist the company gave them. Sometimes a **** ton of negative PR can work a bit of wonder. I guess walking looks better on your CV than getting sacked https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-54112991 Edit: In a perfect world, Australians would do the same and sack the pile of dung prime minister whose government gave the thing the thumbs up legally in the first place

Hahaha, is all good mate. I'm not familiar with Swedish beer I grew up with Carlsberg and Tuborg 😇 Edit: And the beer we used to mock was German beer

Hvis jeg nogensinde kommer til Danmark igen en dag, skal jeg nok invitere på dansk øl Edit: Of course, you would have to travel across øresund to get it 😛 Edit2: I actually had to google some danish web pages to cut and paste a few letters from the Danish alphabet. Javla Svenska! 😂

Which sort of rams home the hypocrisy of the west, they don't really give a flying **** about democracy, only the balance of power and bottom lines. If you're a *lucky* country outside the block, you goals aligns with the west and even the lowest creep of a dictator can get support. If not, even the most well meaning, idealist state/group run by democratic ideals are screwed.

Yes, I'm Danish. Still relatively fluent (if not perfect anymore) in the language

Scania is the part of Denmark that is currently occupied by Swedish troops...

Looks like Russian intelligence services may have miscalculated a bit... Angela Merkel has something Boris Johnson doesn't have... clout. And Euros of course. Sweet, sweet Euros Which means leverage, that the British government wished it had last time someone got poisoned by Novishock (sp?) It was one short sentence in a German Sunday newspaper. But for the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, it was potentially as damaging as an earthquake. "I hope the Russians don't force us to change our position on Nord Stream 2," German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said, as the row with Moscow intensified over the poisoning of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54070046

According to google translate: Does anyone tell me if the "grounded" will come out for playstation 4 ?! Note: I want to play this game so badly Moved it to the Grounded discussion forum.

Accents.... makes the world a more interesting place 😇

Just deviate a bit from my usual Rammstein... and now for something completely different

Blatant Canadian racism... to them us Danes all look the same, right @Gorgon? 😂

Merged a large number of very similar topics on the recent issue with not loading saved games without crashing. Hoping the devs will chime in at some point.

I'm a simple person, often enjoying the simple things in life. Especially now that winter is over and it's spring, so I can sit outside in a t-shirt and have dinner. Just a bit of steak and onions from the BBQ and some microwaved potato mash from the grocery store (yeah, boo!). The onions could have used a bit more, but I'll keep that in mind next time and start them 10-15 minutes before the steak

Conan the Bacterium says: "I'll be back!" 'Super bacteria' survives for three years outside space station Scientists who attached a strain of bacteria to the outside of the International Space Station have been stunned to find it survived for three years, in open space. The experiment, led by a team of Japanese researchers, involved the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans, also known as Conan the Bacterium due to its extreme hardiness. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/science-environment-54029521

I hate to disappoint, but.... India coronavirus: Covid strikes remote Greater Andamanese tribe https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-53925071

I do speak to some family back there every now and then on Skype (with video), so it's not all forgotten. It does happen that I forget the odd word in Danish though, but luckily the family understands English too and can remind me what it's called.

I'm an anarchist, not a fascist. Now go over in your corner and self-moderate!

Ehhh... just to clear up any confusion, Majestic is right, Danish by birth although it's a long time (getting close to 20 years now) since I lived there. @majestic I'm sure there are people in Melbourne who love to hear a ruckus outside just to remind them, that the outside world still exists

I wonder what the shelf life of spam is... 🤔 Was cleaning up my pantry the other day and found a can of spam. It has a packaging date and year, but no best by date whatsoever. I wouldn't really trust food that is 4 years old (unless it's a Cognac) 😨

And bless you for that... I'm still sitting with a broad, stupid grin plastered on my face 10 minutes after watching that video 😂

That's probably what Steve Irwin said too last time he saw a stingray underwater

Unless you are on the receiving end of carpet bombing, assassinations abroad (domestically people just "disappear"), a secret police that competes with the religious police in who can outdo the other in atrocities, a completely misogynistic society that has moved very little forward the last 600 years and a regime that supports both Isis and AQ financially and logistically (ignoring that they pay lip service to try to reduce that support). You might as well support the current government of Venezuela because of their great human rights record /sarcasm I think we'll have to disagree on that one. Some things are NOT worth selling your soul to, especially with the oil prices being rock bottom anyway (and long may that last)

You got to be kidding me if you claim the wahhabist (sp?) regime in Riyadh is any less hardline and oppressive than the one in Teheran. They are flip sides of the same coin and trying to outdo each other in brutality. How many people are dying and starving in Yemen at the moment again? Last time I checked, it was the Saudi coalition that was indiscriminatedly bombing civilians.