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In case you hadn't noticed, the economy was in a very bad shape before the virus. It just sort of "conveniently" masked the fact that the economy was heading for a free fall, the likes of the GFC. https://theconversation.com/the-yield-curve-is-one-of-the-most-accurate-predictors-of-a-future-recession-and-its-flashing-warning-signs-119963 This is from mid 2019 Debt fueled economy will increase in it's volatility until society breaks apart completely. Better learn how to make fire with sticks and how to cook wilder beasts edit: You want to fire people for doing their job? You're as bad as Trump!

Bad news for share holders.... capitalism is dying (good riddance) (using the .in link instead of .com as the latter whines about my ad blocker) https://www.businessinsider.in/macquarie-capitalism-is-dead-and-finance-has-become-a-poison-and-there-are-3-ways-this-era-will-end/articleshow/63068484.cms Warning, lots of text: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-06/is-capitalism-dying-or-just-in-isolation-coronavirus/12123874 Nationalisation of a lot of stuff might be just around the corner, world wide that is.

"Mango compote is better than no compote" What an excellent little video

A Serbian friend of mine keeps insisting I have to try rakija some day. When it gets easier to travel again, I'll head down to Melbourne and take her up on that. (google image)

Being forced to work from home didn't exactly give me more spare time, but ask away, even if replies might not be instantaneous

I gave it 30+ years to sink in, it failed. Haven't indeed cared much about the world in that time. If it didn't sink in during 3 decades, it probably wont Not that I'm sitting at the sideline and waving a little Corona flag, cheering it on mind you Just agreed to up my monthly Red Cross donation on the phone today, so it's not that I hate all people, just really don't care about society in it's current form.

I wonder if I'm really an evil person or some kind of xyz-opath, or maybe it's just growing up on the front line between Nato and WP and surviving The Cold War that does it, but I think I really stopped caring about the survival of "civilisation" as we know it a long time ago. Not my preferred way of fixing the overpopulation problem, but all I can do these days is watching what's happening with a head scratch and a feeling of mild annoyance at the inconvenience. Walking around the streets in the city now, brings back childhood memories of a world with less people (and way less cars) in it and feeling less claustrophobic. Maybe I'm just a cynic and a grumpy old bastard (and self proclaimed anarchist).

Counting fingers: 1... 2... 6! Yes, still alive! Wait, you've been gone?

Look at it this way, if they succeed, they can award themselves the Nobel Prize. If they fail, they can get the Darwin Award. Win/Win

Found a better trailer for Adams Apples with English subtitles (the previous one I posted a few pages back wasn't an official one) Flammen og Citronen (The Flame and the Lemon) about WWII A movie based on real events. After WWII thousands of young German POW's where ordered to clear the minefields on the Danish west coast.

Sometimes bigger is better

Almost finished my interstate move. Got the keys yesterday, getting my furniture tomorrow. Good thing too, as I'm a bit tired of hotels. I've been living in hotels since I moved out of my old place end of February Got electricity sorted out, water is there too.... oh yeah, need internet too. I'll get there eventually. Edit: Unexpected benefit of the global panic... hotel rooms are dirt cheap these days... cheap as in competitive with renting an apartment, just with room service and free toilet paper rolls included

I love Rammstein. After Metallica bailed out on me with a last minute warning that their concert was cancelled, I've found myself a new "must go and see live!" band. Just bloody tricky these days with the world in lock down and groups of more than 2 people prohibited The scourge of commercialism

People panicking are an ugly sight (man stabbed in scuffle over toilet paper rolls) https://www.thechronicle.com.au/news/woolies-employee-stabbed-amid-chaos/3974381/ Virus is not what it used to be... (Fallout - Forced Evolution Virus )

Remember to use hand sanitizer... Besides, a completely unregulated market economy will invariably gravitate towards monopolies. After which you'll get infinitely low quality at infinitely high prices.

I served my time in the Danish Civil Defense (Denmark at the time still had the draft, you picked a number from a ballot, low numbers went to do military service, mid range numbers go to the civil defense and high numbers are "jack pots", you go free). We were constantly drilling for what In Danish was called "ABC" warfare (Atomic, Biological and Chemical). The gear for the chemical warfare stuff was not what the 100% hermetical stuff you see today and part of the kit was a satchel of Atropine injectors for nerve gas emergencies, the ubiquitous gas mask and the suit and wrappings around wrists and ankles to seal the gaps between the suit and gloves/boots. Atomic warfare, well, the strategy was to survive the blasts, so mostly similar gear and Geiger counters (and Iodine tablets, yeah, no kidding). Now, for biological warfare, the teachers pretty much taught us, don't bother. If someone is stupid enough to let a deadly pandemic loose, pray to Odin, Jehova, Cernunnos, Allah, Your Mother or whatever, because the world (and you, by association) is screwed beyond repair.

Unless your PM is an utter piece of incompetent ****, in which case there is never going to be any apologies needed... The science behind getting such an individual relelected (nope, Aussies are NOT the smartest people in the world, I do sometimes call it a third world country and actually mean it)

You don't say, I lived a year in Germany, within spitting distance of the Brandenburg "Airport" Talk about a project that should have been scrapped years ago

Heh, got a company wide (i.e. to all 14 countries we operate in) email after lunch from the CEO today, Tuesday at COB is pack and go home time until next month. Not open for negotiation. Just great when I'm currently living in a hotel with sucky hotel WIFI. Could've been worse I guess. At least they got toilet paper and a bar

They're just pretending... (edit: people tend to become irrational during pandemics and major disasters)

Sounds familiar. Before there was such a thing as home computers, much less internet, it was company names like Airfix, Revell, Matchbox and similar that had my interests Acrylic paints and some brain matter dissolving glue was always on my little work desk in my room. Had airplanes hanging from the ceiling and the shelves lined with everything from WW I tanks and battle ships to models of famous historic sailing ships.

Just think of it as natures attempt at correcting population numbers... happens to many species when there a case of over population, whether they be mammals, insects of birds. /cynic

It could have been worse, it could have been Scottishness

Apparently Donal Trump believes a wall can keep the virus out of the US. He's such a genious Edit: That is so stupid even by his standards, that it was a toss up between here and the funny thread