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I had to do an internet search to find out who Eugene Shoemaker was...

Apparently some Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten was butthurt over this. You can’t ask for better advertising when you’re Honest Government Ads Its pay walled and in Norwegian. Will check for an English transcript somewhere

Good question actually

From the Slaaneshi top of the pops... Edit: Added an entry from the Terran hitlist just for balance's sake

Honest Government Ads take on Norway...

Sounds like BioWare romances

Dandadan… I watched episode 9 and have by now given up trying to even attempt explain it For something slightly slower paced I started watching something called Secrets of the Silent witch. I’m only two episodes in but liking it so far

Lots of questions, there are just no simple answers to them. It was nice to see my family again after so many years. But I feel homesick for Queensland and have spoken to recruiting companies to get them to keep an eye out for opportunities. I hope to be able to return "home" after New Year (job market in QLD depending of course, it IS the backwater part of Australia) My Danish is Ok. Took a few months to get used to and I still get the grammar wrong with the off English word or sentence construct sneaking its way in. I did stay in touch with my family, first over MSN Messenger and later Skype regularly, keeping I my Danish skills current over the decades

I have no idea what legislation is around flag burning in Denmark, but it probably violates some kind of fire safety regulation edit: Danes regularly offends anyone and anything, especially ourselves

South Africa dropped nuclear weapons program in the 90’s but still worked closely with Israel on the development (and allegedly supplying Israel with the uranium for their nukes)

Yeah, no less than three companies sharing the 90%? That sounds like an actual market economy. Australia has been a duopoly for the powers that be knows how many years. The Coles/Woolworth cartel dictating prices (but customer and supplier prices)

That looked like a trailer for New Vegas - The Movie

Knock knock, we bring a message from our lord and saviour https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3xp4xlw9o literally bringing a whole church in tow

Sounds like something to claim while not in Australia

When in Brisbane, I would use SPF50 even when just going shopping for 9 out of 12 months of the year. Australia and New Zealand have some of the highest skin cancer rates in the world https://www.cancer.org.au/about-us/policy-and-advocacy/prevention/uv-radiation/related-resources/skin-cancer-incidence-and-mortality Roughly 15000 cases with 2000 deaths annually. That’s in a population of about 25 million

That’s what the national guard is for, right? Other totalitarian governments have “forces of the Interior Ministry” to deal with dissident and critics

Dandadan season 2, episode 6. Where chaotic chaos is only separated from surreal surrealism by a healthy dose of absurd absurdity. Still overlapping quite a bit. Somehow I missed the official trailers that had been released.... As for the episode, Granny Seiko's house is now a patchwork of original house frame and cardboard used to patch all the holes in the walls and roof that happened at the end of episode 5. Everyone now living under one leaky roof and drafty walls A rock band, the Hayashis, are hired to perform an exorcism on Jiji to try to force Evil Eye out of his body. Things don't go like planned (that's the tl;dr; version). Momo applies for a part time job as a "maid" in a restaurant and her friends, always up for some fun, literally drags Okarun out on a date with the two girls. Destination? Of course, they only wanted to go to one place Exorcism in progress (even Granny Seiko can't resist headbanging:

I just watched episode 5 of Dandadan (season 2)... Momo's and Okaruns relationship has evolved so much they can now touch each others fingertips and only flinch a bit... Jiji can be his own abnormal normal self when not getting in touch with cold liquids (I got Gremlins vibes somehow), Taro is no longer needed to constrain Jiji, The boss lady of the crime family is not human at all, Momo invites Aira and Okarun over to her place for a sleepover, Okarun accidentally spills soy sauce on Jiji's finger and the entire house explodes in violently released energy from the Purple Eye that is trapped inside Jiji. Lots and lots more happening... and it would take longer to summarize it than tell people to just spend the 25 minutes to watch it Edit: Turbo Granny is grumpy because Momo has misplaced her fluffy cushions

It depends a bit what you use YouTube for I suppose. I actively search for things like miniature painting guides, Horus heresy battle reports, history and archeology channels etc. I frequently use he do not suggest channel option to get rid of a lot of contemporary political activist channels that the algorithm (or paid for exposure) tried to get me to watch. Also, don’t visit that site without extensions that skip the 30 second ads that otherwise seems to pop up either every 120 second or you use the skip to different place on the timeline function whichever happens first edit: I do sometimes watch YouTubes recommended videos but that’s almost always for related music videos

Tennis bowling!

Pretty much, yes. After all, the current CEO and Board of Directors (I.e. the president and congress) is running the ship into the ground full steam ahead and he has a long history of high profile bankruptcies behind him because he lacks business skills. A private company, yeah, sure, the shareholders and the employees suffers alright, but the CEO and board are usually free to start up a new project right away. But when the corporation is a sovereign state, who picks up the pieces?

What happens if/when a country goes bankrupt? I.e the moment they can no longer service their sovereign debt, what happens then? I remember Sri Lanka, but that one was in such a sorry state anyway that its unlikely anyone noticed and one African country being bailed out by the IMF within the last decade, but if the debt is beyond the means of any single institution, what would happen then?

Good news for those of us who likes the Frieren story. The manga just lefts its hiatus and picked up on the story where it left off (image is the end of chapter 140, chapter 141 has been released). The Foundation Arc, the Shadow Warriors planning to assassinate the head of The Continental Magic Association ("CMA") at a ball in the imperial capital. Back row from left to right is Sein, Stark and Falsch, next row is Fern, Frieren and Sense, all making up a bodyguard for the head of the group, Serie. Most powerful being known in existence (in the setting at least, if there had been such a thing as a scale, she is beyond an order of magnitude more powerful than Frieren) and also the designated target of the Shadow Warriors, an ancient clandestine imperial special forces unit specialized in fighting mages. Not on this image are the last two two people the CMA brought along, featuring at the end of chapter 141, Land and Ubel. The latter looking like the proverbial nuke ready to go off (Ubel is probably more dangerous than a nuke because a nuke follows the laws of physics and logic).

I watched Dandadan episode 4... Thought long and hard about how to summarize events in the episode in a meaningful way. In the end I was just giggling like a maniac going "screw this", it's just not possible Something about volcanoes, giant earthworms, crime families, martial arts priests who dreams of becoming social media stars, aliens, romance, the fastest known mannequin joining the fight, granny Seiko dishing out the hurt with a baseball bat... you name it.

Not so much a new scientific discovery as a particular new trend in use of existing technology, AI for movie generation at budgets that doesn't require Hollywood studio funding. I.e. "normal" people can do it too if interested enough to learn a bit about it. I myself dabbled a bit with AI pictures (Stable Diffusion and Flux). Looking into what is currently available in the genre of converting images into short video sequences. These people have spent a bit more time on it and create some hilarious videos. Same channel have videos like The Most German man, The Most Reddit Man etc. in the world, etc.