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I hired a car in Melbourne a couple of months ago. Wish I’d seen that video before as I have no idea what the car’s system may have got off my phone.
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Putin is betting that the West will eventually get tired of the fight and walk away, and he may be right. If his man in the White House, Trump, gets back in next year he’ll definitely pull it off unless he gets done in by his own side first.
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I would not like to be in Surovikin’s shoes. Chances are they are being suspended out of a window somewhere while he’s still wearing them. Or some even worse experience.
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We're pretty lucky with public toilets in Australia. It's a lot worse in Europe where you are more likely to find that the park or roadside stop IS the public toilet.
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Could be, but hard to to be sure having so far seen neither the CCTV creature nor any of the movies.
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It looks like the carbon fibre tube was just butt jointed to the titanium ring and relied entirely on the glue to hold the two parts together. With no sleeve or some other form of mechanical interlock, the shear stresses in the glue and on ends of the carbon fibre layers due to the different material properties (carbon fibre, glue and titianium) under pressure must have been huge. No wonder the ends of the tube delaminated.
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See how you go with this. Not that easy. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/jun/26/can-you-solve-it-the-simple-question-almost-everyone-gets-wrong
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At least Russia and the USA have something in common.
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Utkin looks even meaner than Prigozhin. I read that he is probably a neo-Nazi.
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Also Prigozhin’s statement that the Ukrainian invasion was based on the lie that they needed to de-Nazify the place directly undercut Putin’s narrative. Hard to see that being part of a false flag script.
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I understood the deal was for Prigozhin to go into exile in Belarus (probably in a top floor penthouse suite with large windows) and for his troops to be absorbed into the Russian forces. I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
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He’d probably be safer moving to Ukraine.
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The Russian population must be feeling very confused as to why Russians are suddenly invading Russia.
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Prigohzin's plan of a quick detour into Rostov to give his MoD enemies a thrashing and then going back to the fight in Ukraine seems insane. They won't let him get away with that, especially when he's basically criticising Putin's decision to attack Ukraine in the first place. His goose is cooked I suspect, but the Ukrainians must be cheering him on.
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About the only positive thing that can be said about this submersible is that it imploded so they didn't slowly suffocate. Hopefully they were properly briefed on the risks before they got on board, but at US$250k per ticket I'm sure the company wouldn't want to have frightened the passengers off by being overly pessimistic. Nevertheless, all of these people were there by choice, not necessity. Hopefully, any other tourist ventures will learn the lesson and use properly designed and tested subs.
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Full details here: https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-planning-lands-and-heritage/aboriginal-cultural-heritage-act-2021 We're on half an acre and could potentially be affected (although pretty unlikely), but the farmers out there are very unhappy. Fines for serious violations can up to $10m for a company or $1m for an individual and 5 years in prison. For failing to report a site that may be culturally significant the fine is $20,000 for individuals and $100,000 for companies. You also have to pay hourly rates for the local aboriginal representatives to come and assess your property for its cultural heritage value.
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Well the Voice referendum got the go-ahead today so it will be interesting to see how it goes. I think there’s a good chance it will fail given the divisions currently on display. The ‘no’ camp mainly seem to want a treaty and ‘real power’, whatever that means, rather than just an advisory body. But real power to do what, and how do they propose to fix all the problems that they don’t think the Voice will be able to? So far I haven’t heard either side explain what they think the underlying problems in the aboriginal communities are, and what they would do about them that would be different to what has been tried before.
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Currently it's defined as a person of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, who identifies as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, and is accepted as such by the community in which he or she lives. It at least avoids the problematic percentage debate, but what defines a community and how do you demonstrate acceptance? What happens if you don't live in an identifiable Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander community?
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Very clever of the Ukrainians but a bit embarrassing for Raytheon, I would have thought. Maybe we should send them our Hawkeis and let them fix the brakes for us. The Australian Defence Force is blaming a faulty braking system in Hawkei armoured vehicles for it's reluctance to not send more to Ukraine. The anti-lock braking system fault affects the vehicles stopping power at high speeds but not its off-road performance.
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a) he likes to collect souvenirs b) he likes to show off his superior knowledge c) he may have stuff he can use against people d) he may have stuff he can make money from e) the government wants it back which is reason enough to keep it because it’s ‘his’’ and nobody is going to tell him what to do. f) he won the last election so he’s still the real president and can do what he likes.
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Unfortunately, the judge appointed to the case, Eileen Cannon, has a track record of siding with Trump, so depending on who she allows on the jury and what she allows to be presented in evidence there’s a good chance he may get away with a slap on the wrist after a year or two of legal argument, appeals and delays. There won’t be a quick result in this case and there’s a good chance that the jury will include a fair number of Trump supporters who won’t want to find him guilty.
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Robyn Davidson - Tracks (from Alice to the West Coast)
rgmwa replied to Jerry_Atrick's topic in General Discussion
Never too late... May 1978
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From a few years ago but still interesting: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/15/the-seven-faces-of-donald-trump-a-psychologists-view
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Robyn Davidson - Tracks (from Alice to the West Coast)
rgmwa replied to Jerry_Atrick's topic in General Discussion
National Geographic followed her journey and wrote it up in the magazine. She attracted a lot of attention at the time. -
His first mass email scamming for money went out to his supporters less than an hour after he found out he was indicted. Add to that his Truth Social blitz and it’s clear he’s milking this for all it’s worth.
