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@iam_atree @Colin_P_A_Jones This is the only logical reason for it

@Colin_P_A_Jones As someone who grew up watching American police use their uniforms as a protection racket discount ticket, I love that Japanese police restrict their behavior in uniform.

My daughter went to public school in Kyoto for a few years. The school had a rule that children should not drink from their water bottle while walking to or from school. They didn't even wear uniforms, but there was nonetheless a concern that the sight of young children quenching their thirst in public would somehow reflect badly on the school. I think the same mindset is behind the "police officers buying a sandwich at a 7-11 being worthy of note" thing...

@MRBigelow @Colin_P_A_Jones Well you're not an animal Matthew.

@Colin_P_A_Jones At my place of work in Tokyo, we are prohibitied from wearing headphones on staircases. Shit you not. Been scolded multiple times for doing so.

@cmkusher If a FHB maxed out their lending and didn't count on higher interest rates it's on them. 5% deposit is a golden handshake.

Imagine being a first Home Buyer in Sydney you take advantage of the Home Guarantee Scheme and buy in October stretching yourself to spend $1.5 m on your home. With a 5% deposit no LMI and you expect interest rates to fall. The RBA was already beginning to think interest rates were too low (as stated today) and would have to rise. It’s now March interest rates have already risen 50 basis points and are expected to rise another 50 bp this year and potentially as much as 75 bp. You were assessed on a 3% serviceability buffer but you have a baby on the way and you are facing reduced incomes and then childcare for the next five years. The cost of everything is also going up because inflation is still too high. This is the type of situation some people that utilised the Home Guarantee Scheme may now be facing. It’s why the Scheme was so misguided and now these FHB may end up paying the price.

@IamKarnak @NatedawgO7 Cute

@Fallingup2024 @NatedawgO7 All debt is leverage.

Pay off the house? Lol I’m 37 and just took on a 990k mortgage. My back will be fucked long before I pay off half the house

@RyoEto Interestingly these Guardian class ships are gifts, fully funded by Australia (construction, maintenance, and training support). 26 have been gifted so far. Two more remain to be finished, totalling 28! 14 Pacific counties in total benefit from this loan free naval support 🫡

豪海軍国際観艦式、満艦飾・登舷礼のパプアニューギニア海軍の哨戒艦Francis Agwi、眼福です🇵🇬🫡

@RyoEto Wonderful photo

通り雨の中、シドニーハーバーを進む豪海軍フリゲート艦StuartとBallarat🇦🇺

@saber_k086 Today I learnt what Naphtha is.

Korean media reports that US has allowed Korean corporations to purchase oil from Russia and Iran using other currencies (rubles, yuans, etc.) and has stated that no sanctions will be applied for said purchase. Korean corporations are now reaching out to Russia to purchase oil and naphtha per additional reports.

@AdrianCoates8 @KharonLaQua @SamaHoole This is your hill friend, well chosen.

@Fallingup2024 @KharonLaQua @SamaHoole No, is chewing gum classed as eating? Do you ever see cows lying down? Of course not, they spend all day and night walking round cropping grass lol 😆 😂

The rumen is not a stomach. It's easy to describe it as one, but describing it as a stomach is like describing the internet as a telephone. Technically related. Fundamentally different in scale. The rumen is a 50 to 250 litre fermentation chamber housing somewhere between 10 and 50 billion microorganisms per millilitre of fluid. Bacteria, protozoa, archaea, fungi: an ecosystem of extraordinary complexity that has co-evolved with ruminants over roughly 50 million years. This system can break down cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin: the structural compounds of plant cell walls that the digestive systems of literally every other class of vertebrate, including us, cannot touch. It converts those compounds, via microbial fermentation, into volatile fatty acids that the animal then uses for energy. What this means, in practical terms, is that a ruminant can stand in a field of dead grass in February, eat it, and produce food. No additional processing. No fortification. No supply chain. We have spent 200 years of industrial agriculture trying to replicate this output efficiency using external inputs: synthetic fertiliser, irrigation, pesticides, transport, and we have not equalled it. The rumen solved the problem of producing nutrients from low-quality plant biomass before mammals had opposable thumbs. There is something genuinely worth respecting about that, beyond the dietary argument. It is a piece of biological engineering that makes our best food technology look, in comparison, quite mediocre.

@TMFScottP @DFA_Analyst CBA increasing fixed rates this Friday. Expect 30%>

This is... dire. I'm a big proponent of Budget reform, but even I'm starting to wonder if the (short term) window has closed, given where the global and local economy might be by early May. Perhaps some of the reforms will need to be staggered.

@PeteWargent @peter_tulip Haha. Resi or commercial? 🤞🏻 Luckily we have the National Housing Accord to save the day! NSW is 2 years behind target. With this current inflationary setback the Gov better re-think their approach. Minister Pliberseck this week quote "it was only ever aspirational"...

@Fallingup2024 @peter_tulip I know of 2 developers who’ve cancelled projects in the last few weeks, and I don’t know all that many people

Rents are rising at an annualised rate of 4%. The housing crisis keeps getting worse. Because there aren't enough homes.

@IamKarnak @NatedawgO7 This is correct. The loading up part is important. If done with leverage you will make the most of the Ponzi and secure your kids future.

@NatedawgO7 No-one pays off anything in an inflationary environment because the inflation does the job for you. That's the strategy - load up with debt, make sure you can finance it no matter what, then bide your time. It is exactly what the govt. is counting on happening with its own debt.

Japanese troops will set foot on Philippine soil for the first time since World War II to take part in the largest joint drills between the Philippines and the United States 🇯🇵 🇵🇭 #Balikatan By @Frances_Mng navalnews.com/naval-news/202…

@average_jo21098 @peter_tulip @PeteWargent Exactly, and modelling shows those tax changes won't materially make housing more affordable. So what is the point in doing it and reducing investment in housing. I hope they dont touch it.

@peter_tulip @PeteWargent And gov is about to tax housing more lol 😂

@invest_wa @peter_tulip Agree, I just responded with something similar. And then there is the risk of anti investment tax changes on the horizon.

@peter_tulip The recent rate rise and fuel prices will significantly slow construction.

@peter_tulip @PeteWargent Further to that is the risk that new changes to CG and NG could slow down investment. None of this bodes well for renters.

@peter_tulip @PeteWargent I expect this will get worse. Building inflation is increasing rapidly since the Iran war and fuel crisis. Fixed cost H&L builders learned from the COVID period that they will go bankrupt if they make the same mistakes. Expect less homes built over the next rolling 12 months.

@lowlandsapien Your post made me think. How good a Kelly movie could be if it included this part of Frontier history. I guess someone needs to write the novel first.

@Fallingup2024 Absolutely, if they were after you, youre as good as dead

The lesser known team members who got him: Jack Noble from Fraser Island, his brother Corporal ("Hateful Conduct visibility limited") was a bushranger but joined the hunt also. Claude Ponto the "Night Walker", shot at Glenrowan with Ned stepping over him saying "I have no quarrel with your people". Trooper Johnny, the best and most feared tracker. Known for extreme violence and considered insane. 5 of the 6 pictured (I cant say what they were doing before this or what the rumours were spread about them to generate more fear among the Kellys because X considers it Hateful).

@Colin_P_A_Jones Sometimes you Japanese take things too far.

There was never any clear policy police officers in uniform shopping at convenience stores, but apparently for a long time they just didn't do it because they were not sure how it would be perceived by the populace. So now that the unwritten rule of hesitation is breaking down, the simple sight of cops buying sandwiches at 7-11 is getting an inordinate amount of attention. yomiuri.co.jp/national/20250…

@not_airspeed @learning_yohei Knee slapper

@learning_yohei Going to wind up the yanks again. 3rd time today. British much faster because we have high IQ, America could never!

I’m Japanese and studying English… but why do native speakers speak so FAST when they get excited? 😭 I nod and smile like I understand… but I’m actually lost after 3 seconds 😂 Does this happen to you too? American English or British English — which one is faster for you?

@PhilGarber5 @Empty_America Chapter one

@Empty_America As a newly independent teenager I start going up and hanging out in the rural district where Mom grew up and I was born. Was at a church picnic and noticing all the pretty girls. Someone took me aside and said "every one of those girls is a cousin of yours."

First cousin marriage in the Anglo-protestant world is a great example of how fast things change and how quickly we forget. Until the mid 1800s it was legal everywhere, and neither stigmatized nor particularly encouraged, although some families did have a pattern of it. But stigma and prohibition steadily increased, to the point that it is now extremely taboo, and essentially never occurs outside of recent immigrants, even in the States retaining the old English common law that allows it.