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Modern slop conservatism is desperately about chasing online trends above all else. Last year it was ‘everything is antisemitic’ earlier this year it was ‘Isis brides’ for like a week and this week it’s ’welcome to country’. Next month, who knows? Bring back ‘dole bludgers’?
Daily Mail@DailyMail
Peta Credlin admits she 'boos on the inside' during Welcome to Country ceremonies - and reveals why she's had enough trib.al/vHecQW6
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@FutureJetsOC @andyhelbig Yes we do. We have murino and many others types, my favorite being Buffalo wool. Our washing machines also have fabric specific settings and we have fabric specific detergents. Once again, the Europoor mind cannot comprehend these things.
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The tedious “europoor” electric dryer (US) v drying rack (EU) debate is directly tied to clothing and style preferences
Europeans prefer natural materials like wool, linen, cotton — fabrics you should dry on the rack, otherwise they don’t nearly last as long
Americans prefers athleisure polyester materials — you can just chuck your lululemon khakis in the dryer, no harm done
Nothing europoor about this one — just materials / style preferences influencing behavior
eigenrobot@eigenrobot
even if you don't "have" to, hang dry your clothes because they will last 10-20x longer. thank you for your attention to this matter!
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I'm reminded of that one mission from World in Conflict set in the aftermath of a nuclear strike on US soil, with an atmosphere that feels like the remains of the command structure is held together with bale wire and old gum despite the fact you're giving out the orders.
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@SashoTodorov1 @yaqobhyndes Because they're explicitly testing the mechanics of formations *post* break - not how formations break
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@yaqobhyndes IMO this is an overreach because everyone participating knows that there's going to be some element of a consensual break by one side and that there's no real physical risk to their safety.
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This group of French researchers (Sur le champ) trained about 200 re-enactors to test the crowd dynamics of hoplite warfare and routing more generally. It's really interesting how the often frustratingly vague statements of ancient writers become clear with this footage
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@thinkdefence The other use is strategic QRF to reinforce friendly secure areas, or secure still unoccupied areas *before* they come under threat. So certainly not a combat drop.
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The only two ways I think parachuting remains viable is
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Develop niches; notably combat engineering, medical, air traffic control, and ECM. Airfield opening is a good example.
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Develop ground mobility; this allows parachuting to be done at standoff distances, thus reducing operational and political risk. If we cant do this with air despatch platforms, we should do it with double CDS pallets.
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@hamstake_ @nocontextmemes literally the original background music!
i prefer Eno’s ambient though
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Patrząc na Nuclear Option z tej perspektywy, trudno oprzeć się wrażeniu, że mógłby z tego być niezły RTS.
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A lot of people saying Australia has no good music have clearly never listened to unit by regurgitator
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Although I like nice little neighbourhood microbreweries I’m not sure if every Australian suburb can support two or three. How many of these are actually sustainable?
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@cavesofsteel There's no meaningful difference in external presentation between frustration and anxious.
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Dude, I wasn’t anxious! I was just frustrated. I wasn’t “very very nervous” as they said. I was just frustrated! I needed an answer! Everyone was talking about how agitated I was when I was just frustrated and just needed an answer! I worry about this a lot, because I don’t want
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One of the hardest things of ASD to me is people perceiving my behavior as something different than it means. Today at work I was feeling very frustrated no one could provide me an answer for something I need. Everyone was telling me to calm down because I was anxious.
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@Refuse2B_ASheep @WarRoomArchives uniformed combatants - and the protections only apply to troops making specific and deliberate actions to surrender - e.g. flying a white flag, hands up, etc.
Hiding != surrendering
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@WarRoomArchives Something is off about all those strikes. With the exception of 1 or 2...most look like unarmed people running for their lives. Thought there were international laws about executing unarmed civilians and combatants
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Drone warfare has reached such a level that many fighters have lost hope of escaping or resisting. For example, the final strike on the barracks is terrifying.
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@eternallydxmned Many men's toilets feature a urinal in a space that could not fit a cubicle, so the choice becomes x cubicles AND y urinals, and removing the urinals would not create x+y urinals.
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hot take. i dont think public restrooms need urinals at all. men use a regular toilet perfectly fine at home they dont need a urinal
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@BudLightSadness Are you talking about that Canadian oilfield dude who tried to build an Artillery gun that could reach space for Saddam?
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Never forget that the dude that invented cool drill bits for the oilfield was like “absolutely I can design weapons” and then went sort of insane
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@viperwave @cormac_mccafe69 The arts have done a good job on "arts for wankers only pleb" too.
Sucks all round.
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@cormac_mccafe69 "Arts for wankers" has been official policy for about 20 years.
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you can’t make interesting music/art in this country anymore because there is no money, the industry discourages it, and audiences have been encouraged to hate it. That’s why every Australian art form now bends towards the middle brow.
Davi@Ddaavvii_21
why is Australian music so lame compared to the other big anglophone countries? you have a few good artists (nick cave, tame impala, kg&tlw) but that's it
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@wheelreinvent Most of our non cities have little intrinsic reason to exist anymore though. They're too small to be self sustaining on their own, and have no specific competitive advantages of catchments, market locations, transport infrastructure, industry, etc.
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You don’t need to hollow out regional towns to have urban agglomeration.
You can have both big cities and thriving regional towns.
The problem Australia has vs elsewhere is that regional towns tend to be shitholes
Howard Maclean@HowardFMaclean
Young people move to cities because that's where the opportunities are - employment, educational, cultural, social. This isn't because of some conspiracy, cities are the natural economic engines by which these opportunities are generated, it cannot be redistributed effectively.
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@simongerman600 How can you argue that regional Australia is the backbone of Australia yet only 25% of its population at the same time?
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Regional Australia is the backbone of the nation, yet it keeps losing ground. A quarter of Australians live outside the big cities, but population growth continues to concentrate in the capitals, leaving many regional towns stuck in a slow demographic squeeze. Young people leave, the population ages, and services become harder to sustain. In my latest column, I explore what it actually takes to grow a regional town again and why migration, jobs, housing, and connectivity all need to come together to make it work: thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/…
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@dannolan What’s the number of kids who need to be killed or maimed before we ask whether it’s really a good idea to give them access to a ‘quiet’ motorbike?
We did shut down schools for COVID which wasn’t that bad. But this, that has a solid death record…let it roll!!!!
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