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A former US Navy submariner recently released a video about the Titan and the issues he could see with its design: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4dka29FSZac

I dunno, I found season three of Barry to be pretty heavy going. It was still very good TV but it felt like a completely different vibe than the first two seasons.

>...a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole. In Australian slang this is called a 'long drop' after a particular style of judicial hanging. And yes, there are …

> R.V. Jones' Most Secret War Added to my reading list. Have you read Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks? It's quite good.

I didn't enjoy my experience working with them. 2 month wait for Apple enterprise verification for the app store. Then another 2 months because the client had signed up for the wro…

See also the death on stage of Tommy Cooper: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x37dxyk

FYI I'm pretty sure large losses claimed in initial filings are a standard way of demonstrating to the court that a matter is weighty enough to occupy the court's time. Large claim…

My favourite unsubstantiated theory about FTX is that its fraud was a solution for Tether's liquidity and banking woes. Twitter user Bitfinexed has speculated that Alameda Research…

Hey dude the Aus govt. has a register of open trials in Aus/NZ. It's searchable (tho not well) and you can apparently set up email alerts for new trials. Hope it helps! https://www…

Yep. I'm from a region that grew sugarcane historically but is moving to tree crops like nuts. Local 'big name' family is voracious in their consumption of government grants. They'…

It's a bit niche but for reading about military history I've really been enjoying https://acoup.blog .

Sure, you'll get a response after emailing tcook@apple.com. But there's no guarantee that the customer service peep assigned to you will do anything to help. I tried this approach …

A statement from Jackie Talbot, an advisor to New Zealand's ministry of education, speaking about changes to qualifications attainable by NZ secondary school students: "'It traces …

The linked video is a great example of 'show, don't tell'.

Cosmic Sin? Even in the trailer you could tell he didn't want to be in that :D

Also a moderator was Vilerat who died in the Benghazi attacks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean_Smith_(diplomat)

> Make some great memories with her, take lots of pictures and videos! Good advice! My friend lost his mother to cancer this year. Not taking more photos and videos at the start of…

These are beautiful!

Is doing well be a bar against doing better? The wealthy have no hangups about taking profit so why should the rest of us? Mining activity is 10% of Australia's GDP. Mineral land r…

As a citizen of resource rich Australia this story of foresight and self-determination in a nation just about makes me weep.

Yeah, I'm sure there's some sort of psychological reckoning to be had there.

Sasa nat ke Belta, Inyalowda?

Yeah, would you look at that. One of them got a BS Forbes article written about herself. This is wild. What do you think the deal is here? Social climber parents who believe their …

With a couple of extra features this would make a great editing experience for a CMS.

This is an interesting contrarian take on the safety of high-BSL labs which conduct gain of function research. The article describes safety errors at a lab at the University of Wis…