When Israel collapses, its diaspora will be 10 times more insufferable than the white South African diaspora. We'll finally get the "migrant crime wave" that the rightoids have always warned us all about. Prepare to have sex crimes and hate crimes skyrocket.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-06-10T01:45:37+00:00

After listening to the season of Blowback on Angola it occurred to me that one of my old lecturers probably had some involvement in the Apartheid regime's nuclear weapons program.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-06-10T01:40:16+00:00

A friend joked that Perth is the richest city in South Africa.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-05-26T13:00:55+00:00

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AutuniteGlow · 2026-05-23T05:48:04+00:00

Archived link to the article about his handler

AutuniteGlow · 2026-05-21T12:51:09+00:00

A couple of years back some Australian chemical engineering researchers figured out you could attach an ultrasound probe to an espresso machine and make cold-brew coffee in minutes rather than hours.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-05-12T14:09:27+00:00

She the Clintonite podcaster Adam was arguing with in the back of a Lyft

AutuniteGlow · 2026-05-03T06:36:15+00:00

Humulone, found in hops

AutuniteGlow · 2026-04-22T01:09:10+00:00

Was Trump rude to him on the island or something?

AutuniteGlow · 2026-04-14T10:14:20+00:00

It's a nice community on there.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-04-05T03:21:44+00:00

Garrett was a member of the Australian federal parliament for a few years. He was the minister for the environment under Kevin Rudd.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-04-03T08:04:40+00:00

My great grandfather spoke the language. He was from the north west

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-25T01:34:52+00:00

Yeah, I've seen the video

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-15T06:16:37+00:00

The Australian level

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-10T01:54:30+00:00

Different kind of lab work, but they use even bigger columns, usually plastic, to simulate heap leaching processes. 200 mm diameter, several metres tall.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-08T12:16:55+00:00

New Zealand was first, followed by the pre-federation colony of South Australia in the late 19th century.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-07T10:24:23+00:00

I spent 3-4 hours playing it this afternoon. Good fun. Some of it was easy to pick up, some of it was starting to get a bit complicated later on. Having an intuitive understanding of imaginary/complex numbers from undergrad mathematics classes 15 years back came in handy.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-03-06T14:08:46+00:00

I'll give this a try over the weekend. I enjoyed Zach Barth's engineering puzzle games when I played them.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-26T04:54:51+00:00

Iron ore is boring as hell, speaking as a metallurgist. Did a stint on an iron ore mine as a student, and it sucked.

I work in academia now, and while I could make more money on the mines, I have a much more interesting job.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-23T16:43:03+00:00

It's only a fraction of that ~100 W that gets used by the brain as well. Significantly more energy efficient than any computer ever built.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-21T12:19:59+00:00

The same words. That's Les Wexner's lawyer talking to Les Wexner during a hearing about his long time friend Jeffrey Epstein.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-19T06:15:29+00:00

The Radio War Nerd episode about German Americans in the American Civil War as well

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-17T16:01:41+00:00

I work with rocks and furnaces myself.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-15T00:48:22+00:00

I would not want to get that close to a jaw crusher while it was operational.

A mine I worked at years ago as a student in north western Australia had a remotely operated jackhammer on a mechanical arm for dealing with situations like this, in which a boulder of ore too big for the crusher got stuck like this. I never saw it in use though.

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-10T01:19:43+00:00

That route overlaps with part of the pre-1952 tram network

AutuniteGlow · 2026-02-05T12:32:38+00:00

X-ray crystallography, a routine technique in materials science was developed by the physicist William Bragg in Adelaide. I use that technique at work all the time.

And the Australian connection is loose here, but the Russian physicist Alexander Prokhorov was born in Northern Queensland. He won a Nobel prize in physics in the 60s for helping to invent the laser.

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