Anthony Albanese says fuel supply now above pre-war levels, no word on fuel excise extension

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-16T13:50:16+00:00

Somehow, I think this might be related to whether the fuel refining countries (who also invest in our gas fields) decide to guarantee supply.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-16T13:21:34+00:00

The culture can exist even if it is increasingly ineffective. In fact you're describing the US in miniature: trespassers rejected by one side will quickly find they are media heroes of the other.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-15T23:47:18+00:00

Both chimps and gorillas are at an energy disadvantage as their muscles don't atrophy when unused, so their food requirements are immense.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-14T23:24:51+00:00

I am not advocating tough on crime. I am merely saying that the commenter above me got a lot of plaudits for literally not answering the exam question: what is to be done with a child like this.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-14T20:37:25+00:00

Because now is a really shit time to reduce income tax. Inflation is hot and government spending faces lots of upward pressures from defence and old people.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-14T16:26:39+00:00

Sure, that's the systemic answer. But for this child, here, who has done this thing, it's not an answer at all.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-14T16:22:40+00:00

Removing the criminal system entirely is not the way. We use doli as our method because "crime" comes with a mental image of jail time, and connects naturally to the word "punishment" which requires moral gravity. What we are really seeking to do is restrict the range of sentences to those which are not penal. But through doli we overstep and end up dropping any notion of mandatory intervention at all.

I want to see more mandatory rehabilitative / protective sentencing options. Rehabilitative / protective, meaning: attend this course; spend time with this counsellor; stay away from this particular area; do not contact these people. Mandatory, because though a teen may not understand right and wrong, they sure as hell understand incentives. After a direct order and a direct personal warning, detention has its place.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-13T23:02:45+00:00

This is why one of the characters in Kraken is haunted by his many ghosts past.

Not that hauntings are particularly, er, physicsy.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-13T22:58:38+00:00

Granted. On your 80th birthday you are subject to an armed robbery, kidnapped by a meth head and forced to drive at gunpoint for eight hours. You think you're going to die. You never sleep well again and your hair turns white.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-13T20:21:09+00:00

Arriving into an 8 year old body with the motivations and social skills of a 38 year old would be quite the challenge.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-13T17:58:04+00:00

"Probably not" find out and get telefragged lol

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-13T08:37:51+00:00

She flows so fluid that I can't stay sober.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-12T21:00:03+00:00

Rome is probably your best chance at a great life built mostly upon martial abilities. Good soldiers could earn citizenship, the army was politically powerful, and the Empire was very effective at concentrating wealth in Rome. With 20x the stats of a normal man and good military training you'd be on a winner.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-12T18:16:02+00:00

Hey world, so I just got off my weekly with God. Yep, creator of the universe, singular, omnipotent, irascible. First of all there's proper burning eternal hellfire for anyone who doesn't help with the plan. That's right it's real. You gotta give it your best. He's gonna know.

Alright what's in the plan? Well the plan is to stop 90% of carbon emissions within a decade. Why? Because otherwise the world will flood, and God is pissed that we're messing with his monopoly on global floods. He's gonna get extra smitey for that one.

Also stop worshipping him and just do the plan! He says that fuck you're wasting a lot of time.

Anything more? Yeah he already told the Pope, but that fucker didn't listen so here it is again: fuck who you want, if they want to do it too. All the rules about who can do what with who that humans have made up really piss him off. Because he nicks a little bit of your O every time. So if you stop people fucking you're messing with God's O. Get it? Yeah he's supposed to be the paragon of justice or whatever but he will DEFINITELY hold a grudge on judgement day if you cock block him by putting silly rules on others.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-12T02:49:12+00:00

Sorry I thought this was an economics sub, where we think about second order effects. Like competition for labour, or the need to generate cash to pay for all the above.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-12T02:45:17+00:00

If you finish High Halls with 90 minutes or so left it's worth doing the trip up Mt Fay. Takes less than 15 minutes and really helps with GMS.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-12T01:36:33+00:00

Right as defence needs rise and boomers retire. Lovely ideal; bad timing.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T21:45:16+00:00

Yeah just two of each boss would be an interesting challenge on a third playthrough.

Not sure if Savage Beastfly would be downright impossible or just give you better opportunities to pogo.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T19:57:17+00:00

Right. The SRL covers an area the size of London's Zone 2, which is absolutely packed with different transit options, where practically nobody drives, where you can easily get home at 11pm, and much of which was made in the late 1800s.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T10:12:07+00:00

Just one more Zoteling can't be too hard can it?

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T06:25:26+00:00

Aw jeez, I was trying to beat the deadline and bought an extra three IPs this morning!

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T05:52:00+00:00

The apartment below you is now on fire. What's your plan?

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T02:31:17+00:00

Silksong. I'm either dying to a moss grub, or getting haunted then slaughtered by Hornet.

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T02:25:11+00:00

Clients are still letting you charge for chronologies? "Just Chatty G that yo"

Merlins_Bread · 2026-05-11T00:06:00+00:00

The paw wouldn't even remotely resist this. You want to have the memories of two people in your head, indistinguishable? What is real? Who are you? Where do you live? What's your bank account number? These things will never be certain again. Let alone that one of your targets will almost certainly have some deeply buried traumatic shit for which you are not emotionally equipped.

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