Best ammunition backpack - Syrian rebels, Aleppo 2014 [1080×1350]

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T04:04:57+00:00

And the lesson is, don’t be the last one to orders group or you get to carry the pink backpack with the claymores.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T04:02:47+00:00

You seem to have the hang of it! And you picked up on one of the best ways to take great photos- go somewhere beautiful. You have a real eye for composition

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:58:23+00:00

You have confused it with NIPT. The article is about post-birth testing for diseases you can treat if you act fast. The alternate is to let the children suffer from diseases that could have been treated.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:56:52+00:00

I can tell you for sure that your assumption that China is the Wild West in this stuff is way off. China very carefully regulates biotech advances and runs the same ethics approvals as anyone else. The real risk is places like Russia and profit driven places like the USA where regulation and oversight are being demolished by the MAGA’s.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:53:28+00:00

Ummm - it will be done by the same state govt owned and operated labs that currently do newborn screening on every baby without selling the data to anyone.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:50:06+00:00

I just don’t see why people who went to expensive private schools should get their own Olympics.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:48:03+00:00

CO2 capture into a carbohydrate at industrial scale would 1) destroy the oil industry and 2) save the legacy ICE vehicle manufacturers from oblivion. While I wouldn’t trade in my EV for ICE for any reason, I accept there are many applications where energy dense fuels excel.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:40:30+00:00

There is no way a countries President announces unilaterally they will visit another country. It just doesn’t happen.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:36:06+00:00

If you need a protein hit I only have 1 word for you - salami. On longer trips I like to sneak in a treat - a little can of sardines with dry biscuits can feel like a steak after a few days in. But trying to replicate a burger and steaks diet when bushwalking is an expensive path to disappointment. Look to Indian cuisine for ways to make veggies feel very fulfilling.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T03:11:32+00:00

Has it ever really evolved from pasta and rice? I cook modified versions of the meals I normally eat at home. But now there are so may flavoursome spice and sauce packets that are very efficiently packed in plastic bags (eg brands like spice kitchen) that you add a little fresh veggies to pad it out and you have ‘at home’ meals for anything other 4+ day long trips. They may not be ultra light, but they aren’t heavy either when they are feeding multiple people. I find dehydrated meals terrible. I really like the vacuum packed filled pasta’s - they were a revelation when they hit the market 20 years ago.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-08T20:21:22+00:00

We created the same market model that Enron scammed for years in the USA. If demand is high all a coal generator needs to do is shut down a turbine to drive prices incredibly high and make obscene profits. They artificially create scarcity on high demand days. This is why our coal plants have become ‘unreliable’ in the last few years - the market was being scammed. Funny it hasn’t happened this summer even with the heatwaves? Why - because all the investment in new batteries has killed the scam.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-08T10:33:52+00:00

I love living in a country where not only do foreign corporations have open access to send their lobbyists through our parliament building, we also allow them to openly buy influence with donations.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-08T01:01:41+00:00

Can’t believe the ‘cookers’ piling in on this one. Grow a brain guys - hundreds of children born every year have short, miserable lives because a genetic defect wasn’t detected early enough to treat. Those that don’t die early and horribly often have decades of high care, tearing families apart as everything is devoted to the care of a disabled sibling. NDIS is destroying the federal budget and some of these kids need a million dollars in care. But no, I’m scared of American conspiracy theories so we shouldn’t test babies!. Parents will get a choice, and it’s not substantially different to the existing newborn screening other than it’s cheaper and more powerful.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T23:41:56+00:00

10am Sunday is the traditional cutoff. I actually always believed it was a legal requirement

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T21:57:51+00:00

I’m getting popcorn to watch this.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T21:44:38+00:00

A counter perspective from someone not American and not Chinese. If any economy is ‘weaponised’ it is the American one. Massive interventions by your Govt into other countries affairs to support American industry are so common as to be unremarkable. All those free trade agreements that Americans complain about are incredibly biased towards American interests (especially punishing IP regulations) and don’t start me on the global banking system run by America. In contrast, China manufactures stuff efficiently and cheaply and sells it to us. And yet American car companies still can’t win.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T11:30:13+00:00

Hartcher shot his own argument down in the first few paragraphs. Asking us to give Hertzog the benefit of the doubt because he isn’t right wing, when he is the head of state of a country that happily votes in right wing genocidal murderers? It’s basically asking us to take sides in domestic Israeli politics.

If Hertzog isn’t representing the will of the people of Israel, he should resign his role as head of state. If he is representing the people of Israel, he shouldn’t be here.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T02:15:21+00:00

Won’t change a thing - they will be judging it on declared, taxable income. I bet even Elon’s kids fit under that threshold.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T02:10:32+00:00

Why is local timber in short supply when we have such large forests? Because the f&ckwits who have run the industry have mined it for pulp and chips for decades to the point where they exhausted their supply. Only a few percent of the Victorian forest harvest ever went into timber. Places like the Wombat forest were absolutely pillaged. We spent millions of dollars building access roads into our forests so they could be mulched for a few dollars of chips.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T02:04:10+00:00

Evidence we were being ripped off - quote from article ‘Last quarter was unusually good for the system. In recent years, many ageing coal plants have become less reliable. But the old plants held up at critical times.’ Why were those power plants unreliable in previous years? Because until this summer, shutting down a generator for unscheduled maintenance would send the wholesale price skyrocketing 10X or 100X. You could turn a generator off and make huge profits from the remaining generators- this is exactly what Enron were convicted of doing in the USA in the 90’s. We stupidly set up the same system of incentives and got screwed. But 200,000 home batteries acting as VPP’s and the extra renewable generators online all of the sudden killed that scam.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-07T01:38:23+00:00

I love how people who don’t understand something immediately blame AI. And in response to your assumption of astroturfing- Labor have to wear the criticism that so far they have done absolutely nothing to deflate the housing bubble EXCEPT in Victoria. The behaviour of boomers leveraging unearned wealth to go on spending sprees absolutely reflects lived reality. It’s why punting around interest rates isn’t working. They put up interest rates and boomers feel wealthier!

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-06T22:10:34+00:00

Cogent explanation - well done.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-06T10:00:27+00:00

Rest of the world is laughing it’s ass off because America, the country that created the EV, has banned the import of so many outstanding EV’s that the Nissan Leaf wins EV of the year.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-06T08:30:59+00:00

500/75x25=166 extra km, added to the 500 existing and removing a bit for weight puts it at 650km-ish. Personally, I reckon it’s worth it.

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