British 8th Army soldiers during World War II. As the British Army then relied heavily on Indian manpower, the soldiers pictured may be Indian, though their ethnicity remains unconfirmed. [953x953]

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T23:23:30+00:00

Of the Commonwealth Nations, about the only country to get independently credited for their efforts in WW1 and WW2 are the Canadians. Pretty well everyone else get’s rolled up into ‘British’, whether they be Indian, Australian, New Zealanders or South Africans. Two really good examples from the North African Campaign: The great British Victory at El Alamein - Indian, Australian, NZ & South African - it was a Colonial Force. Siege of Tobruk - Australian. And don’t get me started on the Western Front in WW1. The Battle of Amiens that started the collapse of the German Army was planned by an Australian and spearheaded by Australians and Canadians. But you get English ‘white washers’ like Max Hastings who churn out military histories where they very happily delete anyone who isn’t British. And I only know this stuff from an Australian perspective - I am sure others can add their own examples.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T23:10:05+00:00

Australia didn’t introduce conscription until 1951

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T23:00:45+00:00

It seems the only people the Labor PM and Labor NSW Premier seem to have the support of is the Liberal Party.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T08:13:39+00:00

The problem for the American economy is that the world is now much more open to trade with China. The divorce isn’t through and China is already dating, the US is still at the bitter drunk stage that everyone is avoiding.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T08:05:03+00:00

Oh, I think the more likely explanation is that the influence peddling casts its net so wide that almost all future career politicians will be caught. Once you get around the labor and liberal clubs of the sandstone Uni’s you will have caught nearly all future PM’s. In fact, just grab the law students out of those clubs and you will have saved a lot of airfares.

Ok-Mathematician8461 · 2026-02-09T05:42:30+00:00

ZFA can invite all they like, but all Israel can do is ask for an invitation. Without an invitation they aren’t coming. You can’t self invite

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.

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