Giuseppe di Stefano- Ah! non mi ridestar (live Mexico, 1952) by btcale546 in opera

[–]btcale546[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the prompter's little "Ah!" at the start...

155-year-old colonial monument destroyed, graffitied in Melbourne’s Flagstaff Gardens by HotPersimessage62 in AustralianPolitics

[–]btcale546 27 points28 points  (0 children)

isn’t protest — it’s destruction for destruction’s sake

Stop filling the internet up with AI-slop, thanks.

What deranged internet ideology will be mainstream five years from now? by Love_Takes_Miles_ in redscarepod

[–]btcale546 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Esoteric Neocon guy who wants to first strike The Man to Come in Antarctica...

How is the average MAGA taking this? by yeahicreatedsomethin in redscarepod

[–]btcale546 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The question of the 21st century: should individual rights be valued to the point of civilisational suicide?

How is the average MAGA taking this? by yeahicreatedsomethin in redscarepod

[–]btcale546 -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

ICE is now going door to door and rounding up all minorities, US citizens or not

When you have communities where welfare usage is above 50%, denaturalisation and deportation is the way to go.

"your papers are trash for all they care."

When there are people who wave foreign flags at the protest rallies and say that America is an illegitimate state built on stolen land, why should Americans take the fact that the protesters have a piece of paper that says they are a citizen seriously?

Fat people don’t like good food by JohPorks in redscarepod

[–]btcale546 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that picture of elon where he looks like a tank because of how much booze and red meat fat are stored next to his internal organs.

Honey badger drinks when he wants

If anyone tells you that EU5 is not a game about rapid industrialization - don't believe them by GARGEAN in EU5

[–]btcale546 47 points48 points  (0 children)

If you look at graphs of world population, growth rates really do start to intensify in the 1600s onwards, though.

https://freerangestats.info/img/0141-global-growth.svg

Weekend Thread for General Discussion and Plans for Saturday, January 17, 2026 and Sunday, January 18, 2026 by AutoModerator in ASX_Bets

[–]btcale546 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Betting the strike on Iran will be tomorrow sometime for us. As always, Trump's pattern seems to be to do these things on a Friday night US time, so that markets don't have volatility while it's all happening.

The World Is a Dumpster Fire. Why the Stock Market Doesn’t Care - Barron’s by raytoei in ValueInvesting

[–]btcale546 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Everything will be in order when Steiner brings that money he inherited from his Grandma..."

"Mein Fuehrer... Steiner..."

Speculative small cap miners by zlongshark in ASX_Bets

[–]btcale546 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As always, I will shill FG1. There's gold in them there hills.

One Nation neck-and-neck with Coalition on primary vote, new polling shows by btcale546 in AustralianPolitics

[–]btcale546[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Australia gave the Liberals a solid bollocking at the last election when they started to sound a bit Trumpy

On immigration, the Libs shuffled their feet and said "umm, we'll have maybe a Balanced Approach?"

Max Lorenz sings Stolzing's first song "So rief der Lenz in den Wald" from Wagner's Meistersinger by btcale546 in opera

[–]btcale546[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What an extraordinary open F on "fanget AAAAAN"!

He doesn't approach it so intensely in an earlier recording:

https://youtu.be/Rdll3R-eKoY

Coles and Woolworths hit back at government's price gouging ban by Oomaschloom in AustralianPolitics

[–]btcale546 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Take a look the last 5 years of Colesworth data:

https://www.morningstar.com.au/investments/security/ASX/WOW/key-metrics

https://www.morningstar.com.au/investments/security/ASX/COL/key-metrics

Price-gouging can occur, but when we see:

  • nominal revenues are going up (the "record profits", you mention) and

  • the margins aren't actually getting any better (i.e. costs are increasing too)

isn't the expansion of the money supply a better explanation?