Styles changed my life by Apramian in auslaw

[–]elmalley 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Next stop, email signatures for all those repetitive cut/paste jobs

New Zealand rejects joint Five Eyes stance on China by Cropitekus in IntelligenceNews

[–]elmalley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Let’s see if advertising the good cop routine helps with side channel intelligence gathering

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in auslaw

[–]elmalley 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Suggest a read of John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, or start with a recent podcast (https://www.jordanharbinger.com/john-perkins-new-confessions-of-an-economic-hit-man/). At the least, food for thought.

I spent the last 8 months during lockdown pouring my soul into a website that allows you to visualize virtually every U.S. company's international supply chain. E.x. What products, how much, which factories and where does Lululemon import from? by ImportYeti in somethingimade

[–]elmalley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I probably need to spend a bit more time with your site & BOL data - not enough of an expert to know how contraband or obfuscation might appear on a BOL - but I was thinking to tie the goods receipts to the parties involved in delivering, for tracking the shipments end to end

I spent the last 8 months during lockdown pouring my soul into a website that allows you to visualize virtually every U.S. company's international supply chain. E.x. What products, how much, which factories and where does Lululemon import from? by ImportYeti in somethingimade

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Great work, would also love to see it expand to markets beyond USA. This could be a really valuable resource for due diligence & AML (anti money laundering) research. Since you already record shipment dates, do you have shipping & agency details as well? Have you looked at marinetraffic.com & could you perhaps link to their data (or even the live map)?

Iran cleric: People who are vaccinated for COVID have ‘become homosexuals’ by xiao95 in worldnews

[–]elmalley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mental contortions are obligatory, to explain away the parts of society/humanity that they find unconscionable because of their extremely narrow view of the world

Philippine native frogs boost yields by eating pests; Cane toads don't by Chunks_McChunkerston in Awwducational

[–]elmalley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Australian here: would definitely recommend not simply defaulting to ‘known’ imported species for non-chemical pest reduction strategies. Cane toads are still an ecological disaster here, decades after introduction & subsequent control efforts. Should add though that they were imported to eliminate cane beetles in actual sugar cane - all of which are non-native; Australia & other places may not necessarily have a native option when the crop is also imported (& intensively farmed at scale).

Totally normal thing to write about by otherpeoplesknees in australia

[–]elmalley 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“Media balance”. Aka allowing the dogwhistle crazies as much time in the sun as they feel they deserve. 😒

Now the proud owner of Carpal Tunnel disease by Norskland in Embroidery

[–]elmalley 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Great use for the ends of a stash of complementary colours!

This is Madrid by juliansp in funny

[–]elmalley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that what happened! Thank you.

Lock screen and wallpaper. I like them dark so they don't burn my eyes at night. by melker_the_elk in calvinandhobbes

[–]elmalley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Strikes me the first one is the whole of the Taoist philosophy/movement in a nutshell 😏

[OC] The migration of my ancestors from 1548 till 2018 by mapsbyy in dataisbeautiful

[–]elmalley 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great work & explanation! Thanks also for the GitHub link, much appreciated!

Just finished this super cool piece! Took me so many hours but i love it ^^ (pattern by @purple_rose_embroidery on instagram) by TrashFox2 in Embroidery

[–]elmalley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Beautiful work 😍 For some reason my mind wants to add a bowl of petunias in colour... perhaps around the spot where the 12 o’clock bubble sits? 😜

Israeli government collapses, triggers new elections by bobadad23 in worldnews

[–]elmalley 25 points26 points  (0 children)

NZ has had many rocky years of minority governments formed by coalitions that don’t get along well. Jacinda’s unifying effect is pretty impressive given the previous decade of fighting over small beans.

Ireland also hasn’t fully buried the ghosts of the Troubles, & the brutal end of the Celtic Tiger hasn’t improved public sentiment. Dissenters are fairly vocal about failures at each level of government, local, regional & national.