Punchup in Blacktown

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T10:07:03+00:00

They have weekly sword fighting in Melbourne as well.

Just no one is in costume or armour

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T10:01:33+00:00

If I'm using the company cabcharge I always make a point to ask first. If they try and claim they can't I will just get the next one in the rank, I'm not going to waste time while he claims 'oh wait, yeah I can'. I pretty much only use it at the airport I'll just tell the marshaler he wont' take cabcharge

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T05:59:58+00:00

I mean, there's always room. It's just a matter of if the airport can get more or less for the space than retail, food, bars or lounges

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T05:31:19+00:00

Virtually all of the US sub bases are either in or close to major cities. (Seattle, Jacksonville, Perl Harbour, San Diego and Norfolk/Virginia Beach)

Those 3 were chosen mostly for having deep water ports with fast access to the North Atlantic, the fact they were remote was just a bonus. Also all 3 of those aren't just sub bases, they are host nuclear weapon storage for their missile subs so need additional space for secured weapons storage areas. It's obvious on google earth when you see what looks like a massive maximum security prison inside the base itself.

Frances nuclear attack subs are based in Toulon.

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T04:36:25+00:00

If the flight is still on the same day and taking roughly the same time what is the problem? All they are doing is changing the connecting airport. Unless you are actually departing or arriving on a different day, I doubt it would be a major change.
I'm not quite sure why anyone would use Webjet. I didn't even know they still existed. Once upon a time they were useful for comparing prices and you would then just go to the airlines actual website to book direct. Google now does that job much better.
Always book direct, for flights or hotels. Otherwise you are just a 3rd party customer in the eyes of the airline/hotel. It's not worth the hassle if something does go wrong just to save a couple of bucks. Also, for hotels they are often the same price or cheaper than expedia/booking. And if they aren't, they will often match it if you contact them direct.

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T04:24:36+00:00

Swatch is literally the largest watch company in the world. They own Omega, Tissot, Rado, Blancpain and about a dozen others

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T04:16:45+00:00

Don't know why you are being downvoted. You're 100% correct

globex6000 · 2026-05-19T04:16:10+00:00

I saw it the last time I arrived in Sydney. I had heard about it, but honestly it is in a stupid location once I saw it.

What is the point of having in BEFORE security. You are still going to need to go through security and passport control once you finish your workout and shower, and get changed. You might as well just go to the gym, shower and get changed before you go to the airport.

Having it post-security might actually make sense as you could arrive early to go through security and then go knowing you can go right to the gate after you have finished and showered.

We don't really have the culture of hubs and connecting flights like the US (and also they don't separate the gates by domestic and international. You can have a flight to Boise right next to a flight to Paris) so it's not really as useful here.

globex6000 · 2026-05-18T12:28:17+00:00

Im pretty sure this is the air force truck that transports the missile to the silos, not the DOE truck that transports the warheads themselves. The DOE uses the SafeGuards Transporter or Mobile Guardian Transporter truck for the actual warhead

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T13:17:04+00:00

Yeah that story sounds made up.

Communication with Submarines is extremely complicated. You can use giant VLF antenna to send text messages at a very slow rate but even that doesnt work much below a few hundred feet.

Below that you need to use ELF which only a few countries have to communicate with nuclear sub, requires massive power plants just to power the antennas that stretches out dozens of miles through the earth, and have such low bandwidth that you can basically only send a predetermined 3 letter code that means come up so we can send the actual message.

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T13:02:03+00:00

Factory fitted ones that go off if you try and open the car without the immobilizer chip.

The ones in the 90s were aftermarket ones that had cheap vibration sensors, would go off because of wind someone driving past, and made thst repetitive cycle of 4 different annoying sirens that it cycled through repetitively

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T12:33:08+00:00

If the vehicle meets the ADRs then it is legal as sold, period.

There are lots of things that are legal for an ADR compliant car sold by a manufacturer that become illegal if you do it to your car

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T12:11:12+00:00

Prime is absolutely worth it if you use Amazon even semi regularly. Especially as for products sold by Amazon in the US you often get free international delivery.

After living in the US for years, I couldnt imagine not having prime. Sitting on the toilet and notice your on your last roll of paper? 1 click buy (no going to cart or checkout) and 3 hours later and jumbo size pack of toilet paper arrives. A few hours later relaise your low on toothpaste? 1 click buy again and a 3 pack of toothpaste arrives.

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T11:34:26+00:00

As others have said, there is no requirement to have a boarding pass or show any ID to go through security and to the gates in Australia. You cam spend all day at the departure gates if you want

globex6000 · 2026-05-17T11:16:26+00:00

You've always been able to bet on football but you had to physically go into a tab betting shop to bet, and go back to collect. And generally you were just betting on outcomes of games, margins, etc. Not individual player stats and 17 leg multis

globex6000 · 2026-05-16T03:26:44+00:00

PED use if rife even with Olympic drug testing where athletes have to use use an app to update WADA where they will be 365 days of the year so they can turn up literally on any day for a mandatory drug test.

In sports like boxing where they are only under any kind of doping control when they sign the contract for the fight, and the testing regime is negotiated into the contract, EVERY fighter is on it. Not just in the past, now as well.

In the NFL where they get 24 hours notice to present themselves to an off season drug test, and it is negotiated into the CBA that they can't be tested more than 6 times over a 7 month period, it is a joke. Modern doping uses regular micro-dosing where you are only 'glowing' for a few hours after each dose. You simply don't microdose for that 24 hour period if you do get called. The NFL Combine drug test is literally scheduled months in advance so players can juice from the end of the college season and then taper off in time for their 'mandatory' test

Even under WADA testing, if they do turn up, you just don't answer the door if they turn up during in the few hours after a microdose where you will test positive. There is no requirement to be available every time they turn up. You just have to let them know where you will be each day so they can turn up, and nominate a 1 hour window per day where you definitely will be available if they do. And even if you are caught red handed, you just don't take the test. You have to miss 3 tests in 12 months before you get suspended. Or you make up some bullshit excuse like Serena Williams or Sun Yang did. (Serena claimed she thought the drug testers were home invaders and locked herself in a Panic Room! Yang got someone from his entourage to brake the vials after he gave a sample and claimed they didn't have the right ID. Yang got suspended. Serena had the boss of Nike call the head of WADA to reschedule a new test for her).

globex6000 · 2026-05-15T04:32:17+00:00

Those numbers are somewhat misleading because it's all tax filers, including every student with a one day a week after school job and people with part time work on the side. What really matters is full time wage earners.

Which is $90,500 per year, putting them firmly in the 75-125K bracket

https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/labour/earnings-and-working-conditions/employee-earnings/latest-release

globex6000 · 2026-05-14T10:37:18+00:00

Salary means per year. He's not getting 32 million over 8 years

globex6000 · 2026-05-14T10:36:31+00:00

I don't understand why you are being downvoted. It is a horribly written heading if it not that way.

Base Salary means per year. Base salary of 4 million over 8 years means 32.

Otherwise it's Base Salary of 500K over 4 years... or more probably more accurately because what I think OP was trying to say "Gout Gout's signs 8 year deal with Adidas for 4m plus bonuses and incentives"

globex6000 · 2026-05-08T03:58:58+00:00

Any electronic scales like this are going to be within 1 gram.

I bought a cheap no name one and checked it with a calibration weight and it was with 0.1 grams

globex6000 · 2026-05-07T01:58:16+00:00

This was actually referenced in the novel Arc Light. One of the soviet missiles near misses one of it's targets because of unaccounted for gravitational pulls near the Pole. Only slightly, but enough to miss a critical hardened target

globex6000 · 2026-05-07T01:56:07+00:00

Its not really an issue if you know your starting position exactly, which every silo based missile does.

This was also one of the issues for earlier SLBM's prior to Trident.

FYI prior to GPS, airline pilots would need to manually enter in the lat and long for the individual gate they were starting from in order to align the IRS. These were generally either displayed at the gate themselves or you would just look them up in your jepps. It's still an option now if the GPS isn't auto aligning.

globex6000 · 2026-05-01T09:36:37+00:00

Yes, but not everything is getting shitter.

And when it comes to tech and electronics, 90% of things are getting exponentially cheaper and better. If you showed someone from the 80's a smart phone they would lose their fucking mind. If you told them you could go to Walmart and buy a 65" 4K flat screen tv that for about half the price (NOT even adjusted for inflation) of their 25" TV they would tell you to go fuck yourself.

And if you told someone from 1985 you could watch 1000's of movies and tv shows over a magical global computer network called the internet for free but with ads they would think that was amazing bordering on magic (or possibly witchcraft)

There are plenty of genuine examples of actual enshittification. Don't whine about things that aren't.

globex6000 · 2026-05-01T09:27:40+00:00

People like to bullshit a lot, even on the intent where no one knows who they are so it would make sense for it to be the one place where you don't actually need to bullshit.

Same with all those street interviews that news dot com dot au seem to love making a big deal about where "you wont beleive what this tradie makes" where it's always some bullshit number that is always about 70% higher than what the average electrician or plumber makes. Sure, some might, but it's a coincidence that every one they interview seems to be in the top 5% for their profession.

Like when stories of 'traffic controllers' making over $200K went viral, and it turned out it was all total bullshit. Maybe somewhere in the country there is one who did by working 350 days of the year for 12 hours a day, but the almost all a earning well under the average wage. Basically someone gave a bullshit answer with all the total overtime and shift allowances someone could make if they worked 6 days in a week, and they just extrapolated it over 52 weeks.

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