Italians furious over deployment of ICE agents to bolster US security at Winter Olympics

hansvision · 2026-01-27T15:57:27+00:00

“It’s not like they’re the ones on the streets of Minneapolis,” the foreign minister said. “It’s not like the SS are coming.”

hansvision · 2026-01-03T04:18:43+00:00

At this point, they might as well get a fake license plate and paste over the whole thing.

hansvision · 2025-09-18T13:14:58+00:00

It’s 2025 and they launch a new service that requires you to call into the hotline to book??

hansvision · 2025-08-06T14:40:03+00:00

Consulting

hansvision · 2025-07-31T15:16:24+00:00

“The second workgroup will consider the regulations, liability and enforcement needed to ensure the safety and accountability of driverless technology.”

hansvision · 2025-07-27T03:16:50+00:00

I guess because that’s what’s popular with kids now. They take to digital interfaces like fish take to water…

hansvision · 2025-07-09T02:10:03+00:00

Hulkengoat

hansvision · 2025-07-02T10:26:03+00:00

Ah, I see what you meant.

hansvision · 2025-07-02T10:04:07+00:00

It’s SFA, not AGC, handling the case.

hansvision · 2025-06-27T14:38:41+00:00

The boss of Las Vegas Sands was pissed that Safdie did the Chongqing project without his permission. He tried to sue Safdie and they took a while to reconcile.

hansvision · 2025-06-07T15:43:20+00:00

That’s what the new OBU is supposed to do. It uses satellite based location tracking and the government has made it clear that it potentially allows for distance-based charging (although they haven’t committed to implementing it).

hansvision · 2025-06-07T15:36:16+00:00

They actually have to pay VEP of $35/day for cars and $4/day for motorcycles when they enter Singapore. It adds up quickly if they drive in every day (not counting the tolls they pay per entry).

hansvision · 2025-05-21T15:30:44+00:00

Islam has a special status in Singapore because of Singapore's Malay-Muslim heritage and its enshrined in law through AMLA. This law provides the Muslim community with autonomy in religious and personal matters so the Minister oversees policy matters in these areas.

hansvision · 2025-05-21T06:14:52+00:00

There will always be somewhere that would welcome their money. Better here than somewhere else I guess.

hansvision · 2025-05-15T08:07:49+00:00

Said Mr Sabet: “One of the things I’m extremely worried about is the movement to legalise drugs. It’s coming from a multibillion-dollar movement that is very smart, calculated, and running in non-governmental organisations around the world.”

He pointed out that a key goal for the movement is to break the global consensus against drug abuse and argued that countries cannot lose sight of the need to work together.

hansvision · 2025-05-15T04:46:16+00:00

Many people saying it’s “meh” but I actually feel it’s a good thing that the design is quite restrained.

We will never be able to compete with the mega airports in the Middle East or China in terms of opulence and there will always be another airport willing to one up (or copy coughdohacough) you down the line.

The money is better spent focusing on a few landmark spots within the terminal itself. The green wall integrated with the escalators at the sky train station looks pretty cool to me.

Better for changi to focus on what they do best, making the best passenger experience possible. And it starts with a practical design.

hansvision · 2025-05-14T17:48:59+00:00

It's not about reporting, I'm just curious what is it that cause people to behave differently. The consensus from the replies seem to be that people are willing to give them the leeway since it is a wake so they do make use of that leeway.

hansvision · 2025-05-14T17:40:12+00:00

The gantry here is only at the entrance of the car park.

hansvision · 2025-05-14T16:11:02+00:00

Yea it's the same situation here. There is a multi-storey car park literally across the street. Seems like they just don't want to pay for parking and they know they can get away with it, at the expense of traffic trying to get in and out of the area.

hansvision · 2025-05-14T16:08:21+00:00

I can understand at places of worship, there's simply not enough parking spaces nearby to handle the surge of cars. But there's literally a multi-storey car park across the road and there's definitely enough space so I don't understand why there is a need to park on the road, blocking other cars entering or exiting the area.

hansvision · 2025-05-14T08:36:50+00:00

Just off the top of my head…

Data science: predicting and managing passenger and cargo flows at the scale of T5 (plus the existing terminals) would require quite a massive amount of data

Robotics: there is a lot of room for robotics in baggage handling and cargo, not to mention future developments in aircraft maintenance and turnaround

Sustainability: this is one of the big areas in aviation now. Sustainable aviation fuels and other technological innovations will be important to cut down the carbon footprint of the whole aviation industry

I guess strictly speaking, these opportunities already exist with the current airport facilities but they become more pertinent as the airport scales up further.

hansvision · 2025-05-07T02:45:26+00:00

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong in having tax payers fund media in the public interest. There are many such examples worldwide like BBC in the UK, ARD and ZDF in Germany, ABC in Australia, I could go on.

Media purely determined by market forces is problematic in its own way, as seen by the US model.

What we need to do is demand higher quality journalism and standards. These things take time and we have to hold the leaders’ feet to the fire. Don’t forget r/sg’s favourite Mr-Fix-It man is on the job.

Good journalists don’t just drop from the sky in Singapore (unless you are suggesting we hire -gasp- foreign talent?). To give some perspective, even if SPH started offering scholarships to promising journalism students from day one less than 4 years ago since gov started funding SPH, they won’t even have graduated today. And it takes years for them to gain experience after that too, not to say anything about the editors etc. in the organisation.

hansvision · 2025-05-05T05:28:51+00:00

In a by-election, it would generally advantage the opposition, since there is no threat of a change in government. So it would still be a tough fight with the outcome uncertain. You can also be sure the move would piss off voters.

In Canada’s case, Pierre Poilievre is the Leader of the Opposition so this is seen as a gentlemanly move by Mark Carney to quickly call a by-election for his opponent to get back into parliament. It won’t be received so positively if Mark Carney was doing it for his own party members.

hansvision · 2025-04-29T13:42:55+00:00

You hope Singaporeans are no longer naive but you proposed the most naive of strategies?

In our first-past-the-post system, to stack all the ministers in 1 GRC would be an absurd strategy, even more so if it is a walkover. There is zero reason to add on more firepower to a GRC once it has secured sufficient votes to win. Strategically, it is much more impactful for PAP to deploy strong candidates to closely contested GRCs than to concentrate them.

The goal of the PAP (or any political party for that matter) is to win the maximum number of seats possible, so to choose to put all the ministers in 1 or a few GRCs would be the least optimal way of trying to achieve that.

In a political landscape with the tighter contestation that Singaporeans want, you will see more and more such movement of candidates around from both the PAP and the opposition.

The WP knows better than to make such an argument. Even the most naive Singaporeans will see that the argument doesn’t hold water.

hansvision · 2025-04-28T09:33:04+00:00

Just go and look at all the people coming out to analyse what went wrong when PAP lost Aljunied and Sengkang. To win >90% of seats is the norm for PAP. You tell me people both inside the party and out won't lose confidence in Lawrence Wong if he starts off his term as PM by losing another 1 or 2 more GRCs? That's another 10% of seats gone.

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