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diarm wrote: ↑Wed May 11, 2022 8:22 am You would absolutely sh!t yourself if you were driving down a country road late at night and saw that drifting towards you out of the darkness!

It would be like the Hound of the Baskervilles in reindeer form.

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My opinion is that life in general is common in the universe/galaxy but we have no way of detecting virtually any of it with our present technological limitations. I divide that life into 4 rough categories: 1. Microbial: the most common by some distance, in much the same way that microbial life is ...

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I'm in agreement with the others here. FB definitely needs to be broken up, and I wouldn't object to AWS being forced to spin out too. Another candidate for breakup: Google. They've already tried to pre-emptively avoid this by becoming "Alphabet" but does anyone really believe they're actually indep...

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DA2 was a completely different play style from what I'm aware of. Playstyle compared to what? DA2 was panned because they scrimped on locations but the characters and storyline were great. ME2 was absolutely the better of the two but it was the same principle, more quality characters and story, sho...

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I wonder how long it will be before 'Blazing Saddles' gets banned forevermore for being "offensive"?

Assuming it isn't already, of course.

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I've always been a huge fan of Ringworld by Larry Niven, I must have read it and the sequel half a dozen times when I was a teenager and in my 20s. I recently decided to revisit the books during lockdown, and both still hold up well today. I then foolishly decided to move on to the (written much la...

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It's a short video but seriously worth watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgDHvl1wD20 Incredible!! Thanks for positing :thumbup: Definitely one of the most amazing predator-chase-and-kill videos I've ever seen. :thumbup: Thought they would both be dead or seriously injured but the leopard not...

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Some excellent choices here, especially the knifing death in Saving Private Ryan and the curb stomp in American History X. One that hasn't been mentioned yet: the scene in Training Day when Ethan Hawke's character has just realized he's been abandoned to be murdered by suddenly very aggressive gang ...

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We are best buds again now, all good. Thanks Twiggy. China hijacks Health Minister’s press conference A Chinese official has hijacked an Australian Government announcement during a live TV press conference this afternoon. (snipped) Looks like Twiggy's a better mouthpiece for the CCP than their own a...

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Ryanair are making the usual noises. They are suggesting the bailouts should cover all airlines equally. I wonder how the Irish govt will look at supporting Aer Lingus. They will be hung if they do, and hung if they dont. Personally I think all shareholders should pony up a % of any bailout for any...

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I didn't know they could drop the B-17's ball turret in preparation for a belly landing, but totally makes sense ... https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/93660070_129631771992817_1202615143804960768_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=ca434c&_nc_ohc=nakfax8-r-UAX8ZWQvM&_nc_ht=scontent-yyz1-1.xx&oh=1...

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Can someone more finance savvy than me talk about CLO's? They seem like a corporate loan version of a mortgage-backed security, correct? Yes, that's essentially correct. CLO's are worse than junk bonds for credit-worthiness, though. So a bit like the worst of the sub-prime MBS (mortgage-backed secu...

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My thoughts are however on what measures and behaviours will help lead to a future recovery. International trade surely has to be a part of that, even allowing for its nature to change. The UK, as we all know, is service-orientated and quid pro quo access to foreign goods will surely have to be "tr...

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And the FED subsequently earmakrs recently granted $2.3 trillion for municipal bonds and expanding corporate bond-buying programs to include some lower-rated and riskier debt. (read junk bonds). This is just insane. They're just trying to reinflate the bubble, basically. A central bank is supposed ...

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I've been putting in a serious amount of exercise and have been losing weight for sure. Have probably been doing a bit too much exercise as I've been feeling too fatigued. So today was a total rest day and I'll be back at it tomorrow. If everything goes to plan I'll have a six pack by the end of thi...

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It will be interesting to see: (a) what comes of the G20 teleconference (b) the details of the US package - will it be a repeat of 2008? A really good intereview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-44ngyYoA I love the repeated calls for short selling bans, more circuit breakers, market halts etc. w...

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The perfect residence for now. http://content.leenks.com/pics/2018/random421/random-3.jpg Whenever I see a picture of one of these amazing mountaintop (or island-top, in this case) structures, the sheer amount of hard physical labour required to build them just blows my mind. There were no powered ...

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I'm not alone, at least. Another thing is that the Endymion series feel a bit like fanfic or a different author trying to tack on something to a pre-existing work. Not quite ret-conning the Hyperion plot, but there feels like a bit of "oh, that thing that I said before wasn't quite true, here's wha...

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Glaston wrote:All Premiership clubs barring Exeter are introducing pay cuts.

Am curious why Rowe is the odd one out?

He was self-isolating before it was cool?

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The sleep thread reminded me of this. I've completely stalled with Rise of Endymion. Mostly due to the fact that I only read in bed, and these days I'm asleep in minutes. Most of the time I'll get a maximum of one page done before I put it down or actually drop my Knidle onto my face. Also, Anaea i...

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So airlines are asking for bailouts? Yet 96% of global airline cashflow was apparently used for share buy backs over the last few years as execs made sure their stock options were in the money. It’s ridiculous. Profit in good times gets privatized (as it should) and losses in bad times get socializ...

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It's terrible. F'me. Platinum fell to 564 although is up to around 680 down 11% :shock: Palladium has fared even worse over the last week. Although to be fair, platinum is currently losing more today than palladium. Silver is having the living shit kicked out of it with a 12.4% loss at the moment.

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Rather than print money, couldn’t they just suspend all trading? They might try that too. The markets did close briefly after 9/11, I believe? Basically they need to stop the panic and forced margin calls from over-leveraged investors and funds. If the Fed can't do it (and it appears they can't) th...

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This could prove to be counterproductive: without being able to see the hard data behind this, it makes me think the effect (of the virus)is far more broad-based and fundamental than I thought. Could lead to more risk-off, particularly comparing the expected time distribution and frequency of cases...

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I'm heavily into junior miners (gold, silver, palladium, lithium, cobalt, etc). My shares have been getting killed with everything else but I've been averaging down while scraping together the cash to buy as much as I can ASAP. Gold will be doing very well in the decade ahead with ZIRP/NIRP idiocy f...

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A very interesting thread. We do indeed seem to have some hard-wired pressing need to believe in a higher power, for better or worse. If it's not traditional religion then it's communism, veganism, fascism, anti-vaxxism (is that a word yet?), objectivism, libertarianism, "woke"-ness, and so on. An u...

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It was a game so bad, MotM should have been one of the unused substitutions who sat on the bench all evening.

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mabunch78 wrote:
Lacrobat wrote:A 300-year history of interest rates:
700-year, no?

Lacrobat can't count. However, I do commend him as a fellow subscriber to the Visual Capitalist where I saw these same infographics just the other day.

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Fans of Medieval history (and GoT) might enjoy this blog by a guy who's actually studied all the tactics, armaments, logistics, etc from real history and compared them to what appeared in the series: https://acoup.blog/2019/05/28/new-acquisitions-not-how-it-was-game-of-thrones-and-the-middle-ages-pa...

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tabascoboy wrote: When you have flippers for hands like I have, the less gameplay the better

"On the Internet, no one knows you're a seal."

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Which Phillip Pullman book to start with please. Well the Dark Materials trilogy is the only thing I’ve read by him but I found it hugely overrated. Started ok but trailed off hugely (maybe would have liked it better when I was a kid though) Same for me, and they fared worse on a second reading yea...

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comets wrote:those fucking russian birds..

Clearly a Chinese bird.

If it was a Russian bird, the Democrats would have had 11 conspiracy theories about it already.

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I found his theory on Shakespeare most intersting: I don't know how this could be necessarily proven, but he said that the very way that modern Western minds view the world - you and me - was invented in large part by Shakespeare. Our very consciousness is of a sort that popped out of Shakespeares ...

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I was actually really looking forward to this match. Apart from hopefully seeing Namibia's first victory, it would have been a much-needed kick in the ass for the Canadian RU if they would have dropped this one. I've heard Rugby Canada paid to have the match cancelled for exactly that reason ;) :? ...

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This reads like a Trump-script... https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2019/10/elon-musk-wants-you-to-know-the-pedo-guy-thing-has-been-very-hard-on-elon-musk/ Interesting article and reveals just how ugly his mind/ego is ... But I'm sure the Musketeers will write this off as yet more evidence of a Big Oil Co...

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I've met a lot of PNG lads (and a few PNG girls) at the Cebu Dragons Rugby Club. None are particularly tall (as some have pointed out already) but they're built very solidly and powerfully and can be a real pain to tackle. They also have some great playmaking skills. And their physicality is general...

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Canada did about as well as I expected in the first half, then exceeded expectations in the second half -- almost certainly because the Boks took their foot off the gas and suddenly lost all their mojo. Many of the Bok subs made a lot of poor passes and decisions which is all that saved Canada from ...

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Georgian no14 seemed not really in his cup of tea Fukface? Is he really a 14? He's a center. There was a huge uproar about him and #15 being selected, not being able to defend and all but Coaches said all was well and part of a plan... guess they were full of shit. :thumbup: Last handling error was...

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No visible impact here in the Philippines. In Cebu city, anyway. Members of the local rugby club are of course watching a lot of the games (especially the visiting Japanese students!) but I don't think anyone outside of that core group are paying any attention whatsoever to the Rugby World Cup.

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Like Uruguay, for example. What are they doing to create a competitive international XV that we aren't? Coaching is a big factor here IMO. They came out with a perfect defensive gameplan for Fiji, and in spite of their relative lack of size it worked like a charm. They knew Fiji would bring trouble...

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