Yes, that one. British by birth, Australian by choice. Saying things; around the place. On the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. He/him.
The Pub-Liking Universal Friend
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truly the worst-titled book of all time, so much so that possters continue to attempt clowns on it a generation later by citing events which constitute uncanny validations of its predictions
lmao
The entire right wing methodology for the last 25 years has been to admit "yes, we're corrupt and evil" and then lie "but so are all politicians and at least we're honest about it", and it's successfully conned a bunch of ill-informed people including many who see themselves as moderate or left
Nice to see the Economist waking up.
I hate that they literally don’t make mid budget movies anymore, because it makes me sound like an old, nostalgia-riddled idiot when I say “they don’t make movies like this anymore” when they literally don’t make movies like that anymore.
open.spotify.com/track/6WMksA...
[ Don't click that one at work with your speakers turned up. ]
The thing which has happened here is that, despite the fact that none of it is legally required (these are above-ground stations, not dangerous tunnels), people who only understand half of the risk-reward trade-off have been given an effective veto on a major project that's none of their business.
The Metro team have done a spectacularly good job of bargaining the fire service down from a $400m project overrun to a $32m one - in a more sensible world the papers would be a) criticising mindless compliance culture b) celebrating the Metro team's $368m win for the taxpayer
🎶 Singal girl, I don't want to be a Singal girl
This article is a great example of how journalism has a systematic bias against anyone actually trying to achieve anything at all www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... (or free at archive.is/202606101945...)
