3 each for our family and we either bite the last one in half and one pair gets half each, or one person misses out on a third and has 2.
Collaboration or sacrifice. 😁

China’s energy fortress was built to withstand just this type of oil shock | CNN For more than a decade, leader Xi Jinping has overseen a transformation within the Chinese economy with one aim: making it energy-secure.

The historic oil crisis triggered by the US and Israel’s war on Iran is posing the sternest test to date of China’s Promethean effort toward energy self-sufficiency. It’s a test that China appears to be passing.

Monitoring price per 100g.

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Well, at least there was a new reply...

Would appreciate a link

I have those in my local. But price hiking and customer manipulation pre-dates them. Perhaps it will be made easier by them. I have a 'baseline' cost figure in my shopping app to keep an eye on stuff.

Ancient Trypillia figurine from Ukraine challenges Sumerian origins of the wheel.

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Turning the Corner: Momentum Builds in Ukraine’s Strike & Ground Defence Campaigns While Pacific Democracies Enhance their Strategic Deterrence. My weekly update on war and strategic competition. This week, Ukraine's long-range strike & ground ops, Russia still not generating momentum in its spring offensive and Pacific security issues.

“Ukraine is acting & performing like it has the strategic momentum in this war; there is a fair argument that maybe now it does.” My latest. mickryan.substack.com/p/turning-th...

Circles are back, baby!

Okay. It's back to circles, with a legend added; individual infected (could also be symptomatic, hospitalised, etc.) units are also rounded.

This is a big hit to take.

“Australia Institute research shows if Labor had introduced a 25% export tax back in 2022, we would have collected $69 billion by now, and every week we delay introducing such a tax is costing us $350 million." - Dr Richard Denniss

Read more: https://theaus.in/4cwYwYk

I hope he takes his gameboy

“In Australia, we subsidize the fossil fuel industry, and we charge our kids a fortune to go to uni.” - Australia Institute co-CEO Richard Denniss.

Add your name to the call and demand the gas industry pays its fair share: https://nb.australiainstitute.org.au/increase_the_prrt

Request for information (RFI): Undiagnosed febrile illnesses with one death reported in Boni Forest, Lamu County, Kenya; widespread transmission in remote villages. RFI on diagnostic testing results
beaconbio.org/en/report/

Get a glimpse into the future with the projected population changes by country from 2025-2050 🌍

Visual Capitalist breaks it down for you here: www.voronoiapp.com/category/Projected-Popul...

Did you really get a discount on your Tim Tams? The ACCC doesn't think so The sequel to Australia's supermarket pricing wars is about to kick off in the Federal Court as the ACCC takes on Woolworths over what it argues are misleading pricing practices.

...thennthey came for the Tim Tams, and you cared...

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Finally got to Foundation S03. Woah. What a series. Definitely better binged. In retrospect, I should have done with the other seasons! Although, S03 does a good job of updating the viewer on the hostriy of most characters, & sure gets the heart pumping!
30min left. Saving it for tonight.
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It won't.

Happy #TeddyBearTuesday
#Eris #Paws

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Australia faced the same dilemma as China in 2004 but made the wrong call While the rest of us count the cost in higher fuel costs, higher inflation and a weaker economy,  China — the actual winner of the war — will be enjoying a surge of global interest in its solar panels...

"The white paper did result in a $1.5 billion cut in the excise tax on off-road diesel — to help farmers and mining companies — which further entrenched Australia's addiction to diesel."

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

I'm torn

Yeah, I think this is the right take. Thanks Grant.

Okay.

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Yeah, theirs was awesome. I've not got the animation skilz. Plus, my aim is for a still image. That's what this is going to be. Sorry. Plus, plus, these guys have done it excellently. Does not need a remake!