There would be thousands of people who could tell you Shell's revenue off the top of their heads... Investors, analysts, traders, autistic people.

Capital gains tax discounts cost $25B/yr
Negative gearing costs $6B annually
Gas exports not being taxed at 25% cost $17B/yr
Fossil fuel subsidies cost $16B/yr
AUKUS costs $12B/yr for the next 30 years

$76B in annual spending/lost revenue

NDIS costs $48B and is the entire conversation about cuts.

160,000 people and their friends, family, carers...

Tax the rich? Controversial. Generate a cent of public wealth from our own resources? Foolish. Change one law to bring down house prices and fill the public coffers with additional revenue? Madness.

Demonise then impoverish the most vulnerable, disadvantaged segment of the population? Sign me up

Amazing to see Aussie media when the fix is in. If we talk taxing gas exports, removing CGT discounts/negative gearing, there's sporadic coverage, mostly leaning towards "why we can't do this". The moment someone eyes a disability scheme for savings, there are multiple stories a day about rorts.

When should you get to the airport?

Business/first class: the moment the check-in counter opens, so you can run for the lounge, gorge on smoked salmon and inhale free single malt.

Economy (new airport): 90 minutes before take-off (30 minutes to explore)

Economy: 60 minutes before take-off.

Tax breaks for super contributions are projected to dwarf any reduction in welfare spending brought on by self-funded retirees...as I recall that was the entire argument for mandatory private super accouts: we needed to fund our own retirements to reduce the growing welfare budget.

Anyone with ADHD/ASD can tell you how many times a day someone trivialises the dominant challenges in our lives. "we're all a bit autistic"..."I forgot to take the bins out, I think I'm a bit ADHD too". It's exhausting and disheartening to say the least.

That opening sentence is a pretty spectacular case of "my opinion here is very qualified".

The hottest women I've ever known once told me she was terrified of death because of how awful her skin would look if she was a corpse.

I used to love playing Sargent Peppers on cassette with the balance turned all the way to one side when I was a kid. When I'm 64 with just vocals and tuba, a cappella lovely Rita meter maid...I credit the Columbia version for my interest in audio engineering.

Is anyone actually still buying this bullshit?

In hindsight, my doctor dad should've suspected ADHD when I'd melt down to near-seizure level waiting for the Elite tape to load on the c64.

In several K-dramas I've seen, someone's grandfather (generally the Chairman of a big company) is accused of, or outed as being a Japanese sympathiser back in the day, which was the nefarious source of his enormous riches.

Can't believe Andy Arsencunt wasn't Australian :(

Yeh that one didn't grab me. I can't make fractal pasta shapes without an expensive machine but I've been managing ok on the burger patty front. That's a solution looking for a problem.

Depends on the medium. Anything that can be extruded, and will solidify can be 3d printed. Think of it as a very large, precise, automatic piping bag.

Some of the best food I've ever eaten was in the lunchroom of an ice cream factory in 6th of October City, outside Cairo. "Chicken, salads, all sorts of good stuff" exactly describes the menu.

BRS trys to pay bail bond with crypto from a USB stick he dug up from a lunchbox in the backyard. His KC: "I'm sorry, your honour, I'm instructed that my client says 'all my apes gone'."

First time I've seen that sub. Might submit...The landlord at work is a retired race car driver, there's about $30M worth of supercar in the garage. Enough that someone broke into our office recently and didn't bother grabbing high end laptops etc, just looked for a fob for the garage then left.

21. and Simon who was called the Zealot said "Lord, if we catch some clams, scrounge up some corn, and you reprise the miracle from the feeding of the 5,000 we could get a seafood boil going"
22. and Jesus raged, barking "sure and if I had some ham I could make a ham sandwich, if I had some bread"

I call Seth Harp to the stand.

Should do it. I got dragged to a couple of events some years ago so I could dress as a monk and give benediction in Latin before the fighting.

The metal weapons medieval nerds are a whole different beast to the rattan cane ren faire cretins.

A lot of metal weapons nerds have their own forges and make frankly awesome swords and armor.

HR manager gave me raw data from our engagement survey, as well as the AI analysis of said data. Over 100 survey responses and the AI analysis said the "biggest concern" among employees was the unfairness of our recognition/reward program. It's mentioned ONCE in the data, by the first respondent.

We can finally eat a bowl of dicks.

That's why my copy is a pdf :D The hell with giving him $600

Printing it is making it. What's wrong with having more things we can do with food?

I feel like I've spent half my life waiting for amazing kitchen tech to work its way down to consumer-priced versions. Years waiting for sous vide to become affordable, then a decade waiting for the $8k pacojet to become a $500 ninja cremi, and now this fucking thing exists.

In Canada, you can go into a GNC or similar and among the protein and creatine you'll find shrink wrapped trays of 24x100x8mg ephedrine tablets "for nasal congestion". Right next to them you'll find massive bottles of caffeine and aspirin.

I used to use an ECA stack to cut weight for powerlifting.