How difficult would it be for China to weaponise influenza?

In Libya, about 20 years ago, I was reading an information panel about Gaddafi’s “Great Man-made River” project transporting water across the *Sahara Desert*, which noted that some stages were hampered by “unexpected evaporation” 🙄

That would explain jazzercise fashion choices

We are now a monsoon country.

If you did invite Luxon for a bbq, what do you reckon he would bring?

I reckon he’d bring a bottle of supermarket red and then drink all your good stuff.

Do they even print phone books anymore? To a modern mind it would be industrial-scale doxxing. I remember years ago having to opt-out of being delivered the yellow pages.

All you kids can look up what a “telephone box” was. And a “receiver”. And “coins.”

In the old days you could have ripped one off the chain in a telephone box (obviously after smashing the receiver to bits, wedging your gum in the coin slot, and taking a piss in the corner)

If he retired and stayed at home, how long do you reckon Amanda would last before moving to the beach house full time?

Too much like full time work for him, I would have thought.

I hope Quentin Tarantino sues him for copyright infringement.

Anyway, last laugh’s on her. I didn’t buy a steak. I bought a mini lamb roast and did some roasted duck-fat kumura.

Spill! Spill! Spill!

Wait, a show about nothing? Someone should pitch that.

I’m expecting to find out soon that the fine print of the coalition agreement actually gives Winston the right to select the next leader of National.

Spull!

How long do we think he would tolerate being on the backbenches?

Mine is, too! As she was leaving she offered to get a frozen lasagne out to defrost for me, then caught the look in my eye and said, “You’re going to buy a massive steak, aren’t you?”

It’s great when someone knows you so well

Thank you!

Is there any good popular science writing you would recommend on this stuff? (I’ve read a bit of Vaclav Smil on this sort of thing, which I found interesting - he said something like a modern tomato is essentially a bag of water and energy derived from fossil fuels)

I suppose the defenestration of Trump is a more realistic outcome than the dismantling of the Roman Catholic Church. Still. A pox on both their houses.

Yeah, I know, but let’s not forget that Epstein Island was basic, entry level shit compared to the Catholic Church’s involvement in abuse of minors.

Thomas Midgley Jr. - Wikipedia

And TEL was invented by the *exact same guy* who developed CFCs as refrigerants - the ones that ate the ozone layer meaning that here in the southern hemisphere we got lead poisoning AND skin cancer. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...

I’m waiting for someone to post an AI image of the Orange Facist balls-deep into a goat, and claim they thought it was depicting him as a veterinarian.

“OK all you 5s, shut up because a 10 is talking…”

I’m weird-floaty-old-school-diving-helmet-guy-with-a-knife-for-some-reason.

Tag yourself.

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Is this his fastest TACO so far?

I need to re-read it, but my recollection is that the book dwelt a lot more on that issue (and waaaaay more than the films one sentence on explaining that Eridians didn’t understand relativity)