teractiveodular

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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   Ah, it's a private jet (Bombardier Global 6000), not commercial aviation. Then again, after all he's been through, it would hardly be fair to subject Assange to the horrors of cattle class on United.
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   Must've been a pretty wild Christmas party.
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   That would be Prabowo Subianto, formed US-trained special forces commander implicated with a whole bunch of murder in East Timor, Papua and in the final days of Suharto's regime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prabo
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   Interesting. So he'll have to physically be present in the CNMI? Presumably he'll fly London-Tokyo-Saipan, since this is just about the only way to get there without transiting the US (including Hawaii).
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   If the Swedish prosecutor had dropped charges before the US got around to charging him, Julian would have walked free. So it's awfully convenient that the charges were "substituted", so to speak, on the same day.
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   Obligatory plug for The Act of Killing, an absolutely surreal documentary about the Indonesian mass killings and what happened to the PKI after independence. Basically, they get some of the perps of mass murder to re-enact their crimes on
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   'Hamster Kombat' crypto craze has taken Iran, highlighting economic malaise(apnews.com)

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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   I think GP is saying that Michelin star chefs come from culinary school, not line cooks.
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   by teractiveodular 2y ago

   Speaking of losing the plot, here's extra-virgin canola oil: https://www.woolworths.com.au/shop/productdetails/483501/geo...
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    by teractiveodular 2y ago

    So instead of penalizing unsafe drivers, we'll penalize all drivers by replacing them with robots? I'm actually a Waymo fan but this particular argument doesn't really hold water.
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    by teractiveodular 2y ago

    Dingy/dinghy is a great one for the Eggcorn Database! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720548
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    by teractiveodular 2y ago

    This. For example, "Tokyo's average temperature increases from 58.3°F to 63.6°F and remains in Temperate" sounds distinctly meh, unless you've actually suffered your way through a stiflingly hot Tokyo summer (100° with 8