I'd never heard of him.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-22/tech-millionaire-chris-wade-returns-home-murwillumbah/106941360

The next 12 years are eclipse rich.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116954836117486488

90%? That's not missing goals, that's a missing business model.

Death in Brunswick, Dean Spanley and Hunt for the Wilderpeople on SBS World Movies, back to back.

#samneill

I note that Event Horizon and Jurassic Park III are on free-to-air tonight.

Local councilor saying the quiet bit out load.

Without the Fed/state spending [now] on water infrastructure, developing new suburban sprawl blocks wouldn't be profitable for developers.

Developers in the black.
Local government in the red. Suburban blocks don't generate the rates ($/sqkm) needed to maintain over the whole of life.

The Hunt for Red October night here.

RE: https://aus.social/@drrimmer/116894223267511179

We are now at the "renationalise the bastards" stage of the debate.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116869990198198601

Seems wise...

Arrr, that why I don't recognise the site of the horror rest area crash.

It's on the Hume Highway between the Federal Highway junction and Barton Highway junction. The only part of the Hume I didn't drive at least irregularly.

RE: https://mastodon.nu/@ahltorp/116836010676681986

One on the triggers for the American Revolt was timber.

This British administration wanted the internal forests managed as reverses for long term production, notably to product ship masts on an ongoing basis.

Local business interests wanted to harvest as quickly as possible.

It wasn't just a tax revolt, and Ohio wasn't always farmlands.

RE: https://aus.social/@eddyjokovich/116796316261510392

Up until the 1880's, borders only stopped armies. It was where you paid customs.

Passports are an invention of WWI.

From the 1880s to WWI they checked people, but it was mainly* health checks and legals (including ethnic quotas). "We don't let people with your disease in".

Update: apparently it started in the 1880s, not 90s. Have updated text.
* history get filtered, commentary is that the health was the main reason for rejection

#TechIsShitDispatch
Continuing today's theme, the folks who maintain the Massachusetts E-Z Pass website have decided there's no need for them to allow people who are traveling outside the U.S. to access their E-Z Pass accounts. Because it's not like anybody in Massachusetts might need to do so while traveling, eh?
(It works, when I turn on my VPN, which geolocates to Texas. It sure makes a lot of sense to let people in Texas access a Massachusetts site, but not people in foreign countries, eh?)

This government is hopeless. It's taken them 4 years to announce an overhaul the odorous 'mutual obligation'/WftD system.

Just read an amusing comment over on YouTube.

the MAGA trials should be held in "the Trump Ballroom" for the same reason they chose Nuremberg as the location of the Nazi War Trials.

RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116610920813422958

Basically UK Labour has lost it's over 40 vote to Reform, lock, stock and barrel. And half it's under 40 vote to the Greens.

So the Libs and Nats preferenced PHON over the Indie candidate in Farrer (NSW).

You're suppose to punch Nazis, not cuddle up to them.

Let's hope the coalition voters, on the ground, have the integrity to vote Indie over PHON.

The children are why the ISIS brides should have been encouraged home, ASAP, after the fall of the caliphate. Covid or not. F$%k Morrison.

China's thrust for revenge after the 'century of humiliation' could lead to war, if not tempered.

Just as big trade surpluses of the 1820s/30s lead to the opium wars. Shouldn't be surprised if the same happens again.

The US had big trade surpluses in 1946. By 1950, they were back under 1% of GDP. The US did this willingly, because the trade imbalances of the 1920s/30s were a contributing factor to WWII.

China maybe running circles around the modern US, but it's FDR's US that I respect.

2050 Historian:

In the end, properly physically segregated bike lanes were built because to was the only way to keep cyclists safe from robo-taxis.