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That's not so far off from Pornhub's Year In Review 2024 that had the Linux share of the desktop space at 5.1%.

Just sayin.

Careful you don't trip over it.

Unfortunately apart from a solitary roo nothing about it really looks like an Australian setting in the trailer. Maybe it's not entirely set in Oz.

Elon Musk has promised to donate to Rep. Thomas Massie’s re-election campaign as the Kentucky Republican faces down the wrath of Donald Trump.

It is very strange. I don't know anything about these games. Has the geology of the world radically changed? Would that explain the landscapes I see in the trailer?

I like the look of Big Walk. If I ever get a chance to check it out I can tell I'll feel very much at home.

I found a reference in Wikipedia (edit 3) so afaic my work here is done.

Edit 1: Oh fuck, it's a circular reference. Dammit.

Trying to verify this. So far I found this but have not confirmed it's legit in any way:

Edit 1: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | archive.org

Edit 2: Laundry, Shooting At Venus, and Surviving Two Back-To-Back Ship Sinkings Part 1 | Vuink - Repost of article found in Edit 1.

Edit 3: USS Langley (CV-1) | World War II

On the entry of the US into World War II, Langley was anchored off Cavite, Philippines.[5][19] On 8 December, following the invasion of the Philippines by Japan, she departed Cavite for Balikpapan in the Dutch East Indies. In the natural state of alarm (the attack on Pearl Harbor had happened the day before) 300 rounds were shot at an object in the sky before it was realized that it was the planet Venus.[20]

Edit 4: This detailed history of the ship does not mention anything about firing at Venus:

Langley I (CV-1) | Naval History and Heritage Command

I went to check out the status of the Torres Strait Islander flag and ended in going down a bit of a rabbit hole in regards to the Australian Aboriginal flag:

The flag's current legal status was debated in an Australian Senate estimates committee in mid‑February 2022, when it was also revealed that the Morrison government had paid $13.75m to Thomas to assume copyright, and also paid $6.3m to two non-Indigenous businesses which held licences to use the flag. These companies are WAM Clothing, which received $5.2m, and Wooster Holdings, which was paid $1.1m. Interests in both companies are held by Gold Coast businessman Ben Wooster, former director of Birubi Art (which was fined $2.3m in 2018 for selling fake Aboriginal art).

Death, death to the IDF!

I don't know. An earlier article linked in this article includes this:

An LJ Hooker branch this week admitted to using ChatGPT to write a listing for a rental in regional New South Wales, which erroneously advertised the house as being near two schools that didn’t exist.

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said businesses that used AI models to generate advertising material should ensure it is checked for any false, misleading or inaccurate information.

“Under the Australian consumer law businesses should not engage in false or misleading conduct in the supply of goods or services, this includes in advertising properties for sale or rent,” a spokesperson for the watchdog said.

So it may already be illegal but technically not fraud.

From the article:

Organisers estimated that a record 200,000 people may have taken part despite mounting pressure from nationalist conservative politicians and police to stop any display of pro-LGBTQ material.

The accounting system of dividing one pound into twenty shillings, a shilling into twelve pence, and a penny into four farthings was adoptedwhen?] from the livre carolingienne system introduced by Charlemagne to the Frankish Empire.citation needed] The penny was abbreviated to "d", from denarius, the Roman equivalent of the penny; the shilling to "s" from solidus (written with a long s, ſ, later evolving into a simple slash, /); and the pound to "L" (subsequently £) from Libra or Livre.when?]

I'm out.

Dersu Uzala. Akira Kurosawa, 1975.

Who knew eel shish kabob was the inspiration for Wolverine's adamanitum claws.

From Canadian Virtual Hospice:

The acronym “2SLGBTQ” stands for Two-Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (or questioning). The plus sign represents other sexual identities, such as pansexual or asexual. It’s important to remember that everyone – not just 2SLGBTQ+ people – has a gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation.

From Two-Spirit - Wikipedia:

Two-spirit (also known as two spirit or occasionally twospirited, or abbreviated as 2S or 2E[a], especially in Canada) is a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities.

Why would there need to be? It doesn't sound like there was any studio interference or that the film makers were unhappy with the final cut.

I didn't know about this:

Sean Bobbitt served as cinematographer, who preferred using handheld cameras and natural lighting. Cianfrance saw Bobbitt's experience as a war photographer as an advantage, and was impressed with his process and sense of composition, which proved useful for a scene in the beginning which featured a tracking shot towards the globe of death. Bobbitt initially stood inside the globe to capture footage of the motorcyclists, but a bike hit his head and he suffered a concussion. As a result, the director did not allow him inside again.

The Place Beyond the Pines

Have you seen the movie? Kind of intense.

Good evening from Adelaide, Australia. It's about 9:50pm.

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