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You would be shocked, but apparently the French see that differently given their very strong and public re-evaluation of Australia as a partner. I...

Dune. Really just half of a movie. But you have to go and see it now if you want to see part two.

So about that. :o https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/wheel-time-d-nal-finn-220028315.html

Loki: Fair enough, I know I'd be miffed. Just not sure it'd be 'recall my ambassador and throw a tantrum' miffed. Hazir: What I don't understand...

I haven't read up on this, but I have a strong feeling that the French are angry because there is an Australia sized hole in their Pacific security...

The US were the ones doing most of the lying.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/09/18/nolte-anti-vaxxers-hype-benign-transmission-numbers-as-proof-vax-doesnt-work/ Lol

Isn't this pretty standard, though? From AU's perspective, they had no idea if US/UK would be willing to provide them with highly sensitive...

Didn't like being lied to directly to their face for months.

So... They didn't like being excluded.

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Ah, yes.

My ~$100 billion order of magnitude was based on estimates for the full cost of the contract including service contracts, which was $90 billion....

Yeah, how unreasonable to call a party that actively opposes Covid restrictions and brainwashed its followers into not taking necessary precautions...

Using the reported number, $66 billion (instead of your projected $100 billion), 66,000,000,000 / 2,700,000,000,000 = 0.0244

We've reached the point of tribalism where people call their political opposites part of a death cult. The right did it first surrounding abortion...

While the conditions are deeply problematic, they are a symptom of broken bureaucracy and public sector unions, which make Rikers such a fucking...

The French said there were 500-600 people who were going to be permanently employed by this contract. Given that it's impossible to fire anyone in...

But .1% of something is.

I'm amused that Kavanaugh's recent opinion in TransUnion v. Ramirez is a pretty decent reason the Texas law is unconstitutional. Since this...

I'll give this a :haha: But seriously, don't wear those glasses.

I liked him a bit but...didn't love him? But man his jokes were like real, crisp jokes.

SPOOKY Also I am here! What a rough 18 months it's been :bulb:

2.5% of something is not a drop in the bucket.

That's just the thing, though. It was, what, on the order of $100 billion (when you factor in likely future service/replacement part orders)? Spread...

They're mostly pissed off they lost a lot of money, though they should have seen that coming even absent this agreement. More reasonably, they're...

This contract would have gone a long way toward covering the costs of the fleet they sacrificed to help end WW2. They are angry over not getting the...

This morning, there was a largish utility work crew working on replacing some natural gas lines under the street. I spent a solid hour with my three...