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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 15h

Is the era of no weapons based in space well and truly over?

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 3d

In hindsight, I handed my car keys to the guy kicking a football around outside the mechanics, rather than going into the shop. Should be fine.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 6d

Well I had a great one about open immigration being the last barrier for globalisation, then someone just went a wrote a graphic novel about it completely stealing my thunder.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 12d

Feels like only a few weeks back FT was arguing AI construction boom was low risk because funded by cash reserves. Total 180 here.

on.ft.com/4nI2wJS Measuring risk in the AI financing boom

Measuring risk in the AI financing boom

A shift towards debt raises the potential fallout from the data centre spending spree

on.ft.com

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 12d

Tinkering with the tax system to achieve a policy outcome* is so tempting, but nearly always a bad idea.

*is there even a big problem to be solved here?

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 14d

Ugh, ruined my day by opening the rangehood. Farewell Sunday morning.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 16d

Keep the gruesome nature facts coming please.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 16d

I know it’s already well cliche to apply China watching to the US, but those “who actually commands the military” questions are surprisingly complicated for the US national guard.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 17d

My family are going to regret me seeing this.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 19d

Yep. My uni hall of residence had unisex bathrooms - showers and all - Last Century and the world didn’t end.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 20d

Super excited, a serious of serendipitous events mean get to do the week’s shopping at the fancy Pak n Save.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 22d

Librarians proving once again they’re the bastion of democracy - found our household’s completed mail in ballots in between some returned books, and made sure they got lodged.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 25d

A great 18 minutes on China’s new economic model and challenges.

Beijing deciding on tech hacks over consumption to square the circle of escaping the middle income trap despite and an aging population and to avoid debt. And common prosperity hasn’t gone away…

youtu.be/Rbv_CDC1jJc?...

China’s New Growth Model Explained (and Why It Matters)

YouTube video by Trivium China

youtu.be

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · 29d

It’s nearly gloves weather?

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 24

NZ Herald has okay coverage of new plans for denser housing near transport hubs, but bizarrely doesn’t consider it “property news”.

Top stories in NZ Herald property section, showing a story on a home makeover and another on what falling rents mean for landlords

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 24

They’ve had 13 years to get the surface line running smoothly. I kinda wanted them to rival apple, but they really are just “give us your money”.

(From an unhappy surface book customer $$ 😓)

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 22

Not bad comic timing for an economist.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 21

The carbon neutral way to survey all your offshore oilfields

www.nzherald.co.nz/world/norway... Norway, the capital of electric cars, is turning to electric planes as it tries to reach net-zero

Norway tests first city-to-city electric plane flight

The electric Alia CX300 cut a 160km journey down to just 55 minutes.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 20

One of the many bullshit angles on this boat murder porn is that actual effective Coastguard interceptions of boats involved hair-raising moves that made all the “warriors” go quiet.

on.ft.com/46A2a0N US military conducts third fatal strike on alleged drug smuggling vessel

US military conducts third fatal strike on alleged drug smuggling vessel

Earlier attacks targeted alleged Venezuelan cartels that Trump claims were trafficking narcotics

on.ft.com

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 18

Feels like he could have been a comedic genius if only he hadn’t chosen the dark side.

lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 16

I finally found the explanation for this in gyeongbukgung - Korean paving is uneven to keep commoners eyes’ on their toes lest they gaze at royalty.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 10

This is a serious research matter. Apparently my own people (Aotearoa NZ) eat the most in the world at 28 litres a year because we rightly eat it all through winter.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 9

Talking is good. Can see why they chose right after the big PLA parade too.

(Easy money though working on respective international desks in defence ministries. Years of not much to do, but if you need a big deliverable “okay we’ll talk” is headline stuff.)

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 6

Can people actually do this? I found it sooo hard.

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lentilbeans.bsky.social @lentilbeans.bsky.social · Sep 5

Unpopular opinion? but we went back to a plug-in bagged vacuum and it’s amazing. Cheap and powerful.