The paper type? Has it all compressed or gone mouldy?

I am waiting for the kids to go back to school next week. 9am to 3pm bliss 😆

Got a bunch, the intersesting ones are:

Riverside - Artctic tour-boat, roll&write

Agricola - Medieval subsistance farming, worker placement.

Stroganov (deluxe box) - Explore Siberia in 1600s

Plus some Oink games. Flotsam Fight, Moving Wild, and Whale to Look.

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Tried out Riverside tonight, which has a nice theme, and a heap of choice permutations on each turn.

Yep, the paperwork is significant. Especially when dividing assets are involved. Even when there aren't any fights it takes days to work through it all. I remember when a great aunt died, my dad was named executor, it took so much longer than i'd ever thought. Wrap me up and bury me under a tree for me.

Ah, it's fine. I'm celebrating her life. Hell of a person. My father is a finer wine of me, so I know he's the same. But I know all that death admin will be draining him on top of the massive life loss—in a time when someone needs to be left alone to reflect thale most.

If we could steal the body back, viking funeral it or something, everyone involved would be having tears of love and joy. But...that's not how society allows it these days because of assholes, so paperwork it is!

Oooh. What are your new ganes?

Sorry for your loss. I'm glad your father has people like you around just, there, and ready to be there when he reaches out.

Stepmother died, my father's a wreck. Basically on standby waiting for him to reply for the last 48hrs so I can tell him I'm headed to the airport. He's a stubborn bastard that doesn't know when he needs help, but he eventually cracks. Just gotta give him space and time.

Two boardgame nights.

Acquired a bunch of new games over the past month.

Now is the time to try them out.

Be up in the ceiling removing old blow-in insulation. Might be able to get it all out this weekend, which would be nice.

Big Bash grand final on Sunday!! Very lucky to have tickets it seems. Here's hoping Perth can claim another championship!

Lot of plates spinning with this mob. An interesting CCS project though, i wonder how viable it is.

She told the inquiry the company was still assessing its options

After 18 years? LOL.

Fucking develop it ya muppets! Turn it into a park and donate it to the council, build apartments or town houses there. Put something there! Its a bloody eyesore!

I'm pretty sure they need to be fined for everyday they refuse to do something with that land. I'm not in favour of that remedy usually, but in this case they are pulling the piss.

I absolutely recommend seeing a burlesque show. But once you have, then yeah, they get pretty same-y. I've been to a few, the first one was absolutely the most fun.

That drum & bass show looks like loads of fun! I'd much prefer kicking on to that over yet another burlesque show.

I find that most of my friends want to see burlesque type shows that i feel have been the same for so many years they are boring. So thank you for you suggestions. My friend has hit me up with this but I am a nanna and need to be in by the time it would start :) https://fringeworld.com.au/whats-on/subspectra-a-night-of-live-drum-bass-fw2026

I'm a tightarse, I get the RushTix emails and on the odd occasion we're free I look at what's on that day that looks good.

That said, a quick squiz at the program, the following shows look good: Boomers vs Zoomers, Tonight's Guest with Rove McManus, Embarrassed Naked Female, Sammy J - Hero Complex, Hot 6 Brass Band, Greatest Magic Show

I only got to page 13 of 43. The moral is there are loads of acts that will probably be great. I'm unlikely to get to more than about 3-4 shows the whole festival. Not helped that I'll be out of town for half of it.

Yeah, seems odd. In cases like that, i'm always a little wary though before hearing more about the interaction.

From a cops point of view, if someone comes in with a flyer like that, with no other information its a bit untraceable. But, even as I say it i don't know, theres steps that seem like could've been taken.

No cameras around they could have a look at? The person didn't have any leads they might at least follow up? No fingerprints on the flyer itself? Seems unlikely there'd be nothing but the flyer.

"legally it would be considered a civil matter"

One wonders how the officers on duty in that police station got their jobs.

Any reasonable person would consider this to be harassment, warranting a restraining order at least.

I'm reading Kitchen Confidential atm, and this guy talks and has a vision of himself a bit like Anthony Bourdain. Although Bourdain is way more sneering of everybody who isn't a perfect chef.

True, the realities of an attack would be very different from the way she presents. But the role of the military representative here is to see through the incorrect, or overly dramatic examples of the public and address the core underlying fears. From this reporting, i don't think they executed on that at all well.

Your Live music example is interesting comparison, but its not exactly comparing apples with apples. Thats because live music is far less destructive than a militarised attack however more unlikely a militarised attack over live music is.

It puts in mind of the comparisons between solar/wind/batteries, and nuclear. Yes they can all be far more 'green' than coal, oil, and gas, but, again however unlikely an event occurs is, the destructive capability of a nuclear accident is far greater than that of solar/wind/batteries.

Fair enough for picking up on borders, I should have said protect Australia's National interest. In 2025 the world finally turned a much anticipated historic chapter and became far more reminiscent of the world in 1870's-1910's nation states in competition, however with far more countries campaigning for their own interests. This is probably a more realist take than I actually advocate, its in Australia's best interest to have allies, and preserve what can be preserved of a rules based order, preferably this should be led by middling powers such as Australia, France, Britain, Brazil, Colombia, S Korea, Japan, Nigeria, et al.

Australia is definitely a strong nation to a degree, but i think we have notable points of potential failure. The largest is what I point to in my previous comment, our reliance on another power for key defensive capabilities. Australia has a strong military, but I don't think its resilient. The national defense strategy seemingly amounts to being able to protect ourselves until our allies can come to help us throw off an attacker.

Our industrial base is low, our personnel requirements are near an almost 'neoliberal-esque' minimum, and our logistical abilities rest on a commercial airline and trucks, boats and rail are (apart from notable geographic areas, Pilbara for rail may be one) largely forgotten modes, narrowing our logistical flexibility and abilities to respond.

Take the ability of our navy, it amounts to a patrol of our national shores and enough for a single oil supply convoy. Although note, this is based on an early 2025 assessment from just Aidan Morrison on Decouple

The key to not getting invaded is deterrence. Its folly to rule out Indonesia as a possible future invader in a game that moves in decades, just look at the time horizons of AUKUS for example. In a world where it is less likely USA will commit to defense of an allied nation, even though they're placing military assets in Australia, it is more prudent now to get ourselves on the road to heavier self reliance such as that of Sweden, Finland, or Switzerland. They of course have very different threats between themselves and Australia, but their military resilience is what i focus on as a key difference between Australia and those nations.

To go back to Indonesia, its not that I think they're planning a multi-decade attack, or that I think they're the most significant threat to Australia, its that I don't want to see the Oceania region dominated by Indonesia, and Australia is best placed in our region to offer a counterbalance and work with the Indonesians to focus on their Northern defence as the gateway to a highly collaborative and understanding oceanic region. Basically our Island region is the smallest in the world, but could become highly defendable if the nations in this region work together. This argument takes on the realist assumption that a country who perceives weakness in their neighbours will invariably seek to dominate them in every way, its not becessary that that assumption is true always, but its a risk that doesn't need to be ignored.

This is a whole lot of words, i'm gona stop here even if I haven't quite answered you properly, but i feel i'm losing the thread here. Thanks for helping me actively think about and justify my position. Please tear apart this comment, i wrote it in a stream of consciousness, so i reckon theres a bit in here that won't stack up.

I could probably be swayed by that, for examples like Pine Gap, Exmouth and any permanent US bases on Australian soil.

That's not really what HMAS Stirling is, though. It's an Australian naval base. Remove the US, the base would still be there.

Americans and their death machines are not welcome here.

I don't know why but this comes across as such a bitch complaint to me, like living next to a live music venue and complaining about the noise

That's an apt comparison. The naval base has been there since the 70s. And before that, HMAS Leeuwin was 20km north at Fremantle from 1940.