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I got 7/10, but was guessing most.

Shame my exams never worked out that well...

Great opportunity to slide in another ex-Murdoch plant to further sabotage the ABC from the inside.

Art is great.

• National Gallery portrait
• Jabba the Rindheart
• Gina the Hutt

Anything original is regarded as sacrilege.

Anything referencing the past is boring and repetitive.

For mine, I found this closer to the first Alien movies, and enjoyed it as a break from feeling like the story had to take centre stage. Alien is all about the vibes, creeps and feels. That's what I enjoyed about this one.

The sound/score was great, though I found some of the score a little delayed and over the top in emphasizing when something had happened "DUM-DUM-DUUUUMMMMMM"

I wasn't much of the fan of the fast growing baby creature that some have referred to as baby Zuckerberg. Some of that reminded me of Species. Mind you, I'd watch Alien v Species. Or Alien v Thing. Or any combination v Predator.

The callbacks are starting to come across to me as lazy writing. Just repeating stuff from previous movies that ends up filling in time. Good for those that haven't seen any of the previous movies I guess. I'm OK watching what's basically a repeat movie once, but don't do it again.

Seems obvious to me that now we've had Alien: Romulus the next is the Alien: Remus prequel.

Enjoyable return to original films:7/10

I had a funny comment to make, but this is a serious issue and it's not appropriate right meow.

They are forced by the state government to put aside money for future rehabilitation. Piles of money set aside frequently have a way of disappearing....

Something else to point out is that “huge methane plume” is actually methane that is always there. It’s just that normally there is a huge amount of forced ventilation into (and subsequently out of) underground mines and while that is working this methane plume is diluted to much lower levels.

Oh, my bad. I thought that the methane was kinda trapped underground with the coal and was released by mining/boring.

I've got a random username if the stupid website/app allows it. Most don't. It has to be your email address.

And a minimum random 20 char password for each website/app. Again if the stupid website/app allows it.

Secure your (I don't mean you personally) fucking website/app and credentials storage and stop making your weaknesses my problem.

Most places, and all of my stupid financial websites/apps, only have phone/SMS as the second factor. And yet there are plenty of horror stories about people 'losing' their phone numbers.

Oh wait. There is one financial site that has developed its own authenticator app. I really expect that to go about as well as storing passwords in cleartext.

Then there's all the shit websites/apps that I don't give a fuck about that now insist on having 2FA set up. They're not interested in the security, it's just to get your email and phone number to onsell your data to whoever.

It's fucking security theater.

I'm certifiably insane, have a doctorate in frustration, and many studies published of "Oh, fuck, what is this? I don't have time for this now, I have shit to get done".

Good luck.

2FA really stands for

2 FUCKING ANNOYING !!!

So when they finally close all the coal mines,

OK

and seal all the shafts and fill in all the pits, they’re also going to have to

Hmmm. Will they really? That's a cost with no revenue. I'd go bankrupt if I were a company.

go and cap the thousands upon thousands of boreholes because they’re a direct line to the remaining seams below, and they’ll basically vent forever.

I gas that seems more likely....

I can't see what the harm is. There couldn't be any objection to more competition?

I'm in Sydney, but the petrol shenanigans are atrociously obvious.

I shit you not, there's one BP station I go to that at the peak of a cycle can be 40c/l cheaper than every other BP station in the area. You know why? Because 200m down the road is an independent station that doesn't seem to follow the price cycle.

How is it that all BPs other stations in the area are 40c/l higher, and just this one BP up the road from the independent can afford to set it's price 40c/l lower?

The pattern becomes very obvious to spot.

Goddamit!

Tricksy horsesses!