They’re about to drop the indie-folk album of the year

Also, water is wet

It’s a lot easier if you’re a totalitarian one-party state.

Barrier troops have been a thing in this war as well. Typically Kadyrov’s “Instagram corps” with their shiny new kit have been the final barrier, safely at the rear.

But still no Taurus missiles

Because they’re famously expensive to keep?

“yank” sounds seriously old-fashioned, like something from the Crocodile Dundee era.

To avoid oversized cars becoming a status/dominance symbol, there should be inconveniences they can’t buy their way out of, like special oversized parking bays (possibly alongside those for delivery vehicles) that aren’t in a central or prestigious location. Of course, we live in a free market, which means that the rich are overwhelmingly likely to end up having a roadyacht marina at the front of every desirable location, like first class seats in an airliner.

So the film is a modern day version of the Crime Skeleton?

This, only in Welsh

The US-Mexican border in any film

It makes some sense. Australia is not that unlike the US: there’s a lot of geographical spread, people more or less speak the same language, much of it is car-centric so you won’t have to get used to walking/cycling everywhere as you might in Europe, plus there’s a more or less functioning state healthcare system and much fewer guns in the hands of the general public. On the downside, the wildlife wants to kill you, and the locals will call you a “bloody seppo bastard” (rhyming slang for American, from “septic tank”/“yank”), though sometimes affectionately.

Surely they’d be transmen?

It’s not the degree itself, it’s the debt you incurred to get it, and your consequent lack of negotiating power.

Australia: we have trains at home

They’re all Linux, with the exception of one that is Android. I was hoping for at least RiscOS, if not a few more exotic OSes.

No, it’s a scam, whose only purpose is to keep people flying when they may otherwise feel concerned about the consequences of doing so. A bit like plastic recycling.

It’s comforting to think that they’re all bots. The uncomfortable truth is that there’s a type of guy who made idolising Musk as the Visionary Techno-Genius his entire personality, and some of them are still around and posting.

In Australia, it’s now called the Rinehart Effect.

I wonder who will provide the technology. Will they go with China (theoretically fraternal comrades in socialism, though geopolitically Vietnam might want to limit China’s power over it), Japan, South Korea or a European supplier.