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I see what you did there.


Australian here: I think anyone can become Australian.


A few _days_ ago they were looking at 60-70 cents. I suspect those were (relatively speaking) the good old days.


And they were offered like 50 cents, if memory serves well. Brings some serious Margin Call vibes, doesn't it? "Sell everything, today", getting 50 cents is better the 30 or, worst case, nothing. Looking forward for the banks to find loopholes in the agreements with Musk and sue him for negligence or something.


"65? Jesus. Let me call you back in 5 minutes." "In 5 minutes it will be 55"


This movie slowly turns into my most rewatched one!


Which movie?


Margin Call. I have no idea why it wasn't more well-known. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore, Aasif Mandvi, Stanley Tucci. It's about a thinly-disguised Goldman Sachs realizing the housing market was about to collapse in 2008 and unloading all their toxic assets in a single day.


I honestly can't tell exactly when the thread meandered into satire.



Very cool. I keep middle-clicking the Delwin button, which my browser interprets differently than I want.


Thanks. I'm not sure how many people have three mouse buttons but it wouldn't hurt to make the buttons respond to middle-clicks the same way they do to left-clicks.


If there was ever a time for the universal New Yorker caption: https://web.archive.org/web/20060203045552/http://modernarth... ...


"Christ, what an evolutionary marvel!"


AIUI the scenario with Jim Butcher and Dresden Files was that he was _trying_ to write some "genre hack" novel, and succeeded despite himself: https://www.tor.com/2008/07/25/sdccjimbutcherinterview/

"... struggled mightily until deciding (out of frustration) to reverse course and follow Chester’s rigorous writing techniques to the letter, doing all the plot outlining and character background sheets and so on that the English literature folks often scoff at as the workmanlike tools of genre hacks."


> Can any English speaker remember the name of the interpreter of their favourite audiobook?

Anne Hathaway for Wizard of Oz, David Tennant for How to Train Your Dragon, James Marsters for Dresden Files are all _amazing_.


Towards the back of the article it talks about video from inside the house where the man shows the knife to the camera then turns off the camera.


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