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Also the best beer in the world.

I'll pay the best Pilsner, but Czech's don't even come close to best beer in general. For personal preference, the finesse and artistry that goes into Belgian brewing is amazing, and the complexity of a fine geuze is unrivalled in the beer world.

Really though, the big brewing powerhouses (UK/Germany/US/Belgium/Czech) each have something going for them, so no one will ever agree on who is the best because we each like different things.

I still love meat pies, even if the art of consuming them is fraught with spilled gravy and scorched fingers. Even after a bakery in Glen Iris gave me food poisoning from their delicious meat pie, I still love meat pies.

While living abroad, I very nearly missed (like 5 minutes before they closed check-in) my flight out of Korea, because I found an Australian pie-store chain in Seoul. It turns out even a few months away from their delicious baked goodness affects the brain.

Here at least, you can buy big Greek yogurt containers for pretty cheap, though I doubt a single person could get through a litre of it before it went mouldy.

Lol.

I can go through a kilo of yoghurt in about a fortnight.

You have it with nuts and fruit for breakfast.
You use it to marinate lamb or chicken for kebabs.
You mix it with diced mint or sliced cucumber for a raita.
You add it to a can of crushed tomatoes and some spices for a curry.
You add it to pasta with some mushrooms and bacon for a quick dinner.
You can make a dessert out of it with honey.
You can blend it with fruit, water and spices to make lassi to drink.
...and many more.

It's a versatile ingredient.

Depending on country, they can keep for months in the fridge. I've never had an egg go off on me, despite having them in the bottom of my fridge for up to 2 months. That said, in Aus, they don't wash the eggs, which keeps the natural defenses of the egg intact; places like the US, which do wash eggs, will see a greatly reduced shelf life.

So, I'm sure everyone's aware of the Cannae drive? Or at the least, its original-recipe cousin, the Em-drive? A resonant microwave chamber that stubbornly (despite repeated refinements to the experiments) seems to produce thrust?

They're shooting one into space.

I think everyone can agree that the proposed theories put forward by both Shawyer and Fetta are all kinds of batshit insane, but the interesting thing is that results keep showing a non-zero thrust even in tests by independent research groups. The skeptical response to this is that it's an overlooked experimental artifact, with one of the most common being that the drive has never been tested in a sufficiently high vacuum. Well, this should put it to bed, one way or the other; either it's bollocks, or something cool is happening.

I must admit, I'm liking watching this unfold. It's a good example of the scientific method; spend any time in academia, and you quickly see that peer review on publication is little more than a cursory check of scientific literacy. Real peer review is what happens after you make a crazy claim, when groups try and replicate your work. While the theories have been quickly and thoroughly debunked, it's interesting to see a situation where the crackpot's experimental results seem more resilient. The best thing is, this topic is sufficiently "sexy" that there *is* a lot of attention, and that something like this launch can actually be done.

Sure, we're probably looking at another cold fusion... but the fact that there's even a small chance of a Michelson-Morley moment is an exciting thought.

Cooked up some kangaroo. Nice and lean, simple and delicious. Lifted some weights, then had a kangaroo steak sandwich with garlic aioli and beetroot. Noice.

Noooice.

Also, try emu if you haven't already. Soo good.

Happy Census Day Australia!

Just finished my paper copy, because I support dead trees like any DF player should.

Probably wise, given the ABS currently has !!XxSERVERSxX!! Apparently even their DNS had started blowing up...

EDIT: Holy shit... word from my friend who works doing this sort of internet shiz;

The technical failure went from "haha you guys suck at provisioning capacity" to "how is it even possible to fuck up this bad" about 15 minutes ago. I've never seen DNS or core routing failures this bad before in my life, and I've worked on systems that get 30x the population of Australia accessing them all at once. Looking at the IX data flow metrics right now and it's obscene. Equinix just blackhole routed (cut off all traffic) to the ABS.