Hey, asking for a friend…

But does anyone know of a clip-on LIDAR emitter we could wear? Those things absolutely burn holes through digital camera sensors!

While it is a dramatisation and takes creative liberties, I still wholeheartedly recommend Charlie Wilson’s War as a way to explain just how the US managed to fuck itself by abandoning the Mujahideen and the Afghan people (and not for the last time) post-Soviet defeat - directly leading to the creation of Al’Qaeda, and therefore the 9/11 attacks.

Plus it has Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, so it’s an easy watch.

Since you’re not giving it to Amazon, and it’s zero dollars - you may as well go up ∞%!

At least it would stop Gamers^TM^ from complaining about how “ugly” that character is?

AiSS: Arbitrarily Interfering Super Slop

It is, indeed.

FFS, even saying a “dozen dozens“ would be underselling the actual death toll of that particular war crime.

The world honestly would be a (slightly) better place if that stroke was just a smidge more fatal…

If you have $3m in Superannuation, with a standard 6% ROI annually, you could spend $180K of “earned interest” every year without ever touching your principal.

Don’t buy into the fear-mongering being pushed.

For a comfortable retirement in 2026, the amount required is ~$800K (this is already on the high end).

Assuming a consistent worst-case inflation rate of 4% every year (double the RBA target), it would take 25 years to hit $2m - let alone the $3m+ in question here.

There is a very small, very wealthy cohort with $3m+ in superannuation savings - and you, statistically speaking, aren’t part of it.

Fuck ‘em - they need to be taxed more.