Mr Dutton said he would not detail exactly where the spending cuts would come from until after the federal election.

It's as if he knows that it'd be a whitewash if the voters knew what he intended.

The neat thing about anonymous discussion on the Internet is that it doesn't matter. What you have to say is all that matters.

I don't know anything about anyone and that's great.

That's not what deport means. That's displace.

At that point, the OS will be 10 years old, and was a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or later. It's plausible to not have paid a cent for your OS for 15+ years by 2025.

If you've bought a new computer with Windows since 2021, you'll have v11 anyway and won't be affected.

Frankly I have to hand it to Microsoft - they've been generous with OS support. The pessimist/pragmatist part of me puts it down to upgrading old OS's to combat their reputation as being the cause of worms/viruses going mental on the Internet over the past decade or so. So it isn't like they haven't had ulterior motives.

But yeah, I can't really fault them for this one.

Ok, so you've triggered my personal bugbear with Yoda. Time for a rant. Let me explain:

Yoda was pitched to Luke on Hoth as the Jedi master who trained Obi Wan. Luke (and us as the audience in 1980) had this expectation of a wise old man if he trained Obi Wan. When Yoda pulls Luke's Xwing into the swamp and meets with him, he puts on a "Little Creature" persona to test Luke's patience. Anakin was famously impatient. Yoda hammed up his speech mannerisms to 11:
"Away put your weapon, I mean you no harm"
"Help you, I can! Yes! Yes!"

Once Luke fails this test, and we get to Obi Wan, Yoda drops that whole act.
"I cannot train him. The boy has no patience."
"Too old! Yes! Too old to complete the training."
"A Jedi must have the deepest commitment, the most serious mind. This one, a long time have I watched. All his life has he looked away! to the future, to the horizon. Never his mind on where he was! What he was doing!"

Then once we get into training, we get the bombs of wisdom:
"For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us, binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force flow around you. Here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, yes, even between the land and the ship."

You see? Yoda retained a little of that vocal mannerism - easily explained as someone speaking a different language to his native one. For the most part though, his dialogue was pretty natural.

But then people spent the next 20 years doing Yoda impressions of his little crteature act. So by the time of the prequels, it was expected that Yoda would talk all backwards. So the prequels had him doing that backwards-talk throughout. I hated it then, and I hate it now.

It's a crying shame that people coming to Star Wars never get their expectations of Yoda subverted today as we did. Yoda is just too pervasive in our culture. Even my own kids who I tried to shield from all that instantly recognised Yoda when he came on screen.

The photo sphere is still present on Android 14. It isn't being taken away if you already have that feature.

Nobody talks about Daydream, but I have an old pixel 2 with Daydream and it's great for these photo spheres.

I'm one of the dozens of people who likes Daydream and wishes it wasn't killed off.

I have always loved these great tits.

Something about their body language. I imagine the one on the left is telling a funny joke, or maybe it's laughing at something the one on the right has said.

I expect my wife has no idea who he is. That technically puts her in the 45%, but I'm not going to ruin her day to boost the percentage.

Frankly he isn't that famous. If not for Reddit, I wouldn't have heard of him, either.

Why is that? Russia pitches its invasion of Ukraine as a "Special Military Operation" to its sphere of influence. That sounds similar enough to Combat Operations of the USA in the Middle East.

That's likely the message the kid had. Russia is a massive country, and he's been offered a construction job. I find it plausible that he had no idea he'd be drafted.

I went to the USA multiple times while it was engaged in actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. Not once was I issued a gun and forcibly sent to the war zone.

Traditionally and ideally, Homebuyers go to the bank with 20% deposit. With 4 bedroom homes costing $1 Million these days, that's $200k. People don't have $200k, that's a problem to be sure.

The proposed solution is to help people who have saved $20k to get into the market. I like that the government is trying to help people get into the market.

I would prefer solutions that lead to houses being cheaper. This solution won't do that. In fact, by making it easier to buy a house at present prices, the government is increasing demand - and therefore house prices. What if instead of increasing demand, the government increased supply? I'm no economist, but if the supply of a product raises to meet demand, prices for that product fall.