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The couple took Alex's faeces, blended it with saline, passed it through a sieve, put the slurry into an enema bottle and "then head down, bum up, squeeze it in"

Woman meets frog, frog leads woman to man, man and woman fall in love," she says.

"Man cures woman's incurable illness with his magic poo, thus breaking the curse.

I volunteered to donante my poop to my parter... Different outcome :(

cross-posted from: https://lazysoci.al/post/31141099

It was a scam so simple it took just minutes on your phone, where you could tell the tax office how much money to pay you, and it came through within days.

Key points

• The report found renewables remain the lowest-cost new-build electricity generation technology, while nuclear small modular reactors (SMRs) are the most costly.
• Electricity systems rely on a mix of technologies, because no single option can deliver all the capabilities required for a reliable, secure and flexible supply.
• Rising construction costs in Australia and supply chain constraints for some technologies remain a challenge for reducing costs.

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The report found renewables (wind and solar) backed by storage and transmission remained the lowest-cost new-build electricity generation technologies.

Gas with carbon capture and storage (CCS) and large-scale nuclear are the next lowest cost options, but as neither are currently deployed for electricity generation in Australia, they could be subject to longer lead times and first-of-a-kind premiums.

Small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) remain the highest cost option, even with new data from Canada’s Darlington project. This represented the first commercial-scale benchmark from a western country and fell within the range previously projected by GenCost.

Some of the harshest criticism of high immigration is coming from people who work for the exact organisations that have supported high immigration for decades.

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An Australian pro-democracy academic has labelled a warrant for his arrest by Hong Kong’s national security police as “ridiculous”, as authorities there pursue 19 overseas-based members of what they describe as a subversive organisation.

University of Technology Sydney China studies professor Dr Feng Chongyi – who in 2017 was detained for 10 days while on a research trip to China – now has a bounty on him over his involvement in an unofficial pro-democracy group, Hong Kong Parliament.

He is accused of helping to organise or participate in the largely Canada-based group, which authorities in Hong Kong say aimed to subvert state power under a national security law that China imposed on the territory in 2020, following months of pro-democracy protests the year before.

Feng and the others are accused of having launched a referendum or run as candidates in the unofficial “Hong Kong Parliament” group, which authorities say aims at achieving self-determination and drafting a “Hong Kong constitution”.

Hong Kong police said the organisation sought to overthrow the governments of China and Hong Kong by unlawful means, that they were still investigating, and further arrests could follow.

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Feng isn’t from Hong Kong, but said he had agreed to join the group as an academic.

“It’s certainly ridiculous, it does not offend me in any sense … they’ve got the power, they’ve got the influence overseas, they want to control everything even overseas,” Feng told this masthead on Saturday.

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[Australian] Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Saturday that the Australian government “strongly objects” to the arrest warrants.

“Freedom of expression and assembly are essential to our democracy,” she wrote in a post on X.

“We have consistently expressed our strong objections to China and Hong Kong on the broad and extraterritorial application of Hong Kong’s national security legislation, and we will continue to do so.”

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[Hong Kong] Police offered a $HK200,000 ($39,000) reward for information leading to the arrest of Feng and 14 others.

Four others – activists Elmer Yuen, Johnny Fok, Tony Choi and Victor Ho – are subject to previous arrest warrants, each carrying a bounty of $HK1 million.

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In a joint statement UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper called on Chinese and Hong Kong authorities to put an end to the deliberate targeting of critical voices overseas.

“The Hong Kong Police Force’s issuing of further arrest warrants and bounties on individuals living in the UK is another example of transnational repression. It encourages reckless behaviour on UK soil and damages Hong Kong’s international reputation,” the statement said.

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Love to see Aussies helping each other out just because it's the right thing to do.

"Today you. Tomorrow me."

The Australian government has lifted its biosecurity restrictions against US beef, on the condition that the US agree to accept Australian Beef Wellington into the country.

To sell the Trump administration on the deal, Australia has sent Erin Patterson to the US as chief trade negotiator, in the hopes she secures a killer bargain.

“I know people have their concerns, but I promise there is nothing wrong with this meal. It is 100% safe to eat US beef,” Patterson said. [...]

Related: ABC News: Australia lifts biosecurity import restrictions on US beef