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[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

Funny, I was talking about this in a Canadian community, guessing that Australia was involved as an expert on over the horizon radar.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I just found this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292

TLDR: Australia wanted to sell our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar (JORN) to the US, then Trump happened, so now we're selling it to Canada

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TLDW: the graphics card market sucks, prices don't relate to quality, base models are fiction, you should wait to upgrade if you can

Also it's a different table depending on where you are

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The giant breweries everywhere make low flavour beer as their aim is to make a product that won't offend anyone. That sort of beer is also cheap so it's more popular than more complex beers for both reasons (inoffensive and cheap)

I expect Newfoundland also Labrador, serving the beer drinkers in half a million people population, is higher quality than Molson-Coors, but even if they increased production it would be hard to keep the quality or meet the price of their competitor

Though in Australia we have regional beer and the giant east coast beers haven't squashed the smaller breweries in South Australia or Tasmania – and South Australia and Tasmania produce better beers than Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Then the ship that Russia paid to drag an anchor across it will claim the anchor restraint systems failed and it totally wasn't deliberate, and will be let off

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Luckily our bodies know how much salt we need and it tastes bad once you've had enough. Marmite would taste terrible* once you had enough salt

*Terrible as in too salty, as opposed to the regular terrible some people accuse it of being

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Fosters beer isn't popular in Australia, though beers of the same style are big.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

Can install any software

[–] psud@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Australia has been running over the horizon radar for decades, I think Australia's role in this is providing expertise

From over-the-horizon radar on Wikipedia

Another early shortwave OTH system was built in Australia in the early 1960s. This consisted of several antennas positioned four wavelengths apart, allowing the system to use phase-shift beamforming to steer the direction of sensitivity and adjust it to cover Singapore, Calcutta, and the UK. This system consumed 25 miles (40 km) of electrical cable in the antenna array.[7]

Note that the UK is approximately antipodal to Australia

Australia's current OTH radars covers South East Asia, use half the transmit power of US OTH radar, and have longer range

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That would be the other pole.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I hope this brings Canada and Australia closer together, but I think it's just because Australia has been running an over the horizon radar for decades (since the 1960s), and so we have experts on the technology

Edit: I just found this: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292

TLDR: Australia wanted to sell our Jindalee over-the-horizon radar (JORN) to the US, then Trump happened, so now we're selling it to Canada

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago

They want it, they have just restricted their ability to buy it. Also, didn't Ukraine blows up the pipeline, meaning the gas has to be moved by ship

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