It looks like some coward deleted it from the Wiki but mine is the Emu War
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The emus only lost ~15% of their force going up against dudes with machine guns!
The machine-gunners’ dreams of point blank fire into serried masses of Emus were soon dissipated. The Emu command had evidently ordered guerrilla tactics, and its unwieldy army soon split up into innumerable small units that made use of the military equipment uneconomic. A crestfallen field force therefore withdrew from the combat area after about a month.[13]
Worth posting each of the tweets …
https://twitter.com/_TheSeaning/status/1482234507193466884
https://twitter.com/DanLindsey77/status/1482363129128374276
https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy/status/1482431335142731779
1st image from last week
2nd image before the eruption - caldera collapsed prior to eruption.
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Next - bloody hell!
(sound on … wait for it …)
https://twitter.com/DrChrisCombs/status/1482361545900412930
wow.
Thoughts are with you Tonga - shit.
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Are the people of Tonga okay?
No reported deaths yet apparently - lots of damage.
People on Tonga described their country as looking like a moonscape as they began the task of cleaning up from the tsunami waves and ash fall caused by the eruption. Communications with the island nation remained limited after the internet was cut soon after the eruption on Saturday evening.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths, although concerns remained for the fate of people on some of the smaller islands near the volcano.
My pipes froze in part of my house the other day. It was like -4 F or something. Tonight and tomorrow, we’re supposed to get about a foot of snow, then maybe some sleet or freezing rain. Probably going to do some skiing tomorrow. Winter has it’s good and bad points.
This is really good.
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cross posted it in the NBA thread but yeah I still hate this guy
https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/1483105641656897540
Dude is a total fraud.
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lol chamath. real happy he is not ca gov.
Is that an adult head on a 4-year-old?
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I’m 41. I need to know that people in my age range will occasionally, not every time, but occasionally, leave a room in homage of this.
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483187472276328449
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483187748374724625
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483187896219848708
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188150621122564
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188319743881216
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188475595792388
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188585742405633
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188727027486724
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483188905944010766
https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1483190520293871629
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Reminds me of the guy back on 22 who was cocksure that MLK would oppose critical race theory.
https://twitter.com/DavidLBernstein/status/1483107223672872964
-Stroking my chin-
Humm…yes…facinating debate…
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It’s become an MLK Day tradition that some rightwing dickhead will appropriate MLK in completely tasteless and trolling way on Twitter. This year seems fairly tame tbh.
Looking pretty bad.
New Zealand is sending aid to disaster-struck Tonga, but ash on the capital’s main airport runway is preventing relief planes from landing.
It will also take days before military ships with supplies will reach the islands, said New Zealand authorities.
Fears of a possible humanitarian crisis developing on Tonga are growing after Saturday’s massive volcano eruption.
It sparked a tsunami and severed an undersea cable, cutting off the country from the outside world.
My original idea was to put that in the streaming thread, but I got distracted by youtoobz.