Posts by Rikki Tikki

ASEAN trade bloc scoops Googlebucks to digitise businesses out of COVID-19 crunch

Makes sense?

Looking at the breakdown of the numbers, it looks to me like the project is a bit skewed towards countries that have been relatively successful in controlling coronavirus (Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam) and not so much to Indonesia and the Philippines where they are still struggling. Not sure that this makes sense to me.

Big Tech trade association warns Uncle Sam against knee-jerk national security measures that harm industry

Re: In other words

Downvoted. The report seems to me to be a response to the orange one's tweets, including the recent one about a certain plane. This was aimed squarely at loyal US allies, not China.

Mortal wombat: 4 generations of women fight for their lives against murderous marsupial

Re: They're starting to wear clothing now?

You want tmi?

"Bum biting" is a wombat mating behaviour ...