Ed

I’m starting to worry about all those solar panels using nuclear energy.

Will you stand with me to stop rooftop nuclear energy????

Daniel Day-Lewis, while preparing for “Last of the Mohicans”, apparently carried his movie rifle everywhere with him, including to restaurants, just to get used to handling it so it became a natural accessory, as it would to someone of the period.

I watched “Forgotten Battle” last night, a Belgian WWII movie.

One of the characters, a British soldier, starts off carrying his No4 Lee Enfield, which was the correct rifle.

But then during a couple of battle scenes, he and everyone else is firing No1s, which at that stage of the war were only being used by Australians, not British and Canadians in Holland.

Of course, as he gets back to the staging area after the battle, he has a No4 over his shoulder again.

It totally ruined the movie for me. Actually it was a pretty crap movie anyway.

Labor will do what industry super tells them to do.
That’s why making nuclear ESG compliant is so important & has been worked on globally since the end of 2019.

M0nty’s site has carked it.

Reffos incoming. Predictable.

Labor will do what industry super tells them to do.

Well, if that’s the case, then what percentage has Scotty got in switching to a Nuclear Policy if Labor is going to do the same?

Solar Panels are Nuclear Energy.

Bana.
Not Bank.

love your work ed case

are solar panels nuclear converters or not?

More channel surfing.
The Descendants has just finished.
They filmed a scene there at the Canoe Club.
I think the Canoe Club got sick of Aussies joining Tatts just so they could get access to the place when they were in Hawaii.

Solar Panels are Nuclear Energy.

The fun thing is they’re actually fossil fuels.

Recently there’s been an extreme shortage of magnesium. That’s because Mg uses a shedload of energy to produce, and China has mostly monopolized the production of it. Because coal. Which they’ve recently run out of. So nice Mr Xi has told Mg producers and Al producers to stop producing their metals because not enough electricity blacking out holy CCP members.

Forget the semiconductor, magnesium could be the car industry’s next big hurdle (21 Oct)

According to Mining.com, global carmakers are facing another potential crisis as a result of this shortage, which is being indirectly caused by China’s electricity crisis. China currently supplies around 85% of the world’s magnesium, and the power woes have reportedly forced authorities to shut down 35 of the country’s 50 magnesium smelters until the end of 2021.

Which is where solar panels come in, since they’re made from silicon, and silicon production requires lots and lots of carbon and electricity, both for primary production and purification by zone refining. And guess who produces most semiconductor-grade silicon?

It’ll be fun when suddenly all those cheap Chinese solar panels are less cheap, and not actually available because their manufacturers aren’t allowed to use the proles’ electricity.

Rocky is an old Labor town like Townsville. Then you have Yepoon, 1770 and Byfield that all lean that way.

That’s right, but Michelle Landry still gets votes there, just not a plurality.
There seems to be a view that Liberal Party voters are cruel ideologues slavering to impose Nuclear Power on the dumb Proles, but I don’t buy that.
It would only take 600 anti Nuclear Liberal voters in Rocky and Yeppoon to turf Landry.
My opinion:
There’ll be way more than 600.
Try 5,000+.

The most important part of political power is a good command of bullshit. And the majority of the human species loves the stuff. Sad but true. The society Hogan postulates is unstable; it depends on the inhabitants being bullshit averse.

Haha, DrB. Now you have to read The Songs of Distant Earth by Arthur C. Clarke.
😀

Perhaps the people who suffer bullshit the least are traders and hedge fund managers.

Did you see Hillary Clinton’s donor list?

And how do you guys feel about respecting those who are really, really good at bullshit?

But here’s you dot, who would you rather as the voters
1. Autistic idiots from Silicon Valley?
2 Traders and hedge fund managers?

Like the Egyptian guy said on Memri TV:

Iran or Saudi Arabia?

Neither.

No, Iran or Saudi Arabia?

I’d kill myself. (They’re the same thing to me).

Look. Hedgies are okay because they see the market work. A young guy I know asked me for a list of Austrian economics books, and I turned him to Sinclair for a bit more. Went from energy trading here to working for AMZN. So he’s a bit of both. Started off in eng., went to pure maths but got his job at 19 trading electricity on six figures about a decade ago. I don’t know if he finished his degree.

I think the STEM guys in the main just want poonyeeti so they simp and carry on.

Do you think Jack Dorsey really cares if women want “equal pay”? Nope, he just wants the same rotation as Leo.

The Quigginator is a mathematician by training. Good fucking luck there.

They’re typically the worst crackpots. There is a forecaster headed up by a dude who reckoned public road building had a ROI of 40% p.a.

Borrow at 3%, build 2 trillion of new roads, GDP goes up 800 bn p.a.?

I’ve read all the Arthur C Clarke I could get, BoN, including that one, but I’ve long forgotten it.

Who controls Australia????

How do you feel about that bullshit, Doc?

Same as I do about the bullshit that schoolies need to wear them all the time, JC. Or that the vaxx is the only way to be safe. There’s an ocean of the stuff.

Cafe Bruce news.

I don’t like his chances but currawong with recently broken leg is hanging in there. It’s a clean break, so his leg dangles down without getting into the way too much. He’s had to learn to eat mince differently, since he used to hold a piece of it with one foot and pluck bits off. That’s now not possible since his only working foot he has to stand on. So he’s now worked out that if he goes onto the roof he can dismantle and eat his lump of mince on the convenient table the roof is.

Then just now I hear “Wuh!” from outside front door. Go check. A cockie. So he/she gets some bread. I suspect random brain nexii fired in order for the cockie to say that. Henceforth I’m now going to have a cockie at my front door saying “Wuh!” loudly each evening.

The fun incident of the day was when next door landlord arrived from Sydney. He’s between tenants. Salt of the earth sort of guy who has a fruit-growing business. So I waves at him and says “hi! welcome back!” (It’s been several years.) He says I see you still have your birds! Hmmm. I turns around and on the roof of my car right behind me is alpha male extrovert currawong. ‘Yep’, I say. Then I hand extrovert currawong some mince which he then messily spreads all over my car roof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb8Hr85lulM
01:19 Chinese hackers hack iPhone 13 pro in 1s
03:03 Apple removes religious app in China
04:18 Beijing plays down impacts on grain output
05:57 U.S., Canada send warships through Taiwan strait
06:57 Chinese, Russian navy sail through Japan strait
08:16 Japan plans to build up defense capabilities
10:06 China angry at Japanese city over WHO meeting
12:00 Toys stuck in supply chain chaos
14:41 Canadian publisher alleges twitter censorship
17:35 Beijing gets Olympic flame amid protests
19:13 Evergrande fails to pay debt again
21:57 North Korea tests two more missiles

Armourer, 24, on Alec Baldwin film ‘wasn’t sure’ if she was ready for movie set roles

At 24 I would have been confident of being the armourer for any film and no one would have got shot.

This generation is truly retarded, idiocracy live.

So Bananaberry has acquiesced on Net Zero. This country is fucked

Doc

Let me level with you. Other than the occasional Havana narrative about a Cuban hooker, my impression is that you don’t really offer blogging much. It’s more like.. oh I’m a Mathematician and I therefore sit in judgment above you. You offer opinions on the opinions of others which is a curious form of sanctimony. How about a little less piggy backing and more original comments. Just an idea.

I’m sticking to my policy of avoiding airheads, JC.

So I was commenting on a book BoN liked. If you commented on my comments to BoN without understanding the context, and without noticing or caring that you didn’t understand, you’re the one with the problem.

If you try to stoush with me I shall write you off as an airhead and ignore you. I think its infantile.

vote him out

Rosie – One of my fantasies is for a referendum to be held requiring “None Of The Above” to be listed on every ballot paper.

It would be epic. Quite possibly “None Of The Above” could win an election, seeing that actual dogs and cats have done so in the US several times.

Hey I have a great idea! We should allow non-human political candidates because diversity. Animals Australia would love it.

We’ve been out, Bruce, and didn’t get in until seven, so our Currawongs have missed the evening feeding time, where they usually arrive about 6pm summertime for something to give the babies before sleep. Sadly, they will have gone to bed hungry tonight, I muse, but Hairy says they’re birds and can look after themselves. He’s right of course. They shouldn’t be dependent on us. Talking about dependence on us, Attapuss is hyperexcited that we are home and is ready for his dinner. I give him some chicken Fussy Cat. Feline food. As if chickens aren’t birds too. It’s all too complicated sometimes. Anyway, I am glad your lame Currawong is not yet Crow food. You do see a few one-legged birds around, so maybe all is not lost for him.

rosie says:
October 24, 2021 at 7:41 pm

The comments on that feed are vile. What’s wrong with these people?

calli, it’s Twitter. The cesspit of extreme leftists.

The comments on that feed are vile. What’s wrong with these people?

They’ve been frightened and are looking to a strong leader to lead them to safety.

Most ppl are kindly and decent except when scared.

Lizzie – I don’t know what is the story with Fussy Cat. The stuff is totally addictive.

My mum’s cats must have Blue Fussy Cat, although they will reluctantly also eat Black Fussy Cat. One day last year I was buying groceries for my mum at her local Coles, and elderly lady behind me loaded the conveyer belt thingie with an impressive array of pet food including Coles mince. And Red Fussy Cat. I had a pile of Blue Fussy Cat. So we got chatting. Turned out she was buying the mince for currawongs and the Red Fussy Cat for her cat. It was one of the more entertaining checkout conversations I’ve had.

BoN, I should probably write an sf book of what would happen to a society that had no scarcity, based on a more cynical view of human nature than Hogan’s.

My expectation is that they’d turn into a bunch of slobs and fight each other. Not to acquire wealth, just for the hell of it.

Fortunately, I’m too lazy and comfortable to write it.

Just watching the embarrassing Payne on Sky.
What is it about Australia embarrassing itself by sending overseas enormous fat bags of shit as senior representatives:
Blamey, especially egregious given that he was commanding hardened super fit soldiers.
Rey, ditto.
Sloppy Jo.
Vanstone.
Kirner.
Payne.
If these people lack the discipline to look after their bodies, they lack the capacity for disciplined focus on public policy.
I recall cringing with embarrassment watching Rey’s fat gut leading him in an inspection of an immaculate Marine guard of honour in Washington. We were a laughing stock.
Other than Johnson, I cannot recall a grossly obese representative from any other country being trotted out in the international scene.. Australia has exported masses of the slobs.

Other than Johnson, I cannot recall a grossly obese representative from any other country being trotted out in the international scene..

Truymp is morbidly obese, only been gone 10 months.
Colin Powell, recently deceased SoS was another fattasaurus.
Then there’s 4 Star Admiral Rachel Levine.
That porker is in a class of her own.
Hillary?
Presentable 25 years ago, she’s a mudguts now.

Radiator hose manufacture with zero OHS:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SY_rnHqcqM

Don’t forget Beazo, Bons.
Oh dear. How could I have forgotten, another Defence embarrassment.
Disgusting for professed national leaders.

I see the Hunt for Ed October has come to an anticlimactic end.

Captain Detmer can sleep soundly, though. Chernobyl was in 1986. Rhode Island, 1964. The public aren’t terrified of nuclear power any more, and nor should they be.

The Gweens would do well to drop this one and concentrate on nonexistent sea level rises.

Bons, earlier:

Australia embarrassing itself by sending overseas enormous fat bags of shit as senior representatives

Agreed. It’s terrible. Every single one of them, bar Blamey went ‘but muh genes’ before ordering seven pork roasts covered in fried cheese and Mars Bars, with a Diet Coke on the side.

Hogan has a world in which everyone is an individual who thinks for himself.

Don’t think you got the sense of the society DrB, which is a grass-roots assembly based on respect for ability. Doesn’t matter what the ability is, so long as it is done with seriousness and intent. So a person who builds perfect scale models of ships would be as well regarded as a nuclear physicist who produces devastating weapons. Neither need to do it to live, since there’s an abundance of anything they might want. It may have a Japanese cultural underpinning, they seem to have that sort of respect for precision and Masamune-like minutiae.

Payne and the Belgian Minister for Health (look that gargantosaurus up, if you dare) could engage in a bingo-wing duel that would actually change the Earth’s climate.

I see Mr Baldwin, the anti-gun nut isn’t so much of an anti-gun nut that he uses them to make filthy, filthy, capitalist individual profit.

Let’s see you mouth off now, you pompous retard.

Ed Casesays:
October 24, 2021 at 6:21 pm
about the nuke subs, I didn’t even hear a whisper in the “electorate” you’re so worried about.

Not really a Nuclear Power issue since the USN isn’t letting the RAN have a look into the subs Nuclear Reactor compartment , so all work on it will be done in the U.S.

Wow! The contract hasn’t even been drafted yet, and ‘Ed Case already knows the contents! Amazing what you can find with Google.

Be thankful I don’t take it all

Didn’t they flee the Labour-run UK because 95% tax rate or something?
Can’t go past this one but. The time signatures are awesome.

Money

Rabz

Some thoughts for you at the China surveillance thread.

In the words of the ad jingle, could somebody please take Paul Murray’s money and give him a bucket of KFC?

(This previous post of mine assumes you are either already Sandgroperstani, and/or Comrade Sneakers has been rolled or otherwise convinced his ‘[W]Apes Togevva, Stronk!’ gag wore itself out after his first pseudo-lockdown last March…)

Dr. Shankara Chetty Discusses His COVID Management Approach.

7,000 COVID patients treated in SA and zero deaths. Very worthwhile watching.

A quick summary of the treatment protocol (see previous interview).

Stage 1. Days 1-5 200mg Hydroxychloroquine 1 x day
Stage 2. If still symptomatic or if it starts again. Promethazine (antihistime) 25mg 3 x day. Aspirin
Stage 3. If still symptomatic, highly unlikely uses steroids.

If only we had a CHO as calm and considered as this Doctor. Note that he considers “Fear and anxiety of COVID” to be a co-morbidity (!!!!).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifqE8cBQbI4

I got that, BoN. But it ain’t that easy. How much respect is an educationalist entitled to?

Depends, DrB. I respected my Yr 11 Maths teacher a lot, he was really good. I didn’t respect my Physics teacher though, since he handed us the textbook and then went and spent all lessons drinking coffee in the staff room.

Masamune was a swordsmith, if you looked him up. I have a kitchen knife my Japanophile brother gave me once. Breathtaking and beautiful. I daren’t use it as its too sharp and I’m too uncoordinated.

Envisage that Chironian society three generations down the track

As I said, read The Songs Of A Distant Earth. Interestingly it was written only a year after VfY. 😀

On the other hand you have a point. There’re many SFs about societies which degenerate into miserable urban welfare projects where everyone watches TV all day. Usually the hero has escaped such a horrible fate, yet many in our society might like that lifestyle.

(Oops, some corrections: it’s “The Songs of Distant Earth”, it was first anthologized a year after “Voyage from Yesteryear”, then published in full in HB three years after that (the edition I have), but was worked up from an original short story from 1958. A fine story, with interesting cultural and space travel engineering considerations.)

Depends, DrB. I respected my Yr 11 Maths teacher a lot, he was really good. I didn’t respect my Physics teacher though, since he handed us the textbook and then went and spent all lessons drinking coffee in the staff room.

Teachers and educationalists are different, BoN.

Japanese culture produced some beautiful things, including swords, but also poetry, painting and philosophy. Their mathematics wasn’t up to much, possibly because the warrior caste despised it.

Yes, being a compliant television watching slob suits some ppl very well. Sad, but it has to be considered.

Rex Anger says:
October 24, 2021 at 9:13 pm
With reference to earlier Cats mentioning Katanning as a nice, affordable and relatively liveavle place outside a Big City (TM), might I also offer up for consideration areas around the Peel and Southwest regions of WA? To wit, the arc between Pinjarra and Manjimup.

Thanks, Rex. Been a long time since I’ve been in that AO, but I remember it fondly. One of my old friends lives in that general area, and tells me it’s still kind of like California back before it all went wrong. List: added.