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maybe somebody is clearing their whole cache

I haven’t tried to uptick anyone yet but that’s not the answer, I clear the cache and history automatically every time the browser closes.
Will try to uptic my post and see what happens tomorrow with an empty cache, I do keep cookies.

Elizabeth (Lizzie) Beare says:
April 11, 2022 at 11:28 pm

Next he is going to show me the tricks of the trade, called File Folders.

Sorry to say this, but it must be a woman thing, my wife is doing the same, instead of using the most vital part of any operating system, The “File explorer” in windows, and the equivalent in other operating systems.

A rare piece of excellent reporting in the Paywallian:

The real reason behind Sydney Airport delay chaos
The lines snaking around Sydney Airport are a worrying case of businesses being too consumed with a defensive mindset and failing to prepare for the wave barrelling down on them from the demand side.
It’s also the first failure for the airport’s brand new owners – an IFM Investors-led consortium – as well as air carrier Qantas when it comes to doing their part in helping the economy return to “Covid normal”.
It’s troubling that service-focused businesses badly underestimated the level of demand even with the added advantage of the visibility of forward bookings.
Indeed Qantas boss Alan Joyce could do worse than have a quiet chat with Coles chief executive Stephen Cain or Woolworths’ Brad Banducci about managing “surge demand” and planning for Covid disruptions. Both supermarket bosses have been living it for the past two years although their respective customer bases were more driven by panic rather than wanting to go on a holiday.
Both sides of Canberra should take note of what days of extended lines at Sydney airport really represent.
Low unemployment and high levels of household savings are putting the economy on a new footing which could mean a different conversation through the federal election.
This is namely about how to sustain rates of economic growth and manage the pains – including accelerating inflation – that come with it.
That is why Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s first day campaigning gaff on the 0.1 per cent cash rate (which has not moved for 18 months) and unemployment rate, was such a major blunder. The economy matters like never before.
There are signs of Australians willing to spend are everywhere: from the record 419,000 crowd attending Melbourne’s Formula One Grand Prix over the weekend to the wave in holiday bookings over Easter which is also extending to accommodation and hotel availability. Rising cost of living and the late flood season haven’t dampened the consumer mood.
As job vacancies surge unemployment is expected to fall even further, with some economists including Citi tipping it to move to just 3 per cent by the end of next year, which essentially means an economy in full-employment. Money markets have factored in all this demand, responding with a sharp rise in long-term bond yields to match inflation expectations.
A basic rule in the aviation industry is about preparing for the seasonal passenger bump, with Easter and Christmas the standouts, but the chaos at Sydney Airport had several cascading factors that made a bad situation worse. The overriding theme is the aviation sector has lost its match-fitness after more than two years of groundings and border closures.
Different pressure points at all parts of the passenger supply chain from the check-in kiosk, to baggage and then security compound into bigger, costly delays.
In a desperate bid to remain alive over the past two years Qantas has been forced to slash costs which has seen more than 8500 staff made redundant following Covid, reducing the potential pool to cover gaps on rosters.
With thousands more also cut from Virgin Australia, this represents institutional knowledge leaving the business while placing intense pressure on the remaining workers.
For Qantas, cracks started appearing in February when the airline handed down an underlying interim loss of $1.28bn and Joyce conceded the airline needed to shift its focus towards employee retention. In doing so he introduced a long-term bonus scheme for around 20,000 non-management staff and made a specific call out for back office and technology roles for recruitment.
There is an element of truth in Joyce’s comments that customers are “rusty”.
Sydney Airport chief executive Geoff Culbert, fresh from the airport’s $23.6bn sale to IFM and its partners, also said “inexperienced” travellers were contributing to the delays, which probably isn’t helpful considering the airport is still operating below its pre-Covid capacity, according to traffic numbers.
And that doesn’t get the airline off the hook. At some point a decision has been made about the cost-effectiveness of front line staff or check in principles during a holiday surge.
This time of year flights are dominated by holiday makers and travelling families, who often have more complicated check-in requirements and travel with luggage which slows the process from checking-in to slowing down security screening. Even so, the same customers have likely paid a premium for their tickets to travel together at this time of year which means they should expect to have some reasonable service.
Still, the Qantas board operates under a group risk management framework, with customer satisfaction and loyalty nominated as a key risk factor.
The “significant financial and operational challenges” posed by Covid-19 and the airline’s response could impact customer satisfaction and loyalty, the risk framework notes.
A more sobering way for airlines – or any big business for that case – is to review the way they deal with customers in light of what was uncovered during the 2018 Hayne financial services royal commission where major banks and wealth manager AMP were accused of charging customers fees for no service across their financial planning and investment businesses.
A damning $3bn has been refunded to customers so far under the scandal that saw customers charged for financial advice they never received.
Royal commissioner Kenneth Hayne at the time was scathing about the practice, saying it was “ethically and morally wrong”.
Sydney Airport had been bracing for a holiday surge for weeks, telling people from late March to start arriving two hours early for domestic flights going into the Easter and school holiday period. Delays are expected to continue until Anzac Day.
Staff absenteeism remains another big blame point with Joyce pointing to a 20 per cent absenteeism rate as staff isolate under Covid rules.
Supermarkets including Coles and Woolworths were tested to their limits during the Sydney and Melbourne lockdowns and had thousands of staff off. But their surge came around Christmas as case numbers of Omicron were spreading.
Both supermarkets now have well-run playbooks for dealing with Covid staffing issues. Neither operator is currently reporting higher-than-normal staff absenteeism rates compared to the Omicron peak over summer.
At one point last year Woolworths reported more than 14,000 staff were in isolation. The supermarket operator was forced to close some stores while Coles operated some stores on a skeleton staff.
Both operators prioritised essential functions which often involved moving staff from some areas of the store to cover gaps. A big change was the loosening of the Covid isolation rules, the definition of a close contact allowed many to get back to the workplace and this transition was managed.
Woolworths boss Brad Banducci recently told The Australian that initiatives including telehealth for staff as well rapid antigen tests were part of the Covid operating manual now. It was in January this year that absenteeism escalated to 40 per cent across some warehouses.
“We are learning our way through. We are becoming better at all these things, we will definitely be better prepared for the next challenge that comes. Everything we’ve done stands us in very good stead for the future,” Banducci said.
A Coles spokesman on Monday said Covid-linked absenteeism was still being experienced but operations were continuing with minimum disruption.
“As they have since the beginning of the pandemic, our team are continuing to work with our suppliers and transport partners to keep our stores replenished,” the spokesman said. “We continue to support team members who are unwell or close contacts, as well as following government health orders in each state.”

Haha. John Spooner.

Warren Brown.

David Rowe.

Patrick Blower.

Steve Bright.

Michael Ramirez.

Bob Gorrell.

Tom Stiglich.

Patrick Cross.

The real reason behind Sydney Airport delay chaos
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Joyce conceded the airline needed to shift its focus towards employee retention.

How odd. It was only last year that he fired lots of staff for not being vaccinated. Now apparently there’s a shortage of pilots. Funny how that works.

As to the article, Tom, I note that it does not mention the vaccine at all let alone the casting out of the unclean by Qantas and the other companies mentioned. Sort of like visiting an elephant enclosure at the zoo and ignoring the elephants in it.

wrong email addy, after removing cookies, LOL

Rosie – Yes. Not saying how. 😀

I cleared the cookies, didn’t help either in adding more upticks to the same post.
All I achieved was, that I lost my login info

The US military is under attack from the woke left.
Relaxing fitness standards and changing uniforms will transform a fighting force into some sort of inclusive social club.
American Thinker

Tranny on Medium ladypages calls straight men bigots for not wanting to date, kiss or have sex with trans “women”.

Speaking of such the good Mr Mouncey is baaack.

Football star erupts at Scott Morrison for backing calls to ban transgender women from competing in female sports (11 Apr)

Transgender footballer Hannah Mouncey has issued a scathing attack at Prime Minister Scott Morrison for backing calls to ban transgender women from competing in female sports.

The 32-year-old Australian rules football player says it shouldn’t be an issue if transgender athletes have qualified for the Olympics.

“Scott Morrison has never cared about women before, why is he caring now?” she said, according to The Daily Telegraph.

That last line is particularly good given that Mr Mouncey has been flattening ladies in AWFL games like a steamroller. Bit of a stretch to call him a “star”. “Notorious” would be a word more apt I think.

I lost my login info

Gabor – If you are using Brave it will let you clear cookies & history on exit but keep autofill for such forms. Somewhere in the settings you’ll find the respective options.

Transgender footballer Hannah Mouncey has issued a scathing attack at Prime Minister Scott Morrison for backing calls to ban transgender women from competing in female sports.

Here’s a radical idea no one has ever come up with – let clubs and associations make up their own rules.

Let’s call it “freedom of association”.

Hmmmm

“Suspicious transactions”

Giving money to LDP
Transferring to crypto wallet
Buying a firearm
Using Patron or Subscribestar

Yep, that will totally stop the Mafia, triads and Nigerian mugu bum boys.

I recall the fun Iranian national women’s soccer team which contained eight men.

The Gateway Pundit and 100 Percent Fed Up will be reporting in more detail on the theft of the 2020 election using mail-in-voting, drop boxes, and other shocking ways in the coming weeks and months.
Early this morning, Dinesh D’Souza clarified that the title of his movie underestimates the number of mules whom they have identified that were part of the crime syndicate…Buckle up America…the road is about to get very bumpy.
(2000 Mules, Dinesh’s doco on how the steal was done, will be released soon. It will probably include precise location data evidence gathered by phone apps. Once True the Vote paid a whopping $2 million of privately raised funds for the data, they took it to highly sophisticated data centers across America to discover what happened in the 2020 election. It has taken “12 people, 16 hours a day for 15 months to process the data,” Phillips explained. True the Vote has access to several very high-powered computers. “Most of the work is done in Plano, TX, and the rest is done in the high-performance computing center on the campus of Starkville, Tennessee,” Phillips told Charlie Kirk.)
link

Which sheep to leave behind? The ugly one!

Barnaby Joyce is said to be in Darwin today.

GET FUCKED BARNABY*.

h/t bern

Kiwi blokes still think the Canning Stock Route is an annual event.

Wife carrying?

Wife Carrying Race back after two-year Covid break (11 Apr)

Now you can know that Covid really is over.

They never stop.

U.N. Chief Guterres Backs Big Pharma Plan to ‘Get Vaccines into Arms’ of Every Person on the Planet (11 Apr)

If he wants to stir up conspiracy theories this is a great way to do that. Add in the climate rubbish and you really have to wonder what’s going on in those big buildings in NYC and Geneva. Certainly does underscore the UN’s capture by the totalitarian Left.

Freedom from the AWFL seems nice though.

Cassie – I made no prediction, but left voting normals en masse rejecting radical queer stuff in totality and writing several different arguments against it is indeed a white pill.

Freedom of association isn’t libertarian?

“You can be libertarian, or have freedom of association”

Dot, please, I know it’s early in the morning but don’t be thick. You know exactly what I mean, and if you’d read what I wrote you’d also know exactly what I mean since it is completely clear.

You cannot have trannies in women’s sports. We’re already seeing real female athletes flee this woke tyranny. They’re giving it away rather than participate in an unfair playing field.

Chuckle. I didn’t mean to set a cat among the pigeons on the ticks…or inspire tick envy. It was an observation and a conclusion based on approving something you hadn’t, and couldn’t, even read.

And yes, both Bruce and Dover demonstrated how “I approve of and heartily endorse this comment” can be done multiple times. My comment didn’t imply manipulation, just weirdness and human frailty.

Uptick that strange little internet people!

On “tick envy” – it may be a manifestation of transcommentism, i.e. a commenter desiring the popularity of another commenter and identifying as such.

Slippery slope stuff. 😀

Mean girl in a manger.
Go over to Michael Smith News and check out Keneally using a Vietnamese Catholic Church as an election prop.
She abandoned the church until she thought it could buy her a few ethnic votes. She uses the kindness of strangers of faith to carry out her unprincipled tactics.

Reasonable amusing, but where was Gillard’s “There will be no carbon tax under a government I lead”?

Election 2022: Binge on cringe: the tale of the gaffe tape

“A number of reasons, I guess throughout my sporting career, I’ve had the urge to do community work and … I’m buggered, I’m sorry.”

If he wants to stir up conspiracy theories this is a great way to do that. Add in the climate rubbish and you really have to wonder what’s going on in those big buildings in NYC and Geneva. Certainly does underscore the UN’s capture by the totalitarian Left.

Bruce.
What nare you wondering about?
They tell us.
Guterres was head of Socialists Internationale’ and they are all quite up front in pushing for one world government.
There is no conspiracy theory.
It is fact.

As educated as many people are here, can you see why some of us might get a bit frustrated?
Whether a nice person like Bruce, or the total opposite, like Notafan, they will not admit certain things that are now so well beyond doubt as to be laughable.
And in doing so, the conclusions they are drawing about many other things, including the upcoming election and the war in Ukraine, are prone to go all pear shaped because of it.

Say it out loud.
ready…
1….2….3….
The UN/WEF Globalist elites govern our country.
Now go and see what they have planned for us, or be like Sancho’s fear driven scoffers and wait until they take your wealth, home and freedom completely.

The two best bits of technology in new cars – blind spot sensors and rear parking cameras.

Double shots of scepticism.

Reservations essential.

Scepticism works both ways.
Denialism only one.

Rudd’s church door presser became a hermetically sealed prepared statement, bathed in borrowed sanctity, unquestioned by the attending cadets, released into a Sunday evening news vacuum. He was pretty cunning, our Kev.

Russia news is still abuzz with US General trapped in Mariupol
Pentagon could bring him out to the media if he was around…

I am thinking of opening a café.

Rancho Sancho.

JC check ya mail.

Speaking of car bits, anyone fitted an after-market reversing camera to a car?

One of our cars has one; the other doesn’t. It’s a Mazda CX3 SUV thingie, and the rear vision is not good anyway.

Just want something simple, so when you think you’re going to reverse you turn it on – not fitted into the car’s electronics.

Bruce at 6:25.
Did you not get the memo?

Sancho – I’m being very careful not to kill Dover’s dog.

two things that strike fear into my heart
the MiL

Cowerd!

Been looking at a wired cam for the wife. Less delay and interference.

worth quoting from yesterday

Explaining why females were stymied throughout history because of biology, childbearing and being physically weaker than men, and how things will be different in the future, was not enough for feminists. They had to rewrite the past as a patriarchal conspiracy against women, and what better way to accomplish this agenda than to use the illogical philosophies of Derrida, Foucault, Baudrillard, etc., whose ideas can be crudely summed up in one all-encompassing idea: there is no such thing as truth or, at best, truth is relative. What feminists did with the philosophy, however, was to disingenuously reject truths they didn’t like and substitute feminist ideology as a new metaphysics. It was politics masquerading as philosophical principle. When feminist domination of third-level education became absolute, the ideology was channelled through academia, first in the humanities and social sciences, and then throughout the university system, to the point where we now called upon to view even physics through a social justice lens.

To give two examples of irrational ideas from the feminist criticism of science and reason (they are legion), Luce Irigaray argued that E = MC2 is a ‘sexed equation’ and Sandra Harding called Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica ‘a rape manual’. The same approach, for example, inspires the feminist reading of art history. Because there are no female Michelangelos, Leonardo Da Vincis or Picassos, feminists claimed that quilts are as important to art, relatively speaking, as the Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa and Guernica.

The Whiteness of Wokeness

We watched it from the videos in the tally rooms, as it happened, in real time. Good CPAC coverage.
It looked terribly shonky, those late nite arrivals being wheeled in on trolleys, with a ‘something’s up’ feel about it that couldn’t be denied.

In fact, “gender reassigmment” surgery is subsidised by the Iranian state.

Now that is interesting. I would have thought it meant that transgenders meant Allah had made a mistake, or that they were going against the nature that Allah had ordained for them.

As we heard from appalled soldiers in Afghanistan, there is a lot of lady-boy love in Islamic cultures.

They are just keeping up the supply. Nothing to see here, move on.

I dare say the reason for this is not to reduce fuel consumption but the dreaded carbon emissions.

They sell it as reducing fuel consumption. I don’t give a rats. The first thing I do on getting into the Audi is to turn it off at the button on the dash. I find if I forget and leave it on if you want to go leadfoot at the traffic lights there is a split second hesitation for the engine to kick in again. It feels horrible.

Mullahs may reach a judgement which to them seems perfectly sound because the letter of the law is upheld even though larger theological matters are set aside in doing so.

And so bacha bazi is ok but homosexuals get tossed off tall buildings.

Be aware – in Mazdas the i-Stop function will go haywire if the battery starts to get low, and by “low” mine registered at 47% (probably exacerbated by being garaged during all the lockdowns and aftermath).

New battery required.

Take that! carbins.

the difference between the Libs and Labor is about 4 weeks.

FUBR

The Whiteness of Wokeness

Amusing the Supervirtuous 200 are getting stick for insufficient wokeness.

‘Part of a broader problem’: Climate 200 accused of white privilege (Sky News, 10 Apr)

Democratic Alliance candidate Kyinzom Dhongdue is a refugee who was previously an MP in the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile and is now running for the seat of Bennelong.

Ms Dhongdue told The Australian that in part she did not fit the Climate 200 mould of a white upper middle-class candidate after she was rejected to join twice by the group.

I wonder if the Climate 200 fake independents are getting Chinese money?