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May be too late? Inside the Gates (of Vienna?).
Used prices should be interesting. Once they feed into lease costs things could get interesting.
Their ABC mourn their favoured chestless lame duck… John Pesutto waited for years to lead the Victorian Liberals — with…
Asthmatics must die for the planet! Martyrs for Gaia! Europe’s Medical Students Being Trained to Consider Climate Impact of Inhalers…
Oryx is probably working up a mega thread on the collapse of Russki logistics,
based purely upon that video of some bloke wearing thongs, dancing in a rear area.
This was Abbott’s problem too.
German war hero General Von Hammerstein-Equord analysed army officers as follows:
1. Clever hard working officers are suitable for the staff.
2. Clever lazy officers are suitable for high command, because they have the ability to make decisions and won’t delay the decisions by getting bogged down in too much detail.
3. Stupid lazy officers are suitable for routine duties because they’ll do what they’re told and nothing more.
4. The real danger to the army comes from stupid hard working officers, who assiduously do stupid things out of a misplaced sense of diligence.
I wonder whether our problems aren’t largely caused by something similar. In politics, government and the upper echelons of woke businesses, there are now legions of Dunning-Kruger effect midwits who are highly credentialled in pseudo-disciplines. Those who just sit at their desks doing very little are a waste of resources but harmless enough. However, many of them enthusiastically try to advance the causes advocated by grievance-mongers and rent-seekers, e.g. “renewables” spivs, “climate change” grant-hooverers, and diversity shysters.
The harder they work the more damage they cause to the organisation. And the higher up they get, the more capacity for damage they have.
E.g. the old days when State politicians were too busy fixing horse races and getting maaaates’ land rezoned to actually do anything else really weren’t so bad in hindsight.
Today’s midwits are Donald Horne’s incurious second raters of 60 years ago.
In the intervening years they’ve gone from riding our good luck to running it into the ground.
If you have to wear a mask and are locked up without seeing anyone what is the point of wearing make-up? I suspect that many in the fashion and shoe industry will go the same way. Once you stop buying this stuff you get out of the habit and no longer see it as a necessity.
Of course he was entitled to go on holidays overseas
Watching a series WE OWN THIS CITY about police corruption in Baltimore and when it reached the wholesale rioting that occured after a black death the mayor called the Police Chief to get an explaination on how they were responding .. turned out she had to wait until he was brought back from the airport .. he was waiting for his flight to go on holiday whilst Baltimore burned ..
she sacked him as soon as the situation stabilized! ..
Aha!
My Plastic Bertrand trap has been sprung!
Just as surrendered became evacuated, captured has become kidnapped.
One thing I’ve yet to see any discussion of regarding electricity supply, is the investment in it would have to be government.
Now that NSW and VIC banned drilling for gas, for example, what company is going to invest the years and cash to do it. The incentive to spend money developing those resources isn’t there. If it takes 5 years to build a coal fired power station, but a government like Andrews comes in and legislates against it why would a company take the risk?
Then, assuming a government actually takes on the project, you can guarantee it’ll blow out like the Victorian desalination plant. And again, assumes the following government won’t just can it like the east-west link.
About the only solution I can see maybe working reasonably well for base load at this point is the Rolls Royce SMR type tech saving us.
One military historian – the name escapes me – classified Douglas Haig in that category.
For those with access to Sky News, Rowan Dean will be filling in for Blot at 7pm on weeknights for the next three weeks.
Finally a (temporary) reason to watch Sky after dark on weeknights (I’m one of those who make Outsiders on Sunday mornings Sky’s top-rating show for the week).
PS: don’t get any ideas, Sky management. Removing Rowan Dean from the Outsiders lineup on Sunday mornings to beef up weeknights will kill Outsiders‘ Sunday morning ratings.
Logies 2022: Masterchef’s Melissa Leong on Australian TV and her chance at making history
Holding up a mirror? The Late Show took the piss out of this very cliche and ethnicity grifters like Melissa Leong 30 years ago.
BIDEN DIARY UPDATE: Tucker Carlson’s EPIC Take Down of President Joe Biden “Resign!”
Louis CK has gotten his masters back back from HBO.
Seriously, getting cancelled was the biggest money spinner for him.
As featured prominently in BlackAdder.
They did and they held it until relieved by ground forces a few days later. The airport remained in RUS hands until they departed en masse from north UKR end of March.
Jest not.
The indoctrinated youth fervently believe in the Climate Change.
It will take a civil war to change their minds.
A future generation that doesn’t like being cold will initiate the conflict.
I was out & about this morning in Wentworth & Grayndler.
A lot of people still walking the streets, by themselves, wearing masks.
Saw some people driving, by themselves, wearing masks.
A lot a sleeveless puffer jackets.
Cafes in Grayndler (ones I drove past were not packed).
Cafes in Wentworth were heaving.
The Late Show was an absolute must activity for young players, combined with shit tins of grog, prior to heading out on the town on a Saturday evening.
Essential viewing, and piss funny. You didn’t walk out the door without a Graham and The Colonel segment under your belt.
Project Veritas
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked Video of Elon Musk’s Address to Twitter Employees About ‘Essential’ Nature of Free Speech, Voting Republican, and ‘Evolving’ Twitter
Seems like a cultural appropriation angle could be worked in there, somehow. English invader language and all.
Horse shit.
Climate was settled as an issue, there wre never any votes to be won from Labor/Greens on the issue.
The simple fact is that Scotty was perceived unfavourably by enough female voters to lose the Election.
They coulda replaced him but Dutton or Porter couldn’t win it either.
No Federal Liberal leader can survive a perceived Women Problem.
See:
Hewson, J, Downer, A, Abbott, T, and now Scotty.
What about Howard?
He was never perceived as having a Woman Problem, but women Voters still did him in when they had the choice of Rudd.
Dutton, hard to say.
Women generally have a positive view of cops, but professional women are the problem demographic for the Liberals.
This was Abbott’s problem too.
Abbott’s problem was that he told lies to get Elected, reneged, and was leading the Party to Electoral oblivion.
As featured prominently in BlackAdder.
The WWI series was up there with Yes Minister & Faulty Towers.
Plastic was a great artiste. The lyrics to Ça plane pour moi make no sense in French, or English.
However, many of them enthusiastically try to advance the causes advocated by grievance-mongers and rent-seekers, e.g. “renewables” spivs, “climate change” grant-hooverers, and diversity shysters.
A perfect example of this being the “turtle” elected to represent the voters of McMAHON, one of the nation’s poorer electorates, he should have been battling full-time on their behalf (as the job description implies!) to ensure energy prices are well within the reach of the, general, populace .. yet, instead, he accepted a ministry, ENERGY, which he should have refused on the grounds that his electorate would further suffer from current and future rises in gas/electricity prices because of the gummint “climate” policy ..
” “let-them-freeze” my career and pension are far more important to me than the needs of my constituents”!
The Late Show was an absolute must activity
Back when the ABC was funny.
Shit Scared was television gold.
A week without being able to charge the mobile or turn on the xbox might be enough.
Ok…If only those paratroopers had held Antonov airport.
+1
Lol
Law of unintended consequences strikes again.
Optimist.
The grid will collapse after a short period of rolling blackouts. The engineers required to restart things have already left the country.
The big question is how long before the peasants, without power, revolt. I reckon the full scale riots and mayhem would take about a month without power.
-2
Indeed; never underestimate your enemy, but Ukrainian levels of resistance should not be expected.
Menzies reportedly voted DLP after he retired.
Senate only at the 1974 DD Election, according to someone who was told that by someone else.
10 Senate Seats were up for grabs that year, i kinda doubt Bob didn’t end up preferencing Liberal over Labor.
paper instead?
won’t someone think of the trees?
I didn’t know until now that Crypto trades on weekends. At least I think it does. It’s now down 9% to US$18,750. As they say on the ABC, what a journey!
His daughter gave an interview to the ABC, in which she claimed he had voted DLP once.
What’s even crazier JC is Tether is still reporting a market cap of $US65bill as of Friday (down from a peak of $US90bill in Nov).
It’s worth nothing.
The big question is how long before the peasants, without power, revolt. I reckon the full scale riots and mayhem would take about a month without power.
Horse shit.
Fridges have only been common since the Sixties.
Until then, goods requiring refrigeration were purchased off the local Butcher and local Grocer as needed.
Local Butchers are long gone, but if you’re living close to a local Grocer, you might be alright.
They are still holding Tether at $US1.
It appears to be more resilient than I thought it would be.
I suppose the rationale is that timber is renewable.
Woollies has done something similar here.
Rare I get called an optimist. Reckon it’ll play out something like there’ll be screeching and carry on, lots of finger pointing. Coal will stay for a while, with a massive shitfight, and Albo’s government will spend stupid amounts on renewables in vain.
Come ~2024 when the SMR stuff gets approved, everything will be falling apart and there will be a mad dash to it as a solution. Mostly because it’ll be about the only thing left as an option to “solve the crisis”.
Never mind it was easily foreseeable.
Gypsies.
The adults steal Meat, the kids steal chocolates.
It’s a business to them.
Butchers and grocers won’t come into it.
Once the Maccas and KFCs close, all bets are off.
I downloaded a bunch of capacity data from the very convenient openNEM website
next trick will be trying to get live data from somewhere so that I can poke it into my own analysis software
Been sorting filtering and wondering for a couple of days about it.
Vic coal gen cap is about 4500MW
NSW coal gen cap is about 10000MW
using openNEMs graphs and their very convenient data scooters you can sort of glean
in VIC the gas gets turned on at around 80% of coal’s capacity.
in NSW the gas gets turned on at 0.8 * (10000 – 2000[Liddell])MW
I don’t understand how it all fits together … its just interesting that’s all
was also just snooping around various gas gen websites.
there are a few players in the “peaking” market which is essentially gas gens
They seem to pretend they are there for what they call high demand periods rather than squandering a resource to prop up a shit system
I reckon what it really means is that they are there are only a few use cases,
1: times when the ‘ruinables’ are on and they’re needed to cope with certain erratic behaviour on the grid.
2: times where they cant max out the dirty gens too much…like all night when there isnt wind
3: trying to prove that they don’t need Liddell anymore
essentially my take is that we are actually already short of reliable base-gen capacity.
Another thing about storage and batteries and their magical future technological leap (which aint coming)
Well, a few of the gas-people are selling their kit as “hydrogen ready”
… and there’s your proposed battery.
as if pumping water up-hill wasnt inefficient enough,
these mongs want to take excess PV and wind and split water so they can stick it up a gas turbine
there’s yr leading battery tech … leading by being as inefficient as possible.
fmd
Later this years, Coles will be delivering Coles-online via paper bags in re-usable, recyclable boxes.
Plan is you leave the boxes outside & Coles will collect the next day.
Good luck with that.
Is there anyone more evil, mendacious, destructive, depressing than an environmentalist?
Butchers and grocers won’t come into it.
Once the Maccas and KFCs close, all bets are off.
You’re talking thru your hat.
A person doesn’t need a fridge, just someone nearby who’s got one.
The milkman provided the same service.
If I was a farmer or grazier, I would be very concerned about the Greens having so much sway at a Federal level.
Get ready for death via regulation & more importantly…”certification”.
Until then, goods requiring refrigeration were purchased off the local Butcher and local Grocer as needed.
Presumably the Butcher and Grocer had refrigeration?
Roger Johnson is right!
Bern
I’m nowhere near knowledgeable on crypto, but I read a long time ago that Tether isn’t really pegged to the buck on a one for one basis. It’s leveraged with a smaller amount of currency holding up the fixed rate. That’s a recipe for failure when under pressure.
Eyrie, what capacity generator did you get ? What sort of considerations guided your decision ?
That obsoletes the one about bears defecating in the forest.
There is a rather good book called On the Psychology of Military Incompetence. Well worth reading.
Having said that Haig was no clown, and Blackadder is a satire. Its main fault, IMHO, is it goes too far. Blackadder himself does nothing most of the time, except scheme to get out of the war. In reality, an infantry captain commanded a company, and was a very busy man.
Rooting will not fix the electricity!
To paraphrase Bertrand Russell, a lot of what passes as idealism is a disguised hatred of mankind and a desire for power.
The overlooked and clandestine gypsy meat theft cartel may be the insidious destabilising cancer tearing our entire society apart from within.
Alfred Dreyfus. Not to be confused with Charles Dreyfus.
Trump nails Biden:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1538244937153753088 (via Lucianne & Gateway Pundit)
I give Joe credit for being even able to ride a bicycle at age 79. On the other hand Trump shoots in the low seventies at golf at age 76, so the video isn’t totally improbable.
Mickey from Snatch was the oligarch of his time.
ago that Tether isn’t really pegged to the buck on a one for one basis.
That’s correct & there in lies the scam.
The original article was a medium blog that many have posted here since pre-COVID.
Alfonse Capriciossa
My new moniker, of course.
Looks like that original medium blog on Tether has been deleted.
I’m getting an error message.
Gattaca
I think that was the point of it.
Abbott’s problem was that he told lies to get Elected, reneged, and was leading the Party to Electoral oblivion.
And Turdballs worked hard (or perhaps not very hard – mornings only) to complete the process. Only the Nats winning an unexpected seat prevented Turdballs from completing the task.
Here’s what nuts.
The lower the price of BTC & ETH go and the speculators get washed out, the more ETH becomes a functional piece of infrastructure.
It was never a store of value.
It was never an inflation hedge (just like gold has demonstrated it isn’t).
If and only if we have choice of jurisdiction and inviolable rights to bear arms.
GATTACA meets Second Heaven.
I bracket it with Coon/Cheer and Kraft block cheese.
BTC and ETH are the real deal, but no one knows what they are worth (yet).
Ed Casesays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:46 am
The big question is how long before the peasants, without power, revolt. I reckon the full scale riots and mayhem would take about a month without power.
Horse shit.
Fridges have only been common since the Sixties.
Until then, goods requiring refrigeration were purchased off the local Butcher and local Grocer as needed.
Local Butchers are long gone, but if you’re living close to a local Grocer, you might be alright.
Even more stupid that your usual standard, Dickless.
MT – The data used by AEMO in their graphics and by people like Nem Watch is in CSV format for 5 minute intervals on the AEMO server somewhere. I went off and found it a few year ago when I was thinking about automating data analysis of it. It looked pretty easy to d/l and turn into graph.
All these scumbags should be late term abortion candidates starting now. I’m not squeamish and would be doing humanity a service.
Richard Hammond Test Drives an Electric Chinese Supercar at 200 mph | The Grand Tour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzFT5ndMZ_Q
This is cool/funny.
Who started Mutton Boy on the cold chain again?
Ed Casesays:
June 19, 2022 at 11:52 am
Ed,
I’ll explain this as simply as I can.
Gen X, Gen Y and millennials are allowed to vote. They have had fridges available all their lives.
Telling them that they can learn to live without a fridge will not win their votes.
I got two words for ya:-
“Dufflecoat Supreme”.
Still not worth a Hammy.
Just had a long conversation with Dave Cochran on 2SM about gas, coal and electricity. Dave is very good. So if you want to get on at 131269 go for it. Keep it simple though.
Someone, can’t remember who, mentioned about a series on Baltimore’s Police corruption. I’ve been reading some family tree stuff just this morning. One side of the family went to Baltimore in the early 1800’s and subsequently made significant contributions to the development of the city. When the Civil War came along some of them supported the North while the others the South. I am the spitting image of one of them, without the whiskers. Found out they used to marry cousins as a matter of course, yuck, and also mentioned about the legal offspring, so someone was having a jolly time of it. One of them made LtCol in WWI. He was an interesting character. A bit like myself, said no one.
Bluey says:
June 19, 2022 at 11:00 am
Morrison is emblematic of everything wrong with the Liberal party. Stood for nothing in an attempt to get those who will only ever hate him to like him, while throwing those who he nominally represents under the bus to please them.
Very accurate description of Scotty from marketing! He is/was a dope, not a clue.
Talking to a mate who works in the downstream gas industry. There is so much uncertainty now investment will be impossible without some form of government guarantee. The industry relies on long term contracts to make huge capex projects viable. Nobody will sign anything. AGL has got a Canon-Brookes sized problem.
Presumably the Butcher and Grocer had refrigeration?
Not much gets past you, eh?
Got about 5 kg of Grey Nurse Shark steaks from my local Vietnamese butcher.nOnly paid 9.99/kg.
LOL, he sells it as “Porbeagle”, the munted dwarf version of the Great White.
Un-bloody-believable! $25million to hoist a rag on the Bridge!
I’m assuming this includes the anticipated, forever, accomodation & wages cost(s) of the “flag raiser/welcome to country” bloke/blokess who’ll do the “honours” every morning regardless of weather .. LOL!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-19/sydney-harbour-bridge-aboriginal-flag-25-million/101165564
there must be a reason that Thermal coal is 3 times the price it was in 2017, that’s right $66 US a ton in 2017 and $196.00 US a ton today.
this must be because nobody wants coal anymore!!!!!!!!!!!! as Elbo has said coal is dead and buried shouldn’t it be worthless?
As Pauline would say, please explain.
Ed,
I’ll explain this as simply as I can.
Gen X, Gen Y and millennials are allowed to vote. They have had fridges available all their lives.
Telling them that they can learn to live without a fridge will not win their votes.
Timothy, i’ll dumb this down to the Max, just for you.
1. 3 Generations = 90 years
2. 90 years ago, an IceBox was a luxury
3. If Electricity is unavailable or too expensive, your fridge is about as useful as a c.ntful of cold water
4. Voting doesn’t matter
And Bargearse.
Can’t say I’m surprised. No doubt the greenies will point to it as another reason to why fossil fuels are not viable.
GreyRange, when family history links you back into known historical events you can’t help but be interested in what these people were really like, and if any of their genes might work out in you. Luckily, we are a mix of an endless expanding series of grandparenal links too, so there is a lot in there to go on. The Good Lord, or is that old Mother Nature, no doubt made us that way on purpose.
Sorry to hear about the cross-cousin marriages, but they were common enough in past times when ethnic groups wanted to keep together, or in small localised communities isolated from others. 🙂
Today I am negotiating by email with stonemasons in Britain re repair of some of my ancestral gravestones in ye olde ancestral church, as I am paying for this. Not easy, as the area they have to enter to do the repairs is surrounded by safety cyclone fencing due to the possibility of falling debris from a near-collasping wall. The Diocese tell me that stonemasons carry their own insurance. Who knew the job was so dangerous, I thought at first, but I suppose they also do things like work at heights on steeples. It’s an old an honourable trade,
What’s gey nurse taste like Dot?
Anthony Beevor?
Why don’t we use some ourselves?
https://www.australianmining.com.au/news/coal-predicted-to-exceed-100-billion-annual-export-mark/
“The March 2022 REQ has found that soaring demand and high prices for Australia’s gas, coal and oil are a key contributor to our record export earnings,” Pitt said.
I am (was) Hammy.
And his sister.
And Turdballs worked hard (or perhaps not very hard – mornings only) to complete the process.
Incorrect.
Abbott had already lost the 18 seats he picked up in 2010 and 2013 and another fifteen on top of that.
And it only took 2 years.
Only the Nats winning an unexpected seat prevented Turdballs from completing the task.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
Turnbull performed a miracle in 2016 and he kicked in $1.6 mil. of his own dosh too.
Delta A:
It doesn’t address the biggest cost in new housing – the taxes.
Adam’s blog now essentially mh and Steve T talking to the Grigbots.
Grigbots even doing guest posts.
Becoming more like Sh1tfers/M0nty’s.
Sad.
Diseased.
Male blood donor turned away from clinic after he refused to answer whether he was pregnant. (18 Jun)
His blood might be contaminated with right-wing cooties.
Probably, not available on the “fair & balanced” media in Oz ..
List of Foreign Fighters in Ukraine .. released by the Russian MOD ..
Poland 1831 total, 378 Dead, 272 Deserted.
Romania 504 total, 102 Dead, 98 Deserted.
UK 422 Total, 103 DEAD 95 Deserted.
Canada 601 Total, 162 Dead, 169 Deserted.
USA 530 Total, 214 Dead, 227 Deserted.
Middle East and Asia, includes
Georgia 355 total, 120 Dead, 90 Deserted.
What are you doing here Big Yellow Truckster?
I thought your said over at AdamD’s that this place was full of pooftah pansies.
One can dream, I guess.
The Hammster even went on the Q&A freds occasionally.
I usually nominated 69 for him in Q&A lotto, if some retard didn’t steal it first.
You’re very good at putting words in peoples mouths, Biggles.
Can someone – anyone – define these nebulous interconnecters?
Are they a physical building?
An array of towers and wires?
Something that exists in the intarwebs?
They need to be defined before we can act on them.
And yes, I agree the threat should be made, if only to achieve what Roger has spoken of – mentally focusing our minds on the problem.
The big twucks DON’T have to be yellow, he who hath no OHS Whitecard.
Catch up with TailGunner and Arky for a beer?
TailGunner still about?
It’s the good eggs versus the bad eggs*, Sancho.
* Runny
Or is that fluid?
I’ll take number 3.
An array of towers and wires
Turnbull performed a miracle in 2016 and he kicked in $1.6 mil. of his own dosh too.
A really dumb comment.
Interconnectors are the Primarchs of the grid.
All hail the God Emperor.
Coming soon to Bunnings.
The states wouldn’t dare cut the interconnectors now. They all rely on them at various times.
Recovering the gold plating may be an attractive prospect, though.
Shorter Ed Case (Or is that Edwina Case?)
Liberals have a woman problem, and no Liberals are able to resolve it.
The word “nuclear” is electoral Kryptonite, but all other forms of electrical generation are bad.
“Scotty” was a brilliant campaigner, until he wasn’t.
Only Ed[wina] has the solution to Australia’s governance, but he keeps to himself in case the Liberals find out.
Labor, the Greens and pretty much everyone who doesn’t meet Ed[wina]’s standards are all Far Right Wing. Including most of the current Liberal Party.
rare old picture of interconnectors in action
Let the market decide.
What is the role of the chicken egg in making the influenza vaccine?
For Biggles nanowrigglers.
I would answered with “yes” just to see the look on their stupid faces
Reading about how some people can convince themselves they have PTSD from events that never happened.
It’s a hell of a scenario.
In the olden days you’d say they were nutters.
Now, it’s a bit more nuanced, but they are still nutters.
Dickless
Timothy, i’ll dumb this down to the Max, just for you.
1. 3 Generations = 90 years
Apologies, I forgot to mention your utter stupidity on the subject of generations.
You have no idea.
Didn’t a Grigbot label Scummo as “Dr Mengele” over the Frankenvax rollout?
Dickless
Incorrect.
Abbott had already lost the 18 seats he picked up in 2010 and 2013 and another fifteen on top of that.
Worse than your usual standard of stupidity. Until the election, you cannot say what seats have been lost.
Dickless
This deserves a separate response.
Turnbull performed a miracle in 2016 and he kicked in $1.6 mil. of his own dosh too.
If only he had bothered to campaign after his loooong lunch, he might have saved all those seats that Abbott lost.
Turdballs was a monumental waste of time. The $1.6 million seems to have been his purchase of a lifetime membership of the Liberal Party, so he could be a “Miserable Ghost” until he dies.
Sounds like the victimhood mentality of the Trans community, in general.
Wymminses now vs the Trans will be very entertaining, Karmic even.
As was the feminists being steamrolled by muzzos on any Lefty panel show.
Now wedged between muzzos and Trannies?
Timothy, i’ll dumb this down to the Max, just for you.
1. 3 Generations = 90 years
OK Ed, you’ve got the over 90’s voting demographic sewn up. Unless they’ve grown to like having a fridge over the past several decades.
Now all you’ve got to do is found your “fridges are an unnecessary luxury” political party and sweep to power at the next election.
That would totally refute the posts to which you were responding, i.e. the ones that WEREN’T commenting on whether it is possible to survive without a fridge, but which WERE predicting that a loss of fridge-powering electricity would provoke large scale rebellion against our current ruling “elites”.
Jimmy Dore Delivers Fiery Rant On Tucker Carlson
On Wednesday evening Jimmy made another of his legendary appearances on Tucker Carlson’s show, the most popular cable news program in the country. In a finely targeted rant, Jimmy took aim at Democrats for cravenly trying to blame all of the nation’s woes on Vladimir Putin while also reserving plenty of his ire for both Republicans and Democrats who, he said, serve the interests of the oligarchy that funds them rather than the American citizens who vote for them.
Jimmy and American comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the benefits of bringing an anti-imperialist, anti-oligarchy message to a Fox News audience that likely never hears such perspectives.
I’m not surprised either, and yes, this will make the greenies blather on even more about renewables being so very viable, in spite of me saying what are you going to do for base-load power for aluminium and steel smeltering. The level of incomprehension of these deluded people never fails to disappoint. Just when you think they can’t possibly ignore reality as it stares them in the face, they double-down. Interesting point though, my 13 year old grandson in Year 7 is suddenly talking nuclear power (clean and reliable) to me following discussions in his classroom. Suburban public high school.
We’ve had a lot of exposure to leftism lately with Hairy’s ex-wife’s recent bitter-sweet for him memorial wake, a blast from the past well populated by inner cities luvvies (as unlike Hairy she had never left the left). This exposure was then enhanced by my grandson’s 19th birthday party at ours yesterday. Gorgeous young grandson stands firmly by the beliefs of his woke generation, but when I asked on what basis he believed the planet was so CO2 endangered he had the good sense to admit he was simply going with the flow and that he hadn’t actually read any of the scientific material himself. Which is the mollifying reply so many of them give. Trust in ‘the experts’ is strong in them.
Or he’s merely keeping in good with grandma so I will let him drive my sporty new BMW X2.
He had it up on his phone asking about its options two seconds after we told him of the purchase.
Flighty yoof are never going to seriously give up on modern industrial society. 🙂
I’ll explain this in simple Terms:
Right or wrong, there was always going to be NetZero.
Here’s the Coalitions version:
We’ll get there by technological innovation
Here’s what will happen under Labor:
43% emissions reduction will be Legislated, a Regulator [Czar] appointed, and progress will be
announced at set intervals, say 3 months.
Haven’t met the target?
Something will have to go:
Beef herds
Dairy Herds
Poultry Flocks
Sheep Flocks
Power Station[s]
Oil Refineries
Large users of Electricity
Pick one.
As soon as I offered to meet him at the cafe in my office building (and told him where I worked) he lost interest.
I still have PTSD from 17% interest rates.
Me likem compensation.
She can only hold on so long, Captain.
No more Musk splodey battery competitors?
Prolly why Whyalla, etc. can isolate themselves from the grid with their “Green” power “islands”.
Gunner was a good chap.
But COVID was particular tough on him.
I am very forgiving of posters who lose their shit during times of extreme stress.
I remember Ragu used to post a bit, but things got crazy when he separated from his missus.
PS if I’ve got Ragu mixed up with another poster, apologies.
Being lied to today in the dead tree Telegraph.
They assert that coal fired power is “uncompetitive” because it’s expensive compared to renewballs.
No mention of ongoing taxpayer subsidies to the latter that are intended to drive out the former.
“The recession we had to have”.
Hold on tight, it’s going to be a wild (downhill) ride. Just moved on AAP:
Employment Minister Tony Burke does not believe wages growth is about to further fuel inflation, saying pay rates have suffered a decade of stagnation…..
… “Wage stagnation happened when we were told we couldn’t have wage improvements because inflation was low, now some people are arguing we can’t have wage improvements because inflation is high.”
Timothy:
There isn’t going to be any rebellion against our current ruling “elites”, for many reasons, but here’s the obvious one:
Who are they?
Over to you, Timothy.
Ragu has been through some tough times. Cruelty from the family court, poor health. Now he has a new missus and young children.
I thoroughly enjoyed his on the spot reporting of The Battle of Sussex Street, when some burly blokes took down that knife wielding maniac with a milk crate and office chair.
That’s reassuring.
Auspicious chicken entrails?
Da ironing.
When’s Rupe going treeless ‘lectronic and saving all of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s trees?
Why was Scummo grinning like the Cheshire cat on the WEF?
4 under leading at the US Open. Min Woo Lee, brother of Minjie, going well at +2.
Bluey:
If the Libs/Nats coalition were to have any sense at all, they’d be starting a competition along the lines of :
Hosting a RR SMR for towns up to 10k.
Similar for towns up to 100k
and a third category of towns up to 500k.
Winning towns to have power fixed at minimum maintenance rates for the poles and wires for 5 years. Say 5c/kwhr.
Ignore the formatting fails – having brekky at the same time.
After the US subs deals, ScoMo will never have to worry about a quid in retirement.
Judging by the number of unsold Courier Mails and The Australians returned by the local newsagent, money is no object for Ole Rupe, indicating that his newspaper empire was never about making money.
Plastique Bertrand!
I nominate Pepe LePew for the list of prominent French persons.
Wasn’t he from Belgium?
Tulsi Gabbard is also a young WEF Leader as well as being a GunGrabber.
Could the 2024 Prez Election be between a GunGrabbin’ Samoan Hindu and a GunGrabbin’ Hindu Dindu?
I liked Gunner. Until he picked up the grotesque “pureblood” garbage. I’m pretty sure he meant it, but he may have been kidding.
It’s only a short step from that to Bird’s obsession.
Everyone in Vic did it tough during lockdown, including the building industry. Things went pretty much as normal in NSW, with a few exceptions. His reporting on the protests was instructive. As was the stuff uploaded by many others, eg. Rukshan. And here we are in 2022 saying, “where are they now?”.
A comment on the Insta link above about a male blood donor being sent away because he refused to answer whether he was pregnant or not.
I do like the term ‘sexual fascism’ for this sort of political intrusion into obvious realities.
René Descartes
He thought… therefore he was.
So did I. It’s sad when good lively people are prey to drifting into crazy ideas and do their dash here.
Gunner was a lot of fun. He was the obverse of staid, and good on him for that.
#metoo
Until they go the full garage Nazi.
Again, lashing out at anonymous bloggers who had s.f.a. to do with his bust-up was not helpful.
Famous French personages?
Michelle Dubois
Rukshan went to the WEF in Davos with Avi recently.
Wow. Rolls Royce SMR’s.
Rolls Royce to the rescue. Who’da thunk it. Order off the plan. Very interesting.
What was it again?
Yes, that’s it.
I think it was that little foray into neo-Nazism which drew some well deserved blow-torchings from some here.
Eventually the heat got too much.
Whatever.
Move on.
Jacques Clouseau.
If Gunner comes back & starts afresh, I won’t be reminding him of the insanity.
If he starts it up again, that’s different.
Ragu (before he changed his screen name) once told me to get off the blog because I didn’t belong there. Something to do with not commenting on economics.
So every comment I made thereafter had some economics/business slant woven into it just to annoy him. Later on he gave me some excellent tips on regional France, particularly the Dordogne.
😀
Has he heard of the liquid fuel thorium reactor?
From the envangel of Kirk Sorensen, 5:05.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY
Sorry.
Jacques Cousteau.
Thorium.
Would you like to know more?
Leon the Professional
Ditto.
One favourable mention of Brievik and his ilk, and it will be on again.
Yes I remember the Nazi stuff. And the 1946 haircuts for women who disobeyed something or other (like being “at risk” and getting a jab).
Pressure makes some people lark around even more, and others to give anyone who offends their world view gyp. The passage of time puts it all into proportion.
It is exactly two years since the dis-barred criminal junkie got Channel 7 to pay him to spruik “stunning new evidence” in the Falconio case.
Since then it has gone vewwy vewwy quiet.
Junkie got his cash, but.
Scummo was just a Sam Dastyari numbers man on steroids.
ftb has him plugged.
There isn’t going to be any rebellion against our current ruling “elites”, for many reasons, but here’s the obvious one:
Who are they?
Over to you, Timothy.
The uniparty are a big part of it. The rebellion against them has already started in a small way. Taking into account turnout, their first preference vote was only about 61.44% of registered voters.
Shatterzzz, and the ABC re: the doubled-flagged coathangar.
Splitting the country into Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australia under two flags instead of one is obviously divisive, literally the opposite of unity. Is Parroted a believer or was he pressured into parroting this nonsense? If the aboriginal flag does not represent a country-within-a-country but rather a culture, which of the hundreds of different and often warring tribes does it represent, and where are the flags of the Greek, British, Italian, Lebanese, Chinese, Indian, and Bosnian cultures on top of the bridge? Doesn’t sound very inclusive now, does it?
The flag doesn’t make the politics, we interpret flags from a political context. The “aboriginal flag” was invented in 1971 for land rights protests. If you change the politics of Australia, you can potentially get Aboriginals to reinterpret the ex-British Australian national flag as representing the country aboriginals are also members in. The protesters of 1971 essentially won through the Mabo decision of 1992 and so altered the meaning of “Australia”, potentially obsoleting the aboriginal flag (if it were confined to its original purpose). If unity was really the goal, you would unify the country under one flag – either the one we have or a new one. But flying two is necessarily divisive.
As for the Voice To Parliament, if aborigines can’t see their interests being democratically represented, they can join the club, because in recent years neither can the rest of us.
Smart@rse lawyer lured onto drugs by his bikie client?
From the Evangel of Kirk Sorensen, 4:35 – 5:05.
St Kirk stood atop the Mount of Olives and said unto them:
“Every time humans have found a new source of energy, it has led to profound societal implications.
Human beings had slaves for thousands and thousand of years – and when we learnt how to make carbon our slave, instead of other human beings, we learnt how to start to be civilised people.
Thorium has about a million times the energy density of a carbon-hydrogen bond.
What could that mean for human civilisation?
Because we’re not going to run out of this stuff.
We will NEVER run out.
It is simply too common”
Those here who personally know me also know what a good ranter I am but my God, Jimmy Dore surpasses me. What a great rant from Jimmy on Tucker’s show and 100% true.
At least in the USA there are some on the left who are willing and capable of thinking outside the progressive box, be it Dore, Greenwald, Taibbi and so on, but here in Oz we have no one who is brave enough to call out the bullshit.
What a joke of a country Oz is now.
Since we’re on the “Where are they now?”
Splat
Token
Slayer of Memes
Mayfly
Pickles
Tiny Dancer
Probably getting on with their lives and not mooching around the webs.
Where’s the rainbow flag, Dom?
I’m going to study hard so I can learn nuclear engineering at UNSW.
I’m doing my bit!
Calm down there junior! Make sure you do enough STEM subjects to get accepted into that course.
Would you like to know more?
Execution of traitors by We, The People live at 7:30, all stations, all net.
That this evil concept is gaining increasing traction is very worrying indeed.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/06/social-licences-destroying-energy-with-virtue/
Thorium is no good for making nuke boombs.
I want my nukes.
The social license you should only ever require is that you are free and not incarcerated.
Mayfly not been on Dover’s?
Climate lockdowns next on the agenda?
The Mayfly has popped in a couple of times, but is mostly AWOL these days.
I think this is a mistake. Polling on nuclear is improving, and it seems likely that the median voter will support nuclear if it is presented as an alternative to the higher electricity prices that are likely under present policies.
I only read newcatallaxy and I have never seen Mayfly on here.
Tel is another greatly missed by me.
Incoherent Rambler:
Days 1 & 2 will see the peasants disgruntled while they cannot buy food.
Day 3 will see the food stores pillaged.
Day 5 will see large scale rioting as the water runs out in the major cities.
“Any nation is three meals away from revolution.”
3 Hydro power dams started 5 years ago would see our power grid able to cope.
One tin of Baked Beans/Spaghetti/soup bought each week since Feb 2020 would see a family secure in food for a month.
Something to dwell on if the grid stays up this winter.
“Tel is another greatly missed by me.”
P, Tel regularly comments on C.L.’s blog.
Thanks Cassie. I don’t read C.L.’s blog because of the red screen warning.
Obscene and it’s meant to be
:rolleyes:
Winston. The problem that (almost) everyone can see is that we have an electricity generation system at or beyond capacity. The solution is more 24×7 generators. The problem with that is that you can’t build them overnight. Get in the international queue when you place you order for large turbines.
We can also assume a government build, which means delayed, dysfunctional and very expensive.
“red screen warning.”
What “red screen warning”?
gtk, ta.
I believe C.L. said it’s because I use Edge.
You can just see the gummint taxing any alternatives to the grid/throwing red/Green tape roadblocks in the way.
BloJob back in the Ukraine again
Having left a trail of their wrecked vehicles and dead soldiers all the way down and all the way back.
A most successful FeInT (as your beloved Armchair Copelord himself describes them, dover), which will surely lead to Final Victory…
#HostomelVibes
Dickless
Here’s what will happen under Labor:
43% emissions reduction will be Legislated, a Regulator [Czar] appointed, and progress will be
announced at set intervals, say 3 months.
Haven’t met the target?
Something will have to go:
Beef herds
Dairy Herds
Poultry Flocks
Sheep Flocks
Power Station[s]
Oil Refineries
Large users of Electricity
Pick one.
You forgot to add:
Labor’s position in the polls. The most important one of all.
I think Cassie nailed it by asked where the shuttle diplomacy is. It would be Blinkinfilth’s big change to play at being the new Henry K.
Is BloJob even the full quid? Seem to an the same intellectual level as many of the Windsors.
Ed Casesays:
June 19, 2022 at 1:38 pm
Judging by the number of unsold Courier Mails and The Australians returned by the local newsagent, money is no object for Ole Rupe, indicating that his newspaper empire was never about making money.
Ed/Lucy is a bit slow on the uptake.
Most people realised this over 50 years ago.
Robots vs humans soccer in 2050.
Robots reading poetry by 2100?
What is this greasepot I have before me?
It’s gone from 1% to 2%?
No one wants it, and so long as the Liberal Party can resist talking about it, it’s never going to happen.
Basically, Nuclear is Right Wing Power.
And we all know where that leads.