Open Thread – Weekend 1 Oct 2022
1,965 responses to “Open Thread – Weekend 1 Oct 2022”
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Genuinely confused at the messaging of Putinists right now. All Putinists promised us a years-long, grinding war of attrition a few months back because that was the “Russian way of war” or something. And now we certainly have a grinding war of attrition, but Putinists are now clamouring for an immediate end to the war or else nuclear armageddon! What changed??
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One of Australia’s most infamous murder cases has taken its final turn as a convicted killer is released on parole after spending 13 years in prison for the mysterious death of her partner.
Susan Neill-Fraser, 65, was convicted of murdering her partner Bob Chappell aboard their yacht, Four Winds, at Sandy Bay, Tasmania, on Australia Day, 2009.
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Reforming the calendar to squeeze more blood out of the proletariat
is just the sort of thing you’d expect from greedy capitalists.
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You mean like a Teh Dumb panelist?
Chuckle. I gave up watching it when – in the name of diversity, mind you – literally every night one week they had a young brown lady in a turban on who spoke from the same prog-left script as everyone else.
Ok Roger. I don’t know who that is which is probably a good thing!
Former Socceroo, TV commentator and social justice advocate, milt.
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https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2022/10/president-trumps-lawsuit-against-fake-news-outlet-cnn.html
At last Trump starts to use the court to hold the leftist media to the torch.
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Oh dear! Twitter propagandists “Russians With Attitude” is now endorsing the execution of Ukrainian POWs, which is of course a war crime. As Julius Streicher discovered, spreading only words won’t spare you from the gallows!
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Brendan O’Neill, quoted by TE and Tom earlier:
That’s because misinformation doesn’t really mean misinformation anymore. It means dissent.
As much as I (justifiably, in my view) put shit on stupid gongbanger sites favoured by some, it doesn;t mean they should be muzzled – let alone banned.
If the assembled muppetry, masquerading as the ‘editorial teams’ of these sites want to put forward claims of nanowires the size of fire hoses found in corpses, and identified as such by ‘doctors’ via photo from the other side of the world, then I believe they should be able to.
Equally, I should be able to access these collections of disassembled cat shit and criticise them.
A dissenting view is not negotiable.
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Land banking is joined at the hip with housing affordability. Millionaire market gardeners and cow farmers through government fiat.
To Melbourne’s north there were plenty trying to “cash” their land and couldn’t because they couldn’t get it re-zoned. So they sold it and miraculously the new owners were able to get it re-zone, increasing the land value by a factor of 10. Not surprisingly the original owners sued.
Land zoning is one of the engine rooms of corruption in Victoria. It should be absolutely scrapped and all the planners sent to do useful and productive work.
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Ranga at 8.48:
He seemed to forget about the money he stole off me. I didn’t. Nor all the lies and attempted manipulation. I’m far better off.
Ha.
A lifetime ago I was in Townsville, and went overseas for about six weeks with about a hundred other blokes. I’d been paid what was a considerable sum for the journey. I took some, and kept $700 in my locker.
A handful of the blokes I worked with didn’t go, far various reasons. On my return, I found my locker broken open and my carefully-stooked $700 gone. The bloke himself was nowhere to be seen, as he’d taken off for interstate while we were away. I had, however, heard from several reliable sources that this chap had been mouthing off about pinching my coin before he jumped the fence.
I knew his name, what he looked like, and where he lived*. And I waited. For decades. Unfortunately, it was communicated to me a couple of months back that the bloke had been killed in a motorcycle accident.
And I laughed, and laughed and laughed. It was almost worth it being $700 out of pocket.
*Adelaide. Naturally.
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Someone explain to me how this unicorn fart works? If you’ve been driving your ev around, it’s gunna be flat and need charging…..
When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery
so you can run your home off it at night.
When you are asleep, the electricity you’d normally use when you’re awake
can then recharge the car battery.
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Chuckle. I gave up watching it when – in the name of diversity, mind you – literally every night one week they had a young brown lady in a turban on who spoke from the same prog-left script as everyone else.
It still is the high water mark in ALPBC box ticking. No surprise with Julia Baird front and centre. It’s genetic.
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If a person is toxic, then they are not good for one’s mental health. This is regardless of whether they are a “friend” or family. Cutting contact can be the healthiest thing we do for ourselves.
Can I cut contact with the Australian Government and all it’s bureaucracies? I feel like we’d both be better for it! 🙂
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So when you get a blood alcohol limit imposed by Karenist government upon your treadly-riding, rollerskating, horseriding and skateboarding you can blame wine wankers and their e-scooters.
BoN, please correct me where I’m wrong; There’s already a blood alcohol limit on cyclists, & horsemen.
Am unsure about roller-skates or skateboards – mainly coz it rarely crops up, the demographic engaging in those activities are unlikely to perform them whilst drunk (if those folk even drink) -
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When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery
So you need lots and lots of solar panels and a battery around 120 kWh capacity, minimum. The solar panels charge the 120 kWh battery, so that you can get home and then charge the 100 kWh battery in your car from your 120 kWh battery in your house. Simples.
Although if the government wants you to run their grid with your car battery that means you’d need now need a 240 kWh battery in the garage to charge your car battery from so that when the government extracts 100 kWh from your car you can then recharge your car battery again from your even bigger garage battery. It all makes perfect sense to me!!
Or we could all become Morlocks who sleep during the day, when our cars are charging, and work at night. Someone wrote a story about that once.
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BoN, please correct me where I’m wrong; There’s already a blood alcohol limit on cyclists, & horsemen.
SATP – There didn’t used to be a limit on cyclists in NSW, because out of curiosity I looked up the legislation maybe five years ago or so. It was only a sort of rubbery guideline. I think they may have quietly hardened it up now, but I’ve never seen a news story about that.
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More Left hypocrisy:
The Democrat-led border city of El Paso, Texas, has been quietly working with the Biden administration to spend millions of dollars of federal money busing thousands of migrants to northern sanctuary cities, including New York and Chicago, DailyMail.com can reveal.
While the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona – Greg Abbott and Doug Ducey – have made headlines sending migrants to liberal northern cities to spotlight the crisis on the southern frontier, El Paso is doing much the same, just without the fanfare.
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Tim Blair picks up something in a post comparing Meloni and Ardern.
Chuckle:
One way her dutiful citizens are tackling climate change is by this year launching in Wellington a $7.4m all-electric ferry called the Ika Rere, a traditional Maori term meaning “nothing green ever works”.“Passengers on Wellington‘s new electric ferry were rescued by a police boat,” the NZ Herald reported last week. “The Ika Rere had run out of battery in the harbour and all passengers on board were transferred to the police boat.”
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H B Bear says: October 4, 2022 at 11:12 am
e scooter wankers are more likely to enjoy a crisp IPA. And a wank.I’m led to believe the most common users are construction workers, and the most regular use is on large building sites.
Certainly that may be true in my town, where quite a number of users are construction trades.
The only serious crash to date in my town of an electric scooter has been a building site foreman on his way home at speed from the pub, missed a corner. Several days in hospital. -
More “Stick it to the slave-owning founding fathers!” fun…
The Bee:
NEW YORK CITY, NY — After musical artist and professional twerker Lizzo made waves by playing James Madison’s crystal flute on stage, Beyonce? upped the ante by performing in Times Square wearing George Washington’s false teeth.
“Howth ethyone doointh tonighth?” yelled out Beyonce? to the confused crowd while adjusting the lead-tin alloy and horse teeth dentures. “We haf a great showth for youf!”
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Lysander says:
October 4, 2022 at 10:55 amNorth Korea having a “bit of fun” now by flying a rocket directly over Japan…
That’s to be expected. If the US is causing minor headaches to Russia by stirring up trouble in Georgia, Kazakhstan, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and even between Serbia and Kosovo (Albania), then it’s to be expected that Russian client states (i.e., North Korea) will also start playing up.
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When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery
so you can run your home off it at night.
When you are asleep, the electricity you’d normally use when you’re awake
can then recharge the car battery.
Simples.If you’re a vampire and sleep sunrise to sunset, at least.
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H B Bear says:
October 4, 2022 at 11:10 am
… because all income is earned.
I’ll remember that when I see another photo of Packer on his yacht.Good for Packer inheriting all that (after tax) loot. I’m happy for him.
Bear- there’s 30 billion a year misspent on the NDIS. Most likely all the money is being stolen.
There’s now probably 40 billion a year spent on the original owners.
This is just a start to show we have a major spending problem.
And don’t forget the states. In Victoria infrastructure is the most expensive in the world because of Liars and union finagling.
We have a spending problem! Period.
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On e-thingies: I was out walking this morning since it’s a nice day. Lying on the path was one of the purple electric dockless bicycles that someone has put out. The council? I have no idea, but they’re slowly migrating all over the suburb from their original locations. This one was on its side on the pedestrian path.
So I did as you do and went to stand it up and carry it off the path and prop it up against a post.
I could barely lift it! Must’ve been close to 40 kg, I’m not small. Eventually got the thing up at the post and off the path.
My humble treadly is no superlight svelt creature, at about 11 kg it’s twice the weight of my brother’s titanium one (he’s a tragic). But that e-bike was a huge purple beast by comparison weight-wise.
Not sure how long the purple dockless hire-bike brain fart will last before it collapses. So far it hasn’t gone too badly because we’re a polite law-abiding suburb, despite being one of the lowest on the economic totem poll in Ncl.
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rickwsays:
October 4, 2022 at 11:11 am
“Bi-directional charging is really exciting technology. This would essentially enable people to charge their car off their solar panels, drive it around for the day and once you park it at home, you can use the excess energy in your car to power your home.”Someone explain to me how this unicorn fart works? If you’ve been driving your ev around, it’s gunna be flat and need charging…..
Exactly.
Not only that, you’ve halved your EV battery life (2 charge/discharge cycles per day rather than one) and the thing will be flat in the morning when you want to drive to work.
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SATP – It’s as if they’re discouraging people from riding bicycles…
Amazing how governments can’t leave any sector of life alone. I don’t even ride on roads mostly – only half a k to the start of the shared path and back on the return leg. Then I stay on the shared-path as I quite dislike being run over.
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Salvatore, Understaffed & Overworked Martyr to Govt Covid Stupiditysays:
October 4, 2022 at 12:21 pm
BoN, as I understand it, NSW law says cyclists must carry photo ID with them at all times.
Not as easy as it sounds.pretty sure they dumped that law quick smart in 2017 a year after its introduction. There is no photo ID requirement any more.
Summary of NSW rider laws here: https://www.nsw.gov.au/driving-boating-and-transport/roads-safety-and-rules/bicycle-safety-and-rules/cyclist-road-rules
Additional road rules for bicycle riders here: https://legislation.nsw.gov.au/view/html/inforce/current/sl-2014-0758#pt.15
https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/campaigns/go-together/
Note:Bicycle riders encouraged to carry ID
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lotocotisays:
October 4, 2022 at 11:40 am
Someone explain to me how this unicorn fart works? If you’ve been driving your ev around, it’s gunna be flat and need charging…..When you get home in the evening, your solar panels will recharge the car battery
so you can run your home off it at night.
When you are asleep, the electricity you’d normally use when you’re awake
can then recharge the car battery.
Simples.So, essentially a Perpetual Motion Machine? Eureka, we have found it!
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One afternoon a husband came home from work to find total mayhem in the house. His three children were outside, still in their pyjamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.
The door of his wife’s car was open, as was the front door to the house. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.
A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room was strewn with toys and various items of clothing.
In the kitchen, dishes filled the sink, breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile of sand was spread by the back door.
He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and more piles of clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried she may be ill, or that something serious had happened. He found her lounging in the bedroom, still curled in the bed in her pyjamas, reading a novel.
She looked up at him, smiled, and asked how his day went. He looked at her bewildered and asked “What the hell happened here today?”
She again smiled and answered “You know every day when you come home from work and ask me “What in the World Did You Do Today?”
“Yes” was his incredulous reply. She answered “Well, today I didn’t do it”.
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Zipster:
The really chilling point was the media push about people remarking “How clean the air was” when people had to work from home.
Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: New ‘Biomedical Security State’ Will Be Deployed to Tackle Other ‘Crises’ | CLIP
American Thought Leaders – The Epoch Times
Watch this come into play in NSW/Victoria when the next bushfire season happens.
First will be the media campaign about rises in respiratory issues.
Then comes the rise in stories about childhood asthma.
State of Emergency will be declared.
Schools are closed because ineffective aircon/global warming.
Then will be the advice to work from home for the affected.
Then will be the lockdown to ‘flatten the curve.’Remember that the legislation to enact this State of Emergency has never been repealed, and now you know why.
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To Melbourne’s north there were plenty trying to “cash” their land and couldn’t because they couldn’t get it re-zoned. So they sold it and miraculously the new owners were able to get it re-zone, increasing the land value by a factor of 10. Not surprisingly the original owners sued.
Land zoning is one of the engine rooms of corruption in Victoria. It should be absolutely scrapped and all the planners sent to do useful and productive work.
Many years ago, the property development company I worked for bought 5 CBD derelict properties. In addition it bought a public laneway which serviced those properties. Because of the nature of the proposed development the laneway was no longer needed and would be amalgamated into the overall development. This process required what was called a “ministerial rezoning”.
Shortly after, there was a change of government and the new government suspended ministerial rezonings. As a result of this decision development and building applications could not proceed. The whole precinct was rendered worthless until such time the issues of zoning were resolved. This involved millions of dollars of investment which was subject to bank mortgages.
The delays in resolution spread over at least 3 years. In the meantime, the state government issued land tax assessments on the properties which effectively had no value. The local government also issued rate notices on the unimproved value of the land which again should have been zero.
So in addition to the financing costs there were huge land tax and rates on a property development that could not be progressed solely because of an ill thought out proclamation. This catastrophe very nearly destroyed the company.
Zonings are fraught with pitfalls and corruption. This was the worst that I have experienced but I’m sure there are many more horror stories.
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Trump lawsuit.
A lawsuit was filed today against CNN, the once prestigious news channel that has devolved into a purveyor of disinformation, defamation, and Fake News, at a level which the American Public, and indeed the World, will not even believe is possible. For years I have watched this take place, often in disbelief, but the time has finally come to hold CNN responsible and legally accountable for their willful deception and defamatory statements made about me and both, directly and indirectly, my strong, devoted, and patriotic supporters-People who love the United States of America, but have been treated very unfairly, at so many levels. “The Big Lie” that they constantly refer to is actually “The Big Lie” in reverse. They know that, and it will be proven in Court!
In the coming weeks and months we will also be filing lawsuits against a large number of other Fake News Media Companies for their lies, defamation, and wrongdoing, including as it pertains to “The Big Lie,” that they used so often in reference to their disinformation attack on Presidential Election of 2020.
Likewise, we may bring appropriate action against the Unselect Committee of January 6th because, notwithstanding overwhelming evidence, they REFUSED to investigate the massive Presidential Election Fraud which took place, but only investigate and harass the people and Patriots who complained and asked questions about it. The rigging and stealing of our Presidential Election was perhaps The Crime Of The Century, and look at what is happening to our Country now!
The Unselect Committee has refused to acknowledge, as was done by the Biden Inspector General at the Department of Defense, and others, that days ahead of January 6th, I recommended and authorized thousands of troops to be deployed to ensure that that there was peace, safety, and security at the Capitol and throughout the Country. That offer of National Guard was rejected by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Mayor Bowser of Washington, D.C.-the law requires their request, they failed to make one, and in turn failed the Country.
I am proud to file today’s lawsuit in order to begin the process of standing up to Fake News and the Mainstream Media.
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Lots more goodies coming Ukraine’s way, including four HIMARs, 16 Howitzers, and countless rounds of ammo, courtesy of President Brandon. Only real hope for a speedy end to the war. ?
https://mobile.twitter.com/oleksiireznikov/status/1577384047289966599
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