Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022
2,850 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 11 Oct 2022”
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reffsays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:25 pm
https://twitter.com/damiengayle/status/1580864210741133312Eco-activist idiots throw tomato soup all over a Van Gogh
Eco-pests are the very definition of useless eaters.
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Baron of the Taiga
@baronitaigas
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Well over 66% of Germans (according to IFOP) continue to support the current Ukraine policy. But the number is dropping.
Quote TweetHolger Zschaepitz
@Schuldensuehner
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The Chart of Doom of the German housing market. The price-to-book ratio of the German real estate gaint #Vonovia has fallen below 1 this year for the first time ever and is now in free fall. The chart suggests that the German real estate market is heading for a sharp correction. -
Bloomberg UK
@BloombergUK
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“It leaves her an extremely lame duck”Liz Truss reportedly plans to sack Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, her “political soulmate,” as she prepares to U-turn on part of her economic plan
@lizzzburden has the latest on a dramatic day in Westminster
Apropos earlier comment re Alex on Truss and Conservatives, Alex said the suspicion that the fix was in arose because this was all unravelling while Kwarteng was away in Washington. What a shambles.
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The Chart of Doom of the German housing market. The price-to-book ratio of the German real estate gaint #Vonovia has fallen below 1 this year for the first time ever and is now in free fall. The chart suggests that the German real estate market is heading for a sharp correction.
And I’m not sure it recovers. German fertility rate is almost bad as Italy and Japan.
Italy 1.27 births per woman (2019) 47.3
Germany 1.54 births per woman 46
Japan 1.36 births per woman (2019) median age 49
Germany isn’t going to race back from this slump. The population isn’t young and adaptable.
Ironically for nations of old geezers they ought to be the least concerned about gerbil warming.
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Nigel Farage: After 12 years of Tory misrule, we need a realignment in British politics.
https://gettr.com/vision/p1u8zo2d64d
When Labor get voted in they will finish off the UK .
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If eco-activists wanted to make themselves truly useful they would learn how to dive, so they could emulate that Nord Stream attack.
Yes, yes, releasing methane into the atmosphere is certainly the remedy for climate change. Next, monty will propose sabotaging a nuclear plant that leads to a melt down.
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Sacre bleu! It is indeed.
Could “the Torries”* be any more ridiculous if they tried?
*Fought incessantly by the Albansleazey since he began existing in council housing as the ‘umble bastard of an italian waiter on a cruise ship, which he’s been too modest to repeatedly remind everyone on this planet about …
Oh hang on, the staggeringly stupid hideously uglee illiterate innumerate anti scientific fact and evidence free gargoyle has been doing exactly that – who’da thunk it, I asks ya? 😕
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Magan, I’m very troubled that some people are having real issues closing their PP off.
I would expect that when a punter lands on the PP site and logs in, they ‘should’ get the same page and back-end script that I got.
seems that isn’t the case and that there are some other shenanigans afoot
tip-of-the-iceberg is my worry
I’m certain that there are definite shenanagins afoot. It’s clear, after the two calls Ive made, that the call centre responders are simply reading responses from a script. They were offering identical platitudes to ‘acknowledge’ my concerns and defuse the situation but did not once respond to my concerns in any reasonable way. Simply regurgitated the company line. It was infuriating.
Were you ever asked to provide photo ID to PayPal? Any other Cats asked to provide a passport or licence to keep their account working?
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The UK might have to get into high seas piracy to pay off their debts
His Pirate Holiness Wallee N’jdagoogoo der Qwuarlinee II* appointed as the new Chancellor of the Exchequer by Liz Truss in a desperate attempt to restore some credibility to her stupid, stupid government …
*First of ‘is name, Lord of the high Seas, Consumer of any and all seafood that appears in his vision, etc …
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JC – Zelensky has painted himself into a corner, in part on the back of US/EU assurances they will support Ukraine by pledging that he won’t negotiate with Russia; that all Ukraine must be free of Russian soldiers, forever; guarantee of Ukraine sovereignty over all territory including the Donbass and Crimea; guaranteed ongoing reparations beyond the transfer of frozen Russian fx to Ukraine (about $US300Bn), and so on. Many world leaders are cheering him on (esp. Biden) and he has ‘rock star’ status and access to forums where he wouldn’t normally get in the door.
Everything forward is ‘crystal ball gazing’ but we all know for certain that the world, economically at least, is in for a very rocky time for at least the next 12-24 months and easily more. This winter in Europe will be brutal and the economic shocks are amplified. It’s public record that people are beginning to protest in France and Germany over rising costs, lack of energy and polls in Germany suggest that 50% of Germans think the sanctions are hurting Germany far more than they are hurting Russia. Who will crack first? Dunno, but under Russian law, Putin can remain in office until 2028. Can Europe outlast him? And even if they can, who comes next?
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Daily Mail.
Furious woman accuses university of sending her a racial slur… before the surprising truth is revealed
A furious former student takes to social media about a ‘racist’ ethnic slur
Sierra Chen received a letter addressed to Ms. Ching Chong from a university
The University of Queensland Sport letter turned out to be a misunderstanding
Jane Chong whose birth name is Ching Chong said the letter was for herSnork, snork…….
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Emma Webb
@Emma_A_Webb
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Wholesale complicity. Total setup.
Quote TweetFen de Villiers
@FendeVilliers
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Press, media, men with cameras and soylets standby as this protest is enacted. This is simply setup and allowed, a theatrical performance made possible by museum management. Clear them all out. Start again. They are corrupt beyond belief.Of course it is. They may LARP as radicals but this is entirely in keeping with the energy policy direction of the Regime.
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Melbourne school boycotts national anthem at awards night
A principal has defended his school’s decision not to sing the national anthem at an awards ceremony.A Melbourne school has doubled down on its decision not to sing the Australian national anthem at an awards ceremony on Monday night, with the principal saying Advance Australia Fair “may well be” finished in the long term.
Instead of the national anthem, attendees of Overnewton Anglican Community College’s presentation night, held at Southbanks’s Hamer Hall, sang Aunty Ruby Hunter’s Welcome to All People after students objected to the former on the grounds it was offensive to Indigenous Australians.
Overnewton principal Jim Laussen said there was a “growing number” of students at the school who refused to sing the national anthem.
Speaking on Melbourne radio, Mr Laussen said the college captain announced the decision not to sing the national anthem, a trend the school began during this year’s Reconciliation Week, where students asked not to sing the national anthem out of respect for Indigenous Australians speaking at school assemblies that week.
Mr Laussen said the decision to reject the national anthem was a decision students had come to themselves and it “may well be finished” in the long term.
He said the school had about 11 Indigenous pupils who objected to Advance Australia Fair, and he had spoken to a parent who objected to the school’s decision.
“If we had not even mentioned we weren’t doing the national anthem, no one would have cared because no one would have noticed,” Mr Laussen said.
He said Indigenous parents had objected to “deeply hurtful” words contained in the national anthem.
Mr Laussen said the school, which continued to sing the national anthem from time to time, was “creating a conversation and a dialogue” and many people had congratulated him over the school’s decision.
Fucking speechless …
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Girt hurts, love scars
Girt wounds and marks
Any heart
Not tough or strong enough
To take a lot of pain, take a lot of pain
Girt is like a cloud
Holds a lot of rain
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, Girt hurts
I’m young, I know, but even so
I know a thing or two
I learned from you
I really learned a lot, really learned a lot
Girt is like a flame
It burns you when it’s hot
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
Some fools think of happiness
Blissfulness, togetherness
Some fools fool themselves, I guess
They’re not foolin’ me
I know it isn’t true
I know it isn’t true
Girt is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
I know it isn’t true
I know it isn’t true
Girt is just a lie
Made to make you blue
Girt hurts
Ooh, ooh, girt hurts
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Speaking on Melbourne radio, Mr Laussen said the college captain announced the decision not to sing the national anthem, a trend the school began during this year’s Reconciliation Week,
Does anyone else see the irony here?
For what it’s worth, one of the local schoolchildren was asked if they knew what “National Sorry Day”
was about.“Yes – that’s when the Aboriginal kids say “Sorry” for beating us up after school, and stealing our bikes…”
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rickw:
1943 – World War II: The United States Eighth Air Force loses 60 of 291 B-17 Flying Fortresses during the Second Raid on Schweinfurt.
Going after the bearing factories in Schweinfurt IIRC.
As part of the USAAF/RAF disassembling of the German production effort, bearings were changed in type for tank turrets. Initially ball bearings were used but after the raids and the damage done, they were changed to roller bearings.
So my question is this – why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?
There may be a very simple reason for this, but my limited knowledge of machining and engineering is failing me. -
An interesting paper on Sweden, SKF and bearings for Nazi Germany:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/03585522.1975.10407803
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why not use roller bearings in the first place? Surely a roller bearing has greater surface area to enable heavy loads to turn?
Ball bearings can handle both axial and radial loads. To achieve the same with a roller bearing arrangement can be difficult. The normal way this is done is to have rollers where the length is the same as the diameter and they are fed into the race in alternating orientations.
Given the ring diameter on the tanks, the load bearing capacity was probably not the limiting factor, so balls were probably initially selected because they were easier to assemble. A bit of googling shows that most German tanks used different methods to space out the balls, this seems to support the idea that there was no particular problem with ball bearings being able to support the loads.
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Apparently you can buy old German tank turret balls:
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m0ntysays:
October 14, 2022 at 10:24 pm
I mean, four words for you: Four Seasons Total Landscaping. The writing in this movie is terrible. The characters are not believable, the relationships are ridiculous, the dialogue is insane gibberish.If it was an actual movie it would have been canned at the concept stage.
Just as the “gay” Son of Superman movies was? Oh, sorry, it went ahead to be produced.
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We have just arrived in the Mariott at LAX and viewing Trumps’ election speech with a rum and coke (me) and a beer (Hairy) after a long trip with a change in Atlanta. We are impressed. I told you he was the only candidate and the real hope, says Hairy, and I have to agree with him at the moment. Two years though, a lot can happen, but right now Trump is trumps. Hairy wins.
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