The Luncheon, Claude Monet, 1873
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Often atonement is required as well. I’m sure smart people like these student would be able to work out how…
Thanks, Roger. Unfortunately, I’ve done all of that, multiple times to multiple levels within QH, but have received no response.…
re: Faruqi her initial Tweet wasn’t offensive to the Queen or a large proportion of Oz ?
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Second
Doh using 4 hour advantage hasn’t worked.
This thread dedicated to Marnus Labuschagne having the suitcase belted out of him by the Jaapies later today.
Jesus wept. With rage.
The Sydney Thunder were bowled out – as mentioned by BB at the tail of the OOT – for 15.
Fifteen runs. In 35 balls. The previous lowest ever BBL team score after God knows how many seasons was 57.
A tailender top scored with 4. To add insult to considerable injury, the team that bent them over the ute was from Adelaide.
How are you gentlemen.
All fifth place are belong to us.
How to lose friends and alienate people
Harry, Meghan and the unpopularity of radical progressivism
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
David Rowe.
Peter Brookes.
Andy Davey.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Matt Margolis.
Gary Varvel.
Chip Bok.
Steve Kelley.
Al Goodwyn.
Lisa Benson.
A tailender top scored with 4.
That was an inside edge down to fine leg for a boundary. Was extraordinary to see.
Sydney Thunder turns out to be a fart in a storm.
Sydney Thunder, no hit and a lot of giggle.
Yesterday Monty was trying to be funny about Trump’s NFT trading cards.
Today:
Trump NFT Trading Cards Sell Out, Raise $4.45M (Newsmax, 16 Dec)
He’s fun! Trump I mean, not Monty.
https://twitter.com/Ausgrid/status/1603814086503866368
Power outage now around Narara (near Gosford, North of sydenee)
covered by Dobell and/or Robertson, both currently Labor feral electorates
nothing to see, move along.
Since no one has called it yet:
FIRST!!!
Sounds like Little Kerry will have to drop another writ on CA because the Big Bash is so crap. Imagine paying $400m or whatever for this. Nearly worse than tennis.
Cold and raining here today. If we’re going to anthropomorphise, this looks like being the “Shy Summer”.
Twenty bob (shillings) is a quid (pound). Twenty four pence, or two shillings, was my pocket money in 1962. A guinea was one pound plus one shilling. Children in primary school were expected to add up a three column sum which was not decimal but based on twelve pence to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound.
There was a 10 shilling note, it was brownish and in 1966 morphed into the dollar note. The little silver thrupenny bit, with its sheaf of wheat, disappeared altogether. Although it does make a reappearance sometimes in Christmas puddings.
Only ever see the 2 minute “highlights” of the T20 on the News. It consists mainly of shots normally played by 8yo boys in the nets and wide shots of balls landing on roofs to accompanying 90s soft metal music. No wonder everyone can find better things to do with their time. Even driving an Uber.
Electric golf cart news.
Ford Raises F-150 Lightning Prices Again, Now 40% More Expensive (16 Dec)
After a pause it looks like lithium is taking off once more. It’s already about half the price of silver, so actual parity is not out of the question. Good luck with that EV revolution, pollie peoples.
On 90s metal – was out yesterday and Maria had been shunted for a Muzak version of Twisted Sister’s “We’re not Gonna Take it”. It was as bad as this sounds.
China Threatens To Fire US Senators Who Voted For TikTok Ban
calli, I think that the reason we had to rote learn 12 times tables was for the old currency and imperial measurements. I was too young for pounds, shillings and pence but can remember having to learn feet, yards, ounces and pounds, etc in primary school just before having to change over to metric measurements in 1974.
Another money memory.
The ha’penny. That’s right. One half of one penny. It would buy you a few lollies at the tuckshop, doled out from a glass jar into a little paper bag.
And the bronzed copper penny, with its bounding kangaroo, was the offertory at Sunday School. As the plate passed around, we would sing, “Hear the pennies dropping.”.
Tap and Go won’t have quite the same resonance in years to come.
Janet Albrechtsen has written another good piece on today’s Oz about the Brittaneeee da Knickerless saga.
The point though I think is that no-one called it 20 bob, it was two bob, like a watch, or a quid.
Auntie Geraldine claimed her brothercousin stole repeatedly from his teacher.
It seems more likely she would have a few shillings in her purse rather than pounds to be lifted on a regular basis.
I also suspect her relative was put into care for reasons greater than pinching two bob.
Being the first of the decimal currency generation I remember going to the corner store with 5 cents on a summer day and having to choose between spending the whole amount on a Paddle Pop or getting a Johnny Skybomber water ice block for 4 cents and a bag of lollies for the remainder.
Yes, skier. Sixteen ounces to the pound, fourteen pounds to the stone. Pints and gills, and gallons and cups and spoons. Then there was the yards, feet and inches, and the larger measurements – perches and ells and fathoms and furlongs.
The exercise books had all the conversion tables printed on the back.
Now you’re lucky if the shop assistant can make change without a calculator.
regression.
A big Carrington event will sort that out.
No electronics or electricals for a year or two. It will be fun.
No, there was no “20 bob”. It was always a pound.
If someone stole a pound note, they’d be in a world of trouble. To a child it was a king’s ransom.
With the mental arithmetic learned at school I can usually tell the shop assistant how much change before she or he rings it up on the till. I have been asked “how did you do that?” on occasions and reply “I learned it at primary school” and leave it at that.
MEGHAN MCCAIN: Kiss America goodbye, Harry and Meghan, you’ve finally lost us: We’re covering our eyes, plugging our ears and screaming -please God, make it stop
I cannot stand Meghan McCain, but once you’ve lost the retard base, kiss your whining, grasping future goodbye.
As an aside, the 100 million dollar deals they had signed were on a contingency basis. If they don’t deliver for Netflix, they don’t receive. haha!
4 liquorice blocks to the penny, fold the corners into the middle and popped into my gob, kept me chewing for ages.
One of my earliest memories of school was mum giving me a shilling for a pie with sauce on a Friday, as a real treat when we drove to Melbourne we would stop and get a “trumpet”(now Cornetto) or heart, cost 1 bob as well.
Was in grade 2 when we did the changeover.
Basically you work in retail if you’re too dumb to get into teaching at Uni.
I was going to trade in my new baby brother for 3 pnds,11s & a ha’penny, the price of one those ride in peddle cars.
I remember seeing a lot of the 1o shilling, very rarely a pound, and have no memory of ever seeing anything bigger.
I gave a young checkout lady the correct change a couple weeks ago since I wanted to use up some of the coins I had. She couldn’t add the coin total. Eventually after several tries at counting them she just believed me, put them into the tray and apologized that she’d had a mental blank. It was an interesting insight into what kids don’t learn at school these days.
Amateur
Gosh, I feel old as Methuselah this morning.
There was also hundredweights and tons. I’m seeing those rotten tables bobbing about behind my eyes, all in minuscule 6pt. In ‘66 the money had converted, but the rest took a bit longer. And we were expected to know it and calculate it by the end of primary school. Long division and multiplication included.
Then, upon entering the hallowed halls of high school, we were presented with the dreaded Log Tables, green covered and oozing with columns and decimals. No calculators. Slide rule optional (I still have mine, tucked away in its plastic case).
All dripping with gender inequality and racism on account of white pages and phallic shapes.
And can you imagine a kid under 10 rocking in to the Mooroopna milk bar waving around a quid on a regular basis?
In a town where in the early 1960s most likely everyone knew everyone?
Min asked last night about a definition of a “garden”. Here’s mine:
Latest Hunter Biden Problem Puts White House in Tight Spot
Chains
1 Chain = 22 yards = 1 front paddock cricket pitch
1 chain x 10 chain is an acre
Germany: Response to FOI provides data to quantify the cost to human lives due to the experimental Covid injection program
ABC assiduously avoiding the obvious religious nuttery of the Train family.
Their last uploaded video was about the devil coming to their property and seeing friends when they “get home”.
Anti Vaxx, SovCitz, right wing conspiracy theories and misinformation were the only topics of interest.
Answer?
More government snooping into the lives of supposedly free people.
The Trains thought big brother was coming to get them and the progressives want to make that a reality.
It’s for our own good.
The stupidity is beyond belief.
Eco-mob’s global warming protest fails…because it is too COLD! Activists fail to glue themselves to German road when freezing temperatures stop adhesive from working
So what’s the go with the cops out Tara way?
First they send FOUR officers to do a “welfare check”, when they already knew the “missing person” was there and in contact by phone with friends and relatives etc (means: were expecting trouble, or else have far too many cops out there), and then when the shyte hits the fan, the cops did not return fire, but cringed in the bushes someplace.
Contrast that piss-weak response with the following….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vquSVgO8H54….
Bearing in mind that the knife the perp in Airlie “lunged” at cops with was…wait or it…FOUR centimetres long it’s no wonder all these cops are acclaimed HEROES, eh what?
Nah, there’s plenty more to this story. PLUS….the deranged perps were anti-vaxxers! The SWAT squad wot got ’em were Pro-Vaxxers. Yay for the ah-so-thin blue line of heroes!
Trump not taking anything seriously.
Does not deserve to run again.
Gen Z ‘shocked’ to learn their ‘digital footprint’ could ruin job prospects
The Left-Wing Journalists Elon Musk Suspended From Twitter Got What They Deserved
They were stalking Musk and his family in real time. What did they think (hope) the outcome of that would be?
And this is their reaction.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Look at the toddler fit the Left throws when they get the exact same treatment on Twitter as millions of conservatives did for years. poor little baby.
My name is “your doctor,” you are sick, prepare to die
It would be hilarious if he gave NFTs credibility.
Indeed there is, my sympathy stops as they murdered their neighbour.
Peter Van Onselen in todays Oz says albo’s energy deal is a shocker and will come back and bite him. Can’t post it maybe someone else can. The blow back is just beginning and it seems not only from the usual quarters.
Magnificent:
Here richly, with ridiculous display,
The Politician’s corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.
— Hilaire Belloc
DeSantis 2024 Is a Trap
If voter fraud is not addressed, it doesn’t matter who the candidate is, because democracy in America won’t exist.
How can you have your pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Hey Bush
The header is still in shop -8230
New Rotor gear box and looms to replace the singed wiring but on start up the readout won’t register rotor revs and shuts down. It spins and will go into de-slug mode but even that shows no output to the screen.
We haven’t missed much harvest as moisture levels only dropped back into the range yesterday but we’re about to unless this glitch is fixed.
Have you heard of this problem.? A fuse maybe?
Trump Stands Up for Free Speech
Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson
Elon Musk:
– Bans violent accounts on Twitter
– Bans child pornogrophy on Twitter
– Bans sex trafficking on Twitter
– Bans domestic terrorism on Twitter
– Bans real-time doxxing of locations on Twitter (due to threats against children)
Media:
– Elon is making Twitter unsafe!
A place were I engage in mowing, weeding, pruning, slashing and hacking.
These people are insane.
So much for summer. Had to turn the aircon on last night on heat, because it was so bloody cold.
Today’s forecast is also a bummer for the big Sydney Cat BBQ at the cottage – 18 degrees, overcast and strong winds.
Grate.
Gez,
Will make a call.
callisays:
December 17, 2022 at 7:19 am
Cold and raining here today. If we’re going to anthropomorphise, this looks like being the “Shy Summer”.
After Krakatoa was “The Year Without a Summer”.
After Tonga?
Why do some people’s personalities suddenly change after receiving mRNA injections?
The most alarming part is that they want to change not just the flu injection but ALL vaccines to mRNA. Interesting, isn’t it. It is indisputable that the Covid shots have had more adverse reactions than all other vaccines over at least the past 50 years combined. And yet, somehow, this form of “vaccine” is touted as being the new standard.
People really must wake up to the fact that our governments not only don’t have our best interests at heart but are quite literally willing to kill us – in the name of health safety, of course.
Never Forget .. BAT FLU files …!
https://youtu.be/q_RFLtp38lM
callisays:
December 17, 2022 at 7:19 am
Cold and raining here today. If we’re going to anthropomorphise, this looks like being the “Shy Summer”.
Twenty bob (shillings) is a quid (pound). Twenty four pence, or two shillings, was my pocket money in 1962. A guinea was one pound plus one shilling. Children in primary school were expected to add up a three column sum which was not decimal but based on twelve pence to the shilling, twenty shillings to the pound.
IIRC, there was a Guinea coin (21 shillings/bob). Was that what was causing the confusion? The teacher might have brought one in to show the class.
Bruce of Newcastle
Your thought on the fusion experiment in the US this week.
Read about it into Weekend Oz.
It sounds like a lot of effort for an output not that great.
Please help.
Thanks Bush
Min asked last night about a definition of a “garden”. Here’s mine:
No matter how much time & effort I put in one of the kids will look at it and say,
“Geez, dad, grass needs cutting”
No offer(s) of help .. just advice .. LOL!
JoNova has a good post titled “Fusion works, but uses a supernova budget to make a mini sun for a fraction of a second” – well worth a read.
A cautionary tale. Plastic grocery bags banned. Supermarkets collect them for recycling. Introduce larger and more robust plastic bags. Cease collection of soft plastics for recycling. When I queried BCC about disposal, I was told “just throw them in the garbage”.
Canadian medical industry in action:
OH, CANADA (15 Dec)
Yep they want to euthanize your children without your consent then maybe tell you about it afterwards.
Gez,
Things to check:
Rotor engage detent. Check if adjusted correctly.
Check no metal on magnetic pickup for rotor speed sensor.
Double and triple check if it’s the correct loom.
Poso @JackPosobiec
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56m
Many are saying this is one of the best policy statements Trump or any Republican has given on free speech
Full federal defunding of the Disinformation Archipelago
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1603857329984012289
Old enough to remember when the sixpence and shilling coins were interchangeable with the five and 10 cent pieces at the corner store.
Maybe Luigi is suffering from “Dunning Kruger” effect .. would explain a lot .. LOL!
https://ibb.co/SBWckmb
Thanks Bush, will do.
Heading in to town shortly.
The recycling firm went bust.
The Wentworth Report had a couple of outstanding articles by Robert Gobliebson this week. The first on the subs contract cancellation. The French were taking us for idiots, agreement said one thing, contract and delivery said another it it was rubbish.
Closer for me was the article on the idiotic impact the labor party capping of prices and stopping oil and gas industry projects.
Robert nailed the truth about ATO audit activity, it is going to bankrupt family businesses or drive people out of business as the final straw.
From the ato audits, people are paying extra tax, penalties and interest on “interpretations” which are plainly wrong and false.
This is true. You have no idea what they are hitting you with.
IIRC, there was a Guinea coin (21 shillings/bob). Was that what was causing the confusion? The teacher might have brought one in to show the class.
A Primary School teacher in 1962 was paid 4 Pounds a day.
She wasn’t bringing a Pound to work every day and leaving it on her desk for some future jailbird to steal.
There was no Guinea coin or note.
Houses and Land were priced in Guineas at the time.
Before you comment, why not read the original comments,
rather than wade in like the low rent Troll you are?
Bottom line:
1. Aunty G is a grievance monger
2. Aborigines are heavily represented in the Prison Population.
Getting the cops off their backs hasn’t changed that.
3. Aunty G is either making it up or retelling something she heard.
No one ever said “20 Bob”, although 2 Bob converts to 20 cents.
The best interpretation is that because she’s an aboriginal figurehead, she’s allowed to get away with saying anything.
In 1962, 2 bob bought 3 mince pies [mutton] and a box of matches.
Or a packet of 20 Rothmans King size and a box of matches.
Teachers weren’t leaving 2 bob coins on their desks.
They weren’t even leaving halfpennies on the desk.
Mike Lindell, Emerald Robinson, Jim Hoft and Gateway Pundit Twitter accounts all reinstated.
Remind me again who is ascendant?
Thanks, P.
Fatty Trump on fire.
John, Aunty Geraldine claimed her brothercousin was a repeated stealer of 20 bobs so show and tell seems doubtful.
Louis – I am cautious about it since the method is inherently small scale and there’s a long long way before developing the engineering for a workable power plant. Fifty years I’d guess. It will also be extremely expensive in terms of capital cost – all the lasers plus the equipment, containment* and etc. Heat transfer almost certainly would have to be to a layer of liquid lithium, like the tokamak/stellarator type of fusion, and liquid lithium metal is not the easiest thing to handle. Leaks of liquid sodium metal caused the Japanese breeder reactor project to fail.
I would not invest in any company doing fusion, the projects will be money pits for the next generation at least. You’ll do your dough.
Having said that it’s a nice bit of work. I would like them to do something else like lithium deuteride, since that would be a whole lot easier than making tritium. World production of tritium is only about a kilo per year. Lithium deuteride is the main stuff that makes a hydrogen bomb go bang.
(* Feeding pellets of deuterium/tritium at a rate necessary to sustain power production is going to be tough to do, especially since tritium is highly radioactive.)
Rog – ridiculous power bills were a factor, apparently.
And just like that, mental illness was no longer to blame for domestic terrorism.
Replaced by “fundamentalist Christian theology.”
Because Jesus commanded his disciples to murder police, don’t you know.
And Keith Olbermann permanently banned.
Thanks, Elon.
The Trains
Paranoid religious nutters who took on board every conspiracy theory going who apparently lured police to their deaths and killed a neighbour for good measure.
The only question for me is why senior police hadn’t assessed them as being high risk for a friendly welfare check.
As Damon wrote, a cautionary tale.
Labor’s price caps likely to come back and bite
PETER VAN ONSELEN
Accepting that good politics doesn’t always equate to good policy, let’s start by congratulating the federal government on the political outcome achieved this week on the energy front.
With the Labor government’s first budget forecasting skyrocketing energy prices but offering no solution to go with the bad news in October (it’s hard to know who to blame for that beyond new Treasurer Jim Chalmers), Anthony Albanese now has successfully negotiated a deal with premiers to at least do something.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen promised to get any deal in place before Christmas and worked diligently to cobble together a package that won the support of the Greens and enough of the crossbench to pass it into law.
Labor had made an election commitment to reduce power bills by $275 and now the independent Department of Treasury has come to the party too, somehow forecasting that the energy policy mix should reduce power bills by about $230. It isn’t the figure pledged by Labor at the election, nor is reducing the size of slated increases a real reduction, but it will have to do.
Herding premiers can be like herding cats, but with a state election just around the corner in NSW the Prime Minister was prepared to throw money at the problem to win the NSW Liberal government over.
The rest was comparatively easy: Labor tribalism was always going to win over the remaining mainland states so early in the life cycle of a new federal Labor government. After all, the final Newspoll for this year has Albanese streets ahead of Peter Dutton as preferred prime minister, and the Labor government is 10 points up on the Coalition.
Assistant Minister for Trade and Manufacturing Tim Ayres says the industry is “jumping at shadows” over the… energy price cap bill. “These measures deal with a price cap that’s temporary and sensible for a very small proportion of the gas producers’ overall production,” Mr Ayres said. “A decade of policy More
But good short-term politics isn’t always the same as good politicking into the medium to longer term. Across that sort of time frame the links between good politics and good policy tend to become sharper, and the energy deal struck is anything but good policy. In fact, it is an out-and-out shocker, one that will do more harm than good in several ways.
For a start, it will deter investment and exploration, and not just in the mining sector. This government wants greater investment in renewables to help it achieve its emissions-reduction target for 2030. However, by embracing price caps on coal and gas on this occasion – with the purpose of providing cost-of-living relief for consumers – what might happen when weather events put a dent in storage and delivery capacity on the renewable front in the years ahead? Such circumstances would quite obviously result in price rises.
Anybody considering investing in renewables in this country now needs to consider the downside risk that their return on investment could be diminished by this government imposing price caps. That risk will slow such investments. According to Bowen’s own projections, we need 20,000 new solar panels built every day for the next eight years, and 40 new wind turbines built each month across the same time frame, to achieve the mooted emissions-reduction target of 43 per cent. That already sounded implausible, frankly, but what chance does it have of happening when investors flee for the hills?
There is even a risk the price caps won’t do their intended job. They apply only to producers, not energy retailers. And who is charged with ensuring retailers do the right thing and don’t sharply increase prices anyway? The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission, which doesn’t have a good track record for anything much at all beyond simply reviewing mergers (note its failures regarding supermarket prices).
Yet price caps aren’t the worst part of the energy policy design thrust on the parliament this week. At least they are limited to the next 12 months, even if the market is now aware that the government is happy to use them whenever it thinks it’s necessary to do so. The so-called reasonable price on gas – that is, the rate of return regulations – in the new rules are set to be applied indefinitely. This will severely curtail the gas market. Remember, gas is an important adjunct energy source and a vital transition energy supplement as we attempt to shift to more renewables.
Several of the design flaws in what has passed into law are a direct consequence of compromises to force an outcome so quickly: deals with premiers, the Greens, you name it. And remember that the claimed outcomes in the legislation, by the government’s own admission, won’t take effect until the second quarter of next year.
In other words, there was little policy imperative in passing the legislation this week. It could have waited pragmatically until parliament returned next February, giving everyone more time to digest what was proposed. But that wouldn’t have satisfied the political need to spruik a fix before Christmas, as had been promised.
While politics is often described as the art of the possible (initially by Otto von Bismark), too much compromise can jeopardise good policy outcomes. Former British prime minister Tony Blair was the ultimate consensus-style leader, yet even he said: “I don’t believe in sloppy compromise.” This energy package is sloppy in the extreme, but perhaps that was intended to make a national gas (and even coal) reserve look thoughtful by comparison. Albanese has flagged such thinking as what might come next.
As University of NSW economics professor Richard Holden recently wrote, the least bad option the government needs to consider is a domestic gas reservation policy in exchange for more supply. But even this solution doesn’t sufficiently lean in on the economic and environmental challenges surrounding coal.
Holden also has pointed out the problems attached to signalling to companies that they may not benefit when prices are high, courtesy of price caps for example: “They won’t invest in future projects, why would they?”
This is the law of unintended consequences too many economically illiterate politicians fall prey to – failing to realise their policy actions can have flow-on effects they didn’t anticipate or understand or that they simply underestimated.
We saw it when the live sheep trade was suddenly banned by the Gillard government and when the former Coalition government introduced robodebt to clean up the welfare system. This supposed energy fix could result in more problems than it solves, a policy amalgam that shifts decision-making, such that other policy goals can’t be met. And the political problems that the reactive legislation and regulations are designed to address just may leave legacy political failings that rebound on the government closer to the next election.
Peter van Onselen is professor of politics and public policy at the University of Western Australia and Griffith University.
Oz
TwitterGate part 6
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1603857534737072128?s=61&t=JICRbajU-YB7dFBvdAYRog
I suppose when they target your two year old you’re going to be a little miffed.
Farmer Gez re your post re the Trains.
Terrible situation – the aggressors and victims would usually be peaceful co habitants in normal times. The Trains would have been law abiding citizens who would had respected the police/law.
Like you I think there could be more situations like this.
The 7.30 report with that white English supremisist Lara Tingle, ran the Train story, then idiotically ran the story of the of peaceful protest with that idiot being jailed for one year for locking her self in the Sydney tunnel.
This idiot, like extinction rebellion behaviour, could have an innocent person going on with their daily lives run her over. Can you imagine the impact on the driver.
The you tube image of a delivery driver in the uk driving around a bend screeching to a halt , then dragging an idiot to the footpath comes to mind.
Mad.
This is the law of unintended consequences too many economically illiterate politicians fall prey to – failing to realise their policy actions can have flow-on effects they didn’t anticipate or understand or that they simply underestimated.
We saw it when the live sheep trade was suddenly banned by the Gillard government and when the former Coalition government introduced robodebt to clean up the welfare system. This supposed energy fix could result in more problems than it solves, a policy amalgam that shifts decision-making, such that other policy goals can’t be met. And the political problems that the reactive legislation and regulations are designed to address just may leave legacy political failings that rebound on the government closer to the next election.
Please keep up the good work Feral Laybore as you will become a one term Guv’ment. Top stuff.
Just listened to this on YouTube via Unheard.
Jay Bhattacharya: What I discovered at Twitter HQ
Elon invited him to Twitter HQ in SF and let him look into his account. Spent an hour with Elon. He had been placed on a trends blacklist so that his reach was limited. Some good insights into Elon motivation.
He also mentioned taking part in a televised roundtable with Ron De Santos. Because he reference research on masking kids not being effective the while roundtable was suppressed on YouTube.
He blames the Govt for suppressing alternative views and says censorship cost lives.
He understands why Big Tech played along.
A publication like Quadrant or Spectator should listen to the interview and write it up as an article as many important points.
What are the odds similar happened here?
Richard Cranium
The guinea (/???ni?/; commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural)[1] was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.[2] The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins was sourced.
It seems unlikely (unless teacher had a coin collector in the family) that such a coin ever appeared in the school room, nor that such a coin was ever stolen from the classroom, but (cunning trap) your Google-fu has deserted you again. There was indeed a guinea coin.
Try to learn to search, but learning to code would be well beyond your intellectual level.
Paddy tells his wife “My bumhole is really burning, I’ve no idea what it is?” “Ring sting” his wife says. Paddy replies “How the fuck will he know?”
—
A drunk is sitting on the street curb in front of a bar. A stranger comes buy and asks if he’s okay. The drunk replies by asking “Do you know who I am?” The stranger says “No. Who are you?” The drunk proudly says “I’m Jesus Christ… and I can prove it! Come with me!” They enter the bar and the bartender looks up and yells “Jesus Christ! Are you here again?”
—
A blonde walks up to a Coke machine and puts in a coin. Out pops a Coke. The blonde looks amazed and runs away to get some more coins. She returns and starts feeding the machine madly and, of course, the machine keeps feeding out drinks. Another person walks up behind the blonde and watches her antics for a few minutes before stopping her, and asking if someone else could have a go. The blonde turns around and shouts “Can’t you see I’m winning!”
Bruce of Newcastle
Your thought on the fusion experiment in the US this week.
Read about it into Weekend Oz.
It sounds like a lot of effort for an output not that great.
Please help.
Louis Litt, the whole thing was a pile of horseshit. The fusion reaction allegedly provided a little more energy than the laser energy hitting the target, however the laser itself is woefully inefficient.
Karl Denninger explains it well here:https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=247626
Takeaway lines: “It is a big scientific step,” says Ryan McBride, a nuclear engineer at the University of Michigan. But, McBride adds, that does not mean that NIF itself is producing power. For one thing, he says, the lasers require more than 300 megajoules worth of electricity to produce around 2 megajoules of ultraviolet laser light. In other words, even if the energy from the fusion reactions exceeds the energy from the lasers, it’s still only around one percent of the total energy used.”
Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
– Confucius
This post is for the benefit of Turtle Head Bowen and Elbow……………………..And many many others.
Quite so.
But…but…they were pushed, pushed into the nutterism by vax mandates something, something…
No they weren’t. They committed a cruel, wicked crime because they were cruel and wicked. And then gloated about it on social media, fully expecting that they would meet their Maker with extra brownie points.
No different to jihadis.
SpongeBob:
brevity is the key to Trolling.
Do better.
Or fuck off.
Boambee Johnsays:
December 17, 2022 at 9:22 am
Richard Cranium
The guinea (/???ni?/; commonly abbreviated gn., or gns. in plural)[1] was a coin, minted in Great Britain between 1663 and 1814, that contained approximately one-quarter of an ounce of gold.[2] The name came from the Guinea region in West Africa, from where much of the gold used to make the coins was sourced.
It seems unlikely (unless teacher had a coin collector in the family) that such a coin ever appeared in the school room, nor that such a coin was ever stolen from the classroom, but (cunning trap) your Google-fu has deserted you again. There was indeed a guinea coin.
Try to learn to search, but learning to code would be well beyond your intellectual level.
Yes and when buying stuff in posh/upmarket shops in England, it was very cool to quote prices in that coinage. It was 21 shillings or one pound sterling and one shilling.
In Australia, a guinea was a unit of currency, not currency itself. If you were charged a guinea, you paid over one pound and one shilling.
If Nock and Kirbys advertised a vacuum cleaner for, say ten guineas, it was the same type of marketing as something being priced today at $59.95. It lured the customer into thinking…hey that’s cheap…when it really wasn’t at all.
I’m sure there were some British sovereigns in circulation too, but not as currency, either notional or actual.
Why were the cops always turning up unannounced at Gareth Train’s house?
If it was anything remotely connected to Crime, such as Drugs, Domestic Violence, etc., the Murdoch Press woulda let us know by now.
So, what was the reason?
We know that Gareth Train had worked in Child Protection.
He wasn’t a Whistleblower, by any chance?
Ed Casesays:
December 17, 2022 at 9:27 am
SpongeBob:
brevity is the key to Trolling.
Do better.
Or fuck off.
I’ll take that as your admission to being wrong.
Is this brief enough?
Richard Cranium
Your trolling at 0934 was not brief.
To the Habitual Trolls:
Primary School teachers in 1962 were paid 20 pounds/week.
4 Pounds a day.
They were unlikely to even have a Pound in their purse, let alone leaving a few on the desk.
Bottom line:
Aunty Geraldine can spout any guff she likes, Catallaxy’s resident TrollForce will back it up.
Cut and Pasting Professor van Wrongselen? What rabbit hole have I fallen down?
Having said the above there are some alternative fusion approaches that seem like they may work. Not being funded well as most of the big money is going into ITER which is a Tokamak. The late Dr Robert Bussard and colleagues came to the conclusion” we spent 16 billion dollars finding out Tokamaks are no damn good.
Nobody has experimentally demonstrated that Bussards IEC approach will not work and there’s a team at Lockheed Skunk Works doing another alternative approach, as well as others. It may well be that one of these teams will succeed. Kind of like the early days of aircraft gas turbines – difficult and then suddenly everybody was doing them. There are some similarities to fusion in that the power produced in a jet engine turbine drives the compressor to keep things going. Both the turbine and compressor efficiencies have to be high enough for the engine to actually be self sustaining (yep, one or two weren’t at first). The good bit is that as you further improve the efficiencies inside the engine the useful output gets much better very quickly.
IEC is Inertial Electrostatic Confinement. If it works the proton(ordinary Hydrogen) Boron 11 reaction is possible. No neutrons, just helium nuclei and you have about a 3.4 megavolt DC battery. Call GE to make you an inverter to reduce the voltage and convert to AC. No steam, no turbines, no Carnot cycle inefficiencies.
We saw it when the live sheep trade was suddenly banned by the Gillard government and when the former Coalition government introduced robodebt to clean up the welfare system.
they don’t care cos there are NO consequences for political failure other than, maybe, a 3 day news cycle whinge .. the worst that can happen is a lost seat next election and extravagant retirement benefits either thru pollies ‘retirement” scheme(s), “jerbs fer the boyz” or the combination of both .. a win-win outcome guaranteed …….
What next? Mavis rings and says he is too busy to interview Keating and the column will have to be held over till next week?
Speaking of narrative changes, just listening to ABC RN (for my sins):
Lockdowns bad, herd immunity good, protect the vulnerable, anti-virals, live with the virus.
Two years ago this was “covid denialism.”
The Establishment will make him pay and pay dearly. He has a space industry that needs government approvals and contracts that will be destroyed. They will also come after every cent he had.
Funny that there is only one billionaire out of hundreds who is not evil. Trump has been removed so he no longer counts.
Wake up and smell the jacarandas people!
Jebus. Time for an intervention.
Interesting piece – more about the progressive bubble than the Harryghan train wreck.
These people have moved so far from the Hippocrates Oath that they are now into causing harm. With the above provision what is to stop these “doctors” from withholding treatment and pain relief from children to the point where they would agree to anything to stop their suffering?
Not quite true. There are at least two in Oz doing good work behind the scenes.
“Funny that there is only one billionaire out of hundreds who is not evil”
More to my comment above, where are the churches in Canada? Why are they not screaming from the pulpits?
Roger, the Borg learned from the response to that Atlantic article.
Don’t even think about Amnesty. Don’t mention it.
Just pretend all the hyperbole and destructive behaviour of the past three years didn’t happen.
Worked for post war Japan.
“Trump has been removed “
Lol
Robodebt for the middle class.
So what?
Dutton started off his first Question Time asking about the promised $275 Power Bill reduction.
4 months later, Albanese is in quicksand up to his waist and he still hasn’t answered the question.
‘Cookers’ are a product of the modern Left
–at the Speccy by Damian Coory
Actually until 2021 they were employed and with no criminal convictions and with legal firearms. Then they were all terminated, by state governments, from their long term employment for refusing the vax. Prospects of employment? Nil. Prospects of replacing income? Nil. About to lose everything, what would you do? But yeah, they’re religious nutters and the above had nothing to do with it. 2030 came early for them. Police know who made the missing person call but they aren’t reporting that. Seems the original call came from his people in NSW a week or more earlier, concerned about his safety. Please don’t tell me they didn’t try to find his whereabouts from phone activity because that’s routine. As is a search of social media. No journo asks these questions? No journo goes to see his people in NSW? No journo asks why their employment was terminated? No MSM journo looks at this?
No journos looking at how illiterate, innumerate kids are passing NAPLAN? Seems they’ve even stopped reporting on the missing person and are focusing only on the RWNJs.
They’re not even reporting that QPol want to change their name to The Firing Squad. QPol can barely stand up straight due to the massive pistols swinging from their hips. Wasn’t this way a fortnight ago.
Basically, Labor told a big lie on Power Prices, and it just got them over the line at the Election.
Similar to Trump’s big lie on Building The Wall.
How’d that work out for Trump?
A program for your review –
“A military Twelve Days of Christmas”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-military-twelve-days-of-christmas.html
Shy Ted squeaks:
December 17, 2022 at 9:54 am
Actually until 2021 they were employed and with no criminal convictions and with legal firearms.
Nathan Train had a NSW Gun Licence, Gareth Train and Stacey Train did not have guns.
Then they were all terminated, by state governments, from their long term employment for refusing the vax.
How much do you get paid for telling lies?
Nathan Train suffered a Cardiac Arrest at work and was resuscitated.
He never returned to work and was terminated.
Stacey Train quit over Vax Mandates.
Gareth Train owned the property, he had quit Children’s Services many years previously.
As a general guideline, the lighter the more enviro friendly. Least number of atoms.
The bags that we use to get that degrade in sunlight were a good option, except the environloons didn’t like them.
Has Norman Swan ever resurfaced?
Even Louise Milligan wasn’t reprimanded for her stuff, yet he nearly [?] got the bullet for saying Warnie and Kimberly Kitching died of COVID?
I’m thinking that he strayed too close to the truth, and that Warnie and Kitching were both COVID Vaccinated at least once.
Ed Case at 9:51 – I agree with Special. I’m not sure it will be Spud but Albo will blow up like Whitlam at some point. Albo is not Chairman Dan and Australia is not Victoriastan.
well … not yet
Trump cards sold out!
45,000 @ $99 each
Gez,
Hope you get the thing going.
Not overly familiar with all the red machine foibles.
Was in the line up earlier but now back in my header.
Will check back later.
Almost certainly paid in cash, more likely to carry cash in their purses.
Brilliant shorthand for the still largely undisturbed Silicon Valley social media monopolies. All of them bar Twitter are still colluding with the US government to end not only privacy, but the essential freedoms (of speech, religion and assembly).
That’s because the social media monopolies were designed by (and are still controlled by) sociopaths whose only talent is writing HTML code.
The biggest problem, however, is that, like the social media monopolies, more than 90% of journalists despise the public they’re supposed to be serving, the West’s institutions and its central pillar of freedom, democracy.
Crucially, journalism’s list of ethics (which are now being ignored by 90%+ of the news media anyway) do not include any test for public interest.
This has been dealt with, and at length. All three were neck-deep in conspiracy theories, including but not limited to that Jews and Freemasons were ruining/taking over the world with hidden dastardly agendas, and also that ASIO were sending Raytheon Learjets onto and over their property along with ‘covert assets’.
Plenty of people lost employment over the fucked-up vaccine mandates. Plenty of people did not go full wompus, and murder the jacks and their neighbours assisted by the trusty meth.
They don’t have to. There’s an inquest coming up where every little bit of the background will be made public. I also find it interesting that the same people who decry the MSM as full of lies and other assorted falsehoods still jump to conclusions based on what the same MSM report.
Apparently, it is indeed routine. However, that won’t tell you where a person is. It will tell you where his/her phone is.
As mentioned before, the Trains aren’t special because you don’t need to be special to hide and pull a trigger. They’re just garden variety iced-up fuckwits, hiding behind a number of causes (including, but in no way limited to the righteous anti-mandate one) to be bigger fuckwits.
From the Oz – I’ve posted the whole article.
Not sure it ever will be. Sure, all the signs are not good and the Right (for want of a better label) are neither winning the intellectual or any other arguments but I would say the Lieborals are the natural party of government at the Commonwealth level. I don’t think that is the case in Victoriastan. I cannot see the Teals around in 10 years time. As always, I may be wrong.
H B Bearsays:
December 17, 2022 at 9:43 am
Wake up and smell the jacarandas people!
I prefer the frangipani. Put the fallen flowers into a bowl of water and put the bowl on the window sill with the window open. The breeze will waft the fragrance throughout the house/rooms or apartment/rooms. So easy and costs SFA.
Brittany is like a zombie. You try to bury it and it digs its way to the surface. That is a problem if your interests require people “move forward”.
Bear:
T20 crikkit, and the BBL in particular is like popcorn chicken. It’s pretty good and you can enjoy it at times – but it’s not a rare-medium-rare steak with all the trimmings, devoured at your leisure with Jessica Alba and Scarlett Johannson sitting across from you, naked.
The latter is Test cricket.
Almost certainly paid in cash, more likely to carry cash in their purses.
Ever heard of Bank Books?
Teachers were Salaried, paid fortnightly, credited to their Bank Accounts.
Yeah, I know you’ve been drunk for 50+ years …
If the Albanese/Bandt government declares a war on resource extraction, Pony Girl may pick up the mantle of de facto Opposition leader, as she did with Morrison when Elbow was Mr. Invisible.
“WAYNE ROOT: Confronting Evil: Here’s My Simple Challenge to Dr. Fauci, the CDC, FDA, Big Pharma & Democrats”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/12/wayne-root-confronting-evil-simple-challenge-dr-fauci-cdc-fda-big-pharma-democrats/
We could make a list for Oz
I don’t think any coin of higher denomination than the Crown (5 shillings) was ever used as legal currency in Australia. IIRC from my childhood coin collecting, there were only two years of Crowns in the 1930s. 1937 & 1938 maybe?
Other than that, the Florin (2 shillings) was the highest denomination coin.
As a kid I rarely even laid eyes on a 10 bob note or a pound note. Don’t think I ever saw a 5 or 10 pound note.
Rotten – there was a great photo of an old limestone house in South Fremantle. It was undergoing renovation, half demolished behind temporary fencing in the Perf summer heat. The frangipani plant by some old Nonna couldn’t give a shit and was just flowering away as if nothing had happened.
Has anyone else noticed that we no longer hear, in the mainstream press (or anywhere, for that matter) about “what’s trending on Twitter”…or the “Twitter is lighting up about…”
I guess it’s not the reliably Left/Green/Woke sewer it used to be.
The last government the mineral industry declared war on was KRuddy and Swan. It was like the first Kuwait war. Might have happened anyway.
To be clear, the two dead cops in Quenthland are not heroes. They were just going about their everyday stuff, and happened to be shot and killed without warning. That – despite what some of the papers say – does not a hero make.
These people, however, hit far closer to the mark (the Courier-Mail):
Nobody left behind. It was extremely unlikely the two shot were still alive, but they went in anyway – right down the same driveway, and in the also-shot neighbour’s car. Impressive by any standard.
was just a wry joke … I don’t share your faith in the polity
I am hopeful for some kind of Lieboral reformation at some point. Don’t ask me why. Two party politics really requires opposing views to work over any length of time.
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 17, 2022 at 10:22 am
Thanks for posting Janet’s great article, Zulu. I cancelled my subscription to The Oz years ago.
Richard Cranium
Nathan Train suffered a Cardiac Arrest at work and was resuscitated.
He never returned to work and was terminated.
“Terminated”? Not medically retired?
Zulu Kilo Two Alphasays:
December 17, 2022 at 10:22 am
Paragraph 1: Reynolds and Cash were free to attend Mediation, on the understanding that The Commonwealth weren’t paying their Bills if they did.
Both decided discretion was the better part of valor.
P 2: The idea of Mediation is to find agreement between the parties and free up the Court’s valuable time.
That’s what happened.
P 3, 4, 5:
Ministers act on advice given.
Clearly, the advice was to settle, $3 million is cheap, considering the issues that might surface if Reynolds is crossexamined.
P 6,7,8:
If Reynolds silence can be bought, how can you believe anything else she might say?
The rest in just mock outrage filler, here’s the conclusion:
My question for the new federal anti-corruption commission is simple: Was taxpayer money used to pay a multimillion-dollar settlement in order to score a political win against the Coalition, using Higgins as the pawn in that endeavour?
Huh?
Where’s the Political win against the Coalition?
Albanese is vindictive, Peter Dutton might have had a few problems telling a Court the basis he had for saying Higgins Rape Allegation was “he said/She said”?
Reynolds mighta had a few problems answering questions such as:
Did you ever meet with Bruce Lehrmann after you’d sacked him? and
How many times?
and
What was the purpose of those meetings?
and
Did you notarise these meetings in a Diary or inform your Department?
Scotty Morrison might have a few problems answering questions such as:
When did you first become aware that Higgins was claiming she’d been raped?
When he’s already told Parliament that he knew nothing until Higgins went public.
I’m not on Twitter. Be interesting to know what is trending on it nowadays, now that Elon has leveled the playing field somewhat. My impression from blogs and YouTube is that righties tend to make an effort to “like” something, as a courtesy. Whereas lefty stuff often either doesn’t attract eyeballs, or gets lots of downchecks. There’s also been the bot-upvote problem, and purchased follower numbers, which Twitter was guilty of allowing for lefties. Wasn’t KRudd accused of buying followers? He denied it, but admitted to having spambot followers.
On that topic I was amused by the latest Lefty must-read tome.
Nolte: Jemele Hill’s Memoir Sells Only 5,034 Copies (14 Dec)
Even with a title like that it isn’t selling.
Ed is developing the capacity for wordwalls.
It’s evolving.
Special, don’t undo your good work. Go outside and mow the lawn or something.
Whoops
The second para shouldn’t be in quotes.
Ed Casesays:
December 17, 2022 at 10:33 am
Almost certainly paid in cash, more likely to carry cash in their purses.
Ever heard of Bank Books?
Teachers were Salaried, paid fortnightly, credited to their Bank Accounts.
Yeah, I know you’ve been drunk for 50+ years …
Cash payments were routine in certain Commonwealth government departments until well into the 1970s.
When did you cease drinking?
Basically, Labor told a big lie on Power Prices, and it just got them over the line at the Election.
Similar to Trump’s big lie on Building The Wall.
How’d that work out for Trump?
It’s obvious you’re in awe of Trump crotchless but you attempt to diffuse your awe with pathetic insults. Grow up!
Richard Cranium
P 3, 4, 5:
Ministers act on advice given.
Try to understand the system as it is in theory at least. Ministers listen to advice given, then make executive decisions.
If they always “act on advice given”, they are an unnecessary cog in the wheel, just give all power to the bureaucrats.
Richard Cranium
Huh?
Where’s the Political win against the Coalition?
You’re not really good on this whole politics thing, are you?
Here’s what it looks like:
Reynolds sacked Lehrmann with the understanding that she’d sack Higgins too, then after a short while she’d bring Lehrmann back.
Did she fill the vacancy left by Lehrmann?
I’ll bet she didn’t.
That plan fell over when Higgins said she’d been raped.
Plan B was to transfer Higgins to Cash’s office, where her life would be made so miserable that she’d quit and Reynolds could bring Lehrmann back.
That War of Attrition failed when Higgins went public.
From that moment, Lehrmann had the shelf life of a used frenchie, and Reynolds career wasn’t far behind.
Hot and crazy matrix news.
‘Buffy’ star Sarah Michelle Gellar slams ‘extremely toxic male set’ early in career (16 Dec)
Ok, yes, I can see how being followed absolutely everywhere by drooling men would be irritating.
Trump had to contend with law suits attempting to prevent the boarder from being fenced, you fat lesbian. Lawsuits and also limited funding because of Demonrat stonwalling all the way.
Every single attempt to transition ( no, not your version of word that applies to you) over to renewballs has been met with staggeringly higher energy prices.
The Liars party knew this and they still lied.
Eddles
Dude, you’ve been square jawed focused on the rape case for 3 months solid without taking a breath. What do you think you’ve missed that needs you to post more comments about it?
Woke up very unwell this morning with a severe migraine and decided that, to make myself feel better, I’d listen to some ABC Classical (I find classical musical soothing when I have a migraine). Well, I laughed my head off when the news came on and they led with a report about how Twitter has banned several “important journalists”, and they then had some sanctimonious homosexual Yankee NY Times spokesperson, with his posh New England drawl that reminded me of William Buckley and Gore Vidal, complain about how banning people was censorship and how utterly outrageous it was to censor people in a democracy. Well….did I laugh! These people and the media outlets they work are full of chutzpah. Not a word in the report as to why they were banned….oh no. But anyway, it was nice to laugh, and you know what, the laughter helped eased my migraine!
Sigh! Sarah Michelle Gellar was a pin up girl for conservatives back in day.
Not only for her looks.
Hey, when everybody else stops posting excreta from Albrechtsen, Bolt, and Bettina Arndt, I’ll stop posting rebuttals.
Deal?
The Courier-Mail wrongly put “HEROES” on that front page.
Nor were the young officers “sacrificing”.
And that’s right: Queensland police had certainly placed the actions of the local extraction team far above those of SERT
Yes.
Because what that person does not need right now is a bunch of meth-head Train-train truthers and preppers descending on them to exact retribution.
Okay fine. Have it your way. I’m just trying to be helpful.
Follow up question: knowing this piece of bureaucratic fuckery was afoot – and presumably being aware that a pineapple was being prepared for future insertion- why did the Parliamentary Liberal Party not step in to indemnify Reynolds and Cash for costs?
{Santa Voice .equals(on)} Ho Ho Ho
Where’s Runnybum?
Died of Covid?
Bags not doing the welfare check on Groogs.
Dodgy Woodstock.
Yeah, what happened to that idiot? Was he booted?
Trump’s trading cards sold out in 12 hours- $4.5m worth! Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!
I’d prefer it to have broken the internet, but I’ll take the W. The God Emperor lives!
Trump had to contend with law suits attempting to prevent the boarder from being fenced, you fat lesbian. Lawsuits and also limited funding because of Demonrat stonwalling all the way.
T-rump coulda ordered the Army to build the Wall, bypassing Congress and the Courts.
He didn’t do that.
Because he never had any intention of building the wall.
All you need to know about the Republican Party:
1. Affirmative Action
2. Hate Crime Laws
3. Trump didn’t build The Wall.
Eyrie, I am upset.
Battletech’s timeline says that GM had furnished a functional fusion reactor design in 2020. And this had been miniaturised to a vehicle-installable form within the following century
It’s now the end of 2022, and the world is still faffing about with how to actually do it.
WHERE ARE MY STOMPY ROBOT POWERPLANTS, GM?!
If the Libs get in they now have perfect justification to rid the nation of every lefty quango.
Labor to abolish Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Sky News, 17 Dec)
Since everything in the deep state is solid Labor voting, and totally partisan, the carnage the Libs could wreak using this casus belli would be epic.
Which of course would require something larger than mouse testicles, so I’m afraid that rules it out.
If that were true, Grigory, why did so much get done in spite of Deep State and Establishment efforts to stymie it?
And why are border states thumbing their noses at Resident Biden and his capering cavalcade of cretinosity, and getting the gaps filled themselves?
Yeah, what happened to that idiot? Was he booted?
Sancho hasn’t resurrected Runnybum [yet].
The egg_roomba died of covid.
Had his ashes spread over Falconio’s shallow grave, with sinister music playing in the background.
Impossible. Bundy rage more likely.
Grigory is clearly feeling his gypsum again (or has been into the formaldehyde) and needs a good slapping back into place before his non-reality gets out of hand and he tries to shoot another warble fly.
Where’s TopEnder? We need to go over the HMAS Sydney vs. Kormoran incident again…
Leave that BS to Faulty and his Road-Raging acolytes, Grigs.
Sancho is not Legion (for he is not Rexy).
By no means an art expert BUT, my favorite Monet. Thanks db.