Purgatory Canto 33, Gustave Dore, mid-1800s
Yes, but that would be counter propagandical.
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I’m not sure McSweeney is Test standard at the moment. He could be down the track, but not now. Throwing…
I agree. The platforms themselves need to isolate Australians as a group. The screams of fury would be audible on…
I’ve been short sighted right and long sighted left since birth. Brain made neuroadjustments and I had no idea it…
This is a cool little story.
Fish ‘rained from the sky’, outback community says, in freak weather event
OSC:
15 minute zones will be OK up until he has to drive 16 minutes to get Krispy Kreams.
Monty works from home. From the basement.
He’ll have them home delivered.
Gotta hand it to lawyers .. plenty of wayz to say, I didn’t care” without, actually, saying “I didn’t care” whilst collecting a 100K plus salary ….. You get the impression from this RC into ROBODEBT that “Let them eat cake” is the normal attitude held by CentreLink hierarchy and flows down in regard to “customers” .. these sods were reponsible for people killing themselves and they don’t care! …
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-21/robodebt-scheme-government-royal-commission-former-lawyer/102001616
m0ntysays:
February 21, 2023 at 2:43 pm
Um, Monty, what is the population of the Greater London area. Eight million? Ten?
You did look at the BBC article didn’t you? And the policy is green progressive policy pretty much everywhere. As you saw from the WEF articles. It’s religious canon Monty. You should know your own doctrine, surely?
There is no policy to lock people into ghettoes, Bruce. Your fevered imaginings are not real.
As a proud member of the upper-middle class, you might well regard the prospect of paying a $20 fine every time you take your car outside the “15 minute” zone with equanimity.
Those poorer than you, you know, the ones that socialists claim to support while screwing them in every way, might find themselves effectively confined to their “15 minute” ghetto.
It is not difficult to contact Starlink support – it is impossible.*
However Telstra is the same, only it takes hours, days & lots of wasted hours on the phone to realise Telstra will do nothing.
Starlink: it takes under five minutes to realise you’re on your own.
If the hardware doesn’t work, or has failed, you contact Starlink (via web) & tell them, they send new hardware & you’re back in business within a fortnight.**
(*Starlink does not provide support)
(** or about 50 weeks earlier than Telstra would get you going again)
Duk.
Tell us more about the FIFO ambulancer.
She’s just perfect for the NSW Liberals, a true Kean acolyte. From the Oz
Jacqui Munro: NSW Treasurer Matt Kean’s endorsed candidate’s progressive past
NSW Treasurer Matt Kean’s endorsed candidate for the upper house vacancy declared she loves “the devil”, supported drug legalisation and celebrated the victory of former Labor prime minister Julia Gillard.
The historical social media posts of Jacqui Munro, the Liberal Women’s Council President and former adviser to Wentworth independent Kerryn Phelps, reveal a progressive streak which opposed the NSW Liberal Party’s lockout laws and criticised Tony Abbott.
In one 2016 Facebook post, Ms Munro seems to endorse Christopher Hitchens characterisation of Mother Teresa as a “fraud” and a “fanatic”, sharing a link to the director’s investigation “Mother Teresa: Hell’s Angel” with the caption: “Hitch-slapped”.
In another, she seems to praise Satan, saying: “You know what I love? I love accountability. I love the devil. I love discussion. rational thought and intelligence binds us. #pride”
Ms Munro also appears to have celebrated Ms Gillard’s victory over Mr Abbott during the 2010 federal election.
“Thank you, (former Lyne independent Rob) Oakshott (sic) and (former New England independent Tony) Windsor, for making this the BEST Silent Disco ever attended!!!!,” she wrote.
Ms Munro was backed-in by senior moderates as the replacement for dumped Legislative Council MP Peter Poulous on Sunday night, but has faced questions about her political leanings and whether an inner-city resident is best placed to represent people of southern Sydney.
Ms Munro was contacted for comment.
Honestly, the NSW Liberal Party needs to be annihilated.
Dagging big lambs for sale with a bout of the flu. You get the sweat up before you even start. Not sure about muscle build up.
So what did we learn?
Sod all.
Bruce of N at 1501
See my 1616, Snap, though I was more wordy.
On the other hand, the universe is probably infinitely large.
JCsays:
February 21, 2023 at 3:03 pm
Fatboy,
the 15-minute precinct would be completely out of your league. You’d have to drive or use some form of mechanized transport to get around because even a 10 minute walk would end up killing you. You couldn’t walk for 10 minutes without inducing a massive heart attack from exertion.
He could buy an electric powered mobility scooter. Lots of the old and disabled have them.
Salvatore:
The first week will see not all that much change.
It’s the second and third weeks that will sort us out.
Boomers gunna boom…
A pot of abused money they are excluded from … inconceivable!!
‘We have to fight’: the over-65s challenging NDIS age exclusions
They look at the piss stained mattresses, the pap food and general aged care miasma they condemned their own parent too and suddenly think they should be protected from the same treatment by OPM.
(generalization I know but)
I have to fact check this but today I was told that Richard Lionheart had his sister with him on the Crusades & married her off to cement an alliance.
Imagine packing.
Men at arms, check.
Gold, check.
Family member to marry off when I need to, check.
The Last Noel
Posted on 21 February, 2023 by C.L.
I will fall silent. That will be the end of it.”
– Noel Pearson says he’ll shut up permanently if the Voice is rejected by Australians
Well bowled Larry.
Blockquote fail. It’s me after the OK.
I was seriously thinking of what would happen with a long period of electrical outage, where most people would manage to get by, one way or another.
Not a full on natural disaster. They are somewhat different and require planning for survival.
Hehe, just been doorknocked. Nice ALP guy and his wife, fortunately I was saved from saying anything difficult when newest blue-faced honeyeater kiddie arrived. Says he: “he’s friendly!” So off I zip inside and bring out some bread, and blue-face catches a crumb adeptly. Then a noisy accepts some from my hand also, about two feet away from ALP guy. Which gave me an excuse to show off the salubrious Cafe penthouse and describe the latest graduate kooka (who wasn’t around). I think they’ve gotten a little of the colour of our suburb in their arvo walk, and I suspect he’s decided I’m a Green. ALP guy has his work cut out since 2pp is about 70:30 towards the independent MP.
Just in time, as the report says, before your third booster.
A bit surprising that they haven’t decided to push us into Arcologies…
Schism intensifies…
Heresy increasing.
Purge imminent..
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/20/anglicans-reject-justin-welby-as-head-of-global-church-amid-anger-at-same-sex-blessings
The leaders of Anglican churches in some developing countries, including South Sudan, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, have said they no longer recognise Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, as the head of the global church.
Their decision stems from the decision this month of the Church of England’s governing body, the General Synod, to allow clergy to bless couples in same-sex marriages.
The conservative Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), which claims to speak for 75% of Anglicans worldwide, said in a statement on Monday that the C of E had “departed from the historic faith” and disqualified itself as the “mother church” of the Anglican communion.
Looking back at the toilet paper fights of 2020, even the prospect of a couple of days without power doesn’t look pretty.
Depends if the issue is widespread or not. If it involves great wodges of the burbs, you are in for trouble. I recall the cyclone that tore through the NW suburbs and across the upper north shore many years ago. Whole streets were blacked out for well over a week from Beecroft to St Ives. People managed because it was localised. I also like to think that the times were a bit more civilised then too. Much…much carnivorousness as freezers were unloaded and barbecued! And then there was the ECL that hit the Hunter in 2015 – power out for a fortnight and longer.
However…any government, of any stripe who think blackouts are acceptable on a regular basis are in for a rude shock.
MIT Tech Review writes a couple thousand words on why the Asian population of the Bay area shouldn’t worry about Black on Asian assaults.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/02/20/1068845/citizen-crime-tracking-app-bay-area-asian-community/?truid=511cda4596687ad1e8c0a33a5309beb3&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=Active%20Qualified&utm_content=02-20-2023&mc_cid=30f1e3aedf&mc_eid=6cb9ef82da
Honestly, the NSW Liberal Party needs to be annihilated.
Can’t stand the way they call themselves ‘moderates’ when they really mean hard left to wishy washy. Was very close to attending that meeting the Bellevue Hill branch was running a few years ago with Abbott and Blair in attendance. Thought it might thrash out something worthwhile but by all accounts it was a waste of time.
This Libs Women’s Council thingo is a real Trojan Horse. Rivals the arrival of Malcolm.
It is full of female Teals and Greenies with a disgraceful history of utter leftism.
Dump it now.
Old Lefty:
By four of these for $10 each + postage of $5.89
I’ve got 4 of them and Blue Kero in each ready to go.
One of my children moved house on Saturday. Newly built, tank water and Biocycle waste treatment.
Storm hit…no power. Uh oh. No water either. Turned it into a camping adventure for the grandkids. Genset bought next day.
Multiply that by tens of thousands of less resilient people.
However…any government, of any stripe who think blackouts are acceptable on a regular basis are in for a rude shock.
Yep. And the great unwashed that labor ignores now will be better able to survive short term. Gas BBQs, camping equipment, lights.
The new labor luvvies in the inner city in apartments will suffer badly.
ABC employees will whinge.
A reason to vote ‘No’ that does not even involve the Voice.
Contract awarded to demolish Liddell Power Station
Indeed, blackouts will mean streaming services, social media – everything that runs through your NBN box – will be gone. Unlike other idiocies they have imposed upon people this time there would be no distractions to retreat to. People would be pissed off and talking out loud, to family and neighbours.
I think the lockdowns would not have been enforceable if people did not have online games and Netflix.
A friend went off grid for a few years in a holiday shack up in the Hawkesbury. It was an experiment. Husband an electrician, set up solar panels and all sorts of gadgets to get them by.
They had a solid fuel stove that also heated water. I visited a couple of times, and was amazed at how resourceful they were. She even had a treadle sewing machine…made her daughter’s wedding dress on it! But it was hard work, a window on a past where survival was everything and every waking hour was directed in that way. An excellent experiment, but it had an end date.
Soft, doctrinaire loons would have us return to this way of life, except in our cities. It’s physically impossible. For a start you wouldn’t be allowed to burn wood, even if you could find it.
Late to the party.
Regarding discussion about being prepared for an extended blackout, most people are pretty good about storing food, cooking fuel, water etc. Everything that has been mentioned so far. The real prep that hasn’t been mentioned is the one that really sends people crazy if they are unprepared for it.
Waste disposal, or impolitely, where do you dump your number ones and twos when the toilets don’t flush for an extended length of time.
I have been through this myself so will give you what I have learned. Have two strong, lidded buckets. A very good supply of heavy duty garbage bags. A camping toilet seat is a great idea as you can place it directly over the bucket. Line one bucket with 2 of the garbage bags. This one will be used for number two’s. The other bucket, drop in a cup of bi-carb. This one is for number one’s. The bi-carb will neutralise the ammonia and help keep down smell. When you are not using the buckets, obviously replace the lid. The liquids can be poured down the bath or shower drain, don’t go all eeeewwwww on me. You will be grateful if you don’t have to toss it out the window if you live in a flat.
The number two bucket is obvious, when you think it’s full enough, tie off the bags securely and place in the garden somewhere they will not be torn etc.
This works well for high-rise dwellers also. The important thing to remember is timing is critical. Don’t leave it until the toilet is overflowing because you thought the blackout would only last a couple of hours. If you don’t have buckets, line the toilet itself with the bags.
Sanitation or lack thereof, is the most important problem to solve when things go bad. Just stocking up on toilet paper is not going to save you.
Also, as someone mentioned earlier, water purifying tablets are an absolute must. You may not be able to boil water to safety. Also, stock up on wet wipes. They are amazing at keeping you clean and fresh.
All the country folk here are set, make sure you have a long drop not too far from the house where you can also sit with the shotgun you will need when the townies try to break down your barricades. 🙂
I didn’t see a down side either, MoLo.
Like a toddler holding his breath. Waaaaaaaaah!
Reasons to vote No just keep on piling up.
Waste disposal, or impolitely, where do you dump your number ones and twos when the toilets don’t flush for an extended length of time.
At Bondi Beach.
It will cut out the middle man.
Calli:
Our governments don’t give a rats arse about us as they will be all right, Jack.
Elections will have to be cancelled due to the emergency.
Remember Lisa Simpsons call “If you allow Governments to break the law in an emergency, they will create emergencies to break the law.”
thefrollickingmole says:
February 21, 2023 at 4:28 pm
Boomers gunna boom…
Maybe the only way it comes to a screeching end.
All these “prepper” things are do-able in a rural or semi rural environment. In cities…not so much. Been there, done that. Add civil unrest and looting, and it’s terrifying. People turn into savages very fast.
bern be a good chap and shit at Coogee if you’re gonna bathe at Bondi, toodle pip.
Quite so.
But they can get MyAgedCare!
Ahahah!*
* apologies for the maniacal laughter. Cats know my efforts in getting something helpful for my elderly parents
How fast is Starlink? I get around
Download
47.0
Mbps
and
Upload
18.5Mbps
Also, you require a dish on the roof for Starlink and it would spoil the look of the house.
A week with no power would be pretty much pre-apocalyptic in Australia. Most people would survive a single week, but you’re talking food/water riots, loss of life, and months of major dislocation and infrastructure problems afterwards.
Luckily, absent some act of war, Australia still has a sufficiently diversified power system and this isn’t going to happen.
However rolling blackouts and demand management are pretty much baked in from 2025/26 at an inconvenience level.
Expect to see increasing panic, knee jerking, and straw grasping from governments.
(Case study: Snowy Hydro chief falls on sword; not for crashing Snowy 2.0, but for failing to provide Unicorn Hydrogen to burn in Kurri Kurri, as promised by Comrade Bowen.)
Personal life
Heheh …
As usual, the haters gotta hate. Eleven fools putting their hands up so far.
I have every idea. I’ve lived a long life with many experiences, including living with young kids in a small unit as well as, in my youth in the mid 50’s, on a mostly non-electric farm with one cold tank tap for water and an outside pan dunny. More than most, I’ve experienced an electrical load-shedding situation every afternoon and often at night in Sri Lanka with my first baby as the only Western woman within fifty miles in the early 1970’s when the Black Market was the provider of useful things like baby bottles and saline drips (a lot of typhoid around, and one cholera outbreak). I’ve also seen how people of many cultures, with whom I’ve shared food and chat and sometimes bed, manage to survive with far less than we have.
I think others have answered all of the objections put by a known nay-sayer to my suggestions for the coming Dark Ages. What I expect is periods of nuisancey load-shedding rather than Armageddon, but it is wise to be prepared for whatever comes, mentally as well as in organisational ways.
Sharing a coffee, Joh, might disabuse you of some of your weird pre-conceptions re my comments.
A woman I didn’t know raced up to me as I came in to Tinta’s on Friday night and said to me – You must be Cassie.
Cassie’s on the ferry now, I said, having had a text. This is Lizzie B, said Tinta helpfully.
I don’t know what preconceptions the lady had but she seemed surprised.
At the end of the evening we hugged each other goodnight. Personal contact, you can’t beat it for getting to know someone.
Somewhat POS there, Mr Case.
Most of the houses I see JC would improve the look with an aerial. I’m an architectural snob. I you see on the news a crazed greyranga on a D8 going berserkers in Canberra, its me.
For shame, don’t you care that Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the Voice is rejected?
“India Invokes Maximum Energy Output Law from Coal Plants
India invoked a law that will demand maximum output from power plants running on imported coal.
Beginning on March 16 and ending on June 15, all power plants will have to be running at maximum capacity and selling to buyers on exchanges.
India is expecting a record power usage this summer, with peak demand in April of 229 gigawatts.”
Good on ’em.
My late brother was an astute, intelligent man, yet had awful trouble trying to navigate his way around My Aged Care. Eventually, he managed to engage a cleaner for an hour per fortnight and an hour of gardening once per month. This wasn’t free, but reduced rates… although so, too, were the allowed services reduced. No dusting. No reaching up. No moving any furniture or heavy lifting.
Months later, when his hand had control diminished to the point where he set off the fire alarm several times, he was allocated subsidised services from in home ‘cooks’. He was to provide the produce and his specialist – mainly Amish – cooks would prepare it for him. Absolutely hopeless! One ‘specialist’ cook, when confronted with a carrot, asked, “What do I do? Fry it in the pan?”
For that, he received a bill for $3,000.00*, one of the reasons why Daughter invited him to come and live with us in the big nursing home on the hill. 🙂
*Yes, his family investigated this outrage. No, nothing can be done, read the fine print, take it up with the ombudsman etc etc. None of us had the heart for this when he died shortly after.
Sorry if I have told this story before (suspect I have) but today would have been his birthday. We’re all a bit down.
Somewhat POS there, Mr Case.
Huh?
It’s satire, the link is near the top of the page.
Paul Broad- a pubic serpent ‘generalist’ who has been around far too long.
Yes, it was the BP storage there at Lavender Bay. I guess it’s gonsky now as it spoils the view. 🙂
I used to live a little away from there in Waverton, and I could see the tops of the tankers when they dropped off the cargo.
Expect to see increasing panic, knee jerking, and straw grasping from governments.
Hope so because I think they want to say ‘suck it up proles’ and get away with it.
If the idiot who has set up “CookerPedia ” is intentionally defaming people, I hope he finds what he is looking for.
For shame, don’t you care that Aboriginal souls will be crushed if the Voice is rejected?
Flora and fauna dont have souls.
Any Wojak meme will suffice, all that is missing from the picture will be the layer of aspic composed of oestrogen and the yeasty scent that goes with it.
Creepy left wing pervert lies about politics:
Why is McDonalds ice cream machine down almost more than its up?
I often get asked about my political views. For a while there I was a libertarian that tended to vote right-wing. I can say that for certain I am no longer right-wing or a libertarian.
Why am I telling you this? Well because Mcdonald’s Ice Cream machines are one of the reasons I abandoned Libertarianism. Let me explain..
Answer to Why is McDonalds ice cream machine down almost more than its up? by Alex Mann
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-McDonalds-ice-cream-machine-down-almost-more-than-its-up/answer/Alex-Mann-32?ch=15&oid=349150313&share=4ffac428&srid=C37u&target_type=answer
These idiots are paid to write this sort of stuff non stop.
Let’s have government run fast food chains. FFS.
The idiot who has set up “CookerPedia” is not intentionally defaming people so much as intentionally doxxing them.
Bear was right, the Higgins story is a pot boiler.
Great article by Bettina Arndt.
I hope Lehrmann wins bigly.
Saw this little bit in the article about demolishing Liddle.
Critical infrastructure, such as transmission connections, will be retained to support the ongoing use of the site as an industrial energy hub, helping provide employment and essential economic activity for the region. Planning approval has already been granted for a 500MW/2GWh grid-scale battery.
Is that 2 GWh capacity?
vs
Date MWh produced
2021 8,189,336
Im trying to work out the capacity difference, but im ending up with 2.4 to the power of -5 as a %
Thats an error isnt it.?
Your choices are:
a) renewal and a return to the centre to reclaim the Menzian middle class heart of the party, which is now diverse in both race and gender and leans green
b) doubling down on defending the interests of a tiny minority of old white men and their donors who have long ago divided up the party power structures in ego-based factions
Tough choice for you lot.
Setting up a website and becoming the personal enemy of hundreds of people you think are crazy by doxxing them and occasionally slandering them, now I think that’s nuts.
Here’s the Cookerpedia for Riccardo Bosi:
No Doxxing, though the guy is giving the reader a subtle heads up that Bosi is a Spook.
The Liberal Party died when they narrowly lost to Bob Hawke. Fraser poisoned it, it just took a while to start pooping out bits of liver etc.
How can you doxx someone who continually livestreams themselves? Not to mention many of them are functionally homeless, living out of vans or dossing down in some fetid swamp outside Canberra.
Grifting frauds like Derek Balogh should be exposed for the clowns they are.
TChief Nerd
@TheChiefNerd
Dr. Marty Makary on How the COVID Vaccine Was Recommended for Pregnant Women With Zero Data
“They mysteriously stoppped the trial after 349 women enrolled in the study…the results of those 349 women have never been made public”
Franksays:
February 21, 2023 at 6:15 pm
The idiot who has set up “CookerPedia” is not intentionally defaming people so much as intentionally doxxing them.
Richard Cranium supports this doxxing, and takes part in it.
This Libs Women’s Council thingo is a real Trojan Horse. Rivals the arrival of Malcolm.
It is full of female Teals and Greenies with a disgraceful history of utter leftism.
Yeah.
The problem is they think they can never admit that the Party’s treatment of Brittany Higgins lost them the Election, so they’re going in head first on a lot of stupid shit that won’t win them a single vote.
Monty crowing on the dungheap while the ever smiling Mr Bowen says “we must go harder” on shutting down power stations.
Reliability of electricity grid in doubt over next 10 years
New generation, transmission lines and energy storage are needed to keep the lights on in homes and businesses as ageing coal power plants shut down.
In a national electricity market update released on Tuesday, the Australian Energy Market Operator warned the reliability of the electricity grid was in doubt over the next 10 years without urgent new spending.*
AEMO chief executive Daniel Westerman said timely investment in the grid was needed as Australia ended its traditional dependency on coal-fired generation and faced delays on major projects including Snowy Hydro 2.0.
Opposition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien warned Australians to “brace for blackouts” and even higher bills for less reliable energy.
Mainland states in the national electricity market are forecast to breach the reliability standard from 2027 onwards, with at least five coal-fired power stations – totalling 13 per cent of the market’s capacity – expected to retire.
Irredeemable mong Chris Bowen said Westerman was not suggesting there would be blackouts.
“It does mean that we’ve got more work to do,” he said.
“But I’m very pleased with the progress we’ve made so far.”
*Come on down super funds!!!!
link for above
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Faustralia-news-live-voice-to-parliament-yes-campaign-to-launch-this-week-another-earthquake-hits-tureky-and-syria-20230220-p5cm03.html
???
No idea.
I suggest Lydia Thorpe be put on it for inciting violence.
By the way, it appears Linda Reynolds still had hopes of reemploying Bruce Lehrmann, right up until the day Higgins quit and went public.
So, yeah, a lot of hate for Higgins out there.
The Vigilant Fox
@VigilantFox
Tony Fauci Admits the C19 & Influenza Shots Provide Underwhelming Protection
“After more than 60 years of experience with influenza vaccines, very little improvement in vaccine prevention of infection has been noted.”
m0nty=fa
Labor’s choices are:
a) renewal and a return to the centre to reclaim the former working class heart of the party, which is now diverse in both race and gender but does not lean green.
b) doubling down on defending the interests of a tiny minority of upper middle-class men and women, predominantly university credentialled and employed directly or indirectly by the taxpayer, who have long ago divided up the party power structures into ego-based factions, and face losing major parts of their heartland to the greens.
Tough choice for you and your ilk.
Haha, the unspeakable in full pursuit of the inedible.
Historian calls for King Charles to ‘apologise to Australians’ over his ‘utterly improper’ actions amid Whitlam sacking (Sky News, 21 Feb)
Don’t you just love these Whitlam luvvies? The smell of internecine warfare in the morning, it smells like…popcorn.
Montypox exemplifies Beazley Snr’s ‘dregs of the middle class’.
Derek Balogh pretends to be a lawyer for the cookers but his legal knowledge comes from a Weeties packet. He faffs on about governments being corporations and swindles grannies to the tune of $200 a session. He can pack out a rural pub, there are plenty of easy marks around. And he is so smug about it too.
“Soft, doctrinaire loons would have us return to this way of life, except in our cities. It’s physically impossible. For a start you wouldn’t be allowed to burn wood, even if you could find it.’
It’ll be interesting to see what happens, will there be social breakdown? Societal survival often depends on a certain amount of social cohesion. Australia was once fairly homogenous. It isn’t anymore. Instead the pursuit and implementation of the cult of multiculturalism has destroyed any homogeny that once existed in this country.
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 6:30 pm
By the way, it appears Linda Reynolds still had hopes of reemploying Bruce Lehrmann, right up until the day Higgins quit and went public.
Your evidence for this statement, noting that he was told to clean out his desk on day 1 after the incident.
Interesting thread on AI and it’s effects.
Gonzalo Lira
@GonzaloLira1968
Re. ChatGPT and AI generally: Has anyone wondered about its effects on a “post-industrial” service-oriented society?
I think it’ll lead to Eloi and Morlocks in Western society: A tiny minority of well-off hedonists—and a vast underclass of wage-slaves barely surviving.
As Alan Jones said you can be multi racial without being multicultural.
JC at 2:59.
Sort of like Portsea and Frankston?
Whitlam lost confidence and supply, it is literally the right thing to do – also Charles was not the monarch and not on the PC IIRC. He might have been the Prince of Wales by then. The Queen also said her legal advice was her hands were tied. The monarch’s role is like that of a mechanical governor. Important but no discretion or intervention possible.
SpongeBob wheedles:
Labor’s choices are:
a) renewal and a return to the centre to reclaim the former working class heart of the party, which is now diverse in both race and gender but does not lean green.
Why would they do that when they’ve got 32% absolutely rusted on, a lock on 90% of Green preferences, a six pack of Teals, and the Liberals have the anchor rope of the SS Brittany Higgins tied round their necks?
New Zealand government data shows that the COVID vaccines make you MORE likely to die from COVID (not less)
“As Alan Jones said you can be multi racial without being multicultural.”
Correct.
Anyone got a link to where Putin speech might be streamed?
Is due at 8pm AEST.
“Sort of like Portsea and Frankston?”
And the insular peninsula here in Sydney. Now completely coloured Teal.
Ireland’s new censorship bureau.
Working group set up to tackle disinformation
Why do academics always have ‘that look’ about them?
I wonder what Bruce L’s connections were, to secure that position straight out of university; it wasn’t as though he was outstanding, academically. At that young age, it’s unlikely they were his own connections. If anything is known of his parents, it hasn’t surfaced.
“Professor Jenny Hocking “
She’s been plugging the Dismissal for years. She’s obsessed.
Doc Faustus:
https://www.energymagazine.com.au/contract-awarded-to-demolish-liddell-power-station/
Well there goes that hope there was a residual film of competence and common sense.
The Poisoning Of Eastern Ohio And Western Pennsylvania Is Much Worse Than We Are Being Told
Electricity is the life blood and civilization and prosperity.
Civilisation and prosperity are the “problems” they’re aiming to address.
“I wonder what Bruce L’s connections were, to secure that position straight out of university; it wasn’t as though he was outstanding, academically. At that young age, it’s unlikely they were his own connections. If anything is known of his parents, it hasn’t surfaced.”
Bruce was raised by a single mother.
No Vaccine No Food? Grocery Industry Merging with Big Tech and Big Pharma as New App Tracks Drug and Vaccine Purchases Along with Food
What utter crap, M0nts. Some of your worst. The aspirational and hard working small business and tradie classes who now constitute the middle of the middle classes (not my fellow denizens of Wentworth by any means) are the true Menzian heart these days. They tend to not have much time for race and gender nonsense. Yes, mum may work and she’s feminist to that extent re being able to do so, but her family come first; same for dad, he’s a trier and hates hypocrites who are work shy grifters, like lots of politicians and those inner-city loonies who support them.
Go West and suburban, Liberal Party, to your new real home.
This is from Australia
Faith leaders warn future of religious education under threat
I’d like to know that about both of them Christine- these ‘advisor’ ‘jobs’ just seem to tax payer funded goodies handed out to friends or sons and daughters of friends.
It’s actually $90million per day. x 365 = $33 bill p.a.
Wasn’t the C.I.A. behind the Dismissal?
I suspect it was Gough doing the “plugging.”
One ALP theory was that Whitlam was a goner when the State Dept. transferred Marshall Green from Santiago, where he’d hade absolutely nothing to do with the overthrow of Allende, to Canberra, where his hands were totes clean over the Whitlam scenario.
Doc Faustus.
That’s 1.6 Gw leaving the system.
I wonder what they think is going to happen especially when it’s replaced by a battery.
We are so rooted.
Queensland will be happy to deliver the necessary replacement charges for the batteries from our coal fired power plants. That’s if the interconnectors can take the extra load.
This one’s for Tom. When you are short of stories anything will do, including doing an entire TV spot about a new hole in the ground. I’m sure someone from Taree Council must’ve sent a press release to NBN News and the rest became history…
New landfill cell opens at Taree waste management centre (Ncl local news, 21 Feb)
I wish all MSM journos would do gravely narrated reports about garbage like this, it’d be fitting.
Those aspirational suburban workers can be any ethnicity or race, sometimes congregating in particular suburbs and areas, sometimes out on their own amongst the range of people who now call themselves Australians. They are here, and some were born here, in search of the good life and they don’t want to throw it down the drain because the urban Greenies say so. Their vote swings, and the Libs should catch it.
That figure and its daily rate should become wider public knowledge.
Spread it around the pubs, as well as the interwebs.
Lerhmann went to Toowoomba Grammar.
Definitely has some connections.
Those aspirational suburban workers can be any ethnicity or race, sometimes congregating in particular suburbs and areas,
That’s right.
Why, I’m sure there’s plenty of Sudanese families living in a Commission house where the grass has died because they won’t water it, that could become blue ribbon Liberal voters.
Why don’t you head up to Kingston in your LNP T-Shirt and sign a few hundred up, Lizzie?
Today Hairy took me for a test drive of the hybrid car I have to use till the Sporty Beamer is redeemed.
It feels like a kids’ toy electric bus still, and I don’t get a good sense of control over it.
Maybe it will improve on a longer drive, which I will make alone tomorrow.
Turning it on is the worst part. You can’t hear anything happen till you tap the accelerator.
If it starts to talk to me I am never going near it again. Open the damn door, Hal. etc.
Pogria:
It will be of no bloody use if they don’t get paid for the electricity they do use the thieving bastards steal.
India will never become a major industrialised country if the don’t deal with the corruption. No country can.
Their vote swings, and the Libs should catch it.
Agree but the current power elite in the Liberal Party is not interested.
Tucker: This could lead to the destruction of the West
Their vote swings, and the Libs should catch it.
They’ll only catch it if their finger and their thumb aren’t in the shape of an L on their forehead.
F’ck them, they’re just as bad.
Yes, Toowoomba Grammar. But not all of us who send our children to Grammar schools have connections. If it’s true that he was born in the U.S., then attended school in regional Queensland .. well, it makes it interesting.
Whatever, I wish him well
Multi-culturalism is another name for political separatism — the creation of non-English-speaking ghettoes designed to destroy national sovereignty.
This is especially so in Australia, where most “multi-cultural” activists are trying to remake Australia as a failed Marxist state, supported by the ALP-Greens-media alliance.
India will never become a major industrialised country if they don’t deal with the corruption.
It’s endemic in their culture, which is why they should be allowed into Australia in vast quantities without proper scrutiny!
JC. Waverton is to the west of North Sydney. You’re feeding monty ammunition.
Snap miltonf.
They aren’t called SFLs for nothing.
“Lerhmann went to Toowoomba Grammar.
That might have been a scholarship. I don’t know. My understanding (and I’m in contact with someone who is in contact with Lehmann) is that he was raised by a single mother and that neither him nor his mother had a lot of dosh to begin with and whatever money Lehmann had is now gonski because of the legal costs. Lehmann is broke, he doesn’t have a brass razoo left, there’ll be no jaunts to the Maldives for him. He lost his job soon after the amphibian’s interview with Ms Knickerless and he hasn’t had fulltime employment since. So much for innocent until proven guilty. Lehmann was judged guilty, guilty, guilty before any trial.
Definitely has some connections.”
Yes he probably does, just like Higgins also must have some connections. And all of this comes back to what many of us here talk about regularly, how do young pups like Lehmann and Higgins get these gigs? They were too young and too immature for these plum roles. They’d be better off employing people like you and me.
Multi-culturalism is another name for political separatism — the creation of non-English-speaking ghettoes designed to destroy national sovereignty.
Pretty much international socialists revised plan after their flagship projects continued to shit themselves in front of everyone.
Was genuinely shocked watching some old Cold Chisel videos the other day. It was Australia, but white. My childhood memories are like that, but that wasn’t in the cities.
Yeah great work rick.
How precisely are we to get a cricket team that can play spin if we don’t import Indians? The Sudanese haven’t got the footwork and way to tall to hook.
Priorities mate!
there are plenty of easy marks around. And he is so smug about it too.
Sounds like m0nty=fa and the fantasy football game.
They’d be better off employing people like you and me.
yes- they need people who have been in the workforce and who have experienced real knocks.
Of course the long and the short of it is that BL in no way deserved what was done to him. Another stalinist show trial.
Twee full page ad in The Hun looking for VicPlod recruits.
I haven’t seen the TV version but I’m guessing 10cc’s Rubber Bullets is the background music.
The sort of knocks BL has copped are not what I had in mind.
Richard Cranium
Why would they do that when they’ve got 32% absolutely rusted on, a lock on 90% of Green preferences, a six pack of Teals, and the Liberals have the anchor rope of the SS Brittany Higgins tied round their necks?
What percentage did they have “absolutely rusted on” 15 years ago? Ten years ago?
What benefit are Slime preferences when the Slime win once “rusted on” Liars seats? How safe are AnAl’s and Plibbersack’s seats now?
How solid will the Teals be once Chalmers gets his beady eyes on all their lurrrvelly munni?
GPs must be feeling a bit nervous, the medical budget is ripe for a pruning and chatGP could handle a large percentage of what happens in a doctors office.
How safe are AnAl’s and Plibbersack’s seats now?
Same problem as the Lieborals have. Both sides of the uniparty trying to court the new class.
They’d be better off employing people like you and me.
…only if I can go commando.
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 6:52 pm
One ALP theory was that Whitlam was a goner when the State Dept. transferred Marshall Green from Santiago, where he’d hade absolutely nothing to do with the overthrow of Allende, to Canberra, where his hands were totes clean over the Whitlam scenario.
You’re a Spook, aren’t you? Why don’t you tell us the full story? At the same time, tell us what the $576,000 for the ex-Tudge staffer was really for. And give us your evidence that telling Lehrman to clear out his desk and get out was really Reynolds trying to keep him on.
Someone asked elsewhere about the military. If diversity is our strength, why do we have uniforms?
“Whatever, I wish him well”
He needs it.
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 7:07 pm
Those aspirational suburban workers can be any ethnicity or race, sometimes congregating in particular suburbs and areas,
That’s right.
Why, I’m sure there’s plenty of Sudanese families living in a Commission house where the grass has died because they won’t water it, that could become blue ribbon Liberal voters.
Why don’t you head up to Kingston in your LNP T-Shirt and sign a few hundred up, Lizzie?
Richard Cranium is too stupid to comprehend the difference between “aspirational suburban workers” and unemployed Suddanese.
Besides, they are part of the Liars’ “rusted on” 32%, living on the taxpayer teat.
Keeping us apart is what keeps us together. So i was told over and over and over…. Whatever that meant.
Gets a regular mauling by the Media Watchdog. Woof woof.
Shy Ted:
Bugger – That’s the problem with using US Billion and proper Billions – what’s a decimal point between friends?
So many people around now who weren’t even born when it happened.
Indigenous leaders in Port Hedland have told Anthony Albanese they need … places for young people to go at night
They are usually called “homes”.
ZK2A:
We used to larf about the CIA and the dismissal, but I think there are some who are rethinking the whole thing as we work out just what the yanks have been up to across the world in their Great Game.
Chuckle. I thought H B Bear might by better qualified.
I’d do the job except I’d start by sacking myself. My last day would coincide with everyone else’s. We’d then have to get proper jobs.
In a Perth airline lounge. Flight delayed. TV is stuck on ABC 7:30 report which is really 4:30 report. One fkn drivel story to the next. Thank god its silent with subtitles. But i get the gist…big mining bad, opposition of the Voice bad, being wary of China wacist, oh and all Governments at all levels should spend more and be softer on crime. Sounds like the ABC has its own political arm in the Greens. …but we knew that.
In a Perth airline lounge. Flight delayed. TV is stuck on ABC 7:30 report which is really 4:30 report.
really pisses me off being forced to watch that shite- tingle would be enough to put you off your dinner
Lovely light show in Sydney town tonight.
Well the story was that Anthony had some CIA connection.
More like the ALPBC is The Greens media unit. We just pay for it.
That article is from the “West Australian. They don’t allow comments on such articles..
…at least the beer is cold. Life’s good.
During the Rudd-Gillard-Rudd years all the Labor crew couldn’t stop blabbing to the yanks about what was going on.
Pity the communications got into the public domain.
The Libs would have been the same during the TA-MT-SM years.
Jeez.
BHP dividend USD 0.90/share.
Down 40%.
Some of us will be tightening our belts.
And the Chinese too. Wonder what Dastyari is up to.
Wifey and I go to the same gym and use some of the same machines. Obviously, we don’t go at the same time, as that would be massively gay.
No, it’s not. Gay things in gyms are not wearing pants, wearing caps backwards, wearing gloves while doing aerobics and falling asleep on the equipment. Training with your wife is very masculine; even if you’re a lesbian; possibly more so. Anyway, speaking of gyms, a very gymmy cute owl. She’s holding more weight in her hands then you leg press with head prefect.
Boambee John:
I hate the Liberal Party with all the fury of someone who has been betrayed by their leaders, their spouses, and their neighbours.
They will never get a cent out of me ever again.
I expect this degree of duplicity from Labor – it’s in their DNA – with the Liberals, they just lied to us and made common cause with the enemy.
Cassie that was my only point.
If he was raised by a single mother, but went to Toowoomba Grammar, unless on a full scholarship, and an academic one seems unlikely seeing as he got tipped into libs straight from school then connections might be assumed over, say, North Toowoomba high.
Fair Shake:
Do those universal remote controls work on those sets or are they all controlled centrally?
Also snivelling to Hedland “elders” Hohohoho.
You could sink 50% of Australia’s GDP into South Hedland and it wouldn’t make a scrap of difference.
Take away the iron ore and associated industry and it would make an excellent A-Bomb test site.
If I sound bitter, it is possibly because in 2017 I had my work vehicle stolen there, found three days later burnt out in the bush, and the “yoof” who stole and burned it was given 20 hours community service by the beak. Never did a minute of it of course, just added to his other 40+ convictions.
$50K worth of Landcruiser, another $4ok of specialist tools and equipment, a month’s work of exploration data and sample results up in flames. Over $200K financial loss, less than half recovered by insurance.
Lovely town.
The Pommy Daughter, who I always believed would once again become an Aussie daughter (and who laughted at me last night when she skewered our marxist government) took her little one on his first week of skiing at Saltzburg.
She sent me a video that made me bubble with jealousy. They went to a high station cafe for dinner. The return down to the hotel village was via bobsled on a lit path.
Sure its wank, but what fun.
$30bn per annum and indigenous kids in places like Port Hedland don’t have a safe place to crash when home is too dangerous to stay at.
Where the heck is the money going?
test
His “connections” might have been as simple as a grandparent willing to pay the school fees. It has been known to happen.
South Hedland is an acquired taste.
Tribal custom and tribal law dictates that such largesse goes straight into the “Big Men’s” bank accounts.
Lehrmann never went toUniversity.
Brandis hired him straight out of High School.
How could you know whether that’s true or not?
Born in Texas, raised by his mother, same as George Brandis.
It’s fair to surmise that his sponsors are pretty awesome, given that Reynolds was likely going to reemploy him the day after Higgins finally quit.
Higgins going public with her resignation and the reasons for it completely blindsided the Government and Albanese Steven Bradbury-ed his way into The Lodge.
President Vladimir Putin is delivering his address right now!
???Putin : The West tried to collapse the ruble, provoke inflation, steal reserves, break production chains. The goal of the West is to make our citizens suffer and destabilize society from within. The calculation was not justified.
Regarding Dovers post at 4.37pm
A large-scale study of South Australian COVID-19 cases has revealed the dangers of not being vaccinated against the virus. @benavery9 #9News
The above was covered in Adelaide papers and on Ch 9.
Below is a rebuttal article.
Fifth Doses available for Australians but where is the data supporting?
https://andrewmadry.substack.com (he was the expert who was going to give evidence for the Dr’s Against Mandates case v Qld Govt that was dropped after all expert witness evidence was submitted).
Earlier this month the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) recommended a fifth dose for Australians. The government immediately accepted the recommendation. In Australia today, Monday 20 February 2023, a 5th dose is available to those, ages 18+, who have not had a booster (or COVID) within 6 months.
Of course, there are no trials or evidence for the benefits or harms of 5th shots.
What caught my attention today was an article in my legacy news feed from the Adelaide Advertiser. I saw the headline:
Fifth Covid-19 vaccine rollout begins as new SAHMRI data shows unvaccinated five times more likely to die
The article turned out to be behind a paywall. In a moment of weakness the data scientist in me couldn’t help it, I clicked to subscribe. At least for one month, so long as I remember to turn off recurring payments.
I thought there could be some new data.
I was duped. There is no data. There is even no publicly available report.
The content of the article basically comes from a South Australian Health press release. It is a sign of the times that legacy media adds no value to these press releases.
Legacy media just parrots what is fed to them.
From the press release:
South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) analysed 70,450 COVID-19 cases recorded in South Australia between 1 August 2022 and 31 October 2022, and took into account other risk factors, including age. The key findings of the report show:
Vaccination lowers the chance of hospitalisation and the probability of death, with each dose lowering the chance of each outcome further;
South Australians with no vaccination were about eight times more likely to be hospitalised and about five times more likely to die than those with three or four doses; and,
Those with one or two doses of vaccine were about three times more likely to be hospitalised and about two times more likely to die than those with three or four doses;
Older age was confirmed an independent risk factor for death and hospitalisation from COVID-19.
I certainly couldn’t find any evidence of this report being released. It was not on the SAHMRI or SA government sites.
How many COVID deaths were there in SA over this period? SA Health provides no datasets or weekly reports as far as I can tell. There is a web page that updates daily. For example latest data is found here.
You have to capture values from the page and collate it yourself. There is one dataset available for download. This is a table of Local Government Areas (LGA’s) and the number of cases. This is of use to absolutely no-one.
Fortunately, some sites like covidlive.com.au do helpful webscraping. Deaths for SA can be found here.
I estimate there were 350 COVID deaths in SA over the period of the analysis. Five times more likely to die means 292 unvaccinated people died and only 58 vaccinated people died.
OK we know this is rubbish.
We know this is not true from NSW data published over the same period. The majority of COVID deaths were in 3 and 4 dose people. They were also older people who we expect are most at risk. There were zero hospitalisations of unvaccinated people some weeks. There were possibly zero people with no comorbidities under age 65 who died from COVID. I say possibly because we had to infer things from the way the data were provided. We know this means that unvaccinated people dying were likely in aged care and were frail people who were intentionally not given the shots. The TGA was made aware from Norway data that elderly frail people were dying shortly after being injected.
The people dying from COVID will be elderly with a median age that is greater than the median age of death from all causes in Australia.
Clearly SAHMRI is doing some dodgy age adjustment. They say older age was confirmed as an independent risk factor. Really? They confirmed it. Thankyou SAHMRI for letting us know this.
It is also possible that they are taking people with unknown vaccination status and counting them as unvaccinated. We have to question where they got their data.
This rubbish reporting, with no references or detail, is rolled out on the same day that 5th doses are available to encourage people to run out to get these doses. The Australian Health Minister has said the government had 4 million Omicron-specific booster doses available now and that another 10 million were expected to arrive this month.
It makes out as if the unvaccinated are dying when it is actually the elderly frail people, or people with serious comorbidities, whether unvaccinated or not, who are at risk.
There is evidence that compromised immune systems from repeat injections is leading to more infections. These infections will pass through the community to those who are at risk. Some of these people will unfortunately die.
It’s a sad time when investigative journalism has to be done by independent engineers or scientists.
Thanks for reading Data Wise!”
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Where the heck is the money going?
Wages, Consultants, Health Programs, Environmental Programs, Building Programs, Maintenance Programs, buying Cattle Properties that are immediately destocked, buying residential properties off Labor Maaaates,
Public Relations, that’s, say, 98% of the dosh, the rest goes to Aborigines.
That $90 mil/day likely includes Pensions and Government benefits.
To put it in perspective, there are 1,000,000 people on Disability Support getting $800/week each.
Their Social Security costs alone are $115 million/ day, then there’s the 24 hour Carers on $90,000/year each that many of them require, plus the NDIS.
It all adds up.
Chris Kenny was on his anti-canine bandwagon again tonight. He’s on record saying he doesn’t like dogs.
Interesting – thats the exact opposite of the recent NZ data – someone is clearly lying
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/new-zealand-government-data-shows
Yes he probably does, just like Higgins also must have some connections. And all of this comes back to what many of us here talk about regularly, how do young pups like Lehmann and Higgins get these gigs?
Political patronage.
They were too young and too immature for these plum roles. They’d be better off employing people like you and me.
These are sought after entry level jobs.
Higgins had worked for Steven Ciobo since the 2016 Election.
Ciobo announced that he was retiring at the 2019 Election, and quit the Ministry, shedding most of his own staff, but keeping Higgins, who was on the lookout for another job.
According to Evidence given at the Trial, Renee [someone] was asked by Lehrmann to hire Higgins because “she’s very good looking”.
Renee and Higgins went for a long lunch and Higgins was hired.
So, there was premeditation there, some might say Stalking.
Whether Higgins knew the reason she was hired at the time is unclear.
This is an older TIK presentation that deals with the allocation of resources mainly on the Eastern Front, but also the amounts of input and the efficiency of the pricing system in allocating inputs into logistics.
He puts forward the view that since logistics don’t have prices on production and delivery, any logistic system is inefficient.
There’s even a couple of quotes from Mises which will satisfy the purists… 🙂
Tucker: This could lead to the destruction of the West
This is truly shocking. As shocking as it gets.
About that time, there was an epidemic of stealing cars and dumping them in the bush before being set alight, by the yoof.
One of the old pisswrecks, posing as a tribal elder, said it was proof that “whitefella will never break the spirit of these proud, young Aboriginal warriors….”
Richard Cranium
It’s fair to surmise that his sponsors are pretty awesome, given that Reynolds was likely going to reemploy him the day after Higgins finally quit.
You still haven’t come up with any evidence to support the assertion about Reynolds re-employing Lerhman after Mizzzzz Knickerless quit.
Let’s break this down:
According to The [Murdoch]Australian which is always trying to spin a fantasy about Aborigines.
That’s your fantasy, Roger.
Kids like going out for a walk in the evening when it’s cooler.
There’s not a Curfew in place, you know?
The Grammys Go Deeper: Worshipping Satan
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“This is truly shocking. As shocking as it gets.”
Terrible.
Uh huh, SpongeBob.
Have a punt for once in your miserable existence, SpongeBob.
Let’s say Higgins quit after her career had flatlined for 2 years, and didn’t go public.
Do you reckon Reynolds woulda heard about it and reemployed Bruce Lehrmann?
hard to trust someone that doesn’t like dogs, it is unnatural.
Putin hasn’t mentioned trans rights once.
Bastard!
Savagery meets civilization.
“Savagery meets civilization.”
Yes, and I personally witnessed similar two weeks ago outside St Mary’s Cathedral. I find it very upsetting.
Both the crackhead and the art dealer should be in jail.
Hiden-Picasso.
https://jonathanturley.org/2023/02/19/beholding-the-beholders-hunter-bidens-art-dealer-defies-the-house-over-business-records/
Ed Casesays:
February 21, 2023 at 9:26 pm
You still haven’t come up with any evidence to support the assertion about Reynolds re-employing Lerhman after Mizzzzz Knickerless quit.
Uh huh, SpongeBob.
Have a punt for once in your miserable existence, SpongeBob.
Let’s say Higgins quit after her career had flatlined for 2 years, and didn’t go public.
Do you reckon Reynolds woulda heard about it and reemployed Bruce Lehrmann?
Why would she? He was fired for a second breach of security.
If that kind of speculation is all you have, then you have nothing.
What speculation do you offer for the $576,000 payout?
In Hedland? Going for a walk? Yeah … maybe holding hands while skipping down the street and singing ‘Singin’ in the rain’?
Moron.
Why would she? He was fired for a second breach of security.
So, you’re saying he deserved to be fired, SpongeBob?
So Albosleazy flew to WA to have dinner with rich Labor donors in Peppermint Grove (in the heart of Curtin. I am just gobsmacked. This is a perfect example of how Labor is now the party of the wealthy elites.
John Curtin, buried nearby at Karrakatta Cemetery, must be turning in his grave.
Another good article by Frank Chung up at News com au
Gold Coast Hospital employee wakes up ‘paralysed’ after Pfizer vaccine
An Aussie hospital employee who suffered a severe reaction to his first dose of the Pfizer vaccine is accusing Queensland Health of discrimination.
Given 24 month exemption but still required to get jab or lose job.
Whatever happened to common sense and compassion ?
What speculation do you offer for the $576,000 payout?
No speculation required, SpongeBob.
Higgins got $576,000 for being victimised in her employment by Reynolds after Reynolds had been told that she had been raped.
Yeah, Social Distancing signs have reappeared in Brisbane shops.
It’s gonna start up again.
Lysander’s post about life in the Universe reminds one of how insignificant we really are.
Vsauce’s YT channel had an episode: Math magic where he also casually talked about permutations (ordered sorts) of a pack of cards, ie. that we will never see two properly shuffled packs with the same order of cards.
The number of permutations is 52! (factorial), or something over 8 followed by 67 zeros.
If an almost immortal android shuffled a pack a quadrillion (10^15) times a second..
doing so since the estimated beginning of the Universe (13.7 billion years ago)..
and continued to do so for the next quadrillion years, ie, after all star fusion has ceased and protons had decayed..
this shuffler would still have only managed less than 1.7 x 10 -28 of all the available permutations.
The scale of this insignificance: around one-ten-thousandth of one grain of sand out of all the grains of sand on Earth (around 5 x 10^23).
Useless, though interesting information.