This thread dedicated to Gildas, earthquakes and secret BOM death rays.

Just finished beers with Dickow Pump Technician. Pulled down, reassembled and re-alignment 4 pumps in two days with a side order of impeller machining. Going to charge the CCP for the beers.

Oh! I was on a lathe today giving a mangled up coupling bolt a tidy up!

Let the local guys to do the impeller machining. Spurred them into action by starting to chuck up an impeller in their machine shop, after 30 minutes of nothing happening.

January 6th, what really happened:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7wPvMliDX4

so now we’ve finally made the leap to Nuke subs, let’s start the discussion on energy.

Anyone – please.

SFL.

Marco Rubio Asks FBI Director Chris Wray Point Blank If Covid-19 Came From A Lab Leak
forbes

Spooner has Chris Bowen nailed.

Thanks Tom

Back in my day we’d make our own Klotturballs med Graddsas, but we’d call them Creamy Beefcake Porked Meatbun Faggots.

Now that is what is wrong with rosie’s generation. Now, as to what is wrong with bern’s generation…I’m Joe Biden and I am running for the US Senate….FRENCH TOAST PLEASE!

Jim Jordan Fires Back At Gerry Connolly’s Questioning Of Matt Taibbi, Warns Him About Cancel Culture
forbes

The Simpsons is still on the air in 2023 but it hasn’t been funny since 1999.

All Hell Breaks Loose After Sylvia Garcia Demands Matt Taibbi Tell Her About His Sourcing
forbes

No it has its moments.

Homer believing in the rapture was great.

American Dad is more relatable, despite a bizarre cast.

I’m the kind of person who would get a doghouse for a French Bulldog and call him “Meatball”.

Anyway the best Seth Macfarlane joke is when Holt is thought to be a murderer. It is his “Aristocrats” or “Professor of Logic” moment.

Silicon Valley Bank imploding will further crunch the vc community.
Contrary to what zh is saying, credit spreads & a range of liquidity measures aren’t really doing much.
Keep in mind that over US2trill of crypto assets have been torched from the peak until now & the financial system didn’t skip a beat.
That’s different to this SVB collapse, but kind of demonstrates that crypto really is decentralised.

The Stonecutters episode was terrible.

It was globalist malinformation.

Stonecutters was mid 90’s.
Still in the Simpsons sweet spot.

The Andrews government has already stumped up $40m to fund feasibility studies for three projects proposed off the Victorian coast.

A place I used to work for made 30k on an IPO, Clayton Utz made 1.1 mn, UBS made 1.5 mn.

Even my dear sweet consultards could make a mill or two if 40 mn in feasibility studies are on the offing.

Let me guess: Acciona and ACIL Tasman/NIER will say the turbines will generate a 40% + ROI.

No, I’m not cynical. Or it doesn’t mean what self help cranks think it means.

Happened to be looking through Malcolm Turnbull Twitter. Not for his comments but to see who he followed.

Ilhan Omar and AOC !

Most of his recent follows show his leftie leanings.

I wonder if this madness will come here too?

Chinese mega-city announces ‘imminent’ return to lockdown – for common flu virus (10 Mar)

“The Chinese city of Xi’an, home to some 13 million people, has revealed plans to enforce lockdowns again – but not for Covid. Instead, the mega-city has backed the use of lockdowns and school and business closures as part of a plan to contain influenza outbreaks. The plans have already triggered a backlash on Chinese social media, with many terrified about the prospect of returning to the strict restrictions seen during the COVID-19 outbreak.

It comes amid a rising number of influenza cases across the country, while COVID-19 cases continue to fall.”

You have to wonder if there’s an ulterior motive since the plan is so insanely bonkers. But we’ve seen a lot of insanity lately, and I would not be surprised to see our local Labor Premiers do this.

Lifted from Spectator magazine. Not looking good. Remember Trudeau and the truckers whose accounts were frozen.

“Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical history, every single form of identification – all of it is readily available to the government and public servants across the country and around the world. You cannot hide anything from anyone. Even your movements are tracked.
Oh, and this is not passive information, instead it can be used against you on a whim.

This is the future envisioned by our globalist elites. It is a world without privacy – themselves exempted, of course.

And the Australian government is keen to get started!

In recent weeks, it has come to light that the federal Labor government is seeking to introduce Digital Identity legislation by the end of the year to get the ball rolling on what is clearly an agenda laid out by the World Economic Forum. Spearheading the charge is Finance Minister Katy Gallagher, who, in a recent interview with the Australian Financial Review, said: ‘After years of indecision and delay, we are keen to work with governments and the private sector to progress a national Digital ID system.’

State and territory government ministers have negotiated a deal in which digital credentials, including driver’s licenses and occupational credentials, would be included in the system, which is viewed as a ‘digital wallet’. However, Senator Gallagher also wants those who choose not to participate in the scheme to be able to have an alternative method of sharing their credentials.

The system will also allow for both public and private services to be linked, meaning you can do everything from registering to vote and enrolling your children for school, to beginning employment and finalising the affairs of deceased loved ones. It is also hoped that the scheme will make it easier for businesses to verify the identities of their customers without collecting an excessive amount of personal information.

Australian Payments Plus and Mastercard have both expressed support for this system, which should be of concern to everyone. In fact, this whole system should be raising red flags. Here’s why.

While an all-inclusive Digital ID may look nice and dandy on the surface, providing individuals with a convenient way of accessing all their cards and forms of ID without the hassle of requiring a physical copy, it has sinister underpinnings and is open to all forms of malpractice.

The first red flag is that all governments, state and federal, are working together to push this legislation through. Further to that, the Federal Opposition is supportive of such legislation, with Shadow Minister for Government Services and the Digital Economy, Paul Fletcher, calling for the government to ‘take concrete action towards implementation of a national digital identity system’. When all sides of government openly support a system that nudges us toward the complete digitisation of the world, you should be asking questions.

This is made more poignant when you consider World Economic Forum leader Klaus Schwab’s remarks at the World Government Summit, in which he highlighted the increase in technology in our world and explicitly stated that whoever masters these technologies will be master of the world.

The implementation of a Digital ID system is a significant part of creating a world where everyone is reliant upon technology and, by extension, its master (or masters, if we’re talking about the conglomerate of globalist elites who hope to possess varying degrees of control over the remainder of society). Being solely dependent on the government is an incredibly vulnerable position for the citizenry to be in. It gives these digital masters far too much power over society and leaves people with practically no choice but to obey their edicts.

The second red flag is the willingness of companies, like Australian Payments Plus (an entity which comprises BPAY, eftpos, and NPP Australia, and Mastercard) to jump straight on board with a Digital Identity system. The public need to know what is being gained by both government and private enterprise before setting it into inescapable legislation. While for now it may seem like the system is simply a means of being able to provide proof of identity or certain health-related cards, like a Medicare card, without having to carry around your wallet, we could end up with a situation where all methods of payment are integrated into the digital collective. And when we compound this with the push towards a cashless society, it becomes clear that the system these governments want to fix firmly in place is one in which the only way to make a payment is digitally. It is easy for this environment, which lacks competition, to become coercive.

A system such as this could descend into a digital dystopia whereby all payments and purchases are tracked, and, eventually, payments or purchases are blocked or prohibited as a result of an individual possessing an ideology that does not align with that of the ruling class or not having enough social credit points to be deemed worthy of making certain purchases. China is a reasonable working example of this.

These are the nightmares that dystopic fiction is made of. Although, it may not be fiction for much longer.

Imagine going to the shops one day to purchase a loaf of bread. You go to the self-checkout, because this is the only way you can check out now, and scan your loaf. Then you scan your digital wallet to purchase the bread but the screen shows up an error message telling you that you cannot purchase the bread because last Tuesday you tweeted something mean about the World Economic Forum or criticised the latest vaccine. It doesn’t matter that what you said was true; it only matters that the government didn’t like it, so you are no longer allowed to purchase bread.

And sure, Katy Gallagher is free to argue that this whole Digital ID system is voluntary, but so were the vaccines at first and we all know what happened there. These big ideas usually start out voluntary, but I wager it won’t be long until the government is telling us we must have a Digital ID if we want to continue to be part of society.

And while the Senator may further say that this is being implemented to reduce the amount of personal data that needs to be provided to governments and businesses, we all know it will only be a matter of time before they ask for a little more information, and then a little more, and soon enough they’ll know everything there is to know about a person. Digital ID may very well open the floodgates to governments that want to collect private citizen data (which is currently severely restricted for privacy reasons).

Senator Gallagher also claims that the system will be trusted and secure. I think we know how ‘secure’ government systems are. If you want your personal data and information to be secure, you don’t hand it over to the government.

Digital ID is a path to serfdom for the vast majority of society. Sure, technology can be beneficial to us in various ways. But a complete reliance on technology leads to an inferior, vulnerable, and easily controlled human race. Digital ID may be convenient, but when those creating the system and writing its rules are the very same individuals easily corrupted by power, it transforms into an incredibly dangerous technology that can easily be weaponised against civil society.

And in a world where the lunatics are running the asylum, Digital ID only ends in digital dystopia”.

Thanks for the gorgeous teacher/lustful pupils stories guys. Back in the day, some teachers were barely out of school themselves when they went back to teach. For the 6th form it might have been as little as 3 years in age difference given the very elastic enrolment ages.

How times change.

We had a handsome young science teacher that the girls swooned over. I remained untempted. He wasn’t a patch on the Beloved’s handsomeness as he waited in his corporate glory for the 273 bus outside the school gate, to be whisked away to the offices of O’Connell St.

I discovered years later that the teacher had indeed been giving one of the pupils additional tuition. Nothing came of it of course. It was the Seventies.

Our farm is under the footprint of the proposed power line from a wind farm near Stawell connecting with the NSW grid via an inter-connector from near Echuca across to Wagga.

Victorian Energy Minister, Lily D’Ambrosia, announced the Dictator and his forty thieves have stripped farmers of any right of appeal. Butt ugly 60m pylons marching across our landscape to subsidise the green investors in cities.

As usual, this pack of slime balls are trying to use a compensation package to make farmers look like greedy capitalists. $200,000 for every km of line on your property looks like a lot until you read under the headline and see it’s $8,000 per year over 25 years.

For this you lose multiple areas of land ($5-6,000 an acre around here) to the pylons along with the shit show of having all your operations changed by negotiating around these structures. You can’t build anything near these lines, so you are stripped of any chance of improvements or ventures near the lines.

They can shove $8,000 right up Lily’s arse!

ABC news reports that a big spike in road deaths in Victoria, mostly country roads and often single vehicles.

Dan’s Mobile Goon Squad said they’d be targeting county drivers for speed and substances abuse.

If only we could put our finger on what caused a big increase in deaths on crumbling potholed rural roads.

Senator Gallagher also claims that the system will be trusted and secure. I think we know how ‘secure’ government systems are. If you want your personal data and information to be secure, you don’t hand it over to the government.

The census got DDOS’d and the SLKs for myHealth were easily decoded by a script a total novice could use.

It’s all so tiresome.

Dot.
‘It’s people like you wot cause unrest.’

Just a quote, don’t shoot the messenger.

When women are let loose to do as they please, away from the influence of men, they have not come up with a cornucopia of great inventions and discoveries. Instead they have aborted tens of millions of infants, blamed all their problems on men, voted leftists into office, become excessively promiscuous, gotten worthless college degrees and demanded equally worthless make-work jobs, believed that wealth falls like manna from Heaven, come to believe marriage is temporary, destroyed children’s lives though easy divorce and single parenthood… and rationalised every bit of it.

Pissaro, I have spent many many hours enchanted by Pissaro paintings in French galleries.
My favourite artist, I think.

“Imagine a world where no part of your life is private. Everything you have – bank accounts, purchases, your medical history, every single form of identification – all of it is readily available to the government and public servants across the country and around the world. You cannot hide anything from anyone. Even your movements are tracked.
Oh, and this is not passive information, instead it can be used against you on a whim.

Then stock up on gold, silver and (if you are so inclined) BTC or one of the privacy coins…. while you still can.

and rationalised every bit of it.

The other side of the equation is the dubious benefit of no strings sex. Many…many men will see this as a plus in the gadarene rush to the brink. Women have always traded availability for power of one sort or another.

This is the obvious trade off for western men. Other cultures do things differently.

Senator Gallagher also claims that the system will be trusted and secure. I think we know how ‘secure’ government systems are. If you want your personal data and information to be secure, you don’t hand it over to the government.

She misses the point, just as the 2nd amendment is primarily designed to protect individual citizens *from* government, the whole point of data privacy is also to protect individual citizens from government.

I don’t like lawyers generally but I know they are a necessary evil but two types I particularly loath is femocrat corporate lawyers and military lawyers.

Clearly they heard Jethro Gibbs was on the way!

The Gulf Cartel has handed over a gang of thugs that it claims was responsible for the recent kidnapping and killing of American citizens in Mexico.

The surprise move came after American politicians called for the U.S. Marines to go into Mexico and drop the hammer on the cartel.

According to a letter that was reportedly written by cartel bosses, the five men handed over were responsible for abducting four Americans and killing two of them.

In the letter, the cartel apologized for the two American citizens who were killed during the armed kidnapping in Mexico.

The cartel condemned the violence in a letter and said they turned over members who were involved.

The butch/metal nexus
good description

My comment in the Heat of the Night post wouldn’t publish.

After the last 3 years of lockdowns, restrictions and various mandates, do you seriously think governments won’t do anything they damn well want to?

Compliance of the citizens is always required to ‘enforce’ laws – there are simply too few of them and too many of us, and in addition, there are always some corrupt members of ‘them’. This is why they can’t keep drugs out of prisons and they couldn’t stop me breaching the ‘Health Orders’ dozens of times during lockdowns etc.

I know that digital IDs are intended to give government central control and visibility of *everything* citizens do digitally, but it wont work for BTC because BTC is an autonomous distributed network. Government can pass all the laws they like, but BTC doesn’t care, it just keeps running according to the source code and will go on doing so until every single one of the many thousands of computers running said code are shut down forever. Given they are distributed around the planet, on every continent, this can never happen.

I find that BTC sceptics *always* lack knowledge about how it works – anyone who has studied it (and I have been in the space for about 8 years, multiple hours a day) just gets more confidence in it, not less.

Crossie, it’s the “other guys” who will forfeit all sorts of stuff for the crumbs off the table. Like many have mentioned here about economies, the erosion happens slowly and then all at once.

As I mentioned, other cultures have chiefs and multiple wives and all the others have to make do.

We Cats pretty much know the Twitter Files story, nevertheless this article is interesting:

Dems Blast “Threat” Of “So-Called Journalists” As Taibbi, Shellenberger Expose “State-Sponsored Thought-Policing” (10 Mar)

RTWT. Basically social media has been an arm of the American Stazi, with enormous amounts of money and effort being put into repressing anyone with views critical of anything the Left wants to do or say. It makes the Soviets look like pikers.

Add that all these people are suppressing anything about election malfeasance and you can see why 2024 is a completely stacked cold-deck.

Calling Matt Taibbi a so called journalist is like calling Tom Brady a so called Quarterback.

did you notice how few female “experts” bothered to brush their hair

There’s a reason for that, Calli, especially in the case of the celebrity epidemiologist with the Bride of Frankenstein hair and advice to seal the cracks around your door to stop the COVID getting in.

Were this ninny to brush her hair with even minimal vigour it might easily see a tiny brain ricocheting about the inside of her skull, with consequent and additional cognitive damage the result.

The best way to protect BTC …AND to prevent the digital ID stuff is for as many people as possible to adopt BTC and use it.

Eyrie says:
March 11, 2023 at 9:38 am

Duk, what is to stop governments requiring you to reveal your BTC holdings to them and then valuing them at some low value and giving you fiat dollars in exchange. Been done with gold.

That is unconstitutional here. “Reveal your holdings” okay, how are they going to know who isn’t telling? If they already know…?

Hanoi Jane seems to be getting worse.

Jane Fonda just went on the View and said Pro-Life politicians need to be “murdered” because of their views on abortion.

11x + 11y on the crazy-hot matrix, but also senile.

Back to language teachers. I did not benefit from a chic little chou. My post uni French teacher was a 67 yo originally from Savoie who came out as a ten quid migrant and made her own way.
She had a husband somewhere. Probably seeking sanctuary.
She had two passions; Gods’s religion, and the French language religion.
She lived with her Mum who she had located at Daly River Mission and dragged to Melbourne for a diet of mass and no booze. The entertaining old dear was unimpressed.
An ogreish character with a big heart who succeeded in passing on her knowledge, but there were probably easier ways to learn.

Dotsays:
March 11, 2023 at 9:12 am
“Shut down the internet”

Explain how. They rely on it as much as everyone else.

I believe the CCP are rather good at it.

1

“Don’t use the phrases ‘pig out’, ‘eating like a horse’ or ‘wolfing down your dinner’ because it makes obese people feel like ANIMALS, woke dietitians say”

Sort of the whole point isn’t it?