Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023
2,217 responses to “Open Thread – Tues 28 March 2023”
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For those speculating on the zero upticks.
I have bribed Doverlord to subtract ticks every time someone passes one of my amazing, skilled and enlightening links, to stay hip with the kids daddy-0
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Libs of TikTok
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Trans activist goes on unhinged rant calling on trans people in Tennessee to fight. “Beat them, hurt them.” @FBIAgain with the trans genocide nonsense.
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Heard of online multiplayer games, have we?
Yes ‘we’ have heard of online multiplayer games. My point, from experience, is this:
You do not get exposed to the concept of teamwork, pressure and doing things inherently dangerous while under said pressure while sitting on a couch in your jocks, slouching forward looking at a TV and getting fed Doritos by the cat.
This has previously been discussed. This is why all the active shooters with no experience – BUT plenty with ‘online multiplayer games’ – end up shot at the first contact with responders, as just happened in Nashville.
This is simple. One is reality. One is fantasy.
One requires spatial knowledge, an element of fitness, muscle memory and teamwork in a real life environment, and actual skill with firearms. The other requires movable thumbs.
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And, in the immortal words of the bloke on the TV ad just before his missus starts nagging:
Befooore ya staaart….
The ‘training rooms’ where you stand and aim weapons calibrated for simunition at big screen with pictures of goodies and baddies going about their business on them are two-dimensional shitfests and no better than plinking at metal duck with air rifles during the Show.
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Eyriesays:
March 29, 2023 at 10:56 am
This teamwork is something that cannot and will never be taught via video games of any type.Heard of online multiplayer games, have we?
The genre is very popular. There is a late night TV show, LPL Pro or something like that, which broadcasts multiplayer game competitions. There are studies indicating improved cognition from first person shooter games. The games I like, strategy\building games, according to the studies don’t offer cognitive benefits.
The military is using simulators, even some games. That goes as far back as Larry Bond’s Harpoon, a DOS based naval battle simulation game. The modern version, Command from Matrix Games, is very modern and very expensive. Not sure if multiplayer capable.
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Auron MacIntyre
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The left uses media, educational, legal, and corporate institutions to manufacture ideological loyalty tests around these issues and insert them into every daily human interaction, then accuses you of engaging in a culture war
Quote TweetNBC News
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A top White House ally plans to paint Republicans’ focus on issues around race, gender and sexual identity as part of a GOP strategy to undermine public education as White House officials debate how forcefully to engage in the so-called culture wars. https://nbcnews.to/3ZoUaKrMany such cases.
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Really the Media has lost it
Nashville police revealed that the 28-year-old who shot and killed six people at the Covenant School, including three children, identified as transgender and had a detailed manifesto to attack the Christian academy.
Officials said Audrey Hale, a former student, entered the school Monday morning by shooting through a door on the side of the building.
While inside, Hale killed Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs and William Kinney, all age 9, as well as custodian Mike Hill and substitute teacher Cynthia Peak, both 61, and school head Katherine Koonce, 60.
Following the shootings, Hale was killed when they encountered officers on the second floor by 10:27 a.m., 14 minutes after the alarm was raised.
Asked whether Hale’s identity could be a factor in the motive, Drake said authorities “feel that she identifies as trans, but we’re still in the initial investigation into all of that and if it actually played a role into this incident.”
In online profiles, Hale had indicated they used he/him pronouns and also went by the name Aiden.
It is unclear whether Hale identified as a man or woman at the time of the slayings.
Hale was killed when they encountered officers on the second floor by 10:27 a.m., 14 minutes after the alarm was raised.
What’s with “they” – Hale was killed when She encountered officers on the second floor by 10:27 a.m., 14 minutes after the alarm was raised.
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Dot:
Note how liquid fuels can be made through well established processes used by chemists and chemical engineers for over a hundred years now. All you need is cheap energy – nuclear provides that.
I get what you’re saying – but the issue is “Why isn’t it happening?”
And that usually comes down to politics and political decisions.
Meanwhile China moves ahead in the only race that matters – cheap, reliable energy. How humiliating if they were to grow big enough to drown us economically. Their funding of the Greens and other anti technocratic organisations is paying big dividends.
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thefrollickingmolesays:
March 29, 2023 at 10:55 am
For those speculating on the zero upticks.
I have bribed Doverlord to subtract ticks every time someone passes one of my amazing, skilled and enlightening links, to stay hip with the kids daddy-0
Its not punishment, its “nudging”.Please be advised I typically forget to uptick. Completely unconscious on my part, nothing to do with the following. In a recent video by Hossenfelder on the wisdom\madness of crowds she states that collective decision making doesn’t work when the individuals are aware of the decisions others are making. So perhaps we shouldn’t be so ready to uptick. It’s only a blog, no matter.
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Anyone make sense of this Venn diagram?
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Rogersays:
March 29, 2023 at 10:35 am
QLD government to ban public display of Nazi symbols:‘The new offence will outlaw the public display, public distribution or publication of prohibited symbols in circumstances that “might reasonably be expected to cause a member of the public to feel menaced, harassed or offended”, reports The Guardian.
Any public display, public distribution or publication of communist symbols is likely to cause me to feel menaced, harassed or offended. Please ban them.
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QLD government to ban public display of Nazi symbols:
‘The new offence will outlaw the public display, public distribution or publication of prohibited symbols in circumstances that “might reasonably be expected to cause a member of the public to feel menaced, harassed or offended”, reports The Guardian.
So, no more Ukraine flags or gay pride flags then?
They are definitely symbols of modern day Nazism…So is the American flag come to think of it…
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“So, if you want us to frack the place, ah, no, that’s not happening … that is not happening – and we couldn’t have been clearer,” he thumped the virtual table this week. But he wants Queensland gas to be diverted from export to Victoria. “So that our (actually, their) gas is for our businesses and our households and the rest of it, the bit we don’t need – well, sell that to the world,” Andrews added. “We shouldn’t have to compete against the rest of the world for something that comes out of our ground and our seabed.”
Repeat after me … Queensland gas is for Queenslanders 🙂
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farmer Gez:
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1640839494818582530
Mentally unbalanced people meet other mentally unbalanced people and get drugs that increase their mental unbalancing.A new narrative is just being formed about the Trans kiddie killer.
Anti-trans Christians forced the shooter to act. Christian school has only itself to blame.
Yep, they’re about to dance on these kiddies graves.Prepare for many more of these deranged acts. Biden has finally found a way to demand personal firearms be stolen from you.
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Okay, the Liberal Party kicked out Gareth Ward last year and rather than resign, he sat as an independent. Last Saturday, Ward contested Kiama and has won…
Charged MP Gareth Ward retains NSW seat
Former Liberal MP Gareth Ward has retained the seat of Kiama as he fights allegations of sexual assault.
The tight seat, which Mr Ward has held since 2011, has been called, as the now-independent led by 50.8 per cent in the two-candidate preferred against Labor’s Katelin McInerney.
The ABC chief elections analyst Antony Green called the seat as Mr Ward led by 615 votes with almost 80 per cent of the vote counted.He had earlier flown past Liberal candidate Melanie Gibbons, who was parachuted into the seat.
Then-Liberal MP Mr Ward was suspended from parliament in March after a motion was passed without opposition following police laying five charges against him including sexual intercourse without consent, three counts of assault with an act of indecency and one count of common assault.
Newly elected Labor Premier Chris Minns indicated on Tuesday he would make a decision on whether to suspend him from parliament until his matter is finalised after the seat was called.
Mr Ward was arraigned yesterday in Nowra District Court.
He stood up in the courtroom and answered “not guilty” to each of the charges as they were read out to him.
One of the alleged incidents occurred in February 2013 and involved a 17-year-old. The second alleged incident – sexual intercourse without consent – took place in September 2015 and involved a 27-year-old man.
Outside court, Mr Ward told waiting media he would win the case, as well as the election, and said he “passionately believes in the presumption of innocence”.
He will attend a Sydney court again next week.
Clearly the voters of Kiama not only liked their member, they also believed in that now unfashionable notion of the presumption of innocence, an notion that, along with fiscal responsibility, free speech, individual liberty, religious freedom, freedom of association, and so on, the Liberal Party no longer believes in.
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The ‘training rooms’ where you stand and aim weapons calibrated for simunition at big screen with pictures of goodies and baddies going about their business on them are two-dimensional shitfests and no better than plinking at metal duck with air rifles during the Show.
Better tell the Australian Army because that is what they do a lot of the time. Zero training value?
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William Wheelwright
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Do you know how the trannies first came into being? They were humans, once. Taken by the dark powers. Tortured, mutilated. A ruined and terrible form of life. And now, perfected. My fighting double-mastectomy-eunuch-guerrilla-warfare-manufactured-demographic. Whom do you serve?This is perfect.
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Whoever the bloke giving the orders is hes great.
Every time the assault was stalling or slowing he poked, prodded and kept his team moving forward.He did an excellent job. But what if you don’t have such a trained and focussed individual there? It stalls.
You see the problem right at the start. Rifleman to the front, go! Rifleman just standing at the doorway wondering if he is about to die. He shoves him into the hallway, go!
If you think police are going to rescue you, it’s going to be the absolute exception. Fortunately this case was the exception.
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What was lost:
Julia ??
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Evelyn Dieckhaus, 9, was shot and killed while trying to pull the fire alarm to protect her classmates from the transgender shooter who had opened fire at her private Christian school yesterday.Her family has described Evelyn as a ‘shining light’ and said that they are… Show more
R.I.P. and condolences to her family.
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Tucker Carlson Tonight on the mass murder of Christians and their children in Nashville TN and the rise of the transsexual terrorism movement.
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The premise:
Multiplayer online gaming helps with reality
Exhibit A – Aliens: Fireteam Elite:
There’s nothing quite like gunning down freakish monsters with buddies in online co-op action. Aliens: Fireteam Elite puts you in the boots of a hardened Colonial Marine who’s tasked with rescuing survivors and investigating a xenomorph outbreak on a Weyland-Yutani colony.
Uh huh.
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Exhibit B- Borderlands 2:
You play as a Vault Hunter, a treasure hunter looking for an alien vault on a barely colonized planet. Throughout the guffaw-filled adventure, you collect hundreds of different guns, each with its own unique stats and attributes. The heavy metal lets you mow down a seemingly unlimited number of robots, mutants, and Mad Max-style raiders.
Wow. It’s like looking out the lounge room window. So real.
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Exhibit C – Call of Duty – Modern Warfare:
The Call of Duty franchise has been all over the place in recent years, with a focus shift from WWII campaigns to space adventures to battle royale action. Although Call of Duty has strayed from its roots, the Infinity Ward-developed reboot of the seminal 2007 title grounds the first-person shooter series.
New to the game is a rewards-based morality system that ranks your ability to properly discern innocent people from legitimate threats in the singleplayer campaign.
That ‘ranks your ability’, rather than charging you with murder after persecuting you for years, as just happened with a real operator instead of a cat-fed couch stoner slug.
Once again. Reality trumps fantasy.
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“…and being able to buy a semi-auto rifle as easily as they buy a bucket of KFC isn’t helping.”
Oh – I didn’t realise that you needed to fill out and sign government paperwork, then wait 5 days to buy KFC in the USA. Look, I know KFC is likely a pretty big health risk, but that seems more than a little over the top if you ask me. Hard to see how KFC is “fast food” under those circumstances too – would they be guilty of false advertising to describe themselves as “fast food”?
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Below part of article from The Oz today. Spectator mag did a much more detailed article last week. Major study having its $20m funding pulled. Some like me might even think they don’t want to know the results. Imagine if you are a Govt that mandated relatively untested vaccine to millions and your own survey showed an inconvenient amount of adverse effects.
“Queensland Health is pulling funding from a major study into the long-term effects of Covid-19 and the impact of vaccines, throwing the research trial which already has 10,000 participants into doubt.
The QoVAX study, the largest of its type in Australia, is examining how people’s immune systems respond to vaccines and to the virus itself and is seen as important real-world research to help manage future Covid variants.
Initiated in May 2021, the Queensland Health-led project was to look at health outcomes in participants for up to five years and involved some of the state’s most important research bodies: The University of Queensland, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute and Queensland University of Technology. Recruitment only finished in September last year.
However, a Queensland Health spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday that funding will cease in June this year but did not explain why. “Ongoing funding is being sought through a range of grant programs and academic partnerships to leverage the sample and data assets collected through the trial,’’ the spokesperson said”.
Now imagine if you worked on it and wanted to tell the inside story. If you do your career and job prospects finished.
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The closest thing to a firefight that any general civilian can subject themselves to is paintball…
I had a boss that decided that paintball was an exercise in “team-building,” and staff were expected to give up some of their weekends to play paintball.
Half a dozen of the ex – servicemen on the payroll got together and organized an area ambush that the Viet Cong would have envied, and paintball was dropped from the agenda soon after…
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Dan Andrews going to China and we are looking to increase our migrant and student intake.
Hmmmm. Remind me which party Chinese Australians have supported in recent elections. Like the flood of Mexicans into USA who are expected to vote Democrat.
China won’t have to take us over militarily. It will come from massive growth of their population from within.
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Clown World ™ ?
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This is so sad. Absolutely disgustingHey guys, please please stop worrying about the culture wars while teachers in schools, media, and the like endlessly propagandize children and adults. Please, there’s a good they/them.
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Just me, perhaps. But showing the video of a school-shooter incident might just encourage more to act out their chosen death in a similar way.
If I’m just a little out of touch then can we look forward to http://www.schoolshooter.com and a dedicated youtube channel showing all these great “teamwork” events on weekly, if not daily, basis?
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Zero for teamwork. Zero for working under actual pressure. 100% for fat Army Reserve chicks on annual training ‘camps’.
The Australian Army is nothing – nothing – like it was 20 or more years ago.
This may be so. I would like to be able to contradict you, but I don’t know enough.
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“…and being able to buy a semi-auto rifle as easily as they buy a bucket of KFC isn’t helping.”
A surprising number of lefty reporters fail the “KFC Bucket Test”.
“We’re going to show our viewers how easy it is to buy an assault rifle!”
“Sorry sir, I’m unable to sell you this rifle, NICS says there’s an outstanding warrant for your arrest for an assault in a restaurant in Albuquerque in 2018. I’m calling the police now ok?”
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Half a dozen of the ex – servicemen on the payroll got together and organized an area ambush that the Viet Cong would have envied, and paintball was dropped from the agenda soon after…
We had a team building exercise where we had to transmit a sentence over about 100m by hand signal. Ex military (Oz, Nz, Sing, Taiwan) were still arguing over who’s system to use by the time we’d completed transmission! 🙂
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Because leftards target advertisers at media that dares to broadcast programs that don’t conform with the approved leftard narrative on everything from Kung Flu to transgender terrorism, I am forced to watch fund-raising commercials from the enviroloons featuring endless hours of animals being tortured by Third World human trash to pay the bills at the Foxtel channels.
These enviroloon-animal rights organisations are swimming in cash. They don’t deserve the discount advertising deals they’re getting from Foxtel. Time to review your tariff structure, Foxtel – especially when your ads are pissing off your audience.
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These enviroloon-animal rights organisations are swimming in cash. They don’t deserve the discount advertising deals they’re getting from Foxtel. Time to review your tariff structure, Foxtel – especially when your ads are pissing off your audience.
It’s the same on FTA – along with the wails to save starving African and war-torn babes in arms. Bullshit meter goes off the scale.
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Daily Mail.
Dramatic moment Lidia Thorpe accuses white female senator of being a ‘RACIST’ on the floor of Parliament for interrupting her during acknowledgement to country
Lidia Thorpe interrupted in acknowledgement of country
She accused Hollie Hughes of racism in the workplace
Hughes demanded she withdraw the commentsSeems every time we mine for minerals, we are raping Mother Earth, and it’s all a product of colonization.
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I just gave you another uptick. Anyone who only responds to me in the negative all the time is a sick puppy. Why even bother, I and most people ignore heaps of material we think is wrong. I hardly cop any shit. It is only you and two others that do that. You weren’t slapped at birth you were thrown around the operating room and then starved for 24 hours because mercy killings weren’t allowed back then.
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Roger says:
March 29, 2023 at 9:36 am
Conservative Christian Tanya Davies was one of the few NSW Liberals to record a swing towards her, leaving her the only Liberal in western Sydney. She spoke against vaccine mandates in 2021.She is my MP. Isn’t it amazing how if you represent your voters’ concerns in parliament they will vote for you.
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Prof Norman Fenton
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I don’t know about the specific accusation of lying here, but I do know that every single FOI request to hospital trusts in the UK has revealed that the general claim that “almost all patients in ICU with covid were unvaccinated” was a big lie -
Lathe of the week! Late model made in England Kerry:
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/brookvale/miscellaneous-goods/kerry-1124-11-swing-lathe/1310336126
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Mill of the week! Beaver Mk2. Beaver Mk1 was a disaster, they put the narrow guide on the Y axis in the centre of the slide rather than centring over the screw. End result of this was excessive slide wear. Mk2 corrected this by placing the narrow guide over the screw.
https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/geelong/other-tools-diy/vertical-milling-machine/1310254059
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Finally, you will note that the cops displayed teamwork throughout, from entering the front door to the finale. This teamwork is something that cannot and will never be taught via video games of any type.
Something some may not have noticed, this was not a team of 3-4 cops that specifically practiced together. It was a scratch team organized literally on the run out of whichever officers made it to the incident site first.
First cop on the scene does a rapid survey/recon and takes charge. As the rest arrive he calls “I need 3 on the right”, etc. etc. until the perp is down. As they approach the now perforated perp he reminds them not to break discipline by ordering one to “cover left” (their rear blind spot in this case).
Very impressive indeed.
That’s the sign of excellent organization and realistic training at their agency.
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Crossie says:
March 29, 2023 at 1:20 pmShe is my MP. Isn’t it amazing how if you represent your voters’ concerns in parliament they will vote for you.
A week before the election:
Sportsbet odds
Liberal $1.25, Labor $4.00.
The Badgerys Creek State Election candidates pitch for your vote
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When they tell you what they’re going to do, believe them:
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Painting the hallway today, Parliament on the radio. just heard the egregious Lydia Thorpe carry on about the racist shooting of a “blackfella” in Mareeba the other day. She went on and on about how police use force and brutality on blacks way more than whites and it’s because of racism. I looked up the shooting, seems he had a woman hostage, then charged at attending police with a knife. She reckons they shot him because of racism. After the way the NT police treated Rolfe I’m amazed that the police did anything at all.
Who would be a copper anywhere with an aboriginal population?
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In the wake of the Nashville shooting and prior, the highly politicized FBI was taking a pledge to recruit more women “in an effort expected to advance diversity, strengthen partnerships, and enhance operational success.”
At 12:41 pm CT on Tuesday, the FBI’s official Twitter page shared this news. On February 27, the day that three young students and three teachers were murdered by a transgender who kept a manifesto and mapped out her plan in Nashville, TN, the FBI published their report about joining “a push to recruit more female sworn law enforcement officers and to empower them professionally.”
Less than one hour earlier, The Gateway Pundit reported that the school shooter, Audrey Hale, sent highly alarming text messages to her friend, outlining her plans for the day on Monday right before murdering innocent students and teachers.
“I’m planning to die today,” one message said. “THIS IS NOT A JOKE!!!!” Hale continued. “You’ll probably hear about me on the news after I die.”
Where was the FBI when these messages were sent? Were they too busy spying on peaceful conservatives and reading their messages?
In addition to the text messages and detailed manifesto that police say mapped out the shooting, Hale was posting concerning artwork on her website before the shooting.
Chris Wray’s statement on diversity, equity, and inclusion following the horrific and thoroughly planned school shooting can be found below:
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For mathematically minded Cats, here‘s a “simple” VPython simulation of one of the stable solutions of the 3-body problem, using Newtonian mechanics.
It is an Euler Method numerical solution of a classic dynamics problem consisting of difficult differential equations with no general analytical solution, something that was proven >100 years ago by Poincare`.
One can change body masses M, initial velocities V0, starting coordinates (.pos vectors), time length and speed of simulation (lines 27.28) and watch the unpredictable results.
But.. simulating a “stable” orbital system with the initial parameters shows the correct, stable orbits only for ~ 60,000 iterations, even in this simplified simulation.Why? Because of the cumulative error in x64 CPU floating-point arithmetic, which approximate transcendental numbers (pi and trigs) to ~15 decimal places (53 binary bits) only. What then follows is the result of the accrued rounding errors in the iterated functions (lines 29-40).
Beautiful graphics, but wrong.The point of this?
Simulating a complex system, even simplified, while keeping just 4 independent parameters constant. produces significant incremental errors after << 100,000 iterations, despite 15-decimal point precision (equivalent to a ±0.5mm error in 1 billion Kms).
Also, because 3-body orbital physics IS inherently chaotic, no amount of floating-point precision will produce long-term accuracy. Only analytical solutions can.
Anyone proficient in high-school maths, and beyond, would understand this.Yet we are expected to believe that 3D circulation climate models, with dozens of changing, DEPENDENT parameters, in an even more chaotic system, can accurately predict weather or climate, calculated by iteration, usually in ?t intervals of 2-3 hours, 3+ generations from now.
Widespread innumeracy/stupidity are costing us a Civilization.
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Gotta love Americans, if not their government at the moment. The latest EAA Sport Aviation arrived on line.
You may have seem memes with the Bally Bomber in them (do not wash your bomber in warm water). A 1/3 scale B-17 the guy flies.
Another bloke is developing a reduction drive for a Honda L series car engine for small aircraft like Piper Cubs etc. He is trying to make it lighter and figured he’d know he’d gone too far when he ended up in a farmer’s field due engine failure. So he thought he’d like a multi engine aircraft. Two is problematical for small aircraft as it is very difficult to get good single engine performance, so more than two is good.
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Some in the US media are complaining that:
“The shooter has been identified by his deadname.”
Well folks, SHE is being identified by the name she used on the forms for the background checks required to purchase the weapons she used in a horrific attack on innocents to support your cause.
So nah, I think we’ll stack to that name.
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EVs Are The Yugo Of The 21st Century
I & I Editorial Board – March 28, 2023
Way back in the mid-1980s, communist Yugoslavia exported the Yugo, a compact car that sold for around $4,000. It was so poorly made that bumping into a pole at 5 mph could total it.
Fast forward to today, and a new class of cars has a similar problem. A minor accident can cause a total loss, even if the car’s been driven only a few miles. The only difference is that these cars aren’t cheap imports from some godforsaken socialist state. These are state-of-art electric vehicles that come with an average sticker price of $55,000.
Why are insurance companies totaling low-mileage EVs that have been in a fender bender? For the same reason you could total a new Yugo when backing out of a parking spot. The cost of repair is exorbitant.
As Reuters reported recently, “For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents,” which means the only viable option is to replace the battery, which represents about half the cost of the car.
Insuring an electric car is already 27% more expensive, on average, than a gasoline-powered one. If insurers keep totaling new EVs with minor damage, those rates will only go up.
This won’t be a problem just for EV owners. You can bet that the environmentalists pushing electric cars will soon start complaining that insurance companies are “discriminating” against EVs and demanding that they spread those costs around more widely – forcing owners of conventional cars to subsidize EVs.
In a normal market, carmakers would work out such kinks before mass producing a vehicle, much less converting their entire fleets over to a new and relatively untested technology. If they couldn’t resolve problems of affordability, reliability, and repairability to consumers’ satisfaction, automakers would scrap the effort and move on to something else.
But our elites think they know better. And they want new cars to be 100% electric within a decade. So, carmakers feel like they have little choice but to plow ahead.
Which brings up another way that today’s EVs are like the Yugos of yesteryear.
One auto critic said of the Yugo that it “had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint.”
That was probably literally true in the case of the Yugo. But it is essentially the situation with EVs today.
Consumers aren’t banging on dealership doors demanding EVs. Ford reported last week that its e-car division is losing billions of dollars a year.
Car companies are pouring money into electric cars only because the government is holding a gun to their heads, saying build EVs or die.
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Yet we are expected to believe that 3D circulation climate models, with dozens of changing, DEPENDENT parameters, in an even more chaotic system, can accurately predict weather or climate, calculated by iteration, usually in ?t intervals of 2-3 hours, 3+ generations from now.
Windy.com gives you the choice of 3 global 3D circulation models and an Australian region one. You can see for yourself how well/poorly the predictions do. ECMWF is the latest model with highest resolution.
Choose where you are, look at surface wind, rain, thunderstorms etc 10 days out and look at how it changes day by day, 9 ,8 7 etc as that day gets closer. There are times it seems to work OK and times it is hopeless.
The 50 years time folk will tell you they do lots of runs of the models and average them.
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Pure uncut Copeium, straight from the Tasmanian triangle….
People without children start social groups due to moral stigma and social isolation
After a long period of loneliness, Rochelle Steven was at the point of “total despondency” when she typed “child-free women’s social group” into an online search engine.
“Working from home and also being a woman in her late 30s with no kids — that’s actually two of the really key mechanisms that women use to make friends,” Ms Steven said.
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Realising she needed to build connections, she hit the enter key in her Google search.It’s brought her in contact with a group of women who have now changed her life.
“If I had not been so down, I might not have taken that leap,” Ms Steven said.
“It was kind of this lifeline for me.
I joined, I fronted up to a social gathering with these women … [aged] in their 30s to 50s [with] no kids — either by choice or not — so it’s very much a judgement-free zone.”Ms Steven is a member of one of multiple Perth social groups created by people without children to socialise and make new friends.
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he proportion of women not having children at all has continued to grow in Australia since the mid-1980s, despite fluctuating fertility rates.While their reasons vary, some have experienced a social stigma for not becoming a parent.
For Ms Steven, the group has not been an escape from those social pressures but an opportunity to address her loneliness.
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As a consequence, Ms Steven chose to seek out women who were child-free.“I did decide to actively find a group of women who were in a similar stage of their life, both [in terms of] choice and age and interests,” she said.
During her 20s, Ms Steven decided she did not want children. This was initially for lifestyle reasons and later due to ethical concerns about human population and consumption.
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Kimberley Tassoude, co-founder of a social media group called Perth Australia Childfree, says non-parent communities provide a safe place to share feelings and experiences.
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“I believe my most amusing one was being called an ’empty vessel’ by someone who was a little angry,” she said.“I’ve also been told I’m mentally ill for not wanting children.”
Ms Tassoude has also been told that she is “a waste of food” and that “if a woman is not going to reproduce then she basically shouldn’t be here”.
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Shocking Biden hot-mic reveals how handlers program his every move
WATCH.
Yes, this is 100% real.
From the Comments
– How is brandon’s behavior any different then Fetterman’s actions?
– Well, he is out in public. So we know, think, he is alive.
– The United States of America
July 4, 1776 – November 2, 2020
Requiescat In Pace– Bathroom trips have gotta be a hot mess.
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Zulu Kilo Two Alpha says:
March 29, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Painting the hallway today, Parliament on the radio. just heard the egregious Lydia Thorpe carry on about the racist shooting of a “blackfella” in Mareeba the other day.Why Lidia Thorpe is still sitting in the Senate is beyond me. Can’t the major parties have her censured or expelled?
You are a kidder. Which major party do you expect to do something about her? Labor won’t as she takes the heat off their idiocies. Liberals won’t as it takes guts and principle to stand up to the thuggish Thorpe.
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I never watch body-cam footage released after mass killings etc but I picked up on somebody’s Twitter page that the video didn’t include the murders or anything close-quarters gruesome.
The resolve, focus, intelligence and commitment to sacrifice themselves for children if necessary was, quite simply, magnificent. They ought to be decorated not only by their Department but by Congress.
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Rogersays:
March 29, 2023 at 11:51 am
“our gas is for our businesses and our households and the rest of it, the bit we don’t need – well, sell that to the world. We shouldn’t have to compete against the rest of the world for something that comes out of our ground and our seabed.”Isn’t this National Socialism, Premier Andrews?
Of course. Modern leftards have realised that fascism gives them both power over the lives of others, and greater opportunities for grift than communism does.
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Rogersays:
March 29, 2023 at 1:52 pm
It’s a claim made by women who like to meditate and light scented candles.“I’m not religious, I’m spiritual.”
I imagine you haven’t seen the latest series of advertisements with young attractive women wearing their magic crystals. Late night, running for some months now. Must be selling well. One of the images is a woman meditating.
The late to the game New Age guru, Deepak Chopra, an endocrinologist, made a bucketload promoting his nonsense. I used to refer to him as Deep Pork Chops.
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I’ve just been introduced to the work of Ivan Katchanovski via an interview with Glenn Diesen and Alexander Mercouris. He pretty much presents a strong case that the snipers at Maidan were very likely associated with the far-right parties like Svoboda party. There is a good overview of his case here, and/or you could just read his papers here.
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Progressive privilege: Shouting down the women
CHICKS ON THE RIGHT
Make no mistake – progressive privilege is real, and so is mental illness. Both are rampant in this country, and yup – I’m calling out all the misguided coddling while ACTUAL WOMEN GET CANCELLED.
Because actual women are, in fact, the ones being pushed to the back of the room, destroyed little by little, while feminists stand in the corner with their thumbs up their arses. Or worse yet? They’re aiding and abetting the cancellation. So-called feminists are so busy falling right in the woke line and fawning all over the biological men who appear to so effortlessly rule them.
Gross.
Patriarchy wins again, huh U of Pitt?
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Eyrie says:
March 29, 2023 at 2:15 pmWindy.com gives you the choice of 3 global 3D circulation models and an Australian region one. You can see for yourself how well/poorly the predictions do. ECMWF is the latest model with highest resolution.
Choose where you are, look at surface wind, rain, thunderstorms etc 10 days out and look at how it changes day by day, 9 ,8 7 etc as that day gets closer. There are times it seems to work OK and times it is hopeless...as one would expect from modelling a chaotic (non-deterministic) system.
This was normal and expected, until Climate “scientists” came along.
The error can be measured by changing initial conditions/assumptions (see t-zero constraints in dealing with systems modeled by differential equations), but cannot be reliably predicted.The 50 years time folk will tell you they do lots of runs of the models and average them.
Would some of the mathematicians here like to tell me whether that makes any sense and is mathematically consistent?No. Error bars have a nasty habit of increasing linearly-to-exponentially, even in deterministic systems, which climate models are not.
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Daily Mail. Your taxpayers dollars at work.
READ: The entire exchange between Hollie Hughes and Lidia Thorpe
Senator Thorpe: I want to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the lands—
Senator Hughes: How many times has that happened today?
Senator Thorpe: Is that racism? Can I just call out racism in this chamber right now, please? Acting Deputy President, I call it out.
Senator Hughes: Point of order.
The Acting Deputy President (Senator Linda Reynolds): Point of order?
Senator Hughes: We’ve just had an accusation made in this chamber, and I would like Senator Thorpe to withdraw.
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Hughes, you have a point of order?
Senator Hughes: Yes. I’d just like to point out that Senator Thorpe has just made a comment about me that I think she should withdraw in its inference—in fact, its direct calling.
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Thorpe?
Senator Thorpe: Acting Deputy President, what are you asking me to do?
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Thorpe, I’ve just had a point of order that you actually made—
Senator Thorpe: Do you want me to finish reading it?
The Acting Deputy President: I did hear what Senator Hughes said, and—
Senator Thorpe: And you don’t see that as racist?
The Acting Deputy President: That is not my call to make. However—are you making a point of order?
Senator Thorpe: I’m making a point of order that I am in my workplace, and I don’t need racists being racist to me while I’m reading my speech. Can you make sure that I am not targeted with racism while I’m trying to do my job, please?
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Hughes?
Senator Hughes: I don’t think it’s appropriate for Senator Thorpe to be referring to anyone in this place as racist, and I would ask her to withdraw. That is absolutely inappropriate, and I will not be referred to by you as anything, let alone that. You need to—
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Hughes, take your seat. Senator Hughes, you are not helping. Senator Hughes and Senator Thorpe! Thank you. Senator Thorpe, I heard what Senator Hughes said, and I didn’t hear anything that was –
Senator Thorpe, if you would like a review of the Hansard, I can certainly ask for a review of the Hansard.
Senator Thorpe: I would like that please, because I will not stand for racism in my workplace.
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Thorpe, you are not helping the situation by repeating that claim about Senator Hughes. I would ask that you withdraw that imputation.
Senator Thorpe: I will not withdraw until you understand that I have just been racially vilified while I’m reading my speech.
Senator Katy Gallagher: If it might assist the chamber, there is obviously a disagreement that has gone on here. I think your suggestion that the Hansard be reviewed and that the President or yourself come back to the chamber at a later date might be the best way to facilitate this evening.
Senator Hughes: I would just like to make the point that the constant reference to Australians who were born here from a different heritage being referred to as colonisers is not helpful in any way. Perhaps we need to refer to the Hansard in more ways than one.
The Acting Deputy President: Senator Hughes and Senator Thorpe: I will confer with the President, and also the Clerk. We will review the Hansard, and we will come back and report back to the Senate.
Senator Thorpe: Acting Deputy President, I appreciate that. Can I continue to read my speech?
The Acting Deputy President: You have the call.
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