Well spotted Ceres.
Open Thread – Tues 29 Aug 2023
- The more you gets the less you eats
- Open Thread – Weekend 23 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Thurs 21 Nov 2024
- Open Thread – Mon 18 Nov 2024
- From darkness to the promise of light
At this moment in time, Jasprit Bumrah is playing his 41st Test and is holding a bowling average of 19.94.…
How depressing: Australia (3-12) trail India by 521 runs after day three.
This is the WSJ but not paywalled. Also not what you’d expect.Decline and Fall of America? Not Yet Trump appears…
Janet Yellen departs from office — as she leaves a trail of mess behind her
primo
Secondo!
8 hours of trying to set up an Optus wireless modem.
Turns out they sent the unit with the wrong type of SIM card….
The people at the Optus shop had better be polite tomorrow.
/ tomorrows just another day
Good luck on finding a helpful person at the shop, Mole.
I was surprised and amazed to find the Telstra support person I talked to on a similar issue started to complain about his own issues with Telstra tech … somehow I was supposed to sympathize with their problems instead of getting my own one resolved.
Weird. Seems like we are all prisoners of big companies these days, staff and customers.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Mark Knight #2.
Mark Knight #3.
Meanwhile, outside of Melbourne and Sydney, syndicated cartoonist Peter Broelman keeps the punters dumbed down with TDS.
TDS is also rampant in the British press from the likes of Christian Adams (Evening Standard) and Morten Morland (The Times).
Matt Margolis.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Matt Margolis #2.
Bob Gorrell.
Thanks once again Tom for the Toons.
Apologies to feelthebern the other day for not replying to his/her question. The threat of the national government taking over the state mining royalties came from the article that old Ossie quoted. I don’t know any more about it. It is just another example of how the uniparty, and the majority of Australians, want to destroy the states and federalise everything. This is not good and is not what makes the US successful. The founding of Canberra was an attempt to prevent Sydney or Melbourne from becoming the primate city that dominated the country. Our state capitals have been a bulwark against this, too.
Sometimes you don’t know if it’s fate, sheer luck or God’s will?
Whatever, a good outcome.
We are finishing a pleasant stay on Hydra tomorrow morning. Recommended if you’re looking for something different in Greece.
The island is peaceful – unbelievably quiet. Roosters crow in the morning, donkeys/mules pad by, voices of neighbours, bells tolling, virtually no dogs barking, AND no traffic noise. No cars or bikes on the island at all – has a few small garbage trucks. Water taxis operate and there are some push carts.
Very steep, stone steps everywhere, no grass, one park. Temperatures above 35. The town is set around the bay and on the slopes. 1 ¾ hrs from Athens by fast catamaran, it used to be a fishing port. There are thousands of cats lying around; most look in reasonable condition. Beautiful clear cool Mediterranean sea-waters which we swam in. Very busy with many tourists. Lots of flower or herb pots, but few gardens as soil poor.
Our accommodation is under a house in a small unit with stone walls and wooden ceilings. We dined out at a 200yr old restaurant which Leonard Cohen use to frequent – he had a house here, and when he died a few years ago a memorial bench was installed on a clifftop by his fans. Lots of other “superstars” have frequented here. Boy on a Dolphin (Sophia Loren) was filmed here. Old windmills and very busy port. Greek Orthodox faith important – their churches are chock full of icons, chandeliers, gold, candles, wall hangings, statues etc. Today must have been commercial delivery day, there were pallets everywhere. Builders use a mechanised cart system on rails to shift building materials up the slopes. The symbol of the Hydra is brought to life along the bay in a huge rotating animated statue.
A ship of the Hellenic (Greek) Navy was in town to help celebrates the Greek Orthodox Church Feast Day of Agios Fanourios, commemorating the martyr and miracle worker who is asked to intercede when things are lost. A bit of a parade and band in the main area of the waterfront.
The ship was the Ypoploiarchos Tournas. Formerly the Leopard of the German Navy, she was commissioned in August 1973 – so now very old for a warship – and transferred to the Greek forces in 2000. Said to be decommissioned in 2011, she looks to have had a new lease of life, and was carrying two quad missile packs, as well as modern automatic guns.
The harbour was once defended by both a floating gate and a net, looking by the remains of chains and so on still attached to rocks.
Back to Athens tomorrow by fast ferry.
Stan’s got form.
https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/kostakidis-i-was-ignored-bullied-20071006-ge5zk5.html
Speaking of telcos, Optus gave up on my overseas roaming. Fell over permanently after a month when it failed three times. Now will not connect 99% of the time.
They gave a month’s fees back to the account. Strangely, Mrs TE’s phone on exactly the same settings works ok.
Odd for a telco to recommend getting a SIM from another company.
I highly doubt Federalising royalties would ever happen without wall to wall ALP government and an ALP majority in the House and Senate.
They might argue all royalties are excise but the State legislations usually declare that prior to Federation the minerals were owned by the Crown in right of each State. So the excise stuff likely won’t fly.
WA had several mining Acts before 1900 which set out the principles which are carried in the current 1978 Act. Their mineral rights were established more or less by 1899.
The savings provisions and s 114 of the Commonwealth Constitution would make this difficult to do.
There should be reform however. The Crown in any right at all should not own minerals nor should States or territories be able to compulsorily acquire property except in special circumstances with due warning and just compensation.
Today’s Tele:
EX CHARGED OVER GARSIDE PICS
LAUREN FERRI AND – NATHAN SCHMIDT
Boxer Harry Garside’s ex-girlfriend has been charged with distributing
intimate images of the Olympic bronze medallist without his consent.
Ashley Alsione Ruscoe was already facing two domestic violence-related
charges – common assault and stalking or intimidating with intent to
cause fear or physical harm.
Ruscoe, 35, is now facing two new charges of intentionally distributing
intimate images without consent, domestic violence related that were laid
on August 23.
It is not known when the images were distributed, but they are of Garside
who has given consent to identify him as the alleged victim.
Ruscoe’s matter is due back in Downing Centre Local Court tomorrow.
She was arrested in July at a Bellevue Hill home following an investigation
into allegations of a domestic violence incident at the property in March.
Garside was accused of assault against Ruscoe earlier this year before the
charge against him was dropped after his defence team told the court a
video previously not seen by police showed she was the aggressor.
Good.
With reference to Stan Grant, I just don’t get how an adult can blow a gasket like that in the work place.
Unless he’s on or changing some medication it demonstrates some serious issues.
He’s not a footy coach at half time (but there’s growing evidence that yelling at most players is counter productive).
Todays Paywallion:
Teachers in boycott of nuclear submarine project
By NATASHA BITA
EDUCATION EDITOR
The Australian Education Union will meet to discuss boycotting a science experiment that would see students design nuclear-powered submarines.
Pacifist teachers are boycotting a Defence Department “brainwashing’’ program that asks children to design nuclear-powered submarines.
The Australian Education Union federal executive will meet this week to consider a national boycott of the science project, which requires high school students to design a nuclear-powered propulsion system for a submarine.
The union is furious that the Albanese government is spending $368bn on AUKUS nuclear-powered submarines at a time when most public schools are receiving less money than they were supposed to under the Gonski needs-based funding deal.
At a grassroots level, some teachers are boycotting the Nuclear-Powered Propulsion Challenge, which was launched by Deputy Chief of Navy Rear Admiral Jonathon Earley in June as a science, technology, engineering and maths competition.
The controversial STEM challenge asks students to work in teams to submit engineering plans for submarine nuclear propulsion.
Defence devised the program “to inspire students to discover how nuclear propulsion works and how it makes submarines more capable’’.
Winning students from each state and territory will visit HMAS Stirling in Western Australia, tour a Collins-class submarine, dine with submariners and use a training simulator to “drive” a submarine through Sydney Harbour.
AEU branch meetings in Victoria have resolved to block the project in schools, and environmental group Friends of the Earth is now pushing for a national boycott.
Friends of the Earth nuclear-free co-ordinator Sanne de Swart said the Defence Department had made a “blatant attempt to normalise nuclear power and indoctrinate children into building instruments of death’’.
She said the STEM project was “indoctrinating” students and failed to address the health and environmental risks of nuclear power.
“It fails to acknowledge Australia’s significant and devastating history with nuclear, including the atomic bomb tests, uranium mining and the attempts to impose nuclear waste dumps,’’ she said.
Union members at Virtual School Victoria voted to condemn the program.
“We resolve to refuse to refer students to this program or others like it, and we will refuse to promote it within our schools,’’ the branch stated.
A union meeting of public school teachers in the regional Victorian town of Benalla also called on the state’s Education Department to “cease all involvement in this and similar programs’’.
“The government spending of $368bn on AUKUS nuclear submarines will require whole new industries in Australia, and beginning to draw our brightest teenage students into a war industry is outrageous,’’ their motion states. “A politicised pro-AUKUS curriculum has no place in our schools.’’
Melbourne primary school teacher Emma Kefford is planning to vote for a boycott at a meeting of the AUE’s inner-city branch on Thursday. She said she was “pretty disturbed’’ that the Defence Department was providing curriculum material to schools.
“I think it contradicts some of the other values in the Australian curriculum,’’ she said. “These inventions seem pretty exciting to young people, but they’re often removed from the realities of war and the horrors it entails.’’
The Victorian Education Department promotes the challenge on its website, saying: “We’re encouraging schools to register teams of 3 to 5 students to work together on the project.’’
The South Australian government also promotes the program on its website, as a way to “get young Australian minds thinking like engineers and scientists, by completing activities based on nuclear submarine engineering’’.
A spokesman for federal Education Minister Jason Clare said he did not share the concerns. The Defence Department was asked how many schools were participating but did not respond.
NATASHA BITA EDUCATION EDITOR
Meanwhile, Girls and Boys.
Top Ender
Aug 29, 2023 6:22 AM
I don’t travel, but my daughter does, she is with Aldi of all carriers and had excellent
coverage everywhere she went.
Wow. New found respect for Mary Kostakidis. She had loyalty beyond reason to SBS. Wondered what happened to her.
I finally understand why politicians and people in power these days never seem to take responsibility, nor acknowledge or apologies for their various misdeeds.
It’s because of the feminisation of society. Women in general don’t like accepting responsibility nor apologising for any of the wrongs they commit.
Stan Grant, too much time on the hot air machine methinks.
So many become precious and fragile, because it works.
Look at the footballer, can’t remember his name, who monstered a kid…and they made him Australian of the year. Claimed he was booed for racism when he was just a d*ckhead
Kostakidis settled that legal action out of court.
Apparently Grant was an old pal of SBS news and current affairs director Paul Cutler.
Men, in general, make generalisations without evidence, because it’s all about how they feel.
Hydra is the island that journalist and writer George Johnson and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift, moved to in the 1950s. The island, in the 1950s and 60s, was a magnet for artists.
I was wrong, there is substantial evidence.
it’s important to understand that this trait is a result of the very nature of women. Allah did not create women to handle heavy responsibilities but, rather, to fulfill a supportive role in the household and with the children.
I’m late to this.
Some media personality was highlighting that CNN is now fact checking Biden.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/16/politics/fact-check-biden-amtrak-grandfather-pittsburgh-bridge-debt/index.html
They are.
But their ratio is 10/1 GOP/DNC.
:
Hydra sounds charming. I’ve not been to Greece, it’s on the list.
Ultimo eruption: ABC bosses investigated bullying complaint against Stan Grant
By DAVID ROSS
JOURNALIST
and YONI BASHAN
MARGIN CALL EDITOR
FIRST PUBLISHED AT 10:00PM AUGUST 28, 2023
ABC management investigated a public bullying incident involving Indigenous presenter Stan Grant and a senior ABC colleague, which occurred in the foyer of the broadcaster’s Ultimo headquarters in full view of witnesses.
Documents obtained by The Australian using the Freedom of Information Act reveal a complaint was lodged about Grant in the days after he allegedly erupted in a lengthy, expletive-laden tirade against the female ABC staff member.
Grant allegedly shouted at the woman, a longstanding colleague, for several minutes in front of dozens of ABC staff after she approached him with a question concerning production of a show.
Despite full knowledge of the alleged outburst, ABC management put Grant to air that evening to lead the live discussion panel.
The documents state the ABC was advised of a “prospect of litigation” concerning the complaint. The Australian is not suggesting Grant committed any wrongdoing, only that a complaint was lodged and investigated. He did not respond to questions and has since left his role at the broadcaster; the woman allegedly involved in the matter – whom The Australian is not naming – remains on staff and did not respond to a request for comment.
The Australian understands the staff member involved did not make the formal complaint to management. Specific details about the incident were redacted in nine pages of documents – from a total of 14 – which include correspondence between Grant and the ABC’s head of news, Justin Stevens, who conducted inquiries.
The inquiries were made between February 3 and March 3, although what management action was ultimately taken against Grant remains unclear.
The ABC declined to comment; however, the broadcaster claimed legal professional privilege over a number of documents sought, including legal advice.
“These documents comprise communications and documents created in connection with a potential dispute for the dominant purpose of the ABC’s internal lawyers advising their client, the ABC, about the then prospect of litigation,” wrote Ali Edwards, the ABC’s head of rights management and FOI decision-maker.
“A limited group of people at the ABC are aware of private matters raised in the documents and access (sic) this information has been limited internally such that it is shared on a limited need-to-know basis with relevant decision makers and advisers,” she said.
The incident is understood to have taken place in the weeks leading up to the return of China Tonight, on ABC News Channel. Grant had previously hosted China Tonight and was slated to continue in that role with the news and current affairs program into 2023.
On February 22, nearly a month after the alleged incident, the ABC revealed Grant would be replaced by ABC business reporter Samuel Yang and comedian Annie Louey.
Grant fronted Q+A until May but stepped down after he came under fire for his role on the ABC’s broadcast of the coronation of King Charles III. Last week he announced he had resigned from the ABC weeks ago.
Grant faced heated public scrutiny in May following the ABC’s broadcast of the coronation. The 45-minute panel program, which featured several pro-republic presenters, discussed at length the issue of colonisation and the damage the British monarchy had caused to Indigenous Australians.
In a piece published by the ABC on May 19, Grant complained about a lack of support he received in the face of public criticism, saying no one at the ABC had “uttered one word of public support” in the wake of criticism of the coronation broadcast.
Staff walked out of the ABC newsroom three days later when Grant revealed he had been subject to online abuse over his role in the coronation programming and as host of Q+A. Holding signs marked “I stand with Stan” and “We reject racism”, ABC staff demonstrated their support.
Stevens, who managed the complaint against Grant, said the television host had faced a tirade of criticism “particularly in the usual sections of the media that target the ABC”.
“Clearly, Stan felt let down by the fact I wasn’t out there and the ABC wasn’t out there publicly defending him in recent weeks,” he said. “I feel devastated that he feels let down by us.”
Grant recently joined the Asia-Pacific arm of the Constructive Institute, based at Monash University. He is currently on a six-week visit to the program’s Denmark headquarters.
DAVID ROSS JOURNALIST
YONI BASHAN MARGIN CALL EDITOR
Nothing like falling on your feet and skiving off for a nice little six week swan…
Must be craploads of spare pesos to throw around at the uni.
Women in general don’t like accepting responsibility nor apologising for any of the wrongs they commit.
What a load of codswallop. There are plenty of men who also don’t like accepting responsibility or apologising for any of the wrongs they commit.
I’m pretty sure personal accountability isn’t a sex specific trait.
“because it’s all about how they feel”
I have been told again and again (by women) that men have no feelings.
Test
10:1
Getting the server errors this morning.
Sometimes I think it’s the hamsters don’t like some characters.
Those Italians really have a way with words:
I’ve long though Stan to be an all round phoney.
Looks like today might be ‘battle of the sexes’.
My comment re feelings wasn’t intended to be taken seriously.
Of course men have no feelings.
We’re environmental protestors!
Before feminisation, mens honor meant something. But why be honorable when women generally refuse to accept when they are in the wrong and refuse to accept responsibility. There is no need for men to be honorable these days.
Destiny put us there. Chance, fate. As far as I know, we’re all fine. And this, believe me, is the most beautiful thing.”
Applies to the British First Nations People arriving on this continent.
Stan sounds like he’s had golden haired boy status for a very long time.
Seven years ago he was deciding which political party to join to be catapulted into parliament.
Now he just wants a voice.
Journalist Stan Grant could pursue politics career within months
Razey you have a gold nugget wrapped up in a turd.
Nice to see a little pushback now and then.
not all heroes wear capes
Those horrible women ruin everything.
I wonder who let feminists in the door in the first place.
Once upon a time he just wanted a voice in parliament.
Women apologising.
I’ve heard of it but never seen an actual case myself.
Geez, I think someone here wants to return to the good old days of ‘honourable’ raping and reaving.
Famer Gez, funny.
Razey, bitter.
Razey sounds like he is confusing rational & irrational with something to do with gender.
My best friends are rational people of both sexes.
I avoid the irrational at all costs.
I was at the Tigers Roosters game on Saturday evening.
In the cheapest of cheap seats.
A footy crowd is the gold medal of irrational people.
Mea culpa mea culpa mea maxima culpa.
I’m not going to claim any sort of expertise on male female relationships but taking responsibility for your own actions.
Absolutely.
A footy crowd is the gold medal of irrational people.
I think the best way to describe it is ‘Tribal.’
Apologise, dammit!
Yep, just like his tan.
Mary Kostakidis and the ABC sheila who have been monstered by sTan Grant, should have kept it simple and decked him. A glass-jawed wimp like him would have keeled over and then everyone around could have taken photos of Tan lying prone on the ground like a run over wombat.
Women should stop whimpering and feeling sorry for themselves and fight back, hard.
They only seem to go after decent guys who have been raised to be kind to women.
If a man speaks in the forest, and his wife doesn’t hear him, is he still wrong?
The problem is third wave feminism and beyond made women a protected class but at the same time undid old conventions about men and women being complimentary to each other.
I’m trying to work up some sympathy for an ABC wymminses berated by that over-basted puff adder.
Nothing happening.
And for that I apologise most sincerely.
Was he ever right Barry?
Remember, if you ever think you’re possibly correct, it’s a case of in three days time: “that’s what I was saying all along, you never listen!”.
Hello sir, I’m a census worker.
Are you married or are you happy?
I love the Italian story about the toddler and the catcher. No vision which makes it a TV non-story.
My imagination has him as a rather well-fed gentleman…he described himself as built to cushion the impact. His proud mother will give him an extra helping tonight.
Mountain out of a mole hill.
When someone loses their shit at work, you tell them to take a week’s leave.
No one likes being forced to chew through their annual leave with zero notice.
On their return they apologise to the people involved & you get back into it.
Unless it happens again.
Then you have to do something about it.
Dot, oh behave.
I’ve been watching the last season of Archer on Netflix in anticipation of the new series dropping on Fox this weekend.
Hopefully they will bring “phrasing” back in a big way.
Not all heroes with capes make money either.
Nolte: Woke ‘Blue Beetle’ Flops at Home and Abroad (28 Aug)
You could see that cming a mile off. One wonders why Warner Bros studio executives don’t. Meanwhile woke is having its usual effect on rivals Disney:
Disney Stock at 9-Year Low, Anti-woke Boycott Continues (Newsmax, 28 Aug)
Woke really is an amazing value destroyer.
Truth Telling.
My teen daughter made us pancakes this morning “They’re delicious sweetie”
Sometimes you need a coffee more than other times.
And more legal problems for the Haus of Mouse,
Someone may end up going to jail over this one.
https://youtu.be/bq4jC04N9C0?feature=shared
META getting done for financial fraud and collapsing is my schadenfreude dream.
You will respect mah
authoritahindigineitah!Another villa to the Zelenskyy family, this time in Egypt in El Gouna. in his mother in law’s name cost 5 mill US.
I wonder if he will enjoy any of it?
Sorry can’t link.
Forget the politics & reasoning behind it, De Santis removing the tax shield that Disney corruptly put in place a million years ago was awesome.
There needs to be more of it.
I will bet, to a womyn, they are demanding more weapons and money be transferred to Ukraine.
Must be from 2021.
Right?
Youth crime protesters in Brisbane to Palaszczuk:
‘You locked us down, why won’t you lock them up?’
A pity she’s in Italy with her paramour.
Grayzone gets their GoFundMe locked.
Not all heroes wear capes! .. WOW, just wow!
Courtesy of GABOR …. 6.13am ..
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/27/world/turin-banker-saves-girl-italy-intl/index.html
Rosie, another Tokyo treasure if you, or someone you’re travelling with, enjoys textiles. Nippori fabric town is on one of the main train lines and it’s a district of fabric shops. From memory, there are also yarn and leather sellers.
It opens at 10am so don’t be like me and get there too early!
Get back on the train for a couple of stops, change to Ginza Line and out to Senso Ji. The public transport around Tokyo is easy once you figure out all the lines and how to pay for them (vending machines, natch). Also, everything is in English and well signposted.
Unless the so called racial abuse of SuntanStan was sent by anonymous letter, which virtually nobody does these days, why have plod not charged someone with an offence. Disappointed he wasn’t hero of the day at the coronation, when most thought he was JADOTIAAMT (just another dickhead of the its all about me tribe) and didn’t receive the adulation of all and sundry, has decided the grift is better than being in the spotlight. Unless the the spotlight has suntanning qualities.
I don’t think he gets much traction, Tom.
Tokyo trains, get a Suica card, load it like $30 and then all you need to do is work out tracks and stations
Best thing yet
If Australia’s history is a reliable guide, there’s nothing like a war emergency to facilitate the Commonwealth theft of state rights.
‘You locked us down, why won’t you lock them up?’
You know, a QLD LNP with any political nous would use this as an election slogan but they can’t because they supported the lockdowns.
Are you contemplating seppuku, Razey-san?
“Grayzone gets their GoFundMe locked.”
GoF*ckMe. The war on free speech continues unabated.
Did anyone here wake up frightened this morning?
Daily Mail’s original headline for the story linked below, screamed,
“Australian’s Wake in Fright!” LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12454529/Magnitude-7-1-earthquake-strikes-Bali-Popular-Indonesian-tourist-hotspot-rocked.html
From the OOT:
Dot, did you actually check the link?
string theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
At least the string theorists have been called out.
Sadly the same isn’t true for paleoanthropology where so many arguments are created with scant evidence. The genetic studies help overcome that.
So much neuroscience reporting was replete with the mereological fallacy. Another problem is that the public still thinks understanding the brain-behavior relationship is about neurons and neurotransmitters; even worse some professionals still think like that.
Climate science is epistemically exuberantly optimistic.
Nutrition is well … .
Top Ender at Aug 29 at 12:20 (Olde Threade)
“Don’t you know who I am”
“Mate, I work at the ABC.”
“Oh yeah. Sorry.”
The grift is strong in this one. SuntanStan is professor at Griffith Uni, Vice-chancellors chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging and now Monash. How much is he hauling in. Not bad for no formal qualifications. Had to laugh, one of the things I saw said he was a beloved icon. Ha!
This locking of people’s accounts sounds like straight out stealing to me and isn’t it illegal?
Thanks for the travel tips.
Even the one about oaf-ish drinking behaviours.
It’s just as worthwhile finding out things not to do when travelling abroad.
From mh over on Adam’s blog. Walt would be spinning in his grave.
Sancho Panzer at 8:20
You should see his Sir Walter Raleigh impression.
dover0beach
Aug 29, 2023 8:25 AM
I was wondering myself but I let it go, because he may have made a mistake.
For clarity, the piece is in the Ukrainian Pravda
Not that it matters, the old Melbourne Truth had more credibility than either Pravda.
Adam Goodes?
The gist of the video link I put up is that the new administrators of Reedy Creek are going through the books and finding tons of violations of Florida law including gift laws. There is a receipt for 2.5million bucks worth of Disney season tickets for a quarter, handed out to staff like firies( of which it seems only 60% are used by the recipients).
Mak – “Does this dress make my penis look big?”
Oh no!
Criticism of Pravda is now being tone policed!
Larry Pickering’s old site ran a feature on the gradual tanning of Stan.
Adam Goodes?
Yes, that’s him, another forgettable Australian of the Year
(Could it be I don’t trust Russian or Ukrainian sources?)
I never said anything about it being Russian.
I’m sorry. Why don’t I have a parade of western guilt and references to the Ghost of Kyiv every time Ukraine is criticised?
She’s not getting a great deal of luurve in the comments section.
Watch the young girl in the diamond patterned jumper. Has to be a relative of Cassie’s.
This awesome young woman dodged both of the deviants. Kudos.
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1696197030358532373
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/tech-and-innovation/we-messed-up-badly-former-google-x-boss-warns-of-ai-threat/video/4067aeccee0db6326224783993e87b25
Sounds like Google has written Skynet and the Singularity is only 17 years away tops.
If you’re not sure what to do about this… just ask ChatGPT.
:-S
Wow, that was a deep one: 513 km down.
M 7.1 – 181 km NNE of Gili Air, Indonesia (USGS report)
A nice big chunk of deeply subducting slab shaking things up.
Ah, caught on the Tuesday turn again. Reminiscing to Top Ender about Hydra on the old thread. No matter. It is a very fine blue morning in Sydney and Attapuss has just eaten enough for me to force his pain-killing medicine down his throat in an eye-dropper. Not to be taken on an empty tum. He was very subdued last night, a bit cross-eyed dopey, and somewhat disoriented. He ate some soft food, which is all he’s allowed. I have to earn his trust again, which won’t be possible until this medicine’s finished; two days to go.
An award that is slowly sinking from public recognition under the weight of its various agendas.
Can anyone name the current recipient without looking her up?
Wonderful.
Now, in regard to your competence…
Legging it!
Gross: AI Is Turning Into ‘The Human Centipede’ (28 Aug)
Greg Sheridan article today is one of the best on importance of voting No to the Voice.
Mini strokes are for wimps. If you have a stroke, make it count.
LOL. From a ‘Catholic School’
Child Safe Standard 5 outlines that:
Equity is upheld and diverse needs respected in policy and practice.
*pay particular attention to the needs of children and young people with disability, children and young people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, those who are unable to live at home, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex children and young people.
Pogria, I wouldn’t recommend it, almost always ends up badly. In situations of fight or flight my preference is for flight.
That’s what she said.
Is Burney going to blame her “mini stroke” when the lying to Parliament (twice) over Flora and Fauna is finally examined?
My 15 Year Mistake: Exercise.
It is about resistance training. It is going to annoy so many people. The problem I have is that I cannot think of the causal mechanism that explains the increased cancer risk for beyond 140 mins per week training.
Tucker Carlson Speech In Esztergom, Hungary
Razey now you are just smearing.
I expect a parish priest to counsel a kid out of getting an irreversible sex change, whereas you would just tell them how you are morally superior and are destined to sit at the right hand of Jesus Christ.
You’re stunning and brave today mate.
Given that the Palacechook government has just gouged mining companies with massive royalty hikes to prop up the budget, I doubt that they would hand over their cash cows to the Commonwealth.
No need to apologise, I have no stuffs to give for them either.
Dotty old boy,
I expect a parish priest to counsel a kid out of getting an irreversible sex change, whereas you would just tell them how you are morally superior and are destined to sit at the right hand of Jesus Christ.
That would illegal here.
If in a crowd direct confrontation is the best.
Humiliate the prick.
My then girlfriend who played state league netball in the 80’s was repeatedly pinched on the bum at some function on one of those Yarra River boats. She was wearing a plaster cast for a fractured wrist at the time which got broken over the scumbags head.
Pinching stopped.
Did not wake in fright but I woke up hungry.
Patrick Carlyon on events up north:
There is a say Mr Pearson from disaffected people. They have a say if they want to get off the grog, or send kids to school, or get a job. Teh Voice won’t fix any of these issues, it’s up to the individual.
Again, the only thing that will change is the bank balances of the loudest shriekers like Pearson.
Iron ore royalties and cold dead hands spring to mind for WA. Even that might not be enough.
Then have a spray at the government and electorate.
You’ve already affirmed your place on the afterlife, maybe you can tell us how we can martyr ourselves?
Unfortunately Australia’s current malaise doesn’t get a mention.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/08/28/the-betrayal-of-martin-luther-king/
The final paragraph.
From the OOT:
Thanks for the link.
From the Comments I found a link to “Surprised At Nothing, Troubled At Nothing” by Fr Nix.
Here’s mOron’s lot, doing their bit in Ottowa to get the kids conditioned;
https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1695899817891836238
How do you deal with a mindset that won’t send their children to school for fear of losing their culture, or subjects their children to a long bus ride each day, because they complain the local school doesn’t teach “culture” properly?
Gaia hates golf.
Climate activists target jets, yachts and golf in a string of global protests against luxury (28 Aug)
Maybe they could take on climate warrior Leonardo DiCaprio. He loves enormous superyachts.
Gardening is great resistance training. Lifting heavy bags of this and that, “planking” as you hold your body in unlikely poses to reach that pesky weed, raking, shovelling and general dogsbodying.
No wonder I’m recovering so fast. 😀
It takes a couple of minutes to move the pin and they usually change every couple of days at most, sometimes daily.
I have to say, after watching that ghastly Gillard, the great feminist heroine who got all upset over a man looking at his watch, refuse to answer a question about what is a woman, in the process dribbling a diarrhea of verbal sludge, the icing on the cake being her use of the word “soul”, I was left highly amused at her sudden religious revival. Could it be that the very grotesque and ugly redhead is no longer an atheist?
I wonder what she thinks of nipple sucking?
That award should be renamed Anti-Australian Of The Year since almost every chosen recipient in recent memory had that characteristic.
I thought she may have had something like that as she seemed to struggle with her speech when she didn’t a few years ago. Fighting fit may be relative.
I’m sure Gillard knew exactly what a woman was until she got the memo.
She’s very…flexible.
The emissions offset racket is nearing its end.
The CEO of the world’s biggest offset provider, Verra (used by many Australian companies to green their credentials & claim they are “carbon neutral”) recently resigned after Science published a study finding that 90% of its offsets achieve nothing.
Please explain.
Crossie,
I have used “flight”, quite a few times when the occasion called for it. As 132andbush said in his comment though, you pick your times. Tan berated the ABC sheila in front of an audience. How awesome would it have been if she had decked him.
Although, as others here have commented, no sympathy for an ABC trougher.
Beats going to the gym Calli. Don’t have to put up with all the posers.
There are still a few poseurs in the garden. Spring seems to bring them out!
Gardening is my main form of exercise and I did two hours of it yesterday. The veggie patch needs weeding and prepping for spring planting so the weeds copped it.
The project for today is spreading lawn fertiliser and more weeding.
Demonstrating yet again that there is no principle the prog-left won’t sacrifice for power.
It is a hollow ideology that anyone with any integrity has abandoned.
Calli, I can cope with dandy lions, it’s onion weed and oxalis that is hard to deal with.
Speak of the devil…
‘Pope blasts US Catholics for reactionary views’
‘“I want to remind these people that backwardness is useless, and they must understand that there’s a correct evolution in the understanding of questions of faith and morals,” the pope said.
U.S. bishops such as Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, and Cardinal Raymond Burke have been, at times, vocal critics of the pope’s approach to governing the Catholic Church. Most recently, Strickland published a pastoral letter that warned of attempts to soften the church’s teachings on issues such as contraception, same-sex marriage, and eternal salvation during the planned Synod on Synodality, a meeting of bishops set to take place over the next year.’
Did God really say?
After recent events you need to ask where Gillard’s minders found the “First Bloke”.
pure projection
for the most part, men don’t give a shit how you feel
Iowahawk explains why the Police in Nevada went after the Stinky Rebellion protesters without a concern for how it looks.
“What makes this extra amusing is that the “Rangers” are Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Police, and the backed up traffic is for Burning Man. Native American cops busting up a standoff between two tribes of white progressives is straight up comedy gold“
Why are the 75, 017 still here?
Fighting fit may be relative.
Love her pronunciation of ‘aborishnial’
Cucks
SIMPs
Blue pillers
Beta providers
White knights
Nice guys
Male feminists
Pay piggies
I tend to disagree. All up, that’s possibly a supermajority of men.
From the HS:
$87,000 of state debt for every Victorian household. Well done Hunchback!
Training. Once they learn how to vote for the Marxists, all the boxes will be ticked and they’ll be magically approved.
Lizzie, your Hydra paragraph was very evocative. I enjoy particularly the way you bring Hairy into it. You remind me of Robert Byron’s ‘The Road to Oxiana’ where he employs Marjoribanks as code for the Shah of Persia.
Are they allowed to continue on their holiday/studies/temp job after trying it on for asylum and being rejected?
Increasing with every productive citizen who leaves.
QLD is teeming with ex-VIC tradies.
’tis hoped they leave their crap politics at the border.
Good for you, but in fairness you need to thank your parents for getting together and making you.
Good genes outrank lifestyle choices more often than not.
That said, gardening is an excellent way to promote physical and mental health, especially the latter. Many gardeners will have experienced the ‘being in the zone’ thing, where troubles are gone and serenity roolz, OK!
On another topic, I mentioned recently that I bought a home blood pressure kit because my GP wanted to know why it fluctuated so much. Other commenters mentioned the ‘white coat syndrome’ where people’s BP went up because they were visiting the doctor.
Well, while I am not consciously anxious about visiting my GP, whom I like and respect, it does seem that there is an effect. The home readings are very much lower than the ones taken in the surgery.
Thanks to those who tried to answer my question about the scientific basis for BP measurement, but I’m still baffled.
As mentioned, the levels for those ‘at risk’ have been lowered, just like those for diabetes, obesity, exposure to this or that – the list goes on. It’s good for business, no doubt.
So is medical science.
‘Let’s torture a horse and make a blood fountain…now this relates to humans!’
Mini strokes are for wimps. If you have a stroke, make it count.
I don’t think she’s tall enuf to have “full” stroke .. LOL!
re: the bigger picture, of course men care
but really …
CoM: I wore my green blouse to work and didn’t get a single compliment
MT: yeah … that’s nice
CoM: but, but … yr not listening to me
MT: oh yeah, all I ever do is listen to ya
CoM: do you think it looks nice?
MT: yeah, same way a tarpaulin suits a camp-site
Bruce of Newcastle
Aug 29, 2023 8:45 AM
“Australian’s Wake in Fright!” LOL!
Wow, that was a deep one: 513 km down.
M 7.1 – 181 km NNE of Gili Air, Indonesia (USGS report)
A nice big chunk of deeply subducting slab shaking things up.
Now we wait for a bigger shallower one. Deep quakes that big usually always trigger monsters.
h/t Dutchsinse.
Did Dutchsinse predict the 513 km down M 7.1 – 181 km NNE of Gili Air, Indonesia quake?
Triple gold! There are so many levels of satire, it is hard to know where to begin.
As usual, when leftists actually come face to face with the people they are condescending to, they are in for a big surprise.
Vegans and vegetarians would be pretty uncomfortable at an Aboriginal or TSI barbeque for family and friends – especially the prelude, where the pig or duck or other animal is dispatched and butchered.
…and like all good Italian goal keepers after making a save…he bounced her on the ground twice and punted her 60m downfield.
Happens every time. Government changes and the roughly 20 year cycle starts again. Going to Queensland ain’t what it was in the 80s anymore.
Cassie earlier
Hydra is the island that journalist and writer George Johnson and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift, moved to in the 1950s. The island, in the 1950s and 60s, was a magnet for artists.
Interestingly, Cassie, the centenary of Charmain Clift’s birthday is tomorrow.
No.
After her medical misadventure anything said or held against her will be double the proof of racism.
Ordinarily you would be racist for calling her at best misguided and at worst dishonest.
After this health scare the same charges would prove you doubly racist.
Dot
Aug 29, 2023 10:40 AM
Did Dutchsinse predict the 513 km down M 7.1 – 181 km NNE of Gili Air, Indonesia quake?
He doesn’t predict, he forecasts. I haven’t been following of late so I don’t know.
Time to check in.
DutchsinseOfficial
Soon the typical Victoriastan citizen will be a part time contract lecturer at Monash.
With a special interest in the genesis of intersectionality in Trotsky’s thought.
It can take many studies to establish optimal values so don’t presume it is just “good for business”. For example, there is an ongoing debate about optimal HbA1C values in relation to age. That argument is that as we age HbA1c values will rise but that is not indicative of declining blood sugar control. One study I read argued that too many older people are being placed on diabetic meds because of this error.
It used to be 6.5, now 8.5.
What is not good for business are studies showing that curcumin supplementation is effective in combatting arthritis related pain. Much better than NSAIDs because no adverse effects and long term use of NSAIDs is problematic.
2 examples of them losing money through research.
“Interestingly, Cassie, the centenary of Charmain Clift’s birthday is tomorrow”
Interesting. A sad family.
That should help with preselection.
What a racket. ‘Climate change’ – as opposed to more homes being built in risky places – means that everyone has to pay more.
No wonder the insurance industry is an enthusiastic supporter of climate alarmism.
Follow the money.
Linda Burney seems happy to take advantage of white man’s magick when it suits her.
No acknowledgement of how she’d be long dead and buried if she’d relied on traditional Abo medicine.
Over a hundred million poured through Noel Pearson’s hands into Aurukun.
He’s talking through his hat.
Daily Mail. Pull up the ladder, Jack, I’m all right.
International reinsurers have been raising their rates for some time; domestic insurers eventually have to factor that into their costs and pass it along as well.
With the recent wildfires in Hawaii in mind, which were preventable according to the world’s leading wildfire expert, what insurers should be doing is less climate worrying and more addressing the responsible governmental authorities on the need for natural disaster prevention & mitigation.
I certain don’t care how you feel.
Incidentally, out of context quoting is just meaningless trolling.
Unkind souls over on the Oz are suggesting she’s been ‘tapped on the shoulder” and is preparing her retirement speech.
That’s easy.
An ice pick to the skull.
Passing it around more like it.
I remember reading a book about Leonard Cohen and his time on Hydra where he was very friendly with the George and Charmian. Whilst living on Hydra, Cohen was romantically involved with a Norwegian woman by the name of Marianne who inspired his wonderful song….”So long Marianne” (a great favourite of mine).
Cohen said of George and Charmian….
“‘They drank more than other people, they wrote more, they got sick more, they got well more, they cursed more, they blessed more, and they helped a great deal more. They were an inspiration.’”
Except perhaps to their children. George and Charmian’s lifestyle and particularly their drinking negatively impacted their children profoundly.
Charmian died in 1969, by her own hand, and a year later George was dead too, ravaged by illness, heavy drinking and smoking. More tragic was what happened to the two eldest children of Charmian and George. Both children died young, the couple’s only daughter, Shane, committed suicide five years after her mother aged only 25, and Martin, a poet, died an alcoholic in 1990.
From the Hun.
Looking like the Spanish rug munchers will get their man ( no pun intended). Good job I didn’t put that in my Multi.
Marles might be the first person ever benefitted from flying into Avalon.
SuntanStan is professor at Griffith Uni, Vice-chancellors chair of Australian-Indigenous Belonging and now Monash.
After bawling out that poor sheila, he should be known as the chair of Indigenous Bennelonging… amiright?