Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023
1,050 responses to “Open Thread – Thurs 14 Sept 2023”
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Site of Male Sexual Desire Uncovered in Brain – Where a Key Gene Named Aromatase Is Present
Aromatase converts testosterone to estrogen in the brain, which drives male sexual activity.
Mice study. Weird. So weird I checked the journal. High quality. Studies on humans offer supporting evidence.
Full text.
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Here’s Josh Hawley. The GOP currently has some of the best brains and decency in political history. And Doc says the elite is in terrible shape. Bullshit
https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1701665763445080564/video/1
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Google delivers Mark Knight in clumps.
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John H. Avatar
John H.
Sep 13, 2023 11:33 PM
Whoops: EW aircraft. My bad, just finished conquering galaxy when I should be looking up Covid impact on fertility for a friend. Material I found last night was disturbing, big hits on sperm count. The inflammation may have caused permanent damage and ACE2 receptors, the spike protein target, very high in testis.As a citizen, I would like to know more.
Anything about female fertility and pregnancy?
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Real-estate startup Roam looks to bring 3% mortgage rates within reach.
Roam, which is set to launch Wednesday, is betting that it can popularize an obscure workaround to a problem for home buyers and sellers alike: mortgage rates that are above 7%. “Assumable loans” allow sellers to transfer their own mortgage loans to the buyer alongside the house. Few consumers know about the option, and fewer still follow through with it. And many lenders are cool to the idea because for them it would mean more work for less money.
The way mortgages are structured (they die when you sell a property & you get a new one when you buy again) is so antiquated.
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Okay, how and why will this mean mortgage rates cut in half or better?
I would like to know more.
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Another thing that is silly is housing debt costs different amounts due to what you want to use it for.
The cost of debt should be based on the asset & the credit quality of the applicant.
Who cares if it is:
* owner occupier P&I or I only;
* investor P&I or I only.Your credit quality is your credit quality.
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feelthebern
Sep 14, 2023 5:24 AMDot, you have a debt (mortgage) secured by an asset (property).
Just because the asset is replaced with another asset, why should the terms of the debt be re-struct.You’re gonna have to draw a diagram like I don’t know any of this because rates dropping from 7% to 3% just seems like hype.
You’d get 3% loans from the beginning?
I mean, my parents lived through negative real interest rates, but this idea assumes no inflation?
I would not lend to uncredit-worthy people. I would hope to recover inflation & origination/admin costs (included in my cost of capital), plus a margin, plus risk pricing (maybe included in the margin).
Explain to me like I run a business but have never seen a loan before.
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Just checked the media, not a word of this…
Dreyfus at mealy mouth best…
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Who cares if it is:
* owner occupier P&I or I only;
* investor P&I or I only.I thought this went to regulation and MBS pricing.
The loan market for cars in Australia is upside down.
The first car loan I got was because I wanted a second-hand car and to pay it off quickly.
I went to the mortgage broker who looked all of 18 (I was early 20s), she called up Mac Bank on a conference call and they offered me 18% at best.
So I said no and got a new car at a rate about a third of that. The payments were for longer but about the same.
As long as the vehicle is fully insured after a valuation, why aren’t 2nd hand cars priced at a lower interest rate? Wouldn’t the risk of driving it off the lot or the first few years of depreciation (real or not) be a bigger counterparty risk? You’re much more likely to be “upside down” on a new car.
America has more rational chattel mortgage loans.
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Best wishes Jacinta for your appearance at the ABC’s disgusting National Press Club today.
They are going to patronise you and probably sneer and smear.
Your bravery and cool is eye watering.
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Speaking of Marcia, the hamster wheel has been busy combing through her Twitter history. hahahaha
She had a go at Mark Latham in 2018. It did not go well for her. 😀Marcia is too arrogant to realise once the history hamsters are after you, it’s like pointing the bone. 😀
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Thanks Pogria. Now read it https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12512187/Marcia-Langton-death-message.html in Sir Les Patterson “voice”.
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She’s such a sweet, wholesome old dear.
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Marcia is too arrogant to realise once the history hamsters are after you, it’s like pointing the bone.
Langton achieved her academic tenure because the university got to tick the blackfella box but, like Linda Burnley, her biggest problem is that she’s a dumb as a box of rocks.
Many thanks, Marcia and Linda, for showing middle Australia how to vote on October 14.
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“Marcia is too arrogant to realise once the history hamsters are after you, it’s like pointing the bone. ?”
I hope so, but what I find interesting is that neither Sleazy nor the imbecilic and incoherent Burney have condemned her. They know Marcia Marcia Marcia is a poisonous woman, to her very core, they know she’s a far-left Marxist radical so, as I asked last night, why haven’t Sleazy and Burney condemned her words, why have they given her such a prominent role in this Voice referendum?
Well, for numerous reasons, but the first thing you should understand is that this Voice referendum is a very deliberate coup by the left. If it gets up, this country is finished, it’s OVER. Secondly, Burney and Sleazy don’t condemn Langton because they agree with Langton, which is that those of us who intend to vote NO are racists and dumb. As I said last night, a shrewder Labor PM would have either not touched this Voice proposal with a barge pole OR, if they’d decided to put it to the Australian people, would have distanced themselves from the likes of Langton and Mayo. But Sleazy, not the cleverest Labor PM, really thought that last year’s election win gave him the license to pursue this.
As for the likes of Dunny Kenny* and Joke Hilderbeast screeching about the incivility of “both sides”. NO. NOPE. NUP. It’s isn’t the NO side that is engaging in ad hominem insults towards people who are thinking differently, it is the YES side, and they’ve been doing it for months. I will not stand by and be falsely accused of something all to satisfy pro-voice scum like Hilderbeast and Dunny, who are desperate to cover up the sins of their side. They know Langton is a poisonous old woman. They know her stock in trade for decades has been spite, bile, loathing, hatred and nastiness.
I wrote a few days ago that if this referendum goes down (and I think it will), get ready for one almighty blowback from the left and their useful mouthpieces. It will be massive. How dare we say NO to the Voice, how dare we win.
* Further to Dunny, I’ve made paltry excuses for him until now. However he, an adult man, has chosen to hitch his baggage on a feel good campaign of disinformation and misinformation. By doing so, he’s willingly sided with scum like Langton. No thank you, I now have zero respect for him. I reckon if the Voice goes down, he’ll depart Sky.
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I must make 206k USD p.a. to date a 32 year old woman with a mannish face.
The content creator, from Los Angeles, has revealed that she is no longer open to anyone ‘closed-minded’ and instead often opts for more mature, older men.
my ultra-strict dating rules help me avoid liars with bad hygiene
Such as not being able to buy a Lamborghini and a Louis Vitton luggage set in the same week.
I’m ReAdY tO sEtTLeE dOwN nOw!
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In case any busy Cats have not the time to go through the Marcia link, here are the Tweets;
Marcia to Mark, “‘You so deserve a slow, painful death and humiliating obituaries,’ Professor Langton wrote about Mr Latham.”Mark’s perfect reply, “‘the voice of Leftist compassion in Australia’.
‘Indigenous, university employed, dripping with identity,’ he wrote.“
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Haven’t scrolled so no idea if anyone’s put this link up from last night’s BOLT but how pathetic is this in, yesterday’s, Question Time from the “gucci gnome” .. we, actually, pay her for this dribbling?
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The GOP has begun impeachment proceedings against the incompetent and corrupt dementia patient in the White House, and look at the serious and forlorn Chuck Schumer pleading they stop for the good of the nation. Just incredible
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1701663858136318308/video/1
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Dot
Sep 14, 2023 7:34 AMI must make 206k USD p.a. to date a 32 year old woman with a mannish face.
The content creator, from Los Angeles, has revealed that she is no longer open to anyone ‘closed-minded’ and instead often opts for more mature, older men.
my ultra-strict dating rules help me avoid liars with bad hygiene
Such as not being able to buy a Lamborghini and a Louis Vitton luggage set in the same week.
I’m ReAdY tO sEtTLeE dOwN nOw!
A cat shelter could make a name for itself with a clever dating profile or two.
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Husband and I are setting aside time from chores to watch Jacinta at the Press Club. We have loved her for a long time, as we loved her mum Bess. Both strong, honest women. They have lived the reality of cruel cultural behaviour & know that this is not understood by the do-gooders who think that money will solve the problems. It will only prolong the misery.
My, how people have short memories. Don’t they recall the reasons for the Intervention of the Howard regime? Don’t they recall how it began from the horrors seen by the then Chief Prosecutor (a woman) of Alice Springs? Recently, the woman in a similar legal position – it may have been the senior legal person in Darwin – was also in tears talking about the cases of a indigenous assault on women and children that come before her. Why do the do-goodies ignore all of this??? Money will not fix it. Assimilation and the application of the law will.
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Man up dot, shave your palms, throw back your hunch, suck in that beer gut and lie like a pig in poop about your income.
Then, in the height of orgasmic ecstacy tell her you are really Robbo from the housing commission flat down the road and could she drop you off to Cenno tomorrow to pick up your dole. -
Saw it immediately MotherLode.
I’ve liked his ‘toons ever since Tom started posting them. His old-school black-&-white aesthetic first caught my eye but even when he adds colour the aesthetic is still there. Generally a great message as well. I look for his name in the way I used to look for Rameriz’s in the Obama era.
How long has Tom been on the 4:00 AM ‘toons, now? 🙂
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Geology is racist.
‘Too rock heavy,’ too ableist, too white: Geoscience students identify concerns in field (13 Sep)
Geoscience courses are “too rock heavy,” remote field sites are not handicap accessible, and faculty in the field are insufficiently diverse — these are some of the concerns identified through a nationwide survey of students majoring in geoscience.
“BIPOC students in geoscience face discrimination and barriers to learning at all levels, from microaggressions to systemic racism,” wrote Willa Rowan of Western Washington University in her August 2023 master’s thesis.
And rocks are really really heavy.
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“Babe I need $600 to fix the ECU on my EA Falcon!”
There’s a new trend now, “hobosexuals”, basically good-looking bums who will do anything in bed to get a roof over their heads.
The tip is to hook up on a weeknight because they need to go to work the next day and you won’t get kicked out and they won’t have the time to call you out.
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I think it’s a bit of both.
REPORTER TORCHES BIDEN: “What is going on with the president? Is he just believing things that didn’t happen did happen? Or is he just randomly making stuff up?”
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*WARNING* multiple international Airport employees contacted me saying they had staff meetings TODAY telling them to prepare for masks and mandates…
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Professor Langton was a prolific tweeter, and had amassed more than 30,000 followers and 51,000 separate tweets when she suddenly closed down her account in early 2023.
More tweets than followers? For someone with such a high profile?
51,000 tweets, huh? That just means that she has a lot of opinions rather than that they are profound ones. In fact, I would venture that they are the same handful of ideas tweeted repeatedly over tens of thousands of tweets tweaked only for who is a racist or a misogynist, on what mainstream Australian occasion this racism or misogyny was done, and what commonplace act is “really” the act of a racist or whatever.
“When the racist Joe Blow said he was proud to be an Australian on Australia Day, he was really talking about white Australia, overlooking the genocide required to bring that about.”
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Tony Burke looks as though he wishes he was somewhere else, very far away!
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Petros
Sep 14, 2023 5:25 AMInterestingly, Intelslava did not report the huge attack on the port in Sevastopol. One has to read multiple sites these days to find out what’s going on.
Petros,
Here is what we know about the incident so far. – https://www.rt.com/russia/582898-sevastopol-shipyard-missile-strike/
Kiev strikes Crimea
The Wednesday morning attack on Crimea involved ten cruise missiles and three naval drones, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The Russian military managed to intercept the unmanned speedboats and seven of the missiles. Those that reached the Sevastopol Shipyard damaged two ships.
The ministry did not identify the vessels, but said later in the day, after the fire caused by the strike was put out, that both can be restored and put back into service.
Russian media outlets have claimed that the damaged assets were the ‘Rostov-on-Don’ Kilo-class diesel-electric attack submarine and the ‘Minsk’ Ropucha-class landing ship.
Casualties
The strike injured 24 people, according to Mikhail Razvozhaev, governor of the city of Sevastopol. He described the condition of four of them as serious. The blastwaves also shattered windows in nearby houses and damaged rooftops, the official added.
Unconfirmed media reports claimed that two people may have been killed in the attack. All the victims were reportedly employees of the shipyard, which is a major facility primarily involved in maintaining Russian warships.
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Dot
Sep 14, 2023 7:34 AMI must make 206k USD p.a. to date a 32 year old woman with a mannish face.
Dot,
you will also need a Powerful Bike or Electric Pump to keep inflating the Forward Assests
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Pogria
Sep 14, 2023 7:04 AMSpeaking of Marcia, the hamster wheel has been busy combing through her Twitter history. hahahaha
She had a go at Mark Latham in 2018. It did not go well for her. ?Marcia is too arrogant to realise once the history hamsters are after you, it’s like pointing the bone.
Pogria,
the Headline is too good to leave behind
Marcia Langton tweet emerges where Voice architect tells Mark Latham he is a ‘white supremacist, far right-wing arsehole’ who ‘deserves a slow, painful death’ and a ‘humiliating obituary’
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Vicki
Sep 14, 2023 8:24 AM
Now citizens of Barbados want reparation for their enslavement during the slavery movement. Look out UK. Where does it end?The reparations should consist of repatriation to the homeland of their enslaved forebears, with a cash payment of $10,000 to start them off in their new lives.
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Dr. David Martin is unique in that he relies entirely on facts that he can substantiate.
The most important video you will watch.
Today, 13th September, A panel bravely exposed the WHO (World Health Organisation) for the criminal organisation it is, and proved that Covid is indeed a BioWeapon.This is Dr David Martin’s Speech.
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Sub heading Daily Telegraph:
The stranded passengers of a luxury cruise ship – carrying more than 100 Australian tourists – won’t be rescued until Friday as it emerged several Covid cases had been reported on board.
Leave them there. Not because of the glorified flu, rather extraordinary stupidity.
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. Don’t they recall the reasons for the Intervention of the Howard regime?
I remember the “tribal elders” bawling that their “traditional authority” had been taken away.
Relatives of mine served on the “intervention.” The Aboriginal soldiers in the unit made great role models for some of the kids in those communities. “Well, yeah, if you want to be one of our mob, you have to be able to read and write – English – and we won’t take you if you’ve been in too much trouble with the cops…”
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