All true. Thanks Tom.
Open Thread – Mon 8 Jan 2024
- 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
It’s one assault after another from the Anal administration. Hard core cultural marxist regime. All incubated and cossetted at unis…
We follow Laura, Jesse, and sometimes Hannity, sometimes Gutfeld. I like The Five (love Dana) but it is made less…
Is there any point in the ABC persisting with the Narm/Melbourne nonsense? For the despicable ABC and the left there…
The UK is in a terribly dark place; ‘Working in the freezing so Abdul can live freely in a hotel.’…
Illegal drugs are now cheaper and more accessible than 20 years ago.
Much cheaper than a night on the piss.
Thank you tender barbed white hot acid spewing choad of government for assisting an illegal and detrimental industry to get the leg up they need to really make the profits they deserve.
That’s so over the top. He’s a very polite, laid back, mild mannered, middle aged man.
Well done government mongs…
Made power prices high enough to remove another industry.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-09/alcoa-to-close-kwinana-alumina-refinery-job-losses/103295918
Maybe you should read that again, he says bury them waist deep. He wants them buried deep enough to stop any necrophilia.
I postulated this last night …
Then, a little later …
Well, fast forward to this morning and what do we find?
Golly, that’s really quite awkward for the God Oracle.
I am available for apologies later this afternoon and this evening.
$8 – $10 minimum for a standard schooner of beer in our larger cities.
Pingers are still cheap in comparison.
Maybe you should read that again, he says bury them waist deep. He wants them buried deep enough to stop any necrophilia.
2 birds with the one stone!
New French laws sponsored by Macron make welfare harder to get for migrants while making it easier for the government to deport those who choose not to integrate and respect French law. And foreign trained imams are to be banned from preaching.
This from a chap who seven years ago said there was no such thing as a unitary French culture but rather a multiplicity of cultures in France.
What explains his drift to the “extreme right”? [rhetorical!]
I suppose Caro puts her money in the parking metre too.
Because they’re around 100 centimetres high.
That woman makes rocks look smart.
$8 – $10 minimum for a standard schooner of beer in our larger cities.
$8.28 at the Paddo RSL if you’re a member.
On Friday night you might even win a meat tray in the raffles.
I reckon Liz Storer got it right on Sky last night as far as the Melbourne rave, drugs fiasco goes. In essence, leave them to it and let natural selection take its course.
Couldn’t agree more. The only thing that’s been learnt from this episode is that you don’t need to worry about overdosing or a bad batch because ambos and doctors will be there in a flash to help you out. Perhaps a headline of “8 dead from illegal drugs” might be a bit more sobering. Cruel, but maybe less costly in the long-run.
“Renewable” energy.
Too cheap to metre.
Have I got this right- ie is it a continental standard?
Pony – 140mL
Middy – 285mL
Schooner – 375mL?
Incidentally, mole at 10:25, I think it is a manufacturing problem in that they have two variants coming down the line (full exit door and blanked off door) and possibly the two installations are not mutually exclusive. The production line workers get confused and do a half-baked installation. This probably means some blame can be sheeted back to engineering for not considering the possibility of a “hybrid instal” if that is what happened. Mind you, nothing excuses loose (or non lock-wired) bolts if it left the factory that way.
I was struck by the term “discrepant bolts” in the linked report. This possibly means it was installed “correctly” but with the wrong gauge or wrong length bolts. There is a precedent for this back in 1990, when the windscreen blew out of a BAC 1-11 and nearly took the captain out through the hole.
Most of the 90 fixing bolts were 0.66mm too small in diameter, whilst half a dozen were the right diameter but 2.5mm too short. I’d defy anyone but the most experienced to pick that difference by eye or feel.
Sancho Panzer
I was kind of guessing maybe they didnt have a standard they were torquing the bolts to.
Similar reasoning, a bit of confusion over which one was being blanked and which would get a door.
Schooner is 425mL.
I’m not jumping to any conclusions here, but…
On the rare occasion when we have to assemble flat pack furniture (the last instance being two kitchen bench stools) my wife likes to do it, which is fine by me.
My job then is to see that all the screws are tightened to assure the structural soundness of the object, because my wife, while fit, simply doesn’t have the strength required to do so.
Is anyone following me here?
20 years ago premium cannabis cost $350-$400 an ounce. I have been advised from 2 sources that today the same costs $280. Several years ago I sourced some LSD. $20 for a day of laughing and merriment. Nearly all cannabis today is hydro because policing drove production away from forests. I don’t know about your comparison because I rarely drink or smoke but in real terms cannabis is cheaper now than it has ever been. It doesn’t matter because people drift towards the drugs that work for them. Occasional MDMA won’t hurt anyone unless they are stupid. Sustained amphetamine use is very dangerous and the new strains of cannabis have elevated THC levels which heightens the psychosis and schizophrenia risk for teenagers. The tragedy is that there are higher THC concentrations and lower CBD concentrations. THC elevates the risk, CBD lowers the risk.
Recent news …
The teen brain is especially susceptible to the harms of THC
The amount of THC in cannabis plants is much higher than 30 years ago
Sounds like the God Oracle needs a shot of Viagra after the woody comment.
Some variation by state.
The bolts should be tightened to a set torque using a torque wrench. So in theory there is no issue of sufficient strength. You get the specific bolt tension or not. Then they are locked by wire or other device or marked to show they are done.
I was interested to read Boeings mad rush into DEI over the years. Diversity displacing competence surprisingly doesn’t help you build better aircraft.
Victoria in in the late 1800s came up with a scheme whereby public servants had a single member of parliament and railway workers another. They were barred from voting to for normal MLAs. I would extend that to another member for those who derive their total I come through Centrelink.
That sounds like a case of imp/metric mix up or substitution.
Is that possible? I would’ve thought everything has been standardised to metric.
Did get to see the great JPR on two occasions during the 78 tour, Vs Qld midweek, then at the Test Match. He was a little past his best and overweight compared to his prime, but to see the Wallabies win the test and the series over a group of legendary players was the start of a long love affair with the game…..which is now fading badly.
I would extend that to another member for those who derive their total I come through Centrelink.
I’ll say it…
…you’re talking Voice To Parliament, right?
It could be any number of things – over-torquing and stripping, under-torquing and working loose, wrong gauge or length bolts, omitted spacers or washers, no lock-wire where it was in the spec – who knows? It is a bit more complex than bolting an airconditioner to a platform on a rooftop.
Yes, I am mystified as to why they bothered. Initially I thought it was to save weight, but the panel weighs 60 lbs, so they can’t have saved much. Why not just instal the door with some fail safe locking mechanism, remove the slide, handles and any redundant bits, and just put a panel over the interior so it can’t be mistaken for an exit in an emergency?
Nope, pensioners, jobseeker, austudy, abstudy, maternity leave.
Most of the 90 fixing bolts were 0.66mm too small in diameter, whilst half a dozen were the right diameter but 2.5mm too short. I’d defy anyone but the most experienced to pick that difference by eye or feel.
That sounds like a case of imp/metric mix up or substitution.
Is that possible? I would’ve thought everything has been standardised to metric.
Well I’m all over the place when it comes to beerglasses, but I know my nuts and bolts.
Yes, I’d pick up the mismatch and short shrift immediately by feel, even if the thread didn’t bind, which in a metric-imp mismatch would happen within three laps.
But you see, I don’t use torque wrenches, or driver devices, or wear gloves, which might be their basic problem. Trying to bolt the proverbial door after the horse has flown off at ten thousand feet.
Jane Caro.
Poetry in motion with meter by the metre.
Good God, man!
It’s a British Aircraft Corporation jet.
British.
There’ll be none of that dreadful Frog metric nonsense anywhere near our aeroplanes, thank you very much.
I watched a doco on Concorde recently. Every single hand produced drawing had to be done in duplicate – one metric and one imperial. The thing should have been dubbed “Discorde”.
I think if the Japs were building airliners, you would see just what you are hinting at … a rationalisation of the number of fasteners used in any design to avoid just this problem.
Of course, it is unavoidable in maintenance shops with all manner of aircraft types coming and going. That is why you don’t want your typical Bunnings customer anywhere near aircraft panstock on the floor, with their habit of grabbing bits out of loose product bins and throwing them back just anywhere.
In theory, no. But an ability to read & use a torque wrench properly, certainly.
Why do I fear the worst? DEI.
Sanchez
Describe the problem to me in this way.
Is this a fundamental engineering problem or some idiot on the production line forgot to tighten the bolts and the supervisor never checked, in which case it’s not a major issue?
The stock is down 8%.
The copium was and remains, of course, worrying about their nuclear capability as yours turned to dust.
If DEI is on the production line, you only want to travel on planes pre-DEI. DEI wants to kill people now.
One thing about the nuke issue in the US. I distinctly recall Trump requesting a complete revamp of the nuclear stockpile to ensure everything was up to date. Did this not happen?
Yeah, no-one is suggesting material failure of properly installed kit here, although “low cycle fatigue” can be a thing.
If there was a locking bolt on the door closure mechanism, you can almost guarantee it would call up the full lock-wire treatment.
Apparently they just cancelled a yuuuge management conference and called a company wide safety briefing. The agenda for the management love-in would make for interesting reading. It’s a bit like hyphenated Optus lady. You can bet network security and stability, and contingency plans for recovery didn’t get much of a run in management meetings.
Yep., DEI And in many critical locations like these doors and window frames, re-using bolts is a no-no. Bolts stretch and weaken with torque settings so fresh bolts after each removal is mandatory. It will be in the item/part fitment instructions- assuming one comprehends English?
A very rationable comment. 9/10
* The material grade and surface finish of the bolt will also be carefully specified. It’s not just any old bolt!
Not directly but, as I was discussing with mole, the introduction of two installation variants (full exit door and blanked off option) it could be seen as poor engineering as it compromised “manufacturability”. Engineers are pushed more and more now to look at safety in operation, manufacturability and maintainability.
This is more likely.
It is if you are sitting in 26A. This is what is bothering me. They are looking specifically at the door instal, but we already know there have been problems with loose bolts in the rudder. What tells them that poor workmanship is contained to a small crew working on this door instal. Incidentally, I think the rudder is produced at a different plant to the fuselage section containing the door. I think they are avoiding considering the possibility of widespread shoddiness because the consequences for Boeing would be catastrophic.
Watch this space. Many airline customers up until now have been indifferent about aircraft type when making a booking, but some in the US were positively disposed towards flying Boeing.
I think, as far as the MAX goes, we will see a slightly different variant of the old “If it ain’t Boeing. I ain’t going” mantra.
Enter Jane Caro….
It’s a talk wrench you fools!
er.. it is pronounced: “talk ranch”
This plane was only delivered in October.
I doubt re-use of second hand bolts is a factor.
Bloody cowboys!
Thanks Wolfman for the BaaBaas clip.
Through misty eyes and a fondness for the old days, I saw scrums that were quickly over, running at pace into gaps, toe kickers, great backing up, dockyard brawls (aka line outs), and a mere tap on the back after the greatest try ever scored.
Jane Caro is a talk wench?
Jane Caro is a talk wench?
Mitre Bean.
Dad showed unbelievable restraint.
Probably not. But during fitment sometimes things don’t go right and the part needs removal and refitting. Which may mean owning up to a fck up. If so, were those bolts replaced/reused?
Did the QA checker actually check, or was it a tick and flick because her had to get home to watch America’s Got Talent?
This is speculation on my part. But I’ve had quite a bit of experience with human hands and things mechanical going pear shaped- here and in developing countries. I’d be betting on the human error cause rather than Boeing design or specifications.
the introduction of two installation variants (full exit door and blanked off option)
Feculating* here…
Might door install bolts be different to blank install – but not different enough??
*speculating – but with no evidence
On second thoughts, all aircraft are rooted with DEI, because it would be happening on the maintenance lines too.
We’re all dead.
Apparently there is very little riveting that goes on with the Dreamliner as the outer shell is fastened/ attached onto the inner skin with glue. It should work, but only if the process is followed closely without any shortcuts. And no shortcuts!
I asked a pal about this who completed a PhD in “corrosion” at MIT. I asked him if he considered it safe. His response was that he didn’t really know but there hasn’t been an issue with those 787’s entering the second decade. How about the 13th year then?
Sounds comforting.
This is from a few days ago but I don’t think it’s been posted.
Tucker Carlson
@TuckerCarlson
Ep. 59 Most people understand that Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself. But the attorney general of the United States helped cover up his murder? That’s a different thing entirely. Epstein’s brother Mark explains.
PRESIDENT TRUMP DEFAMED: Corporate Media Uses New Epstein Documents to Knowingly Push Disgusting Smear from Woman Who Made Up Claims About Trump and Later Retracted Those Claims – Team Trump Responds
The president of the United States said this
How does he know? He just knows because he’s a real estate valuer. FMD.
A mental illness.
A Tragically Common Narrative: Iowa Trans Shooter Was Known to Authorities
Honest question: What’s going on with the tunnels found in NY?
https://forward.com/fast-forward/575528/arrests-at-chabad-770-secret-tunnel/
Racist!
What if the claim is not true?
Evan true the dad could be facing serious jail time.
Fulton County DA Fani Willis: Her Affair with the Special Prosecutor
Obama is Trying to Take Over Biden’s Campaign
That crossed my mind too.
They have been remarkably coy about this “blank” instal.
Or maybe they’ve explained it, but reporters are too dim to get it.
J6 Was a Conspiracy at the “Highest Level”; Oath Keeper J6’er Speaks to TNA
“I was kind of guessing maybe they didnt have a standard they were torquing the bolts to.”
Given that fastener failure is catastrophic, I’d be inclined towards a “belt and braces” approach myself – loctited nylock nuts wired/split-pinned in place.
The beginning of the end of identity politics
First off, I’d like to see the workplace laws that apply to us, applied to the politicians and bureaucrats who frame and pass these laws.
Mandatory drug testing for all of them.
Feathered lap joints and glue.
Makes it more quieter.
Very circumspect of him to say “I don’t know”.
As the use of composite moves from fairings etc to structural airframe components, I wonder if we will see what we saw in the 50’s and 60’s with metal fatigue. One example on the 737MAX. The engine intakes are composite and prone to overheating if the anti-ice is left on for more than five minutes in dry conditions.
Welding is the answer.
Roger
The prospect of being removed from the gravy train?
Tunnel Discovered under 770 Chabad Center in Crown Heights – December 24, 2023
Tightening nuts?
The answer is cold water.
“But I’ve had quite a bit of experience with human hands and things mechanical going pear shaped…”
Rule #1: when things go wrong, the first place to look for the reason is the last place touched by human hands.
Rule #2: measure with micrometer, mark with chalk, cut with axe (ie, give yourself a couple of orders of magnitude “head room” for mistakes if at all possible).
Rule #3: Murphy was an optimist.
Not if you want to disassemble it later or not fry something in the vicinity. Besides, many of these fasteners are just too small for anything like welding in place.
Don’t know the veracity of this;
Hardware= fasteners, nuts, bolts.
Roger
Jan 9, 2024 1:50 PM
Yes Roger. You are a sexist pig and will go to manexplain Hell for daring to say that your partner is incapable of of doing… something.
🙂
Hopefully he will fade into oblivion and people like Craig Kelly etc stay away from having anything to do with him.
Agree, it’s funny how some go down rabbit holes. And since 7 October the rabbit holes have gotten deeper. Avi alluded to this recently when he said that some on the fringe right, such as Cossack, are now dancing with open Jew haters, and that there’s a fusion of the far-right and far-left when it comes to Jew hatred. Not surprising. The far-right and the far-left always merge because they are the same, they are racist, they are totalitarian, they are bigoted, and they are deeply, deeply anti-Semitic.
Another rabbit hole dweller is James Delingpole. It’s sad because I used to like James but apparently he is now spruiking the Khazar theory.
But for all the lunatics on the fringe and far-right, few of them are as dangerous as the lunatics on the fringe far-left and not so far left, yet those unsavoury lunatics are always given a free pass. And when various Labor politicians cosy up to those lunatics and be pictured smiling with them, and there is never any blowback. Sleazy always catches up with his good buddy, the homicidal Hamas supporting Jew hating cockroach Jeremy Corbyn when in London, our own foreign minister, Senator Peanut Wonk, is happy to be pictured with a very unsavoury cockroach by the name of Nasser Mashni. I’ll end by saying that, in 2024, it isn’t One Nation, UAP or other minor fringe right-wing parties that are the modern day equivalent of the Nazi Party, it is the Greens. The Greens are a Nazi Party, filled with Nazis.
Before the Stack
@BeforeTheStack
In the Digital Age privacy only belongs to the State
Loose nuts doesn’t appear to be just a problem with plane hatches. Blogs too.
Terrorist attacks in America: for what are they waiting?
sancho seriously, are you like some sort of aviation Nostradamus?
who would have thought that things attached to an aircraft that should be bolted, glued, riveted etc
and look at you knowing the unknowable with such incredible accuracy
The Cat has a truly visionary technical genius here
honestly you should apologise to the forum for being a perpetual tosser
Millions of fish swimming to shore in the Philippines:
https://twitter.com/BGatesIsaPyscho/status/1744135334827356413
Video footage I found online about it has already been deleted
2 snippets of it here though :
https://imgur.com/a/t9BZvQv
KanekoaTheGreat
@KanekoaTheGreat
BREAKING: Nathan Wade, Fani Willis’s lead prosecutor, met with Biden’s White House Counsel on May 23 and Nov. 18, 2022, before indicting Donald Trump, Biden’s leading presidential opponent.
Is the Biden White House coordinating Trump’s prosecution?
Obviously, even the Viagra has worn off now.
Going totally Lower case is a sign you once worked for Google as a senior software engineer.
Whatever the reason for the stuffup with the door/no door, at the end, you will find somewhere hidden in the washup will be an act of human stupidity that will make the provision of windows in a submarine look like a genius move.
Dudes apparently built the tunnel for access to the .. gogue during lockdowns.
It could be another case where Thoroughly Modern Milley thought he knew better? Or he preferred to divert the money into DEI?
Syrian refugees make trouble in Egypt. Don’t hold your breathe for protests if they get deported back to Syria.
I’m certain that for local government elections we should have voluntary voting, qualification by property and one vote per title, corporations nominate an elector.
Most people don’t want to vote in said elections. Much grumbling after it became compulsory in NSW.
Jane Caro went to ‘University’ at a newly converted dairy farm, so newly converted one could still smell the cowshit — old habits die hard
It’s not anti democratic anyway if you recognise shires are just a State government department.
Have the LAMEs (or whatever they are called over there) at United and Alaska Airlines been told that finding loose nuts and validating Sancho’s theory could be triggering for God Oracle aircon installers?
It was £16 an ounce in the mid ’60s. Why isn’t it by metric weights – legacy cultural inertia?
Could be, as anything is possible these days. I recall him making as issue of revamping and fortifying the stockpile early on in his presidency.
As for the suffragettes vs the suffragists:
Before any splits, the mainstream, violent group in GB could get up to 60,000 – 300,000 attendees at a rally.
The competition post split, such as the “Mud Rally”: 3,000.
The suffragists were totally marginalised by the terroristic suffragettes.
Anyone able to see the X-factor responses to Caro’s X-metre/meter comment?
I’d rather go to a cow uni than some place where people huff their own ablutions wondering if blue and green are the same colour.
However, on further investigation, they’re all remarkably similar.
Nice justice system youve got, shame if anything happened to it.
FreeDanDuggan
@FreeDanDuggan
Day 442. We can now reveal the horrific twist, worthy of Franz Kafka, behind the NSW Corrrection Commissioner has turned down #FreeDanDuggan’s bid to be moved from maximum security, solitary confinement to home detention.
“Given you have not been sentenced or charged with an offence under a Commonwealth or State law of Australia, home detention or its equivalent is not an option”.
This is clearly at odds with the assumptions of Australia’s criminal justice system – the presumption of innocence, thne right to a fair trial. So it is imperative that the Extradition Act is reviewed and reshaped.
A few weeks ago the same thing happened in Japan. Weird. Quick look: it is happening in a number of places.
Another wonderful example of postwar British immigration to Australia. Lying Slapper is another example.
Thancho, I looked at the photo of the insert that is bolted on the inside. The bolts look like they are in counterbored holes therefore not able to see if they have washers or not. Everything else being equal for that insert to come loose the panel has to vibrate which means there is too much clearance. The panel is not a structural part as it only fills an existing doorway. Maybe used the wrong sort of elastomer for sealing allowing the panel to move. 2 weeks for catastrophic failure, it has to stick out like dogs balls.
There was a band from a bikie group that made no secret about their trade: Weighed Oz. Whatever, aircraft are still using the imperial measure for altitude. And why still knots for naval measurement?
Poster girl for the dangers of unchecked immigration.
John H.
Is there something going on with the earth’s magnetic field confusing the little fckers and sending them off into orbit?
Trump weighs in on Mark Cuban in his unique fashion.
If it were that we’d be seeing a lot of confused birds. I’m unaware that fish can use magnetic fields for navigation. Many migrating birds use magnetic fields however they don’t always solely relying on magnetic fields. The mechanics is remarkable, suggesting quantum spin effects are in play. Many argue that is the case. I’m doubtful but too ignorant to analyse.
Also, humans would be reporting anomalous compass readings.
What is it with people and tunnels?
Is it a craze, or just a passing fad?
I think I’ll dig a tunnel to my garage.
Why?
Oh, I dunno. But everybody is doing it, so why not?
Someone ask The Frolicking Moll – he should know.
Could have been me. I got married instead and knuckled down to paying off a mortgage. I’ve never been tempted to shout anything about abortions, except my disgust.
And…oddly enough, I know the difference between meter and metre, and all the strange permutations thereof. 😀
Shot once in the stomach and twice in the legs. Reading between the lines it seems as though he took out the stepdad’s tackle.
Doesn’t make these men civilians btw.
As suggested before hamas was cool when you could kill and rape civilians and 19 year old unarmed idf observers.
so many hospitals but no access to medication.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1744135334827356413
I’d be looking a bit further out to sea, and try to find what’s chasing those fish onto the beach.
But no. It’s got to be climate change.
An excellent Japanese-produced documentary on the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, featuring survivors on the ground and the reflections of the American servicemen involved on the use of nuclear weapons. I expect t will be replayed on Fox Docos.
I saw the story in December, but didn’t mention it as it was hard to work out what it was about. But I’ll put that one up as it was it had a particularly interesting twist.
Outrage in Chabad: Tunnel discovered under Chabad Headquarters (24 Dec)
Mexican workers?
Looking at the photo last night on my grubby phone through my Shell-shop 1.5+ glasses I found it difficult to figure out what they were. The sketchy photos of the hole in the fuselage were even worse. Looking on my compuda this morning I wondered if those lugs were stop fittings on the doors and stop pads on the airframe, where the door rolls closed the pushes up about 2″ so the fittings align with the pads.
Whatever it is, it now seems apparent that the thing was either very badly fastened or not fastened at all.
Of itself, this is a relatively small thing (as it fortunately didn’t result in death or injury), but coupled with all the other 737MAX cock-ups and cover-ups, it could be the last straw.
Good luck with the 737MAX-10 certification. It was scheduled for late 2024 with deliveries 2025. I reckon the FAA will now do what Boeing was trying to avoid with the MAX. That is, run it through the full certification process as if it was a brand new aircraft design, not a variant on the old one.
And then comes the sting.
Much of the stuff coming out of the 10 certification will be mandated back on earlier MAX variants.
What started out as an attempt to blindside the FAA into a tick-box “minor variation of existing” certification could end up in the biggest field retrofit campaign evah.
Do they lead to a pizza shop?
Are there red shoes?
Has anyone checked reports of missing children?
I have seen whiting beach themselves trying to avoid dolphins.
Husband and I hold firmly to the view that we are all “tribal” – even in our suburban environments. We have just returned from looking after daughter’s abode & animals on the northern beaches of Sydney. We remarked upon the general friendliness, and, of course, the relaxed lifestyle of the locals. I would rarely walk the dog without some friendly greetings and short conversation with a local. This contrasts with the smile, but little else, from the area where we live. Of course, we meet regularly with friends locally, but I am talking about the openness of complete strangers.
This has caught my attention, as Brett Weinstein (evolutionary biologist) has just written a book about the social isolation of modern man in the post industrial age and the crisis in social communications that is growing. This is an overview of his book, “A Hunter- Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century”:
For evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein, the cause of our woes is clear: the modern world is out of sync with our ancient brains and bodies. We evolved to live in clans, but today most people don’t even know their neighbors’ names. Survival in our earliest societies depended on leveraging the advantages of our sex differences, but today even the concept of biological sex is increasingly dismissed as offensive. The cognitive dissonance spawned by trying to live in a society we’re not built for is killing us.
alwaysright
My concern would be sharks.
JC
No reason to think they weren’t. Or that the US nuclear weapon stockpile is in poor condition. Outdated or shelf-life expired nukes are decommissioned all the time.
What failed operational test last Nov was a Minuteman III missile. A 50 year old delivery system, not a nuclear weapon. It was launched to determine how it, and its 450 operational brethren, are aging. The Minuteman IIIs are scheduled to be replaced by the LGM-35 Sentinel missile and this test helped determine the urgency of the replacement.
US Air Force sees $96 billion overhaul of nuclear missile arsenal
Another thing to keep in mind is that the USAF silo based missiles are but one means of nuke delivery by the US. Others range from land launched cruise missiles, to submarine launched ballistic missiles, aircraft delivered bombs, even long range artillery.
The nukes are alright.
It is happening in many places and it is relatively new. It isn’t just a few schools of fish. To confirm predators we’d need to see a big increase in predator numbers to account for what is now happening from Texas to Japan to the Philippines. Given the geographic spread predation appears unlikely. Certainly wasn’t the case for Lake Macquarie and Menindee.
I don’t know what it is. We need to wait for more information. At this point we are guessing.
Tunnel started during covid and apparently a way to beat the limit on the number of people in the synagogue at any time.
Certainly has brought out the antisemitics on twitter.
Blood libels too numerous to mention.
And honestly the virulent anti Semites complaining Jews don’t like them…
Lol. Should… but
“I lost my wrench, can I use that one” (different torque setting). Don’t tell anyone.
“I can’t finish until we meet our quota, I’ll give you a have doing your job with the wrench from my job”. Don’t tell anyone.
“If you twiddle this knob, it doesn’t hurt your wrist as much and/or it’s faster”. Don’t tell anyone.
“We go in trouble for not tightening enough, let’s hear that hammering”. Don’t tell anyone.
“If I spend time doing actual QA, I get blame from my work mates.” Don’t tell anyone.
But mostly “I fk’d up, the most important thing is that no one finds out it was my fault.”
Oh and… don’t tell anyone.
Katzenjammer
Jan 9, 2024 3:34 PM
….. Why isn’t it by metric weights – legacy cultural inertia?
Takes longer to say, “twenty eight point four grams” than “an ounce”, perhaps they were a tad lazy and mostly wasted.
Mind you, some folks back in the day embraced the metric system with a 25 gram = 1 ounce conversion.
So they say ….
Port Albert, standing on a jetty and watching a whirlpool form in the water …maybe a few across
a minute later mullet start jumping free of the water in the middle of the vortex
shortly followed y dolphins
another time we sat in a boat in the boat off Altona and watched a perfectly calm sea instantaneously boil with fish breaking the surface
gawd knows what was under there
Couta maybe?
we used to troll for them as kids with a paravane off Rosebud foreshore
It is innate in us. It can documented sociologically, in primatology, politics, history, psychology, and neuroscience.
I previously referenced an idea espoused by Sapolsky. He noted that the primary drive of danger arises from a nucleus in the brain, the amygdala. That is only part of the picture. I can’t explain this quickly so I won’t. Sapolsky also mentioned the inhibitory function of the DLPFC. From a hominine evolutionary perspective that raises interesting questions about the key drivers that led to homo sapiens. Hint: it isn’t intelligence, it is inhibition of latent primate and mammalian behavior patterns. When people reference stone age brains they need to brush up on their understanding of evolution from habilis onwards.
a few metres across
Catholics at risk of losing understanding about humanity, says Christopher West
Really?
But owe ’embedid’ war correspondent and Nuclear weapon expert isn’t so sure.
citations please
almost certainly wasn’t El Nino
Metres, metres.
Reminds me of the joke about measuring the height of a building with a barometer.
“Oh dear maintenance man, I will give you this valuable barometer if you tell me the height of this building.”
Long range artillery is in battle field nukes, right?
I suspected the story going around was crap.
LoL … luckily the crystal ball still works fine eh?
my comment last night numb-nuts, wasn’t “criticism” … it was preemptive ridicule
seriously sancho, look at yourself writing the bleeding obvious into a day-long wank-narrative
geez, you sound smarter almost every time you post
Tactical as compared to strategic yes.
JC way back in the 50’s the USA conceptualized a nuclear cruise missile powered by a nuke engine that could lay waste to regions simply by flying over them. SLAM missile. They tested the engine but decided not to go ahead because that missile could fly for months if not years, could not be intercepted, and they didn’t want to escalate the nuke proliferation. A couple of years back Russia claimed to have built such a missile. We don’t know if they succeeded but hey only took ’em half a century to catch up. Sandboxx news has an article up about an new nuke the US has developed.
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/us-announces-development-of-powerful-new-nuclear-bomb/
JC at 3:40
A lot of Poms haven’t moved much beyond Upstairs Downstairs and Are You Being Served.
The most positive thing you could say about Jane Caro is you’re not married to her and she usually appears with an “Off” button. That’s two things actually.
Someone asked for the Jane Carosene thread where she metered her meter.
https://twitter.com/JaneCaro/status/1744456154233872472
Another wonderful example of postwar British immigration to Australia.
Yes. The Bee Gees, Olivia Neutron Bomb, Bon Scott, Angus and Malcolm Young and others.
Also Tony Abbott. I don’t count Juliar Gizzard for obvious reasons. LOL.
And all those on the First Fleet including all the other waves of migration that arrived after that. Lots and lots of them.
Re the fish, if you search ‘mackerel chasing whitebait’ you’ll see a fair number of videos very like that one in the Philippines.
I reckon if you were unlucky enough to be in a shout with Albo and Blackout you’d find them “too cheap to meter”
Most pollies go into public life to avoid ever having to pick up the tab.
Maaaaates rates.
Can we return Tony Abbott if we don’t have the receipt?
First Fleet was obviously post WW2.
The freaking horror stories of limey shop stewards ruining the country in the 70s was a nightmare.
In the Japan event it was mackerel washing up. .6 miles of wash up by predation? One researcher in the fisheries said he had never witnessed that before.
Not forgetting the Tories irradiating the lower classes milk.
The freaking horror stories of limey shop stewards ruining the country in the 70s was a nightmare.
The usual “strike at Christmas” stories were usually bookended by some potato nosed Shreck sounding “mind mah tea” mong intoning why they needed 30% pay rise right now.
And young Julia listening to tales of life “Down pit” around the kitchen table in Radelaide before setting up the typewriter to bang out the latest Communist Party newsletter as a humble typist.
Looking back, it resembled a commie takeover.
Sure you’re not thinking of an Australian Senate committee hearing?
Watch ma tea!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8NxfOE3-WeI
Back in the day it was 4oz, 6oz, 8oz if you were a lair. 10oz if you were full on bignoter.
In the ladies lounge 4oz shandies were the go. And a back up sherry if the old man wasn’t looking from the front bar.
Front bar you drank from a 6oz glass. And kept the same glass. Filled up from a gun – not the bullshit tap business.
And i know that from serving it.
Have seen schools of bait fish avoiding tuna and other predators plenty of times. I’m sure anyone who’s spent time on the water can recall similar sightings.
I’d be betting on predators off the beach — tuna, dolphins etc, maybe pilot whales?
Dolphins are well known for rounding up big balls of fish.
https://twitter.com/thetimes/status/831889057508638720
So basically you couldn’t remember how much you drank and it was “only small beers”.
Oh yeah , Dougie Cameron, one of the most poisonous communist weasels ever allowed to enter the country.
“Hate” shouldn’t be a word until Dougie showed up here. Just totally despicable who’s cost should be measured in lost GDP.
The International Red Cross has not visited any of the Jewish hostages in Gaza.
Not one.
Sure you’re not thinking of an Australian Senate committee hearing?
Using him as the template for 3/4 of them.
https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/wa/10-years-of-stm-inside-the-world-of-kevin-reynolds-and-shelley-archer-ng-ee3d2ec187f9ede248257774f0fd3184
“If people don’t like where I live, that’s too bad. I am a well-paid executive. And that is the role of trade union officials. In the overall scheme of things, we’re paid as good as a lot of public servants and better than most of our bank managers.
“People want to read about history. Lenin was from the middle class. Chairman Mao wasn’t poor. Paul Keating wasn’t poor. Nelson Mandela’s not poor. Che Guevara was from the middle class. The trade union movement and the working class world are not necessarily led by people who have come out of the slums.
I’ve just given JC a “thumbs up” tick.
For once I’ve agreed with him.
Strange that the God Oracle didn’t write “Yes, Sancho, I agree, but it’s pretty obvious because … yada, yada”.
God Oracle went with, “honestly … I get a woody when sancho talks technical”.
That wasn’t an attempt to discredit?
Amazing.
When the techos from Alaskan and United started turning up exactly what I said they might find – loose bolts – it all suddenly became bleedingly obvious.
Too late, champ.
BTW, has the network around the bloke who speared into the bay given him up as a – what was it again – “a crazy bastard”?
Pity he took the innocent bloke with him, eh, champ.
Papering over these near catastrophic disasters that fortunately did not eventuate is Kremlin copium.
There is a show on YT called “Command and Control”, about a nuclear missile “mishap” in the mid 80’s in the US.
Oddly, not much about it in the media at the time.
Dunno why.
The reports do not mention seeing predators. With strandings this large that is very unusual.
do you play chess sancho?
Red Cross explained they’re waiting for invitation letters from the hostages but Hamas won’t let them have postage stamps, or some crap excuse like that.
“Did the situation provoke her sons’ natural instinct to defend their mother? “I think it probably played a bit more on my elder brother; he’d seen a bit more of it than I did,” Reynolds says. “I’ve certainly seen my mother knocked out and lying in pools of blood.”
From the Reynold’s article mole linked to. A real piece of work. I have seen four year old boys try to fight their father when mum was being attacked. Reynold’s didn’t lift a fat finger, the turd.
How many heard about this one in 2019?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyonoksa_radiation_accident
The CFMEU certainly had a good working relationship with Multiplex out West in the John Roberts days. A guy from school at Multiplex was called as a witness to the unions Royal Commission to see if they could explain it. Not sure how it all played out. Tough business all round.
For the next chapter in First-World Sufferings…
The other day, while peacefully watching a couple of.. ahem.. borrowed movies on my 55″ LG TV, a firecracker went off, out of the blue.
The damn thing just stone-dead died
Risking a back injury moving the hardly-used TV, and 46 screws later, the firecracker revealed itself to have been a blown small ceramic capacitor, one of 50-odd caps in the most complicated switch-mode-power-supply (SMPS) I’ve ever seen.
After some florid cursing, a quick multimeter check showed that this bastard also blew out one of the fuses.. maybe God-knows what else.
A quick check revealed that a used replacement SMPS would cost $150-300. A new TV, $800-2,700
But in true self-flagellation mode, I also checked eBay and found the replacement(s): a lot of 20 caps for $6.75, including delivery, from a supplier in Sawyers Gully in NSW.
That’s right. A stupid passive component costing 33-odd-cents fully kiboshed a $1,500 appliance, out of the blue.
Before putting a boot through the black screen, however, I breathed deeply.. calmly.. several times.. and ordered the parts.
In the meantime, I have been assiduously practicing my soldering and desoldering, removing and replacing components from old circuit boards.
All as aids to meditation and the appreciation of Socratic suffering.
For I’ll be damned if nothing good comes out of this.
Sancho Panzer
That’s really funny, boy. I’ve never heard that joke before.
Don’t think you can fix them Gilas because you need to fix the motherboard.
Oh…
Tell us how it goes.
The house aircon is fixed.
The Labrador did her typical poor judge of character routine, barking at the very smiley young local bloke who did the job. She’ll wag her tail at dodgy looking quail shooters knocking on the door at the crack of dawn.
H B Bear
Jan 9, 2024 6:35 PM
Multiplex did very….well…
Given Burke and his ilk were in charge most of the time mentioned its a mysterious mystery of mysteriousness what might have gone on.
Did I mention Burkes brother was parachuted into being the head of public works – what a talented family.
I have had an insight into the used parts market courtesy of my support worker who was trying to get a late model Hyundai repairable wreck back on the road. Lots go through the Middle East and on to Russia and Eastern Europe. A variation on the Silk Road. No ADRs either.
I did. The Russians have progressed that tech since then.
What is the Burevestnik missile that Putin says Russia has tested? (Reuters, 6 Oct)
A low altitude cruise missile with a range of 20,000 km…
Save yourself a double entry to the movies.
Don’t go and see Woody Allen’s Coup de Chance.
No need to thank me.
The International Red Cross has not visited any of the Jewish hostages in Gaza.
Not one.
Of course not. The ragheads do not want to relieve the suffering. And if they did go in, the Red Cross would be bound to report that the hostages were being abused, and quite likely already deceased.
I’ve noticed Medicins Sans Frontieres have fully bought the updated Protocols of the Elders of Zion on Twitter. Last penny they’ll ever get from me.
The economics of manufacturing, repair and supply chains has gone out the window in the days of the internet and containerised shipping. My mate in the UK had a near new BMW K13000S written off literally because it fell off its stand. God knows where it is now. He got paid out, bought a K1300R which is now uninsurable due to the bike theft in London. Go figure.
Thanks Bruce. It is the same concept as the SLAM missile except the account I read stated the US expected to be keep it flying for months in the Arctic circle ready to be deployed at a moment’s notice. As to the claimed altitude, I’m unaware that Russia has developed terrain following radar on aircraft so I’ll take that 50-100 meter with a grain of salt. 50 meters is out of the question and for such a long flight path even 100 meters seems optimistic.
His only contribution to the country being the phrase, “Mind mah tea!”
While on rockets and propulsion I’ll mention the lunar mission that launched last night.
From what I can tell it was as much a demonstration launch as anything – the payload being the private lunar lander, which is getting all the news coverage. Unfortunately the lunar spacecraft sprang a fuel leak and won’t now be able to soft-land on the Moon as planned, but the actual achievement is the launch rocket.
That was the brand spanking new Vulcan Centaur launcher built by the United Launch Alliance. It’s designed to replace the Atlas V and other rockets in their stable. And it worked perfectly, both stages, on first attempt.
Well done ULA rocket peoples! A rare achievement. Usually first time launchers, as Elon likes to say, suffer rapid unscheduled disassembly.
We live a lot longer and richer lives than our hunter gatherer ancestors.
As science, evolutionary biology is on a par with AGW.
‘I’m seven months pregnant’: Qld nurse fired for refusing COVID jab
John – the obvious question is what they’re doing with this tech for space applications. You’d have to think it would be a shortcut to the reusable launch vehicle model that Elon now has going – and since he’s eaten Soyuz’ lunch they will want something as cheap and reusable as SpaceX has. The Russians aren’t as squeamish about nuclear stuff (since they didn’t greatly mind frying five scientists), so they’re probably working in this direction. If so, good.
And in more news from Meanwhile in the Territory:
Three Alice Springs residents, including one juvenile, have been arrested over the death of a Sudanese teenager in the town on New Year’s Day.
The body of Yiel Gatluak, 19, was found dumped on an access road to Undoolya Station in the early afternoon of January 1.
It comes as Alice Springs locals — many who say they are “living in fear” — claim there has been an avalanche of youth crime and anti-social behaviour in the region, despite government officials — including the police minister — insisting otherwise.
The trio, aged 21, 20 and 17, are in custody after their arrests on Monday afternoon and evening. Police say the three knew Mr Gatluak.
The Oz, while the same story in the NT News has an extra sentence from the police spokesman:
However, he would not confirm if the three arrested were from the same community.
Who was her employer?
On the basis of anecdotal evidence, I’d estimate that 80% of nurses employed by QLD Health are unvaccinated, as they’ve declined the boosters.
Dot
Jan 9, 2024 6:39 PM
Don’t think you can fix them Gilas because you need to fix the motherboard.
YT is replete with repair videos on some of the million design-variations of these animals. A real homage to the summits of human ingenuity.
What they haven’t yet managed to do, however, is to make them bomb-proof and/or component-failure redundant.
At worst, I’ll be desoldering 200-odd components, before taking an axe to the beast.
Gilas
Jan 9, 2024 6:35 PM
But in true self-flagellation mode, I also checked eBay and found the replacement(s): a lot of 20 caps for $6.75, including delivery, from a supplier in Sawyers Gully in NSW.
You should check those caps when they arrive, before going to the effort of installing them. There are counterfeit electronic components out there, even from Australian suppliers. The resulting liberation of the sacred smoke can be very expensive.
Don’t ask me how I know.
Guess people haven’t looked up the address on Google maps yet
https://imgur.com/a/fwevMod
I can confirm that Qld. Health, after two years and the lifting of the mandate, is still vigorously using taxpayer’s money to pursue staff who refused to submit to the financial blackmail, and who have not yet been terminated due to ongoing legal challenges. It has been extraordinary to witness how a bureaucracy can mimic the behaviours of a psychologically disturbed individual and escape any consequences.
(A not-so-cheery hello to the Qld. Governor, by the way).
Exactly. Civilization is a powerful modifier of behavior. That many societies now are composed of peoples from many nations puts paid to the idea that we are still governed by our tribal brain. It is still there but obviously it does not dominate our behavior. Our society is much more peaceful than hunter gatherers and even global societies a hundred years ago. Evolutionary psychology sucks. Our behavior is the result of many different factors and reducing it to just one is naive. I never understood why the intelligent design people went looking for discrete phenomena to mount their arguments when human behavior defies evolutionary imperatives, is incredibly flexible, and so much our behavior has nothing to do with seeking an adaptive advantage. That is why way back in the early 90’s Edelman wrote:
Would that be the aspiring footballer community or the aspiring rapper community?
So this goes back to the initial vaccine campaign?
That’s sheer bloody-mindedness on the part of her manager(s).
If they imposed a vaccine mandate under present conditions they’d have a mass walkout of staff, which is why they quietly operate with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
I note the private hospitals, including the Catholic system, still require nursing staff to be fully vaccinated.
Bruce that is a very interesting idea. The challenge will be to reduce the total radioactive material released from the exhaust.
Sweet Enola Gay, son.
Neuroscience doesn’t even operate within a reductionist paradigm anymore.
Vagabond
Jan 9, 2024 7:37 PM
You should check those caps when they arrive, before going to the effort of installing them. There are counterfeit electronic components out there, even from Australian suppliers. The resulting liberation of the sacred smoke can be very expensive.
Yes, but I’ll check the cap before soldering it in.
Someone I know was done buying expensive high capacity, high-voltage caps from Chainerr.. Cheap, small components hidden in a large size plastic shell, on eBay, no less.
Ballsy+++
Very interesting article in Quadrant today re Hannah Arendt and the “Banality of Evil”.
https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2024/01/hannah-arendt-and-the-banality-of-evil/
AfD STORMS ahead in polls as German farmers REVOLT against ‘stupid’ government
Yes, I meant evolutionary psychology, John.
Based upon evolutionary biology, which is another set of assumptions brought into question by “punk eek.”
Lots of room in Siberia. And a few pockets of high rad geography already, from previous work.
Depends on just how much Mr Putin wants to be in the race Elon has started. The Chinese are very keen, as we know already, although they’re more into the brute force old fashioned approach.
Bill Ackman’s war to make universities accountable has the left panicked
Knuckles, you may be interested to know your namesake is still at large, believed to be in Warberton, so the sweet sting of death may feel like a release when they eventually catch up with him.