Go up, Dot.

It’s not impossible to see the Aussie in the 40s. For a long time, financial markets never really had to worry much about politics.

Great film.

Shine (1996) – Geoffrey Rush

61% of Australian workers will consider switching jobs if employer revokes WFH.

Mmmmkay…… though I’d be very surprised if the number of Australian workers are working from home is even as high as 61%

Quite possible to glean from this Moaning Herald piece Roger

Thanks, BB.

…though I’d be very surprised if the number of Australian workers are working from home is even as high as 61%

Let’s see…

“Perkbox Australia’s Employee Census Report, conducted in collaboration with YouGov, surveyed over 1,000 working Australians, including both employees and managers, to provide a snapshot of the workforce’s sentiments as they head into the New Year.”

Make of that what you will. But I do gather anecdotally that WFH is popular with those who can take advantage of it.

Let’s go! Magnificent clip.

Binary Finary – 1999 (epic version)

Tanya getting concerned about the amount of clothing folk wear .. wimmenz will be pleezed … not .. LOL!

https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/markets/plibersek-warns-clothing-industry-must-turn-back-on-fast-fashion-as-she-considers-intervention/ar-BB1iC3Ih

Bonds underwear – passed by and bought Lowes brand instead.
Gillette – replaced with Bic razors.
Colesworths – they’re an easy boycott – there isn’t one for about 300Km.
We really need a Catallaxy list.

To add to that – I was just approached in a suburban city street by a rep of Medecins Frontieres. Told him that I wouldn’t be donating money to the alleged famine in Yemen while their forces are attacking international trade.

I might add that the advise regarding being symptom free etc has been around since 2021.
‘Unravelling’
on the American Red Cross blood bank claim yeah nah

Mmmmkay…… though I’d be very surprised if the number of Australian workers are working from home is even as high as 61%

As a teacher I dream of working from home again.

For the sake of the climate/environment, there should be a total ban on paints… paintings… and artists.

😛

Personal Boycotts current scoreboard

• McCain … Chinese veggies via NZ marked as NZ product
• Kailis Bros … WA Chinese-owned flogging Asian crap seafood at top dollar

yeah okay….sometimes I a dreamer and forget most of them would end up helping the coloured trans-lesbian’s wheelchair eco cafe….

How about a Turner painting at the start of the next O/T.

Could I make a little impassioned plea for a Gustav Klimt?

Johnny rotten

Feb 21, 2024 2:26 PM

Walking around Sydney Town, productivity looks very low apart from the Coffee Shops going flat out from around 5.00 am to 3.00 pm most week days.

And what do you use to measure productivity, Wodney?

Johnny rotten

Feb 21, 2024 4:26 PM

So Vicki, under current rules your post will be deleted forthwith

Try not to be a dibber dobber, Wodney.

Woolworths taking lessons from the QANTAS School of Brand Management.

Welcome back JMH!
So you weren’t the jumper on the Sydney Harbour Bridge yesterday?

A disgraced fact checking operation run by RMIT university has lost a major contract, with the ABC cutting ties with the operation after a seven year partnership.

I think the question needs to be asked…what did Virginia Trioli know?

You suspect there is genuine panic over the radio numbers.

The cluebat meets the noggin of Richard Blackburn in the Daily Telegraph:

They say patience is a virtue, but if you’re taking an electric vehicle on a road trip, it’s a necessity.

I’ve just travelled more than 3200km up and down the east coast of Australia in a Hyundai Ioniq 6 and discovered that EVs cost more time and money than I’d expected.

My recharging bill for the trip was roughly $360, while I stopped to charge 14 times and spent roughly four hours parked in charging bays.

I also had to download and master five different phone apps.

Two charging stations were completely out of order, requiring some on-the-spot maths, a degree of range anxiety and some re-routing.

I’ve done a similar trip in a hybrid Toyota Camry and by my rough calculations, it would have cost roughly $350 and required four stops, each taking roughly 20 minutes and requiring a simple tap-and-go payment with my smartphone.

By now you’re probably getting the picture: long road trips in electric cars are at best a leisurely exercise and at worst a pain in the backside.

Having said that, this was an exceptionally long road trip – longer than Sydney-Adelaide return – and the type of journey sensible types would take by commercial aircraft.

The trip reinforced a couple of inescapable facts about electric vehicles: our infrastructure is woefully inadequate and electric vehicles are at their least efficient when you need efficiency most, on the highway.

The Ioniq 6 has a claimed range of 614km, which makes it one of the most long legged EVs on the market. Drive it around town and you will achieve that, or better.

However, driving exclusively on freeways at 110km/h, the range is more like 425km. That’s roughly 30 per cent less than the official claim.

Fortunately, most trips start in the city, where EVs are at their best. We travelled from inner-city Sydney to Port Macquarie, 400km away, and arrived with 112km of range left.

We targeted Port Macquarie because it had an ultra-fast charger that promised to replenish our Ioniq 6’s battery from 10 to 80 per cent in less than 20 minutes.

The Ioniq 6 is among the fastest charging in the business but, as we were about to discover, not all EVs are created equal.

When we arrived at the charging station, one charger was out of order and another was occupied by an MG4 whose owner informed us they would be there for about 45 minutes.

The cheapest MG4 can only accept charge at about a third the rate of the Hyundai.

In layman’s terms, charging the MG4 is like filling up the pool with a garden hose, while the Ioiniq is like using a fire hydrant.

Luckily, we had another option.

Tesla is slowly upgrading its recharging network so that other brands can use them.

There’s a catch, though. Tesla stings owners of rival brands a price premium to access its network.

While Chargefox ultra fast outlets cost 65c per kWh and the Evie network asks 73c/kWh, Tesla asks folks driving other cars to pay 85 cents. For reference, my home electricity costs about 32c/kWh.

It’s a financial hit I was prepared to take. After all, time is money.

But the cost of charging wasn’t the biggest gripe with our EV road trip.

It was the lack of working charging points and, ironically, other EV users who were yet to grasp the basics of charging etiquette.

Vehicles automatically slow the rate of charge once they reach 80 per cent to protect the life of the battery. It can take almost twice as long to charge from 80 to 100 per cent than it takes from 10 to 80 per cent. To use that pool analogy again, the torrential fire hydrant becomes a trickling tap.

That didn’t concern a Mercedes driver sitting on a 350kW ultra-rapid charger topping his car up to 100 per cent at a reduced rate of just 43kW while we were forced to use the slower 50kW charger next to him. If we’d swapped chargers when he reached 80 per cent it would have cost him no time and saved us plenty.

This happened more than once, while another user jumped the queue on us, swapping from the slow charger he was using to the fast charger we were waiting for.

We were also at the mercy of dodgy charger reliability. Two charging stations were completely out of order, while another two had one charger not working at a two-charger station.

So has the experience with the Ioniq 6 turned me off electric vehicles?

The answer is no. Yes, a long road trip in an EV takes planning and patience, but how many times does the average city-slicker embark on a long road trip? Two or three times a year?

The rest of the year, you’re likely to be plugging in at home once a fortnight and never visiting a petrol station.

And the driving experience is vastly superior to an internal combustion-powered car. The electric motor is quiet, refined and powerful, while the rear legroom is limousine-like.

The cabin is futuristic and the Ioniq corners impressively thanks to its low centre of gravity and well weighted, accurate steering.

The suspension can let the car float a little over bigger bumps and pick up road imperfections at lower speeds, but on the highway the cabin is a serene place to recharge your patience.

Well maybe he didn’t get the bat right between the eyes for he would still use one. And this be Chris Bowen’s wet dream for your future vehicle purchases. FMD

EV chargers and human nature doesn’t sound like a great mix. I used to get into shouting matches just for a petrol pump.

EVs are basically road going golf carts. Nothing wrong with that. My fully depreciated 25yo RAV4 was basically a shopping hauler. Anything requiring speed or convenience was the CBR unless the forecast was particularly grim.

ALPBC Radio Perth have put a series of Executive Producers and Nobodies from the regions into presenter roles for a while now. Their rating numbers shouldn’t surprise anyone.

Kez

Coconut cream? What are you weighing in at these days? That stuff is like 30,000 calories per mouthful.

‘Scientists’ Claim Chest-Feeders’ Fake Breast Milk Just The Same As Actual Breast Milk

This is the reason why ‘trust the experts’ and ‘the science is settled’ rings a little more of politics than truth these days.

To many people called ‘scientist’ and ‘expert’ are not engaged in science or expertise but in selling a message.

I would also note that it is the left that resorts most readily to such arguments and it can surely be no coincidence that they seem to flap in circles like moths around their fleeting heroes, drawn and dazzled by the blinding brilliance of a candle.

I’m too old and tired. I used to enjoy putting up comments, but not if I am called upon to answer “Why”

Why?

#2 grandie turned 18 yesterday. She is a long time Jane Austen fan so daughter, an accomplished party thrower (learnt from her Mum) themed everything around privileged Regency society, starting with a Clydesdale-drawn carriage tour of neighbouring wineries.

Oh Delta…aren’t they a joy?? What a wonderful event. makes life worth living.

JC is Big Olive Oil.

Pure Ricardian trade. Just because we can doesn’t mean we should. The Asian food court is full of suppliers from SE Asia and they are usually pretty price sensitive.

More like comparative advantage, no?

I’m too old and tired. I used to enjoy putting up comments, but not if I am called upon to answer “Why”

BS, Mother Lode. You have much to contribute. This blog helps to make sense of this changing world.

JC,

I have seen from the Beanie (Tim Poole if unfamiliar) but also other places that the SEC has approved a merger of Trump’s Truth Social with some other business that will presumably take it to the stratosphere which will deliver him a windfall of something like $4 billion.

If it gets through (and while the SEC may have approved it I have no doubt there are countless other Democrat controlled jurisdictions that will try to kill it) Trump will be richer than ever – and the progressives created this situation because they banished him from Twatter.

P
Feb 21, 2024 5:34 PM
Bespoke and Delta A,
…
I’m too old and tired.

P, I’m truly sorry that you feel this way.

You are a Cat Treasure, an intelligent, articulate woman with a great history and experience which adds to The Cat’s value. In addition, I very much enjoy your religious posts, reminding us of feasts and significant dates on the Christian Calendar.

Please ignore the thugs who demand “why?” after your posts. Your comments are consistently clear and relevant: let the inquirer look up ‘why’ for themselves. As for “unbecoming of an elderly woman”, that is a compliment, not an accusation.

Today’s elderly women do not fit into a neat box to be consigned to the archives. We have informed opinions to support our (often) conservative views. We are well read and well lived. We have much to give, not only to our children and grandies, but also to the world view.

We will be silenced only if we allow ourselves to be.

Please continue posting.

Spanish style fried eggs in olive oil makes a pretty good case for olive oil. Ditto a cold (or warm) Spanish omelette and crusty bread. Almost time for the crews to harvest the olives in our local park. Would be helpful if the council employed a few decent horticulturists who knew how to prune them.

“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”

A great truth now perverted by trannies, she-males, toyboys, effeminates, knee tremblers, chest feeders, purple haired arse wobblers, penis shovelers and every woke leftie.

Please ignore the thugs who demand “why?” after your posts.

I hope my “Why?” was obviously enough a joke.

Bruce in WA
Feb 21, 2024 4:07 PM
Personal Boycotts current scoreboard

• McCain … Chinese veggies via NZ marked as NZ product

I found out about that swindle some time ago and will not buy anything from McCain.

Roger
Feb 21, 2024 4:56 PM
Home Affairs Minister Clare O’Neill has indicated that discussion are underway to send recent boat arrivals to NZ as Albanese’s government does not intend to use Nayru as a permanent detention centre.

In a few years, after they get NZ citizenship they, will be back in Oz.

Mak Siccar
Feb 21, 2024 3:34 PM
Oh dear – Un Zud got a mention but Oz didn’t. An extract follows:

Put simply, advocates of ‘indigenous knowledge’ argue that various cultures throughout history have their own ways of understanding the world. And these alternative, indigenous ‘ways of knowing’, they say, should be utilised alongside more established scientific methods in research and in policymaking.
Yes, some DEI advocates really do think that public-health bodies should seek the input of tribal elders and spiritual leaders – alongside, say, qualified physicians and epidemiologists. What’s more, they believe that racism is the only reason it has taken so long for indigenous knowledge to be utilised in this way. They argue that science is a ‘Western, colonialist structure’ that has only come to dominate our thinking thanks to white supremacy.

A Doctor once said that the only difference between mainstream medicine and alternative medicine is that the former has been tested and the results proven before being widely used*. If alternative medicine is tested and is found to work, it is no longer alternative but a viable, mainstream treatment.

* mRNA vaxxes excepted, of course.

In any event, what are his remedies and likelihood he can win?

I’ve been through this. The fat pig james charged him under executive law 63:12 which requires a victim and quantifiable loss; Trump had none, in fact the opposite. 63:12 also does not apply to commercial transactions. So that is one basis.

The weird Engoron also arbitarily, in contradiction of Trump’s right to elect a jury ruled that no jury would be allowed, and convicted Trump before any evidence was admitted. So, there’s that.

Against this is the corruption in the superior NY appellant courts which Trump has to go through before he gets to SCOTUS.

Engoron cannot demand a portion or all of Trump’s fines be held in escrow because the appeal process nullifies the verdict while the appeal is held. But who fuking knows. These bastards are doing what they want.

If the sandwiches are made first.

Eat them at your peril, bespoke.

* mRNA vaxxes excepted, of course.

Bruce Pascoe says that mRNA is the real deal, but colonialist science has misunderstood the ‘m’.

It should not be ‘mitochondrial RNA’, but ‘magical RNA’.

He goes to great lengths to point out that DNA coils like a Rainbow Serpent, while Western thinking should demand it looks like railroad tracks. If they don’t then that is cultural appropriation – just one more item to put on the ever lengthening ledger of Western infamy – which must be balanced by financial debt to Indigines.