Feels like there is a civil war at the NY Times.

A large piece overnight on Biden’s polling numbers.
The analysis isn’t the key aspect, it’s the almost weekly signal to/from the DNC donor class that Biden isn’t the guy.

Last week’s expansive piece on the CIA’s relationship with Ukraine over the past decade and how fractious it is also points to a change in narrative.

Then it reverts to pushing DNC & security state talking points.
Fun times at the NYT.

Civil war or kite flying?

The only thing that is saving Trump in Georgia is the civil war within the DNC in that state.
Trump’s lawyers were given the Willis dirt.
He really does employ some moronic lawyers.

You can check battery health under the Battery settings in iPhone or android. I think on a Samsung it’s in interactive checks or something like that under ‘get help’ (it’s been a while).
Anyway, under those settings you can see which apps are chewing the battery. iPhones and androids handle background processes differently, they should not be chewing up battery life. Facebook, instagram and the Chrome browser are the three biggest memory hogs on phones.

On battery health, once a battery falls below 80% it is pretty cactus. Charge doesn’t last as long, or it crashes the phone more often as the battery can no longer handle sudden spikes in demand. Basically time to have the battery replaced, or for most people, get a new phone to use the latest features .

As you may recall, Apple got itself into trouble a few years back when it introduced an engineering solution to manage batteries that had fallen to 80% or lower, it stepped down performance, with the intention to reduce the crashing problem which would not be good if one was on a phone call for example. Anyway, it didn’t explain what it was doing very well and got accused of “planned obsolescence”. Which was ironic, as it was an engineering solution to extend the life of the phone. Their mistake of course, was to not advertise as a feature so conspiracy theories proliferated.

The move to deny the poor affordable heating, hot water and cooking is hilarious given the usual authoritarian leftist arguments about free markets – “we have to force landlords to provide these amenities otherwise they wouldn’t”.

Yes, and no one would live there. Now, on the other hand, you’re going to make housing unaffordable.

Plibbers running a fine line of hypocrisy.
Calling the Vic government’s water policy “weird” in regard to its refusal to approve the water buy back mechanism.
Plibbers laughingly said the Vic Government is happy to have Canadian investment fund buy up lots of water for almonds but not the federal government for the environment.
Hmm let’s see…,
A Canadian investment fund owns most of the transmission assets in Victoria and is hand in glove with the Feds to build the planned renewable transmission lines.
Bad dog!
Good dog!

If you don’t think redistributions and boundary changes don’t dramatically affect the outcomes of our elections, you haven’t been paying attention.
They can’t run footy tipping comps at the AEC, they all pick the same results.

If you don’t think redistributions and boundary changes don’t dramatically affect the outcomes of our elections, you haven’t been paying attention.

So they’ve been tinkering with the boundaries there? I remember your comments re Rippon which got a big chunk of Wendouree put into it. Now that’s truly horrible place.

Marginal conservative seats almost invariably become safe Labor after tinkering.
Uncanny.

We have a LP state leader who seems more comfortable attacking his own party members than the ALP.

Fabulous stuff from Rishi, who remember, was not “elected” by the plebs.
Another appointed f*ckwit.

Yes. Shows that Liz Truss must have had something going for seeing she had to be removed. The pommy establishment now is all about putting joe public in his place. Full on class warfare- punish them for voting for brexit.

Webb doing her best to be worse than Nixon.

What a sick joke for a ‘king’ we have now too.

The sick joke is that we have a monarch who wanted to be a tampon.

not what you’d call inspiring but worse than that is he has palled with the old perv in the whitehouse and the kerry cadaver.

m0nty
Mar 2, 2024 10:32 PM

So it turns out the whole Hunter thing has been a Russian op from start to finish. Comer should really be retiring to the ladies’ toilets with a silk neck tie at this point.

There is a level of stupid that I thought even idiots could not plumb but you have simply smashed through that like a red hot knife through butter…

Barking Toad
Mar 3, 2024 9:55 AM
What a sick joke for a ‘king’ we have now too.

The sick joke is that we have a monarch who wanted to be a tampon.

Treat him as one, use then discard?

Roger
Mar 3, 2024 10:36 AM
Sign of the times (and the future?):

The bloke who ran second to George Galloway in Rochdale is a local business owner who ran on local issues like reopening a maternity ward.

He got more votes than Labour & the Tories combined.

Both FTP with optional voting and CPV work to prevent such candidates from succeeding. I suspect that they will only get ahead with non-compulsory preferential voting.

The Stuart Highway closed north and south of Tennant Creek. Again.

Up to a metre of water over it.

Those Direct Energy Weapons would surely be needing a service by now.

I’m happy to go along with equal pay for equal work.
Pollie scum should be strapped down and forced to watch this clip.

Researchers found cooking a simple grilled cheese sandwich may expose residents…

so, the Ponds Institute lives?

Mole, you haven’t been writing any book titles lately. 😀

In “awwww look at the widdle faces” news, the little ground burrowing desert frogs are all hanging around the outside path lights this morning catching bugs attracted to the lights.
Hopping little love marbles.

Its pissing with rain here, has been for 3 days off and on.
A very wet year inland.

What a sick joke for a ‘king’ we have now too.

Some softening up going on.

Secret plan for King Charles’ death scrubs out Prince Harry (3 Mar)

“There is a carefully mapped out contingency plan in place if the king is unable to carry out public-facing engagements over the coming months, and none of these involve Prince Harry,” a well-placed source told Nicholls.
…
The official line, according to the Times is that “the Prince of Wales may step in for His Majesty, nothing is scheduled currently, Kensington Palace and Buckingham Palace are in constant communication and should the need arise, appropriate arrangements will be made”.

Normally “well-placed source” is code for “officially unofficial statement”. I don’t know what cancer Charles has, other than climate cancer, which he has bad and is terminal.

Only took him 128 tests compared to Lillee’s 70

Yeah, but Lyon traded in his missus for a younger, much hotter model, so it cancels that out.

Mole, Shatterzzz,
😀 😀 😀

Perfidious,
when Durie was a stripper, he figured highly in women’s fantasies.
After he went legit, and they saw how boring he is, his new career went ffft.

Researchers found cooking a simple grilled cheese sandwich may expose residents to as many as 10 million nanocluster aerosols per cubic nanometer…

I’m not an Expert, so I’ve no idea what a standard ‘nanocluster aerosol’ is, what size it is, or how one would be measured with any great accuracy. Particularly when it comes to cheese nanoclusters.

But I do know that a cubic nanometer is a terribly small volume (a nanometer is a millionth of a millimeter) to hold 10 million of the bastards. The poor researchers must have been swimming in cheese vapour.

There should be a Royal Commission to find ways of banning these dreadful things.

The Crude Maoist Origins of Today’s Culture Wars

I suspect that they will only get ahead with non-compulsory preferential voting.

Or an electorate fed up with business as usual.

The Brit experience suggests that non-compulsory FPTP doesn’t deliver a significantly different/better/worse outcome in terms of representation – even with ‘fed up’ turned up high. Control of the UK Parliament is still largely a two party contest – albeit with a largely irrelevant Lib-Dem component.

Galloway is a long-term, self-promoting ‘political celebrity’, who has made a career of standing in seats with high levels of unemployed, marginalised, and Muslim voters. No big surprise he was elected in Rochdale – running on a ticket of Hamas and Free Stuff – returned with something like 40% of the 40% turnout.

The same model applied here would likely result in much the same outcome: results driven by the faithful, plus lo-infos dragged out to vote by celebrity and promises of stuff. The outcome; probably reduced Labor, but with a substantial increase in Urban Greens and tealish things.

Careful what you wish for.

There should be a Royal Commission to find ways of banning these dreadful things.

You mean the researchers, of course.

An uptick for you.

miltonf
Mar 3, 2024 12:17 PM

The Crude Maoist Origins of Today’s Culture Wars

Interesting and important. I’d come to similar conclusions independently.

NRL in Vegas ; getting a lot of hype yes, but the atmosphere and intensity is nothing like a State of Origin decider at Suncorp. No matter how hard they pump it up.

KD:
GOAT.
What’s that?

I’d suggest that the productivity slump and the resultant indefinite cost of living crisis are going to take “fed up” to levels that surpass even the 1970s.

And I’d agree with that.

My point is that (within reasonable bounds) the degree of fed-up in the voteherd, while it feeds individual charlatans promising ‘solutions’ they can’t deliver, doesn’t automatically change the two-party dynamic – and that the voting system is arguably a second order issue.

Looking at the Australian political landscape I don’t see any change in the performance of Labor or Coalition (individually, or together as an institution) in the face of the emergence of Teal, Green, and Indies in the lower house. I guess they work on the basis that their big political brains will allow them to manage the non-parties-of-government MP’s.

BG – to very large extent I think.

.1 The muck on TikTok
.2 The fentanyl crisis in the US
.3 Hollowing out of western industrial base including essential medicines like penicillin

China is NOT out friend

My point is that (within reasonable bounds) the degree of fed-up in the voteherd, while it feeds individual charlatans promising ‘solutions’ they can’t deliver, doesn’t automatically change the two-party dynamic – and that the voting system is arguably a second order issue.

Our retarded Marxist media will always deflect attention away from where it matters for those wanting answers. And solutions. The SFL’s won’t be offering the alternatives that truly matter – cheap energy, discard net zero, much lower taxes, a total education system overhaul, smaller Govt, slashing immigration, regulatory overhauls etc.

The end result will be same old, same old.

Dunno how Nathan Lyon got that nickname but he’s very good off spinner. I can’t think of a better one in Australian test sides.

He got it for exactly that reason. He is the best off spinner to ever play for Australia.

The cozying up to China since Nixon and Whitlam has been a disaster both socially and economically.

DrBeauGan
Mar 3, 2024 1:09 PM

The interesting issue is the extent to which the ccp has deliberately fostered the western intellectual and moral degeneracy that is wokism

So far, no one has mentioned the “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom” campaign and its aftermath.
I’ll wait.

Hollowing out of western industrial base including essential medicines like penicillin

China never for one second hollowed out one iota of the western industrial base or medicines. It is exactly the other way around. The greed of the western industrial base force fed the Chinese hundreds of billions of dollars to provide cheap labour to make China richer, but more importantly to make themselves richer.

The fact that China is not our friend is another matter. We deliberately paid them to become powerful enough to become our enemy.

I’ll go further to say Nathan Lyon is the 8th highest wicket taker in Test Cricket and is second only to Murali in off spin. Murali is special though, like Shane Warne. Rav Ashwin of India will pass Lyon soon, but India does spin friendly wickets.

Murali is special though

Chucker.

To be disregarded completely, or have an asterisk against his name at best.

miltonf
Mar 3, 2024 1:50 PM
We deliberately paid them to become powerful enough to become our enemy.

Who is ‘we’? Def not industrial workers in places like Australia.

It wasn’t deliberate, there was no plan to make them our enemy. The change was across the globe. It was about profits. With low labour costs, very few regulations, companies rushed to boost profits by setting up manufacturing in China. Companies were even prepared to hand over IP to China. Follow the money, no need for conspiracies. The shift was encouraged by the concept of comparative advantage. Long term considerations were irrelevant, tomorrow’s share price was determinative.

A lot of people smirk at quotes, but if you want understand the Oriental mind, read Sun Tzu.

He’s a very smart man. And a good writer.

If I were a member of the CCP and a student of Sun Tzu, I should do several things to conquer the West. First I should analyse its structural weaknesses, and the greatest of these is its tolerance of diversity. Then I should encourage its development to lunatic extremes. In a limited range, tolerance of diversity is a strength, but pushed to lunacy it is a colossal weakness. If I had control of Biden, I should arrange for open borders and fill the USA with my people. And encourage their military to recruit them.
I would encourage perversions in the enemy’s country to demoralise the public.

All these things have happened.

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action.

Chinese embassies in London, Paris and Washington printed and distributed free copies of The Thoughts of Chairman Mao.

In the 1970’s the Little Red Book was an essential fashion statement for upper/middle-class UK students; it demonstrated 100% Right On Man-of-the-people credentials – and apparently could earn a solidarity shag.

We wokking class yoths looked on with amazement as our better-bred peers solemnly waved them aloft at every opportunity to present as cadres in the Struggle.

Monty – that’s very funny. Why would we care if The Net Zero Party or the Other Net Zero Party won?

And the reason why the Libs “only succeeded in winning back One Nation and UAP extremist votes” is that neither of those parties um like stood candidates.

Is there a massive cost of living crisis? That’s weird, you couldn’t tell that from Albo or Chris Bowen. Electricity is too cheap to meter these days. Get with the program Monty.

One of the individuals featured on Nemesis who came across as the most irritating and odious was Russell Broadbent.*

Throughout the entire series, Broadbent consistently affected a disgusted, moralistic disdain for the processes and players involved – I don’t recall anyone being spared from his self-righteous, withering scorn – yet he by his own admission was involved in the spills! He spent so much of the time looking down his pointy nose at the treachery and collusion which he was a part of. A real piece of work, that bloke.

*Trumble took out gold, silver and bronze simultaneously on that score, so Broadbent wasn’t competing at that elite level of dirtbaggery but was still insufferable

Hello, post-modern woke America.

Hello anti- nuclear Australia. Fomenting anti-nuclear hysteria started with Stalin, who wanted nuclear power for the soviet union but nobody else. And the hysteria he started long outlasted both Stalin and the Soviet union and is still alive and well in Oz.

As you say, Roger, the propaganda can long outlast the (cold) war which started it.

Were I on the other side, I’d be using these methods. So would Sun Tzu.

m0nty still thinks most people here barrack for the coalition in way he barracks for the ALP. He’s a bit of a dinosaur. Not very sophisticated.

Everyone was complicit… EVERYONE.

bullshit

Roger
Mar 3, 2024 2:09 PM
It wasn’t deliberate, there was no plan to make them our enemy.

Rather, it was believed that by bringing them into our commercial orbit they would also politically liberalise.

Perhaps the greatest strategic error of the post-WWII era.

That was the idea. Do you think it might have worked but for Xi? I’m ignorant about Chinese modern history and wonder if China may have gone down a more friendly path.

Chucker.

To be disregarded completely, or have an asterisk against his name at best.

Beat me too it KD. I was still interested in the game at that time. Hair stood his ground and was fined for it later criticising the ICC capitulation. I remember 12th mans Billy Birmingham taking the mickey about match fixing and the likes. Sub continental money has been very problematic for the game.

a huge problem with