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40 years at the ALPBC. Talk about Hotel California Ultimo.
Haha. The new lead story at Paywallian.com: China tells other world leaders: be like AlbaneseBeijing has nominated Anthony Albanese as…
Still stuck on the 45. Yeah, people sometimes get stuck on facts. That appears to be a real problem, yeah?…
Presumably the only way to get a Mexican to mow your lawn for the next 4 years.
Hello sailor
What sort of bastard would take second spot as well.
Time for a picnic.
Sailors “yarning”?
Here’s me thinking it’s Language
Turns out it’s cocks at the docks slang
Cultural appropriation eh
You can’t help but laugh.
Duck Hunts Human Instead
That’s harsher than “a Nation of shopkeepers”.
The most horrifying thing they can witness when they venture beyond the borders of Canberra Shire Council is a restaurant sign saying “no split bills”.
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Haha. Brett Lethbridge.
Michael Ramirez.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Michael Ramirez.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Henry Payne #2.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
FROM ELON MUSK.
He has written more…
Specifically about how presidential college votes are allocated by census counts also.
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What sort of a joke of a country does not value it citizenship highly – let alone not at all.
Natural Instinct
Mar 11, 2024 5:15 AM
It is puzzling, on the one hand they have stricter rules about handing out citizenship than we do but at the same time they give rights to illegals same as or more than americans.
Like the Californian non citizen being on the electoral board, or that you can’t get a visa as footballer but you could get in illegally!?
Strange place.
The David Sinclair $720,000,000 Train Wreck!
David Sinclair is an Australian scientist who made $720 million by selling a garbage resveratrol product to GSK. There was all sorts of nonsense being spouted about resveratrol, with people even justifying wine consumption because of that. Now Sinclair is doing it again with NMN and NMR, very expensive supplements that do diddly swat. This is another example of what happens so often in the health and longevity fields. Be careful. It is very difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff.
This game started long ago. Research scientists start a company to market a product that they claim has stunning health benefits. An old one I fell for was a combination of A L carnitine and alpha lipoic acid combo.
The daupine is at it again
Dauphine
international outcry
Labour Day?
What?
I thought that was every day.
Canberra is a nation of hall monitors.
We share the same national government, that’s about it.
WE had problems ………. big gap ………..?
I wonder if planning and advocating to vote against the government will eventually be viewed as thought crimes.
After what happened to the NY firemen who booed James, quite possibly.
Going to be fun when AGL and their greenie friends start building ginormous batteries all over the place.
New York And California Getting Totally Lost With Energy Storage (10 Mar)
I suspect the issue will get worse with time too, as the batteries get older and go through more cycles of charge and discharge.
These battery backup sites are going to be easy targets for terrorists. One bullet, continuous fire till its burnt itself out or because of the energy an explosion.
This what you get when you sack your engineers and give their jobs to hippie political activists with gender studies diplomas.
I’ll concede that it might be possible to bag a lobster… but abalone without goggles or a steel shim?
Once again the manouvre of genetic Australian Aboriginals inflating adopted activity to untouchable spirituality. The ABC says bend the knee, obvs.
This annoyed me greatly last night while watching The Jury, a new program on Sky. The question to audience was along the lines of reducing the right to protest in view of what the traffic blockade on Westgate Bridge and the woman who had to give birth in the family car due to the resulting traffic jam.
A young female member of the audience opined that protests are meant to disrupt to spotlight an issue. How is that fair that some snot-nosed kids can stop me from earning my living or making sure someone get to the hospital on time to save their life just to spotlight their inanity? This is trampling on other people’s rights in order to highlight their own supposed moral superiority.
Protesting used to be allowed in a park, well away from traffic and impeding other people. Protesters could even stand on street corners with their signs but not accost anyone. Even large rallies can be accommodated if they are planned in advance with adequate provision for the rest of the city life to go on as normal.
Now they can take over a city and the powers that be just shrug their shoulders. No wonder these protesters do not sway anyone to their point of view. The other thing that puts most people off is the level of entitlement exhibited by this sort of behaviour. I wonder if this is due to these protesters being from the well monied upper middle class, the working class don’t have the time for it and they also have a much stronger grip on reality.
OK, rant off.
New Yorkers still have a choice of moving to a non-Democrat corrupted state, when that is a federal policy there is nowhere to go.
Battery fires in ground based storage where the thing doesn’t move, can have extensive individual cell monitoring and physical isolation, does not bode well for such batteries in cars which get bumped and jostled and opportunities for cell isolation and monitoring (weight) are lower.
There is a trend to electric self launching gliders by the German ecoloons. Which fly through turbulence and land on rough airfields with rudimentary wheel suspension and need to keep battery pack weight low. One manufacturer put out a video on the extensive isolation and shielding including a pipe to the wingtip to vent any combustion gases overboard. Missing was the demonstration of a cell deliberately put into thermal runaway in a wing test section. Either they didn’t do it and the precautions are theoretical or the result wasn’t pretty.
I’ll concede that it might be possible to bag a lobster… but abalone without goggles or a steel shim?
Once again the manouvre of genetic Australian Aboriginals inflating adopted activity to untouchable spirituality. The ABC says bend the knee, obvs.
That pix sez it all .. FFS!
If they want/expect, exclusive, “native” rights to fishing then they should be restricted to “cultural” methods .. no modern equipment allowed ..
I meanz, how can they experience the joys of their “culture” if they adopt white-folk invented aids ….
Dan Bongino
@dbongino
When you cut through all the bullshit, and reality kicks in, you realize that Joe Briben and the Dems really do support terrorists, illegal aliens, criminals, murderers and corrupt politicians.
It’s irrefutable when you take the blinders off. They really do hate you.
Catturd ™
@catturd2
Liberalism is a mental disorder.
These lunatics will start WW3 if given the chance.
They appear to be doing their best. Give them time.
GWGB.
UniSuper green fund plunges (Paywallian)
With all these academics yowling lockstep about climate change it’s pure schadenfreude that their super fund is being decimated because it invested in green snake oil.
‘Blood Money’: How Stephen Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Other Hollywood Big Shots Bow to Beijing and Allow Their Films to Be Used for Pro-China Propaganda
Schiff Says Intel Community will Sabotage Trump By Withholding Intelligence and ‘Dumbing Down’ Daily Brief
RFK’s State of the Union Hits Home
https://youtu.be/A0yvc2Qhn5E
Not her money.
OUCH: Neocon Nikki Blew $120 Million on Failed Campaign, $1.3 Million Per Delegate
Dick Durbin Thwarts Bill to Automatically Detain Illegals Charged with Violent Crimes
Bloody hell! .. now into day 12 of NO swimming/riding whilst they (quacks) try to find out why I’m not a sick as their diagnosis demands …
starting to realise that if they make you feel like an “invalid” it’s very easy to start acting like one .. I’m not supposed to overdo anything for the time being ……..FFS!
All the various tests & scan results will be concluded this week and next Tuesday (21st) I’ll find out ..
Reality is I either have another dose of Cancer or need an operation .. no other options .. You get to 76 and, apparently, until they elimanate Cancer as the primary problem the, immediate, solution (operation) is put on hold until then …
Still upbeat cos feeling wonderful … but .. bloody bored ……… grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrh!
If the dogs don’t like the dog food it doesn’t matter how much you spend on advertising it.
Grifers gunna grift.
2 peoples in one country with one having optional enforcement of laws is a bad, bad idea.
Also enough of allowing modern tech to be used in traditional hunting/gathering, unless thats a paperbark wetsuit hes wearing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-11/class-action-puts-spotlight-on-prosecution-of-aboriginal-fishers/103570098
Thanks again Tom for the Cartoons.
shatterzzz
As he has aged, his face has got blacker, but his neck and arms haven’t.
And the goggles etc? Clear case of Cultural Appropriation.,
The 1918 ‘Pandemic’ & the Viral Theory – ‘The Unproven Notion of Airborne Viral Illness That has Enslaved Humanity to the Corrupt Medical Cartel.’
This was told to me as being a true story, an Immigration Officer is at one of the UK entry desks, when a very well-dressed older woman approached fumbling in her handbag, the Immigration Officer asked for her passport. Still fumbling in her bag, she says in a very posh English accent “I’m so sorry, I seem to be having a craft moment”, the Officer asks, “a craft moment, what is that?”, “Oh you know” she says, “Can’t Remember a Farking Thing”.
Bizarre Geoengineering Project Floated to Save the World From “Doomsday Glacier”
Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
Pittsburgh police will no longer respond to certain calls including theft, harassment, criminal mischief, and burglary alarms.
Between 3AM-7AM there will be no officers at any police stations.
Buy guns. Buy ammo.
The police will not protect you.
How will that be different to what they did to him the first time? Besides, most of their intellect has been garbage since the late 80s.
Lovely day for parade in Melbourne. Pity it has been cancelled. Forecast has been revised down with “mostly sunny” or “mostly cloudy” depending on which site you read (Elders or BOM) with a top of 37 C in the city and 36 in our part of the woods. My guess is it won’t make the maximum without a shove from the upward rounders at BOM.
I hope Kennedy peels a lot of votes of both the majors.
At least it siphoned some money out of Dem pockets, all to no good.
Do any of these “geoengineers” know how to do maths and physics? There’s that thing about ice occupying a greater area than the water from it. A glacier that can be protected behind a 62 mile wall will generate a two foot rise in oceans over the entire globe? The only danger it presents is producing waves as it calves. We used to call this pseudoscience.
Tim Blair in today’s Tele:
Go atomic and nuke the cranky Labor left
The great struggle of our leftist friends is to present themselves as placid and normal when in fact they’re an absolute cyclone of perverse moral justifications and self-destructive pathologies.
Tim Blair
11 Mar 2024
There are many sensible reasons for Peter Dutton and his Coalition allies to keep pushing for nuclear power.
As is well established, nuclear energy is extremely safe, relatively easy to create in abundance and completely environmentally friendly.
That last point is important if Dutton aims to drag the squishier Libs over to his side of the atomic argument (or he and the party’s rationalist wing could just jettison those fancyboy urban Turnbull types entirely … but that’s another argument for another day).
But two of the best reasons for conservatives to support nuclear energy would still apply even if no commercial nuclear reactors were ever to be built on Australian soil.
As a branding exercise, being pro-nuclear puts a party on the right side of science. It indicates that a party is not beholden to ridiculous Boomer-era superstitions about scary uranium.
Being pro-nuclear tells the electorate that your assessment of atomic energy isn’t swayed by childhood exposure to anti-nuke propaganda.
A pro-nuclear party has typically encountered anti-nuke propaganda – such as 1979’s dire cinematic fright-fest The China Syndrome – and since moved on from there, in large part due to simply growing up.
As well, those in the pro-nuclear camp are obviously able to calculate risk and reward, and to draw lessons from history. For example:
Reward: Nuclear energy produces nearly three trillion kilowatt hours (kWh) of power worldwide every year.
A European Nuclear Society comparison puts that in an easily understood context: one kilogram of coal can generate eight kWh of energy. One kilogram of mineral oil can generate 12 kWh of energy. But just one kilogram of uranium-235 can generate 24,000,000 kWh of energy – and does so without the carbon dioxide by-products of coal or oil.
Risk: History’s four worst nuclear energy incidents occurred at Windscale in the UK in 1957, Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979, Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union in 1986 and Fukushima in Japan in 2011.
In those incidents a total of about 30 people died of nuclear-related causes. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. All of them died at Chernobyl.
Lesson: Don’t let commies near anything big and burny. Those people are idiots.
Aside from that, go for it. You know what is far deadlier than nuclear power? Lithium-ion batteries.
Two people died last week in a lithium-ion battery blaze in Lake Macquarie.
According to data collated by Australian emergency responder advisory firm EV Firesafe, 36 people were killed worldwide by similar battery disasters in just the first half of last year.
That’s more people dead in six months than have been killed by nuclear energy since the first commercial reactor fired up in Britain 68 years ago.
Brand-wise then, pro-nuclear is where you want to be. The second reason for occupying that space is because it puts your opponents in the anti-nuclear crazy camp.
It makes them defend the superstitious and irrational, and it turns all their arguments into desperate pursuits of even the tiniest slivers of supportive evidence.
Look at Chris Bowen, our Energy Minister. The poor bloke has become such a frantic cherry picker that he could get seasonal work in Young.
On Sunday he rejected Coalition claims that Ontario in Canada had low power bills relative to Australia because of its nuclear plants.
“What Mr Dutton doesn’t tell you,” Bowen said on the ABC’s Insiders, “is the Ontario state government subsidises energy bills in Ontario by $6 billion Canadian dollars a year.”
But there’s more to the story, which is the usual case with Bowen.
Ontario’s energy subsidies, as summarised by Canada’s CBC News, were introduced because “green energy contracts” signed by previous eco-governments “locked the province into paying wind- and solar-power producers above-market prices for generating electricity”.
Nothing to do with nuclear, then. So much for Bowen’s Insiders line that “when you put scrutiny” on pro-nuclear arguments “they crumble like a Sao in a blender”.
Beyond nuclear issues, it is a good idea in general to provoke Labor and the left in ways that expose their peculiar beliefs.
The great struggle of our leftist friends is to present themselves as placid and normal when in fact they’re an absolute cyclone of perverse moral justifications and self-destructive pathologies.
Nuclear energy triggers leftists. So did October 7, which exposed a hateful anti-Jewish leftist core.
Sam Kerr’s technicolour cab ride provoked an ongoing leftist race riot over the meaning of whiteness.
Keep teasing. It reveals them.
Tim Blair
Journalist
Re the Moomba and other cancellations.
Is this all because everyone is afraid of getting sued if someone doesn’t drink enough and gets heat stroke?
Or what?
Buy guns. Buy ammo.
The police will not protect you.
They haven’t had that remit for a while now – the ‘protect and serve’ bit applies to the government, not the citizens.
Then bloody well go riding or swimming. Why are you letting these “quacks” as you call them, get their claws into you?
No.
Otherwise there would never be another doof-doof dance party ever.
Sally Capp will announce in about six months time that it is an opportunity to “refresh and reinvigorate” Moomba for 2025.
Which will mean the old street parade and carnival style event will be replaced with a Yartz festival for the beret wearers of Fitzroy.
Hill v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire isn’t the leading case anymore, duk.
However, after COVID, what happened to you, beating up grannies, autistic kids, raiding ex diggers & cuffing barefoot and pregnant dissenters, it’s all a joke.
Three or so years to appeal an administrative decision, but the courts stonewalled during the event, Parliaments were shut, but muppets like Bad Hazard were cranking out new regulation every day, with no Parliamentary/Legislative Council oversight?
It is laughable. We fell back to a Henry VIII style of government very quickly.
Each day I urge myself to not be a bitter person (I thank my parents who raised me a Christian in the Catholic Church). It’s hard when people so wilfully trashed our common law heritage and post-WWII civil rights.
Looks like COVID is running through Canberra and southern NSW now.
Ah well. I imagine 97% of Canberrans aren’t getting COVID, right?
I even cringe at my cynicism as it’s spiteful.
Re: Tom’s toons: best: Garrison who really understands that the old political ways of dealing with the opposition don’t work with the modern left.
With that in mind:
South Carolina Becomes 29th State to Allow Carrying Firearms Without a License
In those incidents a total of about 30 people died of nuclear-related causes. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. All of them died at Chernobyl.
Chernobyl is always brought up in anti nuclear argument(s) but the reality of what happened is never questioned ..
Sure, a meltdown happened there is no denying Chernobyl had a reactor meltdown .. BUT it happened long ago when nuclear power and understanding were still in their infancy ..
Reality was when things started to look “iffy” senior management in the plant were at loggerheads over the extent of the problem .. the arguments for .. it’s just a system glitch ignore it & we is in trouble do something prevailed .. end result was “seniority” .. the two “top men” were more concerned with “head office” (Moscow) response to a shut-down than the let’s let it play out endgame …..
Final result ……. a bloody disaster ….. not only by local management decisions but also the slow Moscow involvement as they were more concerned with info leakage into western media/gummints than the catastrophe they relegated to a minor “incident” for 3 weeks ………
Is this all because everyone is afraid of getting sued if someone doesn’t drink enough and gets heat stroke?
You can’t blame ’em .. worrying about being sued .. LOL!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13179091/Mountains-Grammar-School-sued-bullying.html
Quite incredible how so many have relegated October 7 to the selective memory box ..
It’s as if it never happened and the Israeli gummint woke up one morning & just decided to invade Gaza for something to do ….. FFS!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-11/israel-insiders-gaza-war-four-corners/103554014
I’m not saying it’s aliens, (LOL) but this is in the least, very interesting:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HighStrangeness/comments/1az7d2n/researcher_rob_heatherly_exposes_evidence_of_a/
“Rob was on CtoC with George Knapp last Sunday night / Monday morning. Here’s the show summary:
I think I ran across an example looking at the edits for James Forrestal yesterday. Someone else posted here or in another sub that the cabal has removed titles and degrees from people like Travis Taylor.”
Now if Wikipedia is in a clandestine edit war over esoteric and what the general public sees as whacky subjects, then consider what mainstream topics like the 2020 election, COVID, Donald Trump, Biden etc go through.
The frightbats from the Victorian government’s Dan Andrews Memorial Glorious Revolution Ministry of Culture were out and about this morning feeding their incurious media chooks with the explanation that it was “too dangerous” to allow today’s Moomba parade to go ahead on the strength of the Bureau of Mythology’s forecast of 37C.
Just like their reign of terror during Kung Flu, our betters are destroying stuff ordinary people like by pretending it’s for our own good.
It’s currently a pleasant 27C in Melbourne and actual summer heat looks like it’s around 10 months away as the summer that never was disappears into the rear-view mirror.
They haven’t had that remit for a while now – the ‘protect and serve’ bit applies to the government, not the citizens.
If you define “civil order” as trying to prevent citizens from being robbed/raped/assaulted/murdered, I don’t think they even do much of that anymore.
Solving murders is just free high profile advertising to keep them funded.
They can join the rest when HoP time comes.
Then bloody well go riding or swimming. Why are you letting these “quacks” as you call them, get their claws into you?
Cos they’ve narrowed it down to my kidneys in strife so put on a catheter .. can’t ride/swim hooked into the thing ….. problem is I’m supposed to be sick, under normal circumstances, but I feel great .. which is why all the scans/tests ……..
The panic regarding high temperatures is reaching a farcical level. I can’t decide whether it is consciously promoted by Climate Change fanatics, or it is part of the mania for all threats that seems to afflict our society.
Nuclear milkman come on down…
At the time of the incident, no one was evacuated from the surrounding area, but milk from about 500 km2 (190 square miles) of the nearby countryside was diluted and destroyed for about a month due to concerns about its radiation exposure.
…
A 2010 study of workers involved in the cleanup of the accident found no significant long-term health effects from their involvement.
Shatterzzz, there may be more matters that affect your condition, but medicos are constantly testing older people who are asymptomatic simpl,y because the statistics indicate they can suffer from certain conditions. This seems particularly common today.
Would that be why I now hear ads on the radio about it being available for anyone to join now?
That’s one of the excuses. The City of Melbourne (mostly the lefty artsy councilors and politicians) has been less than enthusiastic about supporting Moomba for the past 30 or so years. It finds it galling that all those working class families come out and enjoy themselves. Moomba isn’t posh enough. Retailers on the other hand support it because it brings people back into the city.
Broelman’s SDS looks terminal.
Apparently 17 C is “balmy”.
UK hot weather: Maps reveal exact day African plume will bring balmy 17C to Britain (10 Mar)
Barmy not balmy. Bloody freezing would be a better description. It’s the average max temp here at the Cafe in midwinter.
How to join the French Foreign Legion ..
An ex US Navy Seal explains his entry ……..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7rQxwSZus
132 and Bush, Sancho
You make good points.
My theory re the nonMoomba is that it is part of the ongoing weather panic, but with an underlying aspect. The cancellation and other similar decrees feed into the narrative of unheard-of heat so when our mega- billion ramshackle Lysenko grade power grid falls over for days, the Dambrosios can shout “ Unprecedented conditions” in the hope of deflecting the angry mob.
There was an example of this happening on a few years back in S A when an inter connector tripped and the following cascade of shutdowns in our newly diverse power “ System” blacked out most of the State. The Premier, Jay Wetherall ( hapless witless son of UK immigrant Labor MP ) ran around shouting “ One in a hundred year storm” and pointed his media minions ( ie most of them) at a couple of old pylons that blew over.
When the caravan moved on, the next step was not a pylon upgrade programme – nope it was a very large but low key ( minimal media interest) project installing many many diesel and open cycle gas turbine generators to provide the grid stability that dare not speak its name.
As a perfect illustration of where we are at, many of the diesels went into the old Holden plant as it was empty; and the power infrastructure was already in place: only now the electrons and dollars flow in the opposite direction.
Shatterzzz I produce huge kidney stones occasionally. No pain whatsoever except from the discomfort of a stent. Once after surgery the catheter wouldn’t deflate so they had to pull it out. The only good thing was the two lovely nurses playing with the wedding tackle.
Foxbody – This one from John Hinderaker mirrors our situation:
Transition? What Transition? | Power Line (9 Mar)
The points he made were basically what you just said – grid stability, dispatchable generation etc. Yet the US equivalents of AEMO had never heard of such things. Truly we’re in the hands of morons.
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Case in Perth, several years ago, where a European couple had an elderly relative, staying with them. When he passed away, they discovered, from his personal effects, that he had served in the Foreign Legion, in Indo China, in the early 1950’s.
The City of Melbourne press release suggests that: “the health & safety of performers…”
Well, Zig and Zag aren’t getting any younger you know.
Betcha the Liars do a Sir Robin and tell their voteherd to vote for a Teal.
By-election in Scott Morrison’s former seat Cook set, Liberal Simon Kennedy favourite (11 Mar)
Let the race begin!
To be clear Zig (Jack Perry) was the pedo.
Zag (Doug McKenzie) was not a pedo.
The top temp forecast for Melbourne is only 34 with stuff all humidity.
Clueless Tories devise a clever plan to make themselves even more hated:
Replace farms and deface the countryside with solar factories and charge people more for their electricity.
What a brilliant idea, Claire!
VikLib
this is what happens when you play the personality politics game
your brand is now completely toxic so long as Pesutto is visible
turf the clown out of the party … just like you did to Deeming and Finn
cut him loose
Not an Oscar’s fan, however I got interested in this article:
Oscars 2024 red carpet: All the best glam and gowns from Hollywood’s big night (News.com.au, 11 Mar)
Ms Robbie’s dress is rather good, although I don’t know how they managed to pour her into it.
The nice thing though is that just about all the dresses are really good (except Billie Eilish, but she’s nuts). Perhaps after we hit the ultimate high tide level of woke last year we’re returning to some more normal state.
I wouldn’t be voting for some blowin from head office. How much fuss did they put up when skank kennelly was the lying candidate for Fowler? Candidate qualification needs to be residency for 10 years.
The elites attitude to Moomba:-
https://ibb.co/WtnFs81
Here…have another sausage, fresh off the machine.
What we used to call “a bit warm”.
If so, its a good thing – we know that resp viruses are less virulent in summer (Vit D and other things), so the best time to update your immune software is with a summer exposure.
Pessutto is the anchor holding back the Libs in VIC.
Will never win with him in charge and still trying to take on Moira Deeming who has strong support.
Still getting CityLink invoices for phantom trips by my Freightliner.
I did manage to get out of my Filipino friend that the reading of the last letter is the problem.
A quick VicRoads rego search reveals that a 23 Volvo garbage unit has a Q as the last letter. It really couldn’t be any other letter that would be the problem with the “smart” technology as all national heavy vehicle regos have two letters – two numerals – two letters.
I’m taking bets on a swift resolution or me having to go to the media. Tom Elliot 3AW is the choice.
German Greens are nuts.
Activists protest Tesla plant expansion in Germany (10 Mar)
Germany Begins Felling 120,000 Trees From ‘Fairy Tale’ Forest to Make Way for Wind Turbines (9 Mar)
So the Greens like forests cut down for Gaia’s holy wind turbines but don’t like forests cut down for Gaia’s holy electric cars. Go figure.
The best thing you could do from a Melbournibad OH&S perspective would be leave. Rapidly becoming the worst of Canberra and the UK.
This was mentioned on radio news this morning. The push is on to add it to the Immunization programme for kids.
The Royal Australian College of GPs (RACGP) is calling on the Queensland Government to follow Western Australia’s lead and introduce a free, state-wide RSV vaccination to keep babies safe.
It comes following the College welcoming Western Australia becoming the first Australian jurisdiction to rollout an infant RSV immunisation. This morning, it has been reported that Health Minister Shannon Fentiman is “actively considering” a rollout in Queensland.
You have to understand that, as a Queenslander, Moomba doesn’t resonate with me.
If Melburnians went into the city regardless of the cancellation and had a street party as a way of saying to the elites “stuff you”, I would take notice. After all, the protesters have shown us you don’t need permission.
The only good thing was the two lovely nurses playing with the wedding tackle.
Story of my life .. to date I’ve only drawn bloke nurses ……!
There’s that word again…”free.”
Nothing provided by government is “free.”
Vicki wrote:
The panic regarding high temperatures is reaching a farcical level. I can’t decide whether it is consciously promoted by Climate Change fanatics, or it is part of the mania for all threats that seems to afflict our society.
My wife has for decades, always as far as she can remember, had below average temperature – I regularly measure it – of around 34.5. Immediately after her COVID shot it jumped to 36.5 and has stayed there for 2+ years, and “the old grey mare, she ain’t what she used to be”.
You know what I’m over?
I’m over the frigging hysteria and drama that has become routine for our society.
It just never stops. They never shut up, and they never ever listen.
It’s become a self winding society of screeching nimby’s that luxuriate in their demented sense of disaster and dismay.
Rant not over – I’m just taking a breath.
I cannot wait until it collapses up its own arsehole.
Dealer mechanic to farmer: “The fault codes thrown by the on board diagnostics indicate a potentially catastrophic problem with the IVT range change pressures, which, if correct, will strip teeth off gearing. It could also be a faulty speed or pressure sensor. I don’t have the particular test gauge with me but give me 2 hrs and I’ll be back and we’ll know for sure. In the meantime, don’t drive this tractor.
Farmer: She’ll be right, what would he know, I’ve got to slash this paddock this morning, not this arvo.
“Sailors yarning” – reminds me of Heart of Darkness and Marlow’s take on women, which is how I feel about Teals.
The 24 hour news cycle amplifies it.
News providers have to keep searching for, or if necessary fabricate, new dramas to feed the desire for emotional over-stimulation.
It’s as if people don’t feel they’re truly alive unless there is some external fixation to distract them from the void within.
It is if you use the APS definition,
free – paid by someone else.
That’s how a billion dollar legacy media conglomerate becomes a free service.
so the perversion in the US, which the Democrats are accelerating, is that it will be a very few voters (enrolled, motivated) who swing the outcome of government (seats allocated by non-citizen, unenrolled, trucked-in bodies).
Neocons Destroying America
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/neocons/neocons-destroying-america/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS
Due to my, medically induced, “home detention” I’ve downloaded several long run TV series I haven’t previously bothered with .. I never watch daytime TV. more of a 5 thru 8.30-ish person …. & “fitba” .. can never be enuf “fitba’ …
as Bill Shankley (ex Liverpool manager) once said,
“Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.”..
Anywayz, not to be side-tracked …. one of these shows is a, currently up to, 7 series extravaganza LONGMIRE .. a US local plod show set in way out west Wyoming-land and revolving around the local sheriff & staff day-to-day adventures .. There is, usually, a murder per episode tho very light weight along the lines of “Murder in Paradise” IQ solvers but the saving grace & strong point is the background “soapie” running thru the entire show on the personal goings on of the main characters .. really sux you in & very well dun ..
Worth a look if you’ve never come across it before ……
LONGMIRE ..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1836037/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_3_nm_5_q_longmire
Biden Re-Emerges from his Bunker in 2027
Thankyou Roger, just what I needed, more fried toothpaste, no meat.
Ther are an awful lot of people – the someone elses – who are about to find themselves in the next tax bracket but whose increased salary buys considerably less than it did two years ago who may soon begin to question this logic.
Farenheit 451 predicted the continuous ‘entertainment’ using giant wall-sized TVs known as parlor walls that stop people from thinking, reflecting, understanding their society.
Agree. Longmire was good and main role is Aussie.
After being 4/34 chasing 279 for a win, Aussies now only needing 86. Marsh 69*, Carey 55*.
Head was out first ball he faced today; slashing to point. Lucky for him it’s the last test of the summer, and last test until November against India, or he’d be making way for Renshaw I’d reckon.
For a lot of people working for yourself commences some time in late March to May. Most people are still working for the government at this point.
aka playing your natural game. See also: Bazball
Nothing provided by government is “free.”
Usually cost 3 to 10 times what it should and is of low quality.
You can bet your supa the ads are to entice new liquidity into funds that are not skimming enough money to pay the bills or subject to closing due to poor results.
Still to see the reckoning caused by many union-linked funds over-investing in adjacent sectors like commercial construction and over-exposure to non-liquid assets …
We now have TV screens in elevators and petrol pumps.
Not to mention people carry (small) TV screens everywhere and use them all the time, buying slightly larger versions to ‘entertain’ children as well.
Luddites Unite!
Strayan Alintas now 7/225, still needing 54. Carey the only hope, still there on 71.
Please please please.
You can see how unconnected I am that I didn’t think of that first! 😀
I’ve never read Vonnegut but juts this morning I was reading about a short story he wrote in which, in the interest of radical equality, a society weighs down strong people with weights, makes the beautiful wear masks and forces the intelligent to wear a device that interferes with their ability to think. I think he wrote in 1961.
We now have TV screens in elevators and petrol pumps.
Not to mention people carry (small) TV screens everywhere and use them all the time, buying slightly larger versions to ‘entertain’ children as well.
To paraphrase the song ” Smuggler’s Blues” : Colour and Movement – “it’s got a very strong appeal”.
Someone tell Chris Bowen:
https://notrickszone.com/2024/03/10/sobering-up-eu-may-scrap-its-plans-to-ban-internal-combustion-engines-by-2035/
If Germany is the laughing stock of the developed world it’s only because nobody o/s pays much attention to the unfolding disaster down here.
Roger
Mar 11, 2024 1:13 PM
HARRISON BERGERON
by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Whole short story here.
https://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren’t only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General.
Some things about living still weren’t quite right, though. April for instance, still drove people crazy by not being springtime. And it was in that clammy month that the H-G men took George and Hazel Bergeron’s fourteen-year-old son, Harrison, away.
It was tragic, all right, but George and Hazel couldn’t think about it very hard. Hazel had a perfectly average intelligence, which meant she couldn’t think about anything except in short bursts. And George, while his intelligence was way above normal, had a little mental handicap radio in his ear. He was required by law to wear it at all times. It was tuned to a government transmitter. Every twenty seconds or so, the transmitter would send out some sharp noise to keep people like George from taking unfair advantage of their brains.
Roger, Alamak,
Have you considered that newcatallaxy.blog might be YOUR special diet of continuous “entertainment”?
Stops you from taking to the streets?
Harrison Bergeron is the story by Vonnegut, which I vaguely recall reading some time ago. Interesting also to compare these fictions with mythical stories on same lines e.g. the bed of Procrustes.
Porsche/VW’s heart is in the right place. They stuffed up badly with the diesel thing though: rather than fake the emissions test they should’ve shipped their cars as per the test, then accidentally leaked the software hack onto the internet. Weird how you could just plug in a USB stick with the leaked software and suddenly your VW could have some actual power! Mysterious that, but VW sadly missed an opportunity to avoid billions in fines.
They’ve another chance with their “e-fuel” since any engine that can use methanol can almost certainly be retrofitted to burn ordinary petrol. A nice little leak of the hardware and software changes by a horrible unidentifiable eco-hating Russian hacker would fit the requirements just so.
I ration myself strictly, Barry.
It’s a means of interacting with others and keeping up with things which I find intellectually stimulating, but which, due to my health and location, I otherwise wouldn’t be engaged in much .
Time now to do some reading. 😀
Equalisation of humans is a precursor to equalising the weather. Start small and work to the point where our overlords are Gods. Sure there are plenty of written works about that kind of folly.
Yeah, possibly true. What streets should I take to? I’m currently out and raging about the price of toasties which just keeps going up.
So the Great Satan is going to build a port to expedite the supply of food and other essentials into Gaza. LOL, just one more thing for the Gazans to hate them for.
Cap’n Climate smacks the winning runs off the last ball of the over leaving Carey on 98*.
Yeah nah, good on them. And Marsh. Awesome run chase from 4/34.
MIRKO BAGARIC
Embracing ‘feelings’ is no solution to scourge of youth crime
Government failure and waste finds no greater expression than in the more than $1m a year it costs to detain each juvenile offender and the fact that 58 per cent of them are back in detention within a year of being released.
Of course, near-bankrupt Victoria is the worst state. The Productivity Commission reports that Victorian taxpayers pay $2.16m annually for each youth detainee and the recidivism rate in the competence-free state is 71 per cent.
It is beyond incredulous that in this technology age, where billions have been devoted to research into the causes and cures of crime, governments remain functionally clueless on how to efficiently deal with the scourge of increasing youth crime.
The most recent data from the ABS shows that in the previous year police charged nearly 50,000 offenders aged 10-17, a 6 per cent increase from the previous year. And we are not taking about petty transgressions. The most common offence among juvenile offenders (25 per cent) is assault intending to cause injury.
The youth crime rate will only drop once the legal system makes young people accountable for their actions and the system reverses the trend of encouraging young people to embrace their feelings. Instead of surrendering to their feelings, they need to be taught impulse control and that the welfare of others is no less important than their own.
The importance of stopping crime cannot be overstated. The empirical data shows crime, especially violent and sexual offences, can ruin people’s lives. Research demonstrates the most effective way to reduce crime is to increase the chances people will be caught. This is known as the theory of absolute general deterrence. It works – all of the time. That’s why speed cameras have had such a dramatic effect on reducing speeding and people don’t commit crime outside police stations.
If governments want to reduce crime, there is a sure fix. Put more uniform police on the streets. In crime hotspots, this should be supplement with AI-enhanced CCTV which automatically notifies police when suspicious activity is detected.
This will only be effective if criminals face unwanted consequences. The primary aim of the criminal justice system is community protection. The main consideration in setting penalty severity is the principle of proportionality; the view that the harm caused by the crime should match the harshness of the penalty.
Both of these considerations mean all serious sexual and violent offenders should be subjected to harsh sanctions. The human body does not distinguish between the level of suffering caused by being stabbed by a 50-year-old or 15-year-old. The community needs to be protected as much from teenagers as adult criminals.
The goal of rehabilitation is alluring but it’s failing – youth reoffending rates are higher now than five years ago. Clearly the offenders are receiving the wrong advice and treatment. The criminal justice system needs to stop the nonsense of encouraging youth to connect with their inner selves. It needs to teach them objective truths in the form of the importance of hard work, grit and being good at not getting what they want – even if it triggers their feelings.
At present, the evidence shows the only forms of rehabilitation that work are age and education. People age out of crime. The prefrontal cortex of people does not mature until age 25. All young offenders are salvageable and can become contributing members of the community. This can be accelerated through better education. Nearly 80 per cent of young adult prisoners have not completed high school – an approximately four times higher non-completion rate than other young adults.
This gets us to the complex tension between the desire to rehabilitate young offenders and the need to protect the community from serious acts of violence.
Primacy must be accorded to incapacitating offenders from inflicting serious harm on more victims. Yet prisons are not the solution for young people: they diminish educational progress and governments have no idea how to run youth detention centres in a non-profligate way.
The excessive spending on youth justice provides an easy alternative to youth detention. Each serious juvenile offender should be chaperoned by a police officer 24/7 as they go about their daily activities.
Police chaperoning sounds excessive and simplistic, and there are many theoretical reasons not to pursue this approach, but all of them are evaporated by the thudding economic reality that the cost of a 24/7 police chaperone for each young offender would be approximately $400,000 annually (ie, five full-time police salaries – factoring in holidays and other leave – working on this one task). Incredibly, this is more than a $600,000 annual saving for each offender (the saving is $1.5m in Victoria).
The job of police would be made easier if the offenders were required to wear GPS tracking bracelets and compelled to stay within set geographical confines, which were sufficiently expansive to include important facilities, such as school and sports activities. Thus when offenders were inside their home or school, the police would not need to have visual contact with the offenders.
Constant police monitoring of young offenders would obviously have downsides. Some offenders would find it embarrassing and humiliating. Others would regard it as a serious invasion of their privacy. But these disadvantages are minor when compared with the harshness of the alternative: being removed from their family, school and friends and placed in detention.
The money saved through appointing a police chaperone to each serious juvenile offender should be spent on putting more police and AI-enhanced CCTV cameras on the street, which would reduce the crime problem at the outset.
Alternatively, governments can keep employing even more misguided youth counsellors and hiding the cost of their incompetence in remote government reports and hope they can continue to avoid accountability for their breathtaking missteps.
Professor Mirko Bagaric Swinburne University is the author of Australian Sentencing.
Oz
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Bourne1879
Mar 11, 2024 11:50 AM
Pessutto is the anchor holding back the Libs in VIC.
Will never win with him in charge and still trying to take on Moira Deeming who has strong support.
This is presumably why the Spencer Street Soviet (AKA The Age) ran a gushing puff piece about him today. However very few non liars/slime/teal voters read that cretinous publication and certainly wouldn’t pay much attention to anything about Pesutto.
still trying to take on Moira Deeming
seems the despicable waste of space prefers that to taking on the marxist wreckers across the floor. Who was the one who cut his holiday short in Fiji to come home to support Prosciutto?
Blackout Bowen is walking back the ute emissions standards today. He’ll work with industry now.
Code – The unions have had a couple of weeks to digest the stupidity and tapped him on the shoulder.
Code – The unions have had a couple of weeks to digest the stupidity and tapped him on the shoulder.
yep I reckon some CFMEU types wouldn’t have been too impressed
Code – The focus groups and internal polls are shockers, and the 23 year old influencers and communications advisors are crapping their Calvin Kleins.
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 10:52 AM
Foxbody – This one from John Hinderaker mirrors our situation:
Transition? What Transition? | Power Line (9 Mar)
Yep; we’re fuked. Blackout gets his advice from this simpering mob of green slimes: Reputex.
Never get between a progressive wymminse and her Chelsea Tractor.
Bowen needs to learn this indelible law of nature.
The money saved through appointing a police chaperone to each serious juvenile offender should be spent on putting more police and AI-enhanced CCTV cameras on the street, which would reduce the crime problem at the outset.
From 1:22 on explains the thinking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PaVkGwnTIs
They’d bred me to create fear. And I just did what I was supposed to do. People are scared, they’re scared of each other, because of people like me. That’s the way they want it, ‘cause then it always stays the same. They keep control that way. Funnnng idiots, funnnin’ fools. I was never free. Nobody’s ever free. One man released, so they can imprison the rest of the world
Sky had a poll from some mob this morning showing Albanese as preferred PM beating Dutton.
We are stuffed.
cohenite
Mar 11, 2024 2:59 PM
Bruce of Newcastle
Mar 11, 2024 10:52 AM
Foxbody – This one from John Hinderaker mirrors our situation:
Transition? What Transition? | Power Line (9 Mar)
Yep; we’re fuked. Blackout gets his advice from this simpering mob of green slimes: Reputex.
Net Zero is actually the IQ of Blackout Bowen.
poll from some mob
well if it was Roy Morgan it’s good for a laugh. Even Newspoll is not what it used to be.
Pesutto is the anchor holding back the Libs in VIC.
Rowan Dean joked about the knives needing to slice him “thinly”.
The Prosciutto joke has a long half-life.
If someone can explain how this isnt “bait and switch”..
How the electricity grid will cope with increase in rooftop solar and the future of tariffs
That means feed-in tariffs — which have steadily been decreasing — will likely end all together as more household solar systems are installed.
“The energy spot-price can sometimes be negative during the day, so it’s possible there will be minimal or no tariffs at all,” Mr Elphick said.
“This is a signal to people that self-consumption of your own generation is the best outcome for you.”
…..
Mr Elphick said power prices were likely to continue increasing and that larger organisations, such as businesses and universities, would consider microgrids as a green and cost-efficient solution for their energy needs.
The SBRC would then welcome members of the public to come and learn about how it works.
“It’s very novel for Australia and it’ll be the first of its kind, but we want to demonstrate sustainability concepts to the general public,” he said.
“People can come here, have a look, and we can demystify some of these technologies.
“It’s the future and we want to make sure everyone has the opportunity to be involved in that.”
Suck it up proles, while you are at work during daylight hours your power is worthless.
After sundown only the finest, bespoke artisanal coal fired energy for you.
He’s fairly fizzy too.
The Libs would do better by pouring him down the sink and appointing Moira Deeming in his place.
Actually that’s a pretty good market model.
If people with solar panels on their roofs only ever get the AEMO market rate then they will rapidly change their behaviour. When the wholesale price is negative they will turn off their feed-in inverter. No one want to pay to give something away that they don’t have to.
That then lets them decide if it’s worth buying a battery, since the electricity they chose not to sell in the middle of the day when the wholesale price was negative would potentially be worth selling in the evening peak instead.
I myself don’t think the economics stack up, but if people are allowed to make free market decisions themselves it would be up to them.
Thought about getting some lead acid AGM batteries plus an inverter to form a UPS for the house. Problem is the inductive loads like the fridge. Still got an old-style twin 38W fluoro in the garage too.
Bruce.
Funny how the model seems to still lock in sky high prices at peak demand hours.
The solar mobs havent exactly been at pains to tell people the customers the model is broken.
$10,000 extra for the powerwall.
I have also heard these vehicles referred to as Toorak tractors.
or Turramurra tractors.
Suck it up proles, while you are at work during daylight hours your power is worthless.
After sundown only the finest, bespoke artisanal coal fired energy for you.
True. We are still struggling with this. Sell energy from our 10kw system for peanuts and buy their energy at night OR spend big bucks and buy a battery, which has problems of its own.
From my time in maintenance and construction I do seem to recall the chaps liked their petrol/diesel utes.
And the work utes needed to double as boatin’, campin’, fishin’ utes.
Actually that’s an idea with some merit.
When I saw the new Princess Kate photo yesterday I thought her face was rather rounded and smooth, I expected more drawn features after a longer than usual hospital stay. I can understand that other people would have similar thoughts and thus the doubts about the authenticity of the image.
The Royals would have been better off telling the public the truth, it will eventually come out anyway. The same goes for King Charles admitting to cancer but not specifying the type. As for the pleas for privacy, I don’t get it, just say what it is and be done with it, all speculation ends.
Church car parks are full of them, nice to know that hard working people also go to church.
Blackout Boy is not kidding when he says renewables are cheapest form of power. Just that he was referring to feed-in tariffs and not wholesale or consumer rates.
War memorial vandalised with Gaza message
The RSL National President Greg Melick has condemned pro-Palestine activists who vandalised the Australian Vietnam Forces National Memorial in Canberra by spray-painting slogans on the monument describing Israel as a “colony” and warning of “genocide” in Gaza.
The protestors vandalised the memorial on Anzac Parade overnight on Sunday in a protest to highlight the situation in Gaza, with Mr Melick describing their actions as “contemptible” and Opposition veterans’ affairs spokesman Barnaby Joyce warning they had undermined their own cause.
The slogans on the national memorial – which said “eyes on Rafah” and “this is genocide” – were written in large red graffiti and had not been cleaned on Monday, which is a public holiday in the nation’s capital to mark “Canberra Day.” Other slogans included “eyes on Gaza,” “free Gaza” and “the colony will fall” and were clearly visible to residents walking or driving by.
Mr Melick said that people were “entitled to protest, but the desecration of a memorial to those who served, suffered and died in the Vietnam conflict is to be deplored.”
“The protesters should have chosen another way to get their message across. The brave Australian service personnel who served in Vietnam had nothing to do with the current conflict in Gaza and to use their memorial as a platform to protest is contemptible. On behalf of the RSL and all who have served and continue to serve our nation, we condemn the actions of the protesters,” he said.
Mr Melick warned the desecration of the memorial did nothing to enhance the cause of those suffering in the Middle East.
Opposition veterans’ affairs spokesman Barnaby Joyce told The Australian: “Bearing in mind that 523 Australians paid the supreme sacrifice and nearly 2,400 were wounded, that countless marriages broke down, that people’s careers were left behind by men and women who unselfishly served this nation, the disgraceful actions of those who desecrate a war memorial are beyond contempt and anathema to every person from poorer suburbs to the best street.
“I don’t know what you were trying to achieve, but if smashing your cause to pieces was your objective, then bullseye – you’ve hit it,” Mr Joyce said.
One Canberra resident, Michael Webster, who took pictures of the graffiti on Monday morning expressed deep disappointment the ACT government had not taken swift action to have the memorial cleaned, saying the graffiti was an act of desecration.
“The memorial is a recognition of the service and sacrifice made by men and women in a war wholly unrelated to the situation in the Middle East right now,” Mr Webster said. “It took years for Australians to reconcile about that war. The graffiti is intended to open up deep wounds in Australia for political purposes. It is intended to divide Australians. We cannot allow such behaviour in our society. Everyone is entitled to protest. But this is not a protest. This is an attack on our identity and national values.”
An ACT Policing spokesperson told The Australian that police were “aware of a recent act of vandalism at a memorial on ANZAC parade.”
“Police remind the community that peaceful protest is part of healthy democracy, however criminal acts will not be tolerated.”
Oz
“Police remind the community that peaceful protest is part of healthy democracy, however criminal acts will not be tolerated.”
We have motherhood statements and nothing about catching these perps. They do crave attention so I have no doubt they would have plastered it all over social media by now. That said, desecrate one of the lefts sacred cows and they would have you in a jiffy, Eurydise Dixons defacer was arrested the next day I believe.
“Police remind the community that peaceful protest is part of healthy democracy, however criminal acts will not be tolerated.”
prissy
Miltonf, most fridges are inverter type so don’t have the start current required for induction motors.
FFS dealing with Aus Post is like crawling over half a mile of broken glass…
Got a mail hold on at the moment, I’m trying to sort it out by their online log in. FFS it’s like dealing with 2yo, they didn’t even read the msg by the looks and went off on a tangent. Looks like phone call tomorrow…
Bon, government doesn’t want us to have freemarket decisions. Only permitted ones of mates and subservient providers.
ah yes noted thanks Ranga
Despite the global boiling predicted to sublime Victoria into the stratosphere these last few days we rode our bikes 60km on the Great Victorian Rail Trail yesterday and today. And we were not alone, various other bipeds were risking life and limb on the trail.
I was impressed by the countryside along the Goulburn River near Tallarook, nice as was it must be truly magnificent in Spring.
In search of a coffee however we found things were indeed crook in Tallarook, the only shop was closed so we tried Seymour.
Many cafe’s closed but we found one that was open run by a group of Filipinos. They were trying to master the register , train a young chap and serve the customers so things were somewhat f@cked up. Matters were not helped when the young bloke did something and the register spazzed out.
Service took forever and then the wrong order turned up. However they seemed to be trying and I went from being irritated to feeling sorry for them, at least they were open and giving it a go.
When paying the bill (they had to add it upon paper) they were very apologetic and confirmed my suspicions that they had just taken over the shop.
Well, howdy strangers!
Spent most of my time in Goomalling and then Wagin last week. Tomorrow I’m off to Esperance for three days; all work-related of course and no tourism… and no fun.
A common line I’m using amongst my team is: “Have I quit this week, yet?”
Strangers indeed, Lysander- I ducked up to Wagin Saturday for the you know what… were you hawking or gawking?
Roof top solar – the actual plan.
Private batteries installed and managed by AEMO. Yes they will and you won’t be allowed to isolate it from the grid.
Negative day time pricing for large scale renewables subsidised from power charges through an agreed minimum price.
Profitable prices and spot peaks skimmed through the NEM by participants (not home units) run by AEMO.
Large scale renewables guaranteed a regulated return, inflation adjusted. Not so for your rooftop set up.
Your only incentive will be the usage reduction but the infrastructure charge on the bill will end up the biggest cost that you certainly can’t avoid unless you head bush and discontent completely.
Or! Robin’s and a-hollering?
Quire amazed by the surge on rodeo culture out west, and supposedly from the vegans and pacifists of the device generation. Maybe it is a deliberate repudiation of passive viewing and tik tok globo homo.
You need to have start and run capacitors on all inductive motors. Most commercial pump starters explain how.
Main thing is to wear a hat Harlequin Decline- I neglected to do so yesterday while running errands. The beauty of the countryside, towns and villages outside Melbourne is really something. Riddells Creek, Gisborne, Macedon, Bulla. So many gorgeous places.
Yes single phase inductive motors certainly needed cap but as Ranga said, I think inverters eliminate that requirement. Basically run a 3 phase induction motor off a single phase supply.
Bit of both Walli!
I was there on Friday and it was pretty quiet, but I heard Saturday had a bigger crowd.
Nothing like getting out to regional WA and realising the old timers haven’t left the 1950’s and their youngsters are still stuck in the 1980’s (other than clothes sense, I actually quite like that about Regional WA).
He gives four scenarios. RTWT.
Another example of “the elites” not knowing who they are supposed to represent.
Both main political parties in favour
The intelligentsia in favour
The media in favour
…
The public definitely no in favour: No vote around 65% for each referendum
The Family referendum and The Care referendum results in Ireland
Family (in Orwellian speech) was really the destruction of traditional family.
Care was the rubbing out of “mothers”. Care givers anyone?
The questions
In Queenstown, Tasmania. Serendipity stay, Public Holiday saw the Galley Museum open staffed by volunteers – serious collection of local history housed in the 1897 Imperial Hotel, oh my, what a stunning collection of photographs and artifacts. Then for coffee, cafe owner somewhat overwhelmed “didn’t expect to be quite so busy this morning”, provided with a superb brew. Drove into Zeehan ( silver), Strahan, and am in awe of Mt Lyall. Last few days, climbed the Nut at Stanley in plenty of sea fog, roamed around Wynyard fossil beach, decided we would happily live there. Once again, volunteer ladies at the info centre were well worth a chat to. We are very impressed, God Bless Australia.
HD
Show & Shine was in Kings Park across from your Cafe. I ventured out thinking it would be quiet, yeah na. Rev heads everywhere.
Cafe been owned by those Fillo’s for a while as far as I knew. Was a busy day out though. I used to know the original couple who opened it up from Avenel. That was a long time ago now though. Before that it was an Autobarn shop.
I’m enjoying the weather in my last week here, no humidity. Hopefully I get back to the tropics before the building monsoon closes roads. Looking at a 3-5 trip back, between 700 & 1100km a day depending how quick we do it.
Last trip to Melbourne tomorrow to see one of the specialists, had a PET scan last week. Apparently doing stupid stuff in my younger days means I have to back of an 80yo with disc bulges to boot and numerous other degenerative conditions that will cause me arthritis. Already talking with my Super fund and TPD cover as it looks like my working days are numbered and I have nearly 2 decades left in me.
The war will end when one or t’other side collapses.
Dunno which myself, could be either of them.
That sux Rockdoctor- I’m trying to hang in as long as I possibly can. Main thing that cramps my style is right ankle which I rolled playing soccer in ’06. Thank the Lord for Blundstone steel caps !
Farmer Gez I bet the Q reg vehicle has a city link account and wouldn’t be getting toll notices when the system reads the rego correctly, which it must have used to do.
FREE GAZA!!
WITHE EVERY PURCHASE OVER FIFTY DOLLARS FROM YOUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET!!!
Yep, wore a hat but there was quite a bit of shade along parts of the track.
Seymour had a vintage/veteran car show which was held at Yea on the Saturday. Some impressive restorations of 50’s and 60’s Americana but I didn’t see this outlandish example of fins n chrome n shit handling.
Some months ago Mrs Eyrie thought we should get a more modern refrigerator as the current one is 19 years old. We were told by two salespeople in different shops not to do it as the modern ones are lucky to last 6 years. So we didn’t.
True Rosie.
They’re charging me and the other truck is running free.
It’s a new Volvo garbage truck so must be worth a fair bit and I’d guess it’s a company.