Well, they said it would happen.

I didn’t think it would really happen, even when the papers said it might happen. But it happened.

Home from work. Crikkit, on the picture wireless. The Straya v Paki one-dayer, on Focks.

As we speak, I am now listening to the nasal whiny ponderings of one David Warner, inexplicably brought in as a commentator. Predictably, said commentary is all about him.

shatterzz, at a minimum you should get a new phone out of this.

The shutting down of 3G has gone reasonably well, but as always, there have been some stuff-ups. Apparently people have innocently and legally bought phones that don’t comply. They should not have to pay.

But, it’s a sinister trend, where technology requires us to buy their updated.

I had to junk my TV when digital TVs came in, and buy a new one.

I had to junk my mobile phone recently, and buy a new one.

Now I am getting messages on the TV that they are doing something or other, and I may have to buy a new TV.

Basta!

She’s not perfect but unlike Donald Trump, there is nothing to fear about Kamala Harris
SMH – November 4, 2024 — 5.45pm

https://x.com/chant_ian/status/1853304241827504222

canbra femocrat

The US Presidential election.

Best assessment I have come across: it’s all down to the extent of fraud in 3 States. Also who shows up and how they vote.

The more honest polls can still tell you something useful about the basic playing field.

The top 5 previously most accurate polls – Atlas, Trafalgar, Rasmussen, The Hill/Harris, Insider Advantage – and ran quick averages. Here’s that baseline playing field.

Nationally, Trump leads Harris by 0.7%.

Let’s see what our cleaned-up swing state averages look like.

Arizona Trump +3.3

North Carolina Trump +3

Georgia Trump +2.5

Nevada Trump +2

Pennsylvania Trump +1.5

Wisconsin Trump +1.3

Michigan Trump +0.8

Quickie analysis: In an honest election (yeah right), Trump wins at these poll numbers, no extra “shy Trump” votes needed. In a Big Cheat election, if Harris can take the bottom three states PA WI and MI (and not lose any marginal Blue states like New Hampshire or Virginia) she wins

At 2020 level swing-state cheat margins (4-5% is my 2020 Cheat estimate) the 2016 Shy Trump number of 3-4% would make it a really close-run thing, maybe 60:40 odds of a Trump win. If Shy Trump is actually bigger this year – say, 4-5% – Trump almost certainly wins, by either knocking off PA or WI, or by knocking off one or more marginal Blue states, or both.

Boroondara most of our sitting councillors topped out,replaced by so called independents apparently funded by Holmes A Court.I predict bankruptcy within 2 years.

Sheridan sprays “foul mouthed” and “liar” at Trump every time his name comes up. Pavlov’s dog stuff.

He never gives us examples.

I certainly don’t need some mediocre deadshit Sydney journalist to explain American politics to me.

Daniel Schmachtenberger – Why We’re Creating a Future That Nobody Wants https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzCVzyTktR0 [10:18]
Starts off outlining game theory and then concentrates on the ramifications of the Prisoners’ Dilemma manifesting itself in economics, environmentalism, and war.

‘Living knowledge systems’: Marcia Langton says Indigenous know-how is not in the past
HELEN TRINCA

Aboriginal academic and commentator Marcia Langton says Australians should use Indigenous knowledge to address contemporary problems ranging from managing bushfires and water resources to dealing with mental health.

As co-editor of a new book covering the application of know-how developed over 65,000 years to modern Australia, she argues that far from being stuck in a time warp, “Indigenous knowledge isn’t in the past; these are living knowledge systems”.

Professor Langton, who is an anthropologist and geographer, says archaeologists studying pre-contact Australia also had a lot to learn from the “intangible” knowledge now being collected and analysed by researchers.

“A lot of archaeology is speculation, it’s speculative theory based on a body of evidence, such as stones and bones and so on, where they’re located, how far down they were,” Professor Langton said. “They (archaeologists) can date them, but they can only glean so much from this material. We are concerned with how people transmit their knowledge, how they understand their own knowledge, and how they interpret it. So it’s a different class of understanding.”

The book – Indigenous Knowledge: Australian Perspectives (Melbourne University Publishing) to be released on Tuesday – outlines a collaborative approach to Indigenous knowledge research. Langton, chair of ­Australian ­Indigenous Studies at the University of Melbourne, and coeditors Aaron Corn, inaugural director of the university’s Indigenous Knowledge Institute; and Samuel Curkpatrick, a research associate at the institute, argue the research model in Australia is unique in the global context.

They say knowledge which has survived for scores of millennia can be used across medicine, health and wellbeing, social and economic development, environmental management, agriculture and horticulture, history, law and the creative arts.

Professor Langton said that, for example, a great deal was now known about the pattern of bushfires after colonisation.

“We now have a situation where we understand the nature of the wildfires,” she said.

“This has all been mapped. So where you have a history of ­Aboriginal land practices being removed from the country by ­removing populations, then you have more wildfires.

“We now have very precise scientific knowledge about this. Some of it is esoteric, if you like, but a lot of the knowledge is very straightforward.”

The royal commission on the “Black Summer” fires of 2019-2020 had recommended scientists work with Indigenous knowledge holders to learn how to apply traditional burning in a bid to limit wildfires.

Aboriginal narratives about the inundation of Australia’s coastlines 10,000 to 20,000 years ago had been matched with ­actual evidence of inundation and this showed the relevance of information that had been coded in Indigenous language.

“It’s very clear from the evidence that for thousands of years, Aboriginal people managed fire with fire, and in many parts of Australia, those traditions continue, and there’s a lot of science around it,” she said.

The burning techniques were practical but they relied on “an encyclopaedic knowledge” about issues such as wind patterns and vegetation.

Dr Corn said Indigenous knowledge had guided people’s lives pre-contact but had continued to coexist and develop alongside modernity and globalisation.

“Those ways of living and the knowledge that underpins them didn’t just magically disappear,” he said.

“They still exist today, and they still inform people’s lives, and they still inform ways of knowing about the world that often in universities we can actually overlook.

“Two summers ago, because of the concern about bush fires claiming so many millionaires’ mansions in the northern suburbs of Sydney, there was this amazing call for traditional burning practitioners to come in and rescue everybody’s homes.”

He’s optimistic that non-­Indigenous Australians will embrace Indigenous knowledge, even though it is sometime hard to explain the concepts in English.

“The terms in English are imperfect,” Dr Corn said.

“But that happens with translations from any language. It is a struggle, and the onus is on us to work with people who are fluent in their own languages and who think deeply about where ideas and meaning come from.

“We have to accept too that the evidence base for this kind of work will include things like oral history and way that knowledge is encoded in language. A lot of our colleagues working at the science end of the ­spectrum of research, struggle with that.”

Professor Corn said work in the Northern Territory and South Australia where people were drawing on the knowledge of traditional healers and bush medicine in the health system was a compelling argument for the research.

“You can’t have a public health program anywhere that’s successful if you’re not actually engaged with the people who that’s meant to benefit,” he said.

“Think about really fraught areas like mental health – not everything is going to work for everybody. And so (there’s value in) a multitude of approaches rather than narrowing everything to a top down, centralised system.”

Oz. if you have a sub go and make some thoughtful comments.

Nice old bridge, still in use after nearly 2000 years.
Anyone visited the area?

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The Alcántara Bridge in Extremadura, Spain is one of the finest examples of Roman bridge-building and a monumental feat of engineering. It was built over the Tagus River in the ancient Roman province of Lusitania between 104 and 106 AD and was dedicated to the Roman emperor Trajan (he ordered it in 98 AD) on behalf of the local indigenous populations.

The architect of this great masterpiece was a man called Caius Julius Lacer.
Built of granite and without mortar, the Alcántara Bridge consists of six semicircular arches supported by five pillars.

It spans the river at a length of almost 200 m and rises more than 40 m meter above the water level. The bridge is still used for traffic (after several reconstructions).

Harris-Biden try to put the US under United Nations sovereignty
American Thinker – November 4, 2024

Do check the 7.04 link by Indolent – ‘getting squirelly’.

A very thoughtful analysis by Bad Catitude on the Peanut phenomenon, putting it as the last straw in political overreach and fascist legislation that allows police to break into your home and ransack it on any pretext agreed to my some Democrat legal stooge.

Article gives the wonderful label of the assault on little Peanut as part of the Democrats as the Party of ‘joy through rules’ and it concludes:

it’s farce played as tragedy.

really think about this:

a riled up karen from 1500 miles away makes a call and an actual SWAT team of health agents break into and wreck a home, detain the humans, and kill the animals all for what? in service of what? in mitigation of what?

who in their right mind would want to live like this and to leave this kind of inhuman, unaccountable power lying around in the hands of the kinds of people who would use it like this.

Barry – Last night 1145:

And apparently the Peanut Squirrel’s owner is a raving bender who produces prolific gay pron on OnlyFans under the name Squirrel_Dad.

That’s why the GOP is wisely staying away from the peanut story, sad and enraging as it is.

I came to that conclusion about 2 seconds in watching his video.
His sweat pants style is not about decorum.

On Cassie’s point that the media should not be an echo chamber.

How boring that would be.

I’ve just finished reading the Speccie of a week ago with an article on Assisted Dying for the terminally ill, with two who have differing opinions going hammer and tongs at it. It was a wonderful read, and the sort of thing we should have lots more of.

I’d also bring back debates into school curricula. They are enormously valuable ways of getting people to see well-argued cases for opposing sides.

I do think the Australian was trying to present differing perspectives on the US election in its double page spread last Saturday. I was steaming out of my ears at Troy Bramson’s contribution, but I would defend his right to make it. I would also like to have seen a similar paeon towards Trump in place of the ‘balanced’ nature of the ‘for Trump’ commentary on that page. But that is probably expecting to much of any MSM in the present context.