Death duties, and an inheritance tax? That will show the Tories!
Open Thread – 4 Jan 2025
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‘You WILL answer me!’ – Eamonn Holmes DEMANDS answers from Labour MP: ‘WHY are you scared of Musk?!’ In this…
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Anthony Albanese quiet on revenue plans as income tax take set to hit 27-year highJack Quail and Greg Brown 2 hours ago…
Pretty close, Doc.
First?
1sr?
Turd?
As usual nothing happens this early in the morning
It’s not morning here. Cricket’s just finished. Sorrows to drown now.
By the time this comment loads, I will guess 14th.
It is 3pm here and we are stuck in a UK traffic jam on the way back to London as the M40 merges with another motorway. London returning home after the New Year up north.
Hairy’s brother and sister in law and his neice and nephew were all in the Lake District in a holiday house while we were in Scotland. What are the odds? Our three cars all arrived at the Birmingham bypass services wirhout any liaison. We saw each other in the line up for coffe amongst a very busy crowd. We let them go ahead then to their place in Richmond so we wouldn’t have to battle with the entry sechrity and central heating if we arrive first.
No further progress in this British notorway queue. Hairy going slowly mad. Fuming about it. I offer him an oatcake but he simply snarls.
Looking on the bright side, Classic FM, which was all of Elgar’s Pomp but with intermittant Circumstance as the signal battled the Highlands mountains, is playing some sustaining finger-tapping stuff in fine signal through the excellent Bose speakers in this Jap car..
This clip will probably be banned very soon.
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Danger Dan Reviews:
Good evening all. The original upload has been hit with age restriction, copyright etc etc. I have archived it for members as I don’t want to lose the comments you left. Let’s see how long this one lasts! DD
The greatest video in the history of mankind!
Mark Dice:
Can We Finally Talk About This Now?
Johannes Leak.
Mark Knight.
Peter Broelman.
Brett Lethbridge.
Morten Morland.
Michael Ramirez.
Matt Margolis.
Tom Stiglich.
Al Goodwyn.
Gary Varvel.
Henry Payne.
Matt Margolis #2.
Ben Garrison.
Untouchable.
https://x.com/ICK_GalG/status/1875094516849385680?t=yYYdZKDqrZVW5TfK3OCgnw&s=19
what’s Leak cartoon getting at this time re the indulgence of the government?
What you can do by just walking or running.
And barefoot too.
Australian History..
This is the man known as Koolbiri or ‘Mailman Jimmy’ who for many years carried the mail on foot between Fowlers Bay and Eucla in the early days of settlement on the South Australian West Coast.
Following Mailman Jimmy’s death the Saturday Journal reported on 25 August 1923;
“He was the Royal Mail between Fowlers Bay and Eucla for many years. He ran with the mail bags every fortnight from the Bay to Eucla, a distance of 280 miles, and returned during the following fortnight.
He could do the journey in faster time than a man on horseback, owing, I presume, to his superior bushcraft, and his knowledge of reliable water supplies….”
This photo is dated 1875. SRSA
Not my pic. sorry.
One way to beat the housing crises.
But the wife said NO!
Hot dogs anyone?
Good marketing.
The USA is constantly being wrecked by having too many bad actors in too many positions. Here is a story that in its compactness summarises what’s wrong with America. One girl poisons another girl’s show goat because she is jealous of its success. There remain many bad actors determined to thwart Trump. Tony Abbott has some misgivings about our own unelected public servants. A bit late, and he had to publish his views in a Canadian journal.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/01/show-goat-dies-horrifically-teen-competitors-arms-older/
Bungonia bee
January 4, 2025 6:18 am
Humans can be the cruelest beasts.
Other than foxes I’m not aware of any other animal that is killing for the sake of it.
Lethbridge “gets” the snub. Although the recipient of Mar a Lago hospitality is unworthy in my opinion. He was put to the test over many issues and he failed, always taking the easy road.
And we are paying for his failures right now.
Meanwhile, Broelman is caught in a mire of TDS. It’s where ineffective cartoonists go to die.
In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service’s approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013
Who ‘da thunk it?
Sky UK continue their Israel bashing over the latest fighting in Gaza. Anything the IDF says is given the “no evidence provided” suffix!
If you know any young men who are directionless, before they get sucked into an Andrew Tate types lies, point them in the direction of Marcus Freeman the coach of Notre Dame football.
Spyware is everywhere.
Haunting tales from the unencrypted VW data
How long is the west going to tolerate this kind of preaching (which they put online for the world to see)?
Terror mosques should be razed to the ground and any non citizen imans deported.
https://x.com/AP_from_NY/status/1875198446011039908?t=lqwEOpvekk3cpLIIsZc7PQ&s=19
Extracts from Gemma’s article.
Labor turns a blind eye to facts as details emerge on hostage abuse
https://rairfoundation.com/houston-mosque-linked-new-orleans-attacker-sparks-outrage/
The Anal-Wong middle eastern thing is obviously playing to their support base (or to try and hang on to it) . They’re also just following orders from the international left that Israel must be destroyed. They are obedient Marxists.
Ignoring human rights abuses of the worst kind for the sake of electoral advantage?
Try malignant.
Interesting question – how did he shoot himself and then blow the bomb?
@catturd2
I don’t believe a single word the FBI is saying about Matthew Livelsberge and the Cybertruck incident.
The entire narrative makes absolutely ZERO sense to me.
From the paper passport and paper ID miraculously surviving the explosion and a fire so intense, his body was burned beyond recognition?
To him supposedly shooting himself right before he was going blow himself up anyway? Huh?
To what his family is saying about him, to his released recent texts which doesn’t fit the mindset of someone about to do this sort of thing, and on, and on, and on.
My BS meter is off the charts on this one.
We’ve known about this for years. Decades even. His conclusion is absolutely correct. It’s people who did raise their voices about it – Tommy Robinson in particular – who were demonised and punished.
@PeterSweden
This is what happened in Britain
1. Young girls were r*ped again and again by grooming gangs.
2. Media and authorities covered it up.
3. When people complained about this they were called “racist” and and were cancelled.
Britain failed to protect children.
@ElectionWiz
From Tommy Robinson Admin:
@BreannaMorello
Elon Musk is speaking out against the Muslim r*pe gangs in the UK and this is how Axios is trying to spin it…
@BreannaMorello
The FBI left behind critical pieces of evidence like a laptop, the Quran, and books on Islam.
FBI agents tell me these items would have been taken in as evidence.
Another former federal prosecutor says the home would have been sealed off for days because all the forensic teams would be going through it.
Nothing about this is normal.
This isn’t transparency.
This is the FBI intentionally trying to cause distrust, while creating their false narrative.
@BreannaMorello
The FBI still won’t release the Nashville sho*ter’s manifesto, but allowed journalists to tour the home of the New Orleans ter*orist?
Doesn’t pass the sniff test.
I hope people have the sense to give them the finger.
Face mask mandates return in multiple states as doctors warn of ‘quad-demic’ of four viral infections
How ‘The Babylon Bee’ Predicted the Vibe Shift
Trump on Liz Cheney award
This is looking more and more sus.
REPORT: Retired Intelligence Officer Sam Shoemate Received “EMAIL MANIFESTO” Allegedly Linked to Tesla Cybertruck Explosion Suspect Matthew Livelsberger — Claims FBI Was Tracking Him for Attempting to be a Whistleblower
@disclosetv
JUST IN – NY judge says Trump will not be sentenced to prison in the hush money case, orders Trump to appear for sentencing on Jan 10th.
Tony Abbott has some misgivings about our own unelected public servants. A bit late, and he had to publish his views in a Canadian journal.
I read Abbott’s contemplative musings in the Oz last night and I can’t say it impressed me. It just confirmed to me his inability at the time to stand up to the blockers and the destabilisers. I also note that in his musings he says nothing about his capitulation on Section 18C.
I find it interesting how it’s taken Abbott almost 10 years to talk about what many of us always knew to be the case, that his government was hamstrung by unelected bureaucrats, particularly over Section 18C, and how his first budget in 2014 was sabotaged by a coven of unelected bureaucrats, media, independents and so on. But I also recall his disastrous decisions shortly after winning his landslide victory in 2013, one was that he gave that ghastly former senator Natasha Stott Despoja a plum position and secondly he played nice when it came to Bill Shorten’s mother-in-law, who wisely offered her resignation after Shorten was elected leader of Labor but Abbott unwisely refused.
I knew then that it was going to all end in tears….and it did. Abbott tried to be decent. Bad move because nobody was going to be decent to Abbott and we could have warned him at the time. As far as I’m concerned, his musings further damage his credibility. Perhaps I’m being petty but I also remember cringing every time he opened his mouth, there were too many ‘umms’ and ‘ahhhs’….it was like he was happy to be the punching boy.
I remember his inability to handle the knighthood debacle. Faced with a hostile and scurrilous left and MSM, Abbott should have called a press conference and say to the MSM……
‘okay, you don’t like my government’s decision to award Prince Phillip the knighthood (something both New Zealand and Canada had done), fair enough, then hear this, my government will award a knighthood monthly now for the remainder of my government’s term in office’
But he stood there like a wet blanket, and he just got wetter and wetter.
Just further to that first budget in 2014, the last budget in this country that attempted some fiscal repair (now over 10 years ago), do you remember the howls from the the left scum, the MSM scum, the activist scum, and scumbag Fatso Palmer (then the member for Fairfax) and his motley group of senators (remember he gifted us the bush pig from Tasmania) about the ‘Medicare co-payment’, which I recall was set at a piddling $7.00?
Now try finding a GP that bulk bills….LOL.
Abbott should have stared down the senate over 18C and that first budget. He didn’t, instead he retreated. Retreating never works as a tactic, it’s a sign of cowardice and weakness. I haven’t even mentioned his failures to deal with the NDIS, that Royal Commission (designed to attack the Catholic Church and get Pell) and the hideous Gillard 2013 amendments to the Sex Discrimination Act (which removed the definition of ‘woman’), something he should have reversed. That Gillard amendment, along with Section 18C, is a now a sinister boobytrap which is now routinely snaring people, just ask Sall Grover and Pauline Hanson.
But since Abbott has put it out there that he and his government from 2013 to 2015 was hamstrung by unelected bureaucrats, is this the norm? If it is, I genuinely ask how we are expected to vote Coalition knowing that it’s the far-left bureaucrats in charge. It is clear that this has been a problem for many right of centre parties in the Anglosphere, from the Tories to the Coalition, so how can any of us vote for Liberals/Nationals knowing that if they win government they can’t or won’t stand up to the bureaucrats and they can’t or won’t clean out the problem?
I don’t know, perhaps I’m too harsh with Abbott. He’s a fundamentally nice man, a thoroughly decent man, a very good thinker but when I recall his tenure as PM, I get angry. It was such a disappointment.
Whew. That traffic jam turned out to be a burning truck and they’d closed down a whole section of the M40. We were diverted to a junction further down, trailing a line of traffic through the small medieval town of Henley (not the Henley on the Thames) on the way to Shakespeare’s Stratford upon Avon and the forest of Arden. Hairy grumpily finally accepted the offer of an oatcake just to take the boredom away and I tried to help by getting Google maps up on my phone and trying to find out where we were and how to get out of it. Follow those trucks turned out to be the best solution, and in the event we were only two hours late getting back to Richmond. Horrendous drive in the dark back to London once we had managed to get back on the motorway. They do that here; close down whole sections of road and let you fend for yourself getting back on – no signs, no information, no police controlling other traffic.
It needn’t be, but the Liberals are hamstrung by divisions within their ranks, which explains why Dutton curbs his own political instincts in order to placate the progressives in the party, who have more in common with the unelected bureaucrats than with conservative voters.
A house divided…
On the Wikipedia page about the alleged CIA involvement in the Whitlam dismissal, I noticed the following:
Does anyone know whether or not Quadrant is (or was) funded by the CIA?
They know Quadrant is righty so I suspect usual CIA look, squirrel.
Here’s one today.
Classified CIA Experiment Claims Life Did Exist On Mars And They Built Pyramids (3 Jan)
Lurid rubbish, but the CIA seems prone to this sort of stuff. They backed the Steele Dossier for example. Trump should abolish the CIA completely and assign intelligence to the military agencies like ONI.
@alexbruesewitz
Statement from Trump Communications Director @StevenCheung on Corrupt Merchan:
The bottom line with Abbott is that he was hamstrung by himself.
@bennyjohnson
BREAKING: On the Shawn Ryan Show, Sam Shoemate revealed the Las Vegas Cybertruck Bomber emailed him before the attack.
The bomber claimed the U.S. and China had “gravitic propulsion systems” and alleged FBI surveillance.
Now Musk is in the firing line for telling the truth.
Musk ‘misinformed’ on grooming gangs, says Streeting
Where have I heard this before?
Mystery disease outbreak in China overwhelms hospitals in chilling echo of Covid dark days
I fear Dutton will be Abbott redivivus.
I genuinely ask how we are expected to vote Coalition knowing that it’s the far-left bureaucrats in charge.
That’s why I say the enormous task of any half decent Australian government is to take on the permanent gubmint in canbra. Sure, I have an obsessive hatred of canbra and for good reason.
Abbot just fluffs around now and after praising Rudd has no credibility.
A review of Sumantra Maitre’s new book:
Getting the measure of the Russian bear
Tony Abbott is surrounded by females in his personal life.
In politics, he chose a strong-willed female chief of staff who told him what to do and forbad him from doing anything she didn’t approve.
Though he’s intelligent and a deep thinker, Tony Abbott’s prime ministership wasn’t his own. He did what the women surrounding him told him to do. Q.E.D.
and on day 4 of 2025 we have secret gravity defying technology
… don’t tell me it’s solar powered
Happy Birthday, Cassie.
(from previous thread)
I appear to have the wrong 2025 bingo card.
how come we don’t see UAPs over say Bendigo?
One way to guarantee a Centre/Right administration victory is to absolve and hide the Lefts crimes.
They are yet to work that out, and are unlikely to.
Early morning coffee, and John Edward’s biography of John Curtin.
Often, when in the Prime Ministerial car, Curtin would ask his driver, Ray Tracey, to pull over, and give someone a lift. “Longtime Canberra residents would pass on stories of Curtin offering lifts to mothers with small kids and the shopping, or older people waiting at bus stops.”
I can’t imagine Anthony Albanese or Tanya Plibersek doing such a thing?
JC, should hold off on the EV purchase and wait it out for a flying car
Although the recipient of Mar a Lago hospitality is unworthy in my opinion.
100% Morrison is a evil creature for whom I hope there is another circle of hell wherein he can share what he deserves with others of equal vileness – a blonde, barge-arsed hatchet-faced bint in the Australian Senate comes to mind
Happy birthday, Cassie.
Some unsolicited advice…
In my case, it’s plants and fabric, but…meh. 😀
a blonde, barge-arsed hatchet-faced bint in the Australian Senate comes to mind
Yep a canbra gal with a BA from the ANU too so say no more.
Can’t think of any present day ALP politicians I could say something good about but past ones existed. Then there’s Krudd and Trumble. Just beyond the pale.
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’
100% Morrison is a evil creature
And too dumb to realise it.
Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain
Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’
Another for the Committee for Aesthetic Deletions list.
Thanks indolent — just finished listening to that about an hour ago — always interesting to listen to Douglas Murray – his clarity of insight is exceptional. Though Tommy Robinson is being abandoned by people like Douglas Murray, Nigel Farage and others who should be supporting a boy NOT from Oxford or Cambridge
Sky News (UK) relayed here – reporting that Trump will be the first sitting president to be a convicted criminal. Not a mention at all of the nasty and illegitimate ways the various cases have been brought against him. They merely mentioned that the majority of them have been dropped for one reason or another.
Shameful spin by Sky.
One for Eyrie: SpaceX have now posted an extensive list of improvements to the Starship/Superheavy they are hoping to launch in a week’s time. Fascinating detail.
Starship’s Seventh Flight Test
They’ve even pulled out one of the Raptor engines from the 5th test launch and installed it into this booster to see how it goes. The 5th booster was the one they caught in the chopsticks.
Amazing amount of onboard battery capacity and cameras absolutely everywhere. Thirty of them!
The merchan sentencing will be a massive backfire legally and in terms of publicity . But the result will depend on whether the demorat law enforcement arm come to arrest Trump after sentencing. Legally merchan has no right to do this but the fact he is doing it shows demorats will do anything to stop Trump. If Trump turns up for the sentencing then I expect there will be another attempt or a confrontation with his security. This is 3rd world stuff and it shows the demorats are tyrants.
https://hushkit.net/2024/12/26/analysis-of-chinas-new-double-delta-stealth-warplane/
Analysis of the J36 by a former BAe tech guy.
Pakistani Grooming Gang R*ped, Murdered and SOLD HER AS KEBAB MEAT
Straya imploding nicely at the crikkit. 4/39.
Tone is a pathetic pissant; this sums him up:
Tony Abbott’s bizzarre 28 second silence following “Shit Happens” comment
Starship’s Seventh Flight Test
I follow this closely. Anyone interested might like to look at Marcus House on Youtube. It is mind blowing when you see the construction of factories to mass produce these spaceships.
Bezos is planning on the first launch of New Glenn rocket in a couple of days.
This is the 21st Century we can like. Pity much of the rest is shit.
OK, so next time around do we want a Mr. Nice Guy or a Head Kicker?
Dutton’s past as a fairly tough minister is being used by Labor as a possible negative.
Dutton’s not a lawyer or a Rhodes scholar so that’s a good start. He does have a BBus from QUT apparently.
I wasn’t getting too excited about David Crisafulli, but I wanted Miles gone. Similarly, I want Anal and ‘Dr’ Chalmers gone.
The stink of this Biden administration will be hard to wipe off.
The pardons alone will be content for the GOP ad machine for years.
Archimedes thinks you can’t buy a flying car.
There’s actually several choices.
Flying Cars You Can Buy
He even has a choice of a 2 or 4 seater to take to the next repair job.
You need pilot certification to operate one.
How to not go bankrupt if you are a car company.
Mazda is selling more cars than ever—all without an EV in sight (3 Jan)
The lemmings are racing towards the electification cliff. Good to know at least one mass market car company hasn’t been sucked in by the propaganda.
(My venerable Mazda 3 just passed its 17th birthday, and is going great. Aside from normal stuff the only mechanical repair I’ve needed was a thermostat, which cost $150 to replace.)
End of whitey:
Can We Finally Talk About This Now?
Mark Dice explains how the (white) left have promoted the minoritisation of whites and in doing so the ending of democracy in places like the US. The demorats doing this including biden should be executed with black bullets.
Seeking fame this clown of a Judge Merchan was handpicked especially for this “non” case. We all know it was/is political lawfare and should never have been brought.
A duly elected President and he wants to sentence him, against the recommendation of the DA, 10 days before his inauguration.
Trump will now be able to pursue his appeals and get this crap overturned. Outrageous.
Orcs have feelings too.
Is a Classic Fantasy Game About to be Consigned to the Dungeon of History? (3 Jan)
I’m ok with the elves thing, they’ve always been a bit effeminate and suss. But dwarves? That’s heightist! Alright I could be persuaded to play a 6’5″ dwarf if I must. That would be kinda fun.
Funny that
The company singularly focused on EVs, has the market capitalization of around 1.3 US$trillion
The total market cap of the largest legacy companies is
Total Market Cap (Excluding Tesla and BYD): $264.41B (Toyota)
$48.26B (Ford)
= $601.7 billion
In other words Tesla is worth more then double these firms combined and likely more than the entire sector world wide.
Yep, Musk must be doing something wrong focusing on EVs.
What would investors know when to can rely on muftis from regional Australia.
This is why Microsoft is so pro nuclear.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/03/microsoft-expects-to-spend-80-billion-on-ai-data-centers-in-fy-2025.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.Mail
But Bowen knows better.
I wonder if the plan is for Merchan to sentence Trump and then Biden to pardon him – making Trump complicit in the pardon-palooza.
Further, once pardoned is it possible to appeal the conviction?
You can refuse a pardon.
He can’t stand the truth.
‘Not a place for respectful debate’: Chris Bowen quits X (Paywallian)
You can stick your fingers in your ears all you like Mr Bowen but I can disprove your stupid global warming hysteria with two graphs.
Interaction with cops at one’s home shows how mutual respect and dignity is the best strategy.
A read with afternoon ‘tea’. I, on the other hand, have other less charitable advice for this bunch of stinkers.
The Mocker’s 2025 advice for Anthony Albanese, Jim Chalmers, Penny Wong and Labor
The book in the sidebar is all about that program.
Musk needs to massively increase his security details
Glorious.
I wonder if the dead grass at the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions is from sabotage or incompetence? They have sent today’s races up to the Sunshine Coast.That is at least a 2.5 hour drive at this time of year. I think they chose the Sunny Coast over Eagle Farm because of lighting. SC and GC have lighting good enough for night. It shows how badly run the Brisbane courses are managed that we have no night racing. It would work a treat from November to February.
Douglas on point.
I do ask myself, if he wanted to visit here, would the pr*cks in Canberra let him in?
Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain
The Tutelar
8 minutes ago
Mocker brilliant as always. I cannot add to your wit however here is a joke for the New Year. Best wishes A worldwide survey was conducted by the UN. The only question asked was: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure. In Africa they didn’t know what “food” meant. In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant. In Western Europe they didn’t know what “shortage” meant. In China they didn’t know what “opinion” meant. In the Middle East they didn’t know what “solution” meant. In South America they didn’t know what “please” meant. And in Canberra they didn’t know what “the rest of the world” meant.
Does anyone know whether or not Quadrant is (or was) funded by the CIA?
The CIA itself may not know.
See “The Invisible Air Force”. The CIA boss one day said to a sidekick, “how many airplanes do we own?”. Sidekick didn’t know but said he would find out. Some weeks later he turned up with a map of the world and started explaining what they owned where and which were front companies, including aircraft factories and how they obfuscated by swapping tail numbers etc. Upshot was they didn’t actually know how many aircraft they owned.
Bruce I think you have been predicting Tesla’s imminent demise since I first arrived at the Cat in late 2013.
The share price is tanking, etc etc
Meanwhile
https://m.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/TSLA/tesla/stock-price-history
I wonder if the state-imposed system of incentives and disincentives re EVs and ICEVs is responsible?
I was watching the cricket just before lunch, the camera homed in on Capn Carbon. He looked like a bunny in the headlights. This was not a look I’ve ever seen from any Aussie Captain in the last 46 years.
Bruce I think you have been predicting Tesla’s imminent demise since I first arrived at the Cat in late 2013.
Popular delusions and madness of crowds. Dutch tulip bulbs anyone?
I had to stop reading the book by Charles Mackay about half way through. Human stupidity and greed is too depressing.
Tesla did apply some innovative thinking to how to make cars in an already efficient commodity industry but how is it possible to return a decent dividend on that valuation? You are hoping a bigger fool will pay more for your shares. I’ll believe the robots when I see them, along with full self driving.
Nice website the Aeromobil folk have. Seems they can’t sell you one yet.
Quoted performance in aeroplane mode on 300hp is not startling. Our aircraft does the same on 150hp.
Sort of curious how the grooming gangs story broke this week after over a decade of being denied any media air.
Mark Steyn relates what happened to one brutally raped child that the British government, police and don’t want you to know about:
The Shame of England :: SteynOnline
All good Winston. How’s Elsie?
Crikkit news:
Jasprit Bumrah has been off the field for the past 45 minutes, and vision on the picture wireless shows him leaving the SCG with the team physio and doctor.
Bumrah’s in the back seat. The doc and physio (both Indians as well) are in the front.
Given that at least one Indian is behind the wheel, I sincerely hope Bumrah gets to the hospital in one piece.
50 on debut for big Beau Webster.
Really well done. The giant from Tassie played several seasons and some representative stuff in D-Town during the southern off-season, made no enemies whatsoever and kicked arse all the way through.
Archimedes thinks …
that JC is a nasty little prick that is more than happy to viciously hound other posters in a very personal and relentless manner
Archimedes wonders …
why JC chucks a week-long spazz when there’s a gently piss-take at JC’s expense
Archimedes might …
return serve and refer to JC as “spazz-boy” henceforth
… except that JC’s whining would never stop
Self driving is off the menu.
Cars are being used by loonies as weapons.
Selling the loonies a programmable self driving vehicle is potentially worse.
Lee Fang has released a substack saying Bernie Sanders is looking for a GOP co-sponsor to make amendments to the H1B program.
Key points:
1) Raise minimum salary threshold;
2) Corporations to pay more to access the program;
3) Rules around lay-offs.
Devil in the detail once it’s released if Lee Fang is on the money.
If they’re the changes, there would be a line of GOP senators looking to co-sponsor the bill.
And Vivek & Elon would be pretty supportive.
Wonder why Sanders didn’t demand this in January 2021?
I wonder more why Sanders isn’t on his hind legs over the H2B expansion that directly impacts the lower paid punters.
I wouldn’t be because he doesn’t give a shit about the truck driving class, surely.
Trump said he’s doing away with Federal subsidies for EVs. However, because Tesla is the most efficient producer with the highest margin in the car making business, it would help Tesla rather than hurt. That’s one of the reasons Tesls stock is up.
There’s also this to consider, nearly all legacy makers are struggling and unable to make it while Tesla has by and large been growing.
Of course, you really don’t like Musk, because you’ve said you think he’s only in it for the money. Transactional, you said, and therefore has no real beliefs other than making himself richer that the odd US$400 or $500 billion he is now. Capitalists don’t have principles, only those from authoritarian regimes are pure as bleached white cloth. For instance, Pukin made his $200 billion totally from picking the right stocks in the private equity firm he built before entering politics.
Apparently merchan will allow Trump to appear for sentencing virtually. Merchan has also indicated he would sentence Trump on an unconditional discharge basis meaning no jail time although a fine could apply, suspended for appeal purposes, which merchan states is the purpose of the sentencing, so Trump can pursue his appeal options.
Merchan licking arse?
Lol.
Trans’ entire life support system has been one of bullying and mocking other commenters and now he’s suggesting I do that same as he. The reason he originally got upset with me is because he was one of the pack attacking Liz for about a year of concerted trolling and I stopped it. They’re been plenty of others too. An angry, vindictive, petty little prick with serious mental issues.
The current over-computerisation of cars is inexorably leading to the mandate of anti-terrorism functionality in all new cars sold.
The car will literally not let you run someone over.
All the functionality already exists, we just need a spate of vehicular terrorism events to get the media begging for cars to be locked down.
Oh, wait…
Laughing my box off! I’m sure many will find this clip ridiculous.
Fair enough.
——
Whistlin Diesel:
Whistlindiesel Cybertruck Durability Test #2
Bloody hell.
I thought when Bumrah went off we were in with a chance.
Bern:
Wasn’t there something about the government refusing to lead an inquiry into the entire rape gang thing, or did it come after the Malice and subsequent Musk pick up?
India’s all out 185 is looking like a good total…
Nice though that Webster got top scorer on debut.
(I’m assuming last men in Lyon and Boland, neither of whom have gotten a Test half century, will top Webster’s 57.)
Definition of an optimist: Someone who has tickets to day four of the Sydney test.
$9 an hour. You get what you pay for.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgZ7afIWYAAxoN0?format=jpg&name=medium
I have to go for a walk to rescue the Patrol because I got a little cofused after several refreshing XXXX Bitters last night and had to walk home.
It’s taken this long for the knees to settle down to get there.
So if I don’t reappear today, you’ll know I succumbed to the siren call… and will have to walk home again.
And Happy Birthday to Cassie O’Sydney!
$9 an hour. You get what you pay for.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgZ7afIWYAAxoN0?format=jpg&name=medium
The problem wasn’t in the code which AFAIK did what it was meant to. The problem was in the design of the system along with lack of exploration of the possible fault tree consequences of hardware failures.
Having said that I guess they figured any crew only had to flip the two switches which are a memory item for any trim runaway. There are about 5 other things that can move the trim.
Someone on Discord explained to others how Trans is manipulating the ticks.
I believe the page refers to safari.
Hallward
That sounds more like a pushbike than a plane. Is it remote?
how long is this particular spazz going to go for JC ??
Trans asks how long will this continue when he starts every single low IQ stoush.
Happy birthday Cassie
it’s ok, spazz-boy … you can call me Archimedes
Is he going to remove the 100% tariff on Chinese EVs?
Haven’t heard him speak about it. In any event Tesla is a different category.
Tesla increased sales in China over the last period, totaling about 190 units. Different category to cheap Chinese crap.
The Mocker. Absolutely superb.
Heh.
Trump suggests tariffs higher than 200% on vehicles from Mexico (14 Oct)
I think the answer to your question is “no”. 😀
GM stock has moved up slightly since, broadly following the move up in the index while Ford stock has actually fallen.
Well.
Young Jaiswal deciding that Sam Konstas isn’t the only opener to take the game to big bowlers with the new rock.
He’s taken 16 off Starc’s first over.
Good viewing awaits.
That or the Pakistani bookmakers have been busy again.
UK plod are deep in the merde over this too.
And yet it’s struggling to catch BYD. Zaiomi SU7 has been getting very good reviews while also being affordable. He really doesn’t want that entering the US market.
Oh just stop, Dover.
No one buying a Tesla wouldn’t be considering buying a BYD. It’s the same fcking thing as someone looking to buy a top of the line Mercedes isn’t exactly stomping around a car yard considering a Corolla.
And the Hiden administration was hardly looking to assist Tesla when it imposed the tariff in May 24. It was looking to help the legacies. If anything, the administration would’ve liked to see Musk in jail and broke.
Reuters:
Diving into the lobbying, etc. Tesla has received is illuminating.
What I do remember is that in 1972 the entire Australian entertainment establishment, television, movies and music, sang a song insisting that it was time. Would that have been a Hollywood influence?
The great thing is that I got to vote for the first time in the election following he Dismissal and did not vote Labor.
Yes, it’s like Apple, and you know my thoughts on Apple.
The indication of car quality is resale value.
I will be interested to see what my sister in law gets for her BYD.
Tesla has been receiving fed and state subsidies for over a decade. And don’t pretend that a tariff on Chinese EVs doesn’t lso help Tesla EVs.
It doesn’t seem she was particularly keen to have the officers enter the building.
Right. That’s it.
Scott Boland has castled both call centre taker openers, which takes quite a bit of doing.
He’s only got a year or two left at this level, but surely Hazlewood has to be discarded. Yes I am aware that Hazlewood is part of the NSW Clique of Never-Droppables, but still.
Two Tier Kier Sturmer is a truly wretched and evil man, a totalitarian despot and adulterer whose marriage is a sham.
Within 48 hours of the Southport massacre, where three little girls were stabbed to death in a frenzied attack at a Taylor Swift children’s party and where other little girls and adults were also stabbed and are lucky to be alive, Keir Sturmer and his comrades were informed of the facts around Axel Rudakubana, particularly his sickening vomitous religion……Islam……along with other unsavoury facts pertaining to Rudakubana, including the ISIS manual and discovery of Ricin.
Remember how Blob Johnson was forced to resign over a party during Covid? It kinda pales in comparison compared to this Labour government. The UK partisan media went for Johnson’s jugular but this same media routinely cover up for the Sturmer and his pals. Sturmer and co have lied to the British public over the massacre of three little girls. The cover up was and remains huge and Britons know this, hence the riots back in August. The absolute travesty that the Southport suspect was a Welsh born choir boy and so on was so transparently false and that’s why thousands of working class English men and women hit the streets in righteous fury.
And now it’s been revealed……
“Government source alleges Starmer worked on the Rudakubana asylum case”
Well well well, that explains a lot, of course he did. Sturmer’s sticky fingers don’t just touch other women who aren’t his wife, his sticky fingers are all over several nauseating scandals, such as when he was head of the the UK equivalent of the DPP he declined to investigate Jimmy Savile, just a few days ago he and his government refused to call an inquiry into the Muslim rape gangs because he prefers to kowtow to Islamists, and now a brave UK substacker has revealed what everyone has known about Sturmer, that the Rudakubana family are only in the UK because once upon a time a hard-left hypocritical verminous human rights barrister named Kier Starmer acted for the family and since late July 2024, after Axel Rudakubana murdered three little girls, Kier Sturmer has tried to cover up his connection.
Back in 1858 London experienced a ‘Great Stink’. Due to hot weather and lack of rain combined with the voluminous amounts of animal and human waste that was flushed into the Thames, a shocking stink enveloped the city of London. The pong was hideous but that pong of 1858 has nothing on the pong that now permeates the whole of the UK in 2025.
The UK Uniparties. All left wing . Even the supposed Conservatives. Were more concerned that their ridiculous experiment with diversity and multiculturalism was going to implode in the way described by Enoch Powell. Ergo they have played down the grooming gangs and the Islamic fanatics and the welfare sugar that attracts everybody from the Caribbean to Pakistan to live in the UK. The little “bother” over the 3 girls that were killed, really scared the Uniparty and their Fascist bureaucracy. So anything that threatens the current status is forcefully jumped on. Even thought crimes are against the law. I dream of a time when the shoe is on the other foot. But Ill never see it.
This graph sums up the global boiling bullshit:
Having listened to Alan Derkowitz and Greg Jarrett on Hannity, the fact that the Trump case will be eventually overturned is of no interest to the mendacious Merchan.
The big trophy he wants is the legal label of “Convicted felon” before Trump is inaugurated. So ‘considerate’ is this crooked Judge he will allow Trump to appear by zoom on January 10th.
No jail, no fines no says Merchan, but the biggie “convicted felon”.
Can Trump refuse to attend, given the inauguration?
They’ll achieve the same quality as Mazda and Toyota and get their quicker. Looked at the BYD range. I like the look of the Sealion 6 and Seal. One thing I’m iffy about on new cars is the size of the screens on the dashboards.
I said earlier UK plod were in deep sh*t over the UK rayp gangs. This is how the elites get ahead- over the pain and torment of decent people;
https://x.com/koshercockney/status/1875183570110570666
Beau Webster’s first Test pole – Shubman Gill, inside edge and decent take by Carey.
Excellent. As bern indicated upthread, this won’t go the distance.
And Chinese EV makers haven’t been receiving government largess from the CCP. And I’d bet some of the assistance isn’t used to help exports too.
The CCP is a bastion of classic free market economics.
Oh Hang on, the CCP was caught offering export subsidies. Remarkable. It’s something we wouldn’t have guessed in a million years.
Jordan Peterson has released it again.
This is a clip from our first interview with Tommy Robinson. In it, he details his personal history with the rise of Islam and grooming gangs in Lutton and how the police carried out a two-tiered system of enforcement.
Tommy Robinson on UK Grooming Gangs – Originally Censored Now Very Relevant
How nice of them.
He’s given a serve to the climate nutters too.
‘I get a kick out of Nigel Farage’: Jordan Peterson on Reform and why net zero is unconservative (3 Jan)
Tesla, like every other carmaker, has received assistance since around 2005. Let’s not sugarcoat it or pretend otherwise. The tariffs were designed to prop up the legacy automakers—the ones clinging to life and crumbling under the weight of cheaper, more efficient models.
Yet, unlike the bloated and stagnant legacy companies, Tesla thrived.
It was a level playing field with respect to government assistance.
Tesla started as a scrappy, underdog startup, facing every obstacle. And guess what dover? It’s the only carmaker since World War II that didn’t collapse into bankruptcy. Normally, people would celebrate such unprecedented success.But hey, look BYD.
The SFL’s in Qld (FMFD);
https://x.com/Jilliantweeting/status/1875343762203013477
It goes back to Labour losing control of Oldham council (Greater Manchester) in May and independents subsequently passing a motion in July calling for a Home Office backed inquiry which was denied earlier this week.
In any event Dover, you need to get your story straight. “Don’t pretend” you’re not for tariffs and protection. Only now, because the US tariffs don’t assist the CCP, you appear to be against the 100% tariff on BYD. Shouldn’t you be applauding the act by the Hiden administration?
BYD
Burn Your Dreams
Makka, I just fired off a missive to my local member David Janetzki about this.
This is sick and evil.
Sam Konstas needs a few more runs before he runs off at the mouth to avoid being written off as another Greek bullsh1t artist.
Apparently, Tesla use’s the vehicle’s cameras to record, download and store everything the driver/passengers are doing.
A perfect reason never to buy one.
Mr Pant is having a day out.
Gets his fifty off 29 balls with a six then hits the next one for six also. Off Starc too.
Hallward:
Tesla is doing this to gather more information to apply to its research in driverless and assist the driver when in self -drive mode. It can be turned off at the the push of a button.
As one of the world’s aviation pioneers, i would’ve thought you’d understand that. Such a lowrent slimeball.
Tesla vehicles use cameras primarily for features like Autopilot, Full Self-Driving (FSD), and security systems like Sentry Mode. While the cameras can capture video, Tesla emphasizes privacy and provides ways to control what is recorded, uploaded, or shared. Here’s a breakdown of how you can manage this:
1. Interior Camera Recording
Purpose: The interior camera (near the rearview mirror) is primarily used to monitor driver attentiveness during FSD or Autopilot.Control: Tesla claims that any footage from the interior camera remains within the car unless you choose to share it for troubleshooting.To disable interior camera sharing:Go to Controls > Safety > Data Sharing.Toggle off options related to sharing camera footage.2. Sentry Mode Recording
Purpose: Sentry Mode uses exterior cameras to record activity around the vehicle when it’s parked for security.Control: Sentry Mode recordings are stored locally on a USB drive in your vehicle unless manually shared.To disable Sentry Mode:Go to Controls > Safety > Sentry Mode and turn it off.3. Data Upload for Tesla Diagnostics
Purpose: Tesla might upload some video clips to improve Autopilot and FSD performance.Control: Tesla makes this optional, and you can decline data sharing.To disable this:Go to Controls > Safety > Data Sharing and uncheck the box for “Allow Tesla to collect video clips.”4. Privacy Settings in the App
Review Tesla’s Privacy Notice (accessible via the app or their website) to understand what data is collected and how to manage permissions.Important Notes:
Tesla anonymizes shared data, removing identifiable information.In most cases, no footage is shared unless you explicitly allow it.If you’re concerned about privacy, turning off data sharing and using features like Sentry Mode selectively are good steps.
Yes he does.
Until the kid starts posting tons – and big tons, routinely – as refreshing as this is, he has a credibility issue which will only be solved by putting runs on the board, because runs cannot be argued with or otherwise disputed.
I also note that nobody yet has put a 150kph screamer on his grill.
Bumrah, as good as he is, is not scary. He doesn’t give the impression that as a batsman, he’s going to physically hurt you. There are two Saffies and at least one Kiwi that do.
If you want to chat in the field, that’s fine – to a point. However, as every batsman knows, the bowlers will always get you in the end so it’s wise to keep your trap shut while you have a bat in your hand.
Sydney Test should be a big hit with the ADHD crew.
BingBong!
What a crap ball Pant got himself out to.
I’m back, and with an appalling story to tell you:
Did you know that if a Queensland Publican has a hat rack in the Public Bar, it’s illegal to wear a hat/cap/chapeau while you are in there?
Pauline swears it’s true, but is she just pulling my leg?
Sal?
Sam Konstas needs a few more runs before he runs off at the mouth
He’s a Cranbrook boy.
It’s part of the curriculum.
As demonstrated above, Tesla has been lobbying to make it harder and harder for the ICE manufactures to operate as well as receiving regulatory credits it sells to existing manufactures relating to emissions targets. And you want to pretend this system exists to prop up the ‘legacy’ manufacturers.
Sure I’m for them, but I only highlighted the nonsense claim that Tesla’s current position has nothing to do with a regulatory framework that favour EVs/ renewables and actively penalises existing manufacturers of ICE vehicles.
Konstas’ 23 is not looking too bad now. Only 2 Australians did better, and half way through the IndIan XI only 1.
It won’t stop the tutt-tutting from Aystralian wassahs though.
Just further to the partisan MSM, whether it’s here or in the US or in the UK, I’m more than happy for politicians of all political persuasions to be kept honest but the problem with the MSM over the last 20 years is that it has become both a mouthpiece and a Praetorian Guard for leftwing politicians whilst going after and bringing down rightwing politicians. A male Labor/Labour/Demonrat politician could rape a six year old and the MSM would cover it up, or at least try to. Most journalists don’t even hide their biases bias anymore. The thing is, once upon a time journalists of old, whilst mostly leftwing or as I prefer to say…..’old Labor’ loved the smell of a good story and didn’t care whether it targeted right or left. But not now, journalism is dominated by elite and smug progressives who usually come from effluent families and they see their role as simply a funnel to further progressive politics and causes. They are activists. We see it here, be it Mrs Jones or the utterly hideous hag, Laura Shingle. We saw how the US MSM ran Praetorian Guard for the Sniffer, their bias was jaw dropping but worse, they lied and gaslighted to the public despite the Sniffer’s obvious declining mental state. It took that first debate back in June 2024 to expose the MSM’s lies and gaslighting, because when Biden went up against Trump during that debate, Biden had no clothes on, his mental state stripped bare for the world to see. It wasn’t pretty
I was more than happy for Blob Johnson to be exposed for ‘party gate’ shenanigans but creepy Sturmer is guilty of far worse, whether its the expenses scandal, adultery and the Southport cover up. Yet the mainstream UK MSM, even publications supposedly of the right, remain shtum. And here the MSM kept shtum on the Shorten rape allegations but went all jugular for Laming, Tudge, Porter and so on.
I don’t know what the answer is, I suppose more independent journalists. It’s nice to see the likes of Andy Ngo, Avi Yemeni, Rebel media and so on be finally accorded some respect and legitimacy, after years of being taunted, smeared and ridiculed as ‘far-right’. Yes, Andy, Avi, Rebel, Rushkan, Tommy etc are ‘far-right’ insofar as they’ve been ‘right so far about everything‘!
total unmitigated frog-shit
Q1 2024: Tesla reported 442 million in income from carbon credit sales, representing 38.6% of its 1,144 million net income for that quarter.
Tesla sells carbon credits to other automakers who haven’t met emissions regulations, allowing them to comply with environmental standards.
which is a polite way of saying Tesla’s competitors are compelled to buy the carbon credits
That’s the American system. You lobby for everything you can get because others are doing the same thing. Don’t like it, then blame the government for allowing this to go too far. Every decent sized firm in America is either part of a lobby association or lobby individually. So don’t “pretend” otherwise. It’s hardball.
Then stop being selective about which tariffs and good or reflect something darker. As I said, you should be applauding Hiden’s action . As for your proposition that the Hiden administration initiated those tariffs to assist Tesla. That’s just absurd on so many levels.
Konstas needs to get rid of the lip fungus, he reminds me of Lex Marinos from Kingswood Country.
[Drive-by posting; apologies if a repost.]
Douglas Murray on grooming gangs, Tommy Robinson and what’s wrong with Britain [The Spectator] 324,235 views; Jan 4, 2025
Probably nothing new to Çats, but a great recap of the grooming scandal, Tommy Robinson and the US MAGA focus on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDh85cohwms [36:06]
Trans
Question, why did you choose the first quarter of 24?
If you mosey through their 10Q, you’ll see a line that says Net Income. Net income for Tesla runs at around US$ 2 billion per quarter from opertaions, which is quite a decent result for a carmaker that’s been in business for around 20 years and doing the hard scrabble for about 10 years. Compare that to the terrible results from the legacies.
Here, feast your eyes.
As a newbie, you ought to be demonstrating a little humility instead of bumbling in with “horse shit”.
I’m actually trying to help you here, so try the nice approach and be thankful.
Look, you could be right and the market place is grossly overvaluing tesla stock twice over the legacies as I showed, in which case you should short it massively.