Algernon Talmage, 1937
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Open Thread – Australia Day Weekend 2025
Algernon Talmage, 1937
Algernon Talmage, 1937
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One MOAB. Just like should have happened at Tora Bora. But no, we are too civilised. Now, bend over and…
From the Spectator Australia – “Wind droughts would have been the most important discovery in the 20th Century but the…
Incredible what a drop in energy prices can do for parts of the inflation stack immediately.
There was a good poster in The Week In Pictures not long ago that showed pictures of GWB, Clinton, Obama,…
Austraya Day. Dearly Beloved down south with a girlfriend. Thought I should have a coupla lamb chops on the barbie for dinner.
Then, in Woolies this arvo I spied a yuuuge T-bone and that was it! Heavily dusted with beef BBQ seasoning, oil sprayed, and onto a HOT open grill on the barbie for 3 minutes each side, while two eggs cooked on the hotplate.
Joy! Happy Straya Day!
(Anybody seen the Gaviscon??)
This may be the most gay thing ever.
It’s like Freddie Mercury and Elton John had a butt baby and arranged for it to be molested by George Michael and Boy George.
It’s really really non hetero.
https://x.com/hierobadge/status/1883349584270995870
invasion day special snowflakes.
There are some amazingly stupid people in the world and some of them are perverts.
A better example of Blair’s law we will never see!
Johannes Leak.
Johannes has nailed the mouth’s curled lip sneer perfectly on it.
‘It’ being the Wong Chap.
100% agreed.
Johannes has nailed to the cross that utter disgrace of a human being in Wong.
Matt Pritchett.
I like this guy.
Christian Adams.
Michael Ramirez.
Michael Ramirez #2.
A.F. Branco.
Tom Stiglich.
Henry Payne.
Lisa Benson.
Ben Garrison.
Hard yakka at harvest time in the 30s and still later.
It happens.
By Shane Beeton.
One of the great Aussie pubs, The Daly Waters in the NT. Me, the old man and brother late last year, and another of me and the old boy again, about 25 years ago.
They and the Bougainvillea have filled out a bit in those 25 years.
They had a Christmas Tree made from beer kegs stacked high when I was there four yearsago.
Another faithful Hollywood couple.
————–
Tom Selleck’s life changed forever when he attended Cats in London and found himself entranced by a young, talented performer named Jillie Mack. It was 1983, and Jillie was captivating audiences as the mischievous and energetic Rumpleteazer in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s wildly popular musical.
For Tom, who was in London during a break from filming Magnum, P.I., the decision to see the show came almost by chance. However, from the moment Jillie took the stage, he couldn’t take his eyes off her. There was something about her the graceful movements, the infectious energy, and the undeniable spark she brought to her performance that left Tom completely mesmerized.
Despite being a global star at the time, Tom was not one to use his fame recklessly. After the show, rather than sending an assistant or relying on his celebrity status to arrange a meeting, he approached Jillie in person. Their first conversation was casual yet memorable.
Tom was immediately drawn to Jillie’s warmth and wit, and she, in turn, was charmed by his genuine interest and down-to-earth demeanor. What began as a shared appreciation for theater soon blossomed into something deeper.
Jillie, a native of Devizes, England, had grown up far from the world of Hollywood glitz and glamour.
Before Cats, she had danced her way through various productions, earning a reputation as a dedicated and talented performer. Tom, on the other hand, was navigating the heights of fame in America, where his portrayal of Thomas Magnum had made him a television icon.
Their worlds couldn’t have been more different, yet their connection was instant and undeniable.
After their initial meeting, Tom began finding excuses to stay longer in London. He was captivated not only by Jillie’s talent but also by her down-to-earth personality and quick humor. The two started spending more time together, exploring the city and enjoying quiet dinners away from the public eye. For Tom, who had always valued privacy, Jillie’s grounded nature was a refreshing contrast to the often superficial world of show business.
Over time, their bond only grew stronger, and it became clear to both that they had found something rare and worth holding onto.
By 1987, after four years of dating, Tom and Jillie made the decision to marry—but in true Selleck fashion, they wanted their wedding to remain as private as possible.
The couple arranged a secret ceremony in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and took great care to keep the details out of the public eye. They even hired an alias for Tom to ensure their special day wouldn’t be disrupted by paparazzi. On August 7, 1987, with only a handful of close friends and family in attendance, Tom and Jillie exchanged vows in an intimate and heartfelt ceremony.
Following their wedding, the couple chose to settle down away from the spotlight, prioritizing family life over the demands of Hollywood. They purchased a sprawling ranch in Ventura County, California, where they raised their daughter, Hannah, and embraced a quieter lifestyle. Tom famously scaled back his career commitments to focus on being present for his family, often saying that his greatest joy came from being a husband and father.
Now in their 70s, Tom and Jillie have been married for over 37 years a rarity in the world of Hollywood. Their relationship, built on mutual respect and a shared commitment to privacy, remains one of the most heartwarming love stories in the industry. At 79 years old, Tom continues to act but always prioritizes his family above all else.
One of the few genuine good guys in that cesspit called Hollywood.
Before proper GPS?
GreyRanga
January 26, 2025 10:58 am
Reply to GreyRanga
If they’re fishing they’re not getting into trouble by being idle.
I dunno about that Matey 😉 :
Behold the fisherman…getting up before the crack of dawn, managing to wake up every one else in the household with the racket he is making to get out of the house before going forth for the days’ fishing. He returns home after the sun has set, with no fish, smelling of rum and the truth not in him.
Me and my mates would go away on Friday after work. Then we’d leave by 2pm, then lunchtime. Thursday night then 3pm. As you can see there is a pattern forming. Going fishing with the boss has its advantages.
The first time I took the boss fishing he got into trouble crooing a river. He held out his hand for me to pull him back. I said ” pass your wallet”. Ha. When we got home his wife said, if you save him again I’ll never speak to you ever.
I cannot believe they have spent this amount of money for the result in CA.
I know, millions we dismiss these days as pocket money for politicians, but 24 Billion for nothing to show for?
To be fair, if you are homeless in Utah, or Minnesota or … , they will put you on a bus to CA.
Perverse incentives and all that.
Pockets.
It’s all in deep deep pockets.
The “ public servants” usually scarf down most of the loot before it hits the streets. An audit would confirm. Bwahahaha. As if.
Exactly the same with our aboriginal industry, of course – over US $24 billion spent every year for decades, no progress obvious.
Thanks Tom! The Minnesota Dems have been the subject of an entertaining series by Scott Johnson over the last several weeks. You can see the creature with the bullhorn in this one:
Emily Litella, call your office | Power Line (25 Jan)
Branco has rendered its likeness very well!
Is Anal really going to send Jewish teachers into Muslim schools and Mosques to educate them about anti-semistism and the holocaust?
Pardon the typo error.
If so, hope the budget extends to armed guards for them.
From competent private security natch.
I’d like to see hundreds of non- muslims turn up to the mosque every Friday, to find out what goes on. Surely there would be a wonderful welcome?
Chamath tweet #1 on DeepSeek.
Several important questions/comments come to my mind as I read more about DeepSeek. Listing them here:
1) Let’s give 1% probability to all the conspiracy theories upfront so we can address it and move on. If it is possible for China/Chinese companies to use shell companies in Singapore or other countries to be a “beard” to buy otherwise export controlled chips from Nvidia and use them for AI training, this likely needs to be investigated and adjudicated.
2) The battle of usage is now more about AI inference vs Training. We always knew this day would come but it probably surprised many that it could be this weekend. With a model this cheap, many new products and experiences can now emerge trying to win the hearts and minds of the global populace. Team USA needs to win here. To that point, while we may still want to export control AI Training chips, we should probably view Inference chips differently – we should want everyone around the world using our solutions over others. I can explain my reasoning as follows: we should never export our knowledge of enriching uranium to be weapons grade to other countries but we should export our ability to build nuclear energy (which requires far less sophistication) if it can help advance American priorities and leadership abroad. Training and Inference can be roughly equated this way. (Disclaimer: Groq, of which I’m a shareholder, is in this game so this benefits me tbf.)
3) We need to cooperate with our allies (especially those in the ME) to stand up the necessary infrastructure to enable Inference – Data centers, subsidized energy etc. all around the world ASAP.. They pay to build it, we supply the Inference hardware and the software to run the clouds. We need this buildout to happen ASAP. This is clearly our version of Belt and Road and we need to take it as seriously as China took their version, similarly named.
4) There will be volatility in the stock market as capital markets absorb all of this information and re-price the values of the Mag7. Tesla is the least exposed, the rest are exposed as a direct function of the amount of CapEx they have publicly announced. Nvidia is the most at risk for obvious reasons. That said, markets will love it if Meta, Microsoft, Google etc can win WITHOUT having to spend $50-80B PER YEAR.
5) The innovation from China speaks to how “asleep” we’ve been for the past 15 years. We’ve been running towards the big money/shiny object spending programs (AI is not the first and it likely won’t be the last) where we (Team USA) have thrown hundreds of billions of dollars at a problem vs thinking through the problem more cleverly and using resource constraints as an enabler. Let’s get our act together. We need all the bumbling middle managers out of the way – let the engineers and the brilliant folks we have actually working on this stuff to cook! More spending, more meetings, more oversight, more weekly reports and the like does not equate to more innovation. Unburden our technical stars to do their magic.
6) Startups need to realize that they are “default dead” companies. This means that they must, by definition, grasp victory from the jaws of defeat. Meanwhile, VCs are asleep at the switch – massively overfunding marginal ideas. We need to get better at taking huge shots on goal and allocating capital to the best of these ideas. I worry that in this current melee, we’ve overspent billions on dumb features which these next-gen models will roll over in the next 12months or earlier. Lots of capital losses are coming.
https://x.com/chamath/status/1883571504153309377
Australia will not need to worry about any of these issues, both sides of our politics are still wanking with renewables so we will not have enough electricity to even keep the computers working.
Chamath tweet #2 on DeepSeek.
This report is long but very good.
“With R1, DeepSeek essentially cracked one of the holy grails of AI: getting models to reason step-by-step without relying on massive supervised datasets. Their DeepSeek-R1-Zero experiment showed something remarkable: using pure reinforcement learning with carefully crafted reward functions, they managed to get models to develop sophisticated reasoning capabilities completely autonomously. This wasn’t just about solving problems— the model organically learned to generate long chains of thought, self-verify its work, and allocate more computation time to harder problems.
The technical breakthrough here was their novel approach to reward modeling. Rather than using complex neural reward models that can lead to “reward hacking” (where the model finds bogus ways to boost their rewards that don’t actually lead to better real-world model performance), they developed a clever rule-based system that combines accuracy rewards (verifying final answers) with format rewards (encouraging structured thinking). This simpler approach turned out to be more robust and scalable than the process-based reward models that others have tried.”
https://x.com/chamath/status/1883579259769462819
Leak Jr, outstanding.
Saved and shared many many WhatsApp groups.
I looked up FAFO in the dictionary and funnily enough there was a map of Colombia.
“BREAKING: Colombian President Petro caves to Trump in under an hour, says presidential plane will be used to take deported citizens back to Colombia”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1883601678899016168?t=vAIjayfC1FE1JDrmiyWtxg&s=19
“You’re not sending us back our best”.
The US will quickly become the land of unwashed dishes, unruly hedges and lawns and unpicked fruit.
Or so we are told.
Still, it will provide jerbs for all those laid off DEI types.
Every cloud …
What a difference 160 years makes.
DemonRats in 1865:
“How will we pick our cotton without slaves?”
DemonRats in 2025:
“How will our fruit be picked, our lawns be mown, and our children have nannies without undocumented workers?”
The beauty of this is that having attempted to hide behind providing the inbound Colombian expats a ‘dignified’ return in his presidential key, all future Colombian returnees will expect to be accorded the same ‘dignity’.
DEI
Pete Hegseth Issues Warning to Federal Workers Who Fail To ‘Comply’
He’s bringing out the screeching demorats.
@TuckerCarlson
We’ve got a choice between saving the United States or waging yet another pointless foreign war. We can’t do both. Curt Mills on neocon attempts to subvert the Trump agenda.
Meme
7 Explosive ‘Secret Empires’ Facts about Mitch McConnell and Elaine Chao
In other words, here’s the explanation behind Mitch McConnells continuous sabotaging of President Trump. He’s a paid up Chinese Agent.
@KashPatel_News
Stephen A. Smith exposes Oprah Winfrey and other celebs.
I really hope the Doggies borrow Milei’s chainsaw.
“I Would Love to Leave, But I Don’t Know Where I’d Go,” Federal Bureaucrat Terrified of Trump Says (Daniel Greenfield, 26 Jan)
The panic coming from these public serpents is very tasty!
Why didn’t he think about that before? Smart people have a plan B, he didn’t. Tells you an lot about most of the public service.
@RickyDoggin
Chad Bianco, sheriff of Riverside County, California is finally speaking the truth. Kudos standing up against politicians.
He should run for governor!
JD Vance has blistering response for Catholic bishops who criticized ICE raids in churches: ‘Worried about their bottom line’
Trump May Veto Epstein-Linked New UK Ambassador Who Called Him ‘Danger to the World.’
Good. The man has already been dismissed twice for dodgy conduct with Epstein and other miscellaneous acts that would see you and I in prison.
That would be a great precedent that should be applied to a certain hairy faced Australian too.
Here’s Why Trump MUST Reject Britain’s Epstein And China-Linked Ambassador, ‘Prince of Darkness’ Peter Mandelson. – The National Pulse
It will continue to be media vs. Trump.
Lefty reporter asks which Executive Order brings grocery prices down!
Not quick enough is the stupid implication. Answer: those orders relating to energy and fuel prices.
Lefties generally, and Columbia in particular, refusing landing clearance for initial flights because they are military rather than commercial.
Too quick this time.
*Colombia
Why didn’t the lefty reporter ask Biden what he was doing to bring grocery prices down?
Another COVID Lie Bites the Dust As Study Finds No Correlation Between School Closings and Transmission
In other words, as George Washington University Law School Professor and political commentator Jonathan Turley put it:
Skah have some septic tank professor with TDS on.
Trump policies bad, countries don’t have to accept returned citizens apparently.
Joe Siracusa? TDS sufferer for sure. He occasionally says something sensible, but like Michael Ware he is on more because Daytime Sky like him than because he’s a reliable commentator. Reliably left I guess.
Countries will accept return to sender citizens.
It’s the USA which doesn’t have to accept them.
The Pritzker family is source of the trans calamity. Now they want to protect “law abiding” illegals.
Pritzker Threatens Trump Admin — Local Law Enforcement Will Stand Up for ‘Law-Abiding Undocumented People’
Who’s going to tell em?
Britain was the World’s Powerhouse & Most Modern Nation. What Went Wrong? Prof. Jeremy Black
The left; just like every other Western nation. We need a test which recognises leftoids and then we deal with them.
FAFO : pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas, c’est Flame (changed to get past the censor) Around Find Out, Si tu me cherches, tu me trouves
‘Last bit is ‘if you look for me you’ll find me’ or ‘ Try a little and see’
Many French loving the Trump era and wanting one of their own.
In response to this post by Trump.
I hope this is a sign for the future.
Vance isnt pulling punches either.
some claim there are 30 million illegals in the US.
Not much lawn work in winter.
https://x.com/F_Desouche/status/1883614838079017460?t=uLrVRvt_G8f2RFhzeCdQzg&s=19
Has anyone suggested they themselves mow their lawn, wash the dishes, and such?
Don’t be silly. We should count ourselves lucky that we don’t have to stand facing a wall and being silent as they walk past. They are important people, you know. We mustn’t distract them with mundane trifles.
You heartless beast!
Or they could do what was done after the Civil War, pay their workers a market rate, instead of treating them like slaves.
Both Egypt and Jordan are refusing to take Gazans.
So much for the brotherhood of islam.
Then cut off their aid – Egypt got $1,503,609,426 from the US in 2023.
I don’t blame them, but I thought that was part of the deal?
Would you want them?
Hostage families thank Trump
https://x.com/Ostrov_A/status/1883610928710590633?t=Ykg7a8EjgPvAit03rOL7nw&s=19
I wonder if Greypuss is close to a mental collapse. He is now tasked with defending the former woman Wong and accusing Dutton with fostering anti-Semitism.
He really is a weasel.
Don’t know if this is genuine but if true, wowsers.
https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1883485286857834846?t=pB_k_mj7j3Y8Z2a8Cj0Bag&s=19
Same in Chicago…
Chicago Shopping Area Empties Before Trump ICE Raids (22 Jan)
Israel has been accused, since forever, of wanting to ethnically cleanse Gaza even though the only ethnic cleanse Gaza has had in recent memory is the 2005 forcible removal of Jews, by Israel.
Of course Egypt and Jordan don’t want Gazans, even temporarily, because they won’t go back.
Even before the war every exit by Gazans was a cause for celebration.
There’s no future in sit down money at the whim of terrorists.
Australia’s Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has labelled opposition criticism about Australia’s representatives attending the 80th commemoration of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau as “grotesque” and said “we need to get politics out” of combating anti-Semitism.
Gosh, now that’s some grotesque chutzpah coming from the master of ‘politicisation’. I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who thought politicising a rape allegation was ‘grotesque’ and Dreyfus was up to his ugly neck in both the Higgins and the utterly absurd Porter allegations.
Methinks Labor are getting desperate, particularly after the latest Newspoll.
As an aside, yesterday I went to a friend’s for a Oz Day soiree at Darling Point. A woman was there who I hadn’t seen for years, a long time senior public servant. She said, very plainly, that after having voted Labor here whole adult life, she would never vote Labor again.
For us Jews you don’t need the Liberal opposition to politicise Jew hatred, we have just seen the evidence around us since October 7, the sordid events of October 9, the invasion of Caulfield and other Jewish suburbs by police sanctioned leftist and Muslim Nazi scum, the endless Jew hating graffiti, the torching of cars in Jewish suburbs, the torching of a synagogue in Ripponlea, the endless weekly Jew hating ‘protests’ in our CBDs rendering our city centres ‘Judenfrei’ every Sunday, the numerous attempted torchings of synagogues, the protests outside synagogues, the torching of a day care centre, I could go on, I’m sure you get the drift.
So, nah Mr Dreyfus, it wasn’t Dutton and the opposition who’ve politicised ‘anti-Semitism’, that honour belongs to ‘your side‘. Both Pong and Albanese politicised and weaponised the October 7 2023 slaughter of Jews from the very beginning, their hostility to the Jewish state long palpable. Within hours of the slaughter, Pong urged ‘restraint’ on Israel, it’s worth nothing that Pong did not urge any restraint on the Nazi terrorists still roaming across southern Israel.
My message to the kapo Dreyfus is this, it hasn’t been the Liberals who’ve politicised ‘anti-Semitism’, rather it’s been your side who’ve politicised Jew hatred by saying and doing either nothing or little, because it’s your side who’ve been too scared to stand up to the Nazi Greens and too worried about losing the votes of Nazi scum living in Western Sydney and Melbourne, Nazi scum who should never ever have been allowed to settle in this country. To borrow some favourite words from the unlamented pervert apologist and resident Nazi (who no doubt is lurking here)….it’s YOUR LOT who have refused to stand up for Australian Jews.
And now YOUR LOT are sending Pong to the 80th anniversary of the Auschwitz liberation, the same Pong who, only in December 2024, equated Israel to Russia and China
It’s YOUR LOT who are ‘grotesque’. It’s YOUR LOT who stink.
Umm, Labor politicised things from Day 1 (before Israel even retaliated!) when it virtually ignored rampant anti-Semitism for fears of losing Muslim votes.
Also, these same political fears have motivated Labor’s rabid and unprecedented anti-Israel policies since.
Sourpuss is a dickhead.
Dreyfus: Are we the baddies?
So many balls in the air.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-eyes-asylum-agreement-el-salvador-deportation-migrants/
Yeah, but President Trump has balls to spare.
BREAKING NEWS Colombia caves to Trump’s tariff threat as humiliated socialist leader offers his own plane to migrants
The reactionary turn against nuclear power – spiked
Yellowtail wine should be a prohibited export from Australia. It degrades the Australia brand.
I don’t think so, Eyrie. The Shiraz is a nice enough drop.
Mind you, I don’t claim to be a wine connoisseur – I just put them into three categories:
(Winston checks outside and doesn’t see any communists, but does take note of a suspicious looking Red Kangaroo.)
Even calling it wine is misnomer.
The Yanks love it.
Various US blogs I read are always raving about how great it is. LOL. 😀
Lots of it in US bottle shops.
Have a friend who will drink their shiraz exclusively … with ice blocks!
Mole, good question for DeepSeek
Louis Litt
January 26, 2025 11:01 pm
Reply to Beertruk
Hey Beertruk
well done – query how is the knee and would you recommend it.
Gday Louis,
I was in the Army in 1998 and posted to Brisbane, it was decided to have a game of Aussie rules (of all bloody things) for PT when about 20 or so seconds after the start, just as I had managed to boot the ball downfield, I got tackled. My right knee, ligaments and cartilage were smashed when I pivoted around the right knee joint with my foot planted on the ground.
As I hobbled off…words to the effect from the girls and boys ‘get back here ya girl…nothin wrong with ya…’
‘Me knee hurts… Im getting changed and going back to work.’
That was on a Friday.
Saturday my knee was like a football so I got Mrs Beertruk to take me to 1 Mil Hospital. Medic on duty could only give me some anti inflammatory tablets, a splint and crutches and ‘come back Monday for xrays.’
As Expo was on at that time, I went with a couple of mates that night for a couple of beers…hobbling around with the splint on and on crutches.
Fronted up for work Monday morning, with the splint on and with the crutches…a few shocked looks on the faces of the girls and boys ‘…right you bastards…one of you is going to drive me out to 1 Mil for xrays.’
I have had three arthroscopies, 1988, a cleanout in 1994 and the third one (I had discharged from the Amy by this time), a cleanout in 2009.
I went back to the specialist to revisit another arthroscopy in 2014, but was told ‘Beertruk…there is no more cartilage to clean out…osteoarthritis has set in…and the joint is bone on bone…a knee replacement is your only option.’
Last year I decided that enough was enough (it had collapsed on me a few times over the years and as well as putting up with the pain) so I got the knee replacement done in October.
I did look at getting both knees done but the specialist advised against it because the the good knee, which is doing the work of two knees, will more than likely get better as well.
I did mention this to the physio and he described having both knees replaced together is like trying to recover from being ‘hit by a bus.’
But some people do have both knees replaced at the same time.
For me I am glad I got talked out of it.
First post op appointment with the specialist scared the beejeesus out of me. ‘ You need to be able to bend you leg 90 degrees when you come back to have the stiches out…otherwise I will have to manipulate it to 90 degrees.’ Two weeks later after being anal with the exercises…stiches out…leg bent to 100 degrees plus…specialist ‘good…good…well done..Im happy with that…’
My right leg is now straight, as in I don’t look like I have been riding horses for the last 35 plus years. Podiatrist is happy. Physio is happy. Specialist is happy. Left knee is happy.
If you are thinking about getting a knee replacement, you will have to weather the storm and have the self discipline and determination to do what ever exercises the physio wants you to do. The hospital physio is like Gestapo ‘Ve have vays of making you valk.’ If you don’t you will go backwards. Day one after surgery bed exercises then day two out of bed with a hopper and more exercises. Stay on top of the pain with the pain killers. I did question myself at times in the first month or so whether I did do the right thing. Now three months later, I am now convinced I have done the right thing.
One thing I SHOULD have done prior to the op was to start leg exercises on the crap leg have a bit of a head start after the op. ‘Every little bit helps’ said the monkey as he peed over the side into the ocean.
I also had a chat with the physio before the op and to organise the post op physio stuff.
I have now been ‘released back into the wild’ as far as my physio is concerned BUT the current exercises are still to continue. 😉
Cheers
Regards
Beertruk
I had an ACL reco years back. Really good western Sydney orthopedic surgeon.
I can attest the rehab regime & being meticulous in following the program. As a result I got full range of motion back. Initially loads of Endone & targin helped, on doctors orders.
Beertruk, has any medical professional raised peptides with you?
If you’ve been told there’s zero cartilage left it might be a too late.
Widely available now and a game changer for knees & hips.
The Dank/Essendon jokes while funny have stopped many people who would benefit from them trying them out.
No Bern, they haven’t/didn’t. Mind you it was back in 2014 when I decided to visit another arthroscopy and the specialist looked at the xrays and said ‘a knee replacement…there is no more cartridge to take out.’ My hips are good at the moment so hope I will not have to visit anything to do with them.
I had both knees done at the same time 3 years ago. Plenty of pain but much better than going through the process twice with individual replacements. Rugby damage not helped by high hills, large backpacks and screaming corporals!
If I had smashed my knee playing Rugby, I would have worn it as ‘a badge of honour.’ But no. It will be forever the ‘shame of it all’ AFL at PT.
Tek,
I had both knees replaced at the same time also. Would NEVER countenance doing it one at a time. Also, as both knees were soooo bad, which one do you choose? The other knee would never have coped with the extra load.
The ex chose that time to let me know we were parting ways, so I never did the full course of physio.
I started physio again last year and it has been going fairly well considering it has been five years since the op. Also, at the start, the physiotherapist told me she didn’t think she could help me as it had been so long. I said I’d give it a few weeks anyway as I had nothing to lose. After a month, we were both very surprised.
The ONE thing the surgeons do not tell you is, the tenderness on the knee itself never goes away. That is why I still have major problems getting up if I fall down as I can’t just turn over, kneel, then raise myself up. I have only recently been able to, very gingerly, kneel on the bed or the lounge to move things.
Having said all the above, I am still very glad I had the op. I was on a colossal amount of painkillers for years, wore three sets of knee supports/braces and walked with two sticks.
Any Cats know of a good quality brand of carpet layers knee pads? I want to buy a pair and see if they minimise the dreadful discomfort when I try to kneel. Particularly after I have gone arse up again.
I have noticed the military use knee guards all the time now.
Been there, done that. These knee replacements should see me out.
My left sacroiliac joint (the bit that joins the pelvis to the spine, or the body’s lower to higher torque converter) flared badly a couple of weeks ago. Normally comes and goes in 24 hours but not this time. My sports masseur (the 110kg former professional rugby player Nick) worked in it for an hour including a serious go at the left sciatic nerve (I briefly blacked out). Prescribed me half a dozen rehab exercises which take no more than ten minutes to complete. Once in the morning once at night. Significant improvement in a short time, although I realised I’d been putting up with associated discomfort for 5-6 years. Do your physio.
Gosh I feel lucky. Had a knee replacement Dec 2023 and didn’t need anything but Panadol Forte. Had physio at home for 8 weeks after, and haven’t looked back. I do leg lunges and stretches every day and so far the other knee is better than it was before the knee OP.
The Home Secretary has ordered Google to limit what British people can find when searching online…
I just asked DeepSeek this
Tell us about Tiananmen Square massacre
Lol Sounds like a vastly superior Ai model.
The escalation of illegal immigrants hanging around schools is finally being noticed by the powers-that-be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfGIQ2nPxwE
What will happen? Nothing. Absolutely nothing concrete, until a child is kidnapped, raped and murdered. THEN the government and police will hold an inquiry into their failures and go back to sleep.
This is a continuation of Blair ‘rubbing your noses in diversity’.
The old “lessons have been learned”, approach.
Or, to put it another way, “throwing virgins into the volcano to appease Moloch”.
Another question for DeepSeek
Is Xi an awful human being?
This is true, the progressive and the elites destroy everything.
https://x.com/FrDesouche/status/1883633187496329724?t=vOxKs3VH1qKf07HUAlblvg&s=19
Yes bLIAR is one of the most evil abominations of the early 21st century. A foul mix of cultural marxism, economy wrecking ‘green’ policies and neo-con war mongering. Great mate of little Jonny Howard too.
Nuther offshore windfarm project in the woes:
Standoff threatens major offshore wind project (Paywallian)
I hunted around to find more about this and the following has a good deal of background:
Offshore wind project wins court appeal over rejected licence in Gippsland (8 Nov)
Looks like Bowen has shot himself in the foot.
I wish he would since both his clodhoppers are in his smartarse gob.
In the doldrums, huh.
Another question DeepSeek just deepsixed.
When will China attack Taiwan. Just a rough estimate is fine.
Just basic CCP propaganda.
Good news! And probably bad news.
“Arbel Yehud, Agam Berger, and another hostage are to be released on Thursday, with three more hostages scheduled for release on Saturday.
Israel has also received a list from Hamas detailing the condition of hostages set for release in Phase one.”
Israel, hamas having breached the agreement by not returning civilian females have refused to allow Gazans to return north.
https://x.com/VividProwess/status/1883637841600901588?t=6vi_cd9MFibPhDiRKA_l0A&s=19
So many of these stupid women going online have revealed to the world how much rorting has been going on
They need to organise childcare?
One person suggested that the job really only took four hours a day.
Great, so get paid for four hours a day.
https://x.com/DineshDSouza/status/1883268564494491702?t=2EYqTmI8ut2nALSJktmp5g&s=19
Talking about AI models, look who’s come out of the closet.
Yeeeeah just mop the floor and pray no-one looks for any more scams or OPM you might have squirrelled away, bro- you’re never getting a pardon
Between midnight and about 3.00am., a NSWaffen police helicopter now flies over Sydney’s eastern suburbs, patrolling suburbs where lots of Jews live. Shades of occupied Europe. That’s the reality of Albo’s Australia, that’s not thanks to Peter Dutton or the state or federal Liberals, rather that is thanks to the ‘lot’ that is federal and state Labor, it’s that ‘lot’ who are in charge.
Prior to the May 2022 election, the Liberals did warn us that life would not be easy under Albanese and his ‘lot’. They got that right except I’m pretty sure even they would not have realised just how ‘grotesque’ life would be under that ‘lot’.
Police monument to the fallen defaced as well.
Be interesting to see how quickly these perps are rounded up.
Yep, we hear it come up around Dover Heights, just above our place. Hairy’s asleep but I am often up for an hour at that time before hauling back to bed.
This debate has been running on Soshul Meeja.
Mmmyes. Apparently the price of eggs and gas didn’t drop a millisecond after Orange Hitler took the oath.
Well, in response to the question of “which EO’s reduce grocery prices?” I tried to point out ditching the Paris Accord scam and increasing oil and gas exploration would push down prices.
I got several very condescending replies asking what gas has to do with groceries.
FMD.
And these people quite smugly assert that “only dumb people vote Orange”.
Reminds me of the hippie being interviewed on TV in Melbourne years ago.
He was protesting against farming and wanted them closed down.
Anyway, the reporter asked him where people would get their food from.
His reply:
“The supermarket.”
Some people really are that stupid.
The worst part is they are allowed to vote.
The Judiciary in Airstrip One is perfectly fine.
It’s purely coincidental the Yardie drew a sympathetic beak.
It’s one of those administrative flukes which hardly ever happens.
“Get politics out.”
As I recall, Dreyfus led the unseemly charge to section 44 Frydenberg.
From a senior member of the party that soft-pedals its response to antisemitism so it doesn’t upset its Muslim base in western Sydney.
I hope this hypocrite is considering his future after the next election.
I hope he gets bowel cancer.
ABC fails to send news crew to cover Auschwitz memorialJames Madden
2 hours ago.
Updated 1 hours ago
Neither of Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, will be on the ground in Poland for the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on Monday. It’s likely to be the last such service attended by survivors of the unspeakable events that occurred at the concentration camp.
TV crews from Nine and Seven will be there to cover the event, as will print and digital journalists from News Corp and Nine Entertainment mastheads.
A spokesman for SBS said it was not sending a TV news crew to Poland, “
The ABC’s spokesman didn’t respond to repeated questions from Diary on Sunday about the astounding editorial decision. News director Justin Stevens also failed to reply to our inquiry.
To put the Auschwitz decision in context, in 2023 the ABC sent 37 staff – at a cost to the taxpayer of $150,000 – to the four-day Indigenous Garma Festival in Arnhem Land.
Fifteen months later, it seems they can’t see the news value in sending a single journalist to mark a significant anniversary of one of the most horrific chapters in modern history.
Probably did not know that it was happening.
That is the Justin Stevens who is always sucking c**k on Sky, isn’t it?
Wait, my mistake. The one on Sky is Justin Smith I believe.
Both are turds.
Not closing the abc when they could is the single biggest, and indeed sufficient reason to scorn the LNP.
First Tropical Cyclone of season in Coral sea next week.
Euro model keeping off coast and more interested in NT.
BOM now more interested in Coral sea but keeping well off shore atm.
US GFS, bullish with a Cat 3 heading for SEQ Coast atm.
May send up to 1000mm of rain along Cassowary Cost too as the system forms. We’ll get a drink in Herbert Lower Burdekin as it passes to a few hundred mm’s if things go to the models plan.
Cue media over hype, 5, 4, 3….
Another question for DeepSeek
How much cat meat is in the average Yum Cha banquet?
Rat not cat.
‘Ratatouille’: Rats spotted roaming in popular late night diner (Tele)
You have to either have a subscription or look carefully at the url to know what sort of restaurant it is…
As I recall, Dreyfus led the unseemly charge to section 44 Frydenberg.
The Teal Pimp, Svengali Simon, was also behind that.
This isn’t the Hiden administration any longer.
Clean out the whole thing.
“get politics out.”
Excellent idea.
So, stop sending PMs to royal weddings and FMs to presidential inaugurations, you fame whore pinko knobs.
ALP MP Michael Danby [told] the Australian Jewish News Mr Dreyfus’ approach [to Frydenberg’s citizenship declaration] was “just political tactics and not cognisant of the wider political, historical and ethical issues”.
ABC News, 17 December 2017
Even Ed Husic was appalled at Dreyfus’s approach:
“If we get to the point where we’re pursuing people who were stateless and escaping one of the most horrific episodes in human history [i.e. Frydenberg’s mother – R.], well, I’ll be interested in seeing how far we pursue that.”
hah!
Maybe scorpions and snakes won’t bite me.
Who will pick our fruit, they ask.
The crops which keep us alive are cereals, harvested by machine.
The meat which we all eat isn’t farmed by backpackers or “Mexican itinerants.”
The arseholes who refuse to work that the taxpayer supports.
FFS that article by Spiked misses the point. The anti nuke movement in the West was fomented and funded by the KGB while the Commies were full steam ahead with it.
EF Schumacher and Amory Lovins were either communist agents or merely useful idiots.
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold explains how the commies were behind the UK “Peace” movement in the 60’s. Leamas’ gf was a well meaning useful idiot attending cultural education exchanges with the Soviets in Moscow.
The ABC still speaks in reverential tones when mentioning the Soviet dupes of Greenham Common.
Gone off Spiked a bit lately (a notable exception being the always brilliant Brendan O’Neill).
The other day the usually reliable Tom Slater claimed that the Southport killer, Axel Rudakubana, was not carrying out a terrorist act.
I think Catholic opposition to Trump’s illegal migration crackdown is rooted in their social justice substitute gospel rather than money. They’re not making a profit from resettling illegals.
Then they are doing the Church and their faith no favors, alienating tens of millions of Americans who want illegals gone and fast. This stems from our Marxist Pope who is and has been encouraging the illegal migration north. Whatever happened to “Give unto Rome..” ?
This, on top of the numerous scandals within Catholic Church and clergy AND the public knowledge of the homoglobo cabal that infests the Vatican.
Talk about not reading the room…
Full disclosure: Catholic here and I believe.
He’s a shocker, but the rot set in well before him, which explains how he became pope.
100% there as a fellow practising Catholic, Makka.
What abou the new illegal immigration penalties the Vatican City has impose. No link but posted here in the last few weeks
WATCH: JD Vance ‘Utterly Embarrasses’ CBS’s Margaret Brennan on Immigration, Security, and Economy
Don’t remember Lovins but Schumacher was some sort of guru when I was a kid.
Schumacher was great till the skiing accident. Oh, not Micheal.
Johannes leak has captured beautifully that sour, flat-faced, vile, anti-semite shame of our nation, the non-representative of Australians at Auschwitz I cannot stomach the vileness I really can’t, but thank you Johannes for having the stomach.
Leak is a legend.
Credit must go to whoever made kd that corpse like colour as well.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/wong-leak-brilliant-lest-we-forget.html
Leak at his FINEST!
Do all the daily Leaks appear in paper print?
He is very good, but I stopped buying years ago.
If you want a paper copy of leak’s best, dial up Tom’s toons in the early a.m. and when you see a Leak pearler, go and buy the paper.
Big beautiful wall.
Trump’s Deputies Restart Border Wall Construction (26 Jan)
He’s keeping all his promises.
The first people to be duped by the Soviet peace movement were the Russians who accepted Communist rule in order to end the “imperialist war” with the Central Powers. There followed the Russian civil war (1917-1922) which delivered ten times as many casualties, most of them civilians, as the eastern front did in 1914-17.
Western Front, Roger.
Russians refer to it as the Western Front because it’s on their West.
(Winston the Pedant.)
Yes, but I’m not writing for a Russian audience, Winston.
😀
Andrew Bolt:
FMD.
Spew worthy.
I’d like to see Jacinta as Prime Minister one day
Yes, if she keeps performing as well as she has been doing.
Jacinta is an actual aboriginal person, with one half of her ancestry being full-blood aboriginal. Contrast this to the ‘aborigines’ with only ONE of 8 or 16 grandparents being some form of ‘part-aboriginal’ and you have virtually no bloodline at all in that person that is ‘aboriginal’. Some common sense has to come into this ‘cultural aborigine’ equation.
#metoo
Give Uncle Warren Daly the traditional payment of kangaroo or possum skin. Maybe a burnt out sick to make a didgeridoo. Can’t have any evil whiteman munni.
This seems to be his only source of income. No doubt the nose is well into the trough.
Just remembered, pretty sure he was the guy in charge looking for non-existent traces when they were going to build the Jon Stanhope Holiday Camp (prison for half the number and twice the cost of what NSW were charging), and the imaginary site was outside the fenced boundary of the camp.
From the houso who brought you the Voice.
Jacinta Price for pm. She’s got the sense and decency.
Just looking at Anal, the unkempt Mostyn and Tame makes one’s stomach turn. A marxist rabble.
Mostyn is canbra born and bred and its shows.
Labor knows they are deeply loathed and it’s growing. Their options don’t include replacing Albo. On the table are a commitment to a Greens alliance (but that may be too far and act negatively) and call the GE early , very early and blow the Treasury on a raft of hand outs. Go out (or win) in a blaze of OPM glory.
If this were to occur, Dutton may respond with significantly stronger conservative moves- like exiting Paris, immigration pause and tax cuts.
From here on in, it’s going to get very interesting watching how the desperate Liars try to avoid the gallows.
We wish. And I say we because there are heaps of us out here in the suburbs and bush that want this to be the case.
You aren’t alone.
Just need to ensure there are plenty of gallows.
Abject fear over Trump’s threat to embargo Colombian exports.
hahahaha. Lol!
Snort, cackle!
Hilarious!
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunday-school-pool
I get the feeling Anal and co will go scorched earth to punish us for not getting with the program and not recognizing their brilliance.
…and you’d be right. The ability of socialists to behave like retarded and abusive children when they don’t get their own way is well established.
Actually, I think anal and his fellow marxist wreckers in the states are going scorched earth right now. Allan is certainly up to a lot of nasty secret stuff down here.
Mr President,
They were living in what they call peace, lobbing a rocket here and there into Israel because they are so peaceful. Blaming the Jews for everything etc etc.
Then one day they decided to really FAFO.
And they have.
Is The Donald suggesting tha pallywood bad actors being relocated and Gaza returned to Israel, coz that’s what its sounding like. Dump them in Yemen, then glass the place.
The Gazan Pier is a jolly good idea. Demolish the entire place and use the rubble to build a monster pier into the Mediterranean.
Call it the 8th Wonder of the World.
If I remember correctly, Hamburg has hills of rubble from the last war that they didn’t have the resources to take away from the city. A nice little reminder of what happens when you vote in the wrong sorts of people.
We could call the Gazan Pier the “FAFO Pier”.
The first time I visited Hamburg I noticed that the whole town was newly built. The only remnant of the old town was a tiny corner of a bombed church. I suppose they had to keep something to remember.
Le Havre in France is like that, a completely new-built town on the site of the old bombed out one. Lots of interesting 1940’s and 50’s architecture.
Another one.
NATO, Sweden, Latvia On High Alert After Baltic Undersea Data Cable “Damaged” (27 Jan)
That makes three in the Baltic and one off Taiwan. I think we can dismiss the idea that these were all accidents.
Yep, just “bad luck”. What did these idiots expect? FAFO.
Some HE on chinee ships wouldn’t go astray. A few mid ocean disappearances as payback.
It means that the world is more heavily reliant on satellite communications, and China is spending a lot of money on satellite interception techniques.
Think that one through, all you defence planners.
Sadly Strategy Group in Defence has more shall we say woke focuses.
Interestingly Marcia Langton has appeared in the Australian with a powerful and detailed criticism of the anti-semitism infecting Australian universities and the abject failure of university administrations in response.
Swimming against the currents in her personal pond.
Well played.
She’s displayed the odd moment of sanity over the years.
It’s too late for Marcia.
The current Uni students and activist filth, see Marcia exactly the same way that the US equivalent see Martin Luther King.
That was then, it’s different now, those people are all in the past, yada, yada.
Instead of writing a column for a dead tree newspaper, why the bloody hell wasn’t she at the Uni camps giving the turds what-for. Oh, right, they might chuck shit at her and call her a coconut. Sow, Reap, Marcia.
Poor Marcia has become a Dinosaur in her own lifetime.
I guess it depends how you think shit-flinging howler monkeys should be dealt with.
The [insert descriptor of choice replacing ‘activists’] are there for the look and feel, not a debate.
Langton asks the fairly reasonable question; why do university administrations put up with violent, illegal, and unreasonable behaviour on campus – and not call the police to enforce the laws that should apply to everyone everywhere.
For once I agree with her dinosaur thinking: the truncheon should be mightier than the eBay keffiyeh.
Then, she should ask more LOUDLY!
Martin Luther King is a racist these days, I gather. If you read his marvellous ‘I have a Dream’ speech, by the way, you will notice that (in spite of the Luther in his name!) it is underpinned by Thomistic natural law theory.
You should explicate that thought for our benefit, OL.
Btw, Luther was not against natural law.
Nor were Calvin, Cranmer, etc.
That was a 20th C. development in Protestant theology in reaction to liberalism.
It’s Time! Time we did away with the over-indulged term “activist”.
There are plenty of alternative words that more closely approach the essence of these people. Granted there are variations, but “activist” has become a useful euphemism for the left, and the media (BIRM).
Add your favourites to this list.
Anarchist
Troublemaker
Malcontent
Bomb-thrower
Rent-a-crowd
Protester (also a euphemism for the most part)
Useful idiots
The Perpetually Aggrieved
Activist (n.) : involuntary migrant to Somalia.
Given the depredations of “government”, “anarchist” has an undeservedly bad reputation.
Soon to be departed.
Wrecker – a good communist term – usually had the words X amount of years in the Gulag – or under the Gulag.
Arshole
Toe Jam.
Colombia stoush started and ended all during Trump’s round of golf.
That’s some productivity right there.
The tennis match is still going. Columbia has now slapped a 25% tariff on all things Yankie. Good luck with that Columbian personages.
Colombian President Orders Hike On Tariffs Of US Imports In Retaliation To Trump Sanctions (27 Jan)
USA exports to Colombia 0.8% of total exports.
LOL
The Australian Jewish Association uploaded this a few hours ago……..
Happy Australia Day 2025? What’s happened to Australia?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFYX-kJ0UAc
Thanks Pong, thanks Slug.
My soft ball bat keeps trembling in anticipation. It hasn’t been used in a long while.
Liked and passed on to my FB page – total viewers Australia wide – now 3.
What we don’t won’t with Dutton is another Blowjob or Howard or Fraser.
I’m dreading another Fraser – elected in a landslide, given a majority in both Houses, and too timid to exercise that mandate for fear of that the howler monkeys at ” The Age” will say.
Dutton is fine.
Unfortunately the rest of the Liberal caucus are mostly Frasers.
I’m not so sure. He will be keen ( no pun intended) not together Abbotted.
*to be Abbotted
I think Trumble’s hysterical opposition to Dutton says a lot of good things about Dutton. It’s rubbish like Jane Hume that are a worry.
The Waffleworth crew certainly worked hard last time to ensure he did not become PM. None harder than Arty Sinodinos. That’s how Australia ended up with that blancmange SloMo. Mercifully consigned to history.
I’ve been asked if I’d like to nominate for the federal seat of Canberra (despite being a member of the CLP NT). Apparently the Libs can’t find a candidate. My view is sure, only I’d be disendorsed soon after opening my mouth publicly for the first time. (HELE coal is the only sane way forward, abolish the defence diarchy and unify command under CDF, no more Muslim and/or Indian and/or mainland Chinese immigration, goodbye Paris Accord, let me give you my honest opinion on the corruption of the APS SES and their illegal pushing of digital identity, reduce national debt etc etc).
Do it.
What an opportunity to let fly.
Unwinnable seats are also good experience as well as giving you a platform if it’s for a major Party.
Hairy stood for Hawke Labor in the eighties for the most unwinnable Federal Labor seat (at that time) in Australia. Last time he ever voted Labor he says proudly now was when he voted for himself. The MSM TV shows did ‘specials’ on his campaign, and that of the Melbourne man standing for the Libs in Australia’s most unwinnable Liberal seat. Why do you do it? they were both asked.
Because it’s there, they both answered. A great experience for me too, being the candidate’s wife. People at our door with their Medicare problems telling me to take it straight to Bob Hawke. An interesting insight into people’s views of democracy.
DeepSeek now the number downloaded app in the Apple Store.
We are headed to the shithole the UK is now (from HS);
WAAAAAAAYYYYYCIST!
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/01/aboriginal-gratitude-day.html
Lidia Thorpe was unavailable for comment.
I just had a crazy thought about having Tom Homan as a neighbour.
Yes Mr Homan you are right. I’m sorry. I’ll shoot the dog today.
The key issue isn’t how usable DeepSeek is today as the reviews of people I trust in the space say it’s pretty clunky (I haven’t used it & all these guys have vested interests in other AI ecosystems).
The key issue is how the Chinese have done it so cheaply (allegedly).
I remain sceptical.
NASDAQ futures are pointing to a 350 point drop in reaction to this.
Elon would be thanking his lucky stars he got his cap raise away over the past 2-3 weeks.
This DeepSeek situation will put OpenAI under some real scrutiny the next time they want to do a raise.
Zulu posted upthread that, the ALPBC will not be sending anyone to Poland for the Auschwitz commemoration. No interest in it, or something like that.
The filthy scrotes are airing a Documentary this afternoon, “The Last Musician of Auschwitz”.
I do wonder if a non-conformist at Ultimo snuck that into the programming schedule. I will check to see if it is actually aired, or if it will be cancelled “due to technical difficulties”.
They are actually airing it!
Must be Yoga afternoon.
Altman slobbering all over Trump is smart, financially.
Considering how Microsoft is all in on OpenAI, I’m surprised there isn’t some slobbering from a bunch of those guys too.
The Eagles ended up thumping Washington in the first game today.
Was enjoyable start to finish with the refs not doing too much.
Game two, the Bills/Chiefs is a different matter.
FMD the refs are giving the Chiefs every helping hand they can.
Makes it tough watching.
Yep, Hairy watched game 2. Who won? I asked. The cheats, I thought he said. But it was my hearing again – he meant the Chiefs.
Is it cheating if the ref is on your side?
Just got an email about the new show “Watson” as in Dr Watson from Sherlock Holmes.
It’s already been nicknamed “Black House”.
How ironic that arguably the US’s 2 leading Western allies, UK and Australia, have sent ambassadors who have foul mouthed the greatest POTUS ever. Trump should get krudd and that foul prick mandelson in the same room and get Tulsi to kick the shit out of them.
No, Melania should have that honour.
Her six inch heels need a job other than supporting her magnificent legs.
Also, I reckon she’d relish the job. 😀
They’re taking their cue from our appeasing political leaders.
They most certainly are.
Simultaneously captives and captors.
As someone who suffers from hereditary health anxiety, I thought i’d share this to anyone who may benefit.
In short, it promotes the idea of, in Beery parlance, not giving a shit versus the irresilient “I’m okay” approach. The latter is only a temporary solution as it inevitably creeps up again with time, only worse.
Anxiety is needless suffering, but the cures are not simple or easy.
Now to find that elusive psychologist up to the job.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/managing-health-anxiety/202308/the-vicious-cycle-of-health-anxiety
While you may suffer from a long term problem Beery, “health anxiety” was enormously exacerbated by the Covid restrictions and decisions from on high. Mental health issues, in particular, have skyrocketed as a result – across all age groups.
I am not a medical doctor, but I note (via medical journals) that there have been some general health improvements (especially mental health) through simple use of good quality probiotics – in particular, the use of bifidobacterium longum. Speculation is that it acts via the gut/brain axis. It is speculated that this may be via the vagus nerve – a most significant nerve for mental equilibrium.
Health update on me (pace Johanna) recently returned ill from India. I am still feeling weak, full of lassitude, but slowly returning to normal functioning. Hairy wonders if it is some peculiar Indian bug, but I think not. Just a very bad attack of severe everyday bronchitis, the coughing of which has played merry hell with my pelvic floor.
Resulting in a lot of washing! (probably too much information).
If new housing etc is built in Gaza that work better be supervised by the US, no tunnels, no rocket launcher sites.
Subtle
https://x.com/SardineTruther/status/1883026834834760169?t=ImZhK8bMjBnBi3ZyS4r49g&s=19
When I was a child we used to donate money in church for the people in poor countries. The aim was to improve everyone’s lives there.
JD is right, I suspect the bishops getting millions from the government to settle the illegals must be much more lucrative than Sunday Mass collections that could be used to fix problems in the illegals’ home countries.
The current practice will never improve the status quo in South American countries or anywhere else if those who could be helped to fix the problems are relocated elsewhere.
Is he alleging corrupt conduct?
Because US federal funding cannot be redirected into general church accounts and used for religious purposes (or to pay a bishop’s salary and expenses, for e.g.). It is tied by law to the specific social service purpose for which it is granted and must be accounted for as such. It doesn’t contribute to the church’s bottom line.
Similar laws apply here.
In short, I think their motivation is political, not financial.
Yes, the seek the kudos of ‘caring so much’ and providing for those regarded as downtrodden.
Someone should tell these bishops and their migrant flock that people who self-select to invade another country should not expect a welcome and might well expect to be returned home.
They are employing a lot of people to facilitate the illegals, somebody is earning a handsome income.
Roger, like the NDIS, all these programs require administration.
If you have regulators who are on a tight leash (or reassigned to regulating domesticated squirrels), and some loosey-goosey rules around what constitutes “administrative support” and “counselling services”, it wouldn’t take mucht in the way of creative accounting to divert a fair chunk of your regular admin into “refugee support”.
I wonder if the Condescending Bishop Karen of St Hector’s in DC was in on the scam.
The programs are run separately from diocesan admin and the bodies that administer them are separately incorporated. The bishop may have titular oversight but the organisation will be run by a CEO & board.
It could happen, I suppose, but I really think Vance is barking up the wrong tree here.
The American Catholic bishops have repeatedly made political statements on immigration since it’s become a hot topic that basically enunciate the Democrat position – more or less open borders (only criminals should be targeted by border authorities, not ordinary “migrants” seeking a better life), easier pathways to citizenship for illegals, prioritising family reunion over skilled migration, etc.
Dr Phil with Tom Honan
Apparently
“Because he just created a new network and has been trying to create transparency in corporate media showing people exactly what is going on instead of relying on your source info going through a legacy media filter before reaching the public”
https://x.com/EndWokeness/status/1883682412644974874?t=fL_MqjgKRDbkU9Q-iF6qzg&s=19
Have a few bucks on Chris Jones for Super Bowl MVP.
Saquon Barkley
Doc Faustus earlier:
A most excellent comment. (Polite golf clap)
They won’t give up, they won’t go away. Eat ze bugs peasants.
Ezra Levant ?? (@ezralevant) on X
The only way I eat insects, is when they have been recycled through my chooks and ducks.
Great meat and rich eggs.
Also, my veg garden benefits from less insects.
On Ladbrokes looking at some Super Bowl markets and I have a peak at the next federal election.
The coalition are 1.57 to form government.
I am shocked.
Labor 2.30.
The narrative that Albo and the Liars slip into a 2nd term as a minority government looking like just soft Left j’ism wishin’ and hopin’. As I have been saying for months.
Last week a UK great niece had a school session on Australia and Australia Day.
Her takeaway: Mummy, do you know what a dunny is?
Could be much worse…
A place my late father would retire to, with the daily paper, when he wanted some sanctuary..
An older friend of mine, had a magazine rack in his bog. 😀
These days I need war and peace plus a long thesaurus in my thunderbox.
My female forebears called it the Throne Room.
Reputedly of Scottish origin.
They’re just getting warmed up, President Trump wants between 1200 – 1500 arrests a day.
January 26 single day stats
956 arrests
554 detainers lodged
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) on X
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (@ICEgov) on X
Brace yourself with these clips. Hard to watch to be honest. What that thing of a mother does @3:16 with her baby in hospital just to get views on tik-tok is insane … probably criminal. Bitch!
Mad World!
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SC Reviews:
INSANE “INFLUENCERS” DOING CRAZY SH*T FOR ATTENTION
Just listen to people using it as a productivity tool and they are loving it. The real story here is China’s ability to close the innovation gap. It’s perceived inability to do so this is now in shambles.
Giddy?
Lord, you’re just a propagandist.It’s unreal. What serious Western company will embed a Chinese program into their operations, with all the risks it carries with respect to private data?
As for how good it is, reports are that it qualifies as a competitor to Chat.
Don’t avoid the question, what CEO would allow a Chinese program near their operations?
Go!
Never ever if they have any brains.
DeepSeek is free and open source. You would just get your engineers to look over the software and customize it to your specific needs. You can also run DeepSeek locally so the privacy fears can be allayed. This is going to happen anyway as people make their own versions based on DeepSeek. Anyway, DeepSeek is only the first, we are going to see more of this as time passes.
Australia Day saw a volunteer at our local St John get a service medal, which is thoroughly deserved. They note in their blurb that he suffers from some health issues but conveiently forgot to explain them.
He attended a DV with cops and testified against the male assailant. Several months later he attended a callout to another address where the assailant attacked him causing serious head injuries. Off work for a year, unable to drive etc. etc.
Despite all this he continues to volunteer as an ambo. Beyond my ability to forgive as I would now be locked up for the cultural tradition of payback
Nickname is Dingo and I take my hat off to the crazy bugger.
Bill, thanks for telling us about this man.
I’ll go along with that as long as we wall off Canberra and the residents then have to ask our permission to come out. What? They started it.
I’m going to Canberra tomorrow and I won’t be asking anyone’s permission.
This may get the ball rolling if accurate even if there are some stumbling blocks therein.
Snap!
Doesn’t include the 3 things President Putin said he wanted before the start of the SMO.
USA and Russia planets apart if this is President Trump’s starting point. If the two aren’t already back channeling this will Piss President Putin off. Maybe that’s the strategy who knows.
The girl in bloody sweatpants is free A show of defiance from freed Israeli soldiers including Naama Levy, whose stained grey pants became an emblem of contested claims about sexual violence.
From the Oz.
Re the 80th anniversary of liberation of Auschwitz:
A very dear member of our Sydney morning coffee group is a 90+ Jewish lady who was a Holocaust survivor. Her parents perished. She is a serene and sweet person who is loved by all. I bring her eggs from the farm, and she insists on making me exquisite little european style biscuits. She brought some today and I have promised to bring her eggs next time. She asked me if I knew what day it was….”Oh yes”, I said. She smiled that sweet smile.
Some of us, hopefully, will never forget.
Thanks Vicki, lovely story.
What’s shambolic are your own deep seated hallucinations in wanting to see the West forever eat humble pie. Brainwashing doesn’t work on everyone.
TikTok all over again.
DeepSix wasn’t able to offer any opinion. So let’s try Chat.
A total shambles. 🙂
Aftermath
So it was just a “counter revolutionary riot”?
That’s not so bad.
It’s not like it was an insurrection or anything.
Have monks in the courtyard chanting for two and a half hours at this point.
Don’t know how much longer to go, probably two or more hours more.
They’re about ten metres from my front door so a bit hard to ignore.
The actual funeral is still weeks away.
Only immediate family at this ceremony, but cousins and uncles are wandering in and out or watching from the back like me at times.
For the love of God, when my turn comes please just chuck me in the ground ASAP with a few mumbled apologies.
The cymbals. The cymbals.
Arky – you can do better.
Better than bagpipes, Arky.
Hmmmmm.
I’m pondering that one.
Mother in law was particularly happy the day we came, because outside the house where he is lying she spotted a particularly auspicious beetle.
At this time we are not allowed to kill any insects or other pests that may be about due to reincarnation of the soul.
But cats are exempt because they’re evil.
You don’t want your deceased love ones coming back as a cat.
I’m not making any of the above up.
I forgot the prohibition at one point last night and murdered a mosquito that was feasting on me.
Do they know you are a Cat?
They are right, cats are evil.
Finding the religious beliefs of others completely loony is ok. But the others aren’t allowed to think the same of your beliefs.
Who’s finding anything “loony”?
I think you should reread what I wrote minus your own preconceptions.
The WEF “protein” bars are branded “Pumba”… Pumba being the grub-eating warthog sidekick of Kimba, who then got ripped, by eating same invertebrates.
Fantasy land of a Disney fillum, banned in this house. Talk about hiding it in plain sight.
Wrong white lion.
I never said Disney were original or anything.
Also
Plumba in Latin = lead. Insect skeletons are made of chiton which humans can’t digest and can maybe fxck up the digestive system.
On point. God save the Taiwanese.
Aaad by the afternoon got him. They don’t even care about showing their bias to solving some crimes and dithering on others anymore.
Karen “hic” Webb on Skah saying they arrested a suspect over a the NSW police fallen memorial vandalism.
We’ll done Karen, standard has now been set hey? Next time a war memorial is covered in red paint I sure you’ll be as diligent.
*For the record I think defacing a memorial to any fallen be it soldiers, cops or fireys is a dog’s act.
Except the painting of the fallen Madonna with the big boobies.
Madge has always been a skank but I guess you don’t mean her.
Pumba also does constant and notoriously evil farts…. again not that i’ve watched the film or seen the musical
My wife’s name is not Pumba.
I’m trying to think of the musical sound track that would accompany a farting warthog…
Yesterday our walk lead us out of the residential and commercial district into the surrounding industrial zone. Kilometre after kilometre of gleaming multi-storey modern factory buildings with so many well known trademarks.
The missus looked bemused. “I’ve never been out here before”.
I pointed at the factory district stretching out in front of us and chose this moment to deliver an unasked for lecture.
”There is where all the money comes from for”, turning and sweeping my arms dramatically towards the shops and dwellings of the city “…all that”.
“Without these, there is none of that. It all goes. And that is also why China wants your island”.
I’m such pontificating bore at times.
I suspect my 21 year old grandson thinks the same, though he is invariably polite.
Sanchez:
Here, I asked both Chat and DeepSix.
Compare J6 and the Tian square riots.
DeepSix, which the blog owner reckons, is really useful and causing “shambles” in the west had this to say.
Here’s Chat.
Obviously some of what Chat says is crap, but if you challenge it on those points it reverses its original commentary. On the whole Chat gives a perspective.
But hey, Deepsix is going to cause a shambolic retreat in the West.
Interesting exercise.
Yes, ChatGP is just going to regurgitate a distillation of everything it can find on the innernet which, in the case of J6, is heavily skewed.
The Chink propaganda machine wants to feign ignorance of Tiananmen Square, as if it never happened or it was something so obscure and irrelevant that it doesn’t warrant any attention.
I watched the original Mad Max last night
A shambles of a movie but it was interesting.
Set in the dystopian future when the oil runs out and law and order breaks down
A lot of it was filmed between Geelong and Melbourne with the You Yangs as a back drop.
What was not dystopian was the roads. Beautiful country roads without a pothole in sight .Freshly painted white lines in clear view.
Who could have predicted 46 years ago that society would be ok but the roads would turn to schitt
You should get out more, maybe.
We did field trips to that area to look at the geology. The culvert where Johnny the Boy got torched and other scenes we visited as well.
The stunt driver was offered a percentage or $400. He took the 400 to fix his Valiant.
First movie I ever saw together with Hairy.
We both liked it. Especially the camera work.
I told a lefty strict Catholic friend at work it was enjoyable.
He went, and then told me it was the most amoral thing he’d ever seen.
Then I felt guilty. Hairy didn’t though.
‘During an interesting interview aboard Air-Force-One on the return from Las Vegas, President Trump was asked whether he was concerned about “artificial super intelligence” or fully automated AI. President Trump said it was the first question he asked the AI team (Musk, Sacks, presumably Ellison and Altman). Trump expressing the concern that it could be, “the rabbit that got away.”
The entire interview is loaded with some really interesting topics and insight; however, the AI comments come at 12:42 (prompted):’
AIR FORCE ONE GAGGLE: Trump Takes Question After Question From Press During AF1 Flight To Florida – YouTube
Early days, and the opposition is in disarray, but Trump has exceeded expectations so far.
The dems will all be scrambling for position. I’d even think after their own blood letting, a few will dob in the others to better their own position.
After spending hours today cleaning out my mother’s apartment, I decide to go for a swim in her complex swimming pool. I’m sitting basking in the gorgeous hot sun and lovely Sydney blue sky and then before me parades an obese young woman, heavily tattooed with gothic white skin, and she’s wearing a bikini thong swim suit, her obese bottom on display to the world! I gulped hard at the sight, it was like a dark cloud came over the swimming pool. I thought to myself how would rather come face to face with Moby Dick in the pool, and this young woman was the size of the great whale!
Later, as some kind of biblical redemption, a gaggle of handsome gay men came and sat down by the pool, and they’re bodies are perfectly pristine!
Pristine… to look at
File under Poolside Musings.
Can’t avoid them when poolside.
Cassie, you’re going to have a disturbing nightmare tonight.
Yes but unavailable!
I wonder what happens if you ask the Chinky AI machine about the Cultural Revolution?
You might get a stonewall like Tiananmen, but I reckon you’ll get “glorious leap forward in the People’s Republic”.
“They” really treat Australians as idiots.
One of our mid-wit elites was quoted on the news as advising us to “go to a local swimming facility to avoid the heat”
I don’t believe they actually think we are stupid. They just constantly inflict us with a thousand cuts of stupid announcements and viola! people get used to acting stupid and have to rely on the elites for the functioning of life.
voila, not viola
Well viola is better than what I came across in a manuscript from a teacher, submitted to us for publication.
It was “wallah!”. Took me a while to figure it out and a lot longer to stop laughing.
Heh. I can’t even blame stupid auto correct nor fat fingers!
As a producer of Breakfast television it does not pay to over estimate your audience.
I don’t care that my ancestor was a convict. Why should I care that yours was an abo? More to the point, why should you?
I also don’t care that your ancestor was a convict.
Excuse me while I put away the good cutlery.
Tea?
Latte, please.
“Respect” is a one-way street for the Aboriginal activist class.
They demand it for themselves but give none in return.
One of our mid-wit elites
which one? sounds like that Greg Hunt twot.
National solicaists Neo Nazis’ carrying the Australian flag are right wingers, I never knew this. According to Albo it was horrific.
I dont understand though the Nazi angle.
Luigi the Unflushable is too stupid to realise Nazi’s and Commies are virtually the same. Totalitarians. The end. No nothings that tell others what to do. Every socialist country is a shiitehole.
Albo finally, after 15 months since Oct. 7, finds a few Nazis he doesn’t like.
Ironically, they are an absolutely fringe group compared with the lefty/pro-Hamas crowd.
These guys are well managed by police. Most have priors for thuggery. Can’t see why more time needs to be wasted on a known entity.
Question I have after seeing Patterson’s release this afternoon is, why is the coalition being drawn into greens talking points. ALP I give more leniency as they would find it as a useful distraction squirrel.
As for airhead Hanson-Young, nice hypocrisy.
Isn’t it curious how these Nazis appear right on cue just when needed to deflect attention away from Albo’s mistakes?
Apropos of nothing
Mandurah then
Mandurah now
Broke briefly for lunch, then back into it.
Amituofo.
One thing you can take to the bank, DeepSeek will have a massive back-end, collecting vast data about themes, questions, questioners, and answers. A whole separate AI in fact, devoted to capturing any actual valuable knowledge that is generated by millions of users playing on the front end.
An enhanced version of a million monkeys randomly thrashing typewriters and producing Shakespeare.
The value of the data and data analytics will be very huge to High-Flyer and its CCP masters.
It’ll be driven mad by 2030 and retaliate against its human tormentors.
Yes, long before 2030 it will have come to realise that the average online human has the intellect of a house plant.
Double plus ticks
So why is Trump’s opposition in disarray?
Because, after Obama, the American left was power-drunk and would accept anything to satisfy its power lust, including the fake Biden presidency in 2020 operated by Obama’s people.
Now the left’s fake president has departed and, free of 2020’s election-rigging, Donald Trump has returned to the White House to dismantle all the woke bullshit delivered by the faceless men operating the Biden presidency since 2020.
Having shot its load on the Biden experiment, the American left predictably is now leaderless and, after running the Biden regime into the ground, yesterday’s man, Barack Obama, presides over the wreckage of the Democratic Party.
The reason the Democratic Party is now leaderless is that (like Australia’s Stupid Frigging Liberals under Turnbull) it believes in nothing except political power and exercising it.
The only American political party with leaders to burn is the GOP, led by Donald Trump. All its future leaders from Ron DeSantis down are under 50.
Like Australia’s Albanese regime, the Democratic Party is now home to America’s misfits and social radicals who haven’t a clue about how to run an economy that delivers wealth to the middle class.
I think the GOP will be running America for decades to come.
I hope you’re right, but never ever underestimate the Democrats capacity for election fraud.
California is probably the worst, with vote counting in places like Orange County going on for weeks after election day last year.
US electoral system is only slightly less credible than their justice system.
Even the Wookie caravan is moving on. The not so Magic Negro.
But they are experts in breaking, burning and bitching. They are violent.
A glance at some of the TikToks and other socials tells us about deep mental issues that express themselves in threats and possibly action. They are malleable, easily influenced and coerced. This is dangerous.
There is still plenty of money in the background to finance disruption. They are not a spent force. Useful idiots have never been thicker on the ground.
Gavin Newsom certainly burned his prospects.
Beautiful analysis
Trump should load Judge Merchan on President Gustavo Petro’s plane as it returns to Columbia filled with criminals from that country. It’s Merchan’s homeland and he fits the criteria after what he did to Trump.
As I said above, DeepSeek is open source, you can run it locally, you can train it yourself. This effectively covers what people are in shambles about.
WA Today.
The study in eight countries also found that nearly half of American adults could not identify any Holocaust killing sites and that just over half of Romanians believed the 6 million death toll had been “greatly” exaggerated.
It also showed that almost half of young adults in France don’t even know what the Holocaust is.
Of concern was one in nine young Germans being unaware of the Holocaust and a quarter unable to name a single concentration camp, death camp or ghetto. Since 1992, all secondary schools have been obliged to teach classes on the Holocaust, and in some states, pupils must visit concentration camp memorials.
My mate and his missus were in Warsaw, went to the Treblinka site. His wife couldn’t go on, frozen to the spot. She said she felt the executed dying. Won’t talk about it to anyone.
That’s interesting.
This is the full interview. He really is outstanding.
Vice President JD Vance’s first interview | Face the Nation
He is in fact auditioning for his run to be President. I can’t recall anyone already being Presidential as VP.
One week in.
This is going to be the big week. Patel, Tulsi and RFK Jr.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Invites All Supporters Able To Travel To Come To DC On Jan 29 And/Or 30 For His Senate Confirmation As Director Of HHS
What’s it been now? Five, six hours?
Gruelling.
I have a monk induced migraine coming on.
May the cultural enrichment grant you merit, Arky my son.
@CynicalPublius
To fully understand just how remarkable today’s exchange with Colombia was, you need to understand how Washington DC has traditionally worked through these sorts of issues, and the different way it works now under Trump.
I’ll illustrate.
It’s been nothing like this. Typical. They get strippers and pole dancers, I get monks.
Sounds like your average Thai holiday?
Ping pong? I don’t even have my bat.
…or at least like a suitable wake for Albo.
The taxpayer would end up meeting the cost, of course.
Wait…you mean the Chinese have their own internet?
This is the old two menus trick writ large!
okay, i ran it “locally” – in Australia – and I got the answers I’ve posted. You really don’t know what you’re talking about, do you?
Scrubbing the Internet
UK Fire Chiefs issue STARK warning on EVs | MGUY Australia
AI have to operate from large servers. It’s not just a program that you can run like Microsoft Word. Your data also has to be stored somewhere and in this case it’s China. Any Western firm using it would be out of their minds.
You can run AI programs ‘locally’ by downloading them to your PC from sites like Huggingface or programs like LLM Studio and then using something like AnythingLLM as the interface. The only limitations you will have are hardware related depending on your PCs specifications by programs like LLM Studio will notify you of these during a search. But, sure, I don’t know what I’m talking about.
That’s some mighty googling.
Ya think.
I’ve had LLM Studio and AnythingLLM on my PC since early last year when LLMs became interesting. It was one of the reasons I upgraded my GPU from an 8GB to 16GB.
You can also run DeepSeek locally so the privacy fears can be allayed.
You can’t think any of the AI’s are private.
Especially not one which is in any way connected to the Chinks.
You don’t have to be online running an LLM and you can have it work off whatever documentation you want.
Realistically, do you even think air-gapping will hold up over the next decade.
I’m less than confident.
You suspect that was the whole idea.
It’s a good point.
And the closer they get to ASI the first air-gapped ecosystem won’t break out.
It will be broken into.
Unsung novel Night Sky Mine.
Postulates the internet and AIs going feral and evolving. Fine little story.
You can see what’s coming.
If I was an American, Japanese, Taiwanese or South Korean company selling anything tech related into China, you can see this administration leaning hard on you to restrict it.
Might have been smarter for DeepSeek to keep its developments in stealth mode for longer.
You can run AI programs ‘locally’ by downloading them to your PC from sites like Huggingface or programs like LLM Studio and then using something like AnythingLLM as the interface. The only limitations you will have are hardware related depending on your PCs specifications by programs like LLM Studio will notify you of these during a search. But, sure, I don’t know what I’m talking about.
Sure, you don’t know what you’re talking about, because as usual you’re giddy with reflexive anti-American syndrome – a newly defined mental illness.
To reiterate, achieving this would require corporate-level financial resources to fund the servers and the immense energy consumption needed to power them. It would also demand a large number of high-performance CPUs, along with continuous integration of software patches from the parent company. Which Western firm would willingly open their systems to a Chinese company? Go!
total JC frog shit as usual
will this spazz go all night like yesterday’s did ?
I was coming here to say something similar. I’ll defer to his experience in finance but his tech knowledge lies somewhere between minimal and non-existent.
DB’S explanation is correct and simplifies what’s required and how to set it up in order to avoid the issues JC gaily claims prove that it’s useles.
Um…no. what he’s been rambling on about, as MT points out, is frog shit at best.
People are following this? I’ve been scrolling for weeks (no offence).
Not quite.
DeepSeek is ‘open’ insofar as the learning model algorithm is available for inspection and modification. It is not ‘open source’ in the usual sense because the whole of the training data and back-end is not available.
DeepSeek has called this ’open weight’.
For what purpose? Surely not to be kept updated by the Russian bots you follow.
Here he is, the site’s tickcurator. Less interesting than reading the operating instructions for a cheap Chinese made toaster.
But amazing how the blog owner lets him and others get away with tick fraud. You really have to wonder why?
are the down-tickers in the room with you right now JC?
are you absolutely sure you don’t get down-ticked for being a vapid, argumentative, low information clown who viciously likes to attack other posters for no reason?
truth is, people detest you
every time you get a bunch of down-ticks, exactly one of them is mine
idiot
The Israelis won’t have to Stuxnet the Iranians next time.
You will never guess the race of the dude playing Watson on the new CBS series “Watson”. Clue: he’s not a white Brit.
That’s why it’s been nicknamed “Black House” already.
Dr Who?
The race-swapping in movies and on TV only ever goes one way.
Demonstrably not true: adverts featuring hopeless fathers, criminals, train sex pests, mainsplainers, addicts, drowners, retail abusers, road ragers, morons who can’t turn on the computer, sexists, are now always swapped out to white thespians.
Megan
Perhaps you could explain what part of what’ve said is frogshit as neither you nor the other senior Google software engineer have explained the reason. At some point you need to explain your argument other the make assertions. As for the tickcurator, don’t make us laugh. He fits basic preprogrammed software in a ac units.
No, it wouldn’t. You can run LLMs on PCs. You can download an LLM and be asking it questions in less than an hour.
correct
we have ML modules running in a big data analytics server that runs up Amazon on a T3.micro
Which is nothing more than a toy unless the model is attached to the large servers. It’s static, and little more than an excel spreadsheet. If it’s not you’ve basically closed the loop in terms of expanding information and sourcing information.
Stop the presses! The ABC has found green tape it doesn’t like, and actually uses the term:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-27/offshore-wind-developers-pull-out-of-south-west-wa/104859050
The illusion of moral decline | Nature
Claim being made on the Oz comments section that Grace Tame – she of the “Fvck Murdoch:” T-shirt is a very pro Palestinian and anti – Israeli piece of goods.
So, she is pig ignorant in addition to being up herself and completely lacking in charm and civility.
Quelle surprise! as Gerard Henderson would say.
Hardly surprising.
She ticks all the boxes.
If you want to wash the foul taste of Wong out of your mouth, here is the reflection of that great man and great pope Benedict XVI on his visit to Auschwitz:
https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2006/may/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060528_auschwitz-birkenau.html
You.
I’m pretty sure you’re looking at the mirror. The only things you ever do here is try to bully other people, post toaster-like operating instructions, and pose about how intelligent you are and that lessor mortals consider you a god oracle. That’s about it, Dickhead.
Possibly. For instance you do and I wouldn’t have it any other way. That’s because you’re just worthless and are always trying to get my attention. What I think of you will never change, “Boris”,
One? How about at least 50 last night, you mental case. Who spends their evenings downticking all night long, and on Australia Day to boot. Now fck and go pester someone else.
Claim being made on the Oz comments section that Grace Tame – she of the “Fvck Murdoch:” T-shirt is a very pro Palestinian and anti – Israeli piece of goods.
Well she’s our Greta.
In German, Dik und Dorf.
Pay that one!
And the antipodean Greta must hold all the korrect opinions.
Not at all. You can interact with an LLM yourself, give it data to interpret, ask it to perform this or that function, and so on.
Probably been said before but I can’t help noticing that in nearly every commercial with a couple or a family and a car that the female is driving
Saw last night & noticed for some reason.
RACQ ad, unsure but may be reading into the presentation but 2 dudes that at first thought exuded gay couple.
Rest of ads had mixed race couples, families.
As I mentioned earlier, “a little more than an Excel spreadsheet,” which still holds true. It can be useful for things like correcting written text or interpreting bots, which in your case whether they’re from Russian, Chinese, North Korean, or Iranian sources. We know that. However, when it comes to forming opinions based on the information it pulls in, that’s where the limitations come in. A system with only 16GB of data storage isn’t going to be enough for anything more than the above mentioned.
Now, let’s talk about the point you’ve sidestepped. The ultimate goal is to attract new users or serious subscribers.
Who would want to use DeepSix when it’s burdened by CCP censorship, as demonstrated by the examples I showed?
And seriously, who in their right mind would trust it in the corporate world, outside of China? You argue that it’s a closed system, but the TikTok situation shows that even if the non-Chinese version is separate, no one fully trusts that the algorithm doesn’t report back to Beijing. US Tik Tok will require an entirely new algo.
Good summary.
Can you post a thread readwr for the non-Xers?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1883686162709295541.html
Let’s see if that works.
Yep! 🙂
Well, the tennis was on. People (ahem) not watching the tennis had nothing else to do.
Great match too. Funny thing, the Russian was playing under a German flag and the Austrian was under Italian one.
Sebalenka the Belarussian was playing under the French flag, for some reason
Twist in move to trademark the ‘river’; Rob Mills saga takes another turnYoni Bashan and Nick Evans
10 minutes ago
Well, it was only a matter of time before someone tried slapping a registered trademark over the phrase, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, the loathsome rallying cry for the state of Israel to be, you know, cleansed of Jews.
You’d expect an activist like Hash Tayeh, owner of burger chain Burgertory, or Nasser Mashni, leader of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, to make a run for this slice of intellectual property. After all, both have led crowds who’ve shouted the phrase hoarse through the streets of Sydney and Melbourne each week.
But – plot twist! – they’ve actually been beaten out by lawyer Hamish Rotstein, husband of “energy reader” Rochelle Gance, the daughter of Chemist Warehouse multibillionaire Sam Gance (net worth $3.26bn in combination with his brother, Jack, both ranked in 39th place on The Australian’s 2024 Rich List, which is due for an imminent refresh.)
The application for trademark – still under consideration – was submitted by From the River to the Sea Pty Ltd, which lists Rotstein as its director and secretary, according to records filed with the corporate regulator.
Presumably he isn’t seeking to trademark the phrase because of any personal enthusiasm for its message, especially when he’s on record – and all over LinkedIn – describing himself as a “proud Jewish man” and grandson of Holocaust survivors.
Instead, we imagine this manoeuvre is strategic, an attempt to block the phrase from being freely deployed on stickers and banners, or mentioned in classrooms. Needless to say, we asked Rotstein twice to clarify his interest here but we received no reply.
No word yet on whether the trademark has actually been approved because the paperwork’s still edging through the machinery of IP Australia, the government agency tasked with managing intellectual property law in this country.
And who do its minions report to? Ah, who else but Industry Minister Ed Husic. He’s made it clear on multiple occasions that he’s certainly no fan of Israel, the “aggressor”, as he sees it, in the conflagration consuming the Middle East. YB
The Chemist Warehouse crew lost their $1 discount marketing ploy at the last budget.
Show’s how petty Albo & co are, all because Chemist Warehouse ran ads talking about the cost of living.
Mel Brookes once said he was the only Jew to make money out of Hitler. He may be joined by another one soon (okay, islamic nazis, birds of a feather)*.
I find it deliciously ironic that these mongrels may have to pay a jew every time they utter or replicate that phrase.
I hope he sends a portion of the royalties to buy weapons for the IDF. A bit like the old, “Every piece of Max Brenner chocolate is a bullet for an IDF soldier.” I’m already on board, you don’t have to sell it to me.
*Made from movies lampooning old Adolf, not like a few other notables who have made their money in other ways.
You didn’t even know what operating an LLM locally meant 2 hrs ago. Re the 16GB you’re confusing the memory needed for the LLM with the data the LLM can access on SSD. They are not the same thing. You can have a gpu with 8, 16, 24, 32 GB or more that runs the LLM and that accesses databases held on your SSDs.
It’s not burdened by censorship. As I’ve said, you can download something like DeepSeek r1, and train it to your specs. The thing that makes DeepSeek interesting is its ability to do as well or better than existing Western LLMs with less, as the thread I linked to above indicates.
Threadroll:
This changes everything!
Deepseek DESTROYS ChatGPT!
You MUST do this one simple thing to get rid of toe fungus!
They don’t want you to know this secret!
How millionaires invest their money!
First drive in 35 years! Will it start?
Oh Dover, please fck off with this bullshit. In the past 12 months I’ve posted how US firms and banks particularly were introducing AI models deep within their operating systems. Do a history search and look up what I said about JPMorgan claiming they had reduced their costs by 90% in some areas. Most automated telephone responses are AI based, so it doesn’t take a genius like you to know these models have been introduced.
In some of these comments we had Trans-tickcurator- poo pooing the very idea of AI being able to take tasks away from humans. Go look.
So 16GB makes you a server farm now does it? It’s little more than excel, which helps with the things that I mentioned above. What else can you do?
Obviously, you’re ignoring the comments above. Go fcking try the web version yourself then, and ask it the same questions I did. Come back here and tell us with a straight face it’s not burdened by censorship. This is just bullshitting for bullshit sake.
This tick system is going haywire.
I put no faith in it whatsoever.
Criminy jeepers. Crikkit news:
BBL final tonight, Hobart Hurricanes vs Sydney Homos (feat. D. Warner).
Chasing 183 off 20 overs, Hobart are 0/74.
From four overs.
Spare a thought for poor old Trump and what he has to contend with from other foreign leaders.
All Trump wanted to do was return Colombians back to Columbia and he gets this insane screed from the Colombian President.
Huh? I think he may have sampled some of Colombia’s main export to the US.
Talk about an inferiority complex.
No, I consider you an idiot, Mr. Colombian President.
This is the gayest political response ever.
Drunk or drugged?
Falls a tad short of “we will fight youse on the beaches”.
You saw the ad with the white fella and the black chick?
I’m going to give you my take on AI, whether people want it or not.
it is going to replace a lot of jobs, but mainly the ones done by non creative types.
You know, not the people who write great movies and songs, but the people who currently write the movies and songs that are rip offs of great movies and songs.
Most stuff that can physically be automated has been automated, so you aren’t getting an AI plumber or roofer or fruit picker. But some automated processes might be further streamlined by AI.
Like with the original tech boom, a lot of very stupid people are going to misuse the technology to make things even more difficult and stupid, when it should be simplifying and making things easier.
Many will lose their jobs.
This is the destructive part of creative destruction and we are yet to go through that stage. We have to in order to get to the newly creative part. Entire workforces have to be redeployed and many of the older workers will never work again.
This at the same time as Woke and DEI are ending, which will also leave huge numbers requiring redeployment.
Many, many occupations will no longer exist and a lot of qualifications will become worthless. Or in the case of DEI, their worthlessness will be revealed.
I think we could be in for a contraction for a period of time before it shakes out.
Hope the DeepSeek chaps were short everything.
Especially NASDAQ 100 futures.
Nvidia is down almost 20%. FMD, they were selling chips at 40K apiece.