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Call me a Conspiracy Theorist
Woke Hollwood has hit such bad times that they have been forced to lease out a sound stage to NASA so that NASA could fake another Moon landing with the Odysseus.
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It is not just Telsas that catch fire
“Exploded” a mini Chernobyl!
Australia already has had two grid battery fires with only 4 minutes of grid demand installed.
Imaging the risk factor when days of grid back-up have been installed.
https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/news/local_news/the-world-s-largest-battery-facility-has-gone-dormant-in-moss-landing-with-no-timetable/article_3c30ab46-1657-11ec-b44b-5ffbeeab437d.html
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Lithium Batteries are about to invade the North East of Victoria. The latest issue of The Spectator highlighted the many issues rural Australians face when the rush towards installing “renewables” is forced upon them.
https://www.spectator.com.au/2024/02/the-urgent-call-for-an-equitable-transition-a-cry-for-help-from-the-kiewa-valley/
Water from the Kiewa valley flows into the Kiewa River, which in turn flows into the Murray River. The mighty Murray river, the 3rd longest navigable river on the planet, supplies water to food producers in the Murray Darling Basin from N.S.W. to South Australia.
The Kiewa lithium battery proposed has an indicative capacity of 400MW.
https://mintrenewables.com/dederang-bess
Forty kilometers downstream, less than 2 Km from the Murray River is the location for 148,000 solar panels, 4 metres high, 600W each, and 64 shipping container size lithium batteries, covering prime cropping and grazing land.
Land that has fed Australians for 7 generations.
I hear dead silence from the environmental groups, what could possibly go wrong?
As one conservative MP recently said, there are cockroaches in the halls of power, crickets in the press.
https://reneweconomy.com.au/wirsol-reveals-plans-for-85mw-solar-farm-and-big-battery-in-victoria/
https://www.barnawarthasolarfarm.com.au/
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What should we read into this?
Experts say the resulting radiation directed at Earth could impact power grids.
Has this affected ham radio?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13117483/The-Sun-erupts-powerful-solar-flare-7-YEARS.html
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Would you visit Chernobyl?
Mutant wolves roaming the wasteland of Chernobyl have developed what might be described as a ‘superpower’ – and it could save human lives.
Researchers found the animals in the Chernobyl Evacuation Zone (CEZ) have genetically altered immune systems that show a resilience to cancer.
Every (nuclear) cloud has a silver lining!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13087047/The-mutants-Chernobyl-radiation-exposure-forced-animals-mutate-incredible-ways-survive-creating-black-frogs-cancer-resistant-wolves-NEW-species-dog.html
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On average, our radiation exposure due to all natural sources amounts to about 2.4 mSv a year – though this figure can vary, depending on the geographical location by several hundred percent. In homes and buildings, there are radioactive elements in the air.
Seawater contains 3 ppb of Uranium
The extent of additional radiation exposure on a flight depends primarily on duration, altitude, route of the flight and the solar activity
A radon Map of Australia can be found here
Nearly one in 15 homes in the United States has a radon level that should be reduced. Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer. Smoking is the first.
Alaska and South Dakota have the highest radon levels in the US at 10.7 pCi/L and 9.6 pCi/L, respectively.
https://www.arpansa.gov.au/understanding-radiation/radiation-sources/more-radiation-sources/radon-map
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Jo, how’s the hand coming along?
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Pretty well, thanks Red. The thumb works — though sometimes I have to consciously think to make it do what I want. (The tendon was originally connected to my index finger, so I had to retrain the muscle that pulls it — remarkable how that works). The plasticity of the human nervous system!
If my had my time again I’d ask the surgeon to use normal non-dissolving stitches on the outside because months later there are still a few remnant bits of dissolving stitches which cause some inflammation. Better to remove threads cleanly in hindsight.
Grip strength about 24kg. A lot of work to do on that…
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery, Jo.
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I give your post a thumbs up. 😁
Grip strength is an seriously undervalued attribute.
https://www.topendsports.com/testing/norms/handgrip.htm
Your figure of 25kg is actually ok and you want to progress carefully, always warming up the hand and arm with non weight bearing full range of motion exercises.
People just don’t warm up properly, causing “Quasimodo tradie” syndrome as I call it.
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Latest insanity.
Iran claims it has property rights in Antarctica and claims it is going to build a military base there:
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/02/iran-challenges-biden-claims-land-ownership-report/
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Maybe there IS something down there worth fighting for…
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Sssshhhh….😉
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If Norway and France have a claim then why not Iran?
The United States seeks to promote Antarctica’s status as a continent reserved for peace and science in accordance with the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty of 1959.
https://www.state.gov/key-topics-office-of-ocean-and-polar-affairs/antarctic/
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Norway had Amundsen. Back then France was a major world power. It’s been a while since the Persians had any great claims – Darius, Xerxes etc.
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The Dutch reached Australia (New Holland) before Cook (English) so where is their claim to Australia?
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China hasn’t made a claim and they have five bases there, presumably in the interest of science.
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Here is the latest video from Dr John Campbell interviewing Professor David Anderson about the hormone Vitamin D.
Its importance and common deficiency is sadly significantly unrecognised by the medical profession.
Vitamin D deficiency is related to many common diseases and is essential for overall health.
Correction of defiency alone during the plandemic would have resulted in a large reduction in the severity and mortality of the virus during the but that wasn’t part of the Official Narrative, despite that being known to be true (1).
Jo has written about Vitamin D many times.
There is no interest from the medical and Big Pharma establishment and the Governments they control because Vitamin D is inexpensive and correctuon of deficiency is effective.
Video: https://youtu.be/lCiABhI9qjU (Also read comments on the video.)
(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-24053-4
“Association between vitamin D supplementation and COVID-19 infection and mortality”
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I believe it is recognized by the medical profession … as a great little earner!
That’s the main difference between a talented amateur and a true professional … revenue.
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Listened to that y’day. What intrigued me was the comments on Vit I. Seems it improved blood oxygen saturation so that patients no longer needed supplemental O2. Seems it stopped the red blood cells clumping so they could pass through the capillaries more easily.
My SIL needs oxygen [smoker] and I am sure she has low Vit D levels [if her doctor didn’t recommend it, what would I know] but could ivermectin help with breathing?
Which brings me to benign neglect in care homes and medicine generally, but another day for that.
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I just read about a frivolous lawsuit in the US because a civilian “good Samaritan” at a car crash did CPR on a car crash victim and saved their life but broke their rib.
The disgustingly ungrateful crash victim is now suing the rescuer for breaking their rib doing CPR.
If you don’t break a rib or ribs doing CPR, you are probably not doing it right!
Also, in the US (and several other countries), non-professional rescuers are protected from lawsuits when acting in good faith to rescue people, by good Samaritan laws which were put in place to prevent this type of thing so as not to discourage rescuers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law?wprov=sfla1
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According to a workmate who was very involved with Surf Life Saving Australia a rescue/resuscitate/rib break happened in Australia years ago and was a big reason why SLSA became incorporated meaning individuals could be mostly protected from being individually sued.
A darker more infrequent side of surf life saving which thankfully doesn’t happen too often is the potential suicidal attempts with me old workmate recounting one incident when “his” beach was closed due to sharks and one individual tried to swim out and had to be “rescued” and restrained. The demeanor of the guy suggested his action was not a forerunner to the “swimming with sharks” bucket list offering we have today.
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in about 2014 when shark attacks started to become more common and it was obvious governments would do nothing about it due to green ethics, I quit swimming in the ocean. I was always out at dawn and dusk, alone out the back on the sand bar body surfing. I lived 100 metres behind the beach at the time. I once regarded it as a worthwhile risk, but that changed.
I moved further inland and dont visit the beach at all anymore. A few weeks back I heard someone mention there is a great white about the local beaches, they know because it says so on the app. So all have the app and every shark is tagged. So no more shark attacks then? I can’t believe people are this stupid.
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FWIW
“Gatestone Institute’s shocking report on the loss of French civilisation”
“France’s Skyrocketing Threat”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/02/gatestone-institutes-shocking-report-on-the-loss-of-french-civilisation.html
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Disturbing. But predictable.
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“Diversity is their Strength”
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I would add the feeling of safety in being in Tokyo and the rest of Japan compared to visting Paris (and London) these days, especially for females.
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Convincing people they are evil because they discriminate on physical appearance was the greatest mastermind stroke of the left, because it affected all political persuasions, spread like wildfire and one can’t escape it, and will ultimately see the end of the west because of its potency, everything crumbles around it. I quite admire the cunning of it.
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Hollywoodland was founded and ran on physical appearance discrimination particularly in all its staple cowboy movies. Guide on the (once popular) Paramount Studio tour mentioned, and showed proof on an old display set, how doorways were made a little smaller on one side of the set so the good guy always looked larger than life while on the other side the diminutive little lady was enhanced by larger doorways. And everyone knows the good guy always wore white and the bad guy black.
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Who in Oz?
“MUST WATCH: Leaked Recordings Reveal Democratic Strategists and Soros Linked Operatives Caught in MASSIVE Global Political Influence and Election Interference Operation (VIDEO)”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/must-watch-leaked-recordings-reveal-democratic-strategists-soros/
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More of that Peer Reviewed paper on the AI generated “research” on the rat with the giant penis!
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/23/a-retraction-so-hilarious-that-i-cant-put-the-title-in-the-title/
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When a leftist government somewhere gets away with implementing a partisan ‘woke’ policy, you can be sure it will be copied. We can therefore expect this one to be adopted here.
A real estate agent in New Zealand with 30 years experience has been threatened with loss of her license because she has refused to attend a compulsory course on Maori culture and behaviours. As with most professional licenses, the holder agrees to keep his/her skills up to date through ongoing training, but the lady in question has claimed that ‘Maori studies’ has nothing to do with her professional skills.
Even though NZ has a putative ‘conservative’ government at present, I have no doubt that she will lose.
This sort of thing will arrive here soon, if it hasn’t already, and professional bodies will implement similar policies, forcing its members to study indigenous ‘culture’ in order to be an engineer, real estate agent or physiotherapist.
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Getting noticed –
“FARMING in England is facing a crisis as thousands of farmers have accepted government payments of up to £100,000 to leave their land. The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) say that their ‘Lump Sum Exit Scheme’, launched in 2022 by Boris Johnson, aims to ‘support farmers in England who wish to leave the industry’.”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/23/whatsisnames-britain-7/
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Engineering a food shortage perhaps.
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Looks like an U.K. engineered food shortage to me. Read Chapter 16 of the U.K.’s National Food Strategy and explain how having less farmers, less farming land, phasing out fertilisers along with beef and lamb production, plus taxing cheap imported foods is going to work out feeding everyone in the future?
https://www.nationalfoodstrategy.org/
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Today Peta Credlin writes in the Sunday Herald Sun Newspaper on p21 that “The National Health and Medical Research Council, the official body that’s now rating a food’s emissions content as a part of it’s healthy eating advice. Nutrition information is now a climate change lecture.”
Be warned all Australian beef and lamb farmers, you have just been put on the same slippery slope that U.K. farmers are sliding down.
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An excellent telling of 1974 Britain where the country came near collapse due to union action. It amazes me how Brits (and thus us) are by large numbers basically outright communists. And we think today is bad. It’s a reminder that we always face these forces, it is not new or modern.
But we owe all modern prosperity to Thatcher, who eventually came in and crushed the scoundrels. But they’re back.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TbEbzhwmMY
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I lived through those days of militant unions in the UK. I had first-hand experience of the mob mentality that was created and still, to this day, struggle to understand why otherwise ‘normal’ people went crazy when under the spell of union leaders. My experience included a few years in a factory building computers. The union was constantly demanding strike action for this or that. At one stage however, having just taken out my first mortgage, I couldn’t afford to go without pay while on strike and so found some evening work in a pub. This and the fact that I refused to join increasingly-violent and abusive picket lines resulted in me being ostracised by my co-workers, some of whom were previously friends. Even after the strike ended, I was persona non grata and others working in my section refused to work, or even speak, with me.
I got the last laugh though. Management, observing my situation, asked if I would like to move into quality control, which was not controlled by the union. This resulted in me inspecting my erstwhile colleagues’ work. This only lasted for a few weeks however, because whenever I rejected faulty or substandard work, the whole section lost its collective mind. It was hilarious. I was eventually moved into another section. I took every opportunity to walk through my old section each day though, because I was a git.
The strikes and work-to-rules continued however, until the factory was closed down with the loss of around 2000 good jobs.
My troubles continued though. I ended up working for an industrial roofing company as a ‘roving supervisor’ visiting multiple work sites and ensuring materials were ordered and delivered. This sometimes meant I had to visit suppliers who were being picketed. Things got a little hairy more than once. The problem was particularly bad in Liverpool, one of the most militant, anti-Thatcher cities in the UK. I had to ‘run the gauntlet’ many times and watched as company after company shut down and moved elsewhere, eventually resulting in the city going broke.
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In my early teens [70 yrs ago] I enjoyed a book of short stories, Don Camillo.
At that tender age I became aware that communism was real in Europe. Thinking about it, that book may have set my hatred of communism. Living my life under the threat of nuclear MAD this hatred has never waned.
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In my early teens [nearly 70 yrs ago] I enjoyed a book of short stories, Don Camillo.
At that tender age I became aware that communism was real in Europe. Thinking about it, that book may have set my hatred of communism. Living my life under the threat of nuclear MAD this hatred has never waned.
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Another “Willis E questions”
“A Curious Paleo Puzzle”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/23/a-curious-paleo-puzzle/
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FWIW –
“Friday Funny: A Retraction So Hilarious that I Can’t Put the Title in the Title”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/02/23/a-retraction-so-hilarious-that-i-cant-put-the-title-in-the-title/
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FWIW
“”Russia, Russia, Russia” Has Been A Long & Elaborate Lie…”
“The poison killing our country is pervasive untruth. Every institution we have relied on to run the public interest has become a factory churning out lies, evasions, and misdirection — not unlike the way mRNA “vaccines” turned the cells in your bodies into tiny generators of spike proteins destroying your organs. Likewise, half the population, apparently, thinks this is a good thing, that we need more lawfare — the perversion of law by attorney perverts — and that we need ever more lies, evasions, and misdirection (just as the degenerates who run Harvard declare their student body needs more mRNA boosters to remain in school).”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/russia-russia-russia-has-been-long-elaborate-lie
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Economic foundations improving already in Argentina. Yet Milei faces protests from the communists because they want their free stuff, despite the economy being a basket case.
Extraordinary how people stick to their ideological beliefs despite the reality they face. The inability to delay gratification is a toxic thing.
https://www.msn.com/en-au/money/companies/analysis-argentina-markets-double-down-on-milei-as-investors-start-to-believe/ar-BB1iKV9G?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=e8129e5a919643688df97849f484f848&ei=40
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Am currently in The Big W in New Zealand.
In many respects it reflect the current world just like Australia.
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“Decarbonising the World” – Green Steel?
The production of steel is responsible for around 7% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions
When Northvolt opened Sweden’s first giant electric battery factory two hours south of Boden, it wanted to find a greener way of producing the steel needed to make the batteries, and H2 Green Steel emerged as a spin-off with funding from two of Northvolt’s founders replacing coke with hydrogen.
H2Green Steel has already signed a deal with Spanish energy company Iberdrola to build a green steel plant powered by solar energy in the Iberian peninsula, and says it’s exploring other opportunities in Brazil.
Why isn’t Australia on this list?
Australia exported an estimated 335 million tonnes of coal in 2022–23. Coal exports are typically split 60:40 by volume between Queensland and New South Wales. But Queensland’s exports are about 75% metallurgical coal and 25% thermal coal (and some thermal coal is a by-product of metallurgical coal). New South Wales is about 20% metallurgical and 80% thermal.
H2 Green Steel hopes to produce five million tonnes of green steel a year by 2030. Global annual production is currently around 2,000 million tonnes, according to figures from the World Steel Association.
I seek a huge opportunity for the usual rent-seekers for $ billions in taxpayer funding. Where is Twiggy Forrest on this one?
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64538296
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I appreciate that we do not exist in the national consciousness, but Sanjeev Gupta has been doing “green steel” stuff in SA – Whyalla in particular – for several years. Premier Malinauskas is all over it, promising this and that for our cargo-cultish green industry revolution. We’ve had a lot of such promises in the last 50 years (when the adults began to leave running this state) but this one is proving to be very sticky.
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Adellad:
I think that the “green stuff” steel is only a minor thing so far.
True: Premier Malinauskas is very keen and wants to set up a solar panel plantation to get the electricity to generate hydrogen and feed to Gupta’s works. Pipelines, storage etc. from either the Fairy Godmother or the taxpayers.
All on the way to “becoming a Green Energy Supplier” – which slogan you may have heard.
A small ‘blip’ has occurred as 2 companies have detected underground hydrogen from old (sealed) abandoned gas wells on York Peninsula. This MIGHT be very cheap as both claim that there is helium at 6% also. NO REPORTS on the flow rate.
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6% Helium would be high grade wouldn’t it?
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AI pioneer warns humanity’s remaining timeline is only a few more years thanks to the risk that emerging AI tech could destroy the human race
Pioneering artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky has warned that humanity may only have a few years left as artificial intelligence grows increasingly sophisticated.
Speaking to the Guardian, he told writer Tom Lamont: “If you put me to a wall and forced me to put probabilities on things, I have a sense that our current remaining timeline looks more like five years than 50 years. Could be two years, could be 10.”
Yudkowsky, who founded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute in California, is talking about the end of humanity as we know it. He said that the problem is that many people fail to realize just how unlikely humanity is to survive all this.
“We have a shred of a chance that humanity survives,” he cautioned.
Those are scary words coming from someone the CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, Sam Altman, has identified as getting himself and many others interested in artificial general intelligence and being “critical in the decision to start OpenAI.”
https://www.stationgossip.com/2024/02/ai-pioneer-warns-humanitys-remaining.html
Yep. The masses have no idea how close it really is.
Which is why I’ve said forget 2035/2040/2050/2060 target dates for anything, the real problems are WAY closer.
Forget your garbage woke pseudo AI, you’re training evolutionary real AI via LLM’s on the history of mankind. Need I say more.
I know AI scares a lot of people here and there are some major tech revelations coming this year and next, news that will shock everyone, but you can’t put the genie back in the bottle.
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When you look at how dumb our political class is {Albo, Chrissy Bowen, Sarah Hanson-Young, all the Teals, etc) AI should have little opposition to taking control
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Our dumb political class are detached from the realities of actually making things (including food) at a cost that most people can afford.
They believe that you can legislate a change from one energy source (fossil fuels) to another (fairy dust – aka sunlight and breezes) and the only problem is the “deniers” who are deserving of punishment for questioning the wisdom of the ruling elites.
May we live in interesting times!
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““We have a shred of a chance that humanity survives,” he cautioned.”
Until some human flicked the power switch off and that was the end of the AI world dictator..
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Could our fate be much like that of the Krell?
Sora is turning text into visual reality – using thoughts will be the next step
https://openai.com/sora
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Monsters from the id
The core idea of the film was that the inhabitants of a planet orbiting Altair, the Krell, had built a machine that freed them from ‘instrumentality’ – the need to physically make anything. All they had to do was imagine it, and the machine would create it for them. They could have anything they wanted, without cost. The result was catastrophic: the machine also created what their subconscious desires wanted. And the Krell were wiped out by ‘monsters from the id’.
So is this blog itself part of humanity’s dark side?
Or am I just a Conspiracy Theorist?
https://mjwrightnz.wordpress.com/2023/07/29/why-forbidden-planet-predicted-todays-dysfunctional-online-world/
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“This blog is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get.” –Forrest Gump.
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Predicting the Future
It is not only the Simpsons that has predicted the future.
Try these.
Which ones are your favourites?
https://list25.com/25-movies-that-predicted-the-future-with-creepy-accuracy/
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Quick read and now back to the mowing; still needed every week! I hope that doesn’t lead to another mowing sub-thread 🙂 😉
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My lawnmower just went on strike. I think it’s forming a grass-roots movement.
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One of the most pressing problems of our time – Should you mow with or without a catcher?
Why mow without a catcher?
One of the main benefits of mowing without a catcher is that the clippings contain high amounts of Nitrogen, a major element in all lawn fertilisers, and a nutrient which lawns require more than any other.
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If the grass is long you should use a catcher, and the clippings are not high nitrogen so a little urea each spring should do the trick.
Of course you empty the catcher around the trees, killing the grass close to the trunk and reducing competition for nutrients for the tree.
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Smell the fresh cut grass
I always have a glass of Guinness when I cut the grass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEC69DHUWwM&ab_channel=PaulKelly
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Our previous property had an acre or so ‘pony paddock’, though no pony, so we bought a ride-on. When the mother-in-law visited from her tiny house in the UK, she was fascinated by the mower, so I showed her how to use it and let her go.
I somehow forgot to show her how to stop so we were able to leave her to it till the whole thing was cut.
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God I wish I could find a bloody gardener. We live on a steep, mostly wild(ish) block but with lots of palms, a couple of hedges and a ‘shrubbery’ down by the street, plus the grassed nature strip. I was starting to struggle with it as age and arthritis took hold, but now my wife’s illness leaves me little time for gardening and so it’s got away from me. I have had prospective gardeners turn up, look at it and just ‘nope’. Others gave it a go but were frankly rubbish, charging a fortune for very little. I never thought I would be paying so much for gardening, perhaps because most so-called gardeners just want to cut grass.
No. 5 Gardener is scheduled to give it a go soon. Wish me luck!
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Oh well now, when you refer to “bloody gardener” .. I wouldn’t come either, but as a Farmer & Specialist Contractor etc I’d be delighted to come: Could Hire the machinery etc. We have people like that over here too … undercutting on the one side and over the top ( rip-off) on the other . Welding analogy there? But / so for a 1st class all expenses paid return journey + Full board & Pin money, I could be persuaded … Could be your No1 Goto Guy for ever more ! .. Happens here but the weather’s no’ so good.
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Doors and Boeings – I don’t remember hearing of this one –
“United Airlines Flight 811”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_811
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Google astounding AI!
“I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2024/02/23/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-self-driving-overlords-140/
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The example –
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/GHB_8K1WsAEgNnC-411×600.jpeg
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Jo thankfully responded to a short reply which I left a few weeks ago about us Niggers: well soon they’ll become Sumitomo Cable wrestlers: It’s amazing how well we’ll grow in a year:Sumitomo earmarks Nigg for £200m subsea cable factory and a Year later, Sumitomo commits to £350m Highlands cable factory as funding package agreed. (Notice the Handshake)
The project, expected to be located in Nigg, in the Highlands, ie MY Nigg Bay in Er Ross – NOT Around the corner from Aberdeen, Jo. Anyway, so much for Ross-shire Humour on a Sat Morning when its not frosty when it forecast to be – but it IS COLD & wet and the wind don’t blow https://gridwatch.co.uk this now at around 8am Local, 1/2 hr after sunrise shows only 1GW of windpower…..so what’s the Cabling for ? Johnny Cash, can’t see you in the Highland Mists! or is it a line (ticket ) to nowhere
We haven’t even got our promised Dual carriageway to Inverness from the South – another 10 or more years, This area has b een designated a Green Freeport area( with few connections) No decent roadway from Inverness – around 40-50 miles away, and a SNP Gov which can’t deliver Ferry boats for internal comms to the islands, and as for Europe… not even a direct link by boat (and few by air from the Highlands)…. but the Polys can go handshaking with our money. Maybe I will take up that gardening offer in the Sun!
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FWIW
“DMV America: The Regime’s Fani Willis Problem, and Ours”
“But don’t laugh too hard at the left’s Fani Fiasco. Because lurking beneath the Fulton County farce is a dark look at an institutional decay in American life that has only just begun. […]
The American regime is groaning both in public and behind closed doors at the trouble Fani Willis has stirred up for them. But just as Fani deserves her ongoing humiliation, so do all of her enablers. They have asked, loudly and proudly, for every part of this.
After all, Fani Willis is the avatar of DMV America—the combination of racial caste system and kakistocracy that the American regime is determined to erect in what was once the world’s proudest meritocratic society.”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-02-23/dmv-america
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FWIW
“1 Hour Ago: Col Douglas Macgregor – “Russia will SUPRISE us all…”
https://youtu.be/v2cJBdOz4c4
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“Colonel” may sound impressive but when it comes to war planning they are not in the room. His claim to fame was that he drove a tank in the battle 73 Easting and starred in a doco about it.
He is a shill who has been saying that the moment Russia gets serious the war will be over, for two years.
Two years and 400,000 Russian combat dead later they mustn’t be serious yet. They are yet to achieve anything significant. Taking Avdiivka is no big deal, the Ukrainians have had plenty of time to dig in just down the road. When in well fortified positions the defenders can inflict high casualties on forces attacking over open ground. Russia lost something like 17,000 men and a lot of armour achieving this goal. Will they have to do it all again to capture the next town?
BTW They have lost [maybe] 7 aircraft, one with 17 crew, this week. Pilots are hard to replace.
You don’t have to believe me but you should ignore MacGregor and convicted child sex offender, Russia resident, Ritter. There are many other sources out there.
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The Free Revolutionary Army uprising against the CCP?
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