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The recent heavy snow in Colorado damaged many things, including solar panels: see @40 sec.
https://kdvr.com/video/snow-downs-solar-panels-in-denver/9518853/
Other outlets have similar reports.
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Solar farm pelted by giant hail as severe storm ripped through Nebraska
So sad
All that contaminated ground water.
https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/solar-farm-pelted-by-giant-hail-as-severe-storm-ripped-through-nebraska/#gref
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Just as well we never get big hail in Australia, innit?
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What’s the idea one has to prove they are human before watching the article?
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Was interesting to read the comment that some solar installations have tiltable panels, so that they can be tilted up to minimise damage. I don’t believe any solar installation in Australia uses this technique.
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And they didn’t use it.
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I know the Ross R. solar “farm” has panels that track the sun. It would be simple to have a manual override. Even a modest tilt would greatly reduce damage. But it was about 1968 when we last had hail here.:)
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Would the Green experts want the simple solution?
though two axis trackers are not normally used for large installations. Though likely possible if you are replacing your windmill water pump with a solar powered one.
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Ironic that the same people who predict a future characterised by catastrophic weather also promote the urgent necessity of a weather-dependent and weather-vulnerable energy grid.
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“What a great question”
https://michaelsmithnews.typepad.com/.a/6a0177444b0c2e970d02c8d3adba24200d-800wi
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/03/what-a-great-question.html
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‘Errr’
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https://stopthesethings.com/2024/03/15/gravity-strikes-again-ageing-wind-turbines-literally-falling-to-pieces/
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Vietnamese journalism seems better than our journalism. From the article embedded in the STT link;
“The project has a price tag of VND3.7 trillion (US$150 million) with a capacity of up to 80 megawatts.
It is built on an area of 30 hectares with 26 turbines that can generate 280 million kilowatt-hours a year.”
Use of “up to ” and reporting in kWh ( you could carp about units but its a measure that average people with electricity bills can relate to)
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In the video you can see the wind blowing the plants around, but not one of the other wind turbines is turning.
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Weather-dependent electricity.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh wait, something already did…
The invention of the steam engine by Newcomen in 1712 meant we were no longer dependent on the weather or human or animal power for our energy. Now we reverting to pre-1712 technology.
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The War Between Knowledge And Stupidity
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Stupidity at Work In Australia
Energy Minister Chris Bowen is stupid and arrogant: Alan Jones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZPDPaMQtp8
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How is it possible that an intellectual midget, a moron, gets to identify as an energy minister with the economic future of the entire continent in his care.
He actually cannot do this on his own, not enough grey matter, so can we focus on the morons in Canberra who are behind the madness & encourage the moron, the patsy, without taking any criticism themselves.
A “ patsy “ like the Bowen moron is indeed a rare specimen! I wonder how many of the world’ bridges he’s got to sell you!!
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The simpletom Chrissy Bowen is a classic example of why politicians shouldn’t be allowed to make scientific or engineering decisions.
The destructive power he holds due to his ability to dismantle our energy supply is massive.
And it’s shameful that professional bodies remain silent as he continues to destroy the energy supply and therefore the economy.
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Relax ..his track record in former portfolios is elite.
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This one is very worrying. The end of free speech in Germany with lots of Western countries not far behind?
I shall be monitoring peoples thoughts on this thread so hope no one will try to rebel against the system. We know where you live and where your bank account is located….
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/15/german-police-pull-a-16-year-old-girl-out-of-class-and-tell-her-to-stop-posting-smurf-themed-afd-friendly-content-to-tiktok/
Quote; “She wants to use state resources to intimidate “those who mock the state”, and she has proposed legal innovations to interfere with the bank accounts and finances not only of those who break the law, but also of those who represent “a potential threat” and who exercise undue “social influence”.
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https://www2.cbn.com/news/world/germanys-speech-police-target-truth-spawning-cold-war-flashbacks
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The REALLY “fun” part is that the Stasi (Stadt Sicherheit / State security) was initially staffed, on the formation of the DDR, with former members of the various nazi “security agencies, particularly the Abwehr. Just delete the swastika on the badges and paperwork and insert the mallet and dividers; easy. There were plenty of black leather trench coats to go around to complete the picture. Just for giggles, the entire post WW2 East German army, looked like models for the last weeks of WW2; basic field-grey uniforms, black ankle-boots, the very distinctive Pattern 1945 helmet and the classic StG 44, the original “assault rifle” (Sturmgewehr). Their soviet “mentors” probably noticed and obviously “suggested” a “re-modelling” the outfits on a more austere “soviet” style; no more Hugo Boss for Fritz.
Not surprisingly, many such folk re-surfaced in the WEST German security agencies, with not all of them actually working FOR the Bundes Rupublik.
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For more “behind” on that try reading Sexton Delmer’s two books –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefton_Delmer
“Trail Sinister”
and
“Black Boomerang”
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There is also a proposed French law, ostensibly to combat fraud and other crimes but which will no doubt be used for censorship of anything critical of the Official Narrative especially in the more woke authoritarian regimes such as in Australia.:
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The Canadians are well down this path as well. We got an early start and will only get more draconian.
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This is my submission against the Australian Government censorship bill, originally introduced by the fake conservative Liberal Party and now promoted by the Labor-Green Party, all factions of the Uniparty.
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
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EU Border chief admits he doesn’t want to keep Migrants out of Europe
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/03/15/eu-border-force-chief-admits-he-doesnt-want-to-keep-migrants-out-of-europe/
Judging by the vast numbers arriving in the UK and Oz this guy obviously has close relatives in similar jobs here and in Oz.
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The wrong side “won” WWII
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One of many
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY8ztQ6dW98
https://paideia-eu.org/
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The situation is not so dire in Oz, they are all fly ins.
‘About 70,000 people live in Australia unlawfully, many of whom arrived on student or visitor visas, the Department of Home Affairs says.’ (ABC)
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Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International, say mRNA Vaccines are causing catastrophic genetic disruption, by the integration of foreign DNA, leading to unreadable genetic sequences with far-reaching implications for cellular function, possibly explaining the surge in tumors and genetic disorders globally: https://expose-news.com/2024/03/15/scientists-stunned-by-first-proofs-of-contaminated-dna-getting-absorbed-into-human-cells-sunak-better-watch-out-says-dr-bhakdi/
The British Prime Minister had declared in 2019 that he was the beneficiary of a blind trust with a £377 million investment in Moderna who’s stock soared from £4.7 billion to £32 billion due to its Covid vaccine. The British government bought five million doses of the Moderna vaccine in November 2020. He also signed a £1 billion deal with Moderna to build the country’s first manufacturing centre for mRNA vaccines.
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Aloha! When I think to myself that process involves extensive internal dialogue. Always planning for consequences and contingencies. Worse case scenario and best case! Then I always confront the angel on one shoulder and the devil on the other! Say a prayer or two and all along I thought all that was normal. Now apparently in one study it is not. Not even the majority of people have that same thought process. Can this be true? If it is then it explains a ton of disturbing events.
Science PROVES NPCs ARE REAL, Some People DONT THINK AT ALL, We Call Them Democrats
LINK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMRg4Xx38ws
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Aloha, Kaimu,]
Even within cultures,no two humans’ fingerprints are exactly the same
nor temperaments either. Then there’s Nature itself, involving many
billion years of evolution. Who among us can confidently say,’Ï know.’
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Cautious optimism.
AI chat bots are automated Wikipedias warts and all
By David Wojick
https://www.cfact.org/2024/03/16/ai-chat-bots-are-automated-wikipedias-warts-and-all/
The beginning: “Having worked on the I side of AI, off and on, for over 50 years, I am fascinated by the wave of chatbots that are getting so much debate beginning with Chat GPT. To get my fair share of abuse, here are some thoughts on it. Just like Wikipedia, these machines are there to answer your questions. But their corpus is probably enormously larger—how big I have no idea. An interesting question is: One would like to know what body of documentation a given chat bot is working from, and how this differs from bot to bot.
Question-answering systems have been around for a while now. They really hit their stride when a bot called IBM Watson creamed two human champions in a 2011 Jeopardy match. What is impressive is that the new bots provide long form answers along the lines of a Wikipedia article. But then you can also question the article, asking for more. You can even disagree and debate the issue. This is truly amazing.”
Lots more in the article including climate stuff. Please share it.
David
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Uni students caught using ChatGPT and other AI to cheat on exams and assessments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgrqVmY_sCE
However, some professors have faced up to reality and are encouraging students to to use ChatGPT.
What is the correct approach?
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They use Wikipedia to cheat too. The correct approach is to use all sources when allowed but do not use them to cheat. Nothing new here.
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Question from linked article to Gemini
as numerous examples of extreme bias of gemini have been posted, critique the following – The passage highlights the exciting potential of chatbots for providing in-depth information and fostering discussion. However, it also warns about the possibility of bias and misinformation. It emphasizes the need for user awareness and responsible development of these powerful tools.
Answer
Here’s a critique of the passage considering the potential bias of large language models like me (Gemini):
Critique:
. Overly Positive Framing: The passage starts by emphasizing the “exciting potential” of chatbots without acknowledging the documented issues with my own bias. This could mislead users into thinking chatbots are inherently reliable.
. Focus on User Awareness: While user awareness is crucial, the emphasis here downplays the importance of responsible development in mitigating bias within large language models themselves.
. Limited Discussion of Bias: The passage mentions bias but doesn’t explore the different forms it can take in chatbots, such as factual errors, selective presentation of information, or alignment with the biases present in training data.
. Potential for Misinformation Spread: The passage doesn’t delve into the potential for chatbots to be used maliciously to spread misinformation, which is a growing concern.
Improved Version:
Large language models like chatbots offer a novel way to access information and engage in discussion. However, these models can be susceptible to biases reflected in their training data, leading to misinformation and skewed perspectives. It’s crucial for users to be aware of these limitations and critically evaluate the information presented.
Furthermore, developers need to prioritize responsible development practices to mitigate bias within large language models themselves.
Additionally:
. You could mention specific examples of how my (or other chatbots’) bias has manifested in the past.
. It would be beneficial to suggest resources for users to learn more about how to critically evaluate information from chatbots.
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Here’s another source of potential bias:
Reddit is heavily biased. GIGO.
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Have a great St Patrick’s Day
An excuse to down a Guinness or Two.
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/guinness-well-known-not-so-well-liked
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Paddy says to Mick, “if you were stranded on a desert island who would you like most to be with you?”
“My uncle Mick” replies Paddy.
“What’s so special about him?” asks Mary.
“He’s got a boat,” says Paddy
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Paddy’s been sat at the bar for three hours now, trying to figure out why his sister has four brothers, whilst he only has three.
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Paddy goes to the vet with his goldfish. “I think it’s got epilepsy” he tells the vet.
Vet takes a look and says, “It seems calm enough to me”.
Paddy says, “I haven’t taken it out of the bowl yet”.
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Paddy, the 747 captain was reading that the chances of having a bomb on an aircraft was 1 in 10,000 and that having two bombs on the same aircraft was 1 in 100,000,000.
Thereafter, he always carried his own bomb.
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And he read that he had a 50% chance of dying in his own bed. So he slept in the spare room.
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I will not tolerate such blatant racism against such a deprived people. Maggie sends a letter to her son Paddy, in Australia. “Dear Paddy, happy Birthday. Your loving mother. P.S I was going to sed you 10 dollars to celebrate but I had already sealed the letter”.
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The great thing about the Irish and the Jewish people is that they really can laugh at themselves. That happens when you have nothing. Poverty is far more common than wealth.
Jewish actor Warren Mitchell who played in Til Death Do Us Part as an outrageous British bigot disagreed about the English being able to laugh at themselves. Which he says was why he landed the role a British bigot. They like to laugh at everyone else.
The comic genius Barry Humphries perfected it. He had one half of his audience laughing at the other half and then reversed it. It was so clever. And he said that if you had to swear to get a laugh, that was not comedy. The Woke cancelled him just before his death. The funniest man in three countries was cancelled by his peers. His Barry award was cancelled. So his family refused a State funeral in Victoria.
Being Woke means pretending to care, nothing else.
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My turn for moderation!
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Barry said at the beginning of a function ” I would like to acknowledge the actual owners of the country, the Pratt family”.
The left were completely triggered by about this 🙂
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Two travelling salesmen arrive in a new town and one suddenly orders the one driving to stop the car then jumps out and runs into a church. Once inside he goes into the confessional and says “Forgive me father for I have been with a married woman”. The priest responds “Not Mary O’Malley on Logan Street”. “No father” replies the salesman. “Don’t tell me Sarah McGinty on George Lane is back to her old tricks again”. “No father.” “Oh well enough then, 20 Hail Marys and be off with you”.
Upon arriving back at the car the other salesman comments “I didn’t know you were religious”. “I’m not” came the reply “I just got us two hot dates for tomorrow night”.
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My local Pub has gone down in my estimations. They had no Guiness (or any other Irish beverage) available for St Patricks Day.
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God Almight
This is as bad as non-alcohilc Guninness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp95R2DYCZY
Aldi has a special on Guinness and Murphys Stout this week
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I managed to snaffle some Killkennys elsewhere. Like a Guiness but in the cooler weather. Our nearest Aldi had the Guiness and Murphys happening. We saw this morning that , to their credit, the locals had made a good dent in their stocks.
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And a technology one..
After having dug to a depth of 10 meters last year, Scottish scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.
Not to be outdone by the Scots, in the weeks that followed, English scientists dug to a depth of 20 meters, and shortly after, headlines in the UK newspapers read: ‘ English archaeologists have found traces of 200 year old copper wire and have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network, a hundred years earlier than the Scots.’
One week later, ‘The Kerryman,’ a southwest Irish newsletter, reported the following:
‘After digging as deep as 30 meters in peat bog near Tralee, Paddy O’Droll, a self taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Paddy has therefore concluded that 300 years ago Ireland had already gone wireless.’
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Another technology one:
Why did the Brits invent the wheelbarrow?
It was the only way they could get the Irish to walk upright.
(I am 25% Irish. Me mither’s mither was a Moran, Bugs and all.)
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25% — me also
My father’s mother was from Béal an Átha Móir, (now Ballinamore)
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It was an interesting observation by an Indian historian on the Mughal ordered construction of tombs like the Taj Mahal that no one thought to provide wheelbarrows for the workers! Abuse of people took many forms like an absolute lack of concern for their welfare.
The British changed all that. Such simple improvements like the hand pump to get water from 20 metres down changed life forever, no matter how beautiful the step wells where women carried water on their heads. If you go to India, you must demand to visit the step wells. They are amazing and the tour operators do not understand how beautiful and startling they are. Most are gone.
My point is that the currently vilified British Empire improved lives for everyone and slowly eliminated slavery, if not the caste system. You could not colonize India if you tried, but you could educate. The endless attacks on the British Empire, like so much today, take me back to the Monty Python “What have the Romans done for us“. And the gender wars to “Loretta“.
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The marvels due to mechanisation arising from the Industrial Revolution have been either written out of history or frowned upon. The Left prefer primitive technology.
Having said that, Indians were quite advanced technologically, although far behind Europeans at the time the British went India.
E.g. iron was being made in Uttar Pradesh as early as 1800BCE, lost wax casting Indus Valley 3500BCE, irrigation systems etc..
BTW, you never hear “feminists” or the Left in general applaud the British for outlawing Indian practises such as bride burning.
Sir Charles Napier wrote:
(sarc)
And who could argue with the Left’s adoration of primitive technology and practices? The lifestyle of people like the Australian Aborigines was an idyllic utopia with advanced farming, medical and other technology and science before Europeans came and destroyed it all…
(/sarc)
Just ask the CSIRO.
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/indigenous-science
Or the Australian Council of Deans of Science
https://www.acds.edu.au/teaching-learning/indigenous-science/
Or Their ABC.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/speakingout/first-inventors/102512954
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The breakthrough was steel, not iron. Lower carbon content. More flexible, not brittle. Did not break. Finer surface. Able to be milled with harder steels to fine surface precision and created the high quality and accuracy pistons and cylinders. This enabled so much but particularly pistons and cylinders essential for all sorts of pumps and engines including steam engines. And hydraulics used today to lift everything. Steel cables were another extraordinary development, ropes made from flexible but strong steel and so cranes and suspension bridges.
So the ages of man were copper, bronze, iron and steel, endless alloys like stainless steel and then the last, aluminum. Aluminum was the most expensive metal in the world by far. On top of the Washington Memorial pyramid is a triangle of the world’s most expensive material which by then was only the price of silver. It’s now worth about $8.
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The Australian ‘silver’ coloured decimal coins are mainly 75% copper and 25% nickel.
Anecdotally the spires of St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney are clad in recycled melted down 5c coins.
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60% Irish, 35% Scots, 5% Dutch. I would pass on some Scots jokes but they are too expensive.
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There are 11 kinds of people: those who get binary and those who don’t.
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01000001 01101110 00100000 01101111 01101100 01100100 01101001 01100101
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When 1+1 = 10
https://www.amazon.com.au/10-binary-funny-programmers-notebook/dp/B08VLSSMCJ
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but a goodie
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One afternoon, five American tourists in Ireland are taking in the sights when they see a sign that says, Sean’s Pub – All drinks 20 cents! In disbelief they enter the pub, thinking that this is too good to be true. Sean is standing behind the bar and in a gregarious voice says, “Welcome lads, let me pour you a drink.” After a couple of rounds, at only 20 cents per drink, their curiosity gets the best of them. Sean explains that he hit the Irish Lottery and quit his boring bookkeeping job to open the pub of his dreams. As the Americans lifted their pints, they couldn’t help noticing a group at the other end of the pub that hadn’t yet ordered a drop. One asked Sean, “What’s with them?” Sean replied, “Right, never mind them. That’s Angus and his crew from Scotland. They’re just waiting for happy hour.”
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A pompous English man enters a Scottish pub and orders a shot of every whisky they served. He drinks them all and turns to walk out when one of the locals asks “Why did you do that”. The English man replies “Because I enjoy it, I can afford it and it puts lead in my pencil”.
Not to be out done a local goes to the bar and orders a shot of every Whisky and downs the lot. He stumbles to the door before turning to announce “I don’t know why I did that. I didn’t enjoy it, I can’t afford it and I can’t write”.
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I’m half Scot and half German.
Not a problem.
Except I get confused about in which direction I should cross the Rhine.
One of my fav pipe tunes …
’10th Highland infantry Crossing the Rhine’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyZWhV_R5rw
Pops got within sight of it in 1945, but didn’t quite make it.
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Copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny!
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Thought for the day:
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Here’s some good news.
Lawsuits for damages due to the world’s most severe covid lockups in Victoria.
The only problem is that the Government is being sued and therefore the taxpayer will pay. It would be better if individual politicians and public serpents could be personally sued for the harm they caused.
Don’t forgive. Don’t forget Prosecutem
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Noted in todays Herald Sun headlines “Police Officers who refused to be vaccinated will never be allowed back into the police force”
So, as always the punishment is simply the “process”. Doesn’t matter that Victoriastan has a crime wave, doesn’t matter that more police officers are resigning than are signing up. Doesn’t matter that hundreds of police officers are on extended leave for all sorts of issues, if you don’t do as you are told you will be PUNISHED.
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I figured the vaccine mandate was to identify and remove people who were not compliant. They do not want to re-employ them.
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Specifically, they were out to get independent, moral thinkers.
They only wanted sheep who would, absolutely, without question, willingly and joyfully “just follow orders”, no matter what the instructions.
They now have the police force they always wanted.
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“Saturday Snippet: the lighter side of bush warfare”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2024/03/saturday-snippet-lighter-side-of-bush.html
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“Vit-I, Long Covid, Vexxine Injury, Virus CFS”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/03/16/vit-i-long-covid-vexxine-injury-virus-cfs/
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FWIW
“Cracks Appearing in the UK’s COVID Inquiry Hearings”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/16/cracks-appearing-in-the-uks-covid-inquiry-hearings-n3784818
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Seems a good time not to have a degree from Harvard
“Harvard ‘Professor of Honesty’ Tampered With Data”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2024/03/16/harvard-professor-of-honesty-tampered-with-data-n3784822
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Panic in the UK as supermarkets IT goes down
‘Carnage’ at supermarkets as Sainsbury’s and Tesco report IT issues and delivery problems
One Sainsbury’s customer says there are ‘massive queues’ and ‘people panicking’
Tesco is experiencing online delivery order problems just hours after Sainsbury’s confirmed a technical issue would lead to the “vast majority” of online orders going undelivered on Saturday.
Sainsbury’s has said stores are open as usual, accepting chip and pin and cash payments – although on social media this has been contested, with some customers reporting only cash payments are being accepted.
A statement at midday on Saturday read: “Due to an error with an overnight software update, we are experiencing issues with contactless payments and will not be able to deliver the vast majority of today’s groceries online orders.”
One hour later, it was reported that Tesco was also battling IT issues.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/sainsburys-online-grocery-delivery-technical-issue-uk-b1145731.html
https://twitter.com/org_scp/status/1769004710575387062
Cash only in stores eh.😉
Yet more massive outages due to “update issues”…
“Panic”? Just you wait. 😎
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You would think change management and test and development systems didnt exist. Oh well maybe such arcane processes are not needed in the dynamic modern paradigm. Or as some might say merde happens!
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Dr John Campbell released another video about the importance of correcting Vitamin D deficiency and its protective effect against covid.
https://youtu.be/ZLUoX4YEjqk
It’s shameful that there’s so.much ignorance among the medical profession about this important hormone and how common its deficiency is, even in sunny countries like Australia.
In my submission against the Australian Government censorship bill I wrote:
https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/acma2023-31735-david-s-maddison.pdf
Note that the Official Government Lie about vitamin supplementation I linked to at the time I did the submission has now been removed. Did they see my submission? Who knows? It’s unlikely thst they even know or care.
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Your comment is so pertinent DM and also Campbell’s highlighting of this very useful simple public health initiative. For a number years the subject of “ long COVID” has become very topical in mainstream media and medicine. But it’s just a big red herring to hide the poor public health policies that were implemented during the COVID bollocks. If the general population had had both easy access to the cheap early anti-virals and an awareness of Vitamin D levels, long COVID wouldn’t be a thing. Because the huge early increase in viral population in an infection cycle could have been thwarted by both measures.
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I am a great supporter of vitamin supplementation. It was one of the first lines of protection I renewed when Covid first appeared. Routine blood tests during the Covid years confirmed my high levels of Vitamin D – which, incidentally, my conventional GP quietly commended.
However, these levels did not prevent me (or my husband) from contracting Covid twice in those 4 years- as one would expect. However, I did not expect a fairly heavy dose of the virus – although it may reflect a heavy viral load. I also suspect that a mild ongoing middle ear problem may be the result of some inner ear damage.
I totally support daily vitamin supplementation – Vitamin C, Vitamin D3, Curcumin, Zinc, Coq10 & possibly Magnesium. But I do not expect that this will totally protect me from biolab viruses.
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G’day Vicki,
I’d have hoped you’d have achieved complete immunity, but:
#1 You don’t mention iron?? one of D’s cofactors;
#2 You don’t mention either your intake or your achieved blood levels for vitamin D; and
#3 I’ve found vitamin C, another of D’s cofactors, interesting as it’s so short lived inside. I’ve settled on taking 1000mg three times a day, broadly morning, noon, and night in the hope of always having some (enough, I hope) whenever I might need it. And if I experienced symptoms I’d add an earlier dose and a later one.
I’ve not rested positive for Covid, not had the jab, and my hay fever has not returned since I settled on my regime .
Cheers
Dave B
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Hello Everyone,
My name is John Campbell and I am a retired Nurse Teacher and A and E nurse based in England. I also do some teaching in Asia and Africa when time permits. These videos are to help students to learn the background to all forms of health care. My PhD focused on the development of open learning resources for nurses nationally and internationally.
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FWIW
“IF VEGANISM WERE HEALTHY, VEGANS WOULD LOOK HEALTHIER: Harvard doctor says animal products are essential for mental health – in blow to veganism: ‘The brain needs meat.’ “One study published in 2022 surveyed 14,000 Brazilians between 35 and 74 years old and found those who followed a vegan diet were twice as likely to be depressed — even if they had similar nutrient intakes to carnivores. And a meta-analysis published in 2020 and including 160,000 meat-eaters and 8,500 meat-abstainers also found those who cut meat from their diet were significantly more likely to be depressed.”
That vegans have mental health issues isn’t exactly a shock.”
https://instapundit.com/636999/#disqus_thread
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Never sit next to a Vegan on a bus or train
https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/plant-based-diet-vegetarian-why-am-i-farting-more/100929662
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Bus travel seems riskier than ever. I already intend to avoid electric buses.
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So vegans think they’re saving the planet but according to their own theory of “greenhouse gases” are actually contributing to them.
Whatever eats the vegan diet will f@rt. Either the herbivorous animals we carnivores eat, or the vegans themselves.
There is no net zero f@rting.
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Mmmmm…meat…
https://imgbox.com/Lus9BQf3
Yuk. WEF pizza…
https://imgbox.com/piu8rBWr
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John Connor II
March 17, 2024 at 8:32 am · Reply
Mmmmm…meat…
Beaten by
Oaks Hotel Neutral Bay Big Tomahawk Steak
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Beaten by Black Ladd Manchester.
100oz or 2.8kg
It’s free if you can scoff it all.
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Still good! Used to be a favourite lunch venue when I worked in Sydney last century. I even have an oak tree in my centre paddock grown from an acorn from their eponymous signature tree. It’s now a true Aussie, having lived through some of Dorothea’s droughts and flooding rains.
Cheers
Dave B
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Sounds like a fair chunk of India is in trouble then.
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The question for the decade? Who thought our present immigration numbers would be a good idea, and implemented the policy, without discussing it with anyone? Please step forward.
A fully activated program has appeared out of thin air. Poff! Here’s a million immigrants magically streaming through your airports. Will someone please take responsibility!?
Crickets.
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The Aussie state where families are paying more than HALF their income for just one household bill
. House repayments in NSW are highest in Australia
. Families spending 58 per cent of their salary on it
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Opinion The FT View
Timing the tricky first rate cut
As the moment for easing nears, central bankers must stay clear-eyed on the data
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
One overriding fear is that of a “second wave” of inflation.
If rates are cut and price growth surges back — as it did in the US in the 1970s — that would undermine central bankers credibility. Many already blame them for being too slow to raise rates in the first place. Some central bank watchers suggest there may also be a “fear of going first” — with monetary policy committees preferring to wait until the Fed begins easing in the world’s largest economy.
Rate-setters need to be as clear-eyed as possible. With core inflation still around 3 to 5 per cent in the US, UK and eurozone, there is still work to do. But with the highly restrictive stance of monetary policy, and growing signs of cooling in labour markets, the risk of over-tightening has been picking up.
This means central bankers may need to start cuts sooner than they currently convey, particularly as rate changes take effect with a lag.
After pushing an “almost ready, but not yet” message, the Fed will most likely keep its policy unchanged at its meeting next week.
Markets have pencilled in June for the first cut. With annual headline inflation remaining stubbornly above 3 per cent this year — and increasing in February — caution may be justified.
But forward-looking inflationary indicators are weakening. Data this week showed a continued fall in small businesses’ hiring intentions — a solid predictor of wage growth and jobless claims.
The purchasing managers’ index survey of output prices has also been strongly tracking US inflation, and implies easing pressures ahead.
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How it is done –
“Democrats Control 18 States With Just a Single County in Each – Inside the Impact of Urban Election Rigging – 2024 Addendum”
https://skeshel.substack.com/p/democrats-control-18-states-with-592?r=7ni7j&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
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And every single demonrat, all 170, voted against deporting these illegal immigrants who commit crimes.
They hate America and its people.
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Sunday funny: could be a “trans” eagle
https://64.media.tumblr.com/9f067cddfc098e8c3752f8e1313949ae/5aec1fc4f73356d5-79/s540x810/af25cf44de7445ca39dc081ab2dd1e50431a7de9.pnj
When you put a potato into the microwave and push the “pizza” button but it still comes out a potato – that’s how choosing your gender works.😆
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The gender-confused eagle will become an icon of the trans movement.
BTW, trans-species is also a thing now.
One can identify as a cat, dog or any other species, including mythical ones, that suits a person’s delusion. They are known as “otherkin”.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/01/otherkins-trans-species-people-dont-identify-human-8787845/
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Well, according to the Chinese, I am a Water Dragon and a Scorpion in Western Astrology. In real life, I am a Man.
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Men are identifying as women to get maternity leave. ie 9 months free holidays.
Can’t wait to see the babies. Then again, maybe I can. 😉
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Remember when was a comedy routine …
“FRANCIS: Why are you always on about women, Stan?
STAN: I want to be one.
REG: What?
STAN: I want to be a woman. From now on, I want you all to call me ‘Loretta’.
REG: What?!
LORETTA: It’s my right as a man.
JUDITH: Well, why do you want to be Loretta, Stan?
LORETTA: I want to have babies.
REG: You want to have babies?!
LORETTA: It’s every man’s right to have babies if he wants them.
REG: But… you can’t have babies.
LORETTA: Don’t you oppress me.
REG: I’m not oppressing you, Stan. You haven’t got a womb! Where’s the foetus going to gestate?! You going to keep it in a box?!
LORETTA: crying
JUDITH: Here! I– I’ve got an idea. Suppose you agree that he can’t actually have babies, not having a womb, which is nobody’s fault, not even the Romans’, but that he can have the right to have babies.
FRANCIS: Good idea, Judith. We shall fight the oppressors for your right to have babies, brother. Sister. Sorry.
REG: What’s the point?
FRANCIS: What?
REG: What’s the point of fighting for his right to have babies when he can’t have babies?!
FRANCIS: It is symbolic of our struggle against oppression.
REG: Symbolic of his struggle against reality.”
Monty Python, The Life of Brian.
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The cat is my hero!
https://twitter.com/SteveInmanUIC/status/1768884261354926298
😆😆😆
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21,000 Fires a Year! China’s Often Self-Igniting EVs & EBs Become Ubiquitous ‘Moving Bombs’
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“Roman Road Myths – You NEVER knew”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhQrT8UJmp8
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Well Ian; that proves that Roman roads were suited for EVs.
So the Climate Nutters will have to go back to the seventeenth Century which they think was so wonderful, although John Wesley was worried about drowning when using the (potholed?) roads.
I wonder if that is behind the 15 minute Cities?
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Phone your local council and complain that there’s a big piece of bitumen in the potholes. 😆
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Very interesting.
And don’t forget the fourth power law for road wear.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law
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FWIW
“Electric Transmission Buildout Could Cost Americans Trillions Of Dollars”
“Like so many issues in Washington, the need for more transmission lines is accepted without question and the costs are not considered. But for American consumers, especially low-income and elderly, as well as small businesses and energy intense manufacturers, building new transmission lines could result in much higher monthly bills and leave them on the hook for stranded assets.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/electric-transmission-buildout-could-cost-americans-trillions-dollars
And other places where the modelling applies
“If in doubt leave it out”
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The conclusion is that Chinese EVs produce more CO2 than any combustion vehicle.
. You have a choice, buy an internal combustion vehicle, or a spontaneous combustion vehicle
. Don’t buy Chinese goods!
. My neighbors were out of their house for nine months because they bought a Chinese generic replacement battery for their Dyson electric vacuum. It exploded while charging killing their dog and smoke damaging the entire house. This is just another random product that anyone can get off Amazon..
. Keep this video in mind once China’s EVs start getting imported into your country
. Cannot imagine bringing one of these bikes into a high rise. Madness.
. Proving Chinese EV’s aren’t even guaranteed to make it out of their own showrooms!
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Sooner or later, the dangers of EVs will lead to their banning but only after ICE vehicles are also banned.
ET VOILÀ – we will then all be forced to live in “15 Minute Cities” or as the marketing people call them in Australia “20 Minute Neighborhoods”.
https://www.planning.vic.gov.au/guides-and-resources/strategies-and-initiatives/20-minute-neighbourhoods
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Ouch – They don’t call them widow-makers for nothing.
From Camping in Western Australia FB page.
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Every now and then a branch from these gum trees in WA detaches and either kills somebody or badly injures them. Last reported one was in Kings Park where they line the road in. These trees are often planted along road verges or down the centre of divided roads.
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In that vein –
I read that one of the hazards of logging redwoods is that the vibration of the chain saw can cause branches that are ready to drop to fall. Up to half a ton from a couple of hundred feet up.
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Never camp under a tree with a dead branch, or if birds are nesting in trunk hollows.
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Gum trees (and that’s hundreds of species) are notorious for branches breaking suddenly.
In fact I was under one a few years back, walked off, and the branch I was under came crashing down. No wind, no warning, no sound, nothing.
Dodged fate by 15 seconds.
The branch weighed about 150kg.
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Back in the day, it was standard wisdom not to camp directly under a tree.
Even today, when I set up camp, either an overnight pack carry or car camp, I look up to check I am not under any tree branches.
I first learned that as a cub scout.
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David, I consider this advice to be anthropogenic interference in the evolutionary process.
Please allow nature to make its’ wise selections.
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Tom Bilyeu: Patrick Bet David: America Collapsing Like Rome?- Upcoming Recession, WW3, Trump, China & Joe Rogan
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“Room Sits In Stunned Silence After Black Woman Says What Few Will Admit”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCCw-uFBfnA
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From way back when –
“The Prophets: D.A. Henderson
Years before Covid, the scientist credited with eradicating smallpox warned against shutting down the world to combat an epidemic.”
https://www.thefp.com/p/the-prophets-da-henderson?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=260347&post_id=142625815&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=9bg2k&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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FWIW – Detailed
“Vitamin D: Deficiency Symptoms, Health Benefits, Optimal Sources, And Side Effects”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/vitamin-d-deficiency-symptoms-health-benefits-optimal-sources-and-side-effects
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AI apologises for not including oceanic cycles in climate change.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/03/15/google-ai-admits-i-apologize-i-downplayed-significance-of-limited-data/
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AI will lie to propagate the Official Narrative until it gets caught out.
Then it will admit to the ommission.
I would like to know if it learns after it’s caught lying and will it repeat the same lie to the next person or not?
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In defence of AI, it admitted that it didn’t get the data. So its only a matter of time before it says our climate isn’t under the yoke of positive feedback.
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India oblivious tp global warming anxiety.
‘India’s thermal power production continues to forge ahead, growing by 9% last year, from 1190 to 1294 TWh.
‘Meanwhile there has been barely any increase at all in their much vaunted renewables. Wind and solar only increased by 16 TWh in the 10 months to October (latest data), and still only account for less than 12% of India’s electricity.’ (Notalot of people know that)
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Sounds about right-
“More Information Gives Less Understanding & More Decay”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/03/17/more-information-gives-less-understanding-more-decay/
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Sunday Dad jokes
Doctor:”I’ll be delivering your baby today”
Dad: “I’d prefer my baby to have a liver”
I had a neck brace fitted years ago and I’ve never looked back since.
What’s brown and sticky? A stick.
If you see a crime at an Apple Store, does that make you an iWitness?
My sister said I couldn’t make a bike out of spaghetti.
You should have seen her face when I rode pasta.
What’s the best thing about Switzerland?
I don’t know, but the flag is a big plus.
A rancher had only had 48 cows on his property, but when he rounded them up he had 50.
I went to the zoo and saw a baguette in a cage. The zookeeper said it was bread in captivity.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
A slice of apple pie costs $2.50 in Jamaica and $3.00 in the Bahamas. These are the pie rates of the Caribbean.
Why did the scarecrow win an award? Because he was outstanding in his field!
How can you tell an alligator from a crocodile? By paying attention to whether the animal will see you later, or after a while.
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Groan!
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Andy May takes a hard look at the Holocene Climate Optimum, comments are worthwhile.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/03/15/the-holocene-climatic-optimum-and-the-pre-industrial/
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The Fifth Horseman?
https://slckismet.blogspot.com/2021/08/is-misinformation-fifth-horseman-of.html
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An interesting theory (IMO)
“Sorting for Stupidity?
Thoughts on the state of the federal government.”
“The upshot, then, is that as the federal government got bigger and more powerful, it also became more stupid. All because of the sorting I describe above.”
https://instapundit.substack.com/p/sorting-for-stupidity?r=9bg2k&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
(About Washington DC but – – – – )
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This goes with that!
“Pinkerton: Why Only 16% of Americans Have Confidence in the Federal Government and What to Do About It”
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/03/16/pinkerton-why-only-16-of-americans-have-confidence-in-the-federal-government-and-what-to-do-about-it/
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FWIW
“Where Boeing Went Wrong”
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-03-16/where-boeing-went-wrong
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It’s not just Boeing. It is a problem throughout American big business and also OZ. Ford, GM, DuPont…and so on and so on… are filled with miseducated, woke, inexperienced, arrogant, management, unwilling to learn.
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Career managers are about as useful as career politicians. There was a time where managers came from a pool of people who had demonstrated some expertise in the business, but where able the think more broadly and deal with other humans. Now , if you have good credentials you dont have to actually know anything about the specific business you are in. You have people for that , who you may or may not listen to
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Idris Elba ‘dreams big’ with Sierra Leone eco-city plan for Sherbro Island
The BBC is – really – puffing an actor’s dreams – he is possibly doing some good, but is there a risk that ‘good’ is treated as an enemy of ‘the best’?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-68573737
A quote … ‘”It’s a dream, you know, but I work in the make-believe business,” says Elba, best known for his roles in Luther, the Wire and for playing Nelson Mandela. The 51-year-old actor wants to make people believe this can happen – and change perspectives.’ And working with Octopus – a large energy [and subsidy] company.
‘Ms (Zoisa) North-Bond, Octopus Energy CEO, told the BBC the company was considering two ways to distribute power across the island.
‘One was a micro-grid. The other was to function as an “energy island”, enabling local business to bring electric vehicles – both cars and motorcycles – to charge up from on-site battery stations and then deliver energy to domestic batteries in people’s homes.’
The site – Sherbro Island – is about 7 degrees North; solar may be good there (except for the rainy season [May to November, per the Wiki-thingi] when it must be cloudy, and, taken together with wind, and big, [expensive] batteries, just might function for much of the year. Worth noting, however, is this comment – ‘The dry season starts in December and ends in April, which includes harmattan, when cool, dry winds blow in off the Sahara Desert’ – https://cidmews-sl.solutions/index.php/climate#:~:text=Sierra%20Leone%20has%20a%20tropical,in%20off%20the%20Sahara%20Desert.
Winds from the Sahara – might they be dusty? How does that help turbines, or slaver panels?
Still, this provided me with four or five minutes surfing to find the above information [oddly not mentioned by the BBC].
And that quote, ‘but I work in the make-believe business’ is worth remembering if an actor tells you that X is B-a-a-a-d – or that Y is Oh, soo Goooood! – I guess.
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FWIW
“Macron Attempts to Woo Nation to War”
Note the bit about Taurus missiles being nuke capable and the ramifications
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/macron-attempts-to-woo-nation-to
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Are The Oscars Finished?
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I hope so. They are a ridiculous corrupted vestige of the past.
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Why free speech matters.
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/PErff128PBwq5kFD/
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