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This being an open thread, I’d like to pass on some info about a post that was posted a couple years ago about Harold Katcher and E5.
An interesting paper was released (by a totally different group in Nature – Aging) going into research determining some of the active parts of E5 was released earlier this month. There has been found 6 miRNA Extra Cellular Vesicles involved (so far); 3 causing pro “youthafication” and 3 promoting aging. Of course the paper noted that there were probably other factors of different types (proteins, oglisaccharides, ect.), that have not been isolated yet.
Sort of a status of where the research is – if you want to get into the “weeds” of research.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00612-4
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So the answer is to bleed your children dry instead of the other way around! Vampires obviously knew all this anyway, we’re just re-discovering old knowledge.
It extends the time-frame for rich old billionaires trying to control the world, when they get into the full-body version all those SF stories of aged tyrants getting out of tanks full of fluid looking like they’re 20 will be possible.
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Has Twiggy snapped??
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What’s the buzz?
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Andrew Forrest was reportedly seen/photographed being affectionate with and kissing the Moroccan Energy Minister as they strolled together in Paris.
But I don’t know if that’s who or what Ted is referring to. He might be referring to the English model.
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Hi, think it’s a Photoshop that doesn’t mean there’s nothing in itt
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If its real he seems far more engaged in the process than she does
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I think Twiggy is Batman. They always say on the media, “multi billionaire Twiggy Forest…” just like “multi millionaire Bruce Wayne”. It’s a dead giveaway.
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Well, his Hydrogen scheme is on the wane.
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He is not the full tree and not even a branch. He needs to now branch out and accept reality. Some Dr. More like a Quack Dr IMHO>
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This should be a Reply to Ted1 at #2………………..
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A good Cartoon on the so called ‘Carbon Capture’ now being mooted for Australia (the so called ‘Clever Country’).
https://saltbushclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/carbon-capture-con-1-1200×823.jpg
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Laura Tingle, the Left Wing mouthpiece of the ABC and who is on the ABC Board is in trouble. And rightly so IMHO –
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFNM3Y7OxM0
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The ABC – the left – is built on very faulty keystones. When those crumble they will fall down like a house of cards.
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Naah, they just double down.
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Fun from Homewood:
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2024/05/26/met-office-creates-warming-out-of-thin-air/
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Homogenized adjusted anomaly datasets are invalid, obsolete and redundant in the face of real-time unadjusted absolute GDAS and Reanalysis that can be advanced 4 times a day e.g. GFS.
Just my opinion but having been deeply immersed in the NZ 7SS controversy and in many others around the world I’m convinced it is time to jettison the likes of HadCRUT[insert latest junk version here].
What I did discover when looking at ERA5 New Zealand was a remarkable resemblance to NIWA’s 11SS. NIWA downplays the 11SS but it does use stations that the 7SS does not, are stable i.e. less opportunity to adjust, and draw in data from other Pacific islands i.e. it is a good regional representation.
‘Eleven-station’ series temperature data
https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/nz-temperature-record/eleven-station-series-temperature-data
Ignore Salinger & Renwick’s linear trend over the entire series – that is totally bogus.
There is actually an essentially flat linear trend, from 1953/54 through to 1997. Much the same in ERA5 which is actually negative but not significantly i.e. flat.
ERA5 Australia (sans Tasmania) is quite different. Being a large East-West continent the 1998 El Nino had little effect. Yes you can see it in the data but it was not the radical step-change spike in NZ data.
The ERA5 flat linear trend extends from early 1950s right through to 2012 in the Australia data.That completely contradicts BOM’s homogenized and adjusted ACORN-SAT.
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>”The ERA5 flat linear trend extends from early 1950s right through to 2012 in the Australia data”
Should be late 1950s above.
Monthly Reanalysis Time Series – ERA5
https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/
Defaults, Region Australia, Show Map, Anomaly N, Plot:
1957: 21.938 C
2012: 21.931 C
Change to New Zealand, Show Map, Plot to redraw:
1953: 13.421 C
1997: 13.423 C
There’s no CO2 effect whatsoever. Natural variation rules. But even the radical effect of the 1998 El Nino that produced a step-change in the NZ data had minimal effect on the Australia data.
However, in both regions there was a cool period in the 1940s.
That period, when included at the beginning of a linear trend, is what provides the “warming trend” when the wild warm natural variation in the latter part of each series is included in the linear trend too. CO2-centrists seize that bogus trend with alacrity e.g. Salinger & Renwick previous.
They ignore, and hope you will too, the long intervening flat period.
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Like every other global climate time series, https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/ shows a trend of increasing atmospheric temperatures.
Cherry-picking regional and temporal subsets while ignoring the trend is just doing this: https://skepticalscience.com/graphics/Escalator_2022.gif
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Good work, I see the great climate shift of 1976.
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BoM has a warmer and wetter winter ahead, they don’t mention SAM but this caught my eye.
‘The global pattern of warmth is affecting the typical historical global patterns of sea surface temperatures associated with ENSO and IOD, meaning inferences of how ENSO or IOD may develop in 2024 based on past events may not be reliable.’
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Simon >”Cherry-picking regional and temporal subsets while ignoring the trend …”
Ignoring “the trend” ?
You present a World anomaly – you ignore “the trend” over 30 years from the beginning of the satellite era in ERA5 Absolute data for the ENTIRE Southern Hemisphere i.e half the World.
You ignore “the trend” 1980 – 2010 ERA5 for:
Southern Hemisphere
South Mid Latitudes
Australia
New Zealand
That’s a lot of ignoring you’re doing.
I’ve presented comparisons of the annual averages of years 30 years apart showing no difference but equally I can present linear trend analyses of the same periods using ERA5 data and NOAA’s WRIT with same result.
If CO2 went AWOL for 30 years in half the world leaving a flat trend then obviously any variation prior and post is natural variation.
And then you have the insurmountable problem of climate models vs reanalysis in absolute terms:
Fig. 1. (Hawkins & Sutton (2016)
(top) Global-mean 2-m air temperature from CMIP5 historical simulations (gray, 1861–2005) and various reanalysis estimates (colors; from Saha et al. 2010; Dee et al. 2011; Rienecker et al. 2011; Kobayashi et al. 2015). (bottom) Comparing the same data as temperature anomalies, using two reference periods (1979–88 and 1996–2005).
https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/97/6/full-bams-d-14-00154.1-f1.jpg
Replication is the essence of science. The reanalysis datasets replicate each other.
The CO2-centric climate model groups cannot replicate their own results; cannot replicate each other; and, cannot replicate observations – ergo, not science.
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Simon >”..ignoring the trend is just doing this: [SkS “Escalator”]”
Ah yes, the SkS “Escalator” – totally bogus.
The longest flat period they show is 10 years around 1980s.
But Southern Hemisphere (half the World) Absolute ERA5 data exhibits a flat trend for the 30 years 1980 – 2010.
That flat period is 3 decades of SkS’ entire 5 decade series. And it is unadjusted unhomogenized data.
But, you prefer the homogenized adjusted Berkeley Earth Anomaly series? – LOL
My statement stands, viz:
Applies to you too Simon.
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Why won’t the Prime Minister do his job and sack his most incompetent frontbencher, immigration minister Andrew Giles?
As we all know, Giles presided over the release of rapists and child sex offenders from immigration detention into the community. He failed to heed warnings from the High Court and his own department which could have prevented their release, or at least ensured it was better managed.
That includes a child rapist who attacked his stepdaughter while his wife was giving birth. He gets leniency to stay on family grounds. Hard to believe, but true.
Thanks to Giles, the child rapist is entitled to stay because of Ministerial Direction 99. What is that I hear you ask?
It is Giles’ instructions to his own department about how to administer visas, when to cancel them and when not to. As it turns out, it’s also a leave pass for convicted criminals to abuse a system now tilted in their favour.
Immigration ministers issue directions from time to time about how visas should be assessed. In January last year Giles issued this new one – Direction 99.
A new primary consideration when assessing visas was added that never existed before: Ties to Australia can out-rank crimes committed. Even ones as serious as child rape.
The incompetence is staggering.
So why won’t Albo simply sack Giles to send a message that he expects more from his ministers?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13462395/PVO-Andrew-Giles-child-rapist-immigration-Albanese-friend.html
There have been a dozen Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) cases where criminals who have previously been deported can now stay, thanks Giles’ Direction 99.
Which member of the AAT authorised this latest criminal – a child rapist of a family member – to stay because of family ties to Australia?
Former Labor Speaker of the House of Representatives, Anna Burke.
Remember when the Labor Party complained that the Coalition was appointing too many of its own partisan allies to the AAT?
Oh the irony.
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Thanks for putting this up.
Absolutely disgusting, but we need to detail all the evidence.
Faux Australia.
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Refer back to the determinations made regarding Love and Thoms who used indigenous heritage in order to stop their deportation. The High Court is a real problem in addressing these issues as serious criminals use dubious claims of indigeneity. Problem is what to do with them.
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“Problem is what to do with them.”
The high court?
Deport them.
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How “Very Handsome Boy” Albo and his soy boy mates are protecting Australians
A criminal Sudanese migrant who self-identifies as an Aboriginal man will be allowed to stay in Australia.
The man, also known as RCWV, was born in Khartoum and spent the first 20 years of his life in Africa before moving to Australia on a protection visa.
The visa was revoked after a series of convictions for knife crime, car theft and serious driving offences that left one victim with life-threatening injuries.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13465901/sudanese-migrant-rcwv-aboriginal-visa.html
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I think that all this fuss has us looking in the wrong direction.
How many Australian citizens, abandoned overseas by their country during the COVID fraud when an Australian passport became worthless, have fallen victims of human traffickers / organ traders?
(and sometime, we are going to have to accept, as we race up the ranks of weapons exporters, what is going to happen to the traumatised victims of wars? – all this deportation stuff feels like fiddling around the edges of a massive problem, rather than facing it)
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Battery powered large haul trucks to be trialled
The vehicles will be tested on mining sites
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13462803/EV-trucks-mines-tesla-Australia.html
Remember this one? Looking forward to see one of the EV trucks catch fire – all that heavy duty vibration cannot be good for batteries
JANUS EV Cement Truck FIRE CAUSES TRAFFIC CHAOS IN MELBOURNE
November 30, 2023
https://www.truckandbus.net.au/janus-fire-causes-traffic-chaos-in-melbourne/
No doubt a diesel generator will be used to recharge the batteries at remote mining sites! Or will these EV trucks be sitting idle in the middle of the day being recharged from solar panels?
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Those ‘All Electric’ Fire Trucks are a Sad Joke
New Mexico Democratic Governor Michelle Grisham was recently excited to announce that the state’s Environment Department was awarding a nearly half-million dollar grant to Bernalillo County to partially finance the purchase of a new “all-electric” fire truck for their fire department.
It was only a “partial” reimbursement because the projected cost to the county to replace its 1991 diesel fire engine with a Pierce Volterra battery electric fire engine was more than $1.8 million.
The local fire chief was quoted as proudly saying, “There’s no cancer coming out of the tailpipe” of the new truck. So that’s a win for all concerned, right?
Not so fast there, chief.
You have to read quite a ways down into the announcement to learn the uncomfortable truth about this purchase. The supposedly “all-electric” fire engine has a diesel engine in it. The pumps that actually deliver the water to put out fires run off of the diesel engine and the truck itself can run off of diesel when the battery inevitably runs out. So the entire description of “all-electric” is a farce. (MSN)
The water pumps on the fire trucks are massive.
They have to be to move that much water so quickly over a sustained period of time. Also, the engine that powers the vehicle is far larger than the ones in most consumer vehicles, on par with the ones in big rigs.
If there is a significantly large fire taking place, the pumps may be running for hours on end. EV batteries simply are not up to the job.
If a conventional fire truck begins running low on diesel, a refueling truck can be brought over to fill up the tank in a few minutes. You can’t accelerate the battery recharging process.
Here is another fun fact about these trucks, as pointed out by Larry Behrens, Communications Director for Power The Future. Those “all-electric” fire trucks cost 40 to 50 percent more than conventional, diesel models. The one that Bernalillo County purchased cost $1.8 million. That’s roughly $600,000 more than standard diesel truck costs and that bill was saddled on the taxpayers of the county as well as the entire state thanks to the Governor’s “generous” grant. (It’s funny how these politicians are always able to be so generous with your money, isn’t it?)
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An electrified mining truck will require a truck of similar size to haul it’s battery!
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Study: The Amount of Copper Needed for EVs Is ‘Impossible for Mining Companies to Produce’
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/05/27/study-the-amount-of-copper-needed-for-evs-is-impossible-to-produce/
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As if we needed to be told..
A Michigan University study
“the current rate of copper production is insufficient to meet the projected demand for the metal in the coming years.”
Basically a Tesla battery has 30kg of copper @ $US10 a kg. $US300 or $A500.
But it’s not the price, it’s the availability. And the symptom of a problem in society is one where stealing copper metal is common. Traffic lights in South Africa. Charger cables in the UK. Train line conductors in Australia.
This new electric world runs on copper. And we cannot crank up copper production easily.
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Australia is a case in point.
In Australia, the early mines of South Australia were Copper. “South Australia’s importance as a copper producer was maintained with further discoveries at Wallaroo in 1859 and Moonta in 1861. These mines were on large, rich deposits and were worked continuously for more than 60 years.”
“Australia is home to 13 per cent of the world’s copper resources – second only to Chile – and South Australia hosts almost 70 per cent of that resource. Most significantly, much of this resource is yet to be developed.”
Major copper mines in South Australia include: Olympic Dam (BHP) – Total resource of 11,320 Mt at 0.71% Cu, 0.23% U3O8, 0.31 g/t Au and 1.31 g/t Ag.
But we hear nothing of this huge opportunity for Australia. We are told we should start assembling solar panels and compete in the world market with China in labour costs?
There is something very wrong with Albanese’s vision for Australian manufacturing. But what can you expect? His whole life has been dedicated to mastering the labor party machine from the view of a dedicated communist. So its about overpriced manual labor and avoiding using our cheap and plentiful fossil fuels. And we taxpayers are funding his vision with billions? $1Billion on a quantum computer and another $8Billion on Turnbull’s pointless Snowy II? With Genius like this, we can only prosper.
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If something needs developing in modern Australia, you can certain it either won’t be or will take unreasonable amounts of time due to feral labour unions, excessive government regulations and a general “can’t do” attitude toward useful projects. Plus the price of “green” energy makes it cheaper to export rocks to be refined elsewhere to places with non-woke energy policies like China than to do so in Australia.
It’s amazing (but believable) that in Australia with 13% of the world’s copper resources we actually have a copper shortage. My electrician just told me he’s taken a huge hit for another dramatic increase in the cost of copper cabling which feeds into housing prices plus housing maintenance prices.
Also, he said, the cost of copper has caused some electricians to start using aluminium cabling in domestic wiring (apparently now legal in Australia). It’s OK for utility cabling but in domestic cabling it has to be done 100% correctly or it becomes a fire risk in 10 to 30 years. It caused huge problems in the US in the 1960’s and 1970’s leading to it being banned or restricted to qualified installers and has caused ongoing problems ever since.
It would be handy if Leftists had some basic science, engineering and general knowledge. They know none of it, but they will be able to tell you, by rote, the names of all the 137 (or whatever) supposed genders. Products of a deliberately dumbed-down education/indoctrination system or just plain wicked, one of the two.
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“Products of a deliberately dumbed-down education/indoctrination system or just plain wicked, one of the two.”
Why not both?
Auto
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The Daniel Andrews Government in Victoria released car number plates with the logo,
‘VICTORIA THE EDUCATION STATE.’ Only the dumbed-down can believe that…
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It’s true and quite apt.
He got the payoff, the power, and the dark crimson glory.
We got the education!
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I guess this sort of fits here
https://notthebee.com/article/these-are-real-majors-that-nyu-students-are-going-into-debt-for-this-is-not-satire
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The two are directly linked .
Once the demand, begins to outpace production capacity, the price will skyrocket, adding to inflation on not just EVs, but all items using this basic metal ( that is everything electrical) especially generators, wind turbines, etc
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Two observations:
1) Australia always follows the bad and failed ideas of others.
2) The Left always destroy the pleasures and conveniences of others.
In that spirit, many people don’t realise, and it appears to have escaped the attention of Australian Leftists and Governments, that in Europe they limit vacuum cleaner power to 900W.
https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/ecodesign-and-energy-label/product-list/vacuum-cleaners_en
I wonder how long before some Australian regressive Leftist (a tautology) politician or public serpent picks up on this idea on their next taxpayer-funded “fact finding” vacation to Europe?
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Yet we have all the angst about “falling behind”
We never seem to fail to keep up with bad ideas
Seeing we dont make much in the way of Vacum cleaners , I guess we inherit the 900W standard automagically
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I can already hear the splashes and smell the diesel as EU boat owners relaunch their $$$multi-million vessels from their dry dock sanctuaries and head back to the Spanish coast. The mystery of why Orcas have been attacking boats has been solved. Yes, it is safe to get back in the water.
Can hardly wait to see the boat skippers adorned with the new fashion trend of “dead salmon hats”.
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DailyMail fail: opening paragraph –
“Killers whales have caused mayhem…”
Passers-by or passer-byes?
I gave up a few sentences later when a ‘marine biologist expert’ claimed “the ocean is a very boring place for a mammal”. Sheesh. More salmon please.
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In my view “Marine biologist expert” lacks meaning. Nonetheless I find the theory about rudders plausible in that the rudder looks like an Orca fin.
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Why is everyone an expert these days instead of a specialist? Why is practice synonymous with expertise? So garbologist for gabo. Uberologist for Uber driver. Baristologist for coffee maker. All accepted experts in The Sciences of rubbish, driving and coffee.
And overnight Australian billionaire Dr Twiggy Forrest with his new PhD in Marine Ecology was caught coming the raw prawn in Paris. Such expertise! And no shellfish motives in his quest for Green hydrogen.
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And now a Rat Catcher is a ‘Freelance Rodent Operative’.
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Yes, but that would be the rat? Freelance Rodent Location and elimination specialist perhaps? Or just Ratologist.
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I just heard on a regular radio report to 2GB from Britain a discussion on the rash of lithium battery fires here and there that the Luton Airport fire was attributed to an EV. That fire took 100 other cars with it. We always suspected it was an EV fire but it now seems confirmed. EVs should have a sign saying do not park near me.
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That fire took 1500 others cars with it.
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…and (ultimately) the whole car park where those 1501 cars were parked.
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A popular theory for anti EV exponents, but never actually proven.!
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It is what they would say. I expect it was a common case of assault with battery. After all this is at an airport with massive fire fighting ability and they could not put the fire out?
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FWIW
“Queensland debt heading for $188B but this idiot is going nuts.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/queensland-debt-heading-for-188b-but-this-idiot-is-going-nuts.html
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FWIW
“Government-run science does not, unfortunately, float majestically in the shimmering ether, far above mendacity and bullshit.
Try working with NASA, the EPA, the NIH, or any other government science agency to understand why.”
https://martinhackworth.substack.com/p/government-run-science-does-not-unfortunately?initial_medium=video
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FWIW – The YSM in action
“The Old Gray Lady In Distress”
https://reason.com/volokh/2024/05/25/the-old-gray-lady-in-distress/
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Just how much money does Hollywood have? At the moment, it seems to have a limitless supply, so much so they can keep making bombs that lose enormous sums of money. Theyy’ve been making cr4p ‘woke’ movies for a few years now and it’s very clear that movie fans don’t like them, yet they make more, and more and more. One particular favourite for them is the ‘girlboss’ story, which aims to demonstrate that, while women are graceful, empathic, smart and beautiful, they are also tougher and stronger than mere males.
Is your town under attack by a mob of heavily armed terrorists? You need a gun toting super soldier (who happens also to be a supermodel AND a doting mother). Evil aliens? What you need to fight them is a skinny blonde with wonderful hair, a kind spirit and a BIG EFFIN GUN who shouts a lot. See? Girls are simultaneously victims of horrible men but also hard as toughened steel (plus cleverer).
The latest nonsense is, as is often the case, a hijacking of a popular franchise, this time Mad Max. They already dumped Max for Maxine the last time out, but ‘Mad Max Furiosa’ takes girlbossing to olympic level absurdity, plus the female lead is almost, maybe, could be a bit ‘boyish’ (nudge nudge wink wink woke). It needs to make $400M to break even but, so far and despite launching across a long holiday weekend, it sold just $59M.
So when will the money run out? Does the good stuff (if it still gets made) make enough to cover these losses?
[Found in the bin. no idea why. Did your email change? You appeared as a new user, maybe that’s it. – LVA]
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Mad max 1989 was made for $300 000. Mel got $10000. They spent $30 000 building the car.
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Max’s yellow Interceptor was a 1974 Ford Falcon XB sedan (previously a Victoria police car) with a 351 c.i.d. Cleveland V8 engine.
Has Simon fallen in love with ICE V8 engines? The age of miracles!
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Depends very much on which accountant you speak to and whether this is for tax purposes.
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I dont think the have a lot right now. The movies you see today a generally the result of financing availability 3+ years ago. Things are starting to change, it will be interestimg to see what they do.
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‘Can’t sell its cars’: Horror news for Tesla owners as prices plunge
The cost of buying a Tesla, the world’s most popular electric vehicle, has plunged in recent times, pointing to trouble at the auto giant.
A slump in demand for Teslas and a backlog of supply of new vehicles have seen prices slashed in Australia, sparking concern and anger among owners of the iconic electric vehicles.
About this time two years ago, a Model Y rear-wheel drive was fetching $72,300 drive away, with the price dipping marginally to about $69,000 some 12 months later.
Right now, the top-selling EV from the American automaker, owned and run by controversial billionaire Elon Musk, is considerably cheaper – in the ballpark of $60,900.
A Sunshine Coast man picked up his new Model Y recently, which he bought for $60,000 plus on-road coasts, and was dismayed to see the same deal two weeks later for $5000 less.
Is the country’s fascination with EVs already over? Not quite, Dr Dwyer said.
EV sales have plummeted in China on the back of reduced consumer spending while trade tariffs imposed on the country by the United States and mooted by Europe have hurt EV exports, he explained.
In Australia, a lack of trade tariffs and a view that it’s still something of an untapped market have seen major Chinese players, particularly BYD, send more models and more stock here.
“I think Australia looks like a really attractive market,” he said.
“One-in-10 cars sold here are EVs. There’s a lot of activity from Chinese brands and so more and more choice is coming to market.”
Demand for EVs in Australia might not be as a “exponential” as it was last year, but Hussein Dia, an expert in future urban mobility at Swinburne University of Technology, doesn’t see it falling dramatically.
“Over the past three years, we have doubled the number of EVs sold in Australia,” Professor Dia said. “It’s slower, but it’s not a disaster, in my opinion. And I don’t think the trend will continue.”
“There is still a risk that the Australian market also plateaus and slows down, as we’ve seen in more developed markets.
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I tend to agree with Dwyer. One problem (yes there are many), with evs is they are too expensive, and too big. IF these price falls (a model y for $55K?) and the smaller Chinese cars hit city markets, I think you’d see a bigger uptake in the future.
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I wonder what a “backlog of supply” even means
They like to talk about percentage increases , when the base is minimal.
If thing were rosey, words would not need torturing
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Did anyone pick up on the finer details of the NSW weekend announcement of their rollout of 600+ local roadside EV charge stations ?
Within this $200+ million tax payer funded deal was a Sydney selective group of 65 chargers that will provide 7kWh of charge FREE to anyEV owner !
So that means that every NSW taxpayer is going to to paying the charging costs for city living EV owners…..WHY ?
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Maybe I should just buy a battery … stick it in the back of my diesel ute … charge it at the free outlet and the take it back to heat the house?
I mean, cost of heating seems to be the pain point lately.
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“charge it at the free outlet and the take it back to heat the house?”
Love it! Clever people like you will always subvert the Govt’s worst intentions!
Why subsidise inner-city Lefties?? Well, they’re a big voting block that swings left and right, and it costs nothing for the politicians to throw that money at them.
Are you SURE democracy is the best system?
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Last time inner city swung right was????
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The kicker is the falling price. 50% in one year for McMaster.
The problem is simple. He bought his car on finance for a massive 120,000 Pound, say $240,000 and a year later when he was fed up with it he found the dealer would not take it back. The dealer could not sell them new. And the resale price was 60,000 Pound, $120,000. So he MacMaster owed $120,000 for one year’s driving so about $10 a mile real cost. This meant he had to pay the balance which he did not have.
We all know cars drop dramatically in the first year, but not Porsche, the closest you could come to an investment. Now MacMaster could not sell it and hope to repay the loan. He was broke.
And people find massive debt if they finance and all such cars are financed and therefore unaffordable. That in turn drives down the price. That’s not a risk, it’s a financial disaster. People don’t think you are rich and clever, quite the opposite.
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And among his many complaints, he found when the car was serviced they took an option away from him, an option he had on the car since new. Someone decided he should not have had the option of the welcome door opening function in the first place. So they removed it. MacMaster correctly considered that outright theft and showed how you never own the fully connected car. Porsche do.
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FWIW
“It Gets Rainier”
Willis E explores further.
“Well, since I was on a roll with my last post Rainergy, I thought I’d look further at the Copernicus global rainfall dataset. I started by looking at the change in global rainfall over time.”
“Right … that’s totally believable …”
“Seeing the inverse relationship between the northern and the southern hemispheres made me wonder how well the models managed to hindcast the rainfall over the same period, and whether the models found the same mirroring of the NH and SH. For example, in the real world the northern hemisphere (blue line in Figure 2 above) is wetter than the southern (red line) … do the models find this difference?
So I went to the marvelous KNMI website and got the CMIP6 model average data. And when I graphed it up, my eyebrows went up to my hairline and I busted out laughing …”
“These are the Tinkertoy™ models that our noble climate cognoscenti are using to predict the climate in the year 2100? We’re abandoning the world’s reliable energy sources based on these ludicrous models??? …
Madness. Tragic madness.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/05/27/it-gets-rainier/
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CMIP6 modelling groups must have tried extremely hard to get rainfall that wrong.
Where’s the embarrassment?
Do they instead want credit for the effort they put in getting it totally wrong?
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The BOM weather forecast for me today states 10% chance of rain and probable rainfall 0.0mm.
What does that mean?
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There are a series of children’s books on “Bottersnikes and Gumbles”.
This is BOM advancing support for the bottersnikes indulging in “dry water swimming”
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Maybe the BOM are using the “super dooper” computer that Dan Andrews was raving about during the Wuflu pandemic. It made no sense either.
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I think I’ve experienced one of those days. It was overcast when I started out to the shed and I had about 5 drops of rain hit my hat on the way. Then nothing more. So, some rain(!), but didn’t register in the gauge.
Cheers
Dave B
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Steve that means it might rain but it might not be much – if anything – if it does.
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Well wouldn’t that be described as 10% chance of rain, probable rainfall 1-2mm or similar? Saying there will be 0.0mm rain is unequivocal, as definitive as saying there will be 11.34mm. Weird. Then again, I don’t think the BOM is particularly diligent with its weather forecasts these days. There are more important things on its agenda …
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Their seasonal forecasts are usually short of the mark, Australia is going to bake this winter.
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/outlooks/#/overview/summary
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FWIW – the US medical system
“The Doctor Will KILL You Now!”
“No kidding.
One professor said that a student in the operating room could not identify a major artery when asked, then berated the professor for putting her on the spot. Another said that students at the end of their clinical rotations don’t know basic lab tests and, in some cases, are unable to present patients.
“I don’t know how some of these students are going to be junior doctors,” the professor said. “Faculty are seeing a shocking decline in knowledge of medical students.”
And for those who’ve seen the competency crisis up close, double standards in admissions are a big part of the problem. “All the normal criteria for getting into medical school only apply to people of certain races,” an admissions officer said. “For other people, those criteria are completely disregarded.” ”
Much more at
https://www.market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251381
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DIEversity hires in operation.
/puns intendead
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DIE- gives the game away
DEI- Latin for God
EDI- Electronic data interchange
EID- Muslims bagged this on
IDE- Hard drive standard
IED- Quite the Bomb!
Fun with Anagrams!
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Never go to a young doctor or dentist!
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We’re gonna need faster motorbikes
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Japan faces uptick in forged ‘My Number’ ID cards amid system errors
Authorities in Japan are dealing with a rise in cases involving forged ‘My Number’ national ID cards, a critical component of the country’s personal identification and social security system. This follows a recent report that the system is facing questions about persistent errors in its issuing of documents.
The ‘My Number’ system assigns a unique 12-digit identification number to each resident, facilitating various administrative processes including tax filings, social security, and disaster response. However, recent investigations have revealed a sophisticated network of counterfeiters producing high-quality forgeries, undermining the system’s integrity and posing serious risks to national security and public trust.
Reports indicate that these forged ID cards are being used for a range of illicit activities, with the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications noting a marked increase in incidents over the past year, with more than 500 cases under investigation as of April 2024, compared to 200 in the same period last year.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240510/p2a/00m/0na/014000c
But have no fear, she’ll be right mate, here in Oz.
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As electricity prices soar, 43% in Japan survey want to cut summer air conditioner use
OSAKA — Forty-three percent of respondents in a survey by Japan’s Panasonic Corp. want to cut back on using air conditioners this summer, with soaring energy prices possibly to blame.
Government subsidies for household electricity bills that began in January 2023 to offset rising consumer prices will end in May 2024, and all 10 major electric power companies are expected to raise their electricity rates for June (billed in July). Customers of Kansai Electric Power Co. and Kyushu Electric Power Co., in particular, will face a roughly 40% increase compared to the same month last year.
Between May 8 and 12, Panasonic surveyed 555 air conditioner owners across Japan aged 20 to 69. A total of 81% said they felt “very” or “somewhat” burdened by the increase in electricity prices. When asked how they plan to use air conditioners this summer, 10% said they wanted to “hold back considerably” while 33% said they wanted to “somewhat hold back” from using them.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20240527/p2a/00m/0li/018000c
They can move to Oz where we have renewables and cheap power. 😁
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It was only last year that Albo gave Vietnam $105,000,000 to fight climate change
Not long after 2 “Australian” men were release from detention
Oops
Nothing to see here
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I wonder how many members of the Vietcong ‘swarmed’ to meet him? Has everyone conveniently forgotten that we were there killing them a few decades back?
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Heard a distinguished oceanologist this morning on 3AW explaining mangrove “migration” as a reasonably accurate indicator of ocean level.
Being just a simple tree-lover, I tend to agree – over many seasons the tide strip vegetation finds its “survival belt”: too far out of water the bush dries off, too far into water dies of rot, or luck of oxygen,..
A possibility of beach (sand) movement rather than water was also mentioned on that 3AW shaw.
Anyway, they agreed that ocean level raises about 3 mm/year, say – 0.5 m in 150 years.
Which coincides with age of industrialisation in the West and scientific exploration of Australia, so the question is – mangrove or not, do any signs of 0.5 m rise of ocean level exist in Australia?
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The measurements at Fort Denison in Sydney Harbour show that any rise in sea level since recordings began is minimal.
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Thanks, Jonny.
Minimal – is how much? Let us say – it is few millimetres (please correct me anyone …)
Is it a unique super stable spot in Australia? In the world?
Few mm is about 1% of the number accepted by “scientific authorities”.
How long a plumber would keep his job for if he insisted on making his work 1% correct?
Any other trade or profession where that would be allowed?
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It is more like 15cm
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/sltrends_station.shtml?id=680-140
https://psmsl.org/data/obtaining/stations/65.php
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>”It is more like 15cm”
Huh? Over what period?
0.8 mm/yr is 8 mm/decade times 7 decades of human “attribution” (supposedly) = 56 mm or 5.6 cm.
Total of 14 decades is still only 11.2 cm.
And there’s no anthropogenic “acceleration” in the series – it’s a monotonic linear rise i.e. entirely natural.
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What part of “at Fort Denison” to you find difficult to understand?
It’s a block of sandstone stacked on a bed of sandstone underneath and none of it is moving around. We have photos going back more than 100 years and the tides leave a very obvious mark on the side.
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You can’t photograph hundreds of averaged measurements. Good luck finding a scientist who does science your way.
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did you look at the links
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Try this as a guide for any Alarmist to think about –
https://saltbushclub.com/2019/07/14/sydney-sea-levels/
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Not really. The guy has pulled out single tidal data points that have nothing to do with mean sea levels.
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And the Sea Levels have risen by how many metres in nearly 150 years? LOL.
London is under water. NY is under water. Sydney is under water. Pacific Island Atolls are growing………Try harder
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Why are you making things up and then laughing at them yourself? Seek therapy.
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>”The guy has pulled out single tidal data points that have nothing to do with mean sea levels”
Again, huh?
The data is literally “100 YEARS OF MEAN SEA LEVELS AT FORT DENISON, SYDNEY”
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Not the data he is presenting.
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“Accordingly, the mean sea level at Sydney in 2019 is 6 centimetres lower than the mean sea level at Sydney in 1914 when the Bureau Of Meteorology commenced recording Mean Sea Level.”
Yup! ..and the rich are still buying seafront properties, that counts for more than any science.
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Scientists don’t use poor data. Check the data source yourself.
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Fremantle, which along with Sydney has one of the world’s longest-duration tidal gauges, shows an average of 1.7mm/year over its 120+ year lifespan. And it’s NOT accelerating.
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yet
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OMG something may, possibly, perhaps happen.
And the same correspondent castigates someone up thread for making things up.
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Mexico: a hailstorm in a heatwave
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_se59u06lqJ1z23obp_720.mp4
Hope they brought the solar panels inside!
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Better headlines if they didn’t
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FWIW – tips on what to look for
“Those ‘All Electric’ Fire Trucks are a Sad Joke”
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2024/05/24/those-all-electric-firetrucks-are-a-sad-joke-n3788988
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Signature of the climate optimum in the high country.
https://notrickszone.com/2024/05/27/new-study-chinas-loess-plateau-7-8c-warmer-than-today-for-much-of-the-last-4000-years/
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Interesting comment in Tim Blair’s opinion piece in today’s Daily Telegraph. The article is about the number of e-things that go e-boom. He states “more people were killed in 6 months by the likes of bike-boosting batteries than have been killed throughout the entire 68 year history of industrial nuclear energy.”. Food for thought. ToM
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More food for thought
Every time you go to the beach you take a Uranium bath!
Seawater contains 3 ppb of Uranium which is enough to allow commericial extraction once the cost falls enough to competed with mined Uranium.
https://www.ansto.gov.au/news/promising-material-provides-a-simple-effective-method-capable-of-extracting-uranium-from
Could be the next fad – add a smidgen of Uranium.
https://www.designforleisure.com/post/taking-the-waters
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Google’s Latest Search Tool Is Telling Us to Put Glue on Our Pizza, And Eat Rocks
Google has rolled out its latest experimental search feature on Chrome, Firefox and the Google app browser to hundreds of millions of users.
“AI Overviews” saves you clicking on links by using generative AI – the same technology that powers rival product ChatGPT – to provide summaries of the search results. Ask “how to keep bananas fresh for longer” and it uses AI to generate a useful summary of tips such as storing them in a cool, dark place and away from other fruits like apples.
But ask it a left-field question and the results can be disastrous, or even dangerous.
AI Overviews helpfully tells you that “Whack-A-Mole is a classic arcade game where players use a mallet to hit moles that pop up at random for points. The game was invented in Japan in 1975 by the amusement manufacturer TOGO and was originally called Mogura Taiji or Mogura Tataki.”
But AI Overviews also tells you that “astronauts have met cats on the Moon, played with them, and provided care”.
More worryingly, it also recommends “you should eat at least one small rock per day” as “rocks are a vital source of minerals and vitamins”, and suggests putting glue in pizza topping.
https://www.sciencealert.com/googles-latest-search-tool-is-telling-us-to-put-glue-on-our-pizza-and-eat-rocks
More internet “challenges” for the lefty loonies.
They’ll probably do the glue one as they have such a history with it. 😉
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I don’t know where this is based, but over the last 3 months at least, they have put out dozens/hundreds of 15 minute videos, that have a totally devastating view, of what is happening in China. It’s all put there visually, in front of your eyes, so how/where are they getting their material, China being so tight?? It’s not a pretty picture! I can’t figure out how they have survived on the net.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChinaObserver0/videos
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Check out China Uncensored for a more savage western view of the Chinese facades.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFP46yVT-GG4o1TgXn-04Q/videos
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Pay me enough & I’ll make videos like that of any country! Last week it was one showing how deserted the streets are in Ukraine since Zelensky lowered the age and exemptions for military service, any man was in hiding… No, filmed just before dawn, in any city that will show deserted streets.
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Singapore woman jailed after police pulled data from car infotainment system
In the first such case in Singapore, the police tapped into the infotainment system of a woman’s car to extract data, which they then used to nab her for speeding.
She was jailed for five days, and disqualified from driving for two years.
The police’s new vehicle forensics capability was revealed at the Police Workplan Seminar 2024 on May 24 at the Singapore University of Technology and Design in Upper Changi Road.
The police said they are preparing to roll it out fully in 2024.
The incident involving the speedster happened in 2022.
The police’s Cybercrime Command received a request from the Traffic Police in late 2022, to extract the data from her vehicle’s infotainment system to investigate a possible speeding offence.
Officers used the tool to extract datasets including call logs, messages and GPS data.
https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2024/05/24/speedster-jailed-after-spore-police-tapped-gps-route-data-from-in-car-system-in-first-case-here
There’s a nice business opportunity looming here! 😎
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Why would you ever speed in Singapore? The island is so small and built up and busy. Get out on the open road – somewhere like Australia in the NT or a German Autobahn.
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130km/h in the NT isn’t quite the same as a German autobahn…
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You mean like doing a 150km/hr on an Italian Autostrada and being passed most of the time!
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When driving my leased Merc on Germany’s autobahns, used to sit at 160-180 on the long stretches. But when travelling with the locals, they used to sit at 220-250 on the long drives. Felt a lot safer than driving on WA’s freeways.
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Freeways in WA?
mostly 80 km/hr with a few at 100
Maybe I should visit Perth more often?
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I was the same. 160-180 seemed about the go with the flow speed. Obviously some going faster (me included at times) but generally that was enough to not be in the way.
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I should have kept my 1958 VW beetle – no radio and even no fuel guage – just a lever on the floor to switch to reserve in the fuel tank just above your lap.
I still rate this VW as one of the best cars I have owned – heaps of great memories.
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I had a 62 1/2 VW Beetle and was great in the Outback with the front torsion bar suspension that moved back and up away from corrugations, and put a 1960 Porsche Carrera motor was a 1.6-liter flat-four engine used in the Porsche 356 Carrera in a 1953 split rear window to go rallying – burnt out clutches -sold motor and 53 VW and rallied 62 1/2 VW Beetle
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If Singapore can’t make techno-fascism work then no one can.
Do those trains run on time or what? Huh?
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Tuesday sarcasm
Being famous on social media is basically the same as being rich playing Monopoly.
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Not so funny!
How much does a YouTuber with 1 million subscribers make? The average YouTuber with 1 million subscribers typically makes roughly $936,000 a year.
American YouTube personality MrBeast is the most-subscribed individual and second most-subscribed channel overall, with 254 million subscribers as of April 2024.
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Fun Facts: The Elon Musk Connection with YouTube
The first version of the PayPal electronic payments system was launched in 1999 by Confinity.
In March 2000, Confinity merged with X.com, an online financial services company founded in March 1999 by Elon Musk, Harris Fricker, Christopher Payne, and Ed Ho. Musk was optimistic about the future success of the money transfer business Confinity was developing. Musk and Bill Harris, then-president and CEO of X.com, disagreed about the potential future success of the money transfer business and Harris left the company in May 2000. In October of that year, Musk decided that X.com would terminate its other internet banking operations and focus on payments. In the same month, Elon Musk was replaced by Peter Thiel as CEO of X.com, which was renamed PayPal in June 2001 and went public in 2002
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California, founded by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion, since which it operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
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“Get a haircut and get a real job… I’m ten times richer than my big brother Bob, he’s got a haircut and got a real job..”
Georg Thorogood and the Destroyers…
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Or being on the “cool” table at the cafeteria in the mental asylum.
Meme: https://ifunny.co/picture/being-popular-on-face-book-like-i-sitting-at-cool-DD676GV4B
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Tuesday entertainment: how to sweep a woman off her feet
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_se22yngqfE1w5pr9j.mp4
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Marilyn Monroe once famously said,
And she wasn’t wrong.
10 Ways to Sweep Her Off Her Feet
https://www.zoosk.com/date-mix/dating-advice/how-to-woo-a-woman/
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Pentagon Seeks to Establish Army Drone Corps as US Lags Behind Russia and China
According to the Congress bill, a drone corps should oversee the development, deployment and combat use of small aircraft, as well as systems to combat drones of a potential enemy. The initiative seeks to organize mass training of small drone operators, both aerial and copters, including FPVs. The drone corps, allocated to a separate branch, will become the 22nd in the US Army, along with the army aviation, air defense, mechanized infantry, tank, and artillery troops.
Pentagon’s Pushback
At the Pentagon, however, not everyone is in favor of the idea.
US Deputy Commander Gabe Camarillo said that he understands the legislators’ interest in the development of unmanned systems due to their mass use in Ukraine and the Middle East. Nevertheless, in his opinion, the creation of a separate kind of troops is not a proper approach, at least for the moment.
So far, it is not the drones themselves that are the priority for the US Armed Forces, it is the defense equipment to counter them.
According to Camarillo, since 2017, the US Army has spent $1.8 billion on developing electronic warfare systems, small air defenses, and additional refurbishing for armored equipment. When considering the 2026 fiscal budget, even more funds will be allocated for these needs.
On the whole, drone development in China is likewise an issue of concern for the Pentagon. Chinese-made Mavic drones have been used by both sides of the Ukrainian conflict for more than two years now. This fact indicates that the rate and scale of their production are very high.
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They will still be obsolete and cost Australian Taxpayers $240 BILLION!
ARA General Belgrano (C-4) was an Argentine Navy light cruiser in service from 1951 until 1982. Originally commissioned by the U.S. Navy as USS Phoenix, she saw action in the Pacific theatre of World War II before being sold to Argentina. She was sunk during the Falklands War in 1982.
Makes Snowy 2.0 at $20 BILLION look like an absolute bargain
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The Yanks are an ice-age behind Ukraine and Russia with aerial drones, they just have no idea of how effectively they can be used. They thought a drone destroying an Abrams tank was laughable… until it happened. Naval drones will be even more devastating if you’re the navy that relies on mega-sized and mega-expensive ships, not to mention the autonomous under-sea drones set up as sub-killers that will continue the war after their country has been annihilated.
A flood of million-dollar anti-sub drones is still cheaper than a submarine, a small high-explosive package that just sits in the South China Sea awaiting the West’s latest submarines.. or maybe even an aircraft carrier.
All the SciFi I read when I was young coming true!
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Not sure what you base that on really. The Ukrainians are making effective use of drones and I seriously doubt that is all home grown non NATO development.
I think the big focus as they say is defence. Nobody has a good response to being swarmed yet.
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Opinion US foreign policy
America breaks global rules as it defends the free world
Washington should dial down its claim to be protecting an international order that is clearly in decline
GIDEON RACHMAN
As an organising principle for western foreign policy, the “rules-based international order” has long suffered from some disastrous flaws. It is a phrase that means nothing to a normal person. As a result, it is a deeply uninspiring concept. People might go to war to defend freedom or the motherland. Nobody is going to fight and die for the RBIO.
Nonetheless, senior western policymakers seem to be in love with the concept. Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, is fond of appealing to the rules-based international order when he visits China. Rishi Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, has put the RBIO at the centre of UK foreign policy. His likely successor, Sir Keir Starmer, a former lawyer, will be just as committed to the idea.
In opposing Russian aggression, Blinken argues that the US is standing up for a world based on rules rather than raw power. That is an attractive idea. But rules are meant to be consistent. And America’s own actions are undermining vital parts of the rules-based order.
The past fortnight has brutally exposed these contradictions. The 100 per cent tariffs that the Biden administration has imposed on Chinese electric vehicles are virtually impossible to reconcile with international rules on trade. As a paper for Bruegel, a think-tank, puts it: “The tariffs . . . quash any notion that the US intends to abide by World Trade Organization rules.”
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Western businesses backtrack on their Russia exit plans
Companies such as Avon Products, Air Liquide and Reckitt remain in country as bureaucratic obstacles to leaving increase</strong>
Western companies including Avon Products, Air Liquide and Reckitt have remained in Russia despite saying they planned to leave after the invasion of Ukraine, as bureaucratic obstacles increase and consumer activity rebounds.
The Natura-owned cosmetics brand, the French industrial gas producer and the UK consumer group that produces everything from painkillers to condoms are among hundreds of western groups that have stayed in the country since the full-scale invasion in 2022.
“Many European companies have found themselves really between a rock and a hard place,” said one executive working with western companies in the country. “They said they’d leave. They were presented with a choice of buyers that were unacceptable to them.”
Overall, more than 2,100 multinationals have stayed in the Russia since 2022, the Kyiv School of Economics has found, compared with about 1,600 international companies that have either quit the market or scaled back operations.
Among the more than 2,000 companies that have said they will stay in Russia — which include consumer groups Mondelez, Unilever, Nestlé and Philip Morris — some have become more open about their plans. Mondelez’s chief executive recently told the FT that investors did not “morally care” whether groups left the country.
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China did it to Australia with Barley, Wine, Coal and Lobsters. Totally against WTO rules.
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But we subvert WTO rules running ‘buy local’ public procurement via State Government who are not signatories to WTO – and are opening up a whole ‘public morals’ debate on live sheep. Then the Defence-Tech stuff – don’t get me started! Or our lack of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative compliance.
I am sure the debate looks a whole lot different to trade experts in China. All for trade for peaceful relations, but we don’t really walk the walk either (actions vs words)
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“Blinken argues that the US is standing up for a world based on rules rather than raw power” good grief
I will put this down with Dick Cheney saying “America is not a warlike nation” I recall spitting out my coffee
Rules based order means whatever rules we say are rules that are good for the US. If any rules arent good for the US , like the International Criminal Court edicts, they can be ignored. However if anyone else does the same thing its bad. In situation based, not rules based. Geo politics is riddled with hypocrisy. Lavrov was waxing lyrical about countries deciding their own futures and then next sentence started talking about a set of actions some Israel should take based on a Eurasian foreign ministers chat fest.
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the “rules-based international order”
Oh, this one…
“The so-called rule-based order proposed by the West allows it to live without rules, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, speaking at the Valdai Discussion Club plenary session.”
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Could the underlying mathematics behind measurement of radiation to assess cancer risk be wrong? https://rumble.com/v4wlfi3-cancer-risk-assessment-its-wretched-history-and-its-impact-on-public-health.html
I also read recently about the Chicago Meat packers origins of public health in the US 1. Suited the largest companies only, small guys went out of business. 2. about 40 years later, they found the metal rods they were sticking in to ‘test’ the meat were introducing bacteria and causing rotten meat.
I am starting to think this ‘public health’ isn’t all it is cracked up to be
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Tin Foil Hat for a Tesla!
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There is a new Acting Chair of the Net Zero Economy Agency –
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2024/05/albanese-nett-zero-economy.html
Here is the Net Zero Economy in a picture –
https://au.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrjYOqkgVVm6E8NhTA36At.;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3Nj?p=stone+age+pictures&ei=UTF-8&h=1551&type=fc_AA30D90E577_s69_g_e_d_n1_c999¶m1=7¶m2=eJwtjM0KgzAQhF9ljwoSkxqV4NUn6FU8pDHVJdGIP6T06buBsoeZ%2FYaZGaehG5%2B94FwqoYZi3OgXpImTGBKlUoB7SgRnQlZM1axNcLaBqL7J3prcGr7ovS5rxiGLuE0hnrBdQDXeAYFGdvBpZA56372N9uXwKuuqZVUDmVuu1Rfg0VmYrXEhB7McYbWleNBiOjj1Wx%2F4r%2FwAgbI5PA%3D%3D&hsimp=yhs-90&hspart=fc&fr=yhs-fc-90&th=100.5&tw=179.1&imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fcropper.watch.aetnd.com%2Fcdn.watch.aetnd.com%2Fsites%2F2%2F2018%2F07%2FNeanderthal-Fire-517443598.jpg&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.history.com%2Ftags%2Fstone-age&size=883KB&name=Stone+Age+%7C+HISTORY+Channel&oid=1&w=2756&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.E1dtbyh9ErG1yzyu6pPOlwHaEK%26pid%3DApi%26rs%3D1%26c%3D1%26qlt%3D95%26w%3D179%26h%3D100&tt=Stone+Age+%7C+HISTORY+Channel&sigr=_YEvTgHVHXRA&sigit=J12fTUkrg4zg&sigi=SbvHyhgCULM.&sign=uScrWTS2fi9P&sigt=uScrWTS2fi9P
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Whoops – Try this one –
https://www.gettyimages.com.au/detail/illustration/people-on-stilt-houses-on-lake-constance-royalty-free-illustration/1275925955
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I wonder what the salary will be?
And why a lawyer for what would theoretically be a science or engineering position if attaining Nut Zero was a valid aspiration?
And Nut Zero is just the Left’s rebadging of Pol Pot’s Year Zero and for the same reason:
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Useless sinecure for mates… Govt is full of them! How else would they solve the unemployment caused by automation.
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FWIW
“Rude and Crude but Definitely Justified – Quadrant Online”
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/israel/2024/05/rude-and-crude-but-definitely-justified/
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Fake greens and other Leftists who pretend to care for the environment always go on about “microplastics” in an attempt to remove these convenience products from use by non-Elites, but what about microplastics from windmills?
Copied from Farcebook:
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“wind turbines lose hundreds of kilos of carbon microfibers”
that is quite good imagery. Effective at getting the message across. These seemingly passive things are an environmental nightmare
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Indeed they do, from their leading edges, due to their very high speeds. And they are often impregnated with BPA, a toxic substance that is now banned in Europe.
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They made a movie about this:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/if_its_tuesday_this_must_be_belgium
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This is a pretty interesting, and maybe comprehensive look at the state of the world’s rare earth markets? It beats me how all this information, that doesn’t show China in a good light, is flowing out. Where does it come from? This commentator even has an aussi accent!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v7RCW0gH7w
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“The Lithium-Ion Battery ‘Energy Storage’ Facility Blaze You Hadn’t Heard About…Is Still Burning UPDATE”
Started 15th May. Today
“No expected “time of full containment” has yet to be announced.
YOICKS”
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/24/the-lithium-ion-battery-energy-storage-facility-blaze-you-hadnt-heard-aboutis-still-burning-n3788991
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FWIW –
“IT HAS BEGUN: Farmers paid to slaughter cows early”
“The Beef Carbon Reduction scheme has begun in Northern Ireland.”
https://petersweden.substack.com/p/it-has-begun-farmers-paid-to-slaughter
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If its cows , I would have thought it was more a threat to butter than beef.
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