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    Junk of the day from CLIMATE HOME NEWS:
    “As a new year gets underway, we’re looking back and taking stock. One of the things 2024 will be remembered for is (almost certainly) being the first year that’s more than 1.5C hotter than pre-industrial times. Because of this heat, World Weather Attribution (WWA) scientists found that climate-worsened disasters killed thousands and displaced millions. “The top resolution for 2025 must be transitioning away from fossil fuels,” said WWA’s lead Friederike Otto. Will governments and corporations follow through?”
    https://eldik.r.sp1-brevo.net/mk/mr/sh/SMJz09SDriOHUn5aS3I8wcERTNQ8/gw1nCoVn6uko

    “WWA scientists” is an oxymoron.

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      Bearing in mind the shockingly cold weather of pre industrial times, which coincides with the little ice age, I for one am glad we are1.5c hotter.

      If it weren’t, many billions of people would have died of crop failure and the cold.

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      Philip

      All this does is say to me, what difference does it make? It’s just a number. The world here is exactly the same as it was in the 70s. Well, not exactly. My mother says the winters in the mountains where she grew up the water troughs would freeze over in the winter.

      But to my main point, this makes no difference at all, zero significant difference in outcome. There is no way the summers in this sub tropical location are hotter than they were when I was a kid. No way in this wide world, and I don’t care what your stupid graph says.

      Problem is, people who sit in offices all day, become obsessed with these graphs. But the real world is going gang busters.

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    Orwells 1984 strides amongst us as the freedom to express ourselves becomes ever more prohibited. Ireland’s hate crime bill has just come into effect

    https://www.gov.ie/en/press-release/bcddb-new-hate-crime-legislation-comes-into-force/

    It seems to me that the word ‘Hate’ is used much too readily these days.

    I do not hate anyone but I might dislike them, or fundamentally disagree with them, or be concerned or apprehensive about their stance.

    However it would seem that any of these milder forms of expression can be interpreted as hate and punished accordingly if the person the other end deems it to be so.

    We have some very intolerant members of society and large groups of people who do not like criticism and it seems they are winning as the law and clever lawyers now appear to be on their side and they will close down debate.

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    The motive for the New Orleans shootings seem clear enough.

    However the police seem to be dismissing any link with the tesla vehicle bomb outside trump hotel even though it happened the same day, the soldier involved had served with the killer of New Orleans and they had hired their vehicles through the same app.

    https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/02/suspect-died-tesla-cybertruck-gunshot-wound-las-vegas-police/

    Has anyone heard any plausible- as distinct from wild conspiracy theories- as to the motives of the tesla vehicle guy?

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      Skepticynic

      >…plausible- as distinct from wild conspiracy theories- as to the motives of the tesla vehicle guy?

      Funny how the wild conspiracy theories keep coming true these days.
      Meanwhile, here’s a more mundane possible factor: Matthew Livelsberger, (the Tesla bomber), had just recently had a marriage bust-up level argument with his wife over infidelity.

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        So, suicide whilst his mind was disturbed over a marriage break up?

        But he had gas canisters and all sorts of explosives in the truck and detonated it in a busy area, which suggests he wanted to harm others as well

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          Skepticynic

          >So, suicide whilst his mind was disturbed over a marriage break up?

          While the reported marriage break-up might be a possible contributing factor to motivation for suicide, the fact that he was only one year away from a pension mitigates against it. I haven’t seen reports of any other indications of mental disturbance or reasons for suicide.

          Livensberger was a top-level green beret specialising in remote and autonomous drones and claims an active TS/SCI with UAP and USAP access.

          Do we have any witnesses or security camera footage of the self-driving-capable truck arriving? It’s in front of a hotel so there should be security cameras. I guess without that evidence we’ve just been assuming that he drove the Tesla to that location, and the fatal shot was self administered.

          Regarding the dead body in the truck, is the only form of identification his paper ID which magically survived the fireball, (remember 911?)?

          A comment to a New York Post article asked some obvious questions::

          Why is nobody zeroing in on the drone part of this. A Special Forces guy would have known the blast radius, capabilities, and the restrictions caused by the Cyber Truck. Why a Cyber Truck when an Escalade would have worked better? Why in the front of a Trump Hotel? Anyone with any training would have known the blast radius would be minimal and it would mainly create a fireball. Why die in the vehicle? Unless of course you are a whistle blower on a secret government drone future weapons testing that confounded the east coast for two weeks. Create the illusion of terrorism and hide a murder of a whistle blower.

          Update: A news video released 30 minutes ago by Benny Johnson featuring Sam Shoemate interviewed by Shawn Ryan who was specifically requested by Livensberger to publicise his manifesto.

          Matthew Livensberger emailed Shoemate prior to the truck explosion claiming the US Government and China had “gravitic propulsion systems” and that he was being tracked by the FBI.

          He accused the US of hiding it’s weaponisation of exotic tech and that the drones are hostile Chinese aircraft launched from submarines in the Atlantic in a show of force.

          Livensberger suggests China is preparing for an attack on the US East Coast. He says he is on the run from the FBI with a massive car bomb.

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          Skepticynic

          >gas canisters and all sorts of explosives in the truck and detonated it in a busy area, which suggests he wanted to harm others as well

          As a 19 year green beret Livelsberger was trained in making improvised explosives. He completed three tours of duty in Afghanistan. He also served in Ukraine, Tajikistan, Georgia, and the Congo.

          If Livelsberger had wanted to harm others, he was superbly trained to do exactly that.

          Instead, he did the opposite, choosing a Cybertruck to contain the weak blast and direct it upwards not outwards. He used firecrackers and gas canisters, he detonated in a prominent high publicity area at a quiet time. He did not drive into a crowd and inflict mass casualties.

          >Green Berets interviewed by NYT also expressed surprise at the nature of the bomb—given his knowledge with explosives, Livelsberger could easily have crafted a far deadlier bomb by packing it with shrapnel, but chose to make a bomb that packed less lethal force.

          Spencer Evans, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division said… Livelsberger appeared to have decided to end his life in a way to draw public attention.

          “Although this incident is more public and more sensational than usual, it ultimately appears to be a tragic case of suicide involving a heavily decorated combat veteran who is struggling with PTSD and other issues,”

          “he likely suffered from PTSD and we are also aware that there were potential other family issues or personal grievances in his own life that may have been contributing factors,” Evans said.

          Investigators also discussed letters obtained from Livelsberger’s cellphone in which he called his act “not a terrorist attack” but a “wake up call” for Americans who “only pay attention to spectacles and violence.”

          “We are the United States of America, the best country people to ever exist, but right now we are terminally ill and headed towards collapse,” Livelsberger wrote, adding that it was a way to “cleanse my mind of the brothers I’ve lost and relieved myself of the burden of the lives I took.”

          https://taskandpurpose.com/news/green-beret-las-vegas-mental-health/

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      Yarpos

      Interesting that they both hired EVs . I wonder if thats a coincidence (cheap?) or was done with an eye toward weight and fire potential for chaos they wanted to create.

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      David of Cooyal in Oz

      From the ABC’s “Just In”, not many minutes ago, without any attempt by me to evaluate their position:

      https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/investigators-find-note-by-man-killed-in-cybertruck-explosion/104784248

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    This article is very much in the vein of the Greenland feature I just posted.

    https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/01/03/noaa-global-cooling-in-the-1970s/

    Surely we have known about the global cooling scare of the 70’s and that the globe has been much warmer than now during the Holocene for many decades?

    How is it that these things can be forgotten or ignored? Is it like the Famous Bobby Ewing shower scene in ‘Dallas’ many years ago, when we found out that the previous events had all been a dream?

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      Ian

      A trove of internal documents and research papers has previously established that Exxon knew of the dangers of global heating from at least the 1970s, with other oil industry bodies knowing of the risk even earlier, from around the 1950s. They forcefully and successfully mobilized against the science to stymie any action to reduce fossil fuel use.

      A new study, however, has made clear that Exxon’s scientists were uncannily accurate in their projections from the 1970s onwards, predicting an upward curve of global temperatures and carbon dioxide emissions that is close to matching what actually occurred as the world heated up at a pace not seen in millions of years.

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    UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for December, 2024: +0.62 deg. C

    The Version 6.1 global average lower tropospheric temperature (LT) anomaly for December, 2024 was +0.62 deg. C departure from the 1991-2020 mean, down slightly from the November, 2024 anomaly of +0.64 deg.

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    Sambar

    Over the new year festivities I was at a gathering with about 40 people. Young, old, married single, so a cross section of community. Somehow the subject of anti depressants was brought up and much to my fascination, 14 ladies all readily volunteered that they were consuming these medications. Once again, a good cross section, couple of older ladies right down to a 20 year old, all extolling the virtues of daily medication to “make them feel normal”. I attempted to discover what feeling normal really meant but abandoned this bit of research as wrong for the occasion. Still, as an “oldie” brought up on the mantra of just get on with life, the thought by many that there is a little pill to fix every thing in life was a bit of an eye opener.
    So, also as an oldie I can remember the song with the lyric ” though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill, so go running for the shelter of mothers little helper”. Pity I can’t remember who sang the song.

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    David Maddison

    What’s happened on X to Australia’s anti-Energy Minister, the simpleton Chrissy Bowen?

    I never followed him. I don’t read the rantings of fools.

    I read he was constantly called out for his lies and misinformation and he got sick of it so he left.

    Does anyone know?

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      Eng_Ian

      Care factor zero.

      Like yourself, I wouldn’t care if he wrote about penguins on water slides, his lack of sensibilities has long swayed my opinion of him. Reading any of his waffle and misinformation could do harm to a clear thinker, it should have been removed long ago, it was errors and lies all the way down.

      Maybe he’s got a book deal for a trilogy, the first on unicorn farts, peasant farmers and their windmills and the final part, the new dark ages.

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      David Maddison

      Apparently his lies about climate and energy were fact checked into oblivion.

      https://www.rebelnews.com/australia_s_climate_czar_abandons_x_amid_public_backlash

      Another win for the Thinking Community.

      The beginning of the end of Leftism and wokism.

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        Ian

        Cabinet minister Chris Bowen has quit the social platform X after deciding it was no longer a place for respectful debates about topics like climate change.

        The Climate Change and Energy Minister has instead become active on Bluesky and is also on several other social media platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Threads, all owned by Meta.

        “In considering my approach to social media in 2025, I reached the view that X is no longer a place where you can have an informed, respectful conversation on important issues like climate change,” he said.

        Bowen, like many others, left X after Elon Musk bought the platform in 2022 and now, again like many others, has turned to alternative text-based social media apps like Bluesky and Instagram’s Threads.

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          David of Cooyal in Oz

          When did Bowen ever have ” an informed, respectful conversation ” on anything related to climate or electrical power? Or when did he even accept a polite question challenging his views?
          Just asking, as I avoid listening to him where possible.

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        Philip

        X is now a right wing platform. Under ABC “Dr” Karl’s posts are riddled with critics, basically all it is. He blocked young Will the nuclear Boy and he got destroyed for it.

        Give people free speech, it goes right.

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          Graeme4

          Not so. Musk has said that it’s evenly balanced, 50/50. I presume this is based on the comments.

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            Philip

            Yeah there are plenty of lefties there, but not like it used to be. And where are all the comments in support of their Labor heroes? Aus and UK. Perhaps they’re just indefensible. Has been a pretty big exodus of lefties. Elon wouldn’t want to admit that because he’s a free speech absolutist or is trying his best to be.

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      GlenM

      He’s gone and put his nose in the corner.

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      Graeme4

      Apparently he complained that his biased political comments weren’t being fairly treated, but other commentators said that he would never debate the issues. So he has moved over Bluesky, run by the former Twitter owner.
      It’s interesting that Musk has determined that X users are 50/50 left/right.

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    David Maddison

    https://www.torquenews.com/11826/tesla-cybertruck-owner-straps-gas-powered-generator-truck-bed-creates-first-hybrid-tesla

    Tesla Cybertruck Owner Straps a Gas-Powered Generator to the Truck Bed & Creates the First Hybrid Tesla, Takes 15 Gallons of Fuel to Charge to Full (18.7 MPG)

    A Cybertruck owner was able to create the first hybrid Tesla by mounting a gas-powered generator to the back of the truck. The Cybertruck was able to charge from 12% to 100% using 15 gallons of fuel and had an overall efficiency of 18 miles per gallon.

    SEE LINK FOR REST

    Video:
    https://youtu.be/EK9eRseYoRk

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      Graeme No.3

      Why buy a Cybertruck in the first place?

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        David Maddison

        I think they look cool. If only they were designed as petrol or hybrid.

        As EVs, I think their primary function is for rich, virtual signaling urban wokesters who don’t use the truck for any work purpose.

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          Philip

          We had a Landrover Defender 90 short wheel base – a real 4WD, would go up anything – and we got into driving remote bush tracks in the Great Divide for a while. You’re a long way from nowhere with a car and a map.

          Then one day the thing stopped on the highway, was a sensor or something stupid like that, but required a tow truck. It destroyed my confidence to go remote again, I am no mechanic, and even if I was it wouldn’t have helped me.

          Can’t imagine having any confidence in a Cybertruck way out on some trail.

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      Eng_Ian

      Surely the MPG should have been calculated with the same starting and end point for the battery SOC.

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    David Maddison

    As Australia’s coal generators are closed down, where is all the electricity going to come from to charge all the EVs the Government claims everyone will be driving? They are mostly coal-powered vehicles after all.

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      Eng_Ian

      Our Lisper has already answered that. You plug them into your solar panels to recharge overnight.

      Aren’t you keeping up with all the news. Clearly you are going to have to subscribe to the Guardian and the ABC with live crosses to the BBC from here on in.

      And if you take one for the team, we’ll all be grateful.

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        David Maddison

        Yes, this is where Alabanese says solar panels can charge your EV at night for free.

        https://youtu.be/vyS9uqRLbB8

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          Eng_Ian

          I think the Lisper should always be wearing a T-shirt with “/s” on it.

          Surely everything he says is sarcasm. It sure isn’t wit.

          Okay, I confess, I’ve called him a ‘type’ of wit before and I’ll most likely do it again.

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        Philip

        You just ad batteries to your house don’t you?

        This idea is sadly catching on with normal people. I had to explain reality just the other day to one of them who thought he could put solar panels and a battery on and charge his car “for free”. I told him to go and find Dick Smith telling the truth on the matter, not some fan on a forum.

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          ozfred

          You just ad batteries to your house don’t you?

          Like any other medium term investment you look at the ROI. And certain with new residence builds on non urban/suburban blocks the costs of grid connection is now (at least in WA) non trivial. Even to the point where Western Power is offering standalone power options if you are far enough away. But note that some sort of ICE generator support is normally included in that “package”

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            Yarpos

            Old mate in Philips example would be the go to guy for financial analysis, if he thinks after paying for solar and batteries with the required capacity, he is getting something for “free”

            He could do opinions pieces and analysis over at Renew.

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    David Maddison

    Morning music.

    Status Quo, Roll Over Lay Down.

    From Milton Keynes Bowl, UK, 1984.

    The pause at 1:45 is awesome!

    https://youtu.be/c4cyYXtgZk4

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      David Maddison

      Aa one of the comments says:

      Back when going to a gig didn’t mean standing around filming it on your phone. Look at that crowd. Thoroughly engaged with the band. No distractions.

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      Hanrahan

      We have [had, is there any live music today?] a local band The Reclining Rockers. They play this style of music, they’re old pharts and the loudest band in town. They packed out the venues.

      The guy who stood on the left would always turn his head so his left ear was towards you when he was listening. Deaf in the right.

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      Philip

      I think this should be this site’s theme song, Electricity by Captain Beefheart. The way he says, e-lec-tric-ity is fantastic imo.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpY9QrANTVk

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    David Maddison

    Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water riff comes from Beethoven’s 5th played backwards as stated by Ritchie Blackmore.

    https://youtu.be/Cn1sUIs5yeE

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    David Maddison

    After some drama with RINOs and non-voters, TRUMPs preferred candidate Mike Johnson was elected as speaker of the house.

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      Yarpos

      Thank goodness , one less thing for the media explainers of the US political labyrinth to fantasise over. This was another one of those if he votes way, and then they do this, and is this happens and its a full moon then Fred becomes President instead of Trump! deals.

      I guess we need to be ready for 4 years of derangement. I wonder if his treatment by the MSM will be any different now as the woke facade crumbles. I think not, its probably become reflexive like parochial State rivalry banter in Oz. It leaves peoples mouths without a thought.

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        KP

        Cutting subsidies and Govt money completely out of lamestream media would sort it out. Every country no doubt did the same as ol’ Horseface in NZ and poured millions into propping up “private” news media as well as owning the ABC clones.

        Pulling public money out means they would have to sell what people want to read, and then they would discover how many real Lefties there are out there.

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      Hanrahan

      If the alternative was Hakeem Jeffries, let’s be thankful.

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    another ian

    The Babylon Bee in review

    Instapundit lead in –

    “BARI WEISS ON AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD: How The Babylon Bee Predicted the Vibe Shift.”

    “The Bee is a conservative, Christian satirical news site, which may sound like an oxymoron. It did to us. Until we read it and discovered it’s funny. Often really funny. While everyone else was busy criticizing and mocking the right, the Bee found success by filling a void. The Bee’s infamous tagline is “Fake News You Can Trust.”

    Here are a few recent headlines: “Biden Cancels Aid to Syria After Finding Out Some Needy Americans Live There” and “Canadian Dentist Now Offering Euthanasia as Alternative to Cavity Filling.” ”

    More at

    https://instapundit.com/693991/#disqus_thread

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    Tides of Mudgee

    Here is a 3 minute mauling of gender theory. ToM
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wzoPZwa4dWo

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    John Connor II

    China’s property market loses $18 trillion, surpassing U.S. 2008 crisis losses.
    The scale of China’s property market collapse is unprecedented, sending shockwaves across the world’s second-largest economy and beyond. The $18 trillion loss dwarfs the 2008 U.S. financial crisis, highlighting a massive vulnerability in the global financial system.

    With an unsold housing inventory of a staggering $13 trillion and an expected property sales shortfall, China is facing a severe oversupply.

    https://citizenwatchreport.com/chinas-property-market-loses-18-trillion-surpassing-u-s-2008-crisis-losses/

    TOFU dregs anyone?

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    John Connor II

    China’s fake and rubbish technology

    https://youtu.be/72ejwJn_QY4?si=tbi6HRk24_p6UkH3

    FAce-Planting Robots, or FAPR’s for short.
    Seems appropriate for the CCP. 😁

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    John Connor II

    I hope his boat was insured.

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_spi0c1MQKF1z23obp.mp4

    It was a nice boat too…

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    John Connor II

    Cancer Patients on Ivermectin, Mebendazole and Fenbendazole are starting to report back to me with test results and the testimonials are jaw dropping!!

    This is going to make international waves and the spotlight of the world is going to be on repurposed drugs. Ivermectin. Mebendazole. Fenbendazole.

    Stage 4 Cancers, death in months, no response to chemo – this is what mRNA Vaccine Induced Turbo Cancer does.

    https://makismd.substack.com/p/breaking-news-my-august-2024-cancer

    Now to find a good source…

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    Philip

    I’ve been “debating” climate nutters, the extinction doomer level, on X. They are convinced that all life will die when temperatures reach 4 deg C above “the pre-industrial era”.

    I don’t believe it will at all. I suggest there’d be more life, but I don’t know, not sure what that magic “4 degrees” even means in real world translation. 1.5, as we have supposedly seen, certainly doesn’t mean much. On what basis do they make these assumptions? At that stage they call you ignorant and block.

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      GreatAuntJanet

      Did you ask them what the ‘perfect’ temperature would be?

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      Honk R Smith

      “I suggest there’d be more life”

      I’m no scientist …
      but just looking at the solar system, and the galaxy and stuff …
      there seems to be at least an anecdotal correlation with warmth and life.
      And a correlation with cold and not life.

      Tangentially, I notice a correlation between the unknowable future and the manipulated power to scare the populace into compliance.

      BTW, I’m no sociologist either.
      In fact, I lack ology altogether.
      However, having experienced an unexpected number of orbit cycles, I have passed through an equally uncomfortable number of ‘tipping points’.
      Likely my personal ultimate tipping point is approaching sooner than later.
      So I always try to wear clean underwear.

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    another ian

    FWIW – more settled science that wasn’t

    “Scientists Identify New Blood Group After 50 Year Mystery”

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-new-blood-group-after-50-year-mystery

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    another ian

    FWIW – in case anyone is tempted by “name brand specials”

    “Online Ammo Buyers Beware
    That ammo store you see on social media may not be what it seems.”

    https://www.shootingillustrated.com/content/online-ammo-buyers-beware/

    Instapundit lead in

    “I SHOP THROUGH LUCKYGUNNER.COM: Online Ammo Buyers Beware: That ammo store you see on social media may not be what it seems.

    As some may remember, LuckyGunner.com was started, and is still run, by some of my law students.”

    https://instapundit.com/693879/#disqus_thread

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    another ian

    FWIW

    If you haven’t been following the “fuster” that is the latest Ukrainian refusal to renew transits permits for Russian gas to Europe (that also supplies Ukraine) then here is a good start

    “Sanction 2234: Europe Screws Its Energy Supply”

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/sanction-2234-europe-screws-its-energy-supply/

    The “official feel good story” is that it is “only 5% of European needs” – in a tight gas supply market and prices are rising

    If you need more amazement try the Alex M video linked there

    And more at

    “EU Self-Harm Russian Gas Ends. EU No Plan. Russia Breaks Through; Toretsk, Chasov Yar Collapse”

    https://rumble.com/v6589pd-eu-self-harm-russian-gas-ends.-eu-no-plan.-russia-breaks-through-toretsk-ch.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp

    And now

    “Looks like Qatar has said “Maybe you won’t get our gas either” due to EU “demands” on how they must behave in a Green Way and D.I.E. and all that…

    And now Norway has said they may need to keep all their gas due to, uh, cold… and broken stuff.”

    https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/cold-start-january-snow-in-florida-panhandle/#comment-174664

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