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In the future, 100 years from now, I hope rational people will look back to the past and understand this….
Anthropogenic Global Warming” aka AGW, is/was both media approved and “consenus” approved.
Also in 2025.. “AGW” is still a popular computer simulation game, played by our “betters” against us.
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It will reside in the dustbin of history next to the heliocentric model of the solar system and the humoral theory of medicine.
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Why would the heliocentric model of the solar system be in the dustbin?
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Accepted model as far as I know unless revisionists have decided otherwise.
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Because I’m an idiot who doesn’t proofread.
I meant the geocentric model.
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At least you didn’t blame auto-correct. 🙂
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Nope
That was all me.
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I read at leat twice, so what?
On the third time I notice a silliest mistype but it is too late…
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🤣😊😊
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Everybody knows that the universe revolves around me.
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Actually, as far as I know that’s the current scientific view, more or less. The universe is expanding, so the further away you go the faster things are going away from you until they are retreating at the speed of light. You can’t go faster than that, so the universe is more or less a sphere … centred on the observer.
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Labor, Green voters want stronger climate action, as Chris Bowen talks down green hydrogen power generation role
On the eve of Mr Bowen releasing the National Climate Risk Assessment report on Monday, Newspoll has revealed that more Australians want stronger climate action compared with those who support the status quo or want to wind back measures.
The poll shows 37 per cent of Australians believe the government should increase climate action because the cost of not doing more is too great, 28 per cent want to slow down climate change action because the cost is too great, 25 per cent believe Australia should stick with current settings, and 10 per cent are uncommitted.
The poll of 1264 voters, conducted between Monday and Thursday last week, highlighted a significant generational divide, with 54 per cent of Australians aged 18 to 34 wanting more action on climate change and 45 per cent of voters aged over 65 calling for slower action.
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We’re sleepwalking into a net zero disaster. Starmer must sack Miliband now
Nuclear, not intermittent renewables, is the only true path to clean, affordable, and secure energy
Economic self-harm disguised as climate virtue is how I would characterise the UK’s energy policy.
It is now well established that we have the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world and the fourth highest domestic prices. This hurts households with crippling bills. It damages industry by driving factories offshore. And it harms the planet, because deindustrialisation pushes production to countries with dirtier energy, and we incur additional emissions when they ship goods to Britain that were previously made here.
And for what? The UK accounts for less than one per cent of global emissions. Exporting jobs and importing emissions helps no one. In fact it makes everything worse – the huge sacrifices we are making in the name of net zero actually increase global emissions, even if domestic emissions appear lower.
So why are our energy costs so high?
Firstly on oil and gas – the United States, which leans on its abundant fossil fuels, has consistently cheaper energy than Europe. Its industrial electricity prices are four times cheaper than in the UK, and its industrial gas prices are more than four and a half times cheaper. Domestic electricity prices in the US are almost three times cheaper than in the UK and its domestic gas prices are two and a half times cheaper.
Then on renewables – countries with high levels of wind and solar generation typically have the highest electricity prices. Those with little or no wind and solar have low electricity prices.
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CLOSER TO YOUR VIEW
Question
Which is closer to your view? IF DON’T KNOW ASK: Whilst you may have no strong opinion on the matter, which is closer to your view?
Age
sort 18-34 35-49 50-64 65+
Australia should slow down its action on climate change because the cost of action is too great 14 26 29 45
Australia should stick with its current actions on climate change 24 30 23 23
Australia should increase its action on climate change because the cost of not doing more is too great 54 32 36 26
Don’t know 8 12 12 6
State
sort NSW VIC QLD
Australia should slow down its action on climate change because the cost of action is too great 28 25 34
Australia should stick with its current actions on climate change 27 24 23
Australia should increase its action on climate change because the cost of not doing more is too great 33 41 34
Don’t know 12 10 9
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Gen Z reckons they are just old white guys destroying the planet.
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The propaganda is intense.
‘The number of heat-related deaths in Sydney could surge by almost 450% if global heating surpasses 3C, according to a landmark report that finds no Australian community would be immune from the “cascading, compounding and concurrent” risks of a worsening climate.
‘The report also lays bare the heightened risk from rising sea levels on Australia’s populous coastal communities, including flooding, erosion and inundation.’ (Guardian)
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Is climate change just a red herring?
If these people believed the earth was warming [most here accept that we are still coming out of an ice age] the logical response would be to weigh up the pros and cons. Brits, for example, could easily welcome some warming, heaven knows the weather ain’t too hot now. Those of us in the tropics can take solace in the prediction that the tropics will be largely unaffected. And we all know that the increasing CO2 is greening the planet.
No! They automatically take the pessimistic outlook that all change MUST be bad, by definition.
Why? It feels like a continuation of boomer hostility. Most boomers are dead or retired so can’t be blamed for current political or economic mistakes, all we can be blamed for now is the housing crisis [we have no right to our homes, “they” want them, they deserve them] and it is unforgivable that we improved to lot of everyone with abundant, affordable energy.
Put simply they are pessimists wallowing in self pity dragging everyone else down to their level. We are not being killed off by heat.
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I fully expect Farage to tell the electorate that the Medieval Warm Period was better than now. This is good news and we should stop abusing a benign trace gas.
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They had better stop going to Doha then… 50.4 Deg… Guardian is the worst alarmist rag out there, ( even if written in very good English). Them and the BBC know very little about climatology, meteorology, or palaeoclimatology.
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‘No community will be immune from climate change impacts, says Chris Bowen, ahead of announcing Labor’s new 2035 emissions reduction target, citing the first National Climate Change Assessment’s prediction of ‘cascading shocks’. (Oz)
Andrew Hastie might like to say a few words on this.
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‘One and a half million Australians are at risk from sea levels rising by 2050 unless climate change can be limited, Australia’s first national climate risk assessment warns.’ (ABC)
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It seems that the contributors to columns such as this who doubt the role of humans in climate change are in the in the minority of Australians. and are probably over 65.
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A lovely case of a biased headline (and I guess that works on those who base their world view on headlines)
This is a clearer presentation of the facts:
….. more Australians want to the maintain the status quo or wind back measures (53%) compared with those who support stronger climate action (37%).
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Richard Lindzen Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Emeritus Massachusetts Institute of Technology
William Happer Professor of Physics, Emeritus, Princeton University
PHYSICS DEMONSTRATES THAT INCREASING GREENHOUSEGASES CANNOT CAUSE DANGEROUS WARMING, EXTREME WEATHER OR ANY HARM
– More Carbon Dioxide Will Create More Food.
– Driving Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Net Zero and Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Be Disastrous for People Worldwide.
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Fusion confusion:
https://www.cfact.org/2025/09/13/are-we-on-the-threshold-of-commercial-fusion/
Maybe sometime soon or not. Better to throw billions at this than wind and solar.
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Commercial fusion used to be always 50 years away. Now it always seems to be 10 years away.
In any case, if billions have to be spent, I’d rather it go to something potentially useful like fusion than definitely useless like wind and solar (for grid scale generation).
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I thought it was thought to be 30 years away in the 1950’s and again in the 1980’s. In both cases it was assumed that electricity would be so cheap that hydrogen would become the fuel.
Since then we are told that “renewables” are so cheap then we need to switch to hydrogen. Even one of the (reputably) sane State Premiers (in SA) thinks so.
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Dr Bussard, who sadly passed in 2007, was working on a variation of the Farnsworth Fusor that, if fully developed, could have produced 4-8 GIGA Watts of electricity at around 98% efficiency, in a 3 metre sphere weighing just 14 tonnes.
Currently, Lockheed-Martin are taking huge hits to their finances, on a “black” project. Perhaps coincidentally, their container sized fusion project went “black” a little prior to their bleeding of cash…
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Maybe the skunk works has been successful, therefore cannot be released.
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This was Perth in Scotland, not Australia.
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There was also a collapse in WA where the stick that the generator sits on snapped off due to a ‘crack’.
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The view up the tower from the inside on a windy day is frightening indeed. There was a video linked to it on here a year or two back.
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Let google be your friend
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ghUmhOM81ZY
Or this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_MgUakQSc
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I wonder if the insurance company insured it.
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Herw is a video comparing the press coverage of two different recent gatherings in London including the latest patriotic one this weekend.
One has more arrests and more police injuries which are not mentioned by the Lamestream Media but the patriotic one with far fewer arrests and police injuries than the other one emphasises those.
It’s truly Orwellian.
https://youtu.be/z_IzUpM7xCI
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We should loan them our GG, who call for the King assent to dismiss the government.
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Here is a video about Australia’s fake conservative Liberal Party which has moved so far to the Left it’s almost indistinguisable from Labor. It might even become more left wing than Labor.
Fundamentally, the Liberal Party is fully woke as is its “leader” Susssssssan Ley.
It seems to be no longer viable and not fixable and people shouldn’t waste their votes on it. Vote for a conservative party instead like One Nation.
The Liberal Party is no longer electable and is unlikely to win any future elections.
The sooner the Liberal Party is relegated to the garbage bin of history, the better.
https://youtu.be/1ClAGUyNgTo
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Not a chance.
No doubt you’ll find some Lib MP’s who may be an example of similarity to Labor, and even some Lib policies or decisions that contravene the Lib beliefs. But the stated beliefs are quite different to Labor.
https://www.liberal.org.au/about/our-beliefs
What too many of them lack is a backbone. They're too prepared to go with what they think might win an election. Rather than lose on the principles they believe.
I think you’re letting your disappointment and annoyance create too much of a pessimistic view.
But Ley talking about quotas etc is a step in the woke direction. Don’t know if that’s because she thinks is the right thing or simply an easy path to taking away a Labor talking point. The latter being the lack of backbone I was referring to.
A bunch of minor parties standing against Labor is not a good outcome.
Is a new party possible?
The sooner the Liberal Party returns to its roots and stands on principles, instead of trying a miserable path of least resistance to get elected, the better.
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Concerning the “treaty” that the Victoriastan Government will soon sign with a certain demographic, what “country” do the other party to the “treaty” belong to?
And who are their leaders to sign the document?
Are they not Australian citizens living in Australia? If so, how can a treaty apply to them? Treaties are signed with foreign powers. And only the Federal Government has the power to make and sign treaties.
And in any case, didn’t all of Australia just vote against the “Voice”, but all governments are ignoring the wishes of the people anyway.
https://www.firstpeoplesrelations.vic.gov.au/treaty
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DM,
Excellent points but in the realm of Constitutional law specialists, hopefully there are some without leftist preconceptions.
It is a worrying case of politicians blatantly doing what a Referendum majority gave a big NO. What on earth does the Vic Premier hope to gain? Votes? I guess so from the size of protests in Melbourne last weekend, largely non-native. Geoff S
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DM, perhaps members of the favoured demographic are regarded as ‘sovereign citizens’ like a certain fugitive in Victoria.
I notice that what laughably identifies as the news media now refers to Mr. Freeman as ‘sovereign citizen’ rather than ‘alleged murderer’, as if the former is a worse crime.
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Video.
Alex Jones comments about how certain media outlets and search engines appeared to report the Charlie Kirk assassination before it happened.
https://youtu.be/ya13SqMczXE
Thoughts?
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According to Google the max difference between timezones is 26 hours.
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FWIW
“Trump Admin Moves To Blow Up ‘Costly’ Enviro Program Obama Rolled Out”
“The Trump administration is moving to scrap an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program projected to save American businesses up to $2.4 billion in regulatory costs, according to the agency.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed a rule Friday to eliminate the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP), which requires certain companies and facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions data and “other relevant information,” according to the agency. This marks the latest deregulatory move from Zeldin, who on July 29 proposed rolling back the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which energy sector experts have explained to the Daily Caller News Foundation previously is a cornerstone Obama-era regulation that has been used to impose draconian rules on power plants.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/14/trump-admin-moves-to-blow-up-costly-enviro-program-obama-rolled-out/
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Great start!
Now all they need to do is cancel the 14,852 other useless reporting regulations that cost a similar amount and bog down the economy.
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FWIW
“Nearly All Daily UK High Temperatures Are Set At Junk Weather Stations”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/14/nearly-all-daily-uk-high-temperatures-are-set-at-junk-weather-stations/
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It is insane to me that this issue can get no traction with the public. As a data analyst who knows that without good data, there can be no good analysis (GIGO), there is no larger issue in my mind. Yet for some reason the general public doesn’t care that the Britain’s entire network of weather stations is based on junk sites that can be off by 2-5 degrees. How can you possibly build a reliable ‘average regional temperature’ (much less a global one) based on data with error bars that large? You can’t. The data is pure noise and indicative of nothing, and so is all the analysis based on that data.
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So institutions like Oxford and Cambridge arose to greatness under the British empire.
Then spent the last decades undermining, possibly to the point of destruction, that which had nurtured them.
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And (without realising it) trying to be the parasites that killed the host?
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The form of socialism Australia and most Western countries live under now or are regressing towards, is not communism but the form of socialism called fascism. Still of the Left, of course.
As the founder of fascism, Giovanni Gentile wrote, “Fascism is a form of socialism, in fact, it is its most viable form”.
Dinesh D’Souza wrote: “The Democratic left has an ideology virtually identical with fascism and routinely borrows tactics of intimidation and political terror from the (National Socialist) Brownshirts.”
Under fascism owners of businesses can keep them but to avoid nationalisation they must be compliant with Government directives to serve the state.
That’s more or less what we have in most Western countries now with large corporations working under state directives, and more so as time goes on. Plus large numbers of smaller companies are closing under the burden of excessive regulstions, high energy prices, taxes, land and hence rent prices etc.. And the Government doesn’t care in the least because it suits their agenda to have just a few corporations compliant with the objectives of the state.
References:
https://fee.org/articles/theres-no-denying-the-socialist-roots-of-fascism/
The Big Lie: Exposing the (National Socialist) Roots of the American Left, Author Dinesh D’Souza
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Symbols for symbol people:
George Carlin, RIP.
The big ‘F’ word is disguised as PPP
or Public Private Partnerships™️
sounds so much more friendly
(like baby talk) except –
socialise the cost / privatise the profit.
You gotta hand it to them … literally.
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PPPs as promoted by the WEF.
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/01/how-to-harness-transformative-potential-public-private-partnerships/
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FWIW
A report on that rally in London yesterday
“Maybe Starmer has actually done something useful. He has united the British public against him.
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Benonwine
@benonwine
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Police have just announced there is around 3 million people at Unite The Kingdom March. 👏✊🙏✌️
The Left could only dream of those numbers, they are out battled and out numbered.”
https://x.com/Lord_Talbot64/status/1966894050088251561
Looks like The Guardian needs a new counter
“The guardian reported “110k” at our London rally today.
Yet, literally had their own helicopter showing the millions of patriots”
https://x.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1966956948194292004
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/09/now-thats-one-helluva-crowd-heartwarming.html
Via https://instapundit.com/744532/#disqus_thread
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Tommy Robinson is yet to realise that counting and maths is beyond the capacity of left leaning journalists. Maths was created by old white men. Both my math professors were old white men and now I am an old white man.
I noticed that Robinson’s post has had 48.7M views when I looked. Correction, 48.8M views on second look. I contributed 1 extra to the 100K increase over a minute or two..
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At 10;30 AET, the number of views was up to 50.8M.
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57.1M now (2pm UK time)
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Leftists can count just fine … when the numbers are in their favor.
They spent weeks ridiculing Trump for exaggerating his 2017 inauguration crowd size. Trump is an inveterate bullshitter who has too much P.T.Barnum in him to admit that his crowd was smaller than Obama’s was. And the press went on and on and on … and on and on and on about his ‘lies’, as if how many people turn up for an inauguration actually matters.
But when the numbers are not in their favor … they quickly become innumerate.
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Amazing footage..! Where’s social distancing now??
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I feel bad for the police.
That’s a lot of ‘check your thinking’ visits they’re going to have to make.
I’m bettin’ there’s lots of Brexity books on shelves with that crowd.
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How many cars are aflame? How many stores looted? Using the Guardian’s own ability to count, there cant be very many?
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“what we have in most Western countries [..] large corporations working under state directives, […] large numbers of smaller companies closing under the burden of excessive regulations, high energy prices, taxes, land and rent[….]
And the Government (has) just a few corporations compliant with the objectives of the state.”
That seems like a fair assessment.
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Its easier to take a lot of money from a few big companies than a small amount of money from each of many small businesses…
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The widespread celebration by Leftists of the Charlie Kirk assassination may have just been the trigger required to wake conservatives from their political slumber.
The Left celebrated the permanent silencing of someone with whom they disagreed and were incapable of winning a reason-based debate against, thus exposing their truly evil nature.
I never see conservatives celebrating the death of innocent people, even ones with whom they disagree.
Quoting Charlie’s wife:
I think it’s also good the widespread firing from their jobs of those psychopathic Leftists who publicly celebrated his murder. Would you really want someone like that working for you or representing your company?
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Quote from PolitiBrawl email:
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“Those that the Gods wish to destroy they first make confident”
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I have also seen numerous videos and commenters on blogs calling people like you and me hypocrites. Why? Because we applaud the sacking of those who posted vile comments re Charlie Kirks assassination.
These same commenters have been actively cancelling or trying to fire people with what I consider should not be controversial opinions. A couple of examples are… there are only 2 sexes/genders, men should not participate in womens sports, borders are there for a reason. We can’t even criticise certain groups or people without being labelled as some sort of “….ist”
It’s called karma. Their own rules and cosequences have been applied to them.
Suck it up I say.
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wal1957,
I don’t think it rates as hypocrisy, even for strong free speech advocates.
Free speech is that the *state* won’t punish you, a private citizen, for what you say, but it doesn’t mean there can be no consequences.
That said, I think the sackings should be case-by-case, with employers deciding whether or not it compromises the employer’s reputation or the employee’s work.
I see this topic came up yesterday, where Steve said he didn’t really care if the burger flipper at McDonald’s had expressed vile opinions. Eng_Ian suggested it’s better to sack the flipper, because he might also be motivated to spit on your burger. That may be, but which is the better way to avoid that: for his supervisor to (1) snoop around in his social media posts for unsavoury comments, or (2) watch what he does in the shop? I favour (2), since it’ll catch people spitting on my burger for whatever reason.
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Doesn’t this set a dangerous precedent in sacking someone for something they “might” do?
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Free speech has both a legal and a social/cultural component. Yes, the legal component means the government can’t mess with you for disfavored speech. But the social/cultural norm was not to persecute people professionally or socially for disfavored speech. Skinheads and communists and Scientologists and various other reprobates were still entitled to jobs and participating in society, even if we personally despised them.
That social/cultural component has gone haywire in the last decade, and now online rage mobs are hunting down people whose bad behavior goes viral on social media. Just look at what was happening online before the deaths of Iryna Zarutska and Charlie Kirk. There was a mob out looking to identify and destroy the life of ‘Phillies Karen’ for being an inconsiderate boor who bullied a father to give her a baseball that he got fair and square. Yes, she behaved grotesquely, but do we really think it is OK to ruin the life of a person over the behaving like a … Karen? Personally, I think it all worked out fine. The dad and his son got giant swag bag from the team and the boy got to meet his hero, while the Karen got her ball but has to live with knowing how she behaved in acquiring it and how people view her behavior. That should have been the end of it. But the witch hunt was on and she would have eventually been identified if more important events had not intervened.
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Steve,
Agree. What you say reminds me of an interesting talk given by Lord Moulton in the early 1920s called Law and Manners. I learnt about it in an Econtalk on Obedience to the Unenforceable. Moulton’s worry, way back then, was that the law was being asked to cover all sorts of things that were really the domain of common decency. A century on, and with a whole bunch of laws written to try and make people act nicely to one another, and it seems the tide has pretty much gone out on common decency.
Of course common decency was what lay behind the social component of free speech. We’re let down by both the law and the mob.
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In my childhood family we were not allowed to make derogatory comments about anyone. My mother would say that if we couldn’t say something positive about a person we should keep quiet or go to our rooms without dinner.
One of the down-sides of the internet is that people can sling mud from the security of their own homes.
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Robert, I largely agree with what you have written.
However I think that a large proportion of the people that have lost their jobs have probably also been preaching for sacking/cancelling people who state truths or opinions that they don’t agree with. I have long opposed this process.
I don’t want to be like them however I have had a gutful of turning the other cheek and letting bygones be bygones. They cheered when Daniel Penny was arrested for homicide of a serial criminal whilst he was protecting subway riders.
Well now it’s my time to cheer.
I don’t care what they think of me.
As the democrats said when the oil pipeline workers were sacked early in Joe Bidens presidency…”they can learn to code”.
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wal1957,
Glad we’re largely in agreement.
I don’t see it as a matter of turning the other cheek so much as knowing that true tolerance is a better way. (and I don’t mean mangling the language because someone demands I use his pronouns or whatever)
I think what’s rotting western society is that childhood has been prolonged so much. Once there were 8-year-olds having to earn their livings as chimney sweeps, now we have 45-year-olds having temper tantrums. We need to get to a happy medium.
IMO it’ll only get worse if the actual grown-ups start behaving the same way as the over-developed kids.
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I’m one of those people who thinks it is hypocritical to applaud sackings of people on the lower half of the socioeconomic ladder. I don’t care if some CEO or doctor or lawyer or tenured professor gets the sack, but I don’t see much to cheer for in some poor bastard working a minimum wage job losing his livelihood over ill-considered, repulsive free speech. Not after spending most of 2020-2021 railing against conservatives losing their jobs over MRNA-skepticism and ‘election denial’.
An eye for an eye will eventually make the whole world blind. Especially with social media algorithms making it possible to identify and publicize the rotten speech of tens of thousands of people in the blink of an eye. It used to be up to local communities to handle people with repulsive beliefs how they saw fit, but now some guy halfway around the world can notice your postings and gin up a rage mob to get you fired.
For those who are enjoying the mass cullings going on, don’t come crying when the worm turns and the lefties get the upper hand again and turn the same machinery on you.
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But.. but.. the left have already sacked hundreds of thousands of low level employees for spurious reasons.
When considering where the line should be drawn one simple metric would be if you have a company business card and job title your actions reflect on the company, if you are just an employee number your private social account musings should remain private.
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Sure, but the madness has to end somewhere, sometime. Someone eventually has to show restraint or an eye for an eye is going to blind us all.
That’s pretty close to my opinion. I don’t like seeing cashiers or short order cooks or parking lot attendants or waitresses getting targeted for acting like idiots on social media. I am reticent but understanding about extracting a pound of flesh from those who can easily recover, but hate seeing people who are living paycheck to paycheck and may even have families to support getting their lives upended over bad opinions/behavior on social media.
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Maybe you need to look a bit harder – try Mike Cernovich for example.
And anyway, does this mean you are in favour of “cancel culture”?
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Fox’s Brian Kilmeade recently suggested “involuntary lethal injection, or something, just kill them” for the homeless mentally ill.
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Or caring for you in a medical setting
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And now to the weekend’s weather:
-62°C South Pole with snow flurries & ice fog
-26°C Greenland summit
-4°C Arctic / North Pole (mean via DMI)
45°C North Sudan & eastern Iran
15°C in my locale after a wild wintry weekend
with NZ overnight lows ranging from -5 to 14°C.
Same as it ever was – apart from previous interglacials when it was much MUCH warmer but hey, that’s ancient history.
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Just after I left Israel a few weeks ago parts of the Jordan Valley got to 49.7C. It wasn’t global warming though, the record of 54C was set in that area in 1942, long before global warming became a thing. At the same time, Israel’s electricity hit an all time high due to the air conditioning load. Fortunately they have plenty of electricity as they only have token amounts of wind and solar plus a useless concentrating solar tower. Most dwellings have solar hot water which is sensible given the climate.
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One wonders how much Charlie Kirk’s assassin’s boyfriend knew about his plans and thus might be an accessory to the murder. No doubt authorities are investigating this aspect.
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Cell sharing with Bubba probably doesn’t have the same scary concepts to some people.
Just an observation.
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Has anyone else heard about the comet 3I/ATLAS. Scientists say It is made of CO2 and H2O.
Talk about being asleep at the wheel. If the earth gets too close to the comet or is in close proximity to the tail of the comet, then the earth would of course behave like a gravitational vacuum cleaner and perhaps receive a fatal dose of CO2 from 3I/ATLAS, and because it is also made of water, the sea levels would rise in the event of such an encounter with 3I/ATLAS
At such high concentrations, the CO2 could change the climate of the earth forever and pond slime and a thick carpet of moss would replace all vegetation, and cover the oceans.
I could bleat and shout through a megaphone, but i doubt anyone would listen… people are too interested in just looking at their i phones… sigh.. 🙁
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There are a lot of theories floating around about where all the water for the oceans came from. A lot of people say comets.
I sometimes wonder at the volume of water and the volume of a comet. It must have been really raining, (comets), back in the day.
Something to ponder. What else did they bring? Life?
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It is not a very large object – less than 1km. It would hit with a bang that would do a lot of damage in the right place.
It will not get closer than the Sun so the prospect of collision is implausible.
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It is adjusting speed and direction, probably to get closer to Mars.
Colour is changing, maybe related to velocity, and there is a cyclic pulse being emitted.
Its also devoid of iron and its tail is bending towards the sun, which is beyond comprehension
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Very little (10percent ) water compared to mostly CO2 plus Methane. Mass is mostly Nickel and in absence of Iron. A very anomalous object for your standard factory produced comet. The cyclic pulse you mention is an outgassing at 17 second intervals. Could be 17 minutes. Could be quite a revelation in cosmic terms.
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A cursory glance suggests it may have a plasma propulsion engine.
‘With high impulse, plasma thrusters are capable of reaching relatively high speeds over extended periods of acceleration. Ex-astronaut Chang-Díaz claims the VASIMR thruster could send a payload to Mars in as little as 39 days.’ (wiki)]
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There are lots of news reports today about the big drop in LNP poll numbers in September. What is not at the top of the headline is where the voters allegiance has moved:
Labor 36% unchanged
LNP 27% lowest ever
Greens 13%
PHON 10% more than doubling since last election
Other parties and independents 14% up
So the bigger news is PHON, more than doubling since last election driven by where they sit on immigration.
https://thenightly.com.au/politics/australia/newspoll-coalition-slumps-to-worst-ever-primary-vote-in-days-after-jacinta-price-dumped-from-frontbench-c-20017489
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It’s disturbing that 49% support Labor/Green. It’s even worse if you add the woke Liberals to that Leftist mix which would make it 76% which support Left-oriented parties.
It’s great news about One Nation 10% and other conservative parties but there is an enormous amount of work to do to get conservatives elected.
Given the number of welfare dependents and Labor importing more, plus the rapidly increasing size of the public “service”, the feral unions embedded on government (taxpayer) funded projects, and the 24/7 advocacy for the Left by Their ABC and by the Lamestream Media in general, it might not be doable.
Labor have carefully planned for and will likely achieve their embedment forever and with no effective opposition political parties of decent size, Australia is already operating as a One Party State. And it shows.
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So your only hope is an internal coup within Labor, like NZ had. Certainly worked there, it took the real Communists over 20years to recover power, that first horrible woman Herr Helen. By then the economy had recovered and changed enough to set the country up for a few decades of wealth creation.
All thrown away by Govts since…
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‘ … no effective opposition …’
Its the Singaporean democratic model.
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The obvious answer to get the right side of politics to win is for them to promise to give everyone a million dollars after the election.
And then by some miracle, it doesn’t appear and the electorate forgets or doesn’t care.
Well that’s my $275 worth anyway.
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It worked so well for labor.
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RW, I doubt MSM will touch that telling stat with a 10ft barge poll…….can’t have One Nation or the Indies gaining support can we…..tide turning finally ?????
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Ley better add another “s” or two in a hurry
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All the publicity was based on a sample size of approx. 1700. How can anyone believe that any conclusions about these opinions hold any value at all?
The Australian “journalist” even asserted that “a majority” of Australians support net zero! Really??
Let’s have a national plebiscite on this issue and really see what Australians think??
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I attended a three and a half hour meeting in Southport yesterday for the Lets Rethink Renewables group, grassroots farmers trying to resist the renewables push, a push which seems to me to be city latte sipping leftist NIMBYs imposing what they want onto primary producers in the ‘bush’, and, similar to what is happening in Victoria, those primary producers here are also beginning to resist.
As you can see from the linked site, (scroll down a little) the meeting had a number of guest speakers, all of them really good.
However, one stood out. Senator Malcolm Roberts spoke for, well don’t know, 30 minutes or more, lost track of time as it was so fascinating. I cannot recall hearing a more articulate speaker for the causes we all believe in here at Joanne’s site.
That meeting was worth attending just to hear him speak.
It’s SUCH a pity he’s such a lone voice in Canberra.
If every Australian could hear what he spoke about at that meeting, Australian politics would be turned on its head.
I’m quite literally overjoyed he got my Number One vote in the recent election for the Senate.
The whole meeting was videotaped, so when I get the link later in the week, I’ll link to it, and give the time point for when he starts speaking. You all need to hear him.
Tony.
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Tony, I have also heard Malcolm speak on the renewables debacle. He is very very good. I wish, however, he was more approachable and a bigger personality. Minor, I know, in the scheme of things. But public life is about projection and you need to incorporate that politically.
But he is very articulate and persuasive. I wish he was more prominent nationally. Canavan and, to some extent, Alex Antic, are very articulate, but also “out there”. We need them to all act together. We are desperate for articulate, conservative, but informed leadership.
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Malcolm was born in India. However, he doesn’t vote for the Labor mob. A good Indian 🙂
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Yes Tony
Malcolm is a very measured and intelligent speaker ( and thinker)
The press paint him entirely differently , as some sort of hick.
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I heard him 25 (?) years ago – a real biblical-type man, along against few hundred men, some openly hostile, others – just deaf…
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Malcolm was a coal mining engineer/ manager before parliament. One of the few politicians to have worked in the real world. May he succeed!
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FWIW – for the covid record
“FDA to present data it claims ties Covid shots to child deaths at CDC meeting”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/fda-present-data-claims-ties-164808506.html
Via https://instapundit.com/744624/#disqus_thread
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And
” ‘The Science’: Catastrophic Failure & Unforgivable Arrogance”
“The American scientific establishment, led by figures like Anthony Fauci, was given absolute authority to manage the pandemic.
They got everything they demanded.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/science-catastrophic-failure-unforgivable-arrogance
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This is a long but engaging interview with Elon Miusk where he gives updates on his latest technology:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeZqZBRA-6Q
A good portion of the discussion is on robotic hands. He has already had an enormous impact on modern technology yet it appears he greatest creations are still ahead of him.
I suspect the days of human troops on the ground are numbered.
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FWIW – but then
“When Do You Stop Believing The Barker?”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253998
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It is early days yet in many of Musk’s predictions and he is curious so will continue to learn. He is also wealthy beyond the imagination of most people and can toy around with heaps of ideas that require serious money.
The solar energy aspect is interesting. I was looking at rooftop solar production in Australia yesterday and I have a chart that highlights why grid scale wind and solar are dead in Australia:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19vLCJXO4SS764nMTe20w6VdYhOyb8uiT/view?usp=sharing
Through lunchtime, wind was supplying more than 100% of the demand. Wind was operating with some level of economic curtailment most of the daylight hours; only able to generate through exporting to Victoria.
The point to note on the image are the two darker yellow “wings” in the duck curve that shows the grid scale solar. SA has a lot of grid scale solar but it was mostly economically curtailed because rooftops had robbed nearly all its demand.
If you look at WA, it is about 2 years behind SA in rooftop penetration. The rest of the country maybe 6 years years on average. Yesterday rooftops served 54% of the lunchtime demand in the NEM.
Now SA has the highest electricity p[rices but it is only those that do not have a roof paying those prices. All the roof owners with rooftop solar and battery will be paying well under 10c per kWh on average for for their electricity. The Sun Zenith is still north of the Equator and my relatively modest solar system did not draw energy from the grid in the past two days.
The problem for the grid is that the requirements for dispatchable power has actually increased in the past few years but it is required much less often.
So Australia is an example of where Musk’s vision is panning out but not quite in the way he envisaged.
Aldi currently have a $8999 solar/battery offer that combines 6.6kW of panels and 20kWh of battery. That sort of system would supply many households with free energy for 8 months of the year. Buy two and you could go off grid. Obviously it includes OPM but better for households to get that than the big scammers.
https://www.solarquotes.com.au/blog/aldi-solar-batteries-deal-expands/
Tesla is valued at $1tr and remains the world’s most valuable car maker.
SpaceX has a valuation of $400bn.
Twitter is presently valued at $44bn.
Musk is changing the world. I expect that Grok AI will be the main ingredient in killing the climate scam. Any intelligent application in climate science will realise what currently passes as climate science is unphysical rubbish.
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Have you tested Grok’s beliefs on climate, Rick?
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Methinks the reviewer has made a fundamental error. The ideal inverter capacity is controlled by the cell generation not the battery size and a 5.5 kW inverter is plenty for the 6.6 kW array quoted.
Overclocking Solar Inverter
Overclocking a solar inverter, which involves installing a solar array with a higher DC power capacity than the inverter’s AC rating, is a common and accepted practice in Australia, particularly when the array-to-inverter ratio is kept within a 133% limit.
This approach can lead to increased overall energy production, especially during early morning and late afternoon hours, and is often financially advantageous due to lower costs for additional panels and eligibility for Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs).
While peak power output may be clipped during the middle of the day under ideal conditions, the net effect is typically a gain in total kilowatt-hours generated over the year.
The practice is endorsed by major inverter manufacturers like SMA and is supported by regulatory guidelines, such as those from the Clean Energy Council, which allow for up to 33% overclocking.
Advantages include higher system efficiency, particularly at lower DC input levels, and the ability to maximize energy harvest during non-peak sunlight hours, which can offset losses from clipping.
Financial benefits arise from the reduced cost per kilowatt of additional panels (as installation and sales costs are already covered) and the potential for a higher return on investment, with one case study reporting a 25% return on the extra panels.
The term “overclocking” is widely used, though some argue it is a misnomer since the inverter is not being pushed beyond its design limits in the same way a CPU is; instead, it is a strategic undersizing of the inverter relative to the array.
It is recommended to keep the array size within 133% of the inverter’s capacity to avoid issues with STC eligibility and to prevent potential stress on the inverter, although some sources suggest keeping additions under 25% to preserve inverter lifespan.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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Up thread, there is a link to an X post from Tommy Robinson. It has had 50.8M views by 10:30 AET
Without Musk, Tommy Robinson would not have a platform. Musk’s impact goes well beyond his technical world.
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Trump and Musk remain on speaking terms :-
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3rLOHanaXOo
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FWIW
“Okay, Now Leftists Are Posting Hit Lists of the People They Want to Murder Next”
“JK Rowling pointed out what this bloodlust revealed about the left: “If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you’re illiberal. If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you’re a fundamentalist. If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you’re a totalitarian. If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you’re a terrorist.” ”
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/09/14/okay-now-leftists-are-posting-hit-lists-of-the-people-they-want-to-murder-next-n4943704
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This tragedy has exposed the vast majority of the Left for who and what they really are. Most of us already knew, it’s good to see it confirmed.
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When they show you who they are, beleive them, remember, act accordingly.
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Until well into my twenties I thought the slogan
! in my history textbooks was from a communist leader, could not recall the name.
Then I saw it in the Scripture and understood – the …ing communists stole everything, every thought, every line in every book written by their enemies…
And perverted it.
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I looked at the website for Zohran Mamdani, the communist New York mayoral candidate.
It looks like a site written by simpletons, for simpletons, which are of course his voter base.
Tragically, he might win.
https://www.zohranfornyc.com/
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He believes ‘Govt can lower costs’, what planet is this fool on.
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Well household costs will be lowered if there is nothing available to be purchased?
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Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha! Charlie Kirk was killed by his own creed. The left are gleefully pointing out the hypocrisy, when he was killed by the sacred Second Amendment. Unfortunately that is a very shallow argument. That gun didn’t drive itself several hours to that town. That gun didn’t walk itself up those stairs, aim itself, and pull it’s trigger. Hatred did that, hatred that is being created as a diversion. Kirk wasn’t standing there holding a gun. He was holding ideas, but any contrary ideas are reflexively labeled hatred by the projecting left.
The left have a Holy Trinity:- The Original Sin – being born white, CO2 is polluting, and sex doesn’t exist. If people can be made to believe any of those memes, their minds have been scrambled, and you basically have puppets, who will believe anything they are told. All it takes is repetition, lots of repetition, and a well guarded ideological pen.
This diverts the right, as they see these people as crazy, and the crazier these people can be driven, the better. And Trump is a great diversion for the left, but anyone will do, as in Abbott, Morrison, Pell or Murdock in Aus. There has to be an object to project that self poisoning hatred onto.
Steve Bannon is one of the few who seems to manage not to get too diverted, and come back to focus on the puppeteers, who are trying to run this show. John Connor II pointed out a really important blog recently. 23 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azE7nqqQMmo
There’s no easy answers. The US has got itself into a massive clusterfart – the capitalism is too crony, and the rich are too greedy. How will the loss of medical insurance be handled, when AI Destroys millions of jobs?? When is Dose going to really get to the Military Industrial Complex, and drag some of that money back into Main Street? Big money and greed is a big problem, that is being hidden with sleight of hand. I have the feeling that Trump moved three decades too late.
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“dose” ?? Maybe you meant …
Department of Government Efficiency, commonly referred to as DOGE
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Any DOGE saving, and more, will be diverted to defence, or “war” if a Trumpist. The world is more perilous today than any time I can remember.
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This is unbelievable.
An EU Parliamentarian asked for one minute’s silence in memory of Charlie Kirk, as they gave for the violent convicted criminal drug overdosed George Floyd, and the Parliament went absolutely “ape” banging their hands on the tables. The lack of moral clarity of these Parliamentarians and their open borders policies explains why Europe and UK will soon be failed States, dominated by some of the most uneducated, violent, misogynistic, anti-Christian, antisemitic anti-Western people on the planet.
https://youtu.be/npypakrp4Ns
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Ok One Lives & Learns – IBM Scientists Challenge Quantum’s ‘Noise Barrier’
The work, published in PRX Quantum by Oles Shtanko and Kunal Sharma, both IBM scientists, shows that nonunital noise — a type of noise that has a directional bias, like amplitude damping that pushes qubits toward their ground state — can be harnessed to extend quantum computation much further than previously thought.
According to the researchers, noise is unavoidable in quantum hardware, mainly because every gate, every idle step and every interaction with the environment introduces errors, or the potential for errors.
For those not familiar with the term, unital, a good analogy might be how cream is stirred into coffee — everything gets mixed evenly, and no spot is favored.
Nonunital noise is like gravity acting on spilled marbles, instead of scattering randomly, they all tend to roll down toward the floor.
Under the unital noise model, circuits quickly lose coherence. After just logarithmic depth, the computation essentially becomes random and can be simulated efficiently on classical computers. This led to the prevailing belief that useful quantum computation requires error correction and measurements inside circuits, a technology still years from widespread deployment.
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Quantum Computing: The Race Between Google & IBM to Change the World – 11 Mins 30 Secs
Imagine solving problems in seconds that would take today’s supercomputers thousands of years. This is the groundbreaking power of quantum computing, a technology that is quickly moving from science fiction to reality. In this deep dive, we explore how quantum computers use quantum bits (qubits) and principles like superposition and entanglement to process data at an exponential speed, offering a glimpse into a future where technology is radically different.
We take a look at the intense rivalry between tech giants Google and IBM, who are investing billions to lead this quantum revolution. From Google’s Sycamore processor to IBM’s focus on scalability, we examine their competing strategies and recent milestones. This technology promises to transform everything from drug discovery and finance to artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. Join us as we explore the challenges ahead and the revolutionary impact quantum computing will have on our world.
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What happened to the $940 million of Aussie taxpayer money the Australian Government “invested” in the US company PsiQuantum? And why did they spend taxpayer money on what should be a private sector investment in a highly speculative venture?
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This chart shows the data that should make any grid scale “renewables” investor turn and run:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19vLCJXO4SS764nMTe20w6VdYhOyb8uiT/view?usp=sharing
It is clear that there was enough wind power in SA yesterday to power the State. But as soon as the rooftops start producing, the wind had to turn down. Wind was only able to generate through exporting to Victoria.
The really scary part is the two tiny dark yellow portions in the wings of the duck curve. All of SA’s grid solar could only manage to supply that tiny portion of the market.
It is well known that SA has the highest grid prices in Australia if not the world. However more than half the households have little or no exposure to those prices. A portion of the households will have free energy a good deal of the time. The Sun izenioth is still north of the Equator and my modest system has served all our energy needs over the past couple of days.
SA shows where Australia is heading. There is no point building grid scale wind and solar when rooftops are taking over the demand.
The interesting thing is that there has been no reduction in the requirement for dispatchable power. It just gets used less often so unit costs are skyrocketing.
WA is about 2 years being SA on rooftop penetration with rooftops serving 63% of the lunchtime demand. The rest of Australia about 6 years with rooftops serving 54% of the lunchtime demand in the NEM..
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Years ago the proponents of the fairy dust renewable industry based their planning on the following fact. Sun is great and is predictable. When the sun isn’t shining the wind will be blowing for sure. Plus. and here’s the good bit, wind and sun are FREE!!! What could go wrong? How hard can it be? In addition, all we need to do is export all of our manufacturing industries to China or India. We’ll have cheap electricity, be saving the world from climate change and we can all have jobs in government and the service industries. But what happens if…………
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Chris Bowen just said Australians don’t get a power bill, because they have a power station on their roof. Funny, must have got some junk mail from ENGIE the other day, demanding I pay them some money for something.
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Where does he think the power comes from when the sun sets.
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The battery that Albanese offered OPM for 30% of the purchase price.
I have not drawn energy from the grid for the last two days.
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I’m 15 years in and still not drawing from the grid. No generator either for at least 7 years, (since I increased the solar panel count).
8kW solar panels. 50kWHr battery storage. 8kVA inverter.
Not missing the grid at all, still have a/c, elec appliances, etc, etc.
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The only difference now is that it is quite a lot lower cost to go off grid even without using OPM.
The Aldi solar/battery offers look highly competitive and would be me first port of call if I was looking for a system now.
I have concluded that any industry wanting to survive in Australia must make their own electricity or at least get a good deal tio “wheel” across the existing grid from a coal fired power station.
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Yep, we have a 10kw system at the farm which used to pay a useful for electricity sold to the grid. Not any more. In spite of continual queries about how they are calculating usage (which is suspect since we dont have a phone signal in the paddock where the system is located) we are actually incurring bills! What a scam the whole renewables industry is!
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Aldi solar are now offering very competitive solar/battery systems – 6.6kWsolar/20kWh battery for $8999.
Did you try to get the meter data from you poles and wires provider?
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So why is he offering government guarantees to grid scale wind and solar proponents? It is clear that rooftops are now the only weather dependent form of generation that can grow. The rest are losing their demand to rooftops and industry just shutting down.
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EDITORIAL – Dementia can often be prevented
The heartbreak of dementia, which affects more than 430,000 Australians and their loved ones, is rapidly becoming one of the nation’s most difficult health challenges.
For the first time it has emerged as the biggest killer of Australians, due in part to our ageing population. The condition is especially daunting and shocking, however, when it strikes younger people, as some personal stories recounted show.
From Monday, working with the nation’s foremost experts, The Australian and news.com.au launch a national campaign aimed at changing the narrative that the condition is a disease only of the elderly and an inevitable part of ageing.
The campaign is called Think Again because about 45 per cent of cases are preventable or can be delayed, often with simple interventions.
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‘The Australian and news.com.au launch a national campaign …’
Hmmm … Lachlan is in charge.
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The contribution of the Covid Vaccines to the rise in Dementia is still to be assessed.
TGA does not recognise it of course.
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It was also up there in the top comorbidities for COVID deaths – the mistreatment of dementia patients under the ‘non-pharma measures’ was appalling even before the vaccine came out.
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I’d pay it the slightest attention rather than using it as toilet paper if it said-
“The campaign is called Think Again because about 45 per cent of cases are preventable or can be delayed, often with simple interventions such as blah blah blah..”
Otherwise, just worthless clickbait.
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BigPharma marching through the age cohort. They’re doing it with pre/peri/menopause for women, and dementia for older boomers.
Take their pills. Or don’t.
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NPR was once the background soundscape of my day.
I remember very clearly listening in 2015 at 0 dark thirty on way to procure espresso, and they were interviewing candidate Trump.
They asked about abortion, I very well recall my shock when he answered like an actual human being, as opposed to the rehearsed automaton robot politician speak I was accustomed to.
I haven’t been able to stomach NPR for years.
Anyway, I ventured to try again today.
It was listenable for a few minutes and then wham, some utterly vitriolic dripping condescending remark about MAGA whining about being victims because of Charlie Kirk.
Is it me?
Trump is pretty much a 1990’s Democrat.
The Left, liberals, progressives, whatever the Hell they are now, have literally gone insane.
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Hey, remember the Post Joanne gave me as a guest back in 2014 about Niger in Africa where I researched how much power was generated in some African Countries compared to here in Australia, and here’s that link back to that old Post, and the data chart in that post was the eye opening thing about that whole exercise.
Niger, Africa where 17 million people use less electricity than Dubbo, NSW
Now, why I even mention it at all is that I’m an old guy now, in my mid 70s, and I’m tossing up giving it all away now, thinking, well, I’ve done my bit. So I’m checking old stuff, updating things by comparing then and now.
So, I wondered about that power situation in Africa. Now I’m not going to do that whole research exercise all over again, but I can tell you that it’s probably gone backwards in fact, and not from that power generation point of looking at it but I did find this one surprising fact.
Okay, firstly, that power generation thing. Africa (and this is as a whole of Continent thing, so, wait for it, 54 separate Countries) only generates … 2.66 PERCENT of all the generated power on Planet Earth, less than three percent, and Africa (all those 54 Countries) has 19% of the total population of Planet Earth, telling me that perhaps tens to hundreds of millions of people have ZERO access to any or tiny amounts of electrical power.
And therein is the factoid I wanted to point out.
The current population of Africa is 1.56 Billion people.
When I did all that research for that earlier Post from 2014, the population of Africa was 1.15 Billion people.
So, in 11 years, the population of Africa has increased by 410 million people, so an average of almost 40 million a year.
So that means Africa is increasing population by one and a half Australia’s every year.
Three percent of the world’s electrical power generated in the whole of Africa. There’s so much I could say about that.
There’s one big advantage of having started all of this back in March of 2008. I have 3600 separate long and detailed Posts, so around 210 a year, on virtually every subject with respect to power generation in all its forms. I can search for anything and see what the situation was back at those earlier Posts when compared to what it’s like now.
Huh! Couldn’t help myself. Back in 2014 Africa had 1.15 billion people consuming 665TWH. So using that same rate for electrical energy consumption per capita, and with the current population, (1.56 Billion) then Africa should have 888TWH of electricity energy consumption. They currently have 820TWH of energy consumption, so they have indeed gone backwards, waaaaay backwards in fact.
Tony.
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In 1955 Africa’s population was about 254 million. My first quarter given to African relief was in about 1955 (mother gave me the coin).
Western nations have exported health innovations to Africa but not the other things necessary for a functioning society. The populations grows and life gets worse for many. The solution is not in sight.
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Don1t give up on it Tony, the world needs more of you very few people who actually do the mathematics on these many and varied schemes!
And I must state that the booming population growth in Africa would soon automatically ease back with the wider access to affordable energy, and the growth in technology and education that comes with that readily available energy. That has happened everywhere energy infrastructre and availability is improved.
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FWIW –
Online Courier Mail click bait
“300+ days of flooding as grim new report predicts climate crisis impact”
Peeking over the Murdoch Wall
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More here
https://www.dw.com/en/australia-climate-report-reveals-rising-oceans-threat/a-73993231
“Rising oceans and flooding caused by climate change will threaten the homes and livelihoods of over a million Australians by 2050, a report warned on Monday.
The National Climate Risk Assessment also warned that fatalities from heat-related illness will soar.”
Looks like they have cranked it up to about 12 or so
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The whole MSM is headlining it, now all we need is a politician to refute such nonsense. Someone with the courage to standup and say CO2 does not cause global warming.
The MSM would swarm on him and he will quietly tell them what we already know about climate change. No slanging match, sharp and decisive.
The National Climate Risk Assessment needs to be debunked.
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Perhaps this person could also ask why the we are still waiting for the last lot of dire predictions to come true, or the ones before that and the ones………..you get the gist.
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Andrew Hastie is our man.
https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/andrew-hastie-issues-ultimatum-over-coalition-commitments-to-net-zero/news-story/5b5dd24672331d6a0c189bdde8ac4a80
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I cannot understand why Australians are supposed to Act quickly to prevent Global warming. Global. How does all the self harm we do make any difference?
When was it all our fault? We didn’t even have an industrial revolution. And only 2% of all people live in our 40% of the world. What is Bowen talking about?
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And Malcolm Turnbull has used his private $444 million gift from the people of Australia to save the Great Barrier Reef! That should be enough. We do not expect any change.
Plus we are spending a whopping $20billion+ to be able to pump water uphill. And be an uphill superpower.
Isn’t that enough?
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People could ship us their water and we could pump it uphill for them. For a substantial fee off course, as it uses nearly half as much energy as you could recover. A Green Water superpower.
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And a technical marvel costing as much as the Panama canal or even the Chunnel, people from all over the world will marvel at our skill in pushing water uphill.
I think we should call it Reverse Hydro where we use enormous amounts of electricity to push water uphill. To make electricity of course. I predict a massive tourist industry base on Malcolm’s incredible Reverse Hydro breakthrough. Perhaps comparable to the dam on Lake Nasser, it will transform the country making windmills sensible after all. There will surely be a bronze statue of Malcolm. Along with the bronze of our Covid champion, Daniel Andrews. World leaders.
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I think SH2 might qualify among the world’s engineering white elephants.
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TdeF,
‘Global Warming’ has never been about global warming.
(Isn’t there ample evidence of IPCC/UN types saying as much?)
They know Net Zero is just a political meme.
And that ‘renewable’ energy was never going to be cheap, or functional.
And that millions of formerly colonized oppressed POCs are not in imminent danger of drowning from SLR.
It’s a Trojan horse for an elitist post-national quasi religious utopian fantasy ideation.
The old give us more power to save you from the flying mountain cave dragon trick.
Or let us cut your heart so the Sun returns.
I think virtually every successful culture has engineered its’ own demise in this way.
But methinks we are the first one to declare men can give birth.
I don’t think this ends well.
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I guess there is the question of how did the prison colony develop such a bunch of hard core vacuous and banal as vacuous and banal gets elitists.
Like Mr. Andrews.
Did he enjoy himself in China?
It was a warm welcome at least.
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This will make you smile:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd8zMU3kd0s&list=RDkd8zMU3kd0s&start_radio=1
Certainly the opposite of woke.
I just hope I survive to see the climate scam fully exposed and science restored to those with curiosity rather than an agenda,
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FWIW
“The Unite the Kingdom rally: My first-hand account”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-unite-the-kingdom-rally-my-first-hand-account/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-15&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
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FWIW – another “Pipelines are useful”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-finally-outwits-europe-and
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The pretty blonde interviewer in Poland got nowhere with the old guy, he wasn’t taking her crap.
“But are you thinking of evacuating here if something worse happens?”
“You are a member of the sensation, there is peace here…”
The Polish Prime Minister accidentally told us what politicians think their role is. We may have the naive view that they represent us, but..
“Polish PM Donald Tusk was even forced to admit that a “wave of pro-Russian sentiment” is rippling through his country, but that it is orchestrated by “the Kremlin” as always. He believes the “role” of politicians is to impose an artificial and undemocratic “stop” to such a natural civic outpouring, rather than responding to what constituents want: ”
..and Arestovich is just classic.. “The country is getting smaller and smaller, the people fewer and fewer, but we are always winning..”
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The US is still buying Venezuelan oil. Please explain.
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Venezuela has it, the USA needs it. Simple.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Trump-Understands-That-the-US-Needs-Venezuelan-Oil.html
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FWIW
“Eh? Gawd!”
“Here’s What Shocked a Former MSNBC Analyst About Erika Kirk’s Heartbreaking Address”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/14/heres-what-shocked-a-former-msnbc-analyst-about-erika-kirks-heartbreaking-address-n2663298
Via https://instapundit.com/744787/#disqus_thread
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FWIW
“Featured Comment”
“Recently, SDA regular ‘Kenji’ mentioned something that I had never even considered, but it’s very insightful and deserves much consideration:
. . . The wife and I continue to discuss the details (and missing details) of this horrible crime. And something NEW just occurred to me tonight. We are currently witnessing a COVID crime wave of weird, loner, 22 yo social misfits who essentially missed their Junior and Senior years of high school. These killers lost all human contact at crucial years in their social development. I read a comment that this 22yo murderer of Charlie Kirk has the emotional and intellectual development of a 14yo. Yep … perhaps we need to start looking at a COVID link to these trans/trans adjacent killers?”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/15/featured-comment-36/
Links and comments
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How does missing 2 years of school set development back 8 years?
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I was in high school when “New Math” was introduced. Using the proper “base” it was easy to get whatever answer was desired, I think. Those years are a little fuzzy.
I missed 2 days of high school, and some say I never recovered.
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This is not a parody.
Life of a Leftist woman in America.
https://youtu.be/_B1wTSJnQXg
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Late for today – probably should carry over to tomorrow.
Their ABC: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/climate-risk-assessment-sea-level-rise-2035-target/105765456
I could prepare an economic assessment to show 1.5 million Australians at risk of extreme poverty by 2050.
Or that we risk 1.5 million Australians being psychopaths by 2050.
Other ideas of risks for the register?
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“climate-adapted services” for people with disabilities and chronic illness – thoughts on what this might be?
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More grift?
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“climate-adapted services”
If the temperature goes over 27 degrees (about 80 F), a government agency will bring me a cold 6-pack of Hop Hog IPA or, in America, Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. Substitutions allowed.
A much-appreciated service.
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