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Amusing satire on Net zero
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/a-net-zero-parable-the-widget-factory-in-the-village/
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Academics outside of the leftist regime find it more difficult to publish science papers
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/12/how-much-does-cancel-culture-harm-academics-careers/
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The Men’s Wimbledon final is currently being played. The Women play the best out of 3 sets, the men the best out of 5 yet both get equal prize money. Is this fair? The Women’s two set final yesterday took 57 minutes.
Equal pay for equal jobs should be a given. However Birmingham City Council has been made nearly bankrupt following a court case some years ago which judged that jobs of “equal value” should be paid equally.
This has caused problems for councils all over the country with Birmingham on the hook for nearly £1 billion of backdated claims predominantly for females. Which goes back to Wimbledon. Whilst cleaners and catering assistants (usually women) are obviously highly valuable, should they earn the same money-backdated-to a group doing an entirely different job which because of its physicality tends to be carried out by men?
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My thought is that anyone that manages a “double bagel” should be paid a great deal more than another that just muddles through. Further, the loser in the double bagel should receive a matching sum for having to experience the anguish and embarrassment.
Truth be told, I’d rather watch large waves crash on a shore than watch folks I don’t know smack (or not) a little ball forth-and-back.
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The Wimbledon 2025 woman’s final will likely be the most memorable match in modern history – for its result. I thought the crowd response to the American’s speech was heartwarming. There was more empathy for her than regret over the length of the match.
The finals started at 1am AET so too late even for my wife. She has had a few late nights/mornings over the past two weeks. Her main regret is not seeing the Joker get towelled by Sinner.
She was pleased to see Rinky Hijikata and David Pel make it all the way to the men’s double final. Rinky is probably her favourite player at the moment (mid week’s ladies is all doubles) and she was overjoyed to see him get the USD460k payout with his Dutch qualifier partner. That sort of money can be life changing for a qualifier and will improve Rinky’s net worth.
Despite the late night viewing towards the pointy end, Wimbledon rated highly in Australia over the past two weeks.
In terms of views, my wife watches more women’s tennis than mens. The top tennis players are entertainers. Would you prefer to see the finesse of Ash Barty towel up a big hitter in two sets or two male baseline belters wear each other down over 5 sets. Tennis is an unusual sport in that you cannot defend a lead. It isn’t over until the last point.
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Should the women get the same for three sets? No, they should not, unless they deliver somethng else on the side. This was the cutting edge of the Woke campaign, and they got away with it.
That Said, there are sometimes matches which deliver the goods
For me,an Aussie, one of the greatest matches that I ever saw was Alicia Molik blasting Venus Williams off the court at Melbourne in a quarter final of the Australian Open. But she could not maintain the standard in the next round.
I. Have always wondered how star performers keep it up day after day. “
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The discussion about men/women players equal pay for 3 sets vs 5 sets is a non-issue for me on the basis that:
a) There is no relationship to sets played and prizemoney in either women’s or men’s tennis at Slams (or any event), let alone comparing the two at the same tournament. The winner in any round who wins in straight sets gets the same prizemoney as the winner who plays the maximum sets. There is no relationship to scoreline whatsoever.
b) The prizemoney is distributed to players based on round reached and not based on their individual commercial value. The tournament has a value and prizemoney just incentivises achievement. The top players earn more off the court than on the court and that’s where individual commercial reality comes into it.
c) Some women’s matches have greater ratings / commercial value than some men’s matches and vice versa, regardless of the scoreline.
Now if they start insisting that every WTA tournament has the same prizemoney as the ATP tournaments, then that’s a different matter.
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Mmmm maybe the women should play in a seperate tournament as in cricket, soccer and other sportsball games. Then the true commercial appeal would be clear, without the men dragging them down.
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Latest video from Dr John Campbell on the covid “vaccine” disaster.
(SC = successful conception.)
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I think that TRUE studies of any effect, good or bad, for the human population should be performed using TWO groups, vacc!nated or not.
Imagine the possible outcomes for the following: –
– Heart attack as the cause of death.
– Cancer as the cause of death.
– Hospitalisation due to respitory infection.
– As above, SC.
– Age at death.
I wonder when we’ll start seeing these statistics being published? I think I know the answer for Oz….. Never. That data/research is forbidden.
I’d almost bet that the government is soon to announce that all vacc!nation data is to be erased from all public records just so that this level of research can never occur.
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Already underway.
https://joannenova.com.au/2025/04/nothing-says-safe-and-effective-like-destroying-all-the-data-from-australias-giant-abandoned-vaccine-study/
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https://youtu.be/YorQcjtaXpY?si=al7vt7m3yT9csdMC
😎😎
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Effects on human fecundity is not a bug, it’s a feature.
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Not many commercial planes fly over Tibet en route to somewhere else.
The reason is that the average elevation of Tibet is 4380 metres.
In the event of cabin depressurisation or single engine failure, aircraft have to descend to below 4380 metres which of course they can’t do in that location. They obviously also will need to fly above 4380 metres because they can’t fly at ground level.
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And if they landed out there, it would be Soylent Green for the survivors.
Would anyone like to guess how long the current crowd would take to decide that survival via any means justifies the meal?
I can picture a few of my former work colleagues having already selected who would have to fail to proceed so that they could be a good meal, even before the turbulence and the fasten seat belt sign goes on.
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For extremely high terrain, including Tibet, my airline published ‘escape routes’ which were preloaded by the crew as a ‘secondary’ flight plan.
In the event of a depressurisation the escape route would be activated and a pre calculated ‘step descent’ carried out which would make use of the known oxygen on board until terrain allowed further descent to 10,000’ and everyone could breathe easily!
Never had to do it myself, but always prepared (that’s why they paid us the big bucks) 😁
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Here is the Spectator Index of the world’s most expensive housing markets. Australia, despite having one of the world’s lowest population densities has one of the highest housing prices. In fact we have 5 in the top 15.
This is partly a consequence of immigration at far higher rates than housing can be built plus land use restrictions and no incentives to decentralise, huge delays on development approvals and many other reasons. Topher Field has also discussed huge hidden taxes on new housing in the following video: https://youtu.be/2KCFTinZd4M Also see another of his videos: https://youtu.be/6fPUlEF2ZiE
https://x.com/spectatorindex/status/1943641429714391387
1. 🇭🇰 Hong Kong
2. 🇦🇺 Sydney
3. 🇺🇸 San Jose
4. 🇨🇦 Vancouver
5. 🇺🇸 Los Angeles
6. 🇦🇺 Adelaide
7. 🇺🇸 Honolulu
8. 🇺🇸 San Francisco
9. 🇦🇺 Melbourne
10. 🇺🇸 San Diego
11. 🇦🇺 Brisbane
12. 🇬🇧 London
13. 🇨🇦 Toronto
14. 🇦🇺 Perth
15. 🇺🇸 Miami
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Interesting list. I’m nearest Vancouver B. C., but the international border makes it figuratively much farther. That and mountains. Next nearest is San Francisco. Of the 15, I have visited or made a brief appearance in 7. Miami was the shortest, San Jose in the ’60s being the longest – but still short.
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Astonished at that list re Oz cities, bearing in mind the large land mass and the small population. However high immigration and restricted house building lands equals high prices.
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Back in the day, Australia used to have among the world’s most affordable housing and the highest level of home ownership.
Life-long renting was virtually unknown.
Then the Left took over housing and immigration policy.
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Back in the day, Australia had an Italian journalist sent here to find out why so many young Italians were immigrating.
He wrote a book about it called “They’re a Weird Mob” and it gave a great perspective on a young country filling with hard-working Europeans looking to succeed. He became a drainlayer and a brickie, building houses for the new immigrants. (and a successful author!)
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John O’Grady was British not Italian. He used the pseudonym Nino Culotta. He wrote other books such as “It’s your shout mate”.
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Basically, “Nino Culotta was a joke, Joyce.
I have not read the books for years, but the hardbacks still adorn the “library.
“They’re a Weird Mob”, indeed.
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Socialism in history
has a noticeably low
(non)
record of success.
Stag-
nation and famine abound…
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Qld’s second tier towns, Cairns and Townsville, are booming.
Townsville’s mean is now $800k+ up 46.8% in the last year. There’s something odd about Aus.
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Out of all towns I’ve been to (must be all in Aus with more than 30k people) I prefer Townsville.
No reason.
Except a strange feeling that I just missed R. Kipling turning street corner in front of me.
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I like it, I’ve only spent 6 winters in the south but there are definitely elements of a love/hate relationship. None of my three brothers came back after leaving as young men.
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I think the AUD is sitting overvalued. The price of basics (fruit, sugar) produced in Australia also seems too high compared to GBP prices on the shelves here in rip off Britain. Something is not right.
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All good on the GBP though 🙂
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This guy paints ship names with a paint brush on a very long stick.
Interesting…
https://youtube.com/shorts/QnAPdTfvL7Y
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While Australia has been “training” people in useless woke fields of study/indoctrination like “climate change studies”, “gender studies” or “feminist theory” Australia has developed a massive shortage of people with actually useful practical skills like butchering meat:
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Naughty, naughty David. You left CRT out of it. Expect a visit shortly!!
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The high levels of CO2 built up behind obedience masks worn during the plandemic can’t have been healthy or conducive to clear thinking…
Note that the following results were known during the plandemic but we were constantly told thst masks, which were compulsory in Australia just like the faux-vax, were “fully safe and effective”.
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Yes, and the masks probably had an impact on uptake of speech by toddlers …. Apart from direct family members at home, the little ones wanting to speak were faced with somewhat muffled sounds coming from masked faces.
Ms Rachel became famous on YouTube for her sign language and exaggerated facial shapes for speech during COVID.
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A good point.
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“surgical masks” From Wikipedia:
The outward-facing side of the mask is typically colored (usually blue, green, or yellow) and made thicker, tougher, and water impermeable. The inner layers of the mask are made of three-ply (three layers) melt-blown polymer (most commonly polypropylene) placed between non-woven fabric. The melt-blown material acts as the filter that stops microbes from penetrating and exiting the mask.
At the height of the Covid Panic in the USA, local sewers churned out masks with a colorful imprint (flowers, animals, etc.). There is a photo of the famous doctor with tiny penguins on a violet background. That appears in a ‘usatoday’ article regarding double masking.
Homemade ones often had extra layers, so what if one doubles up with double masks?
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Has anyone else noticed that the narrative over the past month or so has started to wander away from Co2 (. Also known as Cah bun ) and the new Co2 is now just plain old emissions.
Similar to global warming transitioning to climate change. Wondering where this this whole charade is headed next!
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There is zero political opposition to the extreme waste of money on Snowy II, windmills, transmission lines in Australia or in the UK. And massive rail projects no one wants or can justify in Victoria.
However there is also zero comment anywhere in the world on Donald Trump’s complete cancellation of Climate Change. Not a whisper of opposition in the press. The US press and politics is all about and only about illegal migration, racial profiling with pockets of resistance on Sanctuary Cities and DEI. As in Harvard and Columbia. Not any comment in the Australian press.
So it’s down to little Australia and the UK and EU, 5% of the planet trying to prevent frying the planet by buying Chinese windmills and solar panels and transmission lines and shutting down manufacturing and agriculture while accepting millions from the Middle East?
Is that how it will go? One day Global Warming won’t be mentioned again as policy? Forget the fact that it is all a lie, a Chinese Hoax, the biggest waste of money in human history? Of course it still causes sudden floods in Texas.
No debate. Just as there is no debate about massive migration of people from the Middle East into Australia. Is that Plan B for wrecking the joint? As Australia is becoming world famous for unbridled anti Semitism, especially Victoria. While our Prime Minister is ‘laser focused’ on the problem. And our own weird direction on ridiculous aboriginal rights, totally rejected by every State but continuing to be implemented without approval. And massive growth in the public service, creating a new Argentina.
It looks like both major parties get their destructive policies from overseas. Meanwhile Argentine President Javier Melei has flatly rejected Climate Change and fired 30% of the public service and achieved a miraculous economic turnaround. Debt in Victoria alone is $40,000 per person and a similar national debt. Ho hum. More random spending then.
So who is actually deciding public policy in Australia, including Energy policy? And how can Albanese just spend billions on a whim without even reference to parliament or policy? All while claiming a mandate of a record low 1/3 of the vote? How can he have $100Bn a year in New Spending ‘off budget’ without even asking parliament?
And will Climate Change just vanish overnight? Is that how this will end? Without anyone actually examining “The” Science. Because they know it’s all fake?
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It is particularly worrying what the communist PM Albanese might be doing on his extended six day visit with Emperor Xi. He’s not just sipping green tea and having yum cha. His fourth visit to the Emperor and he hasn’t even met TRUMP yet.
He is no doubt signing away Australia’s future, in addition to the huge damage he has already done.
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And don’t forget the damage done by a certain ex Premier of Victoria who actually signed on to the Belt and road scheme while at the northern part of Australia the State {Labor} Government was busy giving The Chinese a 99 lease on the Port of Darwin. We are truly blessed with commercial idiots King of which must be Chris Bowen
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None of that will be interpreted in a friendly manner by the TRUMP Administration, including the failure to remove the Australian Ambassador to the US KRudd who has severe TDS and is a friend of Albanese, who himself has TDS.
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It’s interesting, the collapse of the Democrat vote. “many Democrat politicians continue to spout positions unpopular with centrists on taxes, crime, immigration, and transgenderism — the very issues that swept Donald Trump into office.” No mention of Climate Change anywhere. It’s a if Democrat energy policy has vanished. Electric cars. Subsidies. Solar farms. XL pipeline. Offshore wind. All gone.
As for Kevin Rudd, Rudd and Mr Wong are friends of China. That has been Rudd’s entire career as a junior diplomat specialising in China. No one’s hiding now. Rudd and Wong and Keating all work for President Xi. And make it obvious. The only people being deceived are Australian voters. But the Americans can read. Rudd, Wong, Albanese and friends all called Trump the village idiot. But if Trump can deal with dictators Kim Jong Un, Xi and Putin, he can deal with these Australian communists too. His first step is to compliment them.
Personally I think the Americans justifiably see Australia, Fiji, Tonga, the Phillipines and New Zealand as useless allies of no world consequence, except swimming and cricket. But they have strategic merit or the Americans would not talk to us. Let alone offer nuclear submarines, the ultimate weapons of war.
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We have Pine Gap in Central Australia and the upgraded USNavy’s communications station at Exmouth, WA. And rare earths. And a small shop in Victoria selling Neodymium magnets. And we straddle the Pacific and Indian Oceans.
We should be able to develop a reasonable relationship based on our usefulness to the US. If the Federal Government really cared.
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Albo’s in China trying to Lure More Visitors to Australia – “That was Quick”
Johannes Leak Cartoon Today in The Australian Commentary
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Oh no, we’ll need to put more carriages on Puffing Billy.
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Johannes Leak is brilliant.
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Trump can read. So can Australians. Albanese is a lifelong ardent communist. He has zero interest in alignment with the US. Nor has the real power behind the scenes, Labor hero Paul Keating.
Albanese’s ONLY problem is that he has to pretend to be a US ally because the Australians at home might get a little upset and he would be out of a job. Just like Keating who could not do his own tax return as Australian Treasurer and then Prime Minister and could not care less about Global Warming. It’s all about robbing the rich and sending the winnings to China. Socialism. Like Fascism, both first cousins to communism.
And in all this, the Australian parliament is just ignored. Albanese and Bowen and Chalmers are dictators, utterly betraying Australians in every way. All under the supervision of Keating who is just a little miffed that they are stealing people’s life savings, Keatings claim to fame. A Labor move as predictable as solar power at night.
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That’s the great thing about communism. Completely useless people can rise to the level of dictator/emperor. Hitler, Stalin, Xi and our own little coterie of nasty Labor party hacks. Though tyrants usually call themselves socialists. No one wants to take ownership of the twentieth century and people like Pol Pot.
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‘Socialism. Like Fascism, both first cousins to communism.’
Marx didn’t forsee the dictatorship of the proletariat, which came about because of WW1 and the emergence of Stalin.
Communism in the USSR came to an end with Gorbachev and the reform movement, then Putin turned it into a fascist dictatorship.
The reform movement came slowly to China after the gang of four were eliminated. The visit by Gough Whitlam was timely, they were then open to Western ideas. It was all going swimmingly until Xi turned up, he became a fascist dictator.
Throughout the 20th century Democratic Socialism was a bulwark against Communism.
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Marx didn’t forsee consumerism which would not have happened without WWII. Refrigerators, antibiotics, plastics, nylon, alloys, flying, tourism, annual holidays, private cars, social security, health services, dental and the massive growth in the basic wage, life expectancy, quality of life generally. Automation. His world in Manchester was observing life in the appalling dark satanic mills and the effective oppression of the masses, crammed twenty to a room. The democratic and capitalist West won the war and helped Stalin immensely, although Churchill considered that an own goal.
But the underpinnings of Fascism, Communism, Marxism, socialism are the same. Besides, in practice all end up absolute government control of the people by a small group of utterly unqualified and violent sociopaths. Javier Milei considers that Governments are the criminals.
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‘ … absolute government control of the people by a small group of utterly unqualified and violent sociopaths.’
Dictatorships, autocracies and theocracies are bad news, so Albo is well placed at this pivotal moment in history.
Can you give me a geopolitical forecast for 2030?
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Net Zero Aldo and, with luck, Bowen etc.
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New Zealand has already abandoned Net Zero and Australia is sure to follow suite before 2030.
‘HSBC has left the world’s biggest climate alliance for banks, which was rocked earlier in the year by an exodus of many of its largest members.’ (AFR)
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David, I heard last night that he was “accompanied” by 19 (??) CEO’s…….I can’t find a list of what Company’s they were from……Bet they weren’t from the middle or small end of town and a smattering of the Banking Class, I would guess ??
Does anyone know who ??
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Cannon Brookes?
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Just on the channel 7 news , one Twiggy Forrest standing up to the microphone with Albo standing behind. Now I know Twiggy said something cause his lips were moving but even though the telly is quite loud, I never heard a word he said.
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Its how most of these public scare programs go. The government media stops mentioning them and just moves on studiously avoiding the topic.
Peak Oil had arrived in the 70s along with a new Ice Age. Asian countries would fall to communism like dominos if Vietnam fell. Ice caps are supposed to be long gone and dams wont refill of course, an who can forget WMDs (everyone apparently)
Thing may change as in modern times reality has become such a relative concept and people can bang on about topics in the face of obvious evidence to the contrary. Examples are safe and effective Covid vvaccines, most of Al Gores utterances and the Victorian Government.
This is fine.
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“if Vietnam fell”
An interesting topic discussed earlier.
https://joannenova.com.au/2020/05/weekend-unthreaded-311/#comment-2330925
Layer upon layer of evolution: separation from China several thousand years ago, then meeting the Portuguese, who were replaced by the French and eventually kicked out, almost, in 1954; also the Japanese ruled both before and during WWII, then the internal war after ’54 that was “supported” by Russia and drew in the USA. Then it finished in 1975 except for the short ugly war with China.
Between ’75 and about 1990 there were difficult times, but eventually there was some direction and manufacturing and tourism flourished. The place is not perfect but it seems to be better in many ways than immediate neighbours.
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Brilliant, and may I add that the money used/borrowed/begged [snip] for these has indeed been wasted in terms of the projects nominated, BUT it has certainly been very much appreciated by the hidden recipients.
Even the banks are happy: can you imagine the commission on transferring even a million dollars and converting currency from our little AUD to XIDO! Huge.
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Had to visit a large supermarket in the smoke over the weekend. In the milk section was quite fascinated to see a new (to me anyhow) product called “Cold Pressed Milk”.
Now, how it this produced, first thoughts were don’t warm your hands before milking the cow, but no, a web search reveals that cold pressed milk is milk that is packaged then placed in vessels that raise the pressure to many atmospheres thereby destroying any pathogens.
Marketed as raw milk, apparently the authorities see it as “processed” so O.K. for people to consume. The blurb then went on about how “raw milk” was risky to consume. How did I ever survive childhood. Milk straight from the cows, these had been herd tested for T.B. and brucellosis, but other than that, no worries.
Lots of health claims over standard pasteurised milk but who knows, also quite expensive.
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I suspect pressure is as effective in killing bacteria as freezing. Not at all. Life goes on at enormous depths in the ocean, with pressures of up to 700 atmospheres in places and various lifeforms swimming around happily.
Whales, closely related to humans, dive to 1km, so pressures of 100 atmospheres. And some to 300 atmospheres. Then back to the surface to breathe. Even humans have free dived to 252 metres, which is 26 atmospheres.
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There is a huge demand for raw milk but it is prohibited to be sold commercially in Nanny State Australia even though many generations of people successfully drank it.
High pressure over 300MPa apparently kills most pathogens and up to 1000MPa is needed for bacterial spores.
That’s seriously high pressure, 1000MPa is 145,000psi. I used such high gas pressures (and higher) for parts my PhD work. The apparatus was in a concrete “bunker” with one metre thick reinforced concrete walls in case something went wrong… The pressure vessel had about a 4cm bore and 18cm wall thickness and was made from maraging steel.
Less extensive precautions are needed for liquids at such high pressures, however.
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There is a market in raw milk. You can get it in Vic.
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So unlikely anyone is using such pressures in milk processing. 145,000psi is 10,000 atmospheres. 1000km of water. It could only be instantaneous as in a jet. Is this leg pulling?
And “Milk is composed of water, milkfat (butterfat), protein, lactose, minerals, and enzymes. Approximately 87% of milk is water, with the remaining 13% consisting of solids like fat, protein, and carbohydrates (primarily lactose).” If you can destroy bacteria, you destroy all but the minerals. That wouldn’t be milk.
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So because of a restriction on raw milk as dangerous we now have a really dangerous industrial process introduced in milk processing. Farming, Fishing and Forestry – don’t really need more danger there.
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First I’d heard of the maraging steel. I searched and found https://steelprogroup.com/alloy-steel/maraging-steel-guide/ and now I’m less ignorant. Thanks.
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Most of my “dairy” comes in the form of ice cream. Some from cheese. I don’t think I ever drank much milk and none in the last 20 years. That had chocolate in it – that helps.
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Did you mean your chocolate had some milk in it ?
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I think engineers and scientists who know about the anthropogenic global warming scam and the infeasibility of wind and solar power and who remain silent should engage in some introspection and consider whether they will continue to remain comfortable with their silence.
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I don’t think they care. Besides, most work for the government and have dependent families and mortgages. They know it will fall apart soon enough and then vanish as if it never happened. The windfarms and solar farms are already being abandoned. Not ‘repowered’ as they fall apart, having harvested the subsidies.
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Creature of the day, the giant deep sea isopod.
https://youtu.be/IUx_VE8axUc
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Looks incredibly like a dust mite. Probably the same scavenging function. And living at 350 atmospheres water pressure.
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“And living at 350 atmospheres water pressure.”
Probably processing raw milk in its spare time
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FWIW
“Sunday morning music
I wonder how many of my readers remember the British musical comedy duo, Flanders and Swann? ”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2025/07/sunday-morning-music_13.html
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Thanks for that ai; I love their songs. What struck me just now was the sheer clarity of their sung and spoken words. So much stuff nowadays lacks clarity and is very muffled and a strain to listen to.
Tom Lehrer was also very clear and very clever in his use of language.
We still have our LPs of Flanders and Swann.
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Have a listen to their “Song for England” (second last track on the John Amis video) and reflect that even knowing that it exists would likely get you 20 years in the weldmesh motel in current UK!
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FWIW
“Will The OBBB End Heavily Subsidized Wind And Solar Generation Projects?”
“What does the future hold as to large additions to heavily subsidized wind and solar electricity generation capacity in the U.S.? For those paying attention, the legislative back-and-forth of the One Big Beautiful Bill, as it made its way through Congress, has been something of a roller coaster ride. At this point, I am betting that the utility-scale wind and solar industries are near the end of their line. This post reports on the latest development, which is an Executive Order signed by President Trump on July 7. But count on the wind and solar subsidy farmers to keep fighting to the last dollar of their government handouts.”
More at
https://hotair.com/headlines/2025/07/13/will-the-obbb-end-heavily-subsidized-wind-and-solar-generation-projects-n3804744
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Meanwhile Australia’s Prime Minister is in China talking up green steel. It’s impossible to understand how dear leader can be so ignorant of how stuff works. Still, I am sure the Chinese with their very limited concerns for environmental issues will sit at the feet of Albo in thrall of his greatness.
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The Chinese Emperor and his advisers aren’t stupid like our PM and his advisers.
They must be laughing all the way to the bank with Albanese and his “green steel”.
We have highly paid government scientists who are meant to advise about the implausibility of such things as green steel but are silent.
And the more Australia commits to insanity like green steel, the more economically destroyed Australia becomes to the benefit of the Chicomms. But I guess that is the plan…
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They’re just different stupid.
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Hello Albo. You need carbon to make steel. Please tell your mate ‘Blackout Bowen’ as I’m sure that he doesn’t know as well. And CO2 in Greenhouses makes the plants/flowers grow bigger and faster. Here endeth a short lesson on reality.
Wake Up you Dopes.
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The background of war surfaces… NATO and Russia are quietly assassinating important members of each other’s military.
“Ukrainian security agents have killed a group of Russian spies near Kyiv in another escalation of the secret war between the two countries. It follows the assassination of a top Ukrainian intelligence officer days earlier…In April, a car bomb killed Russian general Yaroslav Moskalik in Moscow, …In a similar attack last December, an explosion from an electric scooter killed Russian general Igor Kirillov in Moscow..”
I’m all for it, kill the presidents, the prime ministers, the cabinet ministers, the top military brass…. and not kill the soldiers at the bottom!
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/liquidated-ukraine-kills-russian-agents-blamed-for-assassination-20250714-p5meng.html
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‘The Security Service of Ukraine said the Russian agents were “liquidated” after resisting arrest at a location near the capital, and it blamed them for the brazen daylight killing of the Ukrainian officer last Thursday.’
They could have surrendered but decided to fight to the end.
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insert ‘Ukrainian opposition party members’ and this story still makes sense.
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A daily report on geopolitics — today it’s about “alleged” calls for the U.S. to resume bombing Yemen:
https://news.antiwar.com/2025/07/13/yemens-houthis-committed-to-ceasefire-with-the-us/
Or if you prefer to listen, get the “Antiwar News” podcast.
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True KP – Russia is ramping up its “hybrid” warfare against the Baltics and NATO neighbors…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW06sffl9qE
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“with several governments now warning that a major accident is only a matter of time, but that might be exactly what Russia is looking for.”
Ah- looking at the incentives for Govts to do this, one has to ask,
What does Russia gain? Answer- nothing but more bad publicity against them.
What does NATO gain? Answer- everything, a great deal of negative publicity against Russia, whom they will blame for the jamming.
I expect the one with the most incentive will be the one to cause an accident.
So, this will become standard operations during a war, and no doubt in a lot of black ops too.
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Putin would like to avoid an accident after what happened in Azerbaijan.
https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3317921/how-azerbaijan-defies-russia-and-iran-eurasias-new-order because
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Good morning Jo, The information about Hokkaido’s two (buried) micro nuclear reactors seems to be fake. Have you checked? Regards,
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Chat GPT
It does appear that the story about two buried micro nuclear reactors in Hokkaido—often referred to as “Yoroi” reactors—is not supported by any reputable sources. That claim originates from a single blog post, with no mention in reputable outlets or nuclear industry coverage. It’s almost certainly misinformation or at best a speculative idea, not an actual project .
Here’s what truly exists in Hokkaido:
⚛️ What’s real: Tomari Nuclear Power Plant
Only nuclear power plant in Hokkaido, located in Tomari village. It has three conventional reactors (Units 1–3), with Unit 3 cleared for safety by Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority in April 2025. A restart could happen around 2027, pending legal and public approvals
There are no microreactors currently buried or operational there.
🧪 What are microreactors—and why it’s likely confusion?
Microreactors are real but experimental: small (1–20 MWe), often mobile units under development in U.S. labs like Idaho’s INL, but none are buried in Japan
Independent of Tomari, a design by Toshiba/CRIEPI called 4S proposes small sodium-cooled reactors that could be sealed underground—but again, none are deployed in Hokkaido, and the project remains theoretical
📰 No credible evidence
A four-day-old blog post is the only source claiming deployment of “Yoroi” microreactors in Hokkaido. No coverage in major Japanese media, academic reports, or nuclear-industry journals.
Reliable outlets like NucNet, World Nuclear News, and The Japan Times make no mention of microreactors in Hokkaido. Their focus is primarily on the restart of Unit 3 at Tomari
✅ So what’s likely true?
Hokkaido does not have any buried microreactors in operation.
There’s an ongoing effort to restart the Tomari-3 reactor, subject to safety upgrades, legal reviews, and public consultation.
Discussions around small/underground microreactors (like 4S) exist in theory or design—but no real plants are deployed in Hokkaido as described.
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Brave Leo says
While the article provides detailed information about the Yoroi Reactor, it is important to note that the source is a blog post and not a peer-reviewed scientific publication. Therefore, the information should be verified through additional sources for confirmation.
While Duck.ai says
While the article provides detailed information about the Yoroi Reactor, it is important to note that the source is a blog post and not a peer-reviewed scientific publication. Therefore, the information should be verified through additional sources for confirmation.
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By the look of that they both sez the same thing.
So who is colluding with whom?
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Is story on Hokkaido micro reactors fake?
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Is there a Youtube video shrieking about it somehere? That seems to pass as an authoratative source for some.
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This by way of AI so comes with the usual caveat re GIGO and, I assume, no copyright issues.
Hokkaido Micro Reactor
The Yoroi Reactor, a modular micro reactor the size of a container, was recently unveiled on the outskirts of Hokkaido, Japan. This innovative reactor was jointly developed by a private consortium and the National Institute of Fusion Science of Japan, utilizing molten salt cooling and ceramic-based low-enriched uranium fuel. It integrates power generation, control, and heat dissipation within a standard 40-foot container, making it easily transportable by truck or ship.
Once deployed on site, the Yoroi Reactor is buried underground and requires no external operation, functioning as a “maintenance-free nuclear battery.” The reactor is designed to be small in size, with a height of 3 meters and a width of 4 meters, weighing less than 40 tons. It has a thermal power of 1 megawatt and can convert about 0.5 megawatts of electricity, providing continuous power for decades.
The reactor’s core and molten salt coolant are chemically stable, operating at low pressure without the need for active cooling circuits, and can passively shut down once the power is off, eliminating the risk of meltdown. The fuel use cycle of each unit is as long as 10 years, after which the entire containerized reactor is towed back to the factory to replace the new module, akin to changing a “nuclear power battery”.
Two Yoroi Reactors are already operational in northern Hokkaido, replacing diesel generators and providing zero-emission power to isolated towns that previously relied on these generators. Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) plans to install 50 additional Yoroi units across rural Japan by 2030, viewing the technology as a critical bridge between energy security, carbon neutrality, and disaster preparedness.
AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts.
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What the hell kind of system are we living in if thousands of kids were abused, the government has videos of the abusers and yet none of the abusers are even facing charges!?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1944243780003278855
Answer: a global child abuse racket indulged in by high ranking and powerful people in governments and business, too powerful to dare touch, and that has been going on for decades.
“We have a hard drive with evidence, incriminating top politicians”
Next thing, it suffers a mysterious unrecoverable crash, eh UK.
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Julian Assange was jailed as an example of what happens to those who piss off the people in power. If it wasn’t for that I’m sure the files would be all over the internet by now.
That word ‘abuse’ is called upon to do a lot of work these days… a 17and 1/2 year old girl having under-age sex is quite different to a six year old.
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So was Pizzagate conspiracy theory or fact?
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Pattern recognition.
Pattern recognition curation.
I suppose that with the Internet of Babel there is pattern overload.
The zoo keepers get a bit flustered staying on top of the curation.
We can still walk by the Epstein exhibit, but the curtain has been drawn.
We can put our noses on the glass and try to see through the cracks.
As the windows fog over on the Pandemic exhibit down the hall.
But the curators will never confirm in the brochure whether that displayed species came from a lab.
Conspiracy theory or fact?
The ultimate question of our Age.
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I notice offense has been taken for the mere observation of a possible pattern.
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https://gab.com/PadraigMartin/posts/114843412923415550
The termites have done their work. There’s nothing to save.
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What would you do? What would you betray? What would you sacrifice? What lies would you tell? To prevent your beloved family from certain death?
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Plane crashes just after takeoff at Essex airfield, London
https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1944427793862807979
Climate change strikes again.
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Well, that was no Cessna 172!
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Cessna full of tyres?
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JC2 secret stash bookmarks
I’ll be releasing them weekly, starting with the ones way down the list, but still amazing information. The top ranking ones will be revealed in time, and there’s hundreds all up..
Source 1: Nighthawkinlight – a DIY channel featuring an eclectic blend of projects.
A DIY compound parabolic solar water heater than works in cloudy conditions:
https://youtu.be/8zlAI32MSsQ?si=NTTdICDpuRIEPvcQ
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For decades men’s sperm counts have been in precipitous decline. By 2050 they will be effectively zero.
The title is The Last Men, which I chose for various different reasons, but it’s not hyperbole. One of the fundamental reasons is that sperm counts have been declining precipitously across the Western world for decades, and also in the non-Western world, as new research is showing. And if you extrapolate the data, by 2045-2050, the median man will have a sperm count of zero.
What that means is that one half of all men will produce no sperm whatsoever, and the other half will produce so few that it doesn’t really matter. You need a certain number of sperm to fertilise an egg – the odds are pretty low even when you have millions of millions of sperm per decilitre of semen – but when you have, say, 10, it’s just not going to happen. So we’re moving towards a situation very rapidly where reproduction by natural means may be impossible.
https://modernity.news/2025/07/13/raw-egg-nationalist-reproduction-may-become-impossible/
Who (or what 😎) takes the big chair then?
Dare we call this “nut zero”? 😆
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Did they measure the Middle East or Africa?? Meh- There will be a vaccine by then, available to everyone who votes Democrat/Labor..
It will be a great time to see how a highly technical civilisation regresses to the stone age when there are not enough trained engineers to run it. The 3rd-world can slip back into their pre-West living standards quite easily, us, not so much!
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Yep. The gimmigrants won’t be running anything. Morlocks and Eloi, and the Morlocks are yet to be revealed.
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FWIW – re the Air India 787 crash
Towards the end of
https://avherald.com/h?article=528f27ec&opt=0
there is this item –
“The aircraft achieved the maximum recorded airspeed of 180 Knots IAS at about 08:08:42 UTC and immediately thereafter, the Engine 1 and Engine 2 fuel cutoff switches transitioned from RUN to CUTOFF position one after another with a time gap of 01 sec. The Engine N1 and N2 began to decrease from their take-off values as the fuel supply to the engines was cut off.”
I’d reckon it would be a pretty slick manual manoeuvre to have that happen in that time space – even using two hands?
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If I may offer a few comments on a subject I know nothing about….
I believe that there appears to be some serious design flaws with both the placement of the fuel switches and their mechanical strength to withstand usage. Firstly, I would have thought that any control not needed in flight, particularly a critical control, should not be located anywhere near controls that are used in flight, particularly controls used for takeoffs and landing. Secondly, I don’t believe that the switch guards adequately protect against accidental switch operations. Thirdly, the switch locking mechanism appears to be made of lightweight thin material, perhaps aluminium, and the thickness appears to be only 1mm. I have used locking switches in the past, but these have used solid brass, at least 2mm thick, as the locking mechanism. And fourthly, why would the switch be oriented so that accidental operation turns it off? Why weren’t the switches oriented so that accidental operation turns them on?
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Ages with point Ian. Note that it took a few seconds between switch operations to return both switches to on. I do t believe that they both could have been turned off manually in that very short time, if the locking mechanisms were both functioning.
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What is also of note- the timing of throwing these switches at the exact phase of flight where the action is unrecoverable- i.e. a suicidal/homicidal Captain!
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If the switches were lockable, as they were supposed to be when working correctly, they would have to be lifted up, then moved downwards. Impossible to move both switches in 100ms. Try it with lockable switches.
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These are detent locks. You don’t accidentally knock them out of place, it’s a deliberate act, and if deliberate then placement is academic.
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If the indents were not damaged. I thought the video said that there was a case of a SAAB with similar switches being able to move them without lifting.
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I’d suggest checking out the blancolerio channel. Juan Browne only pipes up if he has something new to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA_UZeHZwSw
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A slick manoeuvre to operate two colocated toggle switches in one secound? Ones you have operated hundreds of times before. Sounds dead normal to me.
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They had detent locks. When working correctly, have to lift up first. Can’t do this in that time. Try it.
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FWIW
“Organ donation? Include me out!”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/organ-donation-include-me-out/
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Not my favoured reading material – The grauniad. But today – questioning about the value of scientific papers – the syste,m, if not all papers.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/13/quality-of-scientific-papers-questioned-as-academics-overwhelmed-by-the-millions-published
Example –
“An eye-catching image, which depicted a rat sitting upright with an unfeasibly large penis and too many testicles. Its body parts were labelled with nonsense words such as “testtomcels” and “dck”.”
Possibly old news with the ‘Graun’, but – if it is – has anything happened? Or are folks publishing any old drivel, to keep their numbers up – and nobody notices?
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Bringing back the extinct NZ Moa
https://youtu.be/cg5skhUStRI?si=XIPNaoCUkSDWkaPm
Bring back the extinct “real women” from decades ago instead. We need them more! 😉
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Interesting in a confusing sort of way. Get Maori involved because of culture? What does this actually mean, after all while the Moa existed Maori culture was to hunt these birds to extinction. Why the bloody posturing, why not get ALL New Zealanders behind the project, after all if Europeans hadn’t gone to New Zealand the Mao would just be an archaeological relic.
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FWIW
“Oh Dear… GROK 4 Heavy Is Here…”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/oh-dear-grok-4-heavy-is-here/
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FWIW – a bigger picture view
“Okay, I have to say this”
Not the Yellow Stream Media’s look at current happenings
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2025/07/13/okay-i-have-to-say-this/
Long but –
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FWIW
“Dr Ben Roberts, a senior lecturer in healthy buildings at Loughborough University, said applying yoghurt to the outside of windows can lower the temperature by up to 3.5C.”
https://thompsonblog.co.uk/2025/07/have-you-tried-using-cheese.html
Has he heard of whitewash?
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That would be fruit yoghurt. And you wonder how he found out.
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Low-fat yoghurt works just as well as fruit yoghurt AND preserves the maximal health status of the building at the same time….
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