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Are anti-elitism and anti-intellectualism one in the same?
Elites say yes.
A fundamental question for the existence of this blog.
A short time ago, saying publicly that it came from a lab would prompt elites to demand your head on a stake.
Perhaps that has changed.
Yet even now, declaring that men cannot birth children will cost you your position amongst the elite at Yale.
Perhaps they are one in the same because the elites and the intellectuals appear to be failing in unison.
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>one in the same
The phrase is meant to be, one and the same.
Being “in” something that is the same doesn’t make sense.
Therein lieth today’s English language lesson.
“one in the same” is a classic eggcorn.
An eggcorn is a word or phrase that sounds like and is mistakenly used for another word or phrase.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-one-and-the-same
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My anti(or un)-intellectualism and anti-eliteism displayed.
I apologize for tainting the many anti-elite but obviously intellectual folk on this blog.
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On the BBC, the intellectual Elite sound like morons. But then only 4 out of every 28 of the BBC’s best scientific experts are scientifically qualified intellectuals. The other 24 are environ-mental-morons with arts and politics degrees. So, for three hour debates, with the top intellectual giants of the day, I watch Joe Rogan. A few weeks ago, MIT Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Dr. Richard Lindzen & William Happer talked to Joe Rogan about the Climate ‘Hoax’. Lindzen says that “Man-made Climate Change” is a quasi-religious movement predicated on an absurd scientific narrative. The BBC elite talk to their favourite intellectual, Dr Greta Thunberg (LL.D), for a three minute lecture on Global boiling, caused by temperatures reaching 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Talking of man-birth-child, a midwife interviewed on RadioNZ yesterday (they’re on strike with their ABC comrades) was using approved UN-words like ‘sustainable’ and ‘moving forward’ and ‘equity’ but when she referred to ‘birthing people’ she was gone – I’d rather listen to talk-back or Beethoven’s 5th or read a book. Floorward!
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https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/net-zero-activists-stumped-shock-new-evidence-showing-no-link-between-co2-temperature-over
https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/net-zero-activists-stumped-shock-new-evidence-showing-no-link-between-co2-temperature-over
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Video.
Comments about Australia’s fuel shortage.
Apparently Australia is still paying rent on empty tanks for fuel storage in Texas until 2030 even though Al-bozo sold off our reserves.
So we paid for a lease on the tank storage but the tanks just sit there empty because no one in Australia has had the foresight to use this empty storage since Al-bozo sold off the oil.
https://youtu.be/3DkR9X9GX1Q
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Not even the LNP mention this. Same applies to One Nation the MSM of course would never dare publishing the fact. Doesn’t really matter because the electorate won’t understand what the fuss is all about!!
After all it’s oil & the electorate have been told oil is dirty, it’s bad, it’s a pollutant!!
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I see NZ has it’s own fuel doom clock:
https://www.fuelclock.nz/
Where’s ours? 😆
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We really know the art of the deal, pity it isn’t to our benefit.
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A very decent article on grid stability, W/S, thermal generation, frequency and voltage stability, etc. Generally applicable to any place with increasing solar/wind and decreasing thermal power plants. Targeted to Scotland, is nonetheless applies to any grid that has a large amount of inverter connected intermittent generators.
“Today I’m going to talk about grid stability and why Scotland is more vulnerable than the rest of Britain to blackouts. ”
https://www.netzerowatch.com/all-news/scotland-energy-crisis
A companion article that references the above link
Yet Another Reason Why Wind And Solar Electricity Generation Will Never Work To Run An Economy
https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2026-3-25-yet-another-reason-why-wind-and-solar-electricity-generation-will-never-work-to-run-an-economy
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The average Australian punter is more interested in his footy team, their eyes glaze over with this kind of discussion.
Their lack of any intellectual rigour shows in the polling results as well.
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Oh well, explain to them why the lights might go out at the footy or why the bottle shop eftpos won’t work.
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Or why the fridge won’t keep their beer cold.
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Miliband’s idea of buying plug in solar kits from the supermarket etc. is a futile joke.
They haven’t finalised the legalities yet but it is anticipated these will be up to 800w.
Larger systems will still require professional qualified connection.
With a capacity factor of 10% in the UK, that isn’t even going to generate the full time equivalent of keeping an old incandescent light bulb lit!
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I suspect you are serious.
So the plug (mot socket !) of that gizmo will be active, can not be otherwise “pluggable device”
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The IET covered it:
https://www.theiet.org/media/press-releases/press-releases-2026/press-releases-2026-january-march/24-march-2026-iet-urges-households-to-check-electrical-safety-before-using-plug-in-solar-products
No doubt, being a govt idea, it’ll be a rolling disaster.
800W? That’s peak output under ideal conditions (ie full sun at optimal angle), not exactly typical pommy weather.
Then there’s the battery to compensate for the mediocre power.
Apartment blocks of explosion and fire prone batteries. What could go wrong.
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IET’s advice is clear: consumers should have their electrical installation professionally checked for suitability before using any plugin generation equipment.
That’s what happen to engineers becoming politicians : they start a muddy explanation with “we are absolutely clear”.
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Does rather have the foul stench of our pink batts fiasco about it.
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How’s that life-threatening grovel warbling treating y’all today?
https://www.mountainwatch.com/snow-cams
NSW’s Perisher & Thredbo and VIC’s Falls Creek & Hotham (shirley it should be Coldham) COVERED in overnight snow (5-15cm) Friday 27 March 2026. Quick, have a look before ‘climate change’ melts it all!
Oddly the snow missed TAS and aimed for the mainland’s aptly named Snowy Mountains. Over here the storm has passed and the sun is out and the waves are rolling in… climate perfect 😎
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Temperature plummeted (here in Adelaide Hills) yesterday and especially this morning. Winter is coming.
Meanwhile Perth braces itself for a cyclone coming from the north. Normally this might influences Adelaide weather in 3-4 days.
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Snow in Tasmania down to 600 metres today.
Mt.Wellington roads blocked off, so no pictures possible.
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Mt Wellington road open, not snowed in.
https://youtu.be/fL-E5z_eVjM?si=XQQNUj2h5XnC5dWF
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That was yesterday, but then I was relying on the BOM report. You are surely saying they are wrong?
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Yup!
Does this look snowed in, even a day later, with Hobart temps 13C?
https://mtwellington-images.hobartcity.com.au/images/summit.jpg
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No. Great picture assuming it wasn’t taken a few days ago and having the date/time changed by AT.
Anyway, Hobart and Mt.Wellington are often at the same temperature.
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G3, tomorrow you can check Mt Welli’s time lapse video for today here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpmia6hTCzGdStP1EHOcVtg/videos.
Webcam still shots live https://www.hobartcity.com.au/Things-To-Do/Kunanyi-Mt-Wellington/Kunanyi-Mt-Wellington-webcams
Current temperature https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/tasmania/south-east/btas_pt039-kunanyi%2fmount-wellington#past
Temp peaked at 4.1 deg at 1:45pm. Was -1.4 deg at 8am.
Hobart 14.5 deg at 2:10pm
Mt Wellington 2.8 deg at 2.10pm
https://www.bom.gov.au/location/australia/tasmania/south-east/btas_pt039-kunanyi%2fmount-wellington#past
On my small sample of visits, Mt Wellington has been much colder than Hobart. Not surprising with a 1200m difference.
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Looks like cyclone is heading inland, but at least Perth has finally(!!!) received some rain. Lovely wet stuff, and it’s not stopping. Great.
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The other thing worth mentioning, its not unprecedented.
‘Its third landfall today over WA makes it the first system since Tropical Cyclone Ingrid in 2005 to make landfall in three Australian states and/or territories as a tropical cyclone. The only other system to do this in records since 1980 was Steve in 2000.’ (Weatherzone)
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Just waiting for the annual media report that this snow fall heralds “one of the best ski seasons evah”. then as traditionally it all vanishes until around June with reports that the ski season is in trouble. Its a ritual that we go through.
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G3 needs to sit with Simon! 🙄
Sea level Hobart the same temperature as 1,200m high Mt Wellington, even factoring in katabatic flow?
Ah no…
Plus the video timelapse feeds also available…
Plus the fact I’m in Hobart this week looking out the windows at Mt Wellington. NO SNOW!
Sheesh..
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I watched this YTube by the Prof a couple of days ago – it can be summarised as follows:
Then we have Steve Rosenberg reporting on Russian newspaper articles from a day or so ago – towards the end of his presentation, we have:
So no peace talks about ending the Ukrainian conflict now, but the two major parties are already bargaining about the potential transactional spoils in the aftermath of the conflict. What a weird world we live in.
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For those not in the know – Slavik Nikonov is a dinosaur for whom Putin is Western agent of influence.
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Note that the last time such a Russian delegation has visited the US was 2018 – the last year of President Trump’s first term. Is this unfinished business?
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The world is rapidly running out of Russians and Ukranians. Will it be better or worse without them?
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In terms of demographics its a disaster for the Russian Federation as a whole but not the elite Russians. This is the tragedy.
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FWIW
“”The Economists Who Got It Right”
“Politicians say they can “make the economy work better.”
I once believed they could.
But years of reporting taught me that politicians’ attempts to “fix” the economy usually make things worse.”
“In “The Fatal Conceit,” Hayek writes, “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.”
Mises’ “Human Action” points out that all economics start with individuals making purposeful choices. That “human action” determines prices, and markets coordinate the most efficient use of resources.
But the media believed the socialists. The New Republic wrote: “the major task of our civilization is … to organize our great economic organs.”
On the contrary, wrote Hayek: “To follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.”
He was right. Every socialist government, everywhere, has failed. They fail because no political leader can ever know as much as millions of individuals doing our own thing.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/john-stossel/2026/03/25/the-economists-who-got-it-right-n4951075
Concludes
“We got that in the 1970s, after years of spending on President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” programs. In total, American taxpayers have spent $30 trillion in the name of reducing poverty. Politicians said government agencies would spend the money efficiently.
They rarely did, and the deficit spending contributed to 15% inflation.
“People then saw, ‘Everything we’ve been told for the last 30 years about managing the economy isn’t really true,'” says McMaken. “When you start to inflate the money supply, it sows the seeds for a future economic collapse. That is the cause of everything we’ve seen over the last century. It is Mises’ work that explains why the Great Depression happened … We have to study the economic side of things because if we don’t … we can’t see the ways that the state is ripping us off.”
Hayek and Mises were right. The socialist planners are wrong.
Books like “The Fatal Conceit”, “The Road to Serfdom” and “Human Action,” although I couldn’t get through all of it, are well worth reading today.”
Reckon that there will be any sign of this at Monday’s big “Solve the fuel problem meeting”?
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Every man has a plan that will not work.
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The problem is it’s devilishly simple to create money … if you’re a bank.
Just a bookkeeping entry required.
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FWIW
“A very interesting analysis of the Iran war in a worldwide context
I’m obliged to Francis Turner for providing a link to an article titled “The Global System Rupture”. It’s a very long article, far too long to summarize here; to get the full impact, you’ll have to click over to it and read it for yourself (which I do recommend). I don’t necessarily agree with all the author’s points, but I don’t think her overall thesis is far wrong. Let me offer these paragraphs to whet your appetite.”
https://velinatchakarova.substack.com/p/the-global-system-rupture
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-very-interesting-analysis-of-iran-war.html
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FWIW
“The Only Thing You Need to Read About Iran”
“Let’s be clear about the situation in Iran.
Perhaps 100 people in the entire world know the reality about what is transpiring between the U.S./ Isreal and Iran.
Those people, with few exceptions, are NOT talking to the media or posting online. The stakes are too high.
The ones who are talking to the media/ posting online are doing so for strategic purposes (misdirection, strategic deception, bluffing, etc.)
If you think you know what’s happening because you read what “geopolitical_genius_guy” posted on X or because you listened to “military-influencer” on TikTok or a podcast, you’re gravely mistaken.
Consider the following facts about Iran…”
More at
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-03-26/only-thing-you-need-read-about-iran
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The ones who are talking to the media…
Roughly, Youtube pays:
100,000 views → $200 – $1,200
1 million views → $2,000 – $12,000+
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Anyone heard of Ryan Kaji?
Started off on youtube at 6 years old reviewing kids toys and games.
He now has 38 million subscribers, 59 BILLION views and he’s worth over $500 million.
Not bad for an 11yo..
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Warn of dangers of Internet information. Immediately link to ZH. OK. 🙂
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South Australia state electoral commission has allocated One Nation a third seat in the House of Assembly (lower house, which determines government).
MacKillop, Narungga, and Ngadjuri.
https://result.ecsa.sa.gov.au/
Still some seats to be finalised, they’re a good chance of also getting Hammond.
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It is an impressive run given it is the first test since the bulk of the Australian population began to realise they are being lied to about so many things that the UN says is good for the world.
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Upper house?
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three upper house seats gained
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Thanks Neil. I believe that the ABC isn’t factually reporting any of this.
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What I would like to know, is how does 38% of the vote translate into 32 seats? Same in the last federal election, 34% gets 62% of the seats. In both cases, it was considered a landslide.
Something is not right. I remember being a scrutineer years ago, where we had Labor, liberal and an independent the three front runners. The instruction came from the electoral headquarters, to count the votes for Labor and the independent! Who decides this??.
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That might be because The Liberals tried to upset OneNation by pushing their preferences elsewhere.
And more seats are starting to vote for independents (outside of Adelaide).
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38% of the vote translates into 32 seats and a big majority of seats through preference allocation giving the majority of Labor candidates more than 50% of the vote (two candidate preferred) in the seats they won. i.e. In the vast majority of seats more than 50% of voters preferred the Labor candidate to other choices, when their 1st choice wasn’t popular enough.
In your example of being a scrutineer. The instruction from electoral headquarters to count the votes for Labor and the Independent would have been based on the AEC’s expectation that the two candidate preferred counting would result in the Labor and independent being the two leading candidates. They do this on election night to try and get a quick picture of how the seat might shape up to declare a likely result on the night. In other seats they would have stated a different pairing as they would make it a seat by seat judgement call. But the final vote counting would be based on the actual count results with correct preference distribution.
With the SA election, on the night of the election count the electoral commission said they didn’t know how to treat the situation in seats where One Nation was a top two candidate on first preferences as they had little idea on how preferences might actually flow. They were going to let the results in those seats unfold before trying to rush to declare a likely result in those seats.
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Thanks Strop,
Apparently the AEC is required to guess at the likely two candidates facing off on a two party preferred basis. And they have to do that on election day! So they picked the Libs based on historical data.
Consequently it was reported on election night that One Nation had NO lower house seats. Now as the actual count comes in it looks like One Nation will win 4 lower house seats and 3 upper house seats.
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Looks like Josh Teague (was Liberal Deputy Leader) may hold onto Heysen. That would mean 5 seats for the Liberals, 4 for One Nation (if they gain Hammond) and 4 Independents.
Glad Josh got back as he had worked hard for his electorate (No, I’m not in that) and got much resistance from the (We are Superior Persons so we vote Greens) lot.
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Canada now euthanises twice as many people than dogs
In a chilling echo of the 1970s science fiction movie Logan’s Run, Canada now euthanizes more humans through its Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program than it does dogs in animal shelters each year. Recent figures indicate approximately 16,425 Canadians were euthanized in 2024, compared to around 7,644 dogs euthanized annually in shelters — a ratio exceeding 2:1. This underscores a broader trend: Since MAID’s legalization in 2016, the program has grown exponentially, raising questions about the perverse incentives of a society that values GDP over human life, the proper purpose of healthcare, and government involvement in death.
https://thenewamerican.com/world-news/north-america/euthanasia-claims-more-humans-than-dogs-in-canada/
Gotta save the planet!
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My better half’s father, who is well past 4-score and ten, has lain in a bed unable to move for the last 3 years. He is one tough nut and can converse briefly – the one question he always has is “why am I still here?”. He would press the button in a heartbeat if given the option. Better half always distressed after a visit.
MAID has its place, and obviously Canadians are choosing it.
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My sympathies. Dad asked me to “do something about” his situation a couple of years before he died at 95. Mercifully pneumonia finally got him. An old school friend’s mother was in the same nursing home, she simply didn’t eat, became frailer and frailer every time I saw her, died in her late 80’s. For some people enough is enough.
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For some people enough is enough.
Then there are politicians?
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Just looking around I see a lot more people than dogs, so at a basic level the numbers make some sense. Given euthanasia is available to both groups the larger group has more instances. I guess the are trying to make kind of point.
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FWIW
“Most Reliable Cars Of All Time: These 5 Just Won’t Die
Want to drive your car until the wheels fall off? You may have to manually remove them yourself if you pick one of these never-say-die vehicles.”
https://www.autoblog.com/features/most-reliable-cars-of-all-time-these-5-just-wont-die
Via https://www.autoblog.com/features/most-reliable-cars-of-all-time-these-5-just-wont-die
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I have to turn off my add blocker to view. Decided not to view.
I place Toyota Landcruiser at the #1. But too big for my needs.
I would place Toyota and Mazda at the top. But my wife’s Honda turns 20 this year and my Renault tubo diesel turns 18. So both doing OK.
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Our Volvo V70 TD 6-speed manual drive is into its 20th year. A great car.
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And my Holden Statesman model VS made in 1998, 3.8 litre V6 with supercharger is fine, apart from women drivers in small cars whose English is limited (how do they pass licence tests?) running into the back of it while stationery in supermarket car parks.
One such dingle was on 23 Dec last, another 23 March in the exact same parking bay but the other side of the car, for symmetry. Geoff S
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My SMART, top of the range imported from UK in 2002 by Duttons, is still going strong. Was serviced by the same person for all that time until he died of cancer late last year. My very unworthy thought was ‘but what about the SMART’ when I heard the news!!
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As a shareholder received by annual Woodside report yesterday. Was looking at the board members and there’s Ian McFarlane. Remember him? Australia’s longest serving “Federal Resources and Energy Minister” with over 14 years experience as shadow or Cabinet minister in the LNP. No “Climate Action ” garbage in his portfolio back then. Just imagine if he was still around? Bowen couldn’t even tie his boot laces.
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Bowen cannot tie his own boot laces!
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Having recently birthed 2 computers, I am wondering if the email system is under so much security pressure from AI, that it is really struggling? My main accounts are hotmail and gmail, and they are proving to be a nightmare to reopen on a new computer. The SMS code option almost never works, and I havent had a password work, even on a new outlook a/c, that is days old. I think the only thing that might have worked was the weird puzzles they send, to prove we are human. Possibly one time it opened, after doing 4 puzzles? I’m going to have to go back and try that again, having thrown my hands in the air, whenever they have come up since. Possibly AI’s ability to collate data, makes it easy to get name, phone #, and email, so negating that security option? Wish me luck.
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I have replaced my old desktop MacMini with a mini Windows machine so have to find a replacement for MacMail.
I thought I would go with Outlook but it wanted to charge me an annual fee to load my folders (on my machine). After paying for conversion software. I have 25Gb of stored emails.
I am currently using Thunderbird. I am yet to see if it can import my MacMail email folders.
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Outlook can be a pain sometimes. It’s the first app on my Win11 PC to stop starting, causing me to restart. And occasionally it comes up with password failed messages. When I changed over from iiNet email service, it took ages to get Outlook running reliably.
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Outlook seems to have extra downtime and password problems if you add an extra email account or two that is not from a big service provider, in my case Optusnet. It gives the appearance of counting the logins to that account, asking for password re-entry after a small number, then claiming invalid password.
I know that Bill Gates is remote from this chicanery, but I still reach for my angry hat when he pontificates on climate change. Geoff S
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I use multiple gmail and proton accounts and have no issues.
I also use a 3rd party app, eM Client (free for 2 accounts max), to access them.
It supports OAuth which makes it a trusted app and eliminates any verification nonsense, which sounds like the basis of your woes…
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My wife got sent to MS authentication purgatory for some reason. Got so stupid she eventually switched to Gmail which has treated her more kindly.
I use Proton personally and have a few Gmail for roles I do for a couple of clubs. I actually pay for Proton (there is a free service) so I guess I must like it.
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Apparently Iran’s present to Trump was release of 8 tankers through Strait of Hormuz.
I have not seen them on MarineTracker.
US also still bombing heavily. So who knows?
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An odd post. You don’t know but felt a need to put shade on Trump anyway.
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So you do not know either. I asked who knows?
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We didn’t start the war.
Yes you did, you
invaded Polandattacked Iran.The comedy continues…
Not ending any time soon, months minimum, and for what?
A non-existant nuclear threat and long running middle-eastern religious war that’s no business of the west?
Newly renamed Department of war earning its name.
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President Connor II, What would you have done to prevent Iran blowing up the world?
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They would not have blown up the world with one tactical nuclear weapon. Reminds me of a caravan in the desert.
This US/Israel illegal religious war against Iran has the potential to trigger WW3, but that now seems unlikely.
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I’m alright Jack.
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As opposed to:
“We’ll all be roomed”?
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Maybe not the whole world, but where might they have dropped it?
Apparently they still have enough highly enriched Uranium for 10 bombs.
Hopefully Trump takes that off them.
Thank goodness ( and Trump) for that.
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What are you smoking today? 😆
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That’s a non answer.
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Really getting desperate to find imagined sleights H
Looked like generic comment to me
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The anti-west sentiment here is not imagined, it’s real, and it’s selfish. Aussies are hissed that we are running out of fuel – anyone in range of Iranian nukes just gotta suck it up.
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It’s the Israeli ones I’m worried about. All ready to go already.
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Who do you think the Israelis will nuke, and why?
Let’s bear in mind that Israel has possessed nukes for some time and, despite its neighbours openly expressing a desire to wipe it off the map, has never used them.
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Just check who Israel had the war with since its inception until 1956, when two enemies invaded an Arab country (there was a third accomplice – France).
Brits are lucky the Israelis did not nukes then.
The Arab Legion was widely regarded as the most professional and effective Arab army in the 1948 war, markedly superior in discipline, organization, and battlefield performance to the Egyptian, Syrian, Iraqi, and Lebanese forces
Britain began fully subsidizing the Arab Legion from its founding in 1921 (as a small police force under Peake Pasha), with costs covered entirely until 1957. This support formalized under the 1928 Anglo-Transjordan Agreement and continued through treaties like 1946 (independence) and 1948. Funds went directly to the Legion’s office (bypassing Jordan’s treasury) for salaries, equipment, training, and operations, with Britain providing seconded officers and arms. This maintained it as a British-led force securing the protectorate against raids and unrest.
Amounts Over Time :
1940: £186,000 (1,450 men).
1945: Over £1.6 million (nearly 6,000 men).
Post-1948 annual: ~£2 million subsidy + £500,000 capital (~$10M USD then).
1947: Increased from $10M to $14M USD.
1947–1956: Over £60 million total.
Subsidies ended with the 1948 treaty’s termination in 1957, replaced by Jordanian payments for British assets (~£4.25M).
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FWIW – Canada
One way to finance your wind farm –
“Exec
@CIB_en confirms
@Liberal_Party friends got easy terms on $206M loan for Atlantic wind farm with no payments due unless they turn a profit: “That’s why the Bank exists.”
blacklocks.ca/lib-loan-carried-easy-terms/#cdnpoli
@LeslynLewis
@PLawrenceCan”
https://x.com/mindingottawa/status/2037152081627234555
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/03/26/your-daily-librano/
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FWIW – latest Kunstler
“Lights Out?
“This is Hitler’s last days with Persian characteristics.” —LH Grey on X”
“It’s not only darkest before the dawn, but the groupthink is murkiest, and the light at the end of the tunnel might be an explosion up your wazoo. Iran’s increasingly headless Revolutionary Guard (the IRGC) whirls in its gyre of martyrdom as the last traps are sprung under it. Tell the wide-eyed houris of paradise to primp for a fresh harvest of true believers.”
More at
https://www.kunstler.com/p/lights-out
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Good example for comment 10.
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“It’s not only darkest before the dawn,…….”
As Irma Bombeck is credited with saying:
“Well may the grass be greener over the fence.
BUT, the grass is always greenest over the mass graves.”
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Friday funny: when you buy a Ferrari after retirement
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Yf3Xfmx2ERA
1. Youth is wasted on the young.
2. A man’s got to know his limitations.
😆
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Bad news for Trump today.
New poll from Fox News…
Getting his [bleep] kicked on all the issues that matter.
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His popularity doesn’t matter to a large degree (other than ego, and those around him worrying about their futures) because he’s not up for election in 2028.
That’s either the beauty or disaster of the US system of the limited terms of Presidency.
The disaster of it is that the President can do as they like in the second term because re-election is of little concern to them.
The beauty of it is that the President can do as they like in the second term because re-election is of little concern to them. Sometimes ya gotta do what you think is right rather than doing what is popular.
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Sometimes they become lame ducks and lack the numbers to do anything.
The American system is flawed on many levels, particularly in giving so much power to a singular individual. Quite frankly its undemocratic and potentially dangerous.
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Yea. If the Victorian Premier had unlimited power he/she would introduce an aboriginal “parliament” in defiance of the referendum.
Oh, wait…….
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And us?
Why do we need government?
Would you not think imunicipal Councils be enough?
Just watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIRUHCk2mp8
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Or we could go back to city states warring with each other.
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Get rid of councils and enlarge state governments.
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Once we got rid of our loose cannon Mayor, our council is the only sane government I deal with.
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FWIW – more wonders
“Climate Models Discover Yet Another Thing CO2 Can Do”
“A new paper makes the rounds, and at first glance it seems to offer yet another twist in the climate narrative: carbon dioxide, the molecule typically cast as the principal agent of warming, can apparently induce cooling—at least over India, at least in summer, and at least within the confines of a particular modeling framework.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/26/climate-models-discover-yet-another-thing-co2-can-do/
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FWIW – more viewed from outside
“You Can Still Hum ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane’ From Anywhere…But Australia”
With a news update that “Elbow” doesn’t seem to have revealed to us –
“BREAKING: The walls are quickly closing in. Chinese authorities have just cut off supplies of jet fuel to Australia
32% of our aviation fuel comes from China, and Singapore has also reduced supply
Watch the government blame everyone but themselves”
https://x.com/Lisa9Sophia/status/2032308009817555060
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/26/you-can-still-hum-leavin-on-a-jet-plane-from-anywherebut-australia-n3813294
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/03/26/you-can-still-hum-leavin-on-a-jet-plane-from-anywherebut-australia-n3813294
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Canada’s military may even be in worse shape than Australia’s.
Someone responded to Mark Carney’s comments:
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There may be a couple more US states shortly.
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Australia now has a petrol outage/price guide map
https://checkpetrol.com.au/
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Not much use for inland Qld
Top Springs NT now up from 280 t0 350/l for diesel
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FWIW
“Something about Money (and cake) – Francis Turner – A blast from the past from December 2014”
“Money is one of those human inventions that is about as fundamental as the taming of fire. Every civilized society and many (possibly all) savage tribes of humans have some form of money. Societies that have attempted to do away with it have generally ended up both failing to and in the process killing people. Yet not many people understand money properly and, as a result, much suffering is brought into the world.
So what is money?
The glib answer from an economist’s text book is something like this:- money is a medium of exchange and a unit of account. Which is fine except that it’s got lots of words or more that one syllable and some of them have various meanings. So lets go back to basics (as the politician said to the archbishop).”
More at
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2026/03/26/something-about-money-and-cake-francis-turner-a-blast-from-the-past-from-december-2014/
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It seems, according to Albanese & co at least, our dire fuel situation is simply a result of awful, selfish people “hoarding” and “panic buying” fuel, not the government’s incompetence.
As usual, no evidence is provided.
From where I sit, there is little hoarding or panic buying, at least in terms of increased consumption. Petrol isn’t like toilet paper. We can’t buy packs of it to store in the cupboard. For most of us, the only place we keep it is in the tank of our car which, when full, will accept no more. We might also have 5 litres at home for the mower. I have literally seen no one putting petrol or diesel in cans since the forecast shortages appeared in the media however.
Sure people are keeping their car’s tank as full as possible, wary of their local servo running out, but topping up more frequently doesn’t mean they’re buying more. They’re just buying their usual weekly amount in two or three visits. In my opinion – and personal experience – they’re buying LESS, because price are so high.
So, once again, if Albanese’s lips are moving, he’s lying, but the army of highly experienced investigative reporters in our media haven’t, apparently, thought to question him in this way.
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FWIW
“BlackRock CEO Abandons Climate Delusion for Investor Needs”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/26/blackrock-ceo-abandons-climate-delusion-for-investor-needs/
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