Friday

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      David Maddison

      I want to see a firm commitment from the pretend conservative Liberal Party that in the unlikely event that this faction of the Uniparty is elected, that they will 100% remove this legislation along with the e Safety Kommissar, both creations of the Liberals.

      I suspect they won’t.

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        el+gordo

        You got that right.

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        Bushkid

        We actually urgently need a referendum to enshrine the absolute right to freedom of speech and communication in our Constitution.
        There has to be absolutely no doubt that we have the right to express our own opinions freely and without any fear of government censorship, control or retribution.
        The concept of “harmful” speech is a manufactured “harm” intended to make it possible to silence any opinion or expression of doubt or concern about government action or intention.
        We cannot afford to leave such important matters solely in the hands of fickle politicians.

        Similarly, we urgently need the Constitution amended to include the absolute right to complete control of our own health decisions and management. Government or employers must never again be able to subject us to coercion, blackmail or any other pressure to accept any medical intervention under any circumstances.
        Again, we cannot afford to leave such important matters solely in the hands of fickle politicians.

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          FarmerDoug2

          BK
          Like it and would probably vote for it but can’t totaly agree.
          In the past the spread of serious disease was slowed by forced quarantine. Probably never successfully controled but slowed enough to gain time. For the moment we are keeping foot and mouth out.
          Plain honesty is what is required and that is proving difficult.

          Doug

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    Skepticynic

    Trump Will Start World War III,’ Says Party Autographing Bombs To Be Launched At Russia

    Babylon Bee

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    David Maddison

    The former Victorian dictator and Sinophile was elected three times even though his megalomaniac, dictatorial control freak, socialistic and huge spending tendencies were obvious even before the first election.

    This indicates four things.

    -The lack of reasoning power of many voters.

    -The desire of “free stuff” of many voters. Just how much of the income of their fellow workers (or money borrowed by Government) do they think should be transferred to them?

    -The incompetence and lack of leadership of the pretend conservative Liberal Party who were unable to secure what should have been an easy election win in all cases. They would have been slightly less bad than Labor.

    -After the first election, the huge expansion of the public service, projects on which the feral union the CFMEU were “employed”, projects with Chinese firms such as wind plantations were used, and other interest groups who benefited from massive overspending and therefore whose future votes and/or support were purchased at the cost of huge amounts of future unaffordable taxpayer funding liabilities.

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    David Maddison

    I suspect this is AI generated as it admits to various speculations and perceptions about Trudeau.

    He surely wouldn’t admit to such things, even to a supportive Leftist audience and interviewer.

    It also shows the power of (suspected) AI.

    Video:

    Justin Trudeau Makes Shocking Admission on The Colbert Show

    https://x.com/Dannyjokes/status/1838664187557613593

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      David Maddison

      The correct term for this is Deep Fake.

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        Andrew McRae

        For a few frames at 1:16 while saying “Drumpf”, Colbert’s mouth becomes a black ellipse in an impossible position.
        Fake, but would it “reasonably be regarded as parody or satire”? The ACMA would like to know!

        It sounded like you weren’t sure at first. It has been well done.

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      Tides of Mudgee

      There seems to be no question that this Trudeau “interview” is deeply deeply fake. Carefully watch his mouth and Colbert’s when they are speaking. It doesn’t match the words they’re saying. ToM

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    David Maddison

    I hate it when some service person says “too easy” in response to my request.

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    David Maddison

    I am still weighting for a Leftist to tell me why they think they have a right, via censorship, to tell me what opinions I am allowed to read or write.

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    David Maddison

    I think AI “assistance” tools which supposedly help you (e.g. to summarise a meeting) are the final phase of the dumbing-down of the population after 60 or so years (in the West) of the education system being deliberately dumbed-down by Marxists.

    And like nearly all AI to date, the trainers have incorporated a strong Leftist bias into these tools such as the rewriting of history as with the bizarre portrayal of black National Socialists to name but one example.

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    Greg in NZ

    Last day of school term, hey it’s Friday, pull a sickie? It must be –

    Shkool Shtryke 4 Climb IT ⚠️

    Sure hope the little preciouses are wrapped up in layers and layers of polyprop thermals & nylon jackets & plastic gumboots a la Goblin Girl: it’s below-freezing with snow to 200 metres (700ft) down south today 🥶

    The only thing burning is irony, and people’s fireplaces as they try to ward off the Big Chill of Spring 2024.

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    David Maddison

    The Australian Government wants to ban negative gearing by real estate investors.

    Keating banned negative gearing in 1985-87 and rents unsurprisingly went up. Obviously they would have to. Negative gearing is a poor term. All it means is that expenses incurred in earning an income are tax deductible. It’s no different to a business claiming the cost of a computer or office stationery, electricity or even labour costs. In this case it is the cost of interest. In Australia the ability to claim this cost has kept rents lower than they otherwise would be. In fact the prices charged by ANY business would have to go up if they couldn’t claim the cost of business expenses against tax.

    The possibility of banning negative gearing and draconian rental laws will mean most investors will leave the market. In fact, on the basis of draconian anti-landlord laws in Victoria, nearly everyone I know who is a property investor has, will be or wants to sell up.

    Also, when you sell a rental property you are also subject to capital gains tax.

    There is essentially no incentive now, in Australia, for investors to invest in real estate.

    And the rental crisis is mostly about Australia importing immigrants much faster than housing for them can be built.

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      el+gordo

      There are “no plans” to change the discount because it would fail to fix the housing supply, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said.

      Albo is taking full advantage of negative gearing with his property in Dulwich Hill.

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        RickWill

        Albanese has his Dulwich Hill rental on the market. He gave it a makeover before putting it on the market. Probably wants to get it sold before the market collapses when negative gearing is no longer a tax deduction.

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        KP

        “Albo is taking full advantage of negative gearing with his property in Dulwich Hill.”

        The reason it never takes off… Politicians main focus is their own wealth, not building the country.

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      el+gordo

      The Treasurer comes clean.

      ‘Treasurer Jim Chalmers conceded he asked his department to model the impact of changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions.
      About 1.1 million Australians had a negatively geared property in 2020-21, according to Australian Taxation Office data.’ (ABC)

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    David Maddison

    Setting aside theological beliefs for a moment…

    The universe exists because if it didn’t, what would there be?

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      Eng_Ian

      And back inside the universe we inhabit, we have an understanding that most of what should be there, (according to stars circling a galaxy), is not only not visible but otherwise undetectable.

      So even the universe that exists, (by observation), is not all that there is to see.

      And that’s just our universe(s). If there were others, would we be able to observe them? Maybe they have already been caught in an expanding void and are out of our reach, (with regard to light traveling back to our eyes).

      Maybe in that other universe they have a wonderful time, the sun shines, the world is pleasant and of course, they have no lawyers.

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      el+gordo

      ” … there was never a Big Bang that produced something from nothing.” Stephen Hawking

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        Kalm Keith

        Maybe, but the concept was extremely useful in working out a lot of details about what’s going on up there.

        Similarly, the Bohr model of the atomic structure may not be a perfect picture of reality but certainly enabled a huge advance in so many aspects of science.

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        John B

        Stephen Hawking, 1996.

        Although the laws of science seemed to predict the universe had a beginning, they also seemed to predict that they could not determine how the universe would have begun.

        And,
        John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), 1843.

        If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural; the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “MAHA – Robert F Kennedy Jr Outlines Core Problem with American Food Products
    September 26, 2024 | Sundance | 408 Comments”

    “Example: Seed oils are banned in Russia. You literally cannot find any food processed with flaxseed oil, canola oil or any other industrial seed oil. To understand the ramification, go to your pantry right now and look at the ingredient label. Put everything you find containing Canola oil (also used as a preservative in semi-fresh foods) on your counter, then realize all of those food products are considered toxic and not readily available outside the USA.”

    More at

    https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/09/26/maha-robert-f-kennedy-jr-outlines-core-problem-with-american-food-products/

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      Skepticynic

      >considered toxic and not readily available outside the USA
      …and Australia, where canola oil is readily available in shops and supermarkets.
      In Victoria right now, canola, (rape), is in full flower and all along the inland highways mile after mile of glorious golden canola, thousands upon thousands of acres of shining beauty, almost ready to go to seed. For oil. Toxic oil.

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    KP

    With our censorship bill about to be passed, some clown is trying to get rich by setting up a scheme to sort out REAL journos, who will be allowed more leeway, from ‘citizen reporters’ who actually investigate what politicians do and tell the truth.

    “Under his plan, “member journalists” would pay to register and become part of Journalism Australia if they met certain standards. In return, they would gain the protections offered under the bill. Defining member journalists would help law enforcement agencies and courts identify who is producing trusted journalism to a particular standard”

    The other groups trying to cash in on this are not so happy-

    ““It is critical that these decisions are made by industry peers who understand firsthand the challenges of journalism in Australia,” says Karen Percy, media president for the MEAA. She says the bill would not provide solutions to the real and ongoing issues journalists face, such as defamation laws, restrictive Freedom of Information processes and court suppression orders.”

    She wants to keep it in-house under her control… Funny how the censorship bill didn’t get mentioned, almost as though it won’t affect Govt patsys in mainstream media..

    So much corruption, so blatantly obvious!

    https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/peter-greste-spent-400-days-in-jail-now-he-wants-a-register-for-journalists-in-australia-20240926-p5kdq5.html

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      el+gordo

      ‘ Funny how the censorship bill didn’t get mentioned …’

      Its not a problem for them, journalists are already tightly restrained.

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        KP

        Its well-written, and covers all three pieces.

        “Then there is the Hate Speech Bill, which will make it even easier to imprison someone for incitement. This works by making modifications to existing offences, lowering the threshold for conviction, and expanding the coverage to a wider range of groups. This is another hidden nasty that it risks being used to imprison people for social media posts, in a similarly draconian manner to what is happening in the UK. Of course, these bills are given no prominence by the government because they don’t want you to know what they are up to.”

        The jackboots are definitely being polished.

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    YYY Guy

    Joe Hockey was at the Nat Press Club yesterday. Highlights –
    He’s making lots of money from gov contracts at his business Bondi Partners.
    KRudd is doing a great job.
    As is Penny Wong.
    Trump vs Harris? Leaning towards Harris.
    He is very proud of his record despite never balancing a budget.
    AUKUS? Great idea. He must be in on the grift.
    Not a single hard question from the churnos.
    And so on.

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    John Connor II

    Our Leader Albo, who art in chaos, Hallowed be thy promises.
    Thy circus come, thy BS be spun, On Earth as it is on ABC News.
    Give us this day our daily cringe,
    And forgive us our sanity,
    As we forgive those who keep drinking the Kool- Aid.
    Lead us not into rational thought,
    But deliver us from reason.
    For thine is the Schwab puppet, the con, and the circus, Forever and ever, amen.

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    John Connor II

    Russell Broadbent MP Informs Prime Minister of DNA Contamination

    ..significantly, Russell also forwarded his letter to all Federal Senators and MPs using the internal Parliamentary system, while including all the co-signatories of his letter, which is against protocol.

    https://julesonthebeach.substack.com/p/russell-broadbent-mp-informs-prime

    Ooh, better rush through those free speech laws! 😎

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    John Connor II

    Friday ejuksyshun: dinosaurs vs man, a size comparative

    https://youtu.be/jLhToi3XdZ0?si=qmjaMiOt1QciIi0f

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    John Connor II

    Friday funny: asking AI what women of each country look like

    https://youtu.be/GbeWrzoqKeE?si=2O_-wqtzvqFMtbta

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      AlanG

      Please correct me if I am wrong here.
      AI seems to be at the mercy of the internet – i.e. doesn’t AI produce results solely based on the available internet information?
      So, if the information online is incomplete or missing or distorted then the AI result will also suffer from that?

      When AI was in its infancy, I asked ChatGpt to examine research indicating the effect of solar system planetary movements on climate. But ChatGpt could not access such relevant information and continually/repeatedly stated that climate change was accepted as caused by man as purported by so called ‘climate scientists’. ChatGpt would not provide any alternatives, and so was biased to the information available on the internet (which is incomplete or biased).
      If this is correct, then AI would be subject to censorship and bias.

      As I asked at the beginning, please correct me if I may be incorrect as I am no expert on AI.

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        John Connor II

        “AI” is of course nothing of the kind YET.
        GIGO (Garbage in garbage out) has already been shown to be a major problem.
        It’s a glorified database querying and extrapolation tool, designed by the left and with endless inherent biases, prejudices and limitations.
        Don’t expect human (non-left) reasoning and understanding.
        AGI, while originally expected to be 50+ years away is now considered by real experts to be here by 2030 or so given the pace of evolution , and inevitable black projects beyond government oversight will be there all the way.

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    John Connor II

    Friday wtf: shark intestines outperform Tesla valves

    Scientists at the University of Washington have re-created the distinctive spiral shapes of shark intestines in 3D-printed pipes in order to study the unique fluid flow inside the spirals. Their prototypes kept fluids flowing in one preferred direction with no need for flaps to control that flow and performed significantly better than so-called “Tesla valves,” particularly when made of soft polymers, according to a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

    [Prior work] showed that if you connect these intestines in the same direction as a digestive tract, you get a faster flow of fluid than if you connect them the other way around. We thought this was very interesting from a physics perspective,” said Levin last year while presenting preliminary results at the 67th Annual Biophysical Society Meeting. “One of the theorems in physics actually states that if you take a pipe, and you flow fluid very slowly through it, you have the same flow if you invert it. So we were very surprised to see experiments that contradict the theory. But then you remember that the intestines are not made out of steel—they’re made of something soft, so while fluid flows through the pipe, it deforms it.”

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/these-3d-printed-pipes-inspired-by-shark-intestines-outperform-tesla-valves/

    Nature wins yet again.

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    Andrew McRae

    I have put up the first draft of my Misinformation Bill submission as a comment here:
    https://joannenova.com.au/2024/09/only-a-government-pushing-lies-has-to-censor-the-people-the-acma-ministry-of-misinformation-bill/#comment-2803196
    Criticism welcome so that I might make improvements before the submission deadline.

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      Vicki

      Good on you Andrew. I was so pressed for time I resubmitted my response to their first Bill. They will probably now reject it on technical grounds. The website was so difficult to navigate that I accidentally included a photo of my cows! Grounds alone for rejection – though it will be light relief for the day of some public servant.

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    Paul Siebert

    John Connor II, #18, Sept 27,
    ____Looks like today’s brains are just barely catching up to Viktor Schauberger.

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    another ian

    For do-it-yourselfers

    From stone age to bronze age

    https://youtu.be/zsuy7_R39-Y

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    John Connor II

    Robby Starbuck Targets Toyota As Anti-Woke Crusade Expands Across Corporate America

    For a Japanese company, Starbuck and his team were entirely shocked by what they found:

    Toyota sponsored a drag queen program at a summer camp for kids identifying as LGBTQ+.

    Toyota opposes laws that ban sex changes for kids and funds groups who work to make sex changes legal for children and they worked with the @HRC to oppose these laws.

    Toyota openly supports “the equality act” which would allow men into girl’s bathrooms, sports and locker-rooms.

    Toyota funded the @HRC’s Time To Thrive Summit where they worked with the largest teachers union to push gender ideology into elementary schools.

    Donated to the HRC, the Trevor Project, Dallas Resource Center and Los Angeles LGBT Center and the Workplace Equality Summit — All supporters of child transitions. The Trevor Project features chat rooms where adults have been caught talking to kids about sexual kinks, how to transition, masturbation and more. They also have a quick exit feature to wipe the browser and hide the website from parents.

    Funded many “all ages” pride events.

    Woke DEI trainings.

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/robby-starbuck-targets-toyota-anti-woke-campaign-expands-across-corporate-america

    Toyota, like most, has gone downhill quality wise for years now.
    They really don’t need blacklisting, boycotting and bankruptcy, which us what supporting degenerates destroying childhood innocence will get you.

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      KP

      ““It’s a global pushback, and it’s a message of all the government here.””

      ‘Its a Government pushback, and its a message of global Govts here’ is what he means…

      The people spoke with their wallets and bought Chinese things, so if the Govt is going to tax them out of existence, don’t pretend the people as doing it! Only the well-off can afford to buy things based on where they’re made, and whatever that day’s enemy of the current politicians is, its probably not an enemy of the person standing in the shop.

      What it really shows is that ALL Govts are just the enemy of the people, their stupid little power plays and schoolyard spats just interfere with people going about their lives. I think this will be the only boon of a one-world Govt, they will have no-one to argue with!

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        el+gordo

        ‘ALL Govts are just the enemy of the people,’

        Anarchy has no place in the modern era, whereas democracy has a reasonably good track record.

        I can’t visualise a one world government, humanity would reject the idea outright.

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          David of Cooyal in Oz

          “… whereas democracy has a reasonably good track …”
          I suggest your use of the present tense “has” went out of validity a few decades back.
          In my view our “democracy” no longer deserves that title, but I don’t know what to call it now.

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      RickWill

      I think George is underestimating what is happening with the BRICS.

      Actually Mark Steyn goes into some detail here
      https://www.steynonline.com/14663/talking-trivia-on-the-cliff-edge

      Like the X-Men and Avengers and the other lousy superhero groups propping up what’s left of Hollywood, the BRICS superfriends all have different superpowers:

      *China is the centre of the global economy, and of the supply chain that starts in some town you’ve never heard of and ends in your local Walmart. Their strategy is to take over the world without firing a shot, and so far it’s going gangbusters;

      *Russia, on the other hand, has more nukes than anyone on the planet, and is musing on using them; and

      *Islam is demographically insurgent.

      This pretty much covers all the bases. Western Europe is Islamising at an accelerating rate: in England, France, Germany, Muslims prop up the fertility rate in every town of any size, constantly replenished by the daily arrivals on the Continent’s southern shore. China’s “Belt and Road Initiative” numbers three-quarters of all the nations on earth: for old-school imperialists such as myself, in the Caribbean and the South Pacific Beijing is picking off His Majesty’s Dominions one by one (including New Zealand).

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “If at first you don’t succeed, jab, jab and jab again”

    “IF DOING the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity, then the world of vaccinology has entered the realm of madness. If nobody puts a halt to it, we will soon see more mRNA vaccines being made available and, it seems, any excuse is good enough to roll out another barrel of life-threatening gunk. This time it is the H5N1 virus, so-called ‘bird flu’, which is being named in evidence.”

    And

    “However we are still told we need another vaccine using mRNA technology to see our way through this (fabricated?) crisis. According to a press release from GlobalData, mRNA vaccines will ‘lead next-generation efforts to combat H5N1 amid (the) global outbreaks’ they warn of. It gets worse. For the hubris and lying associated with this claim is staggering. The press release says that the aim is ‘to replicate the success achieved during the COVID-19 pandemic’ and that ‘the rapid development and potential efficacy seen during the COVID-19 pandemic signal a significant shift in the H5N1 vaccine landscape’. Straw man fallacy springs to mind.”

    More at

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-jab-jab-and-jab-again/

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      KP

      Well, two things spring to mind..

      mRNA is just the test case of a new warfare, the Model T of genetic medical treatments. It has already been superseded by the self-replicating ‘replicon’ vaccines they are about to release in Japan,where you take a highly-infectious but ‘harmless’ virus and GE it to release the antigen you want as it kills the host cell. So expose a few hundred people to this organism and they will infect the whole planet.

      ..and the sharpest pinnacle of research is pinning down the differences between races on Earth so bioweapons can be made that will affect one race only. They will be crude to start with too, but soon I am sure we will see swathes of populations wiped out by mysterious diseases that seem to affect some countries only.

      So if they want to inject everyone with some vaccine that maybe.. makes people more placid… they soon will. Or if they want to thin out someone else’s population that will be coming up as well. It will all make mRNA seem very tame.

      Do we really want politicians and bureaucrats to have this power? Well, I suppose the nuclear age gave it to them a long time ago.

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    el+gordo

    Clouds are poorly modelled, however they now know that cloud cover has been decreasing since the early 19th century.

    https://notrickszone.com/2024/09/27/the-recent-decades-of-cloud-cover-decline-may-be-a-continuation-of-a-trend-that-began-in-1818/

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