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The 2024 United States presidential election is set to be held on Tuesday, November 5, 2024.
So I will do a poll. Many readers of this site are unable to vote in the US. Some can.
You can anonymously do that here.
So to all, If you are or were able to cast a vote in the US election. Who would you vote for?
Red thumb is Republican, Green thumb is Democrat.
Vote green thumb – Kamala Harris
Vote red thumb – Donald Trump
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And your preference aside…. whom do you think will win?
Vote green thumb – Kamala Harris
Vote red thumb – Donald Trump
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Two weeks ago this was Kamala’s election to loose. Since then she has put on a lacklustre display.
Latest opinion poll shows a victory for Trump but its a small sampling of a big country
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14021123/trump-lead-kamala-harris-final-poll-2024-election-day.html
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I fear a civil war if Trump wins. That is the demonrats not cheating enough. If they do cheat enough, I can see the Red States going their own way. A dissolution of the Union.
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There is a silver lining.
If Trump wins, Australia may gain lots of new highly successful citizens.
The ladies of ‘TheView’, the hosts of MSNBC, Bruce Springsteen and Robert Dinero, just to name a few.
I hope Ozzians welcome them appropriately.
Do you have extradition agreements with the US?
If not, you may also get some former members of Congress, the CIA, and the FBI.
Just making little jokes.
The last two will keep Trump from returning because they are patriots.
You won’t get me because of the Free Speech and self defense thing.
Try to cope.
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Honk you can keep all of the above.
We have too many low IQ leftist here as it is
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The Broken Hill Blackout
By John McRobert
Al Jolson introduced Talkies with, “You ain’t seen nuttin’ yet”.
The recent Broken Hill blackout where Wind and Sun failed to provide power when needed, demonstrates we ain’t seen nuttin’ yet. That blackout is a harbinger of big blackouts for big cities when they become reliant on unreliable green energy sources.
I have experienced what that will be like.
On St Valentine’s Day 1985, during a Union-strike power blackout, my office was on the 24th floor of a building in Brisbane CBD. After navigating roads with no traffic lights and reporting for work, lifts didn’t work and the fire-escape access staircase was unventilated. Trudging up to an unairconditioned, unlit, unpowered office, windows would not open and no power points worked.
I walked down the fire-escape to buy lunch and St Valentine’s Day chocolates for my wife. The shopping arcade was in darkness, shop-owner incandescent, stock melted. Back up 24 floors to spend a sweltering afternoon in unproductive endurance. After work, walked downstairs in gloom to renegotiate roads with no streetlights or traffic lights. Returned home to a romantic candlelight dinner of freshly-thawed steak (before it rotted), cooked on a gas-powered camp hotplate.
Reliable energy sources are essential for modern society.
We still need coal.
https://saltbushclub.com/2024/10/29/the-broken-hill-blackout/
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So, could you still walk up and down and up then down again to a 24th floor office?
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Joe Biden bites baby (again)
https://thepostmillennial.com/just-in-joe-biden-bites-babies-during-halloween-event-at-white-house#google_vignette
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Yesterday we were talking here about the possible dangers or not of 5G and associated equipment, most notably Cell towers and smartphones. This led to the general question of Electro Magnetic Interference. I came across this article
https://emfadvice.com/use-read-emf-meter/
If anyone more expert than me can confirm it is basically accurate it seems a useful article as it goes into the ins and outs of the subject in a neutral, objective and easy to understand way.
I like the term Electro Smog. This describes all the Electro radiation we have surrounded ourselves with, from many different sources. How harmful any of it is seems difficult to determine
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Bearing in mind the shortage of certain materials should electric battery sizes be cut further?
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/10/30/electric-vehicle-battery-size-should-be-cut-by-one-third-due-to-acute-lithium-shortage-say-u-k-s-top-engineers/
The article provides a link early on to a comprehensive report on supply issues for critical net zero related projects
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On the subject of Cuba
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTX4zSfCQYM&t=160s
Its poverty has nothing to do with socialism and everything to do with US sanctions which prevent it from trading.
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I am in the process of upgrading phones, Android to Android.
Why has Meta made transferring WhatsApp data to a new phone so ridiculously complicated and unreliable rather than just transferring data via a standard backup and restore?
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A Windows user explains why they switched to GNU/Linux and the basics of switching to the Mint flavour of GNU/Linux.
https://youtu.be/fDDtBKOqTKI
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