Tuesday Open Thread

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    Gee Aye

    So. The Bombers on top of the ladder!

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    Adellad

    Yesterday Adelaide had (up to) 90kph winds on the westward downslopes of the Mt Lofty Ranges – including where I live. To cut a long story short, about 35k people were without power due to tress falling on lines and there was a lot of damage to properties and cars. It affected a stretch of suburbs form the NE to the far south, maybe 45kms or so.
    Needless to say this was not forecast – oh sure, after the event BoM is full of explanations.
    I wonder why so many of us have a skerrick of cynicism re their long-term forecasting, especially the climate 40 years hence.

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      crakar24

      Please see below Aerodrome Warning for the Edinburgh area.

      YPED AD WRNG 1 VALID 202101/202300
      AERODROME WARNING NUMBER 1 FOR EDINBURGH VALID 210731/210930 LOCAL ISSUED 202100 (210730 LOCAL) HUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING FROM THE WEST. MAY AFFECT THE AERODROME DURING VALIDITY.

      This never happened Adellad

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        Adellad

        No, the radar showed a bit of red amongst the blue earlier on today, but certainly no thunder around me. I guess BoM feels the need to compensate for yesterday’s debacle.

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    Hasbeen

    Just got my electricity bill. I’m on a rural acreage, so have domestic water pressure pumps, irrigation pump, & grey water pump out pumps etc so bound to be a bit more than the average suburban home.

    With one of the kids gone & considerable care with usage I have reduced my power usage by 34.2% this year on the same quarter last year, so my bill has only gone up $36 to $757.34 Lucky aren’t I.

    Am I allowed to curse the ratbags that gave us windmills?

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      Graham Richards

      No cursing please!! How dare you!!!!

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      ozfred

      My “Southern Cross” windmill works fine. In the same manner it did when designed a number of decades ago….

      PS
      Windmills have been used to pump water for over 1000 years,

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        Tricky Dicky

        Yup, windmills have been around for a long time and very useful for a number of tasks, from grinding wheat to pumping water. But modern windmills for generating power are an environmental disaster. The insulation in the heads is silicon hexafluoride, which is a greenhouse gas 25,000 times more potent than CO2. In Scotland they are finding that there is micro abrasion on the leading edge of the blades and that leads to microplastics in the environment. When it rains, these get washed in to the rivers and prized Scottish salmon is now full of micro plastics that can be traced directly back to wind turbine blades.

        So they are not just killing birds and bats, but also polluting the environment with microplastics, noise, CO2 from concrete etc. etc. These things are a disaster.

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      TdeF

      It’s not just the windmills, but that the cost of the windmill free cash giveaway, double the payment for every kw is buried in your electricity bill. It’s a great system. You borrow the money, a quick subsidy in cash from the government, buy your windmill and get paid for the free electricity. Whether you sell it or not! And you get priority sales above the far cheaper coal power because every time they sell electricity you get paid again. And then when you have your windfall profits, you can tax deduct the depreciation of the windmill, so free money, tax free too. So a public asset, privately owned, tax free. And you can live in China.

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    Tides of Mudgee

    Having just early voted in the NSW State election it set me pondering about the way we abbreviate politicians’ names. Scott Morrison was Scomo, Boris Johnson was Bojo, Dominic Perrottet is Domper, so it’s reasonable to assume that Anthony Albanese should be Anal. Just sayin’. ToM

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    crakar24

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/03/we-wont-accept-a-ceasefire-nsc-strategic-communications-director-john-kirby-says-war-should-continue-because-a-ceasefire-would-favor-putin-video/

    The US declares not enough Ukrainians have died and have refused to consider ceasefire with Russia WTF!

    In other news Xi Jinping goes to Moscow as part of peace deal negotiations so the US pushes WWIII with RUSSIA

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-21/russia-says-su-35-scrambled-over-baltic-as-2-us-bombers-flew-tow/102122988

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      Hanrahan

      Why does Ukraine need the US to approve a peace deal? If it is in their interst, go for it.

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        robert rosicka

        Ukraine doesn’t need the ok from the US but won’t accept anything less than a full Russian withdrawal .

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        Ukraine has had a couple of opportunities when they looked like they were about to sign a peace deal with eastern Ukraine last year but on both occasions either the British or the US has made a mad dash to Ukraine and the peace deals were off the table immediately, there is a rumour that has been getting about for quite a while that a deal was made that nato would supply the bombs and corruption graft and Kiev would supply the bodies, till the last Ukrainian, there will be no peace with more nato bombs

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        James

        Ukraine has not been governed in Ukraine’s interest since 2014 when the former President wanted to take an aid package from Russia which did not have a clause to sell off the State owned enterprises to Western Oligarchs.

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        Grogery

        Why does Ukraine need the US to approve a peace deal?

        It’s just occurred to me why so many comments regarding Russia/Ukraine have baffled me.

        Some people are under the illusion that Ukraine are making their own decisions.

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          Ted1.

          Does nobody understand that this is genocide, and it has been ongoing for 90 years at least.

          Putin’s objective is to obliterate Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian language. He has already made giant strides towards this objective by driving out millions of refugees.

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            yarpos

            mmmm maybe the Ukrainians should have thought of that before shelling the ethnic Russians in their own country, for years. But that’s not genocide of course.

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              robert rosicka

              Does anyone know where the Ukraine V Russia , Russia V Ukraine first started ? I’ve seen claims and counter claims on both . Given Russias superiority why haven’t they fully invaded yet , seems to me they would have succeeded in the first few days when you compare the size and strength of each army .

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                it started in 2008 when Bush said he would like to see Ukraine in nato upsetting Russia because of previous promises made when Russia stopped being the Soviet Union, then in 2014 Ukraine had the coup that was backed by the US and on 18th Dec 2014 Obama signed the Ukraine freedom support act, which allowed the US to impose economic sanctions on Russia and gave Ukraine $350 million in military aid to resist the pro Russian rebels, also called Russian terrorists but are actually their own countrymen, fellow Ukrainians
                Russia has not gone full blown shock and awe war because they have not declared war on Ukraine and Ukraine has not declared war on Russia although nobody is under the illusion that this is not a nato proxy war, because Russia still says it is doing a military operation it has a doctrine it must follow, the reason that only after the US comes up with its next game changer that Russia does the same, so every time the military industrial complex sends another game changer the nato proxy war just gets bigger and bigger, till the last Ukrainian
                an interesting Doco Series about the events that led up to what is happening in Ukraine now is “rises have thorns” by watchdog media

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                Ted1.

                2008?

                Try counting from 1932.

                Did you swallow Stalin’s line that the Holodomor never happened?

                How many millions of Ukrainians died of starvation when Soviet authorities, after killing or deporting all the intellectuals, confiscated all their stored food supplies, even the seed reserved for planting the next crop? Five? Ten? Millions, that is!

                Who moved in to replace the Ukrainians who died?

                That is what genocide looks like.

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                KP-still

                A couple of days back the Polish Ambassador to France said Poland will step in when Ukraine falls.. Amercia has been pushing this war to break up Russia for decades, they will sacrifice Ukraine without a second thought, and Poland too. Seeing how they blew up Noordstream and screwed Germany, I don’t think the Americans will stop from destroying Europe if it destroys Russia for them.
                It is the continuation of the Cold War, when the USSR was the only world-wide contender for complete domination. Once they can break Russia, geograpically or financially, they will try the same with China and Taiwan. America refuses to countenance anyone sharing their power over the whole globe, and if they succeed with China, the next most un-compliant rising power will be their next focus. They are the ultimate example of un-ending war.

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    Stanley

    NSW Labor’s electric electoral bus has insufficient range so they revert to a diesel fuelled dependable unit. Need more proof? Minnimum km!

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      yarpos

      They gave about as much thought to their requirements vs the E bus capability as they do to what a power grid needs vs what “renewables” can deliver.

      Great example of lefty wishful thinking.

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      James

      You are all about problems Stanley. How about solutions? Just attach a generator on a trailer and tow that around so the bus can stay charged up. You know it makes sense, as much as a diesel powered Tesla charging station!

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    David-of-Cooyal-in-Oz

    In a fair world this story would be headlines, even if only for the irony.

    It’s paywalled, but I captured two,paragraphs:

    NSW election 2023 LIVE updates: Perrottet, Minns remain neck and neck as parties ramp up promises in campaign’s final days https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/nsw-election-2023-live-updates-perrottet-minns-remain-neck-and-neck-as-parties-ramp-up-promises-in-campaign-s-final-days-20230320-p5ctt2.html?btis 

    ” The bus was back on the road about 11.30am, but travelling media and Labor staff were soon forced off the electric vehicle and onto a good old-fashioned gas-guzzling coach. 
    It seems the battery ran out of charge – let’s hope it’s no omen for the rest of the Labor campaign this week. ”

    Cheers
    Dave B

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    David Maddison

    The Left are now heavily pushing transgenderism upon children.

    And yet the numerous stories of transgender regret are suppressed on social(ist) media. It is rare to find a transgender who is truly happy.

    Jazz Jennings was billed as America’s youngest transgender and they made a multi-year reality TV show about him.

    And yet he is also not happy with his M to F “transition” (sic).

    Transgender kids are like vegan cats, you know they are not the ones making the decision. It is imposed by woke parents.

    Transgendering kids ought to be illegal and even for adults it is a highly questionnable and inappropriate procedure.

    Matt Walsh discusses this tragic case in this under 7min video.

    https://youtu.be/U2lmlWy0yXg

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      Adellad

      At what point does being venal, fashionable and empty-headed “transition” into evil?

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      John Connor II

      I wonder what Victorians will use for a gesture to Dictator Dan now that he’s moving criminalise a certain salute.
      It’s a pity that the anti-trans (pro reality) activist had to be associated with the far right nuzzies in Vic…

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        David Maddison

        Those Far Left National Socialists (since socialism is of the Left, not Right*) were gate crashers and unwelcome and unwanted. They are just socialists who are more racist than regular socialists and with an added nationalist element.

        *National Socialism was/is a derivative of Fascism and Fascism comes from the Hegelian Marxist, Giovanni Gentile who also ghost wrote part of Mussolini’s “La dottrina del fascismo”.

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        Ted1.

        A certain salute? Did you look at it?

        It wouldn’t have passed on any parade ground. Looked more like a communist salute to me. Dan’s mates.

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      David Maddison

      I think the transgender propaganda is so strong thst some of the movement’s victims truly think they can become the opposite gender.

      Another video, also involving yet another transgender tragedy that is worth watching is with Viva Frei interviewing another victim.

      https://youtu.be/5_cNVkvz7ZM long version

      https://www.youtube.com/live/-srw463akgk?feature=share short version

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      Ted1.

      Institutionalised paedophilia!

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      Fran

      My niece “transitioned” her younger son at the age of 4, now 8. I suppose his male activity levels make him a tomboy.

      I sincerely hope puberty blockers become unavailable before he gets to “need” them. My sister has to go along with the program or never see her grandchildren.

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    John Connor II

    Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car

    For many electric vehicles, there is no way to repair or assess even slightly damaged battery packs after accidents, forcing insurance companies to write off cars with few miles – leading to higher premiums and undercutting gains from going electric.

    And now those battery packs are piling up in scrapyards in some countries, a previously unreported and expensive gap in what was supposed to be a “circular economy.”

    “We’re buying electric cars for sustainability reasons,” said Matthew Avery, research director at automotive risk intelligence company Thatcham Research. “But an EV isn’t very sustainable if you’ve got to throw the battery away after a minor collision.”

    While some automakers like Ford Motor Co (F.N) and General Motors Co (GM.N) said they have made battery packs easier to repair, Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has taken the opposite tack with its Texas-built Model Y, whose new structural battery pack has been described by experts as having “zero repairability.”

    Tesla did not respond to a request for comment.

    A Reuters search of EV salvage sales in the U.S. and Europe shows a large portion of low-mileage Teslas, but also models from Nissan Motor Co (7201.T), Hyundai Motor Co (005380.KS), Stellantis (STLAM.MI), BMW (BMWG.DE), Renault (RENA.PA) and others.

    https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/scratched-ev-battery-your-insurer-may-have-junk-whole-car-2023-03-20/

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      James

      Rich rebuilds on youtube show some repairs to battery packs. Some just needed a 5 dollar part from the hardware store, versus 10s of thousands quoted by Tesla for a new battery.

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    GreatAuntJanet

    Although the outlook is bleak for us ordinary folk at the hands of the elites, the greens, the reds and bureaucrats (but I repeat myself, as Mr Klavan often says), I did enjoy the predictions in this current Spiked article by Joel Korkin.

    “Tech oligarchs and woke Wall Streeters like to see themselves as what progressive writer David Callaghan calls a ‘benign plutocracy’. They contrast their success to those who built their fortunes on resource extraction, manufacturing and material consumption. Yet eventually they may well find that they have been financing people who threaten ‘their own rights and even their existence’, rather like the French aristocracy before the revolution, as Alexis de Tocqueville later noted.

    This starts with their lockstep support for a Democratic Party in which more people support socialism than capitalism, a trend strongest among the young. It is doubtful that these zealous young activists will tolerate ultra-rich climatistas like Michael Bloomberg, John Kerry, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg for long, especially as their private jets emit vast amounts of greenhouse gases, reportedly almost 500 times what the average American emits in a year.”

    more at:

    https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/16/the-rich-are-eating-themselves/

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      Honk R Smith

      ‘It’ might beginning today here in formerly United States.
      DJT will or will not be ‘arrested’ today by the formerly American state of New York.

      Whether or not the arrest materializes, the PSYOP tactic functions.
      Trump supporters are either ostracized for being upset about the political persecution lawfare, or they are crazy paranoids for imagining that Democrats would arrest a former POTUS.
      (These Global PSYOP warriors are good.)
      I have no idea if this is planned or just a phenomenon of naturally occurring cultural madness.
      Kind of like the Lab Leak debate.

      AGW hysteria was the pre-exiting psychological condition for this Global PsyWar that really cranked up with COVID and is invisible to most.
      It is akin to when the Amerinds could not see Columbus’s ships on the horizon because they had no neuro visual pretext to process the information their eyes were absorbing.

      The very weird and dangerous overlay is that the elite PsyWar Cultural Crusaders decided to use race as one of their main weapons.
      They will go hard on conflating MAGA (heavily regional and roughly half the voting public) with European colonialists ‘historical and genocidal criminality’, as they have successfully framed it.

      A Pentagon Diversity Officer recently used the term CAU-dacity for audacity, when complaining about the behavior of a colleague of European decent … peak lunacy.

      So many of them like Joe Biden, Justin, and maybe Dan and Jacinda, having been stirring up a mob against their own ethnic derivation with either certainty or cluelessness that the strategy could get out control or blowback on them.

      Anyway the Reset is here.
      And the ruble, like the energy grid, is being freshly ground as we speak.
      It will be Built Back, but not likely Better for the survivors.
      Or the elites that are paying for the demolition.
      Age will cull most of us before the plan is complete.
      I feel lucky.

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    David Maddison

    Vicdanistanis are now victims of Comrade Dictator Dan’s ban of plastic disposable eating wares such as plates, knives, girls, spoons, cups and straws etc..

    They are replaced with paper or wood products.

    Having on a number of recent occasions at various events experienced the atrocious non-plastic substitutes, I am reminded of the Dark Days before plastic disposable were introduced. In fact, back in the day, people were relieved when disosable plastic wares were introduced because they thought forests would be saved, plus the plastic was vastly superior to paper.

    But this is all part of a plan by the Left to destroy everything that is good and decent about our civilisation and technology, from small things to big.

    And where does plastic in the oceans come from anyway? It’s mostly a behavioural problem in Third World countries whereby they throw their rubbish into rivers or places that lead to rivers.

    A vast majority does not come from countries like Australia, US, Canada, Europe etc..

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      David Maddison

      “girls” was meant to be “forks”. I can’t imagine why the spell checker made that unauthorised, unnoticed change.

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        Annie

        I expect that the predictive text took note of Dan’s disgusting words about women who would quite like to be allowed a degree of privacy from those with male accoutrements entering their changing rooms, among other things.

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      John Connor II

      The ban has been on the cards for 2 years but there are true biodegradable alternatives made from corn, mushrooms etc.
      You don’t need cutlery to eat finger food like crickets anyway. 😉

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    David Maddison

    For those interested in metrology, this Russian guy made a high precision spirit level.

    https://youtu.be/dg4nqREkdL0 10 mins

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    Hanrahan

    Living with dementia.

    This morning Mrs H showed me her finger, it looked awful, blue, and the knuckle so swollen that it would be impossible to remove the two junk jewellery rings. Fortunately they were the ones than can be spread so I didn’t have to cut them off, but I was puzzled how they could be that tight. Not obvious in the mess was a small rubber band she had added to the rings. I cut that off but it looked terrible so I bundled her into the car to the docs. They don’t cater for emergencies so off to the hospital. While waiting in line the finger had already improved so I turned around.

    It is still coloured and swollen but she won’t lose her finger the way lambs lose their tails. [Do they still use that method?]

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      Memoryvault

      Good luck with it all, Hanrahan.

      Both my mother and my mother-in-law succumbed to dementia. Both were cared for by their spouses until nearly the end. It can be very demanding but when a man loves a woman it is just how it is.

      Wrap her hand in a flannel wet – not dripping – with comfortably warm water and keep an eye on it for a day, refreshing the flannel when it cools. If the swelling goes down and normal colour starts to return all is okay.

      If it doesn’t and starts to turn dark, back to the hospital.

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        Hanrahan

        It is nearly nine years now. It will end eventually and I have done it alone [your friends and family drift off] so how do I get my life back? Bali beckons.

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          Memoryvault

          How do you get your life back?

          Beats me. Marilyn died four years ago and I still haven’t figured it out.
          I got an old rescue cat and he helps. In some ways Boofhead is like Marilyn.
          Small, but still manages to take up an entire queen size bed.

          Have you checked out getting in a Carer, even part time? Handled by Centrelink.

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            Hanrahan

            I do have family issues complicating things which, as you would understand, are not for this forum.

            One thing I can share is that while my daughter is home she cannot settle her down. I am the only one and it’s tiring but I doubt an outsider could.

            Complicating things, I never got vaxxed [I would be no use to her dead] so I couldn’t start organising a care home ’til this year. Persona non grata.

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            Hanrahan

            We got a little rescue dog some yrs which had been terribly mistreated. Sat on Mrs H’s lap all the way from Cairns. He thinks the sun shines out of her bum. A big calming influence.

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    Crakar24

    We will find out over night if the democrats will arrest trump, just imagine how full your jail’s would be if you arrested every man who has given money to a stripper lol

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    Grogery

    Once upon a time when I was young I used to have a “tranny” (transistor radio) which was my saving grace when I couldn’t personally attend sports games.

    They still come in very handy during power outages, for us to keep up with natural events updated by radio broadcasts, such as (historically normal) cyclone alerts in “our” (young and free) Australia.

    And that’s the only type of tranny that our innocent young children should be taught about in school.

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    Nice outfit changement, grafics enabled, formatting allowed (Gee Aye will be happy) 😀 https://forum.kigges.de/images/smilies/dance.gif
    AND EDITING !! https://forum.kigges.de/images/smilies/peace.gif

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    David Maddison

    Here is a test of posting an image.

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      Peter C

      Good work David.

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      RightOverLabour

      That Image blows the whole alarmist argument out of the water. Firstly the correlation between temperature and CO2 is not evident, although there is one evident in the last two million years when CO2 always follows temperature. Further CO2 levels will never reach the values at 600 mil years again as much as the CO2 has been sequestered in limestone formations that occurred since the start of the Palaeozoic. Happer calculates that to increase the temperature by 1 deg C you need to double CO2 ( 800ppm), then to increase it again, double again ( 1600ppm) and to reach 3 deg, double it again (3200ppm) Not going to happen even if we burn every bit of gas, oil and coal, as the CO2 in the limestone is not going anywhere. For the last 400 mil years CO2 has been below 2000ppm. So at the very worst we may see a 2 deg increase, and that does not take any other negative impacts such as increased cloudiness etc into account. (I would argue that cloudiness is probably the most important driver of temperature variations).

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    David Maddison

    Here is a test posting an image.

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    David Maddison

    Jo, the “preview” button doesn’t work.

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      Jo Nova

      Thanks. Keep sharing the feedback. I have another plugin in mind too, and may try that.

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        David Maddison

        Thanks Jo. Also my avatar didn’t show up after I logged in on my last post. And as I replied to Krishna, I can’t see how to edit. I also accidentally double posted the post with the image and can’t delete one of the posts.

        Thanks for your hard work improving the site.

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        Annie

        Hi Jo. I really miss seeing the date and time on each comment. Instead there is the very general description of, for example, ‘5 hours ago’, a là The Australian.

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          Jo Nova

          I agree Annie. There must be a way to get that back.

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            Annie

            They are there now! Well done Jo.

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              Jo Nova

              Yes. There are about 100 options and I fixed that. Fixed the pale color. But I would like to get rid of unneccessary text “Reply to XYZ”. It’s just clutter…

              There is no option to add the comment number back, but we may be able to customize that. I hope so.

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      “preview” doesn’t work, have found it now while editing.
      No button when tiping normal comment.

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        David Maddison

        Thanks Krishna, I can see no links to edit posted comments.

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          Maybe because of using your phone, will verify it later with mine.

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            Test edit on phone
            I can use it, works for me
            Tip your finger in hight of “reply” on the right corner limit, better try several points there around.
            This text was edited.
            No preview possible, no toolbox on phone.

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              Gob

              The enhancements are in the main adverse, particularly the diminishing font sizes… which is a high price to have paid to retrieve the formatting panel.

              Moreover simply using escape does not cancel the comment box which has been the sole impetus for this griping which is better left unsaid.

              Preview being supplanted by edit function is an excellent feature; this is a real curate’s egg Jo.

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                Lucky

                smaller font sizes

                Make the print on the screen bigger with- control plus
                (cntl +). 

                Works on PaleMoon under Linux. 

                Also, I do see the usual menu: bold. italic. underline .. .

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        I have to correct me (to late for editing)
        When tiping the comment a the top of the page, there is a preview button, none when answering.

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    David Maddison

    A test to see if my avatar returns now that I have logged out.

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    Yonason

    The site has been wonky on my phone for the past two days, and worse today than yesterday. Has it been recently updated? Also, perhaps the recent phone update may be affecting display, but this is the only site I’m noticing changes with. …or something else…

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      David Maddison

      I haven’t noticed any changes until today, Yonason. I usually post from an Android phone.

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        I try not to type from phone, to much typos (thick fingers), but reading.
        I prefer typing on PC with a real keyboard, too, because the monitor is much larger and I have a better view.

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    David Maddison

    One of the Golden Gate Bridge pylons, then and now. Note the high tide mark as indicated by marine growth. I challenged the Farcebook “fact checkers” with this image and unlike other similar images, they have not yet censored this one. E.g. they typically do with the Fort Denison, Sydney one.

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    Reader

    <strong>Thirty new honorary doctorates to be conferred in the Conferment Jubilee </strong>
    https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/science-policy/thirty-new-honorary-doctorates-be-conferred-conferment-jubilee

    “Faculty of Theology to confer eight honorary doctorates on 9 June 2023…
    Greta Thunberg, activist

    Well, I always wished Greta would go to Hel…sinki

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    David Maddison

    Humour. Or did she really say this?

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    farmerbraun

    Just to reiterate – The Big Lie

    Reducing the severity of Covid symptoms will reduce the transmission within the population.

    Of course the truth is that the less sick that people feel , the more likely they are to NOT go to bed , thereby self- isolating and reducing the spread .

    Brilliant eh?

    Every doctor knew the truth, but also knew that they would lose their job if they spoke it.

    https://www.bassettbrashandhide.com/post/thomas-cranmer-pfizer-vaccine-approval-in-nz-under-scrutiny-a-retrospective-analysis

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    farmerbraun

    Hmm. On most blogs , if you click newest post first , it stays that way. I’ve clicked “newest first” twice , but each time that I refresh it goes back to oldest first.

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    David Maddison

    Jo and others, I can see the formatting tool bar on the GOOLAG Chrome browser on my laptop but not on my Android phone. The preview button does not work as it does not work on my Android phone.

    TESTING BLOCK QUOTE

    There seem to be two indented lines after block quote is turned off.
    There seem to be two indented lines after block quote is turned off.
    BLOCK QUOTE OFF

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    Kalm Keith

    https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/3-s2.0-B9780128119891000142-f14-05-9780128119891.jpg

    I don’t believe that Grettah would understand the significance of this graph for her climate change religion.

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      Kalm Keith

      Many years ago I drove to the top of Australia’s highest point in my second hand 1959 VW. The road is now closed. The top is at an altitude of just over 7,000 feet, from memory.
      The temperature drop from sea level to the top would be about 10 C°.

      Many years later my wife and I caught the little train up to the top of the Eiger, Monch, Jungfrau complex and had a coffee at the James Bond restaurant there: at over 14,000 feet it’s twice the height of Kosciusko. The temperature was noticeably cooler.

      We saw none of Gretta’s supercharged CO2 photons zipping past us towards ground.

      We experienced thermodynamic reality up there.

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    David Maddison

    A test. I think an image won’t post unless you add a comment.

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    David Maddison

    Observation: Once you post a comment, you won’t see it unless you refresh the page. At least on an Android phone with the Goolag browser.

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    another ian

    Looks like we’ve lost the comment numbers and doesn’t look like we can quote a comment reference directly either

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    another ian

    Following the money –
    “Legalized Climate Grifting”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/03/20/legalized-climate-grifting/

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    ColA

    The new format is interesting Jo!

    Monty Python was a prophet!

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R79yYo2aOZs

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    robert rosicka

    Wow this new format is different , hey look now the Pies are on top .

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    Dennis

    Did you see the news yesterday in NSW, Sydney, the Labor Campaign Bus EV stopped because the batteries had discharged, the passengers including media had to wait for a diesel replacement.

    The Opposition Leader “Who” (polling revealed he is not well known) tried to joke that he forgot to recharge the Bus.

    I understand that Blackout Bowen was called and he went in his EV car to buy a can of electricity.

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    ozfred

    I used the date and time to restart a look through the comments given I take breaks and have a time difference to many posters.
    Comment numbers were also useful for following the “logic” of thread responses.
    Not a change to be received in a positive way

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      Jo Nova

      This is a somewhat impromptu trial, mostly to get editing buttons to work. I will do my best to get the dates and the #1.1.1. numbering back. All past comment threads won’t make sense either if there are no numbers.

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        Hanrahan

        Hotcopper, a share/politics forum, with plenty of cash flow wrote a new app from scratch. It was a major ordeal getting it to work with all the differing OSs so I hope everyone is patient here.

        Good luck Jo, I think you are on the right track.

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    KP-still

    So, Britain has sent uranium anti-tank ammunition to Ukraine, Russia has said that will count as using a nuclear attack and will be answered suitably.. Seeing Ukraine claims to have blown up a trainload of Khinzal missiles in Crimea and Russia claims to have blown up a trainload of Leopard tanks near Dnieper, I wonder what a warehouse full of uranium-contained shells will do to the environment.

    Cancer rates in Iraq & anywhere the Yanks use them are very high, but hey, its not Anglo-space so no-one cares.

    https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog/v-poutin-s-soigkou-apeiloun-me-olokaftoma-tin-vretania-chrisi-apebloutismenou-ouraniou-tha-eklifthei-os-pyriniki-epithesi-kata-tis-rosias-vid/?_x_tr_sl=el&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB

    The new format will take a bit of getting used to, and apparently KP does not “match the requested format”, but I do have all the formatting buttons showing. The “preview” button doesn’t work, as noted elsewhere. Thanks Jo-

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      Dennis

      Depleted uranium is used for armour piercing projectiles, like helicopter gunship cannon and A-10 Warthog canon.

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        Dennis

        Similar complaints during Operation Desert Storm in Iraq led to investigations by the UN and report that depleted uranium is not dangerous, radiation level well within acceptable guidelines.

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          KP-still

          Hmm.. the Iraqis don’t think so, it vapourises and burns when it hits, releasing radioactive particles so small they act as a gas. I suppose the WHO did the investigations.

          A few years after exposure to (DU) contamination, multifold increase of malignancies, congenital malformations, miscarriages, children leukemia, and sterility cases have been registered in suburb areas of Basrah and other surrounding areas. Similar problems appeared in Falluja”

          Must be the massive increase in cancer/reproductive problems is from the oil everywhere.. Oh, wait, the Americans have occupied the oil fields and are exporting it illegally!

          Still, now we are exposing Europeans to it we will learn a lot more about its health effects.

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          Hanrahan

          I looked this up earlier today. DU has a half life of 3.5 mill yrs. This sounds scary but I assume that most here will realise that that means it is not giving off more radiation than a ham sandwich.

          How should I enlarge this?

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            K P

            “I assume that most here will realise that that means it is not giving off more radiation than a ham sandwich.”

            Sort of… for certain definitions of ‘ham sandwich’..

            “An activity of 1 becquerel (Bq) means on average 1 radioactive decay takes place per second. The specific activity of uranium in DU is about 15 Bq per mg (1 milligram, mg, is 0.001 g) compared with 25.4 Bq per mg for natural uranium. Granite has an activity of 0.00005–0.0005 Bq per mg of granite.
            It is estimated that the average person worldwide inhales 0.5 µg (14 mBq) and ingests 700 µg (18 Bq) each year in food and water.”

            So a milligram of DU gives you almost a year’s worth of radioactivity. You wouldn’t want to be in an armoured vehicle that got hit & vapourised 10Kg of DU inside.

            [KP you should now be able to use your two letter name again. – Jo]

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    Annie

    I hope it all settles down well Jo. I did have a shock when I came here this morning as I liked your old format. However, you need to do what you think is best for everyone and having good discussions here.

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    KP-still

    The new world financial system is becoming clearer.. How much of Asia leaves the $US before it collapses?

    “The Indonesian central bank has unveiled plans to introduce a domestic payment system, seeking to cut reliance on the West. Jakarta wants to reduce its dependence on foreign payment systems, citing sanctions on Russia. The Bank of Indonesia is preparing to phase out Visa and Mastercard while introducing its own domestic payment system.”

    https://kolozeg.org/indonesia-to-ditch-visa-mastercard-introduce-own-domestic-payment-system/

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      Dennis

      Howard Coalition Government terms 1996 to 2007 was when the Asian Economic Meltdown took place and Australia, having a strong economy, financial position and low debt, zero by November 2007, weathered the storm comfortably, and later for the same good management reasons also did with the GFC.

      Labor used the GFC as an excuse to spend the Colaition 2007/08 $22 billion surplus and borrow to keep spending but on election bait for voters, Labor’s 2007 election win had too many very close result marginal seats gained and Labor was targeting 2010.

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        KP-still

        We’ve come a long way Dennis, $22billion was a lot of money then. I remember Joe Hockey talking about raising the debt ceiling to $40billion,that seemed a horrific amount.

        Now no-one blinks at a debt of $850billion and we will soon be talking in trillions.

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    Good luck with the new format and with policing it. Pictures and graphics can be great but they can also consume a lot of server space and be a distraction.

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    el+gordo

    Collateral Damage

    ‘Russia is set to release thousands of convicts back into society after pardoning them for fighting in its barbaric Wagner mercenary group, Western officials have said.

    ‘The MoD’s latest intelligence update said ‘violent offenders’ with ‘traumatic combat experience’ who took up arms for Vladimir Putin will now have their sentences commuted.’ (UK Mail)

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      KP-still

      That was always the arrangement, but currently there’s a big gap between “have their sentences commuted” and “release… back into society” with Wagner.

      You can check in but you can’t check out..

      I read Russia is looking at it, just another way to pay your debt back to society.

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    Kalm Keith

    Am having trouble when trying to link back to a previous comment.
    Any ideas.

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    Dennis

    For people interested in NSW State election, I am in Cooma NSW and voted absentee today, the electorate is Eden Monaro, there is no mood for change, cost of living a priority issue but Labor not favoured here according to booth worker comments.

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    Hanrahan

    Testing

     Bubba Wallace

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    KP-still

    Voxday has some good points when you’re trapped inside by the rain all afternoon-

    This is What Deflation Looks Like
    “The failure of Credit Suisse vaporized $17 billion in corporate bonds and another $31 billion in market cap in the last year. That means the Swiss government would have to find nearly $50 billion in new debtors just to stay even. This is why “printing money” doesn’t work in a credit economy. Yes, it’s easier to generate the meaningless digits on a balance sheet than it is to print paper, but it’s not so easy to produce new borrowers. And mass immigration has completely failed to provide the answer it was intended to be, because the immigrants are far less inclined to service their debts. Now do you see why the failure of the Clown World economy was always inevitable?”
    https://voxday.net/2023/03/20/this-is-what-deflation-looks-like/

    .and a lovely list of who the author no longer trusts in life.. Politicians, medics, police, scientists.. everyone who disgraced themselves during covid including the friends/relatives who destroyed relationships over getting vaxxed.

    “I always believed that most people were blithering idiots barely capable of expressing a coherent thought. I always believed that science was corrupt. I never had any faith whatsoever in politicians or bureaucrats. And it never troubled me in the slightest to hold an opinion that was contradicted by the majority and by the mainstream narrative; one of the few benefits of being an elitist intellectual is that you assume the vast majority of the programmed quasi-minds that surround you will not only disagree with you, but are not even capable of understanding your position if it was explained to them very slowly and with small words.
    But I was a little stunned to discover that I had somehow given the average individual too much benefit of the doubt. I did not see that coming. I’ve been told my entire life that I was too arrogant, too harsh, too dismissive of the intellectual capabilities of others, and yet, when push came to shove, it turned out that in the end, I had erred on the side of generosity! I truly did not see that coming.”
    https://voxday.net/2023/03/20/never-going-to-be-the-same/

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      Ted1.

      Certainly some are “blithering idiots”. But the vast majority of the popoli are in between.

      When I was told that a friend had been instructed that only 2.5% of the population has the mental capacity to initiate new thinking, that fitted right in with my personal observation that less than 10% of the population could successfully consider a problem that had more than one variable.

      So it’s fair enough to say that 97.5% depend on the 2.5.% to do their thinking for them.

      But many of that 2.5% are fully occupied doing their own useful things. So it is a wonder that society survives at all.

      At the present time The People are firmly on the wrong track. But if the food in their freezers is spoiled by a blackout or two when Liddell closes Al Gore might lose his credibility quick smart.

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    Kalm Keith

    Small “ping” to help with the upgrade.
    🙂

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    K P

    “The hypocritical ICC didn’t bother to contrast and compare Putin’s supposed abduction of Ukrainian children to an organized mass kidnapping of Vietnamese children. It was dubbed “Operation Babylift,” ordered by then President Ford, and was conducted at the end of the Vietnam War as the USG evacuated, having lost the war.

    The Vietnamese children abducted without permission were described as “orphans,” although many had parents and relatives that were left behind. 3,300 children, described as “infants” (many were older children), were parceled out to families in America, Australia, West Germany, and France.

    The “rescue” of these children was an organized act of kidnapping pure and simple, yet in the Land of Amnesia, millions of Americans know nothing about it (or, for that matter, the Vietnam War itself and the brutal destruction of Southeast Asia).”

    http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2023/march/20/operation-babylift-and-the-hypocrisy-of-the-international-criminal-court/

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      Kalm Keith

      ” conducted at the end of the Vietnam War as the USG evacuated, having lost the war.”

      The war against Russia particularly and also China.

      After the Americans left there were 200000 Chinese helpers left in northern Vietnam and they wanted a piece of the pie. A Vicious war ensued and the Vietnamese secured their border with China.

      The Russians demanded payments for their support during the war and slaves were sent to work in Russia to pay the debt. Russian language was also a feature of the Vietnamese education system.
      Yes, the Russian control was that strong.
      Life’s complicated.

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    K P

    Here’s an odd one- the CEO of Bayraktor drones from Turkey was meant to be setting up factories in Ukraine. I saw that over a month back, but now-

    “In an interview with Natalia Mosiychuk, Haluk Bayraktar said that the Ukrainian leadership demanded a $10 million kickback from Baykar Makina for connecting to the power grid.”

    https://t.me/s/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses

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    TdeF

    In case you thought baloons were innocuous, both Britain and Japan used attack balloons in WW2. And they were effective. The path from Japan is very similar to the ‘weather balloon’. And the payload

    https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=barrage+balloons+ww2+

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