Thursday

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      Ronin

      Kid is way smarter than Energy Minister Bowen, but then so is a bag of hammers.

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      Forrest Gardener

      Oops. Somebody slipped up.

      How did this kid get on the stage and why was he not shouted down and silenced?

      Keep an eye out for advertisments for replacement program managers at their ABC.

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        Mark

        It’s about short term gains at the ballot box. A lot of the things he promised to axe haven’t been debated on the floor let alone being planned to happen. Axing something that wasn’t going to happen. Politics at its finest.

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      John Connor II

      How dare you (expose the government lies, incompetence and more lies and incompetence) 😆
      Better save that clip as it’s a classic…

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    Skepticynic

    This, under the heading GOVERNMENT IDIOCY, should also be filed under AUTHORITARIAN DECEIT, or GLOBALIST WAR ON THE WEST.

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/09/20/update-doe-appliance-minimum-efficiency-standards/

    They want “social electrification”, “to eliminate alternatives to electricity”, and their fraudulent devious bureaucratic and statistical chicanery makes ‘Yes Minister’ seem like kindergarten.

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    Saighdear

    Give the Greens a little finger and they’ll take a Steak
    All this rewilding nonsense being promoted by the MSMS too
    https://www.topagrar.com/management-und-politik/news/wolf-verletzt-rinder-schwer-landrat-platzt-der-kragen-13483985.html
    AND that’s Europe for you any Remoaners ?

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      Ronin

      “An outpouring of concern has reverberated around the world since Australia declared an El Nino event, with fears another devastating bushfire season could be looming.

      Former fire brigade chief Greg Mullins was quick to add his voice to the choir, warning that a dangerous summer lies ahead.”

      Funding proposal in the offing. ??

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        KP

        “Funding proposal in the offing. ??”

        The usual way to screw ratepayers these days is to dodge the ‘increase limit’ on the base land tax rate by adding extra levies for environmental problems. I’m still paying to repair roads in Kingaroy from floods years ago as well as an extra bushfire tax and some other crap dreamed up by a bureaucrat..

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      Philc

      I love the caption below one of the photo’s “Volunteer Firefighters work to contain a fire at Wallacia on September 20, 2023” You would of thought they could have stated it was a control burn off to reduce the risk of an out of control bush fire.

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      Graham Richards

      Don’t get too enthusiastic. The party will soon have him telling the country he’s retiring to spend more time with the family.

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    Ronin

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-20/qld-csiro-plastic-ocean-bribie-island-clean-up/102878110

    CSIRO pollute pristine Bribie Island beach with millions of plastic nurdles.
    Shame shame shame.

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    David Maddison

    Here is another insane Leftist idea that makes you wonder if its real or a parody.

    WD40 is about to be banned in Canada, along with many other handy household products that contain volatiles.

    This is not a joke or parody.

    The following video is by the famous Ave who is an unusual way of talking.

    https://youtu.be/FdBEfASIfsU

    Since the Australian federal and state governments copy the very worst of the worst ideas of other lunatic regimes overseas, expect to see it here as well.

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    David Maddison

    When the pro-science community raises issues of fraudulent data manipulation of historic temperature data at Australia’s Bureau of Meterology (BoM) apologists claim that the original temperatures are not overwritten.

    “Homogenisation” is the secret process by which the BoM claim to compensate for supposed erroneous historic temperature data or station moves. The official “explanation” is below (link).

    The process is not reproducible as the methodology is secret and despite numerous requests, refuses to disclose it. As it is secret, it is not reproducible by others and therefore not science.

    The official claim is that the original data is not over-ridden. That may or may not be true. The BoM has shown their willingness to alter data so why should they be trusted?

    Also, “homogenisation” is the basis for establishing that Australia is supposedly getting hotter. Whether the original data is overwritten or not, it is the very basis of the Government’s highly destructive policies to supposedly deal with anthropogenic global warming.

    This anti-scientific data manipulation might be the most destructive data fraud in the history of Australia.

    There are many articles on this site about “homogenisation”. See https://joannenova.com.au/tag/homogenization-temperature-data/

    http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/acorn-sat/

    Statistical adjustments to model temperature trends
    The adjustments made in the ACORN-SAT dataset through the homogenisation process are for the specific purpose of analysing temperature trends. They do not overwrite original temperature observations from individual sites.

    All original temperature observations are stored on the Bureau’s database and made available to the public via Climate Data Online

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      Ronin

      Leaf will be along soon to offer apologies and claim bias.

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        David Maddison

        Indeed she will. She issued apologetics in the last thread.

        I wonder how a process that for outsiders is non-reproducible and non-documented and hence not falsifiable can be considered science?

        Falsifiability is a foundation of any valid scientific (or any) hypothesis.

        I guess, under post-modernist ideology it’s true if you think it’s true. Facts don’t matter.

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      Peter Fitzroy

      Strange then how the BOM is in line with the world

      NASA Earth Observatory. …
      European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative (CCI) …
      UNEP Environmental Data Explorer. …
      US Government Open Data Initiative. …
      FAO GeoNetwork. …
      NASA’s Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) …
      Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

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        Richard C (NZ)

        Peter F >”Strange then how the BOM is in line with the world”

        Downthread you will discover that BOM is completely out of line with ECMWF ERA5 (and all the other reanalysis datasets).

        Synopsis:

        Raw, absolute, unhomogenized, unadjusted data exposes BOM’s methodology as statistical and scientific malfeasance.

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          Peter Fitzroy

          you are not comparing like for like, nice try but

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            Richard C (NZ)

            Peter F >”you are not comparing like for like”

            Exactly, that was the point:

            Raw, absolute, unhomogenized, unadjusted data exposes BOM’s methodology as statistical and scientific malfeasance

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            Richard C (NZ)

            Peter F >”you are not comparing like for like”

            Ok, like for like, in the GISTEMP anomaly framework:

            Annual Mean Temperature Change for Three Latitude Bands
            https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v4/

            The graph is interactive so mouseover for datapoints.

            The Northern Extratropics graph profile is much different to Southern Extratropics which contains Southern Australia and New Zealand, and Southern looks nothing like BOM’s ACORN-SAT especially around 1960 1.e.1940-1960.

            Northern 2022 anomaly: 1.52
            Southern 2022 anomaly: 0.71

            Why the radical difference between hemispheres and between GISTEMP and ACORN-SAT ?

            Northern Australia is Tropics but GISTEMP Tropics doesn’t help your case either.

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        el+gordo

        ‘Did we miss any other essential free world climate data sources?’

        BoMs data tampering and tweaking has gained it a reputation.

        What is this ‘free world’ nonsense?

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        TedM

        And USCRN?????????????

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      Richard C (NZ)

      David >”The official claim is that the original data is not over-ridden”

      I’m assuming this comment follows John B from yesterday (maybe not). I’ve replied twice (maybe one in moderation) but here goes again.

      The original data is not over-ridden.

      I spent considerable time extracting raw data from NIWA’s CliFlo database prior to the NZCSC’s (I’m not a member) unsuccessful legal case against NIWA. The NZCSC was ultimately successful with a peer reviewed statistical paper that vindicated them (NIWA’s technique was loose, arbitrary), but ‘nuther story.

      Point is, all that raw data is completely untouched by any creation of homogenized time series.Same with Australian raw data (Climate Data Online) and ACORN-SAT. Also, the raw data is where highest/lowest records reside – not in homogenized time series.

      Reanalysis pulls in raw, unhomogenized, unadjusted data.

      >“homogenisation” is the basis for establishing that Australia is supposedly getting hotter

      Yes, that is the problem. Also that it is anomaly data and not raw absolute data.

      But a mainland Australia lat/lon block (sans Tasmania) can be isolated by reanalysis using Climate Reanalyzer and NOAA’s WRIT and ECMWF ERA5.

      Firstly take a look at the anomaly compared to BOM’s ACORN-SAT:

      Monthly Reanalysis Time Series [Select Region: Australia]
      https://climatereanalyzer.org/research_tools/monthly_tseries/

      Linear trend (from NOAA’s WRIT) 1979-2012: 0.052 C/decade.

      Essentially flat. Now campare to ACORN-SAT:

      BOM ACORN-SAT
      http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/climate/change/timeseries.cgi?graph=tmean&area=aus&season=0112&ave_yr=T&ave_period=6190

      On that graph it is not possible to isolate the 1957-2012 period but their entire series trend is 0.13 C/decade.

      In short, The BOM representation of the Australia temperature record is bogus.

      Trend analysis of mainland Australia absolute temperature from ERA5 follows.

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      Gee Aye

      Australia’s Bureau of Meterology (BoM) apologists claim that the original temperatures are not overwritten.

      true that. No apology. BOM provides the data and offers their analysis and interpretation. Take it or leave it or, as many do, reanalyse it.

      I don’t see how this is different from any other use of data done by anyone ever.

      A thought. If you read a digital thermometer that takes your temperature, what is the raw data? Is it the 36.8 on the screen or the binary output of the electronic detector that the silicon chip converts to 36.8

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        John Connor II

        The displayed temperature is not “raw data”. 😉
        It’s the human friendly digital representation of the converted analog (not binary😎) output of the temperature probe, be it thermocouple, RTD, thermistor or SSS.
        There will be accuracy and precision factors influencing the raw data so the displayed data will be out, albeit by an insignificant amount.

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          Gee Aye

          exactly. The bunch of numbers represents something other than temperature and gets converted according to a calibration. So the bunch of numbers (raw data) is not even a temperature

          If it is compared to a (e.g.) NIST calibrated thermometer and needs re-calibration (obviously a higher end thermometer than the one you buy from the chemist) then the same bunch of numbers will be displayed and recorded as a different temperature. To make sense of the bunch of numbers you need to know how they are adjusted.

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            John Connor II

            Gee, if you’re seeking 100.000% accurate data, then you won’t find it in this reality.
            “Nothing is perfect therefore everything is flawed” as I say.
            The real issue is access to true raw data, data that is fit for purpose, not chasing unachievable accuracy and precision, as non-recent data has neither.
            Not having such perfect data isn’t relevant.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        >”BOM provides the data [1] and offers their analysis and interpretation [2]”

        Well yes, sort of.

        [1] BOM compiles raw data and archives it.

        This data is what reanalysis datasets pull in i.e. reanalysis is raw, unhomogenized, unadjusted, absolute data.

        [2a] BOM then creates anomaly datasets which obliterates the annual seasonal cycle.

        [2b] BOM then create homogenized datasets and claim: “The differences between ‘raw’ and ‘homogenised’ datasets are small”

        The comparison is ACORN-SAT vs AWAP (the unadjusted gridded Australian average temperature). However, both are in anomaly terms.

        Then they claim:

        Trends in temperature rendered from absolute raw data are in no way a physical baseline for the comparison of properly analysed trends. As an example, the increase in sites in northern and inland locations results in a very large and spurious warming trend in absolute raw data.

        Except reanalysis data does not exhibit that. Upthread #8.3 and #8.3.1 demonstrate that, contray to BOM’s claim, there is a 30+ year time segment 1979-2012 in which the data is essentially flat – certainly no “very large and spurious warming trend”.

        So yes, BOM do “offer their analysis and interpretation” but it is that which is highly problematic.

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        TedM

        Or the temperature coefficient of expansion of mercury in a mercury in glass thermometer.

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          Gee Aye

          yep. It is just a liquid going up and down a tube until someone puts some marks on the tube to indicate temperature and those marks are not immutable. Recalibration might mean that the 25.0 mark should be read as 25.2. I certainly wouldn’t be relying on that raw data without knowing about this.

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      Ian George

      Then why does the BoM place this at the end of their monthly/seasonal/yearly weather reports – ‘raw temps’ are not referred to.

      ‘National monthly and seasonal summaries are published on the first working day of the following month, based on information available at 3 pm on the first day of that month.
      Long-term averages in this statement and associated tables are for the period 1961 to 1990 unless otherwise specified. Temperature area averages are derived from the ACORN-SAT version 2 dataset and temperature maps are derived from the AWAP dataset. Rainfall area averages and maps, are derived from the AGCD dataset.’

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        TedM

        Good to hear from someone with genuine expertise on the subject.

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        Richard C (NZ)

        Ian >”‘raw temps’ are not referred to”

        Not explicitly but the AWAP dataset is unadjusted gridded Australian average temperature. See #8.4.2 upthread.

        The latest open station data is no different whether AWAP or ACORN-SAT because there’s no reason for it to be i.e. all AWS, stable sites, same data, no homogenization effect etc.

        Adjustments only take effect prior to about 1955 and yes, they cool the past. You can see AWAP vs ACORN-SAT here:

        Figure 1: AWAP vs ACORN-SAT
        http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/data/acorn-sat/documents/5-ACORN-SAT-TAF-TOR3.pdf

        Climate scientists are obsessed with anomalies and homogenization but the problem is elsewhere and exposed by absolute time series. It is only recently that the WMO used absolute series for their “hottest day” declaration, that was this:

        Daily 2-meter Air Temperature
        https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/?dm_id=world

        But Big Climate studiously avoids absolute series in all else, particularly when compared to climate model output where the comparison is laughable.

        They certainly don’t want that discrepancy to be common knowledge.

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          Ian George

          I often check the BoM monthly reports. I check the anomalies for each district against the map representations. There is little correlation between the two. Often the majority of a district’s site will be below average yet the shading suggests above average for that district (due to 1961-1990 averaging and smoothing methods they use).
          BTW, as you say, ‘they cool the past’. 1914 in Aust was originally a touch over 0.5C above average. ACORN has reduced this to 0.13C. Way to get that warming look worse.

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    Greg in NZ

    What happened to your ™heatwave™?

    23C for Sydney today, 15C for Melbourne, 13C for Hobart – STAY INDOORS and TURN UP THE HEAT, if you’ve got electricity, or move north to Queensland… El Niño huh.

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    Ronin

    Brisbane was dry and warm yesterday, perfectly normal here for the middle of September.

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      David Maddison

      What is your point? Surely just natural variation. And a record only since data has been recorded, which is not all that long.

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        David Maddison

        And looking at the graph it doesn’t seem much of a “record” anyway.

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        Ronin

        Only discovered in the 1980’s

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        el+gordo

        ‘What is your point?’

        Irene is suggesting we take a closer look, its only natural.

        ‘In 2023 the development has started unusually early following some of the lowest minimum total column ozone values for the Southern Hemisphere in the last four decades throughout July. Because of this, its total area is currently relatively high, although its progression has followed a fairly typical pattern of growth.’ (Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service)

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          el+gordo

          ‘One of the potential reasons that could explain this unusual start of the ozone hole season is the increase in water vapour brought to the atmosphere by the eruption of the Hunga Tonga volcano in December 2021 and January 2022.’ (CAMS)

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      KP

      Never! It just can’t be! The scientists said if we stopped using fluorocarbons it would never be a hole again, and the politicians leaped on board with new laws.. Yet here we are.

      Obviously a technical fault in the instrument, a mistake in transferring results, an outlier value… anything except proof that the whole kaboodle was wrong from the start and its natural variation!

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    Reader

    Suella Braverman slams Chris Packham after wildlife presenter insisted it is ‘ethically responsible’ for eco mob to break the law and warned an oil refinery could be blown up

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12539197/BBC-Springwatch-presenter-Chris-Packham-says-ethically-responsible-climate-change-protesters-break-law-warns-oil-refinery-blown-soon.html

    Home Secretary Suella Braverman has slammed Chris Packham for his ‘aggressive approach’ on climate change and for backing eco mobs who break the law.

    The BBC Springwatch presenter was involved in a heated row with Good Morning Britain presenter Richard Madeley who told Packham his endorsement was akin to IRA and ISIS terrorists justifying violence.

    Packham, 62, pointed to the fact ‘the world is being flooded and is on fire’ with millions of people’s lives at risk, and ominously threatened those protesting will ‘make a louder noise’ if their voices were not heard.

    ‘I have no right or overview and nor do I profess to say I have it [they should break the law], I merely ask the question is this the right time for us to break the law?,’ he said…

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    Neville

    One of the best speeches I’ve heard about Nuclear power and why the other parties want to help the UN and WEF etc to force Aussies to use TOXIC W & S and wreck our electricity grids.
    Sen Malcolm Roberts is a very good speaker and always carries out proper research on Energy. There’s also a transcript of his speech at the link.

    https://www.malcolmrobertsqld.com.au/what-do-globalists-hate-about-nuclear-power/

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    David Maddison

    Even more censorship on the way.

    YouTube/Goolag plans to censor all medical Information not in accord with the Official Narrative as determined by the World Homicide Organisation.

    The Left claim to love “diversity” but are terrified of alternative ideas or opinions.

    See video: https://youtu.be/lq8z3-sRHEk

    Here is the Left’s idea of “diversity”.

    The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering–a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons–a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting–three hundred million people all with the same face.
    George Orwell, 1984

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      Richard C (NZ)

      >”World Homicide Organisation”

      Unpalatable in a science-based blog I know but I stumbled on this snippet:

      The word ‘sorceries’ is Greek word 5332 pharmakeia, which describes; medication (“pharmacy”).

      This was in respect to this: “by your sorcery all the nations were deceived”.

      I’ll leave it at that.

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      John Connor II

      Oh for a politically unaffected alternative to youtube.
      They’ve changed their interface yet again too. Grrrr…

      We have Bitchute, Odyssee, Brighteon, Rumble and a few more.

      This is why I save a lot of vids and docs. Such valuable info tends to disappear forever.

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    another ian

    The Law of Unintended Consequences strikes again!

    “Lesson Of The Day: Sanctions Don’t Work Because They Create New Markets”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/lesson-day-sanctions-dont-work-because-they-create-new-markets

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    David Maddison

    Interesting review paper about vegan diets.

    The results don’t surprise me as any strict vegan I have ever encountered has always seemed unhealthy but I was unaware of the mental health impacts of such a diet.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10027313/

    The Impact of a Vegan Diet on Many Aspects of Health: The Overlooked Side of Veganism

    The most recent systematic review [33], which included eighteen studies, compared meat abstainers versus meat eaters in terms of mental health. The research included 160,257 individuals (85,843 females and 73,232 men) from various geographic areas, including 149,559 meat eaters and 8584 meat abstainers (aged 11 to 96 years). Eleven of the 18 studies found that meat-free diets were linked with worse psychological health, four were inconclusive, and three found that meat-free diets resulted in improved results. The most thorough research found that meat-avoiders (i.e., “full vegetarians”) had a 7.4%, 24.1 %, and 35.2% 1-month, 12-month, and lifetime prevalence of unipolar depressive disorders, respectively. In contrast, meat consumers had a much lower prevalence: 6.3%, 11.9%, and 19.1%. Similarly, the 1-month, 12-month, and lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders for meat abstainers were much higher at 20.4%, 31.5%, 31.5%, and 10.7%, 17.0%, and 18.4% in the meat eaters respectively. The study highlights the high incidence of mental health problems among vegans, emphasizing the vital need of increasing awareness of these illnesses to facilitate early intervention. Women notably appeared to be adversely impacted by mental disorders such as stress [34-36].

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      Hasbeen

      Just perhaps this shows not that a vegan diet produces mental health problems, but that those with mental health problems are attracted to the vegan diet

      Chicken or egg problem.

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      Hanrahan

      I would suggest that those with poor psychological health are predisposed to veganism.

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      John Connor II

      Which came first. The meat eater or the vegan.
      The body wants what evolution created it for, not a social fad.
      Eat meat!
      Remember Noah’s ark saved the animals, not the lettuce.😎

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    David Maddison

    I recently got a house (building) insurance quote.

    One was significantly cheaper than others. I discovered that they only insure low risk properties.

    Other big companies take on all risks.

    If I am sensible enough to choose not to live in a bushfire or flood zone etc. why should I pay high premiums to cover those who do decide to live in high risk areas?

    I am seriously considering insuring with them.

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      Hanrahan

      My house is also low risk and I don’t have a mortgage so I have opted out of insurance after steep premium increases. The car sits in the garage most days and at our age all health risks will be handled by Qld Health so I am saving nearly $10k annually.

      I have a bore so use the water-savers option on my rates and save another few hundred, my solar cells save on electricity.

      And we may have an Aldis by the end of the year, I’m rolling in money!!

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        Robert Swan

        Might be false economy dropping the car insurance altogether. I think it’s worth paying ~$200pa for TPPD, just on the off chance that you have a coming together, and their insurance says it’s your fault. Even a little bingle might be expensive if the other car’s a Tesla.

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    Hasbeen

    My house & contents policy jumped over $1700 after the last flood. I got some other quotes & they were all higher than a few years ago but none this high. I am on acreage over 5 acres & many insurance companies won’t touch us.

    I contacted my original insurer who said the reason for the increase was I was in a flood prone area. The fact that my home is 140Ft, [sorry I’m an old coot], above the river level was of no interest to them.

    Yes I’m with a new insurer, $1300 cheaper, not a tin pot company either, & expect to be there a fair while.

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    Gee Aye

    Polar sea ice records and peak time https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph/

    *satellite measurements since 1979

    Not only a record winter low level of ice but it peaked a week earlier than average and is already heading down.

    The Arctic is not a record BUT about a week ago when the summer low is usually recorded, 2023 was the 5th lowest minimum. It has continued to drop and is now 3rd lowest.

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    John Connor II

    More medical madness: Euthanized woman in Belgium heard SCREAMING by family as doctors suffocated her with a pillow

    A euthanasia procedure gone wrong resulted in Belgian doctors resorting to suffocating a patient after the lethal injection drug cocktail they dispensed into her body failed to produce the desired death.

    According to her family, which was outside on a terrace at the time of the incident, 36-year-old Alexina Wattiez was suffocated to death with pillows as nurses and other hospital staff pressed them over her face to finish the job that the drugs failed to do.

    Wattiez received a devastating terminal cancer diagnosis in 2021 that doctors said would end her life within a year. When 2022 came around and she was still alive, barely, she opted to participate in Belgium’s euthanasia program, which was first legalized back in 2022.

    Wattiez was in such extreme pain and misery at the time, and knew that the cancer was going to eventually take her anyway, that she chose to speed things up with a lethal injection. When that lethal injection failed, her caretakers chose a different route.

    As doctors and nurses pressed pillows over Wattiez’s face, her family says she could be heard from all the way outside screaming in terror.
    http://www.stationgossip.com/2023/09/euthanized-woman-in-belgium-heard.html

    I covered this (Euthanasia) the other day.
    The solution is simple and has been known for decades.
    I don’t know how much lower my respect for the medical profession can get.

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    John Connor II

    Thursday wtf: sweet dreams!

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s0zkelvpcu1w5pr9j.mp4

    Nope, nope and nope.

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    John Connor II

    Thursday wtf2: and the streets ran red with wine

    https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_s0uvnipv8W1zlxqpx.mp4

    A ruptured tank in Portugal.
    …books flight…😁

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    another ian

    Easy living –

    “UPDATE: An Atlanta reader emails:

    I’ve lived here since 2001 and until a few years ago I had never seen a tent under a highway overpass. Now they seem to be everywhere.

    Not defending it, but being homeless is easier than ever because of technology.

    With only a smartphone, one can have and manage a bank account, receive income (like public benefits), make online payments, communicate with friends and family, hire transportation to/from your location, schedule medical appointments, have food delivered to your location, purchase items on Amazon delivered to a nearby dropoff point, arrange drug deals, find customers for sexual services, etc.

    A homeless person in America with a smartphone can shop, select, and have their preferred tent delivered to them from China to a nearby Amazon locker within a few days, as well as any other “camping” supplies they desire.

    In balmy Georgia for 9/112ths of the year, that is a “home-free” lifestyle that is completely feasible from a tent under I-75.”

    Instapundit

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    another ian

    “The suicide of expertise: Glenn Reynolds

    Americans might look back on the last 50 years and say, “What have experts done for us lately?” ”

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/03/20/americans-reject-experts-failure-history-glenn-reynolds-column/99381952/

    Australians too IMO

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “The Left’s New Rules: Guilty Until Proven Innocent”

    “When did it become perfectly okay to convict someone before their day in court? Rumble thankfully still agrees with innocent until proven guilty:

    Rumble’s response to the UK Parliament’s letter to our CEO @chrispavlovski pic.twitter.com/iSCpHIHoU4

    — Rumble – ‍☠️ $RUM (@rumblevideo) September 20, 2023

    For those who still don’t get why destroying Brand purely on allegations, Styxhexenhammer has some thoughts.”

    https://rumble.com/v3jacu0-the-crucifixion-of-russell-brand.html

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/21/the-lefts-new-rules-guilty-until-proven-innocent/

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    Strop

    Here’s an interview from the Bolt Report in which Myles Jerrard, a 21 year old Aboriginal person, speaks about his opposition to the Voice.
    Approx 6 min.

    Easy for me to say he seems like a smart guy because I agree with him, but he really does seem like a smart guy and he’s living out what he preaches.

    https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/andrew-bolt/voice-predicated-on-principle-that-aboriginal-people-are-inherently-disadvantaged/video/f352d70761837db57ad88d0fae8a3350

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    Tony Dique

    Hi everyone, does somebody have a link to an accurate description of the composition of solar panels including mineral percentages, etc? That would be much appreciated.

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    another ian

    Goes with that legionaires outbreak –

    ““Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit” ”

    https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2023/09/21/organic-is-the-latin-word-for-grown-in-pig-shit-19/#comments

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