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    John Hultquist

    While the Southern Hemisphere is turning nicely warm, the Northern Hemisphere is beginning winter. The mountains of Oregon, Washington, and north into British Columbia** are beginning to go white. There is yuge snow on the way, global warming be dam…

    ** Time to change European foreign sounding names?
    https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/jack-knox-a-new-name-for-british-columbia-here-are-a-few-ideas-4658557

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      tonyb

      All those alternative names sound terrible

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        another ian

        tonyb

        Another thing you’re not supposed to enjoy

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        Ted1

        I have already some time ago started an email campaign to our local political reps. I have always been critical of the fact that so many of our great cities are named after people who never put a foot in the southern hemisphere.

        The capital city of New South Wales is Sydney. Note that neither Wales nor Sydney has a close connection with the locality.

        My call is to the federal government, as the postal service is a federal matter, to move the postcode boundary from Sir John Young Crescent to Macquarie St.

        This would put the seat of the State government in Wooloomooloo, making Wooloomooloo the state capital.

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        KP

        New Zealanders didn’t get a choice, some vocal minority that Govt needed votes from rammed it through. The funny thing is, I’ve never heard someone say they are an Aotearoan.

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      Gee Aye

      Can you send some to Europe please.

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      Forrest Gardener

      Place names have some interesting histories.

      On a bigger scale I wonder how many Queenslanders know which queen it was named after and how many Victorians have any idea about the origins of that name. And who exactly saw the resemblance with old South Wales.

      Ok. That covers the east coast except for Tasmania and perhaps King and Flinders Islands in the middle of Bass Strait. Then we can move on to the many rivers and mountains were named in honour of explorer’s patron’s wives and minor dignatories of the time.

      My all time favourite place name however is Mount Surprise in Queensland. The biggest surprise being the apparent absence of a mountain when you get there.

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        Hanrahan

        Townsville is named after Robert Towns, a “blackbirder”, but thats history and we live with that odd name which sounds as if we can’t make up our mind about being a village or a town.

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    tonyb

    I am watching with great excitement as Eco zealot-Miliband goes mad.

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/when-did-daft-ed-go-wrong-in-the-head/

    This is because I have bought 500 tons of potatoes which I will be able to demonstrate to Ed can produce electricity. I hope to obtain large subsidies for potato chips If I can persuade him that they can be substituted for the wood chips that Drax burns. I shall be patenting the name “Spudtricity.”

    What can possibly go wrong?.

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    tonyb

    Why do some many otherwise rational people hate Trump so much?

    https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/trump-derangement-syndrome/

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      Ken

      Why do some many otherwise rational people hate Trump so much?

      We could also ask – Why do some many otherwise rational people believe in global warming/climate change?

      All confirmed evidence demonstrates that there is no correlation at all between human activity, fossil fuels, CO2, etc. and temperature. Yet many otherwise intelligent people seem to believe the nonsense pushed by the activists without being the least bit sceptical.

      Why?

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      Ted1

      You are too kind!

      I haven’t seen any signs that they are otherwise rational.

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      KP

      “Why do some many otherwise rational people hate Putin so much?”

      I always wonder that, and I reckon rationality is no protection against propaganda. The real number of people who can think logically is far smaller than generally accepted, maybe its been decreasing in my lifetime.. something in the water, the food, the radio emission spectrum or the vaccines.. Who knows..

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        Chad

        KP
        October 24, 2024 at 10:38 am · Reply
        “Why do some many otherwise rational people hate Putin so much?”

        Maybe something to do with the way he treats his political and social opponents ?
        ..Or the system of democratic rule that he maintains !

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        el+gordo

        The people inside Russia don’t blame Putin for the military shambles, its all the fault of the generals. Putin is deranged and dangerous.

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      Hanrahan

      The most lied about man EVA. Some people must see him as a terrible threat but people who meet him “in nature” almost universally sing his praises.

      Here’s Hulk Hogan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwm4yMVjEU0

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    tonyb

    Fossil fuel industry is a death cult. So presumably those using their products are part of that cult

    https://slaynews.com/news/kamala-harris-climate-chief-declares-fossil-fuel-industry-death-cult/

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      James Murphy

      I’ve spent the last 20 years working for a death cult?
      Someone forgot to tell, well, anyone I’ve worked with, aside from the handful of true believer human hating climate death cultists who saw their employment in the industry as their way of fighting the system.

      In terms of the environment, even the most ramshackle, dysfunctional and disorganised oil company I’ve ever seen, has maintained environmental standards. Being in the Papua New Guinea jungle, they could have got away with anything, but while ignoring all manner of things unsafe for people, they did maintain respect for the local environment – Except for the fatal chopper and aeroplane crashes that weren’t so good for the jungle.

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        TdeF

        “COP29 will take place from November 11 to 22 in 2024 at Baku Stadium. The venue is located in Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan.”

        So the place where the death cult oil industry started on the shores of the Caspian is the next venue for the UN program to stop oil?

        And the usual 120,000 people will arrive by private jets to discuss ending the oil industry?

        So Dubai, Qatar, a beach resort on the Red sea and Baku. At least the UN has realized that sponsorship by the wealthiest and most exotic cities built on oil makes more sense than Copenhagen, Durban, Rio and Glasgow.

        You can be sure very few anti death cult people will attend, if only because of the cost and inconvenience. No one can walk.

        It’s the world’s biggest and quite incredible annual oil industry conference organized by the UN. Everyone will be there, including all the most important public servants in endless meetings about making more money from oil. And even distant drowning islands like the Maldives will send hundreds of people each. You would not want to miss the chance to make money from reparations or novel taxes or just meeting world leaders.

        The disconnect between what is said and what is done is amazing. Especially by the UN which created the IPCC in 1988 and hopes to get their $100Bn a year in carbon hypocrisy payment to pay the wages of their 80,000 people. To stop wars in say the Middle East and Ukraine. A costly business.

        The home of the incredibly valuable and environmentally threatened unique Caspian sturgeon will serve tons of Malossal black caviar to some of the richest people and most environmentally conscious public servants in the world. Even the Pope? Bill Gates? Al Gore? Barack Obama? John Kerry for sure. The leaders of the $US1,800,000,000,00 a year UN carbon indulgences business. The annual death cult sponsored event not to be missed if you want to be in the carbon game.

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          Ross

          When they ran COP28 in Dubai (UAE), I thought that was the biggest pisstake I had ever seen. All those oil sheikhs must have thought ” ..wow, what a wonderful opportunity for a PR stunt”. Now I’m thinking the UN is a whole pisstake and has been from the very start.

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            KP

            “Now I’m thinking the UN is a whole pisstake and has been from the very start.”

            Aha, now that you how the world works,how can we stop it? Hopefully the BRICS will pull out, start a new alliance and the UN will fall into ruin. They have stopped no wars, added nothing to human achievement and completely wasted the money from a lot of ordinary people.

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        Hanrahan

        sadly the same can’t be said of Ok Tedi and the Fly R.

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      Leo G

      The Harris campaign hired far-left activist Camila Thorndike to serve as the vice president’s “climate engagement director.”

      Chief Psychological Projectionist in Kamala’s implementation of Plato’s cave.

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    Skepticynic

    Donald Trump will be appearing on Joe Rogan Podcast Friday October 25th.

    https://x.com/joeroganhq/status/1848824394250129550?t=sUgslBGL9vRc3riucHhQzg&s=09

    This will attract an enormous audience less than two weeks prior to the election, especially since Rogan is the high-profile interviewer who said, “I’m not a Trump supporter in any way, shape or form. I’ve had the opportunity to have him on my show more than once, I’ve said no every time,” he said. “I don’t want to help him, I’m not interested in helping him.”

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      TdeF

      A free form interview with Rogan is very risky business for any politician. But Kamala Harris will not take unscripted questions from anyone. The contrast could not be greater.

      What is puzzling is that Kamala Harris has any supporters at all. Her incompetence and plain deceit are astounding and so well known. And Tim Walz’s total and open dedication to the Chinese Communist party. And yet Bill Gates gives $50Million to get them elected. Even rusted on Democrat voters must smell a rat.

      Harris must be the most unqualified and unsuitable person ever presented to be the US President as measured on any metric. Her only uncontested qualification is gender.

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      Philip

      I don’t think Trump should do this at all. He is likely to talk too much and slip up. Trump is best talking on his terms like he does at his rally. When forced to answer a question within someone else’s framework, he is likely to put his foot in it. Like he did in the debate.

      And this is how Rogan talks, he goes down rabbit holes and fleshes out detail. Fine if he agrees with you, but not if he doesn’t. Rogan does not like Trump and has publicly stated how excited he is America will soon be a majority non-white. Ill advise given to Trump there.

      Rogan is part of the problem in the US. He is one of those democrat liberal types who migrates from California to red states to vote the red away. Worse is he is deluded he is a “centrist”. Also, his ego has also overtaken his reality. See the Netflix “comedy” special he did recently. It is extremely unfunny; cringe it is so bad. But Joe has no idea, the money keeps rolling in.

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        Vicki

        Trump is a risk taker. But he can also be amazingly charming & funny. I am predicting that he will perform well with Rogan. I think the milieu will work in his favour.

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        KP

        Yes, its a way to engage with younger people in a setting they can understand. TV and newspapers are long gone, Facebook and Twitter being derided these days, but personality shows seem popular still.

        Risky, as you say, but their ideas of what would make them vote for him are probably quite different to ours.

        Musk came out of it OK…

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          Philip

          Musk has been on Rogan before, smoked pot with him on screen didn’t he? He did. But Trump is a different deal. I will be interested to see if Joe pushes him on the racism stuff. But yes he could also be quite reasonable and let Trump come across well. I hope so.

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    Looking at the AEMO ” Price and demand” prediction for South Australia today. Again the demand is predicted to be low. This time just 1MW at 13:30 as i look this morning.
    Will we again see south Australia exporting gas fired power as we did yesterday?
    Will we again see the diesel generator fire up when there is plenty of solar and wind like we did yesterday?
    https://aemo.com.au/Energy-systems/Electricity/National-Electricity-Market-NEM/Data-NEM/Data-Dashboard-NEM

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      Chad

      Will we again see south Australia exporting gas fired power as we did yesterday?
      Will we again see the diesel generator fire up when there is plenty of solar and wind like we did yesterday?

      Yes !
      That is very common for SA… the reason of course, is the impact of Roof top Solar forcing down the grid demand during daylight hours.
      Note that as well as exporting the max (750MW) to Vic, they also had to “curtail” 1500+ MW !

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        Yep. Demand of 44 MW but gas output of 82 MW at 14:10. Looking again at the link you posted yesterday that shows the “curtail”ed part makes me think I was perhaps wrong to say “diesel generator fire up when there is plenty of solar and wind”. Looks like they fell short yesterday morning rather than having been curtailed.
        Today’s interesting part to me was at 14:30 on AEMO Data-Dashboard-NEM “dispatch overview”. The numbers seem to show they want to get rid of unstable power to lean on states with what Eng_Ian described well yesterday as “the inertia of the spinning masses”. Most of the afternoon, the two S.A. interconnectors were flowing in opposte directions. This could be a result of purchases but it looks more to give S.A. some badly needed stability two ways. Pulling forward from one while dragging on the other or accelerating from one while slowing against the other. 400Mw in one direction and 150 in the other gives you 550 to lean on for stability rather than 250 flowing in one direction.
        At 14:30 The S.A. price was -$405 Vic-$457 but N.S.W was feeding 1245 MW into that at +$299. It seems stable power is worth paying that little $700+ more for.

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      Ross

      Gotta love that interconnector to Victoria!! Shame the NSW equivalent wasn’t built yet.

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      KP

      “Milei is cutting through decades of feather-bedding the bureaucracy, cutting government employment, slashing budgets, and ignoring screams of outrage from socialist-oriented trades unions. In economic terms, his reforms are producing results, reducing inflation from unmanageable proportions to something much more bearable. Unfortunately, to do that, he has to gore all sorts of sacred cows, and there’s always the danger that those left out in the cold by his reforms will throw him out by hook or by crook and demand a return to the socialism that crippled Argentina’s economy for so long.”

      Can he come here when he’s finished please…

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Family Judge Pushes Vaxx, Kid Gets 18 Shots in Single Day, Immediately Develops Autism”

    https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2024-10-23/report-family-judge-pushes-vaxx-kid-gets-18-shots-single-day-immediately-develops

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    another ian

    FWIW

    “Kenyan Government: “Climate policies must not write off livestock” ”

    https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/10/23/kenyan-government-climate-policies-must-not-write-off-livestock/

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    Kalm Keith

    Hi Peter,
    Long ago I read a book entitled “The Queen of Fats”.
    It was about the experiences of people who had lived in the far north in igloos who lived on fish and whale blubber and whatever came from the ocean.
    The book details what happened when they began to move down to Canada and such, more modern civilizations.

    Somewhat parallel with the experiences of the Australian indigenous peoples who came from the bush lifestyle into town.
    The Aborigines got diabetes type 2 but found that they recovered when they went back home. They weren’t prepared for the sugar, beer and bread diet.
    The Eskimos had a different problem . Memory is a bit faded on this one but I think that in the absence of hdl in their new diet, they got clogged arteries. Hdl was seen as a solvent that kept arteries and veins clean.
    The analysis of the Dutch Winter Hunger was the start to understanding D2 and the effect of insulin setting during pregnancy. I doubt that anyone has D2 these days because of the massive amount of food, calories consumed during pregnancy but I suspect that the cholesterol problem works differently.

    D2 has been superseded by things like D1, which I don’t understand and the new D3, just announced, which is associated with dementia: stop laughing.

    Reply to PeterC.

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      Vladimir

      Lydia Thorpe this morning openly declared her inability to fully understand English and few minutes later proudly listed her achievements in both State and Federal statesmanship. I guess, she mentioned them to justify her 1/4M salary. She also hinted that she knows what to do with this Contintent because “we” did it for thousands of years.
      if tonight she is still a Senator it will say a lot about us all, people and establishment, laws and institutions.

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      Peter C

      Thanks Keith,

      Cholesterol, Statins and their various effects is something I am looking into at present.

      Your specific comment was that LDLs are good not bad.
      So that issue is still on the table.

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        Kalm Keith

        Hi Peter, as mentioned I’m a bit fuzzy on the cholesterol thing.
        My memory seems to tell me that hdl helps clean out ldl from the bloodstream .
        Apart from reading the great book I’ve not really looked to deeply into the cholesterol thing.

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    another ian

    FWIW – a look at BRICS

    “If one thing has remained constant in the ever-shifting propaganda landscape of the Proxy War, beyond its kaleidoscopic narratives and chameleonic claims, it is the ever-present background refrain sung by the mockingbird media chorus that “Putin’s aggression has made Russia increasingly isolated.” I could show you at least a hundred headlines parroting that phrase, “increasingly isolated.” But if Russia gets any more isolated, Putin will be living in downtown Manhattan.”

    Concludes –

    “My fanciful dream is that, if Trump is elected, we might shut down for good the deep-state’s dirty tricks division, and join the BRICS. Maybe we could work with other countries instead of trying to force them to swallow drag queens. Maybe, as a significant BRICS member, we could help build a new, better, more stable, less manipulated, gold-based world currency. Maybe we could finally replace the corrupt, ineffective, cronyist United Nations with something that actually works.

    One can dream. Either way, we are watching history unfold in real time.”

    More at

    https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/historic-wednesday-october-23-2024?

    And more Moderna news among other things

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      Skepticynic

      Just to pick up on a point:

      >trying to force them to swallow drag queens

      Referring to a euphemism meaning sexually deviant men dressing up as female strippers and showgirls, performing risque dances in front of kindergarten children.

      Who does this benefit? The children? The teachers? The parents? The performers. Someone else? Why?

      Is this to be our culture now?

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      another ian

      Another look

      “AlaKazan! And The World Changed.”

      “BRICS+ Are meeting in Kazan, Russia
      The “Putin is isolated” narrative has just gone down in flames. 45%+ of the world population is represented. Over 1/2 of total global production. BRICS+ Wannabees are lined up out the door. Turkey, Viet Nam, Egypt. and many more. Oh, and most of the global oil supply, what with the Middle East representatives & Members.”

      Much more at

      https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2024/10/23/alakazan-and-the-world-changed/

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        el+gordo

        Chiefio is pushing old news, a lot has been happening.

        ‘Beijing is also advancing the yuan’s reach in international trade more generally – it signed a three-year currency swap deal with Saudi Arabia worth 50 billion yuan (US$7.1 billion) in November 2023 and has shown a preference for settling in local currency with trading partners.’ (SCMP)

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      KP

      “gold-based world currency.”

      BOOM! That killed the whole idea stone dead. As dead as anyone in the West before America will let any country under its control use anything except the American dollar! If the Almighty Dollar loses its trade status the Yanks will have to work for a living, and then they will never be able to afford their military, and THEN they will be just another country in the 150 on the world.

      Not gonna happen voluntarily, I can tell you. America will throw the UN under the bus quite happily, but will guard its satrapies like us, Western Europe & UK, Canada, Japan, South Korea etc like a tiger. No-one will be allowed to threaten them, but they will not be allowed to leave.

      Love this bit- So accurate!

      “Regardless what you think of Putin, the fact is right now the United States offers the world nothing hopeful like this. Just the opposite. The U.S. has rabbited so far down the deep state’s dirty-tricks hole that our entire foreign policy is now just a vast secretive effort to undermine things other nations are doing, rather than building anything better ourselves.”

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        el+gordo

        The US holds the most gold by a long shot and BRICS want to go back to the gold standard.

        ‘ … If the Almighty Dollar loses its trade status …’

        They won’t, its only a means of exchange, Russian and Chinese currencies are going from nowhere to oblivion.

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          Hanrahan

          If you simply think of Bretton Woods II something might happen but it won’t defy the Mighty Dollar, it won’t be a basket of piss-weak currencies either.

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            el+gordo

            Best keep the dollar, the US has the gold to back it. To be successful BRICS would need to get a few truly modern countries to join and that isn’t going to happen.

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          KP

          “The US holds the most gold by a long shot”

          Apart from the gold they just stole from the places they invaded, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc, a lot of the gold they have is stored for their satrapies.. and the chance of anyone getting it back is diminishing every year!

          Still, funny for the country that couldn’t pay France in gold and collapsed the gold standard instead. They got to keep the gold and took a free ride on the rest of the world ever since!

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      Hanrahan

      Interesting thought: The US being part of BRICS. That would work. The US has too much gold to be excluded and the USD is still powerful.

      I believe that it is in the US’s interests to step back and some enforced discipline would be a good thing.

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          Hanrahan

          Does a debt ceiling matter? It does but maybe not as much as the classical economists think. But hey, I’m a mechanic.

          If asked, most here would say the US owes their debt to China, or Japan, or Saudi Arabia – whomever. These countries, China in particular, have their own mountain of debt so everyone is in debt to everyone else but it is not a zero sum game. There are many, many trillions of interest being paid that do NOT go into any sovereign funds. Who actually holds the paper without any offsetting debt? It can only be the stateless bankers that shall remain nameless.

          They own us but DON’T PANIC. Unlike hostile nations these bankers have nothing to gain by calling in the paper and destroying the system.

          The real slow and lame, such as Greece and Argentina, will be picked off and devoured individually but Hey! I’m all right Jack.

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    another ian

    FWIW

    Watch the headlines the next weeks –

    “Someone’s Pitching a Bogus ‘October Surprise’ Story to End Trump’s Campaign”

    “The takeaway? Be ready for some outlandish, unbelievable story to surface soon — one that the anti-Trump left will cling to, no matter how absurd. We’ve seen this playbook before; supposedly reputable outlets run with some of the most ridiculous, desperate stories, all in a bid to take down Trump. ”

    https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/10/23/someones-pitching-a-bogus-october-surprise-story-to-end-trumps-campaign-n4933582

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    John Connor II

    The half life of knowledge

    The half life of knowledge is the time it takes for new knowledge to either be lost, or obsolete. We know what lost means. For knowledge to be obsolete, it loses its utility because it’s irrelevant, applies to defunct systems, is found false, etc.

    Knowledge of fire escape routes in a long since destroyed building, refining whale oil for lamplight, and how to drive a manual transmission all might be examples of lost knowledge.

    At the time I gave the speech, we in the data management business estimated the half life of knowledge to be 18 months. 50 years ago it was closer to 18 years.

    The half life of knowledge is now probably closer to a year, maybe less.

    https://x.com/HambrickScott/status/1847929764574621876

    Kids now can’t boil an egg or change a tyre without asking Siri.

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      Barry

      I don’t know whether the stat that there are about 100 million Bibles printed per year supports or contradicts your post, but it must mean something.

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      Steve of Cornubia

      I have been saying for almost twenty years that ‘technology’ would weaken man’s intellect. I first noticed this back in 2000 or so, when I bought my first electronic ‘Filofax’, which I think was made by Navman. I very quickly began using the calendar and GPS contained within at every opportunity. After only a year, I realised that I couldn’t recall how to get to a place I had been to before, because I’d let the GPS take me there.

      Over the years, I have become more and more dependent on those two technologies and they have, I believe, caused me further ‘intellectual decline’ by virtue of not using those parts of my brain as much as I perhaps need to.

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      Chad

      Kids now can’t boil an egg or change a tyre without asking Siri…

      Where as before they would have to ask someone else ?
      More likely these days they have never been taught those basic skills .
      I have gone for 10+ years without drivinng a manual or riding a bike,…. but was able to do both without thinking when needed again.
      Though i would struggle to use a slide rule or log tables again if ever needed !
      But i guess you are refering to knowledge/skills that are not “handed down” to the next generations , rather than any one individual losing previously learned knowledge ?

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    KP

    “New Zealand has been implicated in the leak of classified documents which outline the United States’ assessment of Israel’s plan to attack Iran. According to White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, President Joe Biden is “deeply concerned” about the leak.”

    Lol- As if Biden could understand what a leak was..

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      Chad

      I cannot imagine how or why NZ would have access to that level of classified US documents on such a critical issue.?
      …other than someone in the US leaking it to NZ in the first place !

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    Simon Thompson M.B. B.S.

    Can I come out of he naughty corner now?

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    John Connor II

    Aaarrr me hearties, Scurvy be back, in Australia, aaarrr…

    Doctors discover case of scurvy in Western Australia, warn it is a ‘re-emerging diagnosis’ of developing scurvy, with a case caused by an acute vitamin C deficiency recently treated at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Perth.

    The now-rare disease is best associated with sailors’ lack of fresh fruit and vegetables on long sea voyages over the centuries.

    But doctors say cases of scurvy are on the rise.

    “Scurvy is a re-emerging diagnosis in the current era of a rising cost of living and increasing number of bariatric surgeries,” they concluded in a case report published in medical journal BMJ Case Reports.

    https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/other/doctors-discover-case-of-scurvy-in-western-australia-warn-it-is-a-re-emerging-diagnosis/ar-AA1sJLnF

    Absolutely not due to the cost of living crisis (or crises).
    The govt said so, and would they lie to you?
    No doubt due to climate change, white superiority or such bs.

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    Dave in the States

    Today, the weather man was talking about how we are ten degrees (F) above “average.” Then he mentioned it was still well short of the record, that was set back in 1915.

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    Steve of Cornubia

    Harris criticised for her latest appearance, at a ‘Town Hall’ meeting where she failed, one again, to answer questions or give us any clues as to what she plans to do if elected.

    But that’s a very unfair characterisation. You see, the poor woman can’t articulate her policies because she hasn’t been told what they are yet.

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    another ian

    FWIW – those vanishing insects

    “C’Mon Boil Update: Lovebugs Are Dwindling”

    https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/10/23/cmon-boil-update-lovebugs-are-dwindling-n3796183

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      Hanrahan

      There could be something in this insect extinction thingy.

      Way back when, cane toads would gather under street lights on wet nights feasting on the insects. next day there would be splattered toads all over the road. None of that today – the toads or the insects. Toads are almost extinct. Chicken or egg?

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      KP

      They quickly flicked over the cause in their rush to blame global warming.. ..’insecticides’..

      Do they think industrial quantities of insecticides stay on the farm where they are sprayed? Do they think that 200million houses having automatic aerosols spraying insecticides 24/7 won’t have an effect? Do they think that hundreds of new synthetic chemicals that aren’t even tested for human toxicity will be quite harmless to insects?

      Didn’t they realise that living in the industrial toxin capital of the world, ie America, lowers your ability to think? Just look at the Presidents they have!

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    KP

    The ‘Two Plus Four’ Treaty, signed in Germany at the time of the re-unification by the two Germanys and the four countries who invaded it to end the war, America, England, France and Russia. It limited Germany’s armed forces and made Russia withdraw.

    ” According to Moscow as well as Baker’s notes, the famous “not one inch eastward” promise[5] about NATO’s eastward expansion was made during this conversation.[6][7] The concession essentially meant that the western half of the unified Germany would be part of NATO but the eastern half would not. The US National Security Council pointed out that it would be unworkable, and the concession was later amended to state that NATO troops would not be stationed in East Germany”

    Well, these treaties always mean absolutely nothing to America, so-

    “NATO naval headquarters has been officially opened in Germany to beef up the alliance’s supervision of the Baltic Sea in view of the threat posed by Russia.”

    Rostok, East Germany! Never trust the Americans!

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