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very good report on real cost of renewables in the UK
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/kathryn-porter-the-true-affordability-of-net-zero/
Presumably the results would be better in Oz for solar farms but that doesn’t get away from the overall costs and shortcomings of renewables-lack of wind or sun plus the huge cost on infrastructure and upgrades to connect everything up and provide back up or base power.
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An interesting aspect of the price chart is that the household electricity price dropped from 1997 to 2003.
That drop is likely due to privatisation of asset, which began in the early 1990s similar to what occurred in Australia. The increase starting around 2003 aligns with the operation of the Blyth offshore wind farm in 2003. The 2MW units were the largest installed to that time anywhere and paved the way for thousands of these monstrosities killing bird life and stilling wind around the UK coastline.
UK households had to pay higher electricity prices but millions of birds have paid the ultimate price for this fantasy.
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Tommy Robinson released from prison
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/tommy-robinson-to-be-released/
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Unfortunately another UK political prisoner was not released, Lucy Connolly.
She is in jail for 31 months because of an angry Tweet she made against illegal immigrants, she deleted after a few hours, that she made in a state of outrage after Axel Rudakubana (not an illegal) stabbed a bunch of young girls, murdering three, in Southport.
In the following video Jeff Taylor discusses the Tommy release and points out that the Herr Starmer regime can’t be trusted not to find an excuse not to put Tommy back in the Gulag.
https://www.youtube.com/live/XIpKV6Rsmfc
In my opinion Tommy should seek political asylum in the United States.
Not one word of the documentary he is in jail for making has ever been refuted. Elon Musk has vowed to keep it on X. There are numerous copies there. Not yet illegal to watch in Australia or in free countries. Here it is:
https://x.com/QWalesUK/status/1916844376086511846
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junk temperature readings from the Met office.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/05/20/exclusive-almost-all-extreme-temperature-highs-in-uk-now-being-recorded-at-junk-sites-with-massive-possible-errors/
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The Met gaslighting continues.
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Well, they do need an excuse to blot out the sun, after all.
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In Once Great Britain some conservative YouTubers infiltrated and filmed a once-beautiful historic building which had been infested with Leftoids who were squatting there and had vandalised the place and turned it into a cult compound, as they do.
And note the lack of diversity among them, they all look to be Anglos. Not the “diverse” crowd they pretend to celebrate.
Interesting.
https://youtu.be/T4EoWUgqZms
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What a pig sty, inhabited by pigs of course.
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Out of curiosity I’ve been listening to Their ABC Radio National (Australia) on the car radio a bit. I do it so you don’t have to.
It’s a 24/7 lovefest by Leftists for Leftists. At a cost to you, the taxpayer, of about one billion dollars a year.
For them there is no solution they can conceive of for any problem, real or imagined that doesn’t involve ever more taxes, laws, regulations, expenditure of vast amounts of taxpayer money, more restrictions of freedom etc.. And never, ever any questioning of the Official Narrative.
Also there is endless hatred of Trump and conservatives in general even though they have a legal obligation to be politically neutral.
And I find the “high rising terminal” speech pattern of typical Leftists that you hear on that station to be especially annoying. (That is, increasing the pitch of the last few words of a statement to make it sound like a question.)
According to Wikipedia a possible purpose of high riding terminal speech is:
We are going to get so much more of these things now that the Australian Sheeple have given the Left a mandate to do whatever they please with no limits on expenditure, regulation and control, removal of personal freedoms and support of every ratbag group you can imagine.
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If in Melbournistan you might want to listen to 3MP 1377AM or DAB+ digital radio or streaming, which has quality contemporary music from the 60’s and 70’s, so-called “easy listening”, no uninitelligable garbage music. Very nice radio station.
You can get your intelligent and informed political discussion and news from this blog, not Their ABC or other Lamestream Media.
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David, Victoria is the “State of Taxes”.
We live on a rural property, never had a rubbish collection EVAH. The government brings in new rules that require every house that a rubbish truck drives past must have a minimum of 3 rubbish bins and 4 if wanted. I protested this new ruling as we simply don’t generate much rubbish. ( we are oldies have an established household and have no need for endless new stuff). Wrote to the local shire, copied the local liberal MP, and finally got an answer from the shire. Essentially, Thanks for your letter, sorry the new bins are of no use to you don’t care if you don’t use them and we will charge you $480.00 per year in any case.
So, the alleged “saving of rubbish from going to land fill” really is just another money grabbing system. Increased fire services levee , increased insurances including GST increases,a rubbish collection fee that does absolutely nothing for the environment, power increase, yeah its easy living in Victoriastan, specially when you are on an ever decreasing income stream as self funded retirees.
P.S. The shire does have a few remaining public rubbish bins in the local small towns. These bin holders have a general rubbish bin side and a recycling side. Funny when the shire empties these they all go into the one truck.
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Yes it’s appalling Sambar.
Sorry that the socialists are trying to drive you and other farmers off your land.
If they are charging you for bin collection anyway, I would use the bins for farm storage such as for seeds or fertiliser. I use one of my unused bins in urban Melbournistan for garden implement storage and when they force a purple bin onto me to supplement the existing three I plan to fill it with water and use it for an emergency water supply, or perhaps non-perishable food in the event of a food shortage when the grid collapses.
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Nation will pay for Victoria’s economic stagnation
The latest state budget, delivered by Treasurer Jaclyn Symes, offers little reassurance. On the contrary, it lays bare the state’s worsening financial trajectory. Rising expenditure, a widening tax burden and soaring debt are steering Victoria towards a fiscal precipice.
At a time when Victoria’s economy is forecast to grow by a modest 2 per cent, the government has budgeted for revenue and expense growth of 8.1 per cent and 7.0 per cent respectively.
Such a misalignment signals a worrying shift, with the state government consuming an ever-larger share of the economy, a trend typically associated with economic stagnation.
Perhaps the most striking concern is Victoria’s ballooning debt. Net debt is set to increase by $22bn next year, hitting $156bn, with a forecast rise to a staggering $194bn by 2029.
This would be alarming under any circumstances, but it is particularly troubling given Victoria’s windfall $3.7bn GST distribution boost – a direct result of Australia’s deeply flawed system of horizontal fiscal equalisation.
In March, the Commonwealth Grants Commission announced it would recommend that Victoria would, for the first time, become a net recipient of GST, receiving $1.067 for every dollar of GST it contributes. Its share of national GST revenue will jump from 24.8 per cent to 27.5 per cent.
In essence, the more Victoria underperforms economically, the greater the financial support it receives.
This is not just inefficient; it’s a perverse incentive structure that rewards fiscal recklessness while penalising states that manage their budgets prudently.
The result is a distorted safety net that has masked the consequences of more than a decade of spendthrift governance.
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Not clear whether your no rubbish collection evah is by choice or because you are not on a regular run, hopefully it’s the later. Since you now apparently qualify for a bin because a truck goes past I’m guessing in the past it has been by choice? Have you checked that there was an existing bona fide route past your place before they made this too good to refuse offer?
Personally, I would welcome the bins and would put them out for collection according to their rotation even if there was no rubbish in them. Indeed, I would take a weekly photo of what the contents are of each as I put them out. Option A then becomes to ring the council toward the end of the day that they are not collected and demand action ie special trip the next day to collect.
Option B if you are on a routine collection route after a couple of months submit your photos (of empty contents) as support for the cost saving of them in not picking up your bins savings that include not having to supply and maintain 3 plastic (environment killer) bins in the first place, operator frustration/time etc which takes you to Option C any sign of wear and tear, splits etc back on to the council for replacements. Being rural you do not want to encourage vermin with easy access to food scrapes such as the couple of apple cores that constitute your weekly food rubbish (wink wink) hence splits for flies etc need to be immediately attended to.
We have periods when new drivers are on our run and the bins are left with lids open or on their sides (mostly) on the grass verge sometimes in the gutter. Neighbour on one side often has their bin placed on our grass verge, The other neighbour often gets theirs placed standing/fallen over in their driveway (which if Im in time I pick up and move back onto grass to enable them to drive straight in after work). Lots of reportable concern material to use.
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Your sacrifice is duly noted.
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As the Americans would say, thank you for your service.
My question though is that leaving aside the irritant and an appalling waste of tax payer’s money, how influential is their ABC?
Do you see it as a keystone in the arch without which the whole house of cards might collapse? Or perhaps the queen termite without which the drones will abandon the nest?
I don’t know because apart from watching re-runs of a limited selection of comedy I have nothing to do with their ABC.
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This story appears to lend credibility that the 2020 presidential election was rigged against Trump
https://thepostmillennial.com/bernie-sanders-says-dems-rigged-the-2016-primary-against-him
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It might seem a good thing that the seemingly-conservative Nationals split from the Labor-Lite Liberals but consider the following.
George Christensen wrote this:
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Just as I thought! Proud of little!
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SAUL KAVONIC
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate
Energy and climate policy has finally ripped the Coalition in two. It appears the Nationals’ stance on support for nuclear and against a 2050 net-zero target has left an unreconcilable schism with the Liberal Party under Sussan Ley’s leadership, at least for now.
Yet it has never been more important for the Liberals and Nationals to present a united stance on energy policy. Australia needs a compelling alternative to the diabolic energy trajectory under Labor: we need policy that focuses on abundance, advancing Australia’s economic advantage, and sets us up for a future in hi-tech manufacturing, artificial intelligence and regional development.
A path forward can make clear that nuclear should never be banned, while acknowledging government-directed investment in nuclear is not aligned with sound market-based roots. Whether the Liberals pay lip service to a 2050 net-zero target (that won’t be met anyway) shouldn’t become an all-consuming issue that leaves the opposition abdicating from the public energy debate on what to do in the next 10 years when it really matters. Without a compelling energy policy alternative from the Liberals and Nationals, Australia will be left with an emboldened Labor to continue down the path of ideological and economically damaging environmental targets under the undue influence of radical activists.
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From the Comments
A broken Coalition needs to demonstrate unity on climate
Saul, Why?
The Climate has always changed – No Dinosaurs in Winton QLD now, the Climate changed and NO Humans were involved
The Lunacy Goalposts have moved from Global Warming, to Climate Change, which it always has – Kids & Grandkids have been indoctrinated during Education, and we have Destroyed Cheap Electricity from Baseload Coal Fired Plants with Idiotic Renewables, which SA, Broken Hill, and now Spain & Portugal have shown don’t work, whilst destroying the countryside with Transmission Lines, which are not costed and Wind Turbines which will only last 20 Years
So Nationals are Correct on Climate and will get my Vote as Liberals have lost it due to Turnbull/Photios/Keans – Snowy Hydro $12 Billion and rising, when you could have built 5 HELE Coal Fired Plants on existing sites without destroying Snow National Park for Transmission Lines, for something that won’t work in a Drought!
Littleproud & Nationals, Great Move
Now Posit
1. Get out of Paris Agreement
2. Put Net Zero to bed in a Zero Grave
3. Push Construction of HELE Coal Fired Plants on existing Coal Fired Plants Sites whilst carrying out Maintenance
4. Dig, Dig, Dig for Gas
5. Put forward path for Nuclear SMRs, whilst relying on HELE & Gas
6. Put Snowy Hydro & Florence out of their Not Needed Misery & stop the waste of money
7. Run in every seat across Australia
To the Liberals, until you get rid of your Turnbull’s & Keans, you do not stand for anything other than Labor/Greens/TEALs Lite – Not Worth Voting For!
8. However, hope the Liberals have enough brains to run both parties in all seats & cross preference each other – Works for Labor/Greens
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Yes, and a little weary of the ‘nuclear as a backup for renewables’ crap.
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Look at it this way. If a complete backup can be built then the intermittent energy infrastructure can be abandoned or better still blown up.
Backup? I’m all for it!
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Video.
The history of Once Great Britain continues to be rewritten by the Left.
For example, children are being taught that Stonehenge was built by black people and other obvious lies. There were no sub-Saharan Africans in Britain at that time.
Or that Nero married a “trans” “woman”.
While actual British history is not taught.
And the teaching union wants to bring the “Palestinian struggle” into the classroom.
https://youtu.be/hHZoSkmt60U
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It’s a worry but kids have excellent BS detectors.
There are always the Gretas of this world but there is a much larger number of natural sceptics.
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FWIW
“The Five Biggest Questions of the Biden Health Cover-Up”
“So be patient, boys and girls. This is a developing story. We’re nowhere near the end of it. To paraphrase Churchill, “This is not the end, this is not the beginning of the end — nor have we reached the end of the beginning.” This scandal is still in its infancy.”
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2025/05/20/the-five-biggest-questions-of-the-biden-health-cover-up-n4939967
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Interesting to me is the number of articulate people apparently growing in influence.
And for that matter the number of political appointees who seem to be dominating the legacy media.
Most encouraging.
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I have to disagree.
Kids are sponges that soak up whatever is tossed at them by way of fact or lie, especially when it is reinforced on a daily basis at school.
Some who have thinking parents at home will question the obvious lies at school. Many won’t. By the time they are young adults the majority will be products of those school lies, reinforced by daily media manipulation. As evidence I give you the recent voting results where a few choice lies repeated ad nauseam trump the obvious evidence voters’ eyes are showing them to the contrary.
Bottom line: most kids will be brainwashed modern-day Komsomol Youth and grow up to be brainwashed adults. Later in life some will learn to use their inbuilt powers of discernment, observation and deduction — their BS alarms — and change their stance, but they will still be in the minority.
Most people avoid thinking and much prefer to have their opinions fed to them, despite their assertions to the contrary. They prefer to watch puerile TV shows where thinking is an aberration.
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The Science now says that we should all be dweebs. https://amgreatness.com/2025/05/20/working-out-is-right-wing-and-thats-a-good-thing/
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FWIW
“Putin-Trump Phone Call Deadend, AFU Brigade Mutinies Surge, & More Updates”
“Today Putin and Trump held a long-awaited phone call, which ended up lasting over two hours, by all accounts. Despite both sides drumming up the call’s significance as a good step forward toward normalizing relations, it achieved nothing. The reason: Putin again repeated to Trump that “root causes” of the conflict must be addressed, and shortly after, Zelensky declared in a press conference that Ukraine will never demilitarize and never give up its territories; the impasse stands as before.”
More at
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/putin-trump-phone-call-deadend-afu
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Have to love the “Russian Dude” for a novel summary of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and peace attempts…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpaHbARvClc
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FWIW
“Trans kids: the must-have accessory for A-list celebs”
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/18/trans-kids-the-must-have-accessory-for-a-list-celebs/
Hmmm! – if that is a measure of “success” – – – –
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I think we need a world war. Wipe the slate clean & let’s start from scratch.
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P is trying his best but there are only 24 hours in a day.
Dear Graham, you are not alone in this world preparing for a minor military event.
As we speak the most unlikely nations working hard on “currently not enemies” to shift them into “nearly sympathisants”.
Who would think that Hungary, historically a bastion against Ottomans Drang Nah Westen will host a budding union of Turkish-speaking nations?
Azerbaijan (!) and Kazakhstan (!) have discovered their common father Abraham, next to Israel and UAE.
At least Ukrainians and Balts already lived in a common state – RzeczPospolita.
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Still no word in our media about NSW’s floods (nor commuter train closures in Sydney) so I had to bite my tongue and check Their ABC. The NEWS™️ here is too busy Trump-bashing and Pope-praising (who knew NZ was so Catholic?) or reporting another meth-addled gang shooting or something called the Cost Of Living – which Princess Ardern denied existed right up to the point of her resignation and fleeing the country.
My brother’s place missed the worst of the weather (apart from wind & rain on Monday) but having spent Christmas there, I was surprised how much of the Hunter / Mid North coastline was swampy river-delta floodplain barely above high-tide mark.
We took a roadie inland up to Armidale then down Waterfall Way to Coffs (to visit nieces) then back south to Port Stephens via a few spots out on the coast: fertile flatlands but as beowulf mentioned the other day, all reclaimed peat/swamp floodplains which are now the epicentre of the runoff… no wonder ‘house-boats’ are a thing around there.
Climate whackos and young people are probably shouting the usual ‘never seen before!’ but as anyone who knows a little history or geography (there’s a few old volcanoes & lava flows & semi-tropical valleys up that way) it ain’t nuffing new, round and round…
Stay high, and dry, if you can.
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Next time you go up that way Greg, check out Burning Mountain.
It’s been producing wonderful CO2 for about 6000 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Mountain?wprov=sfla1
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The Liberals lost all but two seats in South Australia.
Here in Mayo, formerly the safest Liberal seat in Australia, they came third (after the Independent and Labor).
They keep saying they will win back seats, and many are trying to get rid of the number one on their Senate selection, because he isn’t WOKE.
A regular lot of comments about “religious takeover of the party”.
Senator Alex Antic on Sky News
Liberals need to ‘shift back to the right’: Antic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3X-l6WoDrY
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FWIW – the covid scene
“No Trial Data, No Vax: FDA Demands Gold Standard Testing For Any New COVID-19 Vaccines”
https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/no-trial-data-no-vax-fda-demands-gold-standard-testing-any-new-covid-19-vaccines
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Also in there, the argument that America cannot afford to look after the Baby Boomers contains a wonderful graph- Two parallel asymptotic curves showing Federal debt from 1990 to now, and right beside it the total net worth of the top 1% of Americans.
The Govt borrows money and gives it to richest.
Meanwhile the Boomers are going to have to give up social welfare and pay for their retirements/medical themselves, there are not enough GenZ etc following them, and they don’t have enough wealth to spare.
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FWIW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmfNUM2CbbM
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FWIW –
Well darn – Jo and contributors missed the cut!
“Are Scientists who Contest the Climate Emergency “Publicity-seeking Contrarians?”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/20/are-scientists-who-contest-the-climate-emergency-insincere-publicity-seeking-contrarians/
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And the comments there – like this one
“Whetten Robert L
May 20, 2025 12:22 pm
Let’s see how this works, by his own words (may they condemn him):
“Some GWPF associates might simply be judged by the friends that they keep.” — Tom Hardy, writing at ‘The Ecologist‘
Could be transcribed as:
“Some of The Ecologist associates might simply be judged by the friends that they keep.”
Tom Hardy is a semi-retired teacher, writer, and activist who has been involved with Extinction Rebellion.”
——— from prominently public sources; plus this (directly from the mothership) ————”
And more
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FWIW
Re batteries
“On The Dangers Of Outside CyberHoles”
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=253296
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Not sure if it’s already been linked here, but John Anderson’s interview with Tony Abbott on the election result was worth listening to (even with Anderson’s rather fumbling questions). The quote they’ve put on the YouTube title page — We didn’t fight on anything — puts it in a nutshell.
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Vic’s wind drought continues. AEMO gives a wind generation total of 23 MW. That is consistent since 4 pm y’day, with even less during last night’s peak.
SA almost the same at 47MW.
Qld is exporting over 1 gW. Pity that is from black coal.
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Australia’s Unrealized Gains Tax Will Be A Lesson In Economic Suicide
Starting in July 2025, the Albanese government is set to debut its latest economic masterstroke: taxing imaginary money. That’s right—if you’ve got more than $3 million sitting in your superannuation, not only will you get slapped with a 30% tax, but it doesn’t even matter if you actually made any money.
The fallout is not rocket science. People will be forced to liquidate assets—probably the wrong ones, at the worst possible time—just to scrape together enough real money to cover taxes on their fake money. Don’t have the cash lying around to pay that bill? Sounds like a you problem. Better start liquidating. And this isn’t just stocks we’re talking about. Real estate? Private businesses? Long-term investments you hold precisely because they’re supposed to be safe and stable? All fair game in a fire sale.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/australias-unrealized-gains-tax-will-be-lesson-economic-suicide
30% of $3M = $1M TAX.
Got that lying around?
You voted ’em back in, now you reap the pain.
All western governments are broke…
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“You voted ’em back in, now you reap the pain.”
Probably not the same people..
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Germany’s AI sex doll brothels
https://youtu.be/KQ86TDBIfss?si=RcDDL0jdYyubBdD0
* Snowflake warning.*
Fertility rates collapsing.
Men don’t want relationships with modern women.
Not a NZ’er? 😉
Not many choices left.
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As a 6-week convert to new religion I declare this XXI an Ex Machina Century.
Which capitalist in their sober state invest into human-like AI industry?
The obvious answer – brothel owners, not trade unions or super funds.
Oops ! Stop here – why not ? They already invest into global warming…
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Ziploc bags linked to dementia
Ziploc, the popular brand of food bags and containers used by over 200 million Americans, is now at the center of a troubling health controversy.
A class-action lawsuit filed in California accuses the maker of Ziploc, of misleading consumers about the safety of its microwave-safe bags and containers.
The complaint alleges that the plastic in Ziploc products may release harmful microplastics , potentially exposing millions to toxins over time.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14728273/microplastics-Ziploc-bags-dementia.html
There’ll be a vaxx for it..
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“Microplastics are tiny plastic fragments—less than 5 millimeters in size”
Uh-huh… Gives me great faith in the rest of that article!
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40 English words you may not know exist
1. Agog – Very eager or curious to hear or see something.
2. Bumfuzzle – To confuse or fluster.
3. Cacophony – A harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
4. Callipygian – Having well-shaped buttocks.
5. Cattywampus – Askew or awry.
6. Collywobbles – A feeling of anxiety or an upset stomach.
7. Defenestration – The act of throwing someone out of a window.
8. Discombobulate – To confuse or disconcert.
9. Doodle Sack – An old word for a bagpipe.
10. Erf – A plot of land in a town (South African English).
11. Flibbertigibbet – A frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person.
12. Gardyloo – A warning shouted before throwing waste from above (historical).
13. Gobbledygook – Language that is meaningless or hard to understand.
14. Hullabaloo – A commotion or fuss.
15. Impignorate – To pawn or mortgage something.
16. Jiggery-pokery – Deceitful or dishonest behavior.
17. Kerfuffle – A commotion or fuss.
18. Limerence – The state of being infatuated with another person.
19. Lollygag – To dawdle or be slow.
20. Malarkey – Nonsense.
21. Mumpsimus – A stubborn person who keeps making a known mistake.
22. Nudiustertian – Relating to the day before yesterday.
23. Oxter – An armpit (chiefly Scottish/Irish English).
24. Pandiculation – The act of stretching and yawning.
25. Pettifogger – A lawyer who handles petty cases, often disreputably.
26. Quire – Two dozen sheets of paper.
27. Ratoon – A small shoot growing from the root of a plant (e.g., sugar cane).
28. Sialoquent – Spitting while speaking.
29. Skedaddle – To run away quickly.
30. Snollygoster – A shrewd, unprincipled person (especially in politics).
31. Susurrus – Whispering, murmuring, or rustling.
32. Tittynope – A small quantity of something left over (like a few grains of rice).
33. Ulotrichous – Having woolly or tightly curled hair.
34. Ultracrepidarian – Someone who speaks on things they don’t understand.
35. Wamble – Stomach rumbling or a feeling of nausea.
36. Widdershins – Counterclockwise or in the wrong direction.
37. Xertz – To gulp down something quickly and greedily.
38. Yclept – Named or called (archaic).
39.Zugzwang – A situation in chess where every possible move is a bad one.
40. Zenzizenzizenzic – The eighth power of a number (obsolete math term).
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I had an international phonecall from someone claiming to work in Melbourne for NBN. He said that NBN were upgrading in the area and I could follow progress by downloading an application from kdmcare.help. My system would not download the file so the “NBN” guy suggested I go into the computer privacy settings and allow screen recording. I balked at this point and suggested they send me an email to explain what they were doing, which they refused.
The fellow was not easy to listen too because his hinglish leaned toward Hindu rather than English.
If it is legit, there is a big risk with NBN employing hinglish speaking individuals.
Does anyone know if it is likely to be legitimate. I am not going to allow screen recording for anyone.
I certainly frustrated the guy. I wasted maybe 30 minutes of my time and his but he was peeved when he finally gave up.
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If you can see if his phone number starts with “64” and has 11 digits.
I got one yesterday and a voice like that has been supposedly NBN for quite a while
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” I wasted maybe 30 minutes of my time and his but he was peeved when he finally gave up.”
Ah, the revenge of the retirees.. I love to get door-knockers, especially ones involved with climate or renewables!
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But don’t say “yes” in a conversation like that
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On Youtube – 1 Day Old
Why This Russian Drone Developer Isn’t Impressed by U.S.
Tech Real Reporter
In this exclusive interview, I sit down with a Russian military drone developer inside his secret workshop to talk about the future of drone warfare.
From FPV kamikaze drones and fiber-optic guidance systems to jamming tactics and the rise of interceptor drones — we cover it all.
We also discuss how Russia and Ukraine have become the world’s most advanced drone war laboratories, what makes Chinese tech fall short, and why the West is struggling to catch up.
50 Mins 34 Secs – Excellent overview
From the Comments
I learnt more about drones and drone warfare in this 50 minute interview than I have in the last 3 years.
Every nation in the world will be rethinking their military doctrines… Who would have thought WW1 trench warfare and drone warfare would become “Modern Warfare”.
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Submarine volcanoes are more common than previously thought.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/05/19/volcanoes-spew-3x-more-co2-than-thought-19000-new-undersea-volcanoes-found-is-human-driven-climate-narrative-crumbling/
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