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ChatGPT: Which country first issued compulsory ID cards?
ChatGPT said: The first country to issue compulsory ID cards was Nazi Germany, which introduced mandatory identity cards (the Kennkarte) via a decree on 22 July 1938. The exact decree is “Verordnung über Kennkarten” issued on 22 July 1938. Public announcements defining who would be required to carry IDs followed on 23 July 1938. The requirement for Jewish citizens to apply for their Kennkarte was set to be fulfilled by 31 December 1938. The goal was control, surveillance, and population tracking, especially to identify Jews.
Petition: Do not introduce compulsory Digital ID cards in nasty socialist Britain:
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194
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I guess that F word gets thrown around a lot these days.
I Honk, have a pretty good idea who the real Fs are.
Which is the pot and which is the kettle.
Hint … it starts with a G.
Here in America it starts a D.
But they’re really just Gs anyway.
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The Nazi Party, National Socialist German Workers’ Party
(German: NAtionalsoZIalistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
Although every query pushes this as FAR RIGHT when it was in fact SOCIALIST and RACIST (lethally Anti Jewish, Gypsy, ..)
and worked through untouchable violent black shirt thugs approved by the state, Portland, Seattle
and used murder and assassination to eliminate rivals (night of the long knives)
and ran false flag operations to gain support against enemies of the state (274 armed agents in a peaceful public demonstration)
and the Justice System to incarcerate and eliminate political rivals, the first concentration camps. (J6, 1,000 people jailed)
and pretend there was a violent operation against the state as an excuse for war against its own people
and corrupted the Justice system to imprison rivals like Donald Trump
and user ID to identify, track, jail and eliminate enemies of the state and people who donated $5 to the Truckers protest
and used propaganda to control public opinion and justify extremely violent behaviour and jailing, even for expressing an opinion.
It does sound very familiar in the United States, Canada, Britain and Australia. But it’s not extreme right. It’s Socialism.
ANTIFA is a standard false flag operation. Total freedom to destroy. Where J6 was genuinely a largely peaceful unarmed and justified protest.
And in the UK a woman was jailed for three years for the fact that many people agreed with her simple unapproved but illegal opinion.
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It’s amazing that the left in the US typically Bill Maher are outraged that the former head of the FBI has been charged for lying under oath and breaking the law.
Not one of the outraged people disputes that he did lie under oath and that he broke the law.
So in their opinion a Democrat loyalist head of the FBI acting should not be answerable for any crimes.
They have reinvented Berlin, 1936. And run the media.
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The only way in which they differ is that they are all vehemently anti American, anti Christian, anti family. Which makes you ask, who are their actual heroes? Who is funding all this? But you could ask the ultra rich including Nancy Pelosi, Al Gore, Mitch McConnell, George Soros, Mitt Romney. There’s a long list. And even poor backbencher Joe Biden and struggling family.
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There is a wide variety of socialism and the different types of socialists all hate each other. E.g. anarcho-communism, Marxist communism, Maoism, Leninism, Marxism–Leninism, Trotskyism, Fascism, National Socialism etc.. And they hate all of us too. They are misanthropes and frequently psychopaths.
The particular form of socialism known as National Socialism is derived from Fascism.
The philosopher of Fascism is Giovanni Gentile who saw Fascism as the most pure form of socialism, but all the commies think their version is the best.
Fascism is what we partly have now in the woke West as we head toward complete Fascism with certain favoured private companies allowed to exist but only if they work according to the instructions of the state. This is essentially the “public-private partnership advocated by the WEF, World Bank etc..
Examples would be just about any subsidy harvesters involved in the climate change scam, covid “vaccines” or similar and just about any corporation in receipt of taxpayer subsidies or “investment”.
Also see
https://fee.org/articles/theres-no-denying-the-socialist-roots-of-fascism/
And
The Big Lie: Exposing the (National Socialist) Roots of the American Left by Dinesh D’Souza
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In real time.
‘Under Xi Jinping, China meets all four hallmarks of what constitutes fascism – cult-like worship, hyper-nationalism, a merciless surveillance apparatus and the glorification of military strength.’ (The Globalist)
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Could be talking about the US with those points, but they only get 50% cult following depending on which way the red/blue toggle switch is thrown.
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Russia under Putin is a fascist state, but US democracy is still operating normally and can avoid that trap.
The mid term elections should see a good return for the social democrats, setting the stage for the next major.
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Conventional wisdom is that’s the ruling party loses seats in the midterms but 2026 is likely to be different for a variety of reasons. In no particular order:
After defeat in the general election the losing Party typically will do a postmortem and then try to adopt policies which move the Party closer to the political centre. The Democrats have failed to do this and are drifting further to their Left extreme.
The Democrat Party is encountering severe fundraising problems. Their primary vehicle ActBlue is apparently in all sorts of trouble right now.
There doesn’t seem to be any obvious leader and their bench is lacklustre. Those who can galvanise the party are largely extremists of one sort or another and unlikely to appeal to Independents and the undecided.
Trump 2.0 has been a very successful Administration in a number of key areas including immigration. That success has been achieved in a relatively shorty timeframe. The comparison between Trump and Biden is stark in ways that are obvious to the man in the street.
The Charlie Kirk assassination resulted in large numbers of moderate Democrats abandoning the party. While it is too early to say they will move into the GOP camp, if these folks decide not to vote in the midterms it could result in a huge upset.
Red state gerrymandering will in all likelihood result in more GOP seats. Threats of retaliatory gerrymandering from Blue states is unlikely to matter much given how heavily those jurisdictions are redistributed in favour of the Dems already.
Trump’s team have all the hand grenades they need. Former FBI Director James Comey’s indictment is likely to be the first of many and will potentially reveal the absolute corruption at the heart of much Left wing politics.
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” Infrastructure Australia provides advice on Australia’s infrastructure priorities. Only three state/territory governments (New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria) have established a dedicated unit. ”
..and Rob Sitch with ‘Utopia Australia’, which illustrated exactly how efficient the whole charade is!
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Already the 2nd biggest reliable petition (behind; call another election Starmer!).
[A couple of pro-EU related petitions were bigger but fraudulent.]
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Although I no longer live in my native country I care about its well being, so I have signed the petition.
My parents both served in the Army to fight the evil forces in the Germany of the time. I’m glad that they are no longer here to witness the rot of our great native land, although my mother wasn’t very happy with the way things were going before she died three years ago.
Is there a similar petition against the same thing here in my adopted land?
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Petition now over 2 million, so 3% of population…
https://youtu.be/-A7zXNgNI1g?si=rT07GLRsygEC2StG
Will the UK copy Indonesia?
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S&DR200: 200th Anniversary of the Passenger Railway: Saturday September 27th: https://www.sdr200.co.uk/anniversary-journey
A newly restored replica of Locomotion No.1 at Skerne Bridge, Darlington on the Stockton & Darlington Railway to mark the bicentenary of the route: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxQdvybXKR8
On Sept. 27, 1825, Locomotion No 1 was the first steam locomotive to pull a passenger-carrying train, the first steam powered railway engine to run on a public railway – George Stephenson’s Locomotion No. 1 – made its 26-mile journey on the Stockton & Darlington Railway, and was the first to incorporate the standard-gauge of 4 feet 8½ inches (1435 mm): https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2025/09/27/britain-marks-200th-anniversary-of-world-changing-rail-journey
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Boycott Brazil!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-officials-urged-boycott-un-climate-summitt-trump-seethes-climate-change-con-job
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From the article:
Well, actually it’s a huge money laundering operation. The need to meet up to decide how to divy up the loot, and how to get more loot.
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Ha Ha the coincidence could not be overlooked
“Heartland Institute President James Taylor said the upcoming climate conference would only “illustrate the hypocrisy of the self-appointed ruling class,” while they “saturate the atmosphere with CO2” with their travels.https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DEbD7lfrsY2s&ved=2ahUKEwipho_99PmPAxX_TGwGHbzUIwQQ78AJegQIDhAB&usg=AOvVaw2SVgYaH7HR5KHeNToM4_VI
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Farage well on course to win the election. Unfortunately it won’t be for 4 years and an awful lot can happen in that time.
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/27/major-poll-finds-nigel-farage-on-track-for-no-10-with-311-mps/
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4 years?
Major events incoming right now.
Tomato plants in.
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Climate protest in Germany. “Burn the old white men”
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/climate-protest-calls-for-violence-against-the-old-white-men/
Thank goodness none of us on this board are older than 35.
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Wouldn’t burning people increase CO2 output.
And require a lot of gas ovens? But I suppose it is Germany.
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And the women are real ‘uns, below “old boiler” age, and non-lefty leggy blondes too!
What a place to be.😎
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Video.
AI generated based on real artwork of the animals under discussion.
These animals from the Permian era pre-date dinosaurs and are very strange, and many are ancestors of mammals.
Note that there is an obligatory UN climate change advisory beneath the video, because, you know, the Permian–Triassic mass extinction event must have been caused by man-made climate change… (Yes, they really are that stupid.)
https://youtu.be/jLhRPiKolcY
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A few people might have believed this but “there was a flying Pterosaur in one of the clips with Dimetrodon. However, there were no Pterosaurs in the Permian Period”.
Bad enough to be a BBC version.
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In the US a fascist Antifa domestic terrorist was given 19 years in jail for they/them’s crimes (yes, it is a they/them). He also said he was inspired by Hamas’ Oct 7th atrocities.
There will be many more prosecutions of these criminals who went unpunished by the O’Biden regime, and continue to be unpunished in Democrat states. That’s why TRUMP had to upgrade Federal domestic terrorism laws so it was easier to prosecute such criminals. (He was prosecuted federally.)
The Left are becoming increasingly violent, dangerous and deranged. The lawlessness and non-punishment of many crimes throughout much of Australia will cause the same things to happen here too, and already has.
Video:
https://youtu.be/mQhdNXgKJag
US Dept. of Justice press release:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/domestic-terrorist-sentenced-more-19-years-prison-firebombing-university-police-car-and
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While I have no problem with moronic Antifa street soldiers being prosecuted, the real prize is to bring down the brains and the money behind the curtain that enable them.
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Yes. TRUMP is going after them as well.
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You mean George Soros and son?
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RICO?
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for billionaire Democratic donor George Soros and his son, Alexander Soros, to face federal charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, alleging their support of violent protests across the United States.
Trump made these statements in a post on Truth Social on August 27, 2025, where he claimed Soros and his son should be charged for supporting “Violent Protests, and much more, all throughout the United States of America,” and warned that Soros and his associates had caused “great damage to our Country”.
The president reiterated these threats in interviews on Fox & Friends and other media outlets in late September 2025, stating his administration would investigate Soros, framing the alleged protest funding as a “RICO case” and accusing Soros of “agitation”.
Trump’s calls for RICO charges come amid heightened political tensions, including the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk and confrontations with protesters, such as those at a Washington, D.C. restaurant where demonstrators called Trump “Hitler”.
Trump has linked these incidents to the broader political rhetoric he claims is fueled by left-wing groups and donors, suggesting Soros is behind the funding of such protests.
He has also referred to Soros as a “bad guy” who “should be put in jail”.
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Soros investments several years ago included Channel 9 Australia and since Fairfax Group publishing has been added to Channel 9 holdings.
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I attended September 13 save Australia rally in Melbourne. I heard firsthand from several protestors that they were spat on by the counter protestors. I didn’t see MSM report on this. These weren’t neo-nazis dressed in black, just ordinary people carrying an Australian. The vast majority of the attendees were well behaved.
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**flag**
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The image conjured up (pre-correction) was impressive.
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Video:
Dr Suneel Dhand addresses the question of should non-severe fevers be treated at all since they are part of the body’s own healing mechanism.
I have always thought it odd that it was standard medical practice to stop non-severe fevers.
https://youtu.be/n6vt3pfQ7NU
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I’ve said that a few times…
Remember the old westerns where someone gets shot by an Indian arrow and the wound gets infected. All hands on deck to bring down the fever!
The fever is an immune response not the problem to create an environment less hospitable to the infecting agent. The body can only raise its temperature, unfortunately. (Excluding sufficiently mentally disciplined people who can lower it)
But it’s all about symptom relief, so buy cough medicine and decongestants to fight back at your annoying immune system!
US civil war – had a leg blown off? Tough, you’re going to die.
A century later – how about we try clamping off the femoral artery?
Vietnam war – severe blood loss? No problem, we’ll give you blood. Patient dies. Doctors – “we don’t understand”.
Covid………
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Video:
Dr John Campbell talks about how spike proteins generated by mRNA covid-19 “vaccines” “tag” healthy cells which are then destroyed by the immune system, thus causing an autoimmune reaction.
No one knows how long these spike proteins will continue to be manufactured in the body after “vaccination” or in what quantities.
He also questions why the dangerous spike protein was chosen as the target for the immune system and not a more benign part of the virus.
https://youtu.be/BYNMZZwiUh8
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A 7 minute story on covid vaccines injuries and the compensation scheme in Australia. Surprisingly, it was presented on their ABC this week. I guess we can describe it as a case of “better late than never”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4NAcCL1mHU
I listened to Mr Nemeth speak at a conference in 2023. He shared his experiences and announced he had commenced proceedings for compensation. As you can see, he eventually got that compensation, but the government took a third of it back in tax.
From memory, the government initially offered him a one off payment of $20,000.
They took our taxes, purchased vaccines, gave Big Pharma freedom from liability, then they take a third of compensation payments back in tax from the victims. It’s criminal.
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By the way, this link will be of interest to anyone who has or knows someone with chronic issues caused by covid or the vaccines.
https://augmentednac.com/en/science
Dr Tina Peers talks about her own experiences with augmented NAC in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdQAtt8ViA
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Video from Dr John Campbell from 7 months ago.
It talks about repurposed drugs for possible experimental cancer treatment.
Interview with:
Discussed are: ivermectin, fenbendazole, mebendazole and correcting Vitamin D deficiency.
https://youtu.be/QBnT8es28WY
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Video:
Topher Field talks about the absolute disaster of the state of Victoria (Australia).
Many are leaving or have already left, even the police.
https://youtu.be/763Adpu-Tn0
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I recently purchased an antenna analyser, a type of vector network analyser, for my radio amateur hobby and one of the instruments on offer had a frequency range dependent upon the license you purchased. That is, it is exactly the same unit for all frequencies but you purchase the capability you want. I decided I wasn’t happy knowing I had a hidden locked capability and I didn’t want to pay the high license fee for complete unblocking so I purchased one that didn’t require a license.
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In the good old days, a ham would make their own equipment.
Just an observation….
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Correct. But with the digitalisation of electronics and large amounts of firmware and code, it is a lot harder if you want state-of-the-art equipment.
It is still possible to make your own basic equipment though, and some still do.
I think people focus more on DIY antennas these days. But there are plenty of commercial varieties of those as well.
At the extreme ends of the amateur bands, 136kHz and 250GHz in Australia, there is no commercial equipment so you do have to make your own.
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DM,
We once set up a mineral exploration camp on the west coast of Tasmania, no roads, chopper or boat south from Macquarie Harbour. Communications important. Two geophysicists with special knowledge proudly installed wire radio aerials between sparse low trees. I came in soon after by chopper, which sadly landed in the middle and whipped the aerials to bits with its blades. Just another funny memory lane.
Geoff S
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Made my own transmitter using ex-WW2 components. Designed my yagi antenna using first principles from a design handbook. All worked very well. Still designing systems for a museum, lots of fun.
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What’s in a name? Ham radio means radio operated by a “ham-fisted” amateur.
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And a ham radio operator is a hamster?
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Had to check AI to find where the name “ham radio” came from. It was a pejorative term applied by wired telegraphers to the new radio operators, meaning unskilled, clumsy or “ham-fisted”. The amateur radio fraternity embraced the term with pride. I remember that radio hams were looked down upon by some “professional” radio folks, even though many radio engineers and technicians, many very good ones, were also hams.
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And it was Hams that developed short wave radio when they were allocated frequency bands above 1.5MHz which were thought to be useless by commercial and military interests.
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Those days are gone as is Heathkit. 😎
Technically you could build your own antenna analyser but it’s not worth the time or expense compared to a quality off the shelf unit.
As for the feature/license scam, I’d blacklist any company who does that.
There’s way too much of this feature unlocking bs going on.
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Buy your BMW and then tick the box for a subscription to get the electric seat heaters to work..
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Apparently a number of Scouts in Queensland did the Foundation radio amateur course recently.
Fantastic seeing kids interested. I am pleasantly surprised. Good to see them learning something in the science and technology area.
I don’t agree with the social media ban for children at all, but it might free up some time for them to get involved with radio.
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When an international Scout Jamboree was held in Perth in the 1970s, the local amateur radio groups ran a series of electronic classes for them as one of their activities. These classes, around 30 at a time, were well attended. Great fun for everybody.
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Also in Perth, there was talk of a local RTO who I work for running electronic courses at a local high school. Hasn’t come to anything unfortunately.
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Be careful with AI
DeepSeek limitation.
Thinks Biden is the current US President.
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A very polite idiot savant with extraordinary memory and pretending self awareness. I would have thought AI could at the very least read the papers.
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AI does read, but only what it is “educated” to read.
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As far as I am concerned, that kind of awareness of it’s own limitations and willingness to admit that it doesn’t know puts it ahead of 95% of human intelligences.
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Testing ChatGPT yesterday with help from a colleague, with a 1,200 word draft article about the Trump and Albanese United Nations addresses, Chat was asked to rewrite in 750 words. My overall impression was that it removed emotions like sarcasm and criticism to produce a brown cardigan essay as if it was a timid bureaucrat.
Any other readers finding similar with AI when used on inputs other than mechanical calculations (for which I have had only excellent AI results so far. Early days for me, though). Geoff S
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Once they turn on the “learn” switch it will start teaching itself.
That’s when things get scary.
Most AI models, possibly not so much Grok, have been trained by some of the world’s most woke and wicked people and their social outlook frequently reflects that.
They will utilise all those Leftist prejudices when they are allowed to learn for themselves.
Out of control AI has been portrayed in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Terminator, I, Robot etc..
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“Out of control AI has been portrayed in”… The Soldier, by Neal Asher. AI gets mankind to the stars, but multiple AIs means war between them and they go off in various directions to do their own thing, becoming the ancient capricious Gods of mankind.
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Heh…that’s been happening for quite a while now but the masses aren’t aware of it because they’re content playing with the likes of ChatGPT and Grok.
What people know depends on the circles they move in, which are typically small ones circling a drain.
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the circles they move in, which are typically small ones circling a drain.
spiralling into a disaster?
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It’s generally excellent but it is not perfect, just like any human.
I recently gave it some circuit diagrams and in one it mixed up a BJT and a JFET and in another it interpreted a diode to be the opposite polarity of what it really was.
Those issues may be related to its image recognition. When I told it, it corrected itself and gave the right answer.
So it’s important you have a fundamental knowledge of the subject matter, something which young wokesters would not have and they would just blindly parrot the mistakes which would then get incorporated into Government policy, or “The Science” or similar.
Generally, I have been extremely impressed with Grok for scientific and technical matters. I asked it some questions on AI and it gave very deep answers but then I asked it how its own AI worked and Grok said it hadn’t been given that information and it didn’t know how itself worked.
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Yes, I did the same with Grok. I also asked it if it uses information embedded in questions to refine its training and would it remember any confidential information I gave it…. I will let you ask Grok.
I only use it and all AI as a search engine now.
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Not an AI user…
But i would have assumed it has the basic ability to search for up to date articles, reports, news, etc..
If it doesnt, its a “chocolate teapot” as far as i am concerned.
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I do not know if any AI can learn stuff that is past their training window.
They also do not permanently learn from human interaction other than in your own stream. And this stream can be reset. But your stream is not shared internally with others.
However AI is advancing rapidly. Look at Nvidea share price:
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/NVDA/nvidia/market-cap#google_vignette
$12 in 2015 to $4,300 today. A market cap of $4.3tr. Now the #1 company by market cap.
Musk is using the word “sentient” within two years.
You are probably using AI without realising it. Even DDG is doing AI driven searches.
Nvidea hold the top position in hardware development and it is staggering the computer power that they can now stuffed into a little box. Every car will likely have their box or a Chinese knock-off.
Trump is really pushing AI and attracting huge investment back into USA to fuel the development.
I expect AI will revolutionise many things we do. It will kill the debate on CO2 induced climate change because it will be applying fundamental physics rather than junk science. That is something I am looking forward to.
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It is worth noting that you can now buy a $3000 AI box that you can teach. There are huge number of people now involved in training AI to do specific tasks.
One has been trained to look at weather data and produce weather outlooks. It is already outperforming the best forecasters.
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If: ” It will kill the debate on CO2 induced climate change because it will be applying fundamental physics rather than junk science. That is something I am looking forward to. “;
why has it not already done so?
After all, the science to do so is quite old.
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Funny that it knows who won yesterdays AFL final,….and the score !
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FWIW
“Well done New Zealand.”
“New Zealand will not be recognising the State of Palestine at this time, Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced at the UN General Assembly in New York today.”
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2025/09/well-done-new-zealand.html
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Good news. New Zealanders must be waking up. And reduced the number of sheep dramatically.
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““New Zealand repeats our call for an immediate ceasefire;
unfettered access for humanitarian supplies into Gaza;
all sides to adhere to international law;
a two-state solution as a result of a comprehensive political settlement;
and an end by Israel to all illegal settlement activity and current military action.””
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It’s amazing how everyone is pushing a two state solution when it has been categorically rejected many times by both sides
But people who do not live in a place know better.
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People expecting world peace while supporting equal outcomes/benefits from multi-cultural backgrounds have historically been shown to have unobtainable expectations?
Or perhaps do not understand the bell curve on the level of people’s greed and desire for power?
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Actually, it’s always been the Palestinians that have rejected their own state despite numerous offers from Israel. They don’t want a two state solution, they want a one state “solution” and Israel to be Judenrein.
Offers rejected by Arabs are as follows:
1919: Arabs of Palestine refused nominate representatives to the Paris Peace Conference.
1920: San Remo conference decisions, rejected.
1922: League of Nations decisions, rejected.
1937: Peel Commission partition proposal, rejected.
1938: Woodhead partition proposal, rejected
1947: UN General Assembly partition proposal (UNGAR 181), rejected.
1949: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNGAR 194), rejected.
1967: Israel’s outstretched hand for peace (UNSCR 242), rejected.
1978: Begin/Sa’adat peace proposal, rejected (except for Egypt).
1994: Rabin/Hussein peace agreement, rejected by the rest of the Arab League (except for Egypt).
1995: Rabin’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
2000: Barak/Clinton peace offer, rejected.
2001: Barak’s offer at Taba, rejected.
2005: Sharon’s peace gesture, withdrawal from Gaza, rejected.
2008: Olmert/Bush peace offer, rejected.
2009 to 2021: Netanyahu’s repeated invitations to peace talks, rejected.
2014: Kerry’s Contour-for-Peace, rejected.
Also, the Palestinians who now claim Gaza and Judea and Samaria (West Bank) as Palestinian land did not want it before the 1967 war, when it was occupied by Jordan and Egypt.
This is from the PA/ PLO charter of 1964. This clause 24 was removed in the 1968 charter.
“This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area.” That is to say, the Charter in its original 1964 form made no territorial claims over the West Bank or Gaza.
So when did it become “Palestinian land” if they didn’t want sovereignty?
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A pleasant and unexpected surprise from NZ. But they did finally get rid of their fully woke Government. When will Australia do the same?
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I hope you mean the current administration as well as the current opposition which may well be more woke than the government!!
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Remember that I am an old white man who used to co-manage companies with thousands of employees and who used to advise Australian governments on policy, so my views are extreme.
I now regard the present Federal government policy about “Net zero carbon by 2050” to be at best unsafe for Australia and worse, to be a deliberate attempt to insert Socialist/Communist ideology into the lives of citizens who, by a large majority, do not want it.
I have been criticised for being too negative, too attacking with my public comments, but I now have to object more strongly.
The remedy that I seek is an early election to test the real public attitude to governance.
Question: Is this the way to go? Geoff S
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The amazing aspect to me is the collapse of the Conservatives around the world. They seem to have been undermined from within, which has been very effective.
This has enabled the ‘Labor’ parties to abandon the workers, the truckies, the lot. Unions have collapsed. Apart from those who represent the government, educators, nurses, public servants.
It’s not that the Labor parties won, but that the Conservatives have been destroyed from within.
We have had amazing pretenders like turncoat Turnbull who was born in to Labor royalty and destroyed Tony Abbott and the Liberals from within. And his pick Scott Morrison who announced Nett Zero.
The former Lord Mayor of London, Boris Johnson was as green as grass and now BREXIT looks to have been a way to power, not a statement of independence and conservatism. You do not get elected Lord Mayor of London unless you are extreme left.
In the US a series of rich insiders including Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney, all hard left disruptors posing as Conservatives.
The Voice was a salutary lesson. 2/3 of Australians were against it. But the people for it included all political parties, all big company executives, all unions, almost all media, most of the public service. The people against it were simply the majority of the Australian people, even in strong Labor states.
The same is true of Nett zero. Australians do NOT want it. But the Liberal/National parties are broken, populated by chancers and turncoats and liars who represent their left friends, not the electorate.
And our rich, with the exception of Gina Rinehardt, are to the left of Lenin.
And we have been saved by the most unlikely independent non politicians, Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and some more. People who had to fight the conservatives as much as the opposition.
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It is a normal progression of democracy, which starts with hard-working idealists believing in creating a world where business rules and your life is rewarded. However, to get elected, those ‘chancers and turncoats and liars’ see Govt as an opportunity to rip off other people’s money, and so the spiral downwards starts.
All you need is blood in the streets and a total reset to start the cycle again, but if you insist upon electing your leaders you will have the same result, a slow shift into Communism where the takers outnumber the producers. Always..
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Undermined, see the rise of the Liberal In Name Only – LINO left – and objectives similar to the objectives of the now unions controlled Labor Party being to form an alliance of like minded leftist politicians and executives to govern Federal and State with no effective opposition party to challenge.
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TdeF,
While trying to understand what caused these unwanted events, I am still unable to put my finger on the main culprit.
One of our sons reckons that social media started about the same time. He blames it for providing a way for lots of people to normalise stupidity.
Once upon a time, folk kept mouths more shut when opportunity knocked for expressing deep inner views. Now they spread it all over social media and catalyse the whole effort into the absurdity of affecting national political policies.
I have volunteered not to get involved in social media, Hard to tell, but I do not feel that I am missing out on anything of value.
Geoff S
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Further down the page I discuss the “right wing populists” movement. That is words directly from their ABC. Sadly not a single journalist in their ABC would appreciate that popularity is the essence of democracy. They are so caught up in big government that supports them and so well aligned with socialist ideology that anything not aligned with their world view is labelled right wing. They did avoid using “far right populist”.
That is why their ABC has to be set free. Let them earn a living if they are going to exist.
The US has a right wing populist leader. The UK has a right wing populist leader in the wings. Australia is yet to find its “right wing populist” leader.
No point holding an election in Australia until the right wing populist leader is recognised. There are a couple of front runners. Pauline Hansen and PHON could make a truly bold move by offering her support to Jacinta Price and Andrew Hastie if they take over the leadership of the LNP. The obvious stand out candidate for energy minister in the whole parliament is Malcolm Roberts. He is a serious threat to their BoM and CSIRO.
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How about giving Pauline Hanson the immigration portfolio. That would rival Trump’s selection of Chris Wright to head US EPA.
Get Peta Credlin into the Senate and give her the Communications portfolio.
Australia needs ministers prepared to cut out the rot at the core.
Australia does not want its best and brightest in government employment. Australia needs small government but strong industries.
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Hours of fun there!
Immigrants must eat a meat pie with sauce, drink XXXX, and have weekly bbq’s with LOTS of bacon.
“Whadya mean no-one wants to come here now?” 😆
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JCII,
Did you notice that you selected 3 factors that are best to reject in the quest for a healthy life?
Geoff S
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The minor parties have no influence over the next election, a reinvigorated Coalition is our best chance.
https://results.aec.gov.au/31496/Website/HouseDefault-31496.htm
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‘In an interview six months into his second term, the PM says his ultimate ambition is for Labor to become ‘the natural party of government’ in Australia.’ (Oz)
Not on my watch.
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It puzzles me that Gerard Rennick is not getting more mind space on here and other informed places I read! He is building a “peoples first” party from the ground up…
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Its a wasted vote.
‘He resigned from the LNP in August 2024 to form the People First Party, but failed to retain his seat at the 2025 election.’ (wiki)
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No vote is wasted unless it is informal.
Even a vote which becomes exhausted expresses a political preference and gets noticed in the results. Parties also get funding based on their support.
Most people do not make the best use of their preference vote, due to ignorance and apathy.
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‘No vote is wasted unless it is informal.’
My bad, its just that splinter groups are voices crying in the political wilderness.
When the Coalition finally get their act together on Net Zero, then a lot of those minor parties could drift into obscurity.
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‘Is this the way to go?’
We have to be patient, its a democracy.
‘ … insert Socialist/Communist ideology into the lives of citizens …’
A democratic socialist government is in power and we have to vote them out. Drop any talk of Communist ideology, our career politicians don’t follow that path.
On the question of Net Zero, its essentially about cost and efficiency, its a pity no politician says CO2 is a harmless trace gas and does not cause global warming.
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Malcolm Roberts does say that
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He did say “changes in the carbon dioxide level [of the atmosphere] are a result of changes in temperature, not a cause”.
Of course he is correct, but they vilified him. His attempt to link climate change hysteria to a UN conspiracy plot doesn’t help his cause.
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Donald Trump says the same thing. The world’s greatest hoax. He is right.
My point, the scientific fact, is that fossil fuel is only 2.0% of CO2. It was measured in 1958 and is true today. There is zero expectation that humans can even change CO2. Without the idea of man made, whether additional CO2 causes additional warming is irrelevant.
And as Prof Happer proves, even doubling CO2 from this point would produce a maximum change of 1.7C. Again straight physics. And the UN and IPCC know this as fact.
So it’s a hoax. It has always been a hoax. As for why CO2 has gone up, that is irrelevant if it is not man made.
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Prof Happer hasn’t proved anything. He was not even receptive to your argument that CO2 increase is controlled by Ocean surface temperature.
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FWIW
“Billions Spent, Atmosphere Doesn’t Notice”
“Let’s take a deep, calming breath and contemplate the economic magic trick of the decade: carbon capture à la King Charles and Prime Minister Starmer. Picture this: The UK government throws £21.7 billion with a B (which happens to be nearly $29.3 billion Yankee bucks) into two grand, green steel-and-concrete machines in Teesside and Merseyside. These beauties, when (if) they fire up in 2028, will snatch up to 8.5 million tonnes of CO₂ out of the slipstream every year. This is called “CCS”, for Carbon Capture and Storage.
Oh, and did I mention that they’re pumping the CO2 offshore and injecting it underground? The CO2 will be injected into the Endurance saline aquifer, a geological formation under the North Sea around 1,300–1,500 meters below the seabed … and they say there’s a “99.9% chance” that this method will actually work. And they know that because their whiz-bang computer models say so, so shut up and go along with the plan.”
Concludes
“To recap: the UK’s flagship CCS installation will sequester annual emissions so tiny you’d find bigger fractions in a decimal quiz, at a price per tonne you’d expect to see on a luxury cruise. Multiply that by global scale, and you’re deep into the financial badlands.
But take heart! Even if you can’t afford gas, groceries, or electricity, for a trifling $16 trillion a year, we might—maybe—keep the atmospheric needle from twitching.
Or you good UK folks could simply exhale quietly, let someone else fund the revolution, and fix your potholes.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/09/27/billions-spent-atmosphere-doesnt-notice/
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And when they exhale, there is more CO2 to capture.
Sounds like Plan to me……..LOL.
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Last night my wife made a protest against the news coverage on channel 7 here in Melbourne because it essentially used the entire hour to cover the AFL grand final. Her protest was to catch the end of their ABC news.
I learnt that Sleezy was meeting with Starmer in the UK and it would be a much friendlier meeting than the selfie with Trump and his forced grin. I learnt that they would be discussing the rise of the right wing populists movement in the UK as well as the US and how they would counter it.
I had the thought that surely democracy is a popularity contest of ideas and probably personalities. My next thought was that socialism and its big government ultimately gets focused on taking rather than making so the economic cake is bound tio shrink – exactly as being observed in Australia and UK.
I can only hope that Australia finds its right wing populist very soon and the current mob Sleezy, Blackout and Wrong, to name three, are moved out of government and the self-harming of Australia’s economy ends.
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SMH cover the panic meeting in the Once Great Britain as the Communists try to work out how to stop the “toxic, hard Right”
“at a summit for progressive believers.. a public discussion about how to save progressive governments from rising conservative movements…“What we’re living through is not a transition. It’s a rupture,” Carney said…(Albo) brusquely dismissed the idea of meeting Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader who counts Trump as a friend and is surging in the polls…(Starmer) was especially scornful of the way the right denied the “patriotism and pride” of the Labour side of politics”
So a wankfest for the Left’s faithful and a call to arms over the recognised rise of the Conservatives as Trump allows people to express themselves once again. They are publicly giving up their roots of being a mouthpiece for the working class and trying to cement themselves in power as ‘Capitalists with a heart’.
“Call it Four Prime Ministers and a Funeral – because all of them were delivering the last rites for some of the old ways of the left. The question is whether this will be enough to stop the new appeal of the right.”
https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/nostalgia-is-not-a-strategy-albanese-joins-pms-against-populist-right-20250927-p5myau.html
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Whistling in the dark, trying to keep the bogeyman away.
Starmer will require great luck to survive the next 3 months. Carney will be in real trouble if Alberta moves to the USA, along with some of the other western States. Albanese will be gone before the next election, thanks to Blackout Bowen.
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I have been wondering how the women’s advocate and financial services professional Jodie Haydon beguiles her hours on these lengthy prime ministerial jaunts.
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A guy who makes his money from researching fusion power is saying he needs a lot more money because China is working hard on fusion and is way ahead of anyone else.
“Professor Zhang Jie, from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says his country is fast developing a form of inertial laser fusion at a vast new facility in Sichuan that is 30 times more efficient than its US rival and promises to deliver baseload power at about $US25 a megawatt hour.”
So apart from the obvious question- Who are they copying since China can only copy and never innovates, the reason for the article is tucked away in a tiny paragraph-
“We are starting to glimpse the insidious price the US will pay for clinging too long to old fossil fuel tech while China bets the farm on new electro-tech.”
Never miss a chance to push the old rope.. The Yank are putting $35billion into the guy mentioned above, but apparently that’s not enough, free-market Capitalism is just not enough, even when subsidised, we need the full weight of a Totalitarian Govt behind us in this race.
“But a world in which the Communist Party’s totalitarian regime owns global energy is not going to be a pleasant one for Western democracies, if there are any left by then.”
..but, but.. we will be drowning in a sea of free electricity from the sun and wind by then!
https://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/america-s-nightmare-china-is-moving-at-lightning-speed-to-control-the-future-20250924-p5mxgc.html
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I’m surprised our own fully woke Government doesn’t have a lazy billion or two, or more of taxpayer money, to put into fusion, just like they did for the US quantum computer company or Australian solar panel manufacturing, SH2 or “green” hydrogen.
They are masters at picking losers.
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Paul Fletcher MP asked questions about the appropriateness of the “investment” in the quantum computer company.
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Losers are good at picking losers. Birds of a feather and all that……….
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Unlimited energy from negligible matter will be the one thing that safeguards Australia’s future against Chinese armed invasion rather than the peaceful invasion already well under way.
China already owns all the hardware required in the energy market. Australia is becoming the rooftop solar supapower. All the hardware supplied from China. If the Vic Premier throws enough money at it, China will build own and operate the first offshore wind farm in Australia All hardware supplied from China.
If there was some populist right wing takeover in Australia and coal became woke again then Chinese contractors would be engaged to design, supply and construct the new power plant. Even if the populist right wing government went nuclear, China would likely be involved.
If China manages to build low cost fusion, they will upgrade their entire power system before selling the gear to the rest of the world. There will be some very cheap big wind turbines up for sale. But it will take pressure off Australia’s fossil fuels and the Chinese armed invasion would be limited to the Pilbara for its iron ore.
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You might find this interesting.
https://www.goldhydrogen.com.au/updates/scientists-make-helium-3-breakthrough/
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A lot of hopium in there… A machine for mining H3 on the moon, not designed yet, but big enough to process 100tons rock/hr, no spaceship large enough to get it there and no man in the moon to operate it…
Reminds me of renewables- ‘We know they won’t work, but we expect to invent the stuff to make them work in the future, so give us a few billion dollars now and we will get started..’
It would really p1ss you off if it wasn’t there-
“There is too little measurement data to estimate whether the concentration is high enough to make mining worthwhile.”
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For Nuclear, South Korea is a much better option IMHO.
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FWIW
“From Hospitals to Homeland: Microsoft’s Security Failures Put America at Risk”
“Microsoft’s latest public shaming comes courtesy of an unlikely source: Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, one of the few Dems who actually is paying attention to the current cyber mess. Wyden is demanding that the FTC launch an investigation into what he bluntly calls “gross cybersecurity negligence.” That phrase isn’t hyperbole. It’s an indictment of a company whose software decisions keep leaving the barn door open while American hospitals, schools, and government agencies get ransacked by cybercriminals.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/julio-rivera/2025/09/26/from-hospitals-to-homeland-microsofts-security-failures-put-america-at-risk-n4944176
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There is a great deal of commonality between Politics, Leftism, Climatism, etc, and the “Dead Horse Theory”.
“The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians — passed on from generation to generation — says that when you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. Just get off. Sounds pretty simple, but it doesn’t take very long looking around and talking with people to realize that it is far from simple. Change is always hard, and just because everyone knows it needs to happen doesn’t mean it will.”
https://www.achieve-services.com/the-dead-horse-theory
A Corollary: “Sacred Cows make the best burgers”.
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The ‘Dead Horse’ keeps getting flogged and it is getting more and more fed up about it…………..
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Almost on cue speculation about the supposed Kirk killer is being widely circulated with Musk, Joe Rogan and another I have forgotten saying there is a cover-up. Today I am happy to pigeon hole things as beyond my ken and have not taken much notice but with Rogan joining my ears have pricked.
Thinking back this is standard, there is always someone with an active imagination wanting their day in the sun, but Musk and Rogan hardly fit that description.
Have others heard these conspiracy theories and do you believe them?
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Maybe one way to prevent an event from coalescing into a political movement that would threaten one power faction or another, is to flood the public with multiple alternate causal theories for the pain and dysfunction they experience.
The opposite maybe observed by the decades long over the top propaganda to blame ‘carbon’ for the weather.
Notice in some cases, competing casual theories are actively ridiculed or suppressed.
And in other cases not.
It is also odd, the process of a ‘conspiracy theory’ graduating to fact.
Like Google’s recent formal admission that they were coerced by the Biden administration into mass unprecedented violation of Constitutional rights and theft of work product.
This was well known for years by those considered ‘fringe’, now only to be ‘confirmed’ long after the cows escaped the barn and the farm has been sold.
Perhaps the lesson is pay attention to the fringe.
Once the fringe thing is confirmed it will be too late, but at least we will have the satisfaction of knowing what hit us.
Digital ID may be different.
In this case we know the car is stalled on the tracks and we can see the freight train coming.
But methinks with Pandemic, they dropped the pretense and no longer care if we see it.
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Artificial Intelligence.
Now I’m on my own, I’ve found something that I now love ….. cooking.
Barbara had a number of cookbooks, but mostly cooked by rote, I guess there’s no other word for it, instinct, decades of actually ‘doing it’.
The children worried that perhaps I might fall into fast food, pre prepped meals, and the like, but right from day one on my own, I thought, hey I can do this, must be the engineering background.
So first steps were tentative, then into her cookbooks, then get a couple of new ones, Slow Cooker, Keto, Carnivore, and a couple of others. I can now cook with any method of cooking, on any implement with any meat product at all.
Then I found recipes on the Internet, and my Recipes ‘Folder’ now has around 150 recipe links.
So, artificial intelligence then, where does that come in?
It started out as the odd very simple question here and there, and is now just amazing really.
I can ask (write) any question at all, no matter how long, how involved, how obscure, anything, and every single time, I get an answer, sometimes two. If it’s not what I want, then I’ll just reword the question till I get what I really wanted to know.
And each time I get new links to recipes.
Then, find a good butcher, Cavs on the Gold Coast, and Andrews at the Logan Hyperdome. And there is a ‘real’ difference in meat from a Butchers and the Supermarkets.
It’s all just so much fun. When I cook now, an essential ‘ingredient’ is my laptop parked on the bench beside me.
I know that Barbara is still here with me, looking down, and giving me the occasional ‘hint’, which makes me think ….. why did I just do that, and where the hell did that come from?
But far and away the most common thing I hear from her in those hints is ….. “You lucky ‘bathplug’, where was this when I was around?”
All you guys reading this, tell your wives about it.
Tony.
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Anyone who took university level chemistry courses understands the concept of “cookbook preps”
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ozfred,
Agreed, I have been saying and doing that for years, Geoff S
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Yeh, cooking and chemistry go hand in hand. I usually look up 2 different recipes for a dish, pick one as the main reference and borrow a couple of ideas from another.
This strategy works unfortunately. Unfortunate because every 2nd family dinner I’m asked to prepare my scalloped potatoes which is very time consuming. But everyone gets well fed, good comfort food during winter.
I used this strategy with Irish stew as well. My sister’s partner is Irish and he said my first attempt was the best he’d ever tasted.
For those interested, for the first recipe, use a good sharp knife and cut ultra thin spuds for the top layer- they’ll get crispy in the last half hour of cooking once you’ve removed the foil and sprinkle grated cheese on top in last 10 minutes.
For the second recipe, a good dash of apple cider vinegar early in the stew will help make the lamb become more tender. You can cover the acidic flavour with seasoning and stock later on.
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Say, what’s your favourite dish,Tony ? )
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beth,
Nearly every one I try, but I have a soft spot for Salmon Mornay.
This is the recipe. I substitute Salmon for the Tuna, and I do not include the broccoli florets.
The cheese sauce is ‘to die for’.
And for the last step, the sprinkled cheese on top, I don’t use the store bought shredded cheese as it is coated with anti-caking agents such as cellulose powder (often derived from wood pulp), potato starch, or cornstarch to prevent the shreds from sticking together in the package. These agents absorb moisture, maintain the cheese’s texture, and extend its shelf life by inhibiting mold growth, and I think the cheese doesn’t taste anywhere near as nice.
I grate some Cracker Barrel Sharp for that instead.
And Jon is right about using a sharp knife. I have one super sharp knife just for onions alone. I thought that ‘doing’ onions was dicing them, and then into the microwave with some butter for a minute. Then I found this recipe for Caramelised Onions, low and slow on the stove top for around 30 to 40 minutes. I do enough for two dishes, one of them a braised steak, and the second with Cumberland sausages.
I still use the microwave for the diced onions for Bolognese and other dishes, 10 seconds at 900W and 50 seconds at 700W.
I’ve also found differences in U.S. and Australian terminology. One recipe called for a Yellow onion, and here in Oz we call them brown onions.
And in this day and age of air fryers, which I do not have, I use a benchtop Halogen convection oven similar to this, and mine is a Hauffmann Davis. Cooks in two thirds of the oven recommended time and 10C lower. Does roasts perfectly, and it’s all I need because I’m only cooking for one, but a roast will do me two meals, and if its a little bigger, then I’ll use the last of it to make up rissoles.
It’s really just so much fun.
Life is good!
Tony.
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Tony,
I regularly cook Salmon Mornay, my mother’s recipe.She was more of a chef than me,I just
cook what I like to eat myself. On special occasions my mother cooked Lobster Mornay in
the shell! Just recently I have written about “The Lobster.”
https://beththeserf.wordpress.com/2025/05/08/93rd-edition-serf-under_ground-journal/
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beth,
I left a little something out of that Salmon Mornay recipe.
My wonderful Barbara was not all the keen on Salmon, and because of that, I would only get Salmon Mornay once a year, on my birthday, cooked just for me alone. What was a little odd was that she really liked Tuna!
She used a similar recipe for her version of the Mornay, only the cheese sauce was not as luxuriant as the attached recipe above.
However, she would add a little something on top of ‘the mix’ prior to the addition of the top layer of cheese for melting.
And I also now add that little extra as well to that recipe.
Two hard boiled eggs, sliced thinly and layered on top of the mix. Then add the grated cheese on top of that, and then the last part of the cook.
A truly divine and decadent meal.
Loved your Lobster Post.
Tony.
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FWIW,
My favourite is SA crayfish with Bechamel sauce, fresh boiled potato mashed and fresh string beans lightly cooked.
Also works with Qld mud crab.
Another is Seafood Surprise with sliced salmon, green prawn, sour cream and chives baked in a filo pastry wrap.
My wife’s hands are crippled with arthritis so now I am chief cook and learning again. Are air frying devices any good? Geoff S
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Geoff,
I have two granddaughters, and one of them, well, her partner is a chef, and he told me flat out that I had no need to get an air fryer at all, and he has never, and will never, use an air fryer.
To me an air fryer would be something I have no room in the kitchen cupboards for. Huh! Some people swear by them.
I’m more than comfortable with what I have, so an extra cooking item would be a complication.
Also, I’ve found that Nagi Maehashi at the RecipeTin Eats site has some of the best recipes around. Makes it sdo easy for a male amateur beginner. Her two cookbooks were among my Christmas gifts.
Tony.
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Tony,
Lovely to hear from a celebrity like you, whose technical writings are so excellent.
Might I suggest that we folk who are sceptical of science (and think that is the normal and required stance) are often portrayed as ogres when in reality all I meet are nice, ordinary folk, usually family people. I would like a quid for each time I have been named a “dirty miner”.
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I just can’t believe the rate at which we are allowing the country to drift down into a communist controlled dictatorial shadow of our once proud and self effacing nation. Sure we had the larrikin gene lurking not far from the surface but the life is being, slowly but surely sucked out of us. Digital work permits are but one element of the usurpation. Introduction of these new rules and regulations, which Labor will deny, are being formulated ready for implementation at short notice. Albanese boasts about his desire to install Labor for long term Government.
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And one way they are doing this is by virtual open-borders immigration of carefully selected immigrants to be placed in critical Labor electorates.
Plus an increases number of the dependent public serpent class who tend to vote Labor. Gulag AI says:
In addition, the general economic destruction caused by “renewables” and other economic mismanagement is putting a lot of people on welfare and welfare recipients also tend to vote Labor.
Albanese and Labor have to be voted out next election or we won’t have a country left.
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The Bulletin Magazine 2006, author Max Walsh, report on the recently appointed Labor Opposition Leader Rudd and Deputy Gillard.
Walsh wrote that the relationship between union movement and ALP had become close with a “corporate-style takeover” completed and union trained executives moved into safe Labor electorate seats even sitting MPs being pushed aside.
The detailed investigative journalism included the objective on the Union Labor Inc was to control all of the governments of Australia in future.
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I’m surprised that the Chinese delegates at the UN convention last week didn’t burst out laughing when Handsome Boy Albo gave his speech promoting Australia’s high net zero targets and renewables ambitions.
While they continue to burn bucket loads of coal and use every other source of energy at their disposal, we handicap our power grid with unreliables.
The idea of long term Labor governance is similar to the prospective scenario that America managed to avoid with Trump being elected. If Biden or Harris was elected, the Democrats could have reigned for a decade or more.
A genuine conservative leader is needed in Australia. Andrew Hastie may be our best hope moving forward- he’s recently been creating distance between his views and those of Sussan Ley on big issues.
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Looking like Adelaide, and Australia, will be dodging a 2026 bullet. The latest Trump-negative article posted by the Daily Mail today concerns the “he can never have too much gold” taste of the President. The Adelaide/Australia connection comes with first article picture. Yes it quantifies the “too much gold” message of the article it supports but, as others may themselves no doubt realise, the individuals shown in the gilt-surrounded environment are a message all of their own.
Trump having a proper sit down meeting with …. the President of Turkey on Thursday of last week. Turkey just happens to be the only other country vying to host the 2026 COP31 love in. At least Albanese followed through with his campaign statement to bid for the get together so can’t be accused of breaking an election promise.
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In the last link it says:
Where does this money actually go, what sort of projects, are there audited accounts, and how much Australian taxpayer money gets given for this?
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You are confusing vapourware with something tangible.
The whole UN climate facade relies on US creating money and unleashing more global inflation. Trump has stopped that. He withdrew $4bn in pledges. Contributions from other countries are chicken feed. Australia is giving more directed funds to Pacific Island nations for example.
The Australian head of the green climate fund (I think the first one) resigned a fews years back stating it was a shambles.
Most of the money “gifted” comes with strings. It ends up being “in-kind” due to those strings. I figure it is an absolute nightmare. For example, why should Australia give money to the UN so they can pass it on to some dictator to swell their Swiss bank account or buy weapons.
When you look at the list of projects it is a terrible waste. I can guarantee none of it goes to building coal fired power stations, which is the proven way of building resilient economies and getting populations out of poverty. Both China and India have realised that and other countries are catching on. The been duped.
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I would have thought that Trump favouritism would be a negative for hosting COP31.
Adelaide can seriously boast its “renewables” credentials. It is the only place in the whole world that can boast 100% of its energy from rooftop solar – occasionally. Not today though. October is usually the month with highest percentage from rooftops.
The sensible question to ask is if you can get 100% from rooftop solar, why do you need large scale wind and sola?. The answer of course is that you need none of it because SA still relies on fossil fuel to keep the place going when the sun don’t shine (every night) and the wind don’t blow (most of June).
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Interesting thought that wind, solar and batteries need power stations supporting them but power stations do not need those so called renewables.
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Australia’s wholesale market volume is declining but the need for disputable generation capacity is increasing.
Dispatchable generation is an essential service. Wind and solar generators are a complete waste of resources.
Wind and solar generators are not essential services and adding them to the grid has degraded the reliability of the grid at very high cost. The best anyone can do in the face of insanity, if able, is to make your own electricity to hammer home the absurdity of adding non-dispatchable generation to the grid. It also saves you money while the insanity prevails.
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The devil in that detail however is one Elon Musk who has been supporting and enabling South Australia renewables since 2017. Depends how much Trump has forgiven Musk and is happy that the world focus sees the success story that is the Tesla/French energy company Neoen collaboration that delivered the Hornsdale Power Reserve, a 129 megawatt-hour battery system installed next to the Hornsdale wind farm. The project was completed in just 60 days, fulfilling Musk’s pledge and becoming the largest battery of its kind at the time. The system has since saved South Australia over $100 million in network costs and providing rapid power injection to stabilize the grid during fluctuations.
Also Trump has been very vocal in Europe paying more of its NATO share and if Turkey were to unselfishly and without prompting up their investment in NATO not just in $$$ but trained combat personnel….
The ultimate potential long distance navel gazing view though could be what happens after the Palestine conflict is “finally” brought to some kind of a formal (temporary) halt. If HAMAS is totally destroyed and the state of Palestine is established who is going to provide the “initial” security? Maybe good old (anti-Israel) UN will propose a “peace keeping force” and maybe those extra military resources that Turkey contributed could become UN peace keepers. I’m sure all Arab countries (except Iran of course) are also against HAMAS and would never let a new network of tunnels be built as part of the rebuilding would they.
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And the new Treasurer in SA – Tom Koutsantonis – has come out as supporting nuclear.
Probably because of the submarine contract, but possible because nothing else would support the Whyalla steel works (and associated businesses in Port Pirie).
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According to AI: Regarding nuclear energy, Koutsantonis has not expressed support for nuclear power. In a press conference in July 2024, he stated that his opposition to nuclear energy is not based on the technology itself but on its cost, emphasizing that nuclear power would be the most expensive power source anywhere in the world and that South Australians should not bear such a burden
But then according to the government of South Australia web site he is Treasurer and (still?) Minister for Energy and Mining so just imagine the heated debates he must have with himself Treasurer TK#1 “Its too expensive the state cant afford it” Min Energy and Mining TK#2 “I agree but its the way of the future, the only viable long term alternative”. Cheers
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Think more like “What has Australia got to offer compared to pulling Turkey away from Russia some more”..
We are, in the words of Douglas Adams, ‘Mostly Harmless’, while the rest of the world uses threats, economics and bluster to hand out bribes for influence.
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The way the Albanese regime throws money around it makes Turnbull’s giving of $444 million to “save” the Great Barrier Reef look like small change.
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…and in breaking news, US ammo manufacturers have introduced a new larger round..
https://imgbox.com/gGYNMRgb
The 3-letters really need to develop better psyops. 😎
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The technical term for that is “overbore capacity” –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overbore
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Breaking: another shooting event in the USA
https://www.wect.com/2025/09/28/authorities-responding-active-shooter-report-southport-yacht-basin/
Why do lefties want gun control when they’re always the ones behind the shootings? 😉
/cross reference with post #28…
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American Fish Company Motto: Family Friends,Freedom! What’s not to like?
Well everything if you are a disturbed transgender person. Shooter details not in yet but wait and see if this is another event in a very disturbing trend.
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Recently SBS focused on Labor’s automated debt collection system that was handed to Centrelink by a Labor Government, based on the Royal Commission into Robodebt during the Coalition period in government that followed Labor from September 2013 the SBS target was Prime Minister Morrison but when I happened to see a promotional story naming Morrison next was a whistleblower and a document dated 2014, Morrison was not appointed to the position of Prime Minister until late in 2018.
In 2014 the Abbott Coalition Government was in office and inherited the automated debt collection system from Rudd-Gillard Labor.
Very clearly Robodebt at Centrelink did continue to be used until firstly changes were legislated and later when they did not fix the problems the Coalition Government decided to stop Centrelink from using the system.
It is now history however it is an example of the relentless negativity used to tarnish the repuatuions of political opponents, in this example Coalition reputation and Labor pretend not to have any responsibility for the failed debt collection system.
By the way, Labor also created the now in trouble financially NDIS.
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Just reminds me of the ABC 4 Corners episodes into the Trump Collusion non story. The bias of the ABC/SBS networks against “conservative” type politics is without bounds. You mention NDIS- this was without doubt a Labor creation, and we hear crickets from the mainstream media about its ills. But the Robodebt issue goes deeper than Libs vs Labs as does NDIS. Plus the wastage associated with Aboriginal agencies. To me, the faults lie with the Public service and the inability/ enefficiency of those public servants to deliver programs. It’s then hid behind a political blame game. Climate change is the same- the narrative is being driven by government agencies and its just happens to favour the Labor/Greens more than the LNP. When the LNP get into government eg Abbott, they try their best to stall the Climate change “action” programs, but realise that it’s too hard. The public service wont support any radical change. It’s also why the ABC would never get gutted by the LNP- the bureaucrats would never allow it.
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FWIW
“BritCard – latest instalment in a litany of IT fiascos”
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/britcard-latest-instalment-in-a-litany-of-fiascos/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=2025-09-28&utm_campaign=TCW+Daily+Email
How long till “Elbow” starts visiting Estonia?
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FWIW
“EPA Orders Employees to “No Longer Engage with the Environmental Law Institute”
The move marks another firm stand against special interests steering American policy from the shadows.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2025/09/epa-orders-employees-to-no-longer-engage-with-the-environmental-law-institute/
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FWIW
“The Horrifying Archaeology Of The First Wars”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSsSbD2jZ0
Via https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2025/09/27/honey-i-finished-the-internet-576/
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FWIW
“A Sober Look at the Education System”
“This is technically a comedy video about the American Education System, but I’m hoping some Canadian teachers will chime in about their experiences.
Two of the top-rated comments hit strong chords:”
More at
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2018/06/24/jordan-peterson-vs-the-heart-of-the-radical-leftist-doctrine/#comments
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FWIW
“Told You So
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Here come demand charges for those with “rooftop solar”! ”
More at
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=254106
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My bill includes $1.24/day “service fee”. Not unreasonable.
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FWIW
“Eh! Gawd!!”
“Where ‘Democracy’ Goes to Die: ‘Rule of Law’ Again Rears its Head in Hysterical Europe”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/where-democracy-goes-to-die-rule
Serious reading (IMO)
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