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A few days ago I posted a satirical ai video about starmer.
This one is a parody of the EU.
Obviously made by men with an eye for pretty women but it makes good points. Has anyone seen any high quality satirical AI pieces about climate?
If not high time someone used this medium
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFtlB3RLkUU&list=RDrFtlB3RLkUU&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
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This Satire is banned for being realistic.
The Muslim Chairman of the BBC is planning to ban Islamophobia within the BBC, by sacking the 208 individuals employed by the BBC, calling for an investigation into institutional anti-Semitism at the BBC.
The Muslim run Home Office is planning to outlaw Islamophobia in England, by introducing the Britkarte, a compulsory ID Card for Islamophobia sufferers. After the Labour Government introduces the Britkarte, any fear expressed by Jewish people towards Islam will be illegal, and additional police assets would be deployed immediately to round up Islamophobia sufferers, and put them in concentration camps.
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.
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Thanks! Great watch
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unable to locate the heir Starmer vid any chance you can be date specific or republish please?
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I asked if there had been any climate related AI videos and found this one about our favourite former school truant
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RmOB7MUMdjI&list=RDRmOB7MUMdjI&start_radio=1&pp=oAcB
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Mass slaughter of cattle causes French riots
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/12/16/depopulation-vaccination-and-movement-restrictions-cow-covid-measures-spark-revolt-in-france/
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Get the CSIRO onto the job.They do research in other countries, and it is in Australia’s best interests if such diseases can be stopped before they get here.
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Has anyone in Oz been forced to reveal their age in order to access any platform
https://reclaimthenet.org/substack-imposes-digital-id-checks
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I’m not on any Social Media and Jo here hasn’t asked for my age.
This site does ask me if I am a Human though. A tough question.
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That rules out quite a lot of politician waffling here.
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Actually, it doesn’t.
It (Cloudflare anyway) “checks the security of your connection” which probably means scans the last 20 sites you visited in case you’re a bot.
A “select all squares with lying politicians” captcha would be better.
Just check ’em all! 😁
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Two articles in my MSN news feed today. Should we trust the science?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/an-atlantic-ocean-shift-sparks-exceptionally-fast-sea-level-rise-endangering-135-million-americans/ss-AA1Ssk4A?-ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=69417a21babc4a03b55052df80d03d33&ei=90
https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/scientists-walk-back-climate-alarmism-as-new-data-shows-oceans-accelerating-global-cooling/ss-AA1Ssogi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=69417a21babc4a03b55052df80d03d33&ei=94
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msn doesn’t work for me, so where exactly is this accelerating global cooling?
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Always trust science but be wary of imitators.
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So I’ve seen a few Ozzian political leaders commenting on the tragedy.
Good Lord.
I would like to say …
climate diversity is our strength.
No organic molecule is illegal.
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To Give a Hint to Labor PM Albanese, Labor Treasurer Chalmers, Labor Foreign Minister Wong, Labor Home Affairs Burke the Depth of the Problem for the Future
From the Wall Street Journal today (Thanks, The Australian for the subscription including WSJ)
The West Needs to Open Its Eyes to Honor Killing Women killed for moral or religious transgressions are subsumed under the ‘domestic violence’ rubric.
Dutch prosecutors last month requested prison sentences of up to 25 years for a father and his two sons accused of murdering 18-year-old Ryan Al Najjar, a Syrian refugee, in an apparent honor killing in the Netherlands.
The men allegedly drowned Ryan in a lake last year after she began to live as many of her Dutch peers do: choosing her own clothes, spending time with classmates, and forming a relationship with a boy. Her brothers are on trial, and both have pleaded not guilty.
Her father fled to Syria and will be tried in absentia.
Digital messages and DNA evidence underpin prosecutors’ claim that her father directed the killing and her brothers carried it out.
The alleged motive isn’t ambiguous: Ryan’s ordinary assimilation into Dutch norms was treated as an intolerable breach of family honor.
The sequence reveals a blind spot in Western risk-assessment frameworks. Domestic-violence models assume gradual escalation and individual actors.
The Al Najjar case also illustrates a larger structural challenge within Western immigration systems.
Asylum and refugee pathways increasingly admit families without meaningful examination of whether the social codes they carry align with the civic expectations of the host society.
The assumption that integration happens automatically—and that cultural conflicts dissolve upon contact with liberal norms—has proved overly optimistic.
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Albanese and co squirm like worms trying to escape the daylight after being exposed for the craven cowards they are. The problem is they have sufficient seats in Parliament to ride us into submission
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I think I’m starting to understand the opposition’s cunning plan.
Albanese defines himself as someone who “fights Tories”; he doesn’t say he’s *for* anything, he just fights Tories.
By depriving him of any “Tories” to fight, the LNP have exposed him for the hollow creature he is.
The tiny flaw in this plan is that we see they are just as hollow.
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Maybe we can get all these pollies who “fight for us” to fight each other in a ring.
The loser gets dumped from politics and the winner gets sent to the country they’re standing with.
Kill 2 turds with one stone.
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It is
If you stop funding the peanuts they will have to leave. We are paying a group to do little more than to travel around searching for a selfie to promote their image. Representation should be a community service and not a career for trash from the Arts / Law faculty.
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” Representation should be a community service and not a career for trash from the Arts / Law faculty.”
Absolutely! They shouldn’t get paid at all, if they are sufficiently popular people will toss in a dollar or two to keep them alive.
Same with tax! Completely voluntary, if you want police, pay tax for them, if you want roads, just tick that box and send a cheque in. Don’t tell me what we have is democracy!
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Only oligarchs would get into Parliament, that might be a shade undemocratic.
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Not at all, a popular man for the working class would have tens of thousands of people willing to give up $5, while there are far fewer rich people to get donations from. That is always the balance in politics.
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Labor Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong finally emerged (From a Hamas Tunnel?) into daylight after 3 Days to say Nothing!
“Consistently, the government, the Prime Minister, all ministers, including I, have been very clear about the unacceptable anti-Semitism in our society. I’ve made that public statement many times. But as I said to you at the outset of this interview, we all have to do more, and I accept that.”
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IT is such a despicable creature!
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FWIW
Chiefio has a look around Europe –
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/12/14/wefies-eu-leaders-uk-want-war-empire-take-any-money-out-now/#comment-180177
And
“EU “sanctions” Swiss & German Citizens – no Hope for Me in the EU”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2025/12/16/eu-sanctions-swiss-german-citizens-no-hope-for-me-in-the-eu/
So travel carefully if you have posted here
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Chiefio does have the habit sometimes of exaggeration. This is one of those times
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FWIW – Willi E. has a look
“Scammers Are Gonna Scam, Regardless”
“Folks ask why I describe climate alarmism as a “grift”, a lovely English word meaning a swindle. I describe it that way because it’s making people rich while accomplishing nothing.
Here’s one example among hundreds. California’s CO2 “Cap And Trade” program, recently renamed the “Cap-And-Invest” program, is now primarily a multi‑billion‑dollar revenue machine whose costs land squarely on consumers while delivering meaningless reductions in greenhouse gases. Politicians, not the planet, are the clear winners.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2025/12/16/scammers-are-gonna-scam-regardless/
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Bondi Terrorist awakes from coma under armed police guard (protection?). To date no charges laid but I bet the first thing he will say is “where’s my Lawyer” and “No Comment”
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A Syrian who served in the Israeli military.
Shooting people is normal in my country and if you don’t let me go you’re a racist.
Oopsy! Not the UK. Just yet.
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I assume the first thing he will say is
“NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!”
He was really counting on martyrdom and getting his 72 virgins. Now he’s going to get Soup Kitchen’d by Dirty Mike and the Boys in prison.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FkK8ZFE7Y0
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Funny how nobody ever explains what the virgins have to gain.
Perhaps … oh no … perhaps it’s a bit of a fib.
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… and what about the non-martyrs? Do they have to spend eternity watching their wives and daughters getting railed by martyrs, only to be magically re-virginalized each night to repeat the cycle (and yes, they really do believe that the 72 virgins are eternal virgins who have their hymens restored after each ‘pleasuring’ of their martyr).
Personally, the idea of only having sex with virgins for the rest of eternity does not appeal to me. While there is no such thing as bad sex, first-time sex is without a doubt on the lower end of the enjoyment spectrum.
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Their “reward” is the fact that they are there in “paradise” and not already in hell.
The story goes that females are in the majority in hell because of their ingratitude toward their husbands despite the good treatment they receive from them. The story further goes that women are considered deficient in intelligence and religious commitment hence the testimony of two women is equivalent to that of one man.
So, in summary they are saved from hell and placed in paradise so they can go through a worse hell over and over again.
And if you think you have heard a similar story you are right. Prometheus, giver of fire to mankind, was punished for this act by being chained to a rock and an eagle would eat out his liver by day. Overnight the liver grew back again and next day the feasting continued anew.
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Yeah, but they get a hellava lot more sex than the women in hell..
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Can’t remember!
Dan’s response.
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FWIW – Hmmm!
From outside
“Bondi Beach hero helped disarm terrorist before police mistakenly shot him: report”
https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/world-news/second-bondi-beach-hero-helped-disarm-shooters-before-police-mistakenly-shot-him-report/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_social_post_id=624125441&utm_social_handle_id=17469289&utm_source=twitter
https://x.com/iowahawkblog/status/2000943344801997161
Via https://instapundit.com/762912/#disqus_thread
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Not helpful to propagate lies
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Actually, the video in this report suggests there’s a good amount of truth to it. Description of “pummeling” in the New York Post article might be an exaggeration. But seems the guy was punched. And at least shot at by police, if not shot.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15384629/Moment-hero-confronts-Bondi-gunman-kicks-rifle-away-shot-police-set-bystanders-mistook-one-shooters.html
Note that it is referring to the guy who ran onto the bridge. Not the heroic guy who jumped the 50 yr old shooter and wrestled away his gun.
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Despite $30 – 40 billion of investment into GenAI, a surprising 95 percent of organisations are getting zero return.
Generative AI (“GenAI”) is a type of artificial intelligence (“AI”) that creates new content – such as text, images, music, or code – by learning patterns from existing data.
It powers tools like ChatGPT, DALL·E and Google Gemini.
The company gets excited about AI. Leadership mandates AI adoption. Everyone starts using AI tools. Productivity metrics look great initially. Then something breaks, or needs modification, or requires actual judgment, and nobody knows what to do anymore.
The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write. Product managers can’t explain decisions they didn’t make. Leaders can’t defend strategies they didn’t develop. Everyone’s pointing at their AI tools, saying, “It told me this was the right approach.”
https://mlq.ai/media/quarterly_decks/v0.1_State_of_AI_in_Business_2025_Report.pdf
As I said, the bubble is going to burst. It’s a fad, not real AI.
Tens of trillions of $ will go south faster than an election promise.
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Reminds me of the dot-com bubble that burst in the 90s. A lot of investors were betting a lot of money on companies that had no existing revenue stream and were spending tons of money based on future revenue projections. Most of them lost their shirts. But a few of them just took a haircut, weathered the storm, and then exploded to become pillars of the tech industry (Amazon being the biggest one).
Someone is going to win the AI race, and that company will become the Amazon of AI. A few others will survive as niche offerings. The rest will lose everything (or be bought out) and cease to exist.
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As I’ve said, AI will be the winner.
AGI by 2028, ASI shortly after.
Even lowly chatbots and agents can create a computer language based on input description.
Soon we won’t be able to understand our creations but they will understand us all too well.
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“Someone is going to win the AI race, and that company will become the Amazon of AI. A few others will survive as niche offerings. The rest will lose everything (or be bought out) and cease to exist.”
Nah, they will just ask the first AI to write the coding for an AI…”
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Mirriam-Webster’s word of the year 2025
On Sunday, Merriam-Webster announced that “slop” is its 2025 Word of the Year, reflecting how the term has become shorthand for the flood of low-quality AI-generated content that has spread across social media, search results, and the web at large. The dictionary defines slop as “digital content of low quality that is produced usually in quantity by means of artificial intelligence.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/merriam-webster-crowns-slop-word-of-the-year-as-ai-content-floods-internet/
Just need an acronym for “political schemes of low quality produced by humans of low intelligence” for 2026.
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JC….how about “PLOP” ??
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How about…
Can
Rats
Actually
Pontificate
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Pathetic !…
What has happened to creativity in language ? Instead of recycling an existing word, try to be creative and make a new one instead……such as “dAIrrhea”
(“SLOP”..is what you feed to pigs)
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‘Slop’ was an existing word before AI’ though with a similar meaning. I used it for anything mawkish and rubbishy and not worth wasting time reading/listening to.
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The common plant with more Omega-3 than Salmon
https://youtu.be/JeWdVR1LoKA?si=J-VTvsR5K-Qu7JIW
Purslane – classed as a weed (which is anything that can feed and heal but which takes sales away from big pharma) can be purchased here at nurseries etc.
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I doubt I’ve ever seen it.
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Purslane recipes for you to try:
https://insanelygoodrecipes.com/purslane-recipes/
That Sicilian purslane looks the go.
And, the pesto.(the only thing I’d add is don’t add the pasta to the Pesto. Add the pesto to the pasta.
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Storm ‘Summer Snow No.3’, which graced Tasmania’s high country last Sunday & Monday with more than a dusting of the white stuff and freezing temperatures (-2.6C with -19.5 windchill on Mt Wellington, as per BoM) swept over New Zealand last night, plunging temperatures as well as dropping a decent dusting of snow on most of the South Island ski areas.
Ironically, or as expected, on the same day 2 papers were released claiming NZ’s glaciers would be all gone by 2050 if we didn’t reduce the heat, and that the Arctic had its warmest year on record in 2025 – numerical phantasies, the pair of them.
Meanwhile, forecasts and various maps are calling for more snow showers this coming weekend, our summer solstice, the ‘official’ start of summer – or is next winter arriving early?
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Red sprite over Texas
https://imgur.com/rPmflvU
“Last month, I caught one of the most intense red sprite events in the sky over Texas.
This is a full-frame and close-up view of the 40-something-mile-tall behemoth.”
– Paul Smith, Photographer
What effect do they have on weather and climate not currently factored in you ask?
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We should ask the worlds first astronomers to explain that, or would that be the worlds first atmospheric physicists , any how the worlds first something
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Funny how deceptive the AEMOs “Fuel Mix” display is. Looking this morning at the SA-VIC interconnectors and they are providing 600MW to SA in advance of the sun arriving in SA and wind picking up. If you look at the Fuel Mix for SA it only shows power generated locally so it all look so wonderfully green but that is literally only half the story. At the time of imports VIC is running on 71% brown coal, so a good chunk of the SA demand is met from brown coal.
It odd that an organization which such an ability to handle numbers and show characteristics of supply and demand cannot, or choses not to, show the real total picture in each State. I guess its the same for QLD – NSW when coal dominant QLD supplies to NSW which seems to happen consistently.
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Babylon Bee does Bondi
https://babylonbee.com/news/australian-man-who-wrestled-gun-away-from-terrorist-charged-with-unlawful-firearm-possession
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Given the New South Wales’ coppers behaviour during the Covid nonsense, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was not too far wide of the mark.
Sack the NSW Police Commissioner.
The Police service is incompetent.
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Apparently the local church has installed wifi for its parishioners.
The password is ThePromisedLan. 😁
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From the Herald Sun today.
IPA calls for curriculum overhaul as fears grow over school climate change approach
“The IPA lobby group has called for climate change education to be overhauled in Australian schools, claiming it creates undue anxiety in children as young as five.”
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Here’s an article written by psychologist Clare Rowe at the IPA.
Suffer The Little Children
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“Climate alarmism in the classroom, along with over-therapising, is doing our children lasting harm, argues child psychologist and IPA Adjunct Fellow, Clare Rowe.”
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https://ipa.org.au/ipa-review-article/suffer-little-children
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Some years ago, we flew down to Canberra to spend a little time with our then 6yo granddaughter. We took her away for a few days. Several times during our time with her, she broke down in tears over the trees dying and the Koalas going extinct. At one point she said it would never rain again and the whole world will die.
More recently, aged 10yo, she said she hated Donald Trump. She also told us how she had reported a boy in her class because he touched her without her consent, then gave us a lecture on how important it is for men to get consent before touching a girl. Since then, I have made sure never to be alone with her.
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Ahh , that is sad Steve ! .
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‘ … she had reported a boy in her class …’
Its Orwellian.
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The IPA and Guardian agree that global warming lessons cause anxiety in the young.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/apr/20/they-are-despairing-climate-crisis-weighs-heavy-on-mental-health-of-young-australians
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Perhaps the difference is that the Guardian agrees that the kids are mentally suffering, but that the climate crisis scaring the kids is a real climate crisis.
The IPA is sceptical and produces the book Climate Change The Facts, with contributors over the years including (among others) Jo, Peter Ridd, Ian Plimer, and Richard Lindzen. The late Clive James contributed to the 2017 edition.
https://ipa.org.au/research/climate-change-the-facts-2025
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The Australian
“High-powered rifles ‘are everywhere’, the records show
Australia’s gun ownership figures expose a startling reality: the same weapons that terrorised Bondi sit in hundreds of thousands of homes nationwide.”
Well, if they know where they are isn’t time to round up a few of the un necessary units? What about enforcing State Laws pertaining to Gun Licensing and safe keeping etc! Gun Licences are not issued in perpetuity maximum in most States is three years! Gun licensees/premises should be regularly inspected for appropriate use, storage personal health, physical and mental without notice! We don’t need more Laws but the existing ones properly administered
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Vic police inspect the storage of a firearm when new firearms are registered. Subsequent inspections are random. Which probably means not regular enough. But that’s likely not an issue for the vast majority of gun owners. Safe storage is about accidents and thefts.
It’s the fit to possess a firearm that will always be a question.
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It wasn’t a failure of gun control, it was a failure of politics, where American belief that problems are solved at the end of a gun meets ME hatred. Our governments have not had the wit to separate the two.
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Josh speaks for me on that:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/you-have-failed-us-josh-frydenberg-s-full-speech-at-bondi-memorial-20251217-p5noge.html
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They come regularly to inspect ours and the safety aspects of storage. Plus the reapplication for a licence occurs at regular intervals. Would be interesting for the press to discover the inspection times and re-application of the terrorists.
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I think you guys are honing in on the crux of the problem.
It all guns and words.
Words cause people to use guns because they get mad about what someone said.
Authorities don’t need to come to your house to monitor your use of words.
So that problem is pretty much under control.
So stay home and watch a good action movie where the hero expertly handles every possible exotic gun which you should never even think about touching.
And if you ever even hold a g*n, don’t take a picture.
If your boy child holds a stick and yells bang, punish him and seek immediate therapeutic intervention.
If your daughter says “I think I’m a boy”, be encouraging and see a pharmacist.
Freedom is when only the government and police are free to use guns and words.
And that’s why us Americans are the problem because of Amendments 1 & 2.
Once we run get rid Trump and make America a one party democracy, the EU can control the Western world, and peace can reign, and words and inanimate objects, like not yet born humans, can be eliminated before they give people ideas.
Plus, it’s our American Hollywood movies that made people like g*ns.
And our promotion of American values and fundamental human rights protected and realized by secular law, that caused the rise fundamentalist radical Islam.
Plus, if you have any young men that insist on touching guns, conscript them, and ship them to carry guns in some barely heard of country, have them patrol around, and if they are fired upon by ‘insurgents’, they can shoot back.
You only have to be suspicious of them if or when they come back.
You can faux appreciate them once a year.
But it is necessary to be cautious the rest of the time.
[Some gremlins at work in the filter with this comment. Sorry. 😉 – Jo]
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Putin is on a diet: He has lost two kilos so far.
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Putin on the Ritz.
Just a few dry bikkies for him, is it?
https://images7.memedroid.com/images/UPLOADED347/649c63d7c9c58.webp
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Don’t buy the new iMac thinking you are getting a desktop puter. It is an ipad with a big screen and keyboard. There isn;t even a phone jack that I can see but apple has a habit of hiding things. It has two mini USP ports, nothing else. My old mini has more ports.
As a minimalist user I’m fine with it but others would not.
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Albanese declines to accept invitations to further public Bondi gatherings in fear of being booed! But wait, there’s more distraction as Treasurer Chalmers releases Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook – all bad but at least it will take the heat off his boss!
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” all bad but at least it will take the heat off his boss!”
Like the Bondi shootings conveniently buried the travel expenses scandals completely.
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Josh Frydebberg Speech at Bondi Beach
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‘This is not hard, PM’: Josh Frydenberg demands Albanese take action after Bondi massacre – 36 Mins 5 Secs
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Correct words, words, words…
As an ex leading member of the whole Machine and ex-potential Australian leader Josh should have called our GG and demand new election.
Of course it is not up to him, but as a Jew himself as far as I know, he has the emotional right.
Does anyone here believe that current Labor governments will defend their flock from a slaughter – if or rather when…?
OK, the Bondi killers were highly motivated (remember Breivik’s words ?) but hardly professional, and the kill ratio became 2:15.
Even now the Labor continues to glorify their brave fight against neo-nazis: prohibition of swastikas and other danger things, like “Heil Hitler”.
They said there dozens of horrible neo-nazis, say – a hundred.., so should we wait for 50 times more victims in the next massacre? 175 people?
I like Chris Minns but next time I hear about excellent job our police are doing I vomit. Two policemen with handguns ? Did they have handguns?
By the way, have a thousand of them (at least) already caught Dezi Freeman?
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Could you explain the link between Islam and neo-nazis or Far Right or whatever else… for me?
Socialists are a left-wing political group and Islam is a religion, they have nothing in common really. I certainly can’t see the local neo-nazis teaming up with Western Sydney’s mob.
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Do some homework.
Your question shows that you’ll not be told by others.
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Brandolini’s Principle.
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ABC’s Laura Tingle declares Bondi attack was not motivated by religion the broadcaster’s global affairs editor said the actions of the terrorists ‘have got nothing to do with religion’.
Looks like Tingle is in a tangle! Her attempts to separate Islam from the adherents of the religion is borderline pathetic
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It is possible that they were simply Muslims who were Jew haters, given they seemingly primarily only targeted Jews. But then she would have to explain away the ISIS flag component.
Also, that if she wants to argue it wasn’t the islamic religion that motivated them, it was at least the Jewish religion that did. So either way it does have something to do with religion.
I’m not buying what she’s selling.
Also, Fayed Abu Shammalah the former BBC bureau chief in Gaza claims the attack was organised by Mossad to garner sympathy for Israel ahead of Netanyahu’s visit to the US. Not sure the BBC news out of Gaza was reliable when he was in charge.
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Or out of anywhere now!
I guess a reliable item will be when they announce the result of Trump’s law suit
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The shooter was born and raised in Hydrabad, India.
Not sure if religion was the motivation, when and why did he become radicalised.
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Kioxia has achieved a significant milestone in storage capacity with its LC9 Series SSD, which offers a single-drive capacity of 245.76 TB, bringing the industry closer to petabyte-class storage.
This capacity means that just four of these drives can hold nearly one petabyte of data in a compact form factor, as demonstrated during a recent factory tour where a Kioxia representative noted that four LC9 SSDs in hand can hold almost a petabyte.
The LC9 SSDs are designed for high-scale data center applications, particularly for generative AI workloads, data lakes, and large-scale machine learning, where massive data ingestion and rapid processing are essential.
These drives utilize Kioxia’s BiCS8 218-layer 3D NAND technology in a QLC configuration, stacked in 32 dies within a 154-ball BGA package, enabling the unprecedented capacity.
The drives are available in U.2 (2.5-inch), E1.S, and E1.L form factors, with the 245.76 TB capacity available in the E1.S and E1.L variants, while the 2.5-inch version is limited to 122.88 TB.
Kioxia has also set a Guinness World Record by powering a computation that calculated Pi to 300 trillion digits using a 2.2 petabyte storage cluster built from its CM and CD Series SSDs, showcasing the reliability and sustained performance of its high-capacity drives under extreme workloads.
Looking ahead, Kioxia aims to reach 1,000-layer NAND technology by 2027, which could enable future petabyte SSDs with storage densities of up to 100 Gbit/mm².
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FWIW – for those who have their trust in clouds –
“20 Years of Digital Life, Gone in an Instant, thanks to Apple”
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
Via https://instapundit.com/763094/#disqus_thread
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FWIW – another view from outside
“The Fall Of The Commonwealth Continues”
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2025/12/15/the-fall-of-the-commonwealth-continues/
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FWIW
“hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/the-reality-of-nationwide-gun-control
HollyMathNerd has written an excellent essay on the pragmatics of nationwide gun control. I recommend it to everyone on all sides of the issue.”
More at https://x.com/esrtweet/status/2000782698390904996
Via https://instapundit.com/763078/#disqus_thread
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