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According to SBS, Victoria has declared a state of disaster due to the bushfires.
Victoria is an ongoing disaster anyway, but the official state of disaster is only about the fires.
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And a fuel load made impossible by government restrictions, like clearing fire breaks yourself, clearing around your property, even picking up fallen branches in the forest or grazing cattle in the high country, logging, etc. All now illegal. These prohibitions contributes massively to the fuel load. And that is intentional.
In the last major fires in Victoria a single farmer was fined $140,000 for clearing around his property. And when the fire came the whole town sheltered at his place, the safest place in the area. He still had to pay the council fine. Green is fine until it turns brown and destroys the place at an intensity where regrowth is impossible because the trees are completely dead. In NSW the government monitors clearing, even of protected noxious weeds and grasses with mad environmental regulations, destroying native vegeations and rewilding as if that is desireable and ecologically sound. It is in fact ecological madness and produces fires of devastating size and intensity in a land which emphasised pyrophytic vegetation after millenia of aboriginal fire lighting.
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Yes. All part of the Government’s war against the farmer, science and reason.
And yet pre-European settlement, Australia was probably the world’s most ecologically artificially altered place. It had undergone extreme destruction due to pre-European “farming” practices
The landscape the Europeans found was completely unnatural due to the earlier inhabitants’ practice of constantly burning the land which only allowed fire-resistant species to survive, rendering others extinct, and probably bringing about genuine man-made changes in the micro-climate.
It was part of the technique of “fire-stick farming”, revered by the Left, but extremely damaging to the environment. Early European explorers noted constant fires everywhere.
In contrast European farming methods were much more efficient and environmentally friendly and just needed one plot of land while leaving most of the natural landscape untouched.
However, regardless of destructive pre-European practices, the Left have banned modern Australians from doing fuel reduction burns and creating firebreaks etc. ensuring that there are huge forest fuel loads and when fire comes by, they are devastating.
Apparently it was OK to constantly burn the landscape in pre-European times but not to do a few modest burns now to reduce fire risk and impact.
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Black, or White, if a man doesn’t light the fire lightning well.
The first rule of aboriginal fire management was never let the fire go out. So aboriginals lit numerous fires, just to keep the fire going.
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During the last big fires in our valley several years ago our farm was a designated as an “evacuation zone” due to our regular slashing of our paddocks and clearance of fallen branches, etc. It’s suddenly a good thing when fires are threatening. Even so you can convince the Greenies- one woman on a bush block refused to allow the bulldozer driver from the RFS to bulldoze around her house, which was on the edge of the fire zone.
Yesterday we had a scare ( we are in NSW) when a fire broke out at the bottom of an escarpment . It was inaccessible for our RFS, but 3 choppers with trailing buckets arrived from nowhere and were able to bring it under control pretty quickly.
Our thoughts are with the poor blighters in Victoria.
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A few years ago, when we had land in a fire-prone area, we kept the paddocks slashed and maintained a substantial water supply for fire-fighting equipment at the house. On the two occasions that fires threatened to sweep through neighbouring properties towards us, we had a party – for neighbours who had worked out that it was safer to come to us than try to evacuate along the gum-tree-lined road.
OK, some places do prepare well, but in general I think it would be fair to say that the ABC and Australian officialdom never learn.
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Sometimes you can celebrate small victories against the bureaucratic brick wall. There is a patch of bushland across the road from my house which runs up a steep slope with a playground nestled into the bush at the top and a kindergarten fifty yards beyond. In recent years, the area was sort of managed by council and a local volunteer, since passed away, who was a card-carrying greenie.
The level of maintenance is abysmal, fallen trees and impenetrable undergrowth contributing to a major fire hazard.
Fed up with the apathy, I decided to vent my spleen and took photographs and sent them with a blunt warning to the shire. Expectations were low.
To my surprise, I received a reply (and a reference number) the very next day, and a crew arrived two days later. Although the clean up was predictably half-arsed, it shows that the authorities can be spurred into action by a little community activism.
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A few years ago when Daniel Andrews was the Premier of Victoria there were massive bushfires in that state and later requests for records of State Forest fire protection activities, the request was turned down
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I saw Jacinta Allan address the media yesterday and say she didn’t want to politicise the issue of CFA firefighters having to use outdated equipment. Her comment may be related to this social media post by a volunteer from the fire front.
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1427098419155085
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTTdCGNj4yN/
I could say more about the ineptitude of Victorian Labor but I won’t at this point in time. Best wishes to those affected by the fires and anyone endeavouring to protect property and lives.
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A Victoria CFA volunteer who has family experience all of his life with cattle in the Snowy Mountains high country and since grazing was banned by Vic Labor continues to ride his Horse there with friends told me that since grazing was stopped weeds have taken over, Blackberry bushes and others, the once native grasslands created by seasonal burning tradition continued by the cattle families after colonisation are now becoming overgrown fire hazards.
What could have continued to be low to medium risk not too hot fire conditions are now uncontrollable wildfire conditions.
Seasonal burning is done in patches and lit to burn out as the previous season patch is reached by the low heat fire, and obviously in rotation year to year.
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Yep, they’ll do great with brand- new electric fire trucks that spontaneously combust!
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My son is a CFA volunteer, he was caught out in a blaze, (out in the Longwood area) their truck failed, not too sure what went wrong, but they had to go into protection mode with fires all around them. A second team got them out to safety, he wound up in hospital because he got too much smoke. I’m not too sure how old the truck was, but it did fail. It wasn’t luck they were OK, it was their experience and skills and that of the other teams that saved them.
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So sorry to hear that, liberator. I recall many decades ago a Sydney crew got stuck at a cul-de-sac in the National Park in Sydney’s south. They suffered horrific burns and some did not survive. It can happen, even with functioning vehicles. This is why our RFS teams are such heroes. We are SO grateful to heroes like your son.
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My area is mountainous terrain with many unmade, dead end roads. The local CFA years ago advised residents that they would not send crews down roads where u-turning may not be possible.
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Eucalypt forests generate litter at a rate of around 8 tonnes per hectare, that’s 100m x 100m. But only 29% of this litter buildup decomposes annually. This means that the litter very quickly builds up to levels where, once a fire starts or is present, it will be virtually impossible for fire services to put it out. The CSIRO, back in the days when it positively contributed to our scientific knowledge, conducted experiments to determine the level when fire services couldn’t cope, and generated a paper on their results. They also recommended that cool burns be undertaken over 10% of our forests every year to mitigate the fire risk. Unfortunately, states such as Victoria and NSW only cool burns 2% or less every year.
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Mods, please remove this duplicate. Hit the Post button twice…
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Just one more disaster for the folk of Victoria.
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Decisions have consequences.
Vote Labor: get disaster.
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Video:
A Swedish guy looks at two of the world’s biggest clown PM’s Albanese and Starmer.
These two fools are destroying their own countries
https://youtu.be/RqdhCyxhliY
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Amazing. For the first time in recent decades, our Prime Minister is world famous, if only as an outrageously Communist stooge trying to wreck an entire country and succeeding. Like Joe Biden and Keir Starmer. I discount Macron as the country has been communist since before the French revolution, before communism was invented. And while in Australia Calwell and Whitlam spent their political lives pretending they were not run by the faceless men of the Labor party, Albanese and friends are quite open about it, except the faceless men are Chinese. No one even asks. Daniel Andrews commuted to China routinely for instructions, without explanation or press. Communism is very fashionable, starting with the universities in Australia, the UK and the US. And the legacy media.
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I do like the symbolism of the pitchfork in the background.
And the painting – is it a Miro ?
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The press started off saying Musk’s AI could create ‘sexualised’ pictures, underwear and dodgy poses. After a day or two they moved it up a notch to illegal content. The latter is something most people would not want to verify and would be stupid to attempt. So what is the truth? If it does not block illegal requests then that clearly needs stopping. Don’t give them an easy reason to ban X.
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I wonder how they discovered it could produce illegal content of children unless they tried it themselves? Anyway I’m sure it wasn’t a deliberately designed “feature” and this malfunction of Grok will be fixed as are other malfunctions when they are discovered.
My understanding was that the original complaint about AI, not necessarily Grok, Albanese made is that someone used it to generate photos of him in a female swimsuits. E.g. this one Jan 2024.
E.g https://theshovel.com.au/2024/01/30/channel-9-apologises-to-anthony-albanese-for-photoshop-error/
I think the recent production of pictures of him and Starmer in bikinis gave him the excuse to attack X, as it is integrated with Grok.
Politicians like Starmer and Albanese want to shut down or restrict X as they already are via Australia’s e Safety Kommisar or UK’s Ofcom.
Anyway, why would Albanese complain about himself in female attire? His regime doesn’t even believe in binary genders.
Apparently Albanese can give it but can’t take being mocked.
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Video by Topher Field:
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Nice anguish over Trump pulling out of 60+ UN and NGO confabs including the IPCC and UNFCCC.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/08012026/trump-international-climate-treaties-withdrawal/
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FAFO.
Comments about the US ICE agent who shot an anti-ICE protester who tried to run him over.
https://youtu.be/Rt1A1cgilO4
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The body cam video was unclear to me as to when the fatal shots were fired. I didn’t realise at first that it was even the same incident.
But without any doubt the two women were there to obstruct and provoke. They also appear to have been playing some sort of smug game for their own amusement.
And of course those controlling the action are now attempting to trigger riots.
Hope the dog is ok.
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Certainly playing games, but they have also be branded as “trained and organised” as if to imply they were violent or terrorists !….which didnt come over in the video !
But it might help to justify shooting an unarmed demonstrator ??
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Armed with a car
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On the one hand, I am sympathetic to the pro-law enforcement argument that she played stupid games and won stupid prizes.
On the other hand, I am rather disgusted about how some on the right seem gleeful about ‘being right’ about the legality of the shooting while completely losing sight of the tragedy of the shooting.
There is no ‘win’ in young mother being killed due to her bad decisions. It sucks. It also sucks that an ICE officer is going to have spend the rest of his life knowing he killed a woman and orphaned three kids. But what sucks most of all is that like she weaponized her car, she herself was weaponized by cynical political actors and activists to believe she was fighting the good fight against modern-day Nazis and that is was safe to do so.
ICE is just regular old law enforcement, no different than the FBI, or the local cops, armed postal agents, or any one of the other thousands of law enforcement organizations in America. The only thing they are guilty of is vigorously enforcing the laws on the books after decades of those same laws being neglected with a wink-and-a-nod. If you don’t like it, don’t try and impede law enforcement operations. Get out and ride the butts of your legislators to change the laws. If the law changes, ICE enforcement will have to change with it.
Sadly, the morons in Congress who could make those changes have no interest in doing so. They are just ginning up outrage instead, increasing the likelihood of more fatal confrontations. Some are even threatening to strip qualified immunity from ICE officers (rather than doing their job and just changing the laws) so that they can get a scalp and drop murder charges on them.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5681208-swalwell-goldman-ice-legislation/
And remember, these are the same morons who accused border patrol of ‘whipping’ illegals while pursuing them at the border because they couldn’t tell the difference between reins and whips in a still image.
https://www.heritage.org/border-security/heritage-explains/caught-lie-border-patrol-agents-never-whipped-migrants
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This the precedent for a law enforcement officer shooting an unarmed woman in Minnesota
Here is the precedent for shooting an unarmed woman interfering with proceedings in the Capital.
At least this chap has a defense as he did not point a gun at Babbit.
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Recent storm Goretti damage SW UK.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/9/938b1de6-e7d2-4964-a494-6c9191921320.jpg
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/800/cpsprodpb/vivo/live/images/2026/1/9/4e5567b0-a3b2-4827-9372-43709b0ea672.jpg
A solar farm on Anglesey was significantly damaged a year last December.
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That is the good thing about the solar panels provided by Nature – that is to say the photosynthetic plants et cetera.
They are self replicating, if that is necessary after damage.
But they are constantly self-renewing after reductions in surface area that result from periodic grazing.
But in the event of disaster they re-seed.
Beat that.
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Good thing that the solar panels are renewable.
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Well, yes, with Chinese coal …
I know your Mr. Bowen [and the UK’s Malicious Mr. Miliband] don’t want that shouted out …
Is THAT why they have a thing about [uncontrolled] social media?
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I think that perhaps Forrest’s observation was facetious.
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Just adds to the time they produce nothing.
Also reduces the number of dead birds. That is the big win for the environment.
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The irony of it all. Just had a sheep graziers weather warning advising cold temperatures may cause losses of sheep and lambs. Last Friday mid 40’s, yesterday mid 20’s, tonight keep your sheep in sheltered areas night time temps are expected below 8 degrees in some areas. Meanwhile Nth Queensland is under cyclone watch
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That’s Oz, Sambar!
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Our (My) Country, a land of droughts and flooding rains
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Nullschool Shows the cyclone has crossed the coast. Central pressure 985hPa.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-211.66,-22.53,888/loc=147.343,-19.973
There is another low spinning up in the Coral Sea but it will take some time to decide if it heads for Queensland or to the South Pacific.
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forget it
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Not only “cold temperatures” but also overnight snow thawing in an existential 1.5°C at 0700 on Tasmania’s Mt Mawson ski slope: hail sleet snow whatever – take your pick.
When a southerly buster cool change follows hot on the heels of a roaring desert norwester you know ‘the climate’ is doing what it’s always done… then when the wind swings round from the east and the rains / floods come, churno-journos will pump out the same old pap to scare city-dwellers and feeble-minded flops in a never-ending guilt trip: Original Sin 21st Century mode.
Another perfect summer’s day over here, 30°C sunshine with a hint of haze in the air giving everyone a faux Australian golden-brown suntan, with high-tide just after midday (and just before the first beer) while down in the South Island you could choose Christchurch’s 32°C blast furnace or Fiordland’s chilly gale-force rain/thunder tempest with the chance of overnight snow to 1,200 metres. That’ll freak the sheep.
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At first I thought it might be in the interests of harmonious (and permissible) discourse for the automatic treatment of comments to explain why some kick the invisible trip wires.
After further consideration, I wonder whether the treatment is rule based or AI based. The difference of course is that application of rules can be explained whereas nothing involving so called AI can be explained beyond “computer says no”.
That is something I have only just learned. The so called AI is incapable of explaining itself. It is nothing more than mindless pattern matching and probabilistic guesswork.
HAL in 2001 has nothing on the plague of mindlessness currently sweeping the computer systems of the world.
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I asked Grok if it was reliable – just for the heck of it. I was relatively surprised when it replied to the effect that it was dependant on how it was programmed. – or words to that effect. Fair enough.
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That’s the realization which surprised me.
The programs are just self-aware enough to be able to confirm and then explain why they have no way of distinguishing fact from fiction. It explains the occasions on which they can be corrected on factual matters and will then apologize for getting it wrong and can then go on to explain how they got it wrong. It also explains how a skillful interrogator can get them to say anything the interrogator wants.
Strange days indeed.
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We have had that for quite a few years. E.g. politician on the BBC (or the ABC) saying whatever the BBC things he said.
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I saw both ways ChatGPT behaves being caught with an error :
a) explaining that She is just a cocktail of common knowledge & opinions and you should verify etc,..
b) digging even deeper into the same hole, doubling and tripling down, until I give up and shut Her.
I think that after a program block “never let customer go” there is another one – “try to please customer by any means”.
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Going to post a partial quote from Devon Eriksen, programmer, author (If you like actual science fiction, go read his book “Theft of Fire”.. now) that gives pause for thought about both LLM AI and humanity in general.
Hereafter, Devon..
A vast number of humans, probably a majority, aren’t people.
They are large language models.
I’m not saying this as a generality, as a clever or funny way of saying, “they are stupid”.
No. I mean something very concrete and specific, and there are a lot of people who appear very intelligent, maybe even win awards for writing good poetry or something, who are nevertheless not people, not fully sapient, just a large language model walking around in a human body.
First, you have to understand what a large language model is.
It’s a computer (organic or inorganic), which has been trained on a data set consisting solely of language (written or spoken), and rewarded for producing language that sounds like the data set, and is relevant to a prompt.
That’s all there is in there.
This is why ChatGPT and Grok lie to you constantly.
It’s not because they are somehow just indifferent to the truth — they actually do not understand the concept of “truth” at all.
For something to be a “lie”, or an “inaccuracy”, there has to be a mismatch between the meaning of words, and the state of reality.
And there’s the critical difference. You see, in order to identify a mismatch between the state of reality, and the meaning of a sentence, you have to have a model of reality.
Not just one model, of language.
This is why Grok and ChatGPT hallucinate and tell you lies. Because, for them, everything is language, and there is no reality.
So when I say someone is a large language model, I do not mean he is “stupid”. He might be very facile at processing language. He might, in fact, be eloquent enough to give great speeches, get elected president, win the Nobel Peace Prize, and so on.
What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent.
Here ends the quote
This is just the tip of a potentially large iceberg, for the full quote (and/or controversy, find/follow him on X)
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The extent of the ripoff especially by Somalis of Social services is beyond belief.
Scott ‘Bessent said efforts to game the system in Minnesota haven’t halted at the steps of the courthouse. He pointed to a recent finding in which a convicted fraudster allegedly attempted to bribe a juror.
“One of the people who has been convicted of fraud — she was given $200,000 to bribe a juror,” he told Fox News. “And she was so corrupt, she skimmed $80,000 of it and only tried to give a $120,000 bribe.” ‘
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There’s a comedy routine in there somewhere.
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The DemosAU poll conducted last week has One Nation and LNP both on 23%. Labor has first preference of 29%. So One Nation is catching Labor fast. A few more LNP defectors could be decisive.
The pollster looked at what the result would be between Labor and One Nation based on likely preference and concluded:
When pollsters modelled a straight head-to-head between Labor and One Nation, the result was 50–50.
https://richardsonpost.com/paulzanetti/41441/shock-poll-one-nation-equals-coalition-labor-slides/
There is already speculation that Albanese will be challenged for Labor leadership.
But 2026 shapes as a sterner test for the prime minister as he enters a fourth year in power. The Bondi beach terrorist attack in particular has cast a pall over 2025, overshadowing – and putting into perspective – the political events of the year.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/01/events-trends-shaping-australian-politics-2026
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Perhaps he should do a “Starmer” and claim he will be in office through 2026?
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It’s at times like these that proportional representation can seem attractive.
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I understand that Labor is losing supporters who have always been supporters while the Labor right (centre left factions) were in control and now with the far left factions dominating and incompetent in government they have had enough. Similar to Coalition party supporters rejecting the centre left “LINO” factions.
Some might be aware that during the 1950s the ALP split into two sides with the Labor right forming Democratic Labor Party or DLP to get away from the far left.
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A very left leaning Facebook page called Meanwhile in Australia with over 1.8 million followers, created a poll asking which party people would vote for out of Labor, Liberal, One Nation, Greens and a couple of minor parties, the poll results showed One Nation with a massive lead, almost double over Labor in second place.
The Page owner / moderator then created a series of posts dismissing the results as manipulated by bots, infiltrated by non followers of the page, nefarious actors etc because it didn’t align with their political views, it was quite hilarious to see the squirming about the result.
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Moscow has broken a 56 year daily snowfall record:
MOSCOW, Jan. 11 — Russia’s capital Moscow on Friday experienced the heaviest snowfall in 56 years, with 42 percent of the monthly average precipitation recorded in just 24 hours.
https://www.msn.com/en-xl/weather/meteorology/record-snowfall-blankets-moscow-after-56-years/ar-AA1TXPxg
Nothing like what Alaska is experiencing but still a record.
New all time December snowfall record for BC resort:
Kicking Horse Mountain Resort located in Golden, British Columbia, Canada on the Powder Highway has December snowfall record. Highest in resort history.
https://www.tennessean.com/press-release/story/129273/kicking-horse-mountain-resort-smashes-all-time-december-snowfall-record-highest-total-in-history/
The deep low south of Alaska has overwhelmed Juneau. They have run out of room to pile snow. That means it will hang around for longer in the big piles
The NH is 300 years into a 9500 year summer warming cycle. These new snowfall records are only a hint of the future. This year was bound to be above trend snow but is just a taste of the future. The trend is upward.
Most of Europe currently below zero and more land and air travel problems due to snow and ice.
This underscores the criminality of pushing the stupid idea that trace amounts of CO2 are causing global warming and snow would be relegated to history.
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Precipitation is not the same thing as temperature. Snowfall is increasing in many boreal regions because warmer temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric water vapour.
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Rick says it’s foolish for AGW alarmists to claim, “snow would be relegated to history”.
Simon says, “Snowfall is increasing in many boreal regions because warmer temperatures increase the amount of atmospheric water vapour”.
Congratulations Simon. You agree with Rick.
Hope you meant to.
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Strawman argument. If an unidentified person said that, they were probably referring to their local low elevation skifield.
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What about if the person was identified and did a study that “mimicked” future climate in boreal areas.
“Snow is really a critical part of winter in most northern ecosystems,” said Richardson. “Transitioning to low- or no-snow winters is going to have major implications for how these ecosystems ‘work.’”
“No-snow winters” sounds pretty snowless.
Just a single degree of warming will reac havic in boreal forests.
https://www.earth.com/news/single-degree-temperature-warming-boreal-forests-wreak-havoc/
Also there was David Viner (scientist from East Anglia, home of Climate gate) who in 2000 said that in a few years children won’t know what snow is. That snow events would be rare. He was referring to the UK, but Scotland does have Boreal forest areas.
There have been unqualified alarmists / activists making bolder predictions about no snow.
Sorry for recognising what you said supported what Rick said.
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Yes – all part of a natural, self-regulating system naturally developed to naturally regulate earth climate systems during interglacial periods.
As Rick has mentioned previously – just another ~ 10k years before the next ice age, so we need to get used to these “earth thermostat” cycles.
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Of course the Maunder Minimum known as Little Ice Age was not a constantly frozen period and weather conditions and temperatures fluctuated, periods of warm conditions not uncommon.
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The interglacial is already nearing its end. Other interglacials ended in an uptick In temperature just before the ocean level started to fall.
The falling oceans are within 2000 years. By 10,000 the oceans will be down by 10m and relatively stable at that level for 12,000 years or so before the next drop to around 40m below present level.
Ocean level drops until the land cannot carry more ice and calving overtakes accumulation. Then the NH ice collapse in the next upswing of solar in the NH.
https://i0.wp.com/wattsupwiththat.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/image-57.png?quality=75&ssl=1
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There is an analysis method that sedimentary geologists use to study repeated cycles – it’s called “sequence stratigraphy”. Genetically related units with a known start and finish are lined up beside each other to help understand the stacking patterns of strata and gain a better understanding of sedimentary basin evolution over time.
WUWT contributor Renee Hannon in her guest post linked below has used this technique to study our Earth’s temperature changes during the last 450 kyrs.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2017/08/04/paleoclimate-cycles-are-key-analogs-for-present-day-holocene-warm-period/
Figure 1 is the traditional method of presenting temperature changes over time, whereas Figure 2 presents the same data using “sequence stratigraphy” techniques, allowing the comparison of temperature variations for each of the last 5 identified glacial cycles. The broad patterns are repeatable, but there are internal variations – all natural. From Rick…
Sure looks like it…
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The big, thermo-nuclear device in the sky controls EVERYTHING, probably also influences incoming planet-killer bolides, as well.
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Then how come the idiots keep telling us that snow will be a thing of the past, aren’t they aware of the connection between warmer temps and more moisture.
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Absolutely correct. And the warming has only been occurring for 300 years. The solar intensity in the NH will rise for another 9000 years. Think how much more water will be in the atmosphere and how much more snow there will be.
You have just worked out why interglacials end. It is natural. Nothing to do with burning carbon based fuels.
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So warmer weather means more snow? It shows what happens when everyone is a climate scientist.
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FWIW – more for the covid file
“And now, the study that the establishment is literally working nonstop to block you from learning about. It has been a long time coming, but it has finally arrived. And thanks to courageous coverage from independent media like Jeffrey Tucker’s terrific Brownstone Institute, it is breaking through the veil. Yesterday, the Daily Mail covered the story under the headline, “Shocking study linking covid jabs and cancer ‘censored’ by cyberattack.” The Mail’s article played it straight, explained the study fairly, and never quoted Paul Offit or the bowtied wonder.”
“We’ve been waiting impatiently for five years now for someone with authority to say the obvious. But it’s done. Check it off the agenda paper. They’ve mapped it out in the careful language of the academy, and the Censorship Creature is on a rampage, doing whatever it can to stop the truth about the jabs from coming out. I’ll go out on a limb, and argue the only reasonable suspect for these ceaseless cyberattacks on an obscure cancer journal —attacks that began right after it published a damning study linking the covid jabs to a wide array of tumors— is Big Pharma.”
Includes
“Beyond that, they included what might be the best explanation I’ve yet seen of the long-term risks posed by the mRNA vaccines —really, any of the mRNA vaccines— for a wide variety of potential downstream injuries:”
More at
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/the-hard-way-saturday-january-10?
If you want to read the paper
“Here’s a local link to the study from my Dropbox, since, because of the ongoing DDOS attacks, it remains nearly impossible to access online. You might want to archive a local copy. Just saying.”
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FWIW – a potential street name in honour?
“Rue des Jabs”
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Nice English /French double -entendre there .
As in “ rue the day . . .”
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From your source: sounds big to me:
Cheers,
Dave B
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https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/10/guardian-withdrawing-from-climate-treaties-will-make-the-usa-poorer/
Mohamed Adow, the director of the thinktank Power Shift Africa, predicts countries will take a similar attitude this year, carrying on without the US. “The climate movement is bigger than any one nation,” he said. “African nations and the global south will continue pushing for climate justice, demanding that wealthy polluters honour their historical responsibilities, and building the clean energy future our people deserve.”
Under Trump, the US risks being left on the sidelines – a position that Kerry called a “gift to China”
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The USA taxpayers will surely be disappointed that their money is not being channelled through the UN to fund the lifestyle of the African terrorists who have come to rely on it.
Imagine how bad it would be for the world if there is a decline in African terrorists.
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‘Power Shift Africa’ – I wonder who is behind them … it’s not Putin or Xi, possibly – wants money.
They don’t give the proverbial tinker’s cuss about the climate.
“… demanding that wealthy polluters honour their historical responsibilities …”
Only the ‘wealthy’ ones.
I wonder why!
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Or – possibly – it IS Putin, or Xi …
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The liberation of Iran is hopefully near and the Left are in meltdown as one of their favourite religious fundamentalist dictatorships (apart from Gaza, and Maduro’s Venezuela which was a drug dictatorship but friends of Gaza and Iran) is about to fall. (The bizarre Red-Green Alliance.)
There is an excellent 15 min interview with Goldie Ghamari who is a member of the Iranian Provincial Parliament (MPP) here:
https://youtu.be/Ja8B51afADo
She says 85% to 90% of Iranians support Pahlavi. She describes life in the present dictatorship where “music is banned, joy is banned, singing is banned, Iranians can be murdered (by the Government) at any time fir any reason…etc.”. In other words just like a Leftist dystopia like Nineteen Eighty Four.
A 169 page document describing the transition plan is at:
https://fund.nufdiran.org/projects/ipp/
The Left have short memories. Last time they were the useful idiots of the present regime and helped the religious fundamentalists take over Iran, they were slaughtered in the thousands under Khonenei’s fatwah after they had ceased being useful idiots.
Watch those instruments of female oppression, so beloved by the Left (they regard them as instruments of “personal freedom” and “anti-colonialism” etc.), the burkhas and hijabs and black clothing be cast off and burned as soon as the regime falls
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And think of the expense in those big banners of Khomeni and Isis used during anti Israel marches? The heroes of the left will have fallen.
It’s significant that most Muslim states are absolute and often brutal monarchies. It seems to work for people in the Middle East. A bit like the South Americans who eventually elect a corrupt absolute military dictatorship which does not even pretend to be sharing communist. It seems only Europeans are done with absolute monarchies and fight for democracy. Most members of the UN are military dictatorships. Simply absolute power. Then you get nuclear armed Pakistan and disastrous Bangladesh.
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My belief is that the array of curious alliances we’re seeing around the world are all a result of Chinese espionage, subversion and bribery. The scale of their ‘cyber army’ alone would be an eye opener, if only we knew. I reckon they are active at government-level (obv) but also all the way down to blogs and social media, sowing division and discord.
I’ve said it before, ‘Maureen’ on that gardening forum, who has lots of opinions, could actually be a bloke called Wu, in Beijing.
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An alternate opinion…
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It is a game in which demographics are actually important.
In order to claw back its “demographic” advantage, China has already ditched the “one-child” policy. 30 million (at least) horny, military- aged young men “spare” as a result of traditions “first-child” sex preference.
The fleeing of many of the surviving “marriageable-aged” females. (Fleeing the 30 million “Little Emperors”)
The poisoning of land and water resources.
China and the sand-pirates are already carving up the entire African continent. China has the technology, the sand-pirates have “Allah, the moon-god” on their side.
As some have already noticed, Oz is unable to just “stay out of the way”. If the wheels fall off Xi’s China, how will south-east asis / Oz deal with 30, or 40 MILLION “boat people”. An interesting twist on “the Sword of Damocles”.
Unless Russia secures significant extra-territorial resources, it, too, is doomed. The proportion of arable land in Russia is minuscule, even to e population barely achieving replacement levels.
The future belongs to those who shoe up.
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I believe that, should China actually commence hostilities, Australia will be a priority for them for a number of reasons, not least that our resources make us an attractive acquisition yet we’re sitting ducks militarily.
I also fear that we may already have a hidden army of CCP fighters/saboteurs/spies in our midst. Who knows if the vast real estate empire owned by or leased to China isn’t being used to stockpile armaments? They even control a whole maritime port …
I don’t have much faith in our own ‘intelligence service’ to keep on top of such things, because that would be racist.
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Since people are posting Youtube links here is another.
The Weirdest Creature Ever Discovered: Hallucigenia Explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z_O5y0akN4
I should explain that this isn’t an attack on any politician with or without any AI involvement.
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Non-fictional Star Wars weapons USA …
https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/vomiting-blood-witness-claims-us-used-powerful-mystery-weapon-during-maduro-raid/news-story/598d8a6d39bc5a8dc5f9d129e6e0e80c
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The UK simply needs to play audio of speeches by Sur Sturmur – the U-turn King…
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I WANT to be proud of the whole of the UK.
I AM proud of much of its history [the inventiveness – my local Surrey Iron Railway, 1803 … for example], our seafaring history – not just suppressing slavery, but not so much of its very RECENT history.
I AM proud of its countryside and scenery [although less so those bits despoiled by [Chinese] slaver panels, and huge bat-busters].
I AM proud of our sporting originality, Soccer, Rugby, Cricket, Badminton, Tennis, etc. all having roots here; if a little less proud of our cricketers’ preparation for a recent visit to Australia ….
Yeah, we probably would have lost anyway – but did they give themselves a real fighting chance?
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Your mob definitely stands apart from the rest…
The James Busby House at Waitangi displays sports clothes & gear brought from mother-country; it helped me to better understand their nature.
Two centuries ago sailing to Antipodes was, like flying Soyuz capsule – pretty safe oneway and less certain back – and those men thought of playing cricket ?!
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Alternatively, we could always blast good ol’ Slim Whitman at them through huge speakers. That’ll fix ’em.
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… and the hunt for the ‘brown note’ continues.
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Oopsy! Maybe cow farts aren’t the real problem.
Satellites have detected enormous amounts of methane billowing from Venezuela’s abandoned oil rigs, rusty pipelines and other dilapidated energy infrastructure.
Roughly 13 billion cubic meters of Venezuela’s natural gas is flared, vented or leaked into the atmosphere every year, wasting about $1.4 billion of potential revenue.
Restoring the nation’s production levels will require companies to invest about $100 billion over the next decade and also require careful operational management and oversight long into the future.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-09/venezuela-s-massive-methane-problem-revealed-in-satellite-images
Adding those charted countries up, it’s 53 million metric tons per year of unwanted emissions.
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Don’t see any Leftists complaining about that. Communist methane is OK.
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UK to scan all messages before being sent
The country, already experiencing rapidly declining civil liberties, is now planning to scan encrypted chats for “bad stuff.”
Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has been handed something called Section 121, which sounds like a tax loophole but is actually a legal crowbar for prying open encrypted messages.
It allows the regulator to compel any online service that lets people talk to each other, Facebook Messenger, Signal, iMessage, etc to install “accredited technology” to scan for terrorism or child abuse material.
Meanwhile, Baroness Berger popped up to promote something called “upload prevention technology.” It sounds like an antivirus program crossed with a puritanical school principal, and she claimed it can stop harmful content before it spreads. Lovely idea. Also, exactly how Chinese censorship works.
https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-orders-ofcom-to-explore-encryption-backdoors
Not enough?
UK Government Threatens Total Ban On X Over Grok Bikini Flap
Using the pretext of Grok AI’s image generation capabilities, Starmer’s regime is pushing for total control over what Brits can see and say online, exposing the thin veil over their authoritarian impulses.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-government-threatens-total-ban-x-over-grok-bikini-flap
What would Orwell think?
https://imgbox.com/et2UENte
Elon Musk: the UK is now a prison island.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2009854350253011008
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The UK (and EU) suck at creating profitable social media companies, but they sure do love creating apps that latch on to successful platforms like a tick in order to censor users and suck money out of them. Even China, which also loves them some censorship and mercantilist taxes, at least has the decency to develop popular platforms like
TikTok, WeChat, Alibaba, and Weibo in addition to sucking the life out of social media.
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As a contrast to Jo’s doom and gloom postings about Australian electricity supply, here is an article that shows that the grid is now actually more resilient.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-09/solar-powers-australia-through-heatwave-conditions/106211394
Especially during heat waves, which are going to become more frequent in the future. Is everybody enjoying the heat this summer?
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I know what you got for xmas.
https://youtu.be/ONQKSJZS0ZU?si=L4NKe3V02kz2UygQ
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JC II, you left the tracking token in the URL. That post will be debited from your social credit score.
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Woo hoo!!😆
A rare mistake. It was only DDG though.
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We only have adequate electricity because much of our industry has been shut down or large consumers like aluminium smelters get taxpayer money to shed their loads.
Once the next coal power station is shut down things won’t be so comfortable.
Plus, forced purchase of expensive wind and solar means we pay about 3 times the free market price for properly generated coal, gas or real hydro (not SH2).
https://joannenova.com.au/2024/12/grid-not-fit-for-purpose-on-a-warm-day-crazy-australia-paid-3-5m-to-industry-to-stop-working/
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2025/10/19/uruguays-renewable-charge-a-small-nation-a-big-lesson-for-the-world/
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A nation of 3.5 million with 2 million in the capital city – hardly comparable.
Anyhow, good on them for getting someone else to pay for their infrastructure.
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Someone will probably accuse the ABC of left-wing bias, so here is a Forbes article about Uruguay.
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It summer, it get hot in summer, same as it gets cold in winter and no I don’t enjoy the heat, I hate it.
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The article doesn’t show that the grid is more resilient now that it has more renewables. If anything it shows it is at greater risk.
We had a high demand day with only Melbourne having very high temperatures (43) on the day depicted.
Sydney, Brisbane, and Adelaide were all 30 deg or less.
The population is 10% greater than 2019 and the demand was 10% greater than the 2019 comparison it gave.
We now have more demand and an increase in reliance on renewables.
We now have an increased reliance on an unreliable source of energy. Once you put your resilience in the hands of the weather you’re not building resilience. You’re building a roulette table.
If we had built another coal plant and kept others open instead of renewables, then we would have a resilient grid for high demand. Including consideration of high a load on coal plants for an extended period of the day.
The ABC painted it as a heatwave. It wasn’t.
Melb did not have 3 consecutive days of unusually high temperatures. 41, 30, 43 is not even consecutive days of unusually high. The other cities were just normal days.
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Gosh, who would have thought there would be a contrast between Jo’s pieces and anything vomited up by the ABC?
What did Kenny Everett used say? Quelle surprise!!!
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“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated.
Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
– Thomas Sowell, Philosophy Thoughts
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The influence of left leaning lecturers since Whitlam Labor education and free university courses favoured over State TAFE and trades qualifications 1970-1980 until Hawke Labor from 1983 realised the increasing cost to budget was unsustainable and introduced Higher Education Contribution Scheme.
Hawke Labor also changed Whitlam Labor Medibank to Medicare and streamlined the system to lower the cost to budget long term.
When will NDIS be dealt with to contain the rapidly rising cost to budget?
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“‘A Recipe for Idiocracy’
What happens when even college students can’t do math anymore?”
“For the past several years, America has been using its young people as lab rats in a sweeping, if not exactly thought-out, education experiment. Schools across the country have been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure. The results are coming into focus.
Five years ago, about 30 incoming freshmen at UC San Diego arrived with math skills below high-school level. Now, according to a recent report from UC San Diego faculty and administrators, that number is more than 900—and most of those students don’t fully meet middle-school math standards. Many students struggle with fractions and simple algebra problems. Last year, the university, which admits fewer than 30 percent of undergraduate applicants, launched a remedial-math course that focuses entirely on concepts taught in elementary and middle school. (According to the report, more than 60 percent of students who took the previous version of the course couldn’t divide a fraction by two.) One of the course’s tutors noted that students faced more issues with “logical thinking” than with math facts per se. They didn’t know how to begin solving word problems.
The university’s problems are extreme, but they are not unique. Over the past five years, all of the other University of California campuses, including UC Berkeley and UCLA, have seen the number of first-years who are unprepared for precalculus double or triple. George Mason University, in Virginia, revamped its remedial-math summer program in 2023 after students began arriving at their calculus course unable to do algebra, the math-department”
Paywalled but you’ll get the idea
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/11/math-decline-ucsd/684973/
Doesn’t look like too many Moon landings in there
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Gen Beta (2025 – 2039) will be prime Idiocracy candidates, as they’ll be inseparable from technology from birth.
Detached from reality and nature, unable to communicate properly in person, totally dependent on tech to think and provide answers for them.
A totalitarian’s dream populace.
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We invented machines to do math for us.
Now we can’t be bothered.
I reckon AI will soon think for us.
So we won’t be bothered.
Perhaps thinking was just a machine function after all.
So our view of education as enlightenment has become anachronistic.
It is now just manufacturing.
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When I was at Ag School I was top at Maths but second at Mental Arithmetic. I later found out the fellow who came first was a long time darts player. He could do all the calculations quickly because of the need of keeping the scores. I always tell people who are fumbling with their calculators the need to take up darts 🙂
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People should only ever use AI as a guide or introduction to a topic but never rely on it. And its answers should never be accepted unless you have enough knowledge to know they are correct or roughly so.
So many young wokesters rely on it exclusively and trust its answers.
Plus most AI has a built-in far Left bias on social or political issues like climate change or socially engineered demographic change in Western countries for the benefit of Leftist regimes. And much of AI training comes from far Left compromised sources like Wikipedia, not impartial ones.
Also, AI is known to “hallucinate” and make up answers, some plausible, some ridiculous. It can even make authentic-sounding but fictitious references to scientific papers.
It’s only a matter of time before there is a major economic, engineering, business, scientific, medical, legal, pharmaceutical etc. disaster because someone didn’t understand the concept of Garbage In Garbage Out which used to be taught, back in the day.
Perhaps there already have been such disasters. How many Australian Government decisions are derived from AI because the “expert” public serpents are too lazy to research a topic and write their own report and just ask AI to write a report with the answers they instruct it to produce?
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A young lawyer assured me that she and her colleagues use AI and save time.
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I have to say, David, that I have been surprised and impressed with Grok5. I have asked veterinary questions re cattle complaints which have far surpassed my experiences with the local vet who charges large amount to attend. I have also put queries relating to a variety of subjects and again, have been impressed with the responses. However, I am fairly circumspect in my interaction as I was perturbed by evidence I experienced that the program rapidly acquires a “profile” on the user!
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Bumped.
Australia’s biggest scam might not even be “renewables” but NDIS.
It might even be bigger than the US Somalli scam, but Australia doesn’t have a leader that cares, unlike TRUMP.
NDIS is not means tested either.
Video: https://youtu.be/MWO-b43o_QA
Worth reading the comments on the video as well.
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I’m sure this short video will enrage Leftists and “feminists”.
Iranian girls remove their compulsory head coverings.
https://x.com/i/status/2010031488641970577
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History repeats.
They rebelled for their freedom in the early 70’s, and were arrested, tortured and executed for it.
The (dare I say it) Islamic revolution of 1979 threw them under the bus again not surprisingly.
So here we are again in 2026.
Maybe ze Iranian blob will fall this month, but their underlying beliefs is the real problem.
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David,somebody actually down voted your post……mistake ???……sure hope so
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Sunday is a day to appreciate works of art. This is my pick..
RAAF F-111 moves into the Australian War Memorial.
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A work of art indeed!
My late husband gave me one for a birthday – well, a beautiful model, at least.
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I saw one flying up Sydney harbor once on Australia Day and when it put it after burners on it was absolutely magnificent.
A superb aircraft !!!
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The meme that freaked out Albanese, a fairly standard reaction from the humourless Left.
Why would Albo be offended by him being dressed in a bikini? After all his regime doesn’t even believe in binary genders. He’s also therefore a hypocrite.
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A tame pic on the meme scale.
The Soviet flag is totally wrong but the WEF don’t have one.😉
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I’da thort Putin should be the one to complain, using his flag without permission.
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I think Albo’s biggest mistake here is the fact that the only mocking meme he has a problem with is the one mocking HIM. Let’s face it, the internet has for years mercilessly attacked prominent figures, Donald Trump most of all. Some of the things said about Trump and other conservative figures wasn’t even funny enough to be called a meme, crossing the line into outright insulting. Meanwhile, Albo was silent. The mockery wasn’t a problem in Albo’s mind, apparently. All good fun I suppose.
Until somebody made an Albanese meme. Instant dummy spit. Mock as much as you want, make as many jokes as you like, but NEVER take the pi55 out of your Supreme Leader.
THAT’S where he went wrong.
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Re “THAT’S where he went wrong.”
You forgot to make that comprehensive. How about
“THAT’S where he went wrong – again”
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Albo seems have a high opinion of himself. Unwarranted in my opinion. I recall he said some time ago he should get more respect. I struggle to recall an Australian leader I rate below Albo.
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Yarpos
He probably wouldn’t like Wyoming –
“Cheyenne Restaurant Turns Heads With Money-Making Idea: Open MN Day Care”
https://hotair.com/headlines/2026/01/10/cheyenne-restaurant-turns-heads-with-money-making-idea-open-mn-day-care-n3810666
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This particular meme was just a little too close-to-home, ‘methinks.’
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Typical Nanny State response. An obvious malfunction in Grok concerning illegal images of children which could only have been discovered by perverts committing illegal acts is met with an overwhelmingly harsh response.
The reality is that after X corrects the problem there is no problem. Albanese, Starmer and Carnage just want to ban X and Grok because they represent free speech and free inquiry.
And like all Leftists, they can’t handle alternative opinions.
X has already said it will correct the problem:
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-grok-bikini-response-sexualized-images-minors-remove-clothes-2026-1
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I could see the criticism of X or Grok if it was designed specifically to create such images. But it’s simply a capability that it has which is subject to misuse, and illegal misuse in many jurisdictions at that.
They might as well take action against Photoshop too, for it has the ability to be similarly misused.
Or take action against Ford because someone driving a Ford deliberately drove through a red light.
But, as you say, it’s an information control battle.
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FWIW
“Dismantlement of South Africa’s Ferrochrome Industry”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/01/10/dismantlement-of-south-africas-ferrochrome-industry/
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We should respect South Africa’s desire to rid themselves of colonial European science and technology and allow them to return to their superior traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
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Third world manufacturing: arms industry
https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_t8nknq2yar1z23obp.mp4
Safety and understanding absent. Wouldn’t want to live nearby.
Not even 1% of the QC by Sellier & Bellot’s in in Czech Rep.
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I love their attention to safety, the safety sandals and their extreme precautions with the gunpowder etc..
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Been thus a long time –
“Arithmetic on the Frontier”
“A scrimmage in a Border Station—
A canter down some dark defile—
Two thousand pounds of education
Drops to a ten-rupee jezail—
The Crammer’s boast, the Squadron’s pride,
Shot like a rabbit in a ride! ”
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_arith.htm
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Am I going to be banned for life?
Or worse?
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https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bike-boy-a-true-crime-podcast/id1851933113?i=1000736059167
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FWIW – maybe a tip for that Royal Commission?
Speculation that the democrats know something coming?
“OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN AT WAR WITH HAMAS: Zohran Mamdani Calls Hamas A “Terrorist Organisation” Amid New York Protests.”
“And he was far from alone, as the left suddenly pivots away from open support of Hamas:”
Much more and links in here
https://instapundit.com/768529/#disqus_thread
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And
SDA also notices that “new talking points have dropped”
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2026/01/10/today-in-the-vote-rich-rapey-beheader-community-22/
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FWIW – re that woman shot in Minneapolis
“IF YOU TRIED TO PEDDLE THIS AS FICTION, YOUR EDITOR WOULD TELL YOU IT WAS TOO ON THE NOSE TO BE BELIEVABLE:”
https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2009813504438800812
Via https://instapundit.com/768470/#disqus_thread
And more on why she was there if you go looking
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This link of 90 minutes contains in the first 25 minutes an interesting exploration of Thursday’s Oreshnik attack on Ukraine. Mercouris describes the location hit as being somewhere I’ve not been able to identify or find on a map, but other sources say it’s Lviv. ( If you can identify what he’s saying and give me a reliable spelling or map location I’d appreciate it.) His discussion of possible targets is interesting, but with multiple warheads not surprising. Also interesting is his assessment of Russia’s intent in its use at this time and in this area.
Neither Russia nor Ukraine have given location details, assumably for operational reasons.
Recorded in London Saturday January 10, 2026.
https://rumble.com/v745954-medvedev-says-west-wants-war-russia-ready-oreshnik-hit-military-base-used-b.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
Cheers,
Dave B
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This might help
“Swift Retaliation: Putin Launches Oreshnik Strike on “Largest Gas Storage Site in Europe” in Ukraine’s Lvov Region”
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/swift-retaliation-putin-launches
I haven’t listened today but Alex M headline
“Medvedev Says West Wants War Russia Ready; Oreshnik Hit Military Base Used By West; More Blackouts”
https://rumble.com/v745954-medvedev-says-west-wants-war-russia-ready-oreshnik-hit-military-base-used-b.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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Contra spem spero, I am awaiting tomorrow’s news with bated breath.
There rumours that Nikolay Patrushev and his son Dmitry (Vice-Premier) were charged by FSB for plotting to sell Putin.
That would be an ultimate irony of the century, if true.
Patrushev senior recreated FSB out defunct KGB and been its Chairman for 10 years.
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FWIW – sort of “teal coloured”?
“In less than 1 year Democrats got a subset of left wing women to support or defend: Tren De Aragua, Somali fraud, MS-13, communism, running over law enforcement, Antifa, Maduro, Hamas, Sharia law, assassinations & sex changes for kids. Evil but impressive psychological operation.”
https://x.com/robbystarbuck/status/2009715043345281038
And
https://x.com/MarieIsabellaB/status/2009716767942480247
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FWIW
“Minnesota’s Red Guard Moms: Blocking ICE for the Thrill of Being Told ‘No’ … and Maybe Handcuffed”
“There have been various theories as to why white Liberal women are so enamored with the idea of fighting ICE. This one is really good.”
https://twitchy.com/justmindy/2026/01/10/theory-on-why-white-women-are-trying-to-antagonize-ice-in-minnesota-n2423793
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