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If the renewables scam ever collapses, I think the wokesters, politicians, senior public serpents and Leftists in general will never accept that they were wrong.
They would rather die starving in a cave than admit that they lied to us, or at least admit that they propagated false information due to them not having done evidence-based research to confirm truth or otherwise.
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There, fixed it! 😁
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Never forget that communists are killers.
If they are starving in caves they will kill us for food.
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Good point Ted1.
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The Fabian Society is a satanic socialist terrorist in sheep’s clothing organisation, in bed with communist China, and designed to gradually infiltrate existing institutions, like the Telegraph newspaper, a paper that tries to pretend its right-wing, but suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome, and hires left-wing journalists from the Fabian Society, to write hit pieces attacking right-wing politicians who support rape victims and the vaccine injured.
The far-left Telegraph hopes that Andy Burnham can save the British Establishment from far-right free speech fanatics Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe, Elon Musk, J D Vance and President Trump. President Trump took to ‘Truth Social’ to repost an article stating “They’re Running the 2024 Anti-Trump Playbook on Nigel Farage” with the same techniques deployed to jail former President Jair Bolsonaro, attempt to jail Trump, and ban Marine Le Pen from office.
The left-wing Journalists working for the Daily Mail and Telegraph newspapers have come out in support of the Labour Party, because they don’t support right-wing national socialists, like Farage and Trump.
1989: The Stasi have announce a crackdown on telephone calls after right-wing protests. Honecker has vowed to strengthen GDR Surveillance Laws, granting the Agitation Department enhanced powers to crack down on telephone calls during periods of heightened tension.
2026: The British Socialist Police Force announce a crackdown on ‘X’ after right-wing protests. Starmer has vowed to strengthen the Online Safety Act, granting Ofcom enhanced powers to crack down on social media platforms during periods of heightened tension.
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Australian Fabian Society
https://www.fabians.org.au/mission_and_history
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British Fabian Society
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/fabian-society
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Much like the innocent sounding titled SEARCH Foundation (ex Australian Communist party), just another bunch of commies masquerading as decent folk trying to ‘better the world”.
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I could be mistaken, but was John Howard was a member of the Fabian Society??
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That was a favourite comments section claim for a while, the John Howard was the actor not the politician
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How many Prime Ministers are members of The Fabian Society?
2 at least that I have heard of.
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In the same way that most if not all Labor MPs are members of a trade union they are also members of the Australian Fabian Society.
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I very much doubt that Pauline Hanson is / was a member of the Fabian’s. Undoubtedly that makes her a trustworthy candidate for the top job.
Trust a Fabian Socialist at your peril !
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The Liberal and National parties (LNP QLD) are conservatives, even the left leaning faction are still far from Labor although in my opinion some could be compatible with some of the Labor right faction political spectrum position centre-left and compared to traditional Liberal centre-right, as for example former PM Tony Abbott describes himself positioned.
As you might know, Pauline Hanson was a Queensland Liberal Party member and became a candidate for election to Federal Parliament as an endorsed Liberal candidate. She was disendorsed because of embarrassing public commentary from her about indigenous Australians. A first or earliest example of her speaking her mind but often not articulate.
I know it annoys the fans but researching the history of PHON that became ON in recent times and the turnover of elected members mostly state elections, and the personal pilot and Chief of Staff James Ashby, earlier a Liberal and staffer in the office of the Speaker of the House Peter Slipper is worth considering to know the backgrounds.
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What aspect of James Ashby’s background is particularly noteworthy? What is it about him that you’re not saying?
Him being a former Lib staffer doesn’t seem particularly odd or relevant in a negative way. Just like Hanson being a former Lib candidate isn’t. It could just mean they’re more aligned to the Liberal party of the 1990’s and not the one of today. I am.
It seems the centre of politics is not where it was. I haven’t really changed. But the Labor party has definitely moved further left and many Labor voters say the party no longer represents them. (same for many Democrats in the USA) The Liberal Party has shifted too.
No. She was dis-endorsed because the party didn’t have the guts to say she was right. Instead it was easier to cast her aside to appease a few people rather than have the hard and honest discussion.
Hanson won a safe Labor seat with a 19% swing. Seems her messaging was articulate enough and not embarrassing, or offensive to those in the know. It was just the city media that tried to label her and muddle the message.
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I am not a huge fan of this link but the background history is fairly well explained;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ashby
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My comment was – “She was disendorsed because of embarrassing public commentary from her about indigenous Australians. A first or earliest example of her speaking her mind but often not articulate.”
As I understand the situation was that there was considerable media and other sources reaction and the decision to disendows the candidate followed. I am not judging only commenting on historical fact.
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It’s historical fact that she was dis-endorsed.
The “embarrassing” and “not articulate” are judgements.
I don’t recall her comments that got her dis-endorsed being particularly inarticulate. Just twisted to mean racism by those who want people treated differently on the basis of race. The opposite of what Hanson clearly said.
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Project Ares is a 1GW data centre planned or at least proposed for the NT.
It seems implausible to me in a nation fanatically destroying its power plants. And the NT is so remote.
The only question I have are what subsidies or gifts of taxpayer money or land will it receive.
Note: BESS is battery energy storage system.
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For the life of me I cannot understand what difference it makes where these computers are located.
Maybe a shorter length of fibre between where the queries originate and the results are sent but that’s the only difference between me interacting with one on the Sunshine Coast and another in the USA or China. And the difference in round trip time for data packets is inconsequential anyway.
That is even so if interactions are reversed and the population is controlled by programs which reach out to actuators rather than responding to the population.
After all where exactly is the grok program I talk to located? And is it even located in a single place or distributed over a mesh?
I must ask grok. It will know even if it is just guessing which word comes next.
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For the life of me I cannot understand what difference it makes where these computers are located.
No shame in that; it’s actually very sophisticated augmented risk-mediated decision-making.
In the case of AI data centres (as with super-compuders and armwavy technologies of all types) technically they are best located in places with the highest prospects of a government seeing a political advantage in tipping a large bucket of free money to gain ‘first mover advantage’ and 1,000’s of good well-paying jobs.
This one seems to be trying an innovative ‘bustling new town and campus on what was once a remote cattle station’ approach as the OPM-magnet.
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Yes. I was not considering the political dimension. Nor of course the financial motivation while the bubble is still inflating as it is now.
The thousands of well paid jobs thing is of course a total furphy. Possibly during construction. But even that is fly in fly out.
But when the computers and fibre connections are all in place there is absolutely no need whatsoever for the technicians and programmers to even be on the same side of the planet as the computers are.
The bustling new town merchants will of course be well out of there chasing the next opportunity by the time people realize it was all just a big publicity stunt.
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Tag Snowy II.
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DM, Not really implausible, as per their map, it’s close to a major fibre optic cable route, railway, highway and has a proposed gas pipeline to fuel their 900-1100 “dispatchable” generation for “firming”.
It’s also in the general area of Climate zealot, Mike Cannon Brooke’s mad SunCable project to transport solar harnessed energy to Singapore via a 4000 km extension lead. On the eastern side of the transport routes from memory.
As you say, all probably reliant on tax payer supplied subsidies.
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These large solar systems would be located in what must be a very dusty area, with minimal water available to either provide data centre cooling or solar panel cleaning. Why would anybody think those locations are suitable?
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There is plenty of water if it is captured. Good rainfall for a short period of the year.
I do hope we soon have a government that does not Pee our hard earned up the wall supporting the already uber-rich to build fantasy factories designed to harvest subsidies Oh for that day when Pauline or other says no more subsidies. They finish now.
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The NT govt has wasted millions supporting the Sun cable project. Wondering if they will now support this boondoggle with more taxpayer money.
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For an old curmudgeon, perhaps someone here can advise, just exactly what are these ‘data centers’ (yes, I’m a Yank) storing? Why do we (seem) to need a massive number of ‘data centres’ (h/t to our lovely hostess) everywhere? Please help: I’m very old, and have no idea why anyone needs something like this.
Thnx,
Red
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Because Epstein is now redundant. He’s been superseded. Now it’s no longer necessary to build control files on important people because technology now can collect, interpret, and amass massive amounts of data on everyone. All your interactions and a total psychological profile. The sheer volume of computational power and data storage required in order to have control files on everyone necessitates massive local nodes, data centres.
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Another nice review of the Snowy 2.0 project:
Snowy Hydro 2: Australia’s Failing Pumped Storage Power Station
Megaprojects
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyaaab_ztys
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Simon Whistler who narrates that video is quite woke and even he thinks it’s a disaster although he still believes it’s worthwhile.
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Also interesting documentary;
https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/building-the-snowy
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Farage resigns, declaring ‘enough is enough’ and he’s angry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7pBG2BoxYY
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All a bit of a farce, looks like all the other parties are refusing to be part of his circus as they call it, and won’t be fielding any candidates, so his re-election is guaranteed.
They are also accusing the National Crime Agency of leaking confidential bank statement information to discredit Reform members.
In France, Marine Le Pen said Tuesday she’ll stand in the presidential election next year; her appeal against an embezzlement conviction failed but her electoral ban period was shortened.
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No surprise Monaco/Ukraine bombing suspect turns up dead.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yz3770yg8o
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On that –
“I smell a large, hairy, stinking rat…”
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/07/i-smell-large-hairy-stinking-rat.html
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Gas generation and expensive interconnector imports kept the grid up during the UK heatwave. The Energy department just repeats the same old robotic dogma in response.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15958923/Ed-Milibands-Net-Zero-agenda-failed-stop-electricity-costs-soaring-five-fold-heatwaves-analysis-shows-potentially-bigger-price-jumps-way.html
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“Anyone watching NZ?” I said last week.
I do every day, and very strangely their fuel supplies are apparently normal again.
At least fuelclock.nz says so and monitoring has been mothballed.
Getting just enough fuel to stay above MSO and keep the masses complacent isn’t normal.
I wonder if they’ve been “incentivised” to drop reporting? 😉
Meanwhile, Khomeini’s funeral shows how a country is galvanised and unified against foreign adversaries.
Even Trump was amazed – that’s what happens when you get bad advice.
Don’t understand the enemy. Read Sun Tsu, Donny.
And of course the Iran situation is escalating now on schedule as predicted.
More fun ahead…
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Sources updating now…
All I can say is “whoooaaa!!”.
WTF is the USA doing?
Just crazy.
Redthumbers are in for a wakeup call, but who cares. 😆😆😆
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Cyclone Bavi has China in its sights. Heading NW quite fast; feeding off high ocean temperature and extensive convective potential.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/surface/level/overlay=mean_sea_level_pressure/orthographic=-233.08,19.35,1177/loc=134.521,16.974
Central pressure of 9290hPa indicates rebuilding power as it approaches land.
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Big Pharma collapsing
Dramatic video from inside the former Pfizer headquarters tower in Midtown Manhattan shows large I-beams buckling, and officials are warning of a possible collapse.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/i-beams-bending-cigarettes-former-pfizer-hq-tower-midtown-risk-collapse
Who knew all that fraud and corruption could buckle steel? 😆
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Maybe the Wuhan virus was really a test of skyscraper resistance to biological agents which weren’t really biological agents at all.
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Very strange, as one ZeroHedge comment noted, the steel I beam is buckled but the windows are still intact? How can that be, if a major structural beam has a large bow in it, reducing it’s total length but the windows haven’t blown out?
Also, looking at the footage, I Beams generally don’t crack across their section in that way, perhaps under under extreme vibration resonance, it looks to me like a planted prop or it’s been sabotaged by cutting.
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It’s apparently real and not fake news.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/manhattan/fdny-responds-to-report-of-buckling-building-in-manhattan/6522605/
Also, when things like this happen, my DEI alarm bells immediately go off.
What engineer except a DEI one wouldn’t think to reinforce existing structures when adding extra stories to a building, or at least investigate whether it was necessary?
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Massive ‘frozen zone’ around buckling Midtown NYC building leaves hundreds out on street — with no idea when they can return
“The latest update is the site of concern remains a safety risk, indicating the evacuation order will not be lifted anytime soon and will last well into the night, at the earliest.”
exclusive
Midtown building evacuated over collapse fears is riddled with prior ‘safety’ issues: records
Crucial beams inside buckling NYC building ‘bending like cigarettes’: worker
Midtown high-rise evacuated after support beams buckle, floors cave
Midtown NYC building ‘shifting’ and in danger of ‘localized collapse’: officials
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Yes, something very strange happened there.
From the video, the two columns have grossly deformed. Something structural has descended about 400mm to achieve that. What appears to be steel partition framing is buckled, yet the windows and what appears to be the floor slab above show no sign of disturbance.
At this stage it’s probably still too early to blame Mossad and ‘thermate’, but you’d think the structural engineers will be busy reviewing their PI insurance.
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Turns out that the building was being converted to apartments, and 11 more floors have been added…
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Wednesday funny: Zelensky needs more weapons and money
https://x.com/OlgaBazova/status/2074209045683064929/photo/1
Now off to launder it and buy another offshore mansion.
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The person who invented the term ‘luxury beliefs’ explains the psychology behind such beliefs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFsyicJY0-M
(11m 14s video)
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Barnaby Joyce on Sky news says that today’s Telco outage may have been caused by a foreign player. i.e. Australia’s largest trading partner, In response to Australia signing military agreements with Pacific Island nations.
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Yep. Nice country you’ve got there. Pity if anything happens to it.
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Along with the ballistic missile shenanigans, it feels like a cold war is setting in.
Beijing’s idea of soft power.
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Ya think?
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It depends how things pan out, Zelensky has been invited to Beijing.
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That would be now One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, former National Party MP for many years and elected again as a National at the 2025 Federal election and later changed to One Nation. Former National Party Leader twice, and as a Coalition partner leader was Deputy Prime Minister twice, including with Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and was an advocate for the Snowy 2.0 Project proposal that was of course proposed and announced subject to further submissions from the Snowy Hydro Limited company then owned by Victoria, New South Wales and Federal governments, later after the submission and capital expenditure approval given to Snowy Hydro Limited the Federal Government acquired the State’s shareholding and SMH became a wholly Federal owned business, soon afterwards the Albanese Labor Government was elected and Cabinet Ministers Bowen and Gallagher became the custodians of the shares in SMH Ltd.
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Perhaps something to keep the small/portable nuclear electric generation crowd optimistic?
Antares Nuclear — the Mark-0, a 500-kilowatt sodium heat-pipe microreactor, critical at INL on June 4th.
Valar Atomics — the Ward 250, a 100-kilowatt helium-cooled, TRISO-fueled high-temperature gas reactor, critical in Emery County, Utah on June 18th.
Deployable Energy — the Unity Nuclear Battery, a roughly 1-megawatt shipping-container reactor whose founder famously drove the core to Idaho in the bed of a Ford F-150, critical on June 30th.
Aalo Atomics — the Critical Test Reactor went critical at INL in the wee hours of July 4th, the very deadline itself.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/tonight-how-aalo-atomics-just-made-history
with a link to Forbes
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That had me going for a moment. I equated “critical” with starting to melt down.
Only on reading the article did I learn that critical means “the moment a nuclear chain reaction becomes self-sustaining”.
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Would be interested in a nice little 15 kW micro-reactor.
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Now THAT’s an idea which would set the solar panel business back on its heels.
Price would be the only issue.
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There are some engineers from the UK who have been involved in the design and construction of nuclear reactors and nuclear power stations/plants for a very long time who comment here in Australia from time to time, obviously not giving too much away, and I understand that small or micro reactor power plants are already viable but awaiting certification processing to become available commercially. They are apparently involved with Rolls-Royce UK, including one now retired but still involved. I understand that there is one about the dimensions of a shipping container already operating in the UK on an island.
Many opposed to nuclear power stations/plants appear to favour unreliable wind turbines and infrastructure support or firming equipment and spider’s webs of dedicated transmission lines to main transmission lines (also for solar paddocks of course) are blissfully ignorant or deliberately misrepresenting the nuclear advances. SMR (Small Modular Reactors) have been in service with US Navy for over 75 years and UK licensed via Rolls-Royce over 60 years ago. It’s not nuclear reactor development that is delaying SMR technology electricity supply generator plants, it’s certification of the complete package by government regulations.
I believe that micro reactor generators will eventually replace the off grid diesel generators around Australia.
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“Canary in a Climate World”
“On his Substack, John Robson begins a series looking at a new book that covers the skeptic view of the great climate change debate, Canary in a Climate World:”
“Today we start a series looking at the new bestselling book Canary in a Climate World: Climate Realism vs. the Net Zero Myth. From the title you can guess the slant, but you may not expect the sheer number (38) of well-credentialed contributors. And we begin where they did, with the first chapter called “A Personal Awakening: from Covid to Climate” by Dr. Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at University of London. What’s an expert in cancer research doing writing about climate? Well, he doesn’t claim to be a climate scientist in the narrow sense (though he certainly understands statistics). Instead he writes about how his experience as a medical expert”
More at
https://quotulatiousness.ca/blog/2026/07/05/canary-in-a-climate-world/
Via https://instapundit.com/808559/#disqus_thread
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Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy Announce Creation of New Canadian Bank for NATO/Climate Money Laundering, with $900 Million Seed Money from Canadian Taxpayers
“Mark Carney, welcomed the support for the Canada-led DSRB by: Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania, Türkiye, and Ukraine. These countries will be entrusted with defining the initial policies and directives of the Bank, shaping its operations and ensuring benefits flow to members’ economies.”
[…] Leveraging a strong credit rating, the Bank will provide long-term, low-cost financing for defence, security, and resilience initiatives across supply chains.” When you see the term “resilience initiatives” think climate change. Specifically, think carbon capture and carbon trading mechanisms.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/07/mark-carney-and-volodymyr-zelenskyy-announce-creation-of-new-canadian-bank-for-nato-climate-money-laundering-with-900-million-seed-money-from-canadian-taxpayers/
Carny(n) Carny, also spelled carnie, is an informal term used in North America for a traveling carnival employee.
Perhaps it is also spelled Carney.
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Special subject: when the computer says no.
Grok’s best guess…
“Population is controlled by programs which reach out to actuators”
This is the strongest candidate. It sounds like a reference to AI/government/tech dystopian control narratives (even if you’re using it neutrally in a technical sense about query/response vs. actuation). Moderation systems are hypersensitive to language around “control”, “population”, “programs controlling people”, “actuators”, etc. — especially post-2020s when conspiracy-adjacent phrasing gets auto-flagged even in clearly hypothetical or engineering contexts. It’s the kind of sentence that matches patterns for “misinformation” or “harmful narratives” in crude keyword/ML filters.
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Special subject: encouraging the computer to say yes.
Grok suggests…
I’m curious about something technical: what real difference does the physical location of the servers make for an AI like this? The main factor seems to be fiber distance and round-trip latency, which is usually negligible in practice.
Is the Grok model I’m talking to running in one specific data center, or is it distributed?
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Ok. Computer said yes.
It really would be handy to be able to have the system pre-process comments before causing work for the good people here at Jo’s site.
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I don’t know how many but stock brokers engaged in high frequency trading have computers in the basement of the NY Stock Exchange. The data cabling to each company’s ‘puters is the same length so as not to favour one company over the others.
So building a data centre in Darwin, close to Asia makes some sence by reducing latency. (not my line of work)
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Correct H.
Of course that data cabling originated when 10 Mbps was high speed.
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You would think it doesn’t matter where it is as it only has to go straight up to one of Mr Musk’s low-orbit satellites and get bounced anywhere in the world.
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Oh NO, Albo just on the box announcing a “new” electric truck factory to be built in Brisbane.
Of course it’s a government backed “initiative” with the Commonwealth stumping up $70 million dollars ( tax payer money yet again) for a concept that is at best proven to be inefficient. Why would any sane person think that developing a transport system that spends more time charging than it does “transporting ” is a good idea..
So fully electrify all trucks to save the planet, minor problem is that this will immediately increase the fleet required by three. One truck delivering, one truck limping to a charge station, one truck being charged, all to put one diesel powered truck that can work 24 hours a day off the road. Once again all these political decision makers are on SOMA.
Soma, the drug that everyone in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World took on a daily basis. It eliminated sad, bad, unhappy thoughts, if one took slightly larger doses then it allowed people to “go on holidays” every day of the year. I believe there are large bowls of soma just lying around every politicians office.
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Remember when Brisbane had a Jeep plant?
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Your’e talking ’66 -’68. I was running a servo at the time, servicing the surveyors for our new dam’s jeep. Jeeps because of that. They were big powerful buggers with a straight 6 engine called the Tornado 6 or some such. Not fit for purpose, they would have been better with a Land Rover.
As usual for professionals at that time the surveyor was a gentleman, I liked him.
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I had a short drive in a short wheelbase Land Rover with a fuel tank for refueling farm equipment once, on a hillside on wet grass from top to bottom without tipping over.
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Landrovers regularly broke axles in the Australian bush in the mid 1960s. When the mining companies started in WA in the 1960s, they quickly switched to Toyota Landcruisers, because of Landrover’s unreliability.
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Landrovers did that. But there was relativity.
I knew a bloke who had been “land mapping” in Somalia. Their field equipment was a Piper Cub, a Landrover and a Landcruiser.
They carried spares for the well known Landrover problems.
“The day the Landcruiser “became unreliable” it nearly killed us”. Details unavailable
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Because Brisbane got the Jeep plant all QG 4X4’s had to be Jeep.
Those inflicted were not happy campers.
An earlier Jeep “Storm Engine” was the side valve 6 cylinder “Super Hurricane”. A bloke who met them in PNG reckoned that the only thing “super hurricane” was the rate at which they wore out.
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And it came as a great suprise when I arrived in USA in the early 1970’s that their TV was infested with an ad with a group of yahoos romping around Oz in a Jeep and drinking Budweiser.
There was “some truth telling on both”
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Fortunately, the truck’s featherweight batteries won’t damage the highways!/sarc
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A month or two ago there was a news story about a prime mover converted from diesel engine to electric motors that went into service with a timber company in South Australia on trial. After one year carting logs from forests to the timber mill towing two trailers of logs the business owners advised that the real range was about half of what the conversion firm had estimated and that no more EV prime movers would be considered, the trial proved to not be cost effective.
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Same interview, Albo just stating that he doesn’t engage in “culture wars” and that the aboriginal nations welcome to country is a tradition going back thousands of years.
Clearly all those intertribal blood feuds, the need for territory, the belief in witch craft, warfare and murder of the opposition simply didn’t happen. “Welcome to our Country” compete with us for scarce resources, steal our women, fight, murder people on a belief that they caused misfortune.
Must be true the prime minister said so.
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Did Cook’s log mention the ceremony? Not what we’ve been told.
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I haven’t heard that Governor Philip mentioned it either
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And there were spear wavings that were taken as unwelcoming
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Unwelcome To Country ceremony?
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They are re-writing that history as we speak!
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Didn’t Cook log smoking ceremonies all along the East Coast during his voyage before hitting the reef and beaching Endeavour at Cooktown for repairs?
sarc
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They have been in this country for at least 63,000 years and I’m against welcome to country. It creates social division and we could do without it.
Everything they have done over that time was no different to any other society on the planet. What the Europeans did in the name of god was barbaric.
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From the outset it was a clash of cultures.
‘On December 18, 1838, an angry crowd gathered outside the Sydney Supreme Court. Their rage was directed not at a crime, but at the concept of justice.
Seven white stockmen were about to be hanged for their roles in the Myall Creek massacre, where at least twenty-eight defenceless Aboriginal men, women, and children had been brutally slaughtered.’ (Koori Mail’s Post)
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“From the outset it was a clash of cultures.”
True EG but can anyone name any where on earth where there hasn’t been a clash of cultures? In the Americas’ Inuit fought Indians and other different Indians, Europe has been at war with its myriad of indigenous groups since the dawn of time, Asia the same, each new dominant group forcing changes on the subjugated , Oceania, travellers from across the sea changed island populations, Africa, conflict from the dawn of time between north and south, east and west, what is different about Australia and New Zealand, well they are sort of “the last” in a long long chain. Until of course new groups arise and start the process again.
Strangely for all of these ‘clashes of cultures” there has tended to be many positive outcomes. In Australia a Stone Age people were lifted into modernity, is this good or bad? Would any aboriginal people volunteer to go back to the old ways. I remember reading somewhere (possibly I Aborigine, by Douglas Lockwood) were a former nomad thought that the white fella ways were much better than black fella ways because with the white fellas there was ALWAYS plenty to eat.
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‘ … lifted into modernity, is this good or bad?’
They show an amazing resilience to survive and adapt.
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China fired an ICBM into the Pacific.
It goes to show that no matter how much our own communist Government appeases the Chicomms, they will continue to conduct threatening behaviours.
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-test-fires-missile-into-pacific-alarming-regional-powers-2026-07-06/
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Using nuclear submarine launching no country is too far away.
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Uh-huh… no doubt they are the first country to ever fire a missile from a submarine and no-one else would dare exhibit such threatening behaviour…
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Prey tell when the west fires missiles in others’ backyards.
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FWIW
Looks like another “quote with caution list”
“DataRepublican Torches Candace Owens With HER OWN WORDS in Detailed, Damning, MUST-READ Thread”
https://twitchy.com/samj/2026/07/07/dr-candace-owens-n2429987
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FWIW
“Canada Awards $20 to $30 Billion Submarine Contract to German Company TKMS
July 6, 2026 | sundance | 176 Comments”
In there
“Someone recently asked in the comments section why I have an issue with Canada, specifically why a new level of distain for our Northern neighbors. Quite simply, there is a level of lying that exceeds my tongue bite capacity; that level of deceit comes when fabricating lies is accompanied by pretending. The Canadian government is the worst type of political abuser. They willfully pretend and simultaneously lie to the Canadian people. That’s the answer.”
More at
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/06/canada-awards-20-to-30-billion-submarine-contract-to-german-company-tkms/
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Canada would be better off joining AUKUS, after all Canada is one of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance – US UK Canada Australia NZ – since WW2 and remain closest allies to the Alliance partners.
The new SSN AUKUS will be next generation design now underway and more capable than US Virginia Class nuclear submarines. Construction is already being prepared in UK and in Australia (Adelaide Naval Shipyard where RAN Collins Class conventional diesel-electric submarines were built).
For range, endurance underwater, no refuelling required for thirty years (nuclear fuel rods) and speed underwater the nuclear submarines are far superior to conventional designs, even the latest model Swedish Gotland Class that the RAN Collins Class were based on when built 1980s-1990s.
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Scrap the AUKUS submarine deal and raise the white flag, China is building state of the art nuclear subs at a very reasonable price.
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From what I read and hear many people cannot grasp the concept of combined military forces, for Australia having an ADF and much better equipped than we have now that operates with the combined allied countries and with equipment that is interchangeable and communicates across the combined forces presents potential aggressors with a lot of problems to deal with.
Obviously Australia since WW2 continues to rely on the United States of America military and other capabilities, and US is with the UK our top two foreign investment countries and therefore have financial interests, but also our allies would not want this country land mass and natural resources to be taken over by a not friendly country.
Already RAN personnel are embedded aboard USN nuclear submarines training to be ready for delivery of RAN Virginia Class x 3 and later SSN AUKUS x 8 nuclear submarines and all equipped with technology that would for example enable a US crew to take over if that was necessary.
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Everything is changing, picture a world where hegemony is history and military spending is greatly reduced. This is where we are heading and the weapons of choice are medium range missiles up to 2,500 kms with pinpoint accuracy and patriot type defence missiles.
Instead of aircraft carriers, submarines and ICBMs, there will be unmanned mini subs, aerial drones of every description and robots monitoring the borders.
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” UK and in Australia ”
Lets see who has got the most money-grabbing, lazyist, un-caring, incompetent unions between the two of them.
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UK Communist Labour unionists came to Australia a long time ago.
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And quickly rose to the top of the unions, where they greatly increased industrial disruptions.
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Read up on what the Diggers thought of the unions in WW eleven. A flight of US aircraft got lost and disappeared north of here. The RADAR which could have found them had had the valves stolen by wharfies.
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And of the Vietnam era
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The anti-war Vietnam protestors including university student activists, unionists and Labor Party members, one example lining the streets where returned soldiers were marching shouting insults at them as if they made the decision that resulted in them being conscripted or regular ADF personnel sent away to fight.
One picture I remember shows a Labor woman who later became a Prime Minister complete with red beret and red shoes with the activist mobs.
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In the 1960s, it was understood that anything sent north in WA on the state ships would be looted at all ports. Vehicles arriving up north would be out of action for ages, waiting for parts to arrive to replace the missing items. No wonder all goods eventually shifted to road transport.
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“… after all Canada is one of the Five Eyes Intelligence Alliance – US UK Canada Australia NZ – since WW2 and remain closest allies to the Alliance partners.”
Hmm … the eyes are in alliance … yet the governments and the people those governments allegedly represent, constantly appear not.
Wonder if the focus of anybody’s eyes is constantly being prevented from focusing?
Like by an alliance.
As for me, I see nothing, I hear nothing, except what the alliance shows me.
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South Korea was the runner up, but they weren’t fazed.
‘Lee was present at NATO because South Korea is fast becoming a major arms supplier to many nations in the 32-member alliance.’ (CBC)
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Recalcitrant sea ice behaviour not in the script.
https://notrickszone.com/2026/07/07/polar-freezeover-western-arctic-early-july-sea-ice-exceeds-1980s-average/
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Protest tomorrow against Australia becoming Little India
We will then march towards MARVEL stadium where an anticipated 30,000 Indians will be heading inside to hear Anthony Albanese give more of our country away to them and their leader Narendra Modi.
It will be peaceful but loud protest, reminding our leaders that we need to be put first in our own country.
https://www.auspill.com/protestmodi
Just look at the UK…
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FWIW
“BRILLIANTLY EUROPEAN – Belgium Files World Cup Appeal to Block U.S. Team from Fielding its Best Players
July 6, 2026 | sundance | 452 Comments”
In there
“Soccer is a ‘sport system’ bureaucratically designed to fail when contrast to a brutally honest American perspective on sport.
Soccer succeeding in America is the inverse to Liberty succeeding worldwide.
Soccer is the United Nations of sports.
If soccer is ever to succeed in America, the United States is lost forever!”
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/07/06/brilliantly-european-belgium-files-world-cup-appeal-to-block-u-s-team-from-fielding-its-best-players/
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FWIW
“Though not utopia, the world of 2026 is characterized by conditions for human thriving that are stronger than ever—cleaner, healthier, better fed, and safer than any time before.”
“An Imperfect World That Is Better Than Ever”
“Much of the world was optimistic after a peace deal ended months of conflict in the Middle East that had disrupted the global oil trade. But peace in that region has long been a tenuous matter, and how long it lasts is anybody’s guess. Nonetheless, there are other reasons for optimism that are not subject to the vagaries of geopolitics.
For the past two decades, the media have reported a “climate crisis” with a conviction that presumed dissent to be insane if not immoral. Yet, the very atmospheric changes over which reporters hyperventilated about impending doom are in fact delivering measurable benefits.”
More at
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/07/07/an-imperfect-world-that-is-better-than-ever/
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FWIW – just noticed
https://www.nem-watch.info/widgets/reneweconomy/
“Wed 8 Jul, 20:55 (NEM Time”
“Large Solar 45 MW”
In Qld
Talking point removed on their next update though
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It’s farcical to suggest the Australian government has done anything to keep the Barrier Reef off the endangered list. They were complicit in suggesting there was anything wrong with the reef sacrificing the Queensland tourist industry to create their false climate narrative.The UN were just responding to the propaganda that our government facilitated and both sides of government were guilty of that. And when the only honest voice on the subject Peter Rudd was silenced the UN moved in for the kill. Ironically the last thing they really want to do is actually put the reef onto the endangered list because they get more leverage in terms of obedience and finances by keeping our government on tenterhooks by hanging the threat of the endangerment finding around Australia’s neck like the sword of Damocles . Hopefully whoever gets in government next after Labor exits the playing field will withdraw Australia from all these ridiculous UN climate commitments
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Better not to withdraw from the UN until we can prove that CO2 is not responsible for GBR bleaching.
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Peter Ridd
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