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A lot of Chinese “stainless steel” cookware is 200 series stainless and can leach manganese, nickel or chromium into your food.
Make sure you buy 18/8 or 18/10 or better series stainless like 304 or 316.
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I’ve got a long defunct UK builder merchant catalogue from the early 1970s, it’s a proper book, 4″ thick.
You can still buy most of the hardware it shows, and it looks identical, but nowadays it’s made in China.
You wouldn’t believe that 6mm of iron baseplate on a heavy duty farm gate hinge could rust clean through in 5 years. It does.
One made in England in the 1970s would still be going strong now.
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Just buy Solidtechnics “Noni” pans.
Made in Australia from stainless steel.
Expensive? Yes, but it will last you and your children a lifetime.
If you’re keen and capable, polishing the pan makes it nearly non-stick.
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I just exploit the Leidenfrost effect and add oil at that point (190C +) and the pan becomes non-stick. 😎
I fluked a stir fry a year ago that went above Umami, more like super-umami.
Shouldn’t have happened at all and I can’t explain it, but the taste was like nothing I’ve ever had.
Been trying for a year now to reproduce it and failed…
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My caravan purchased new 2015 has stainless steel sinks in kitchen area and ensuite bathroom. A while ago after a long trip I was cleaning the interior before backing it into the shed and got called away, I left a commercial cleaning fluid spray bottle on its side in the ensuite sink, it leaked, and a couple of weeks later I had put the van away under cover and happened to enter the ensuite to check something and discovered the bowl corroded just where the leaked fluid had been.
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Here is a fairly sickening Their ABC woke interpretation of Australia’s energy crisis and how we must urgently “transition”.
It’s importance to the Thinking Community is that it gives an idea of what the Left are thinking and their strategy for the de-energisation and subsequent deindustrialisation of what little industry os left in Australia.
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/global-roaming/-middle-east-war-renewable-energy-transition-/106579154
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“Transition”??
Cutting off interesting “bits’ and loading up with hormone brews?
Not THAT sort of transitioning”?
Just economic mutilation”?
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In the following interview Ben Fordham says the Australian Government waa lying about its supposed lack of involvement of bringing back the ISIS terrorist camp followers, the so-called “ISIS brides”. The Syrian Government says the Australian Government was highly involved.
Remember, their demographic vote Labor- lots of “free stuff” from the taxpayer. They can look forward to taxpayer-funded careers of incubating more ISIS terrorists (and future Labor voters).
If arrested I doubt whether they’ll be charged, it’s for show only, that would be offensive to a certain Labor-affiliated demographic.
The Government claims they’ll be monitored (at huge taxpayer expense). Really?
https://omny.fm/shows/ben-fordham-full-show/exclusive-police-commissioner-previews-arrival-of-isis-brides%F0%9F%8E%A7
Also mentioned is that police ignored warnings of extremist ideology of one the Bondi terrorists. The other Bondi terrorist was on a “terrorist watch list”. That was obviously a huge fail.
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They have been lying to us the whole way through this debacle, from denying assistance with entry visas to arresting them on arrival to monitoring them once here.
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Govt says monitoring them will cost $2 mill, so you can take that to be $20mill.
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In Victoriastan fire break construction has been reduced from 700km to just 7km.
It’s almost as though they want the place to burn. I suppose it will save them having to clear the land for more wind and solar subsidy farms.
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How messed up is this?
Australia is energy poor domestically but exports vast amounts of gas.
Japan buys some of this gas and sells it for a huge profit.
Meanwhile, Australia is building gas import terminals.
Perhaps we can buy our own gas back (at much more than we sold it for)?
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“Meanwhile, Australia is building gas import terminals.
Perhaps we can buy our own gas back (at much more than we sold it for)?”
That would be like importing Toyotas so cheaply that we could make money exporting them to a foreign country.
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Did you all miss the news?
https://www.news.com.au/national/gas-exporters-forced-to-reserve-20pc-for-australian-use/news-story/bc90784ea636bfcfab8d9147d0bfddc1
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Catching up to WA, who introduced a similar policy in 1979. Now if only other states would use their own gas, that might reduce gas costs.
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nonetheless a comment like this
“Perhaps we can buy our own gas back (at much more than we sold it for)?”
is already addressed by the government.
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Gi….it didn’t take them long eh ???
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Too little too late.
‘The scheme, which kicks in mid next year …’
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It can’t over-ride existing contracts and allows time for industry adjustment.
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Agreed, its a sensible approach.
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Good news,
Now we need an end to the ban on fracking and also nuclear power.
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Did you all miss the news?
Did you actually read the ‘policy’ announcement?
https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/timayres/transcripts/press-conference-announcing-gas-reservation-scheme
So, not actually an operative policy. Loose pieces flapping in the political wind, contradictions with Albanese and Wong’s stability assurances to strategic trade partners, details not discussed with producers or industry, critical technical issues either ignored or assumed away – an exercise in total confusion by Bowen, King and Ayres (plus Wong, according to King).
The main (apparent) takeaways from the presser gibberish:
1) LNG contracts on foot will be honoured – so no existing gas production diverted from Qld Curtis into East Coast markets until around 2035.
2) After whatever contracts expire, Australian gas producers must sell (not just offer, or reserve) 20% of whatever volume they export as LNG into the domestic market.
3) Gas will be really, really cheap quite soon. Probably in a few weeks. Or something. Ask Penny.
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So, using dog rough numbers, the loose bits in all this good news are:
Where is the 20% of WA gas production going to go in WA? The NWS region produces around 5,000PJ equivalent annually – almost all goes into LNG, the existing WA domestic market consumes about 400PJ/a. So, another 600PJ/a of demand required to support the existing LNG export.
Where is NT gas going to go? NT LNG production is around 700PJ/a equivalent. The NT domestic gas market is about 20PJ/a and the export pipeline to the east coast has around 30PJa capacity – arguably insufficient to handle 140PJ of supply.
How will Queensland CSG producers maintain export volume when the SWQ Pipeline (and other infrastructure) acts as a 190PJ bottleneck to moving 20% of 1200PJ/a CSG production?
What happens to LNG exports (and the Budget) if domestic gas demand doesn’t grow sufficiently to permit the existing LNG infrastructure capacity to be utilised.
The (possibly, but not necessarily unintentional) outcomes seem to be: we’re either going to be spending lashings of magic OPM on gas transport/storage infrastructure to as yet unknown markets; curtailing LNG exports – or burning huge volumes of Too Cheap to Meter gas in all sorts of remote places.
Or possibly all of the above.
Or possibly something quite different.
None of which seems like the very best way to try to run a national economy.
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yes. Good questions.
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“Did you all miss the news?”
News ?, LOL, when does it take effect, about 9 to 10 years from now, what a farce.
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That’s for the future, what about the now?
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What if Vic, the biggest complainant, tapped their own gas? That’s a thought.
And what’s wrong with building import terminals, as we do for oil?
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Why build import terminals right down on the bottom of Oz, as far away from overseas gas suppliers as one could be?
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You put the receiving terminals where the demand is.
Minerals “belong” to the states. How does Vic, NSW demand 20% of Qld, WA resources? The Feds may make demands as part of the export licences but only on new contracts.
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Google Bass Strait. Been producing for decades.
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Bass Strait is part of a large basin, there is a LOT of proven gas that is locked up by law, some on shore and shallow in Gippsland.
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Indeed it is, but they comment was what if VIC tapped their own. It has been doing so for decades.
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The idiocy of building import terminals is that we would be importing our own gas.
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As it is illegal to prospect or drill for local gas, how else do you receive the gas?
But the maritime unions make domestic shipping prohibitive so ALL gas would come via Singapore anyway. It may not physically go to Singapore but it will be invoiced from there.
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There are things called pipelines. And there is a lot of spare space in the middle of Australia to run them. APA ran a pipeline from the Pilbara right down to the south coast of WA in a year.
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An AI search
International buyers, particularly in Asia, pay prices linked to global benchmarks like the Japan Korea Marker (JKM), which have historically been high. For example, in 2022, Asian spot LNG prices reached near-record levels of $42.50 per million British thermal units (MMBtu). Australian LNG is sold under long-term oil-linked contracts and spot market deals, with pricing slopes reportedly between 12% and 15% of oil prices, plus transportation costs.
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FWIW
“el gordo” yesterday #6.3 posted that
“Regime change in Washington has been rumoured.”
On the other hand regime changes in Washington rumoured not likely –
” C&C Special Edition— the Democrats’ catastrophic, terrible, no-good polycrisis and how there’s no good way for them to escape the reckoning. ”
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/big-fat-polycrisis-thursday-may-7?
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American democracy is seriously flawed, but my gut feeling is that the Democrats will take control of the Senate and Congress at the Midterms.
Then they will impeach the whole regime and not just the sick old man running the show.
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Are you thinking of O’Bidens regime, I would have to agree with you.
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Its the ugly face of capitalism corrupting the political system.
Over in the Antipodes we have a different political culture which shys away from that sort of vulgarity.
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“Over in the Antipodes we have a different political culture ”
/Sarc….
“which shys away from that sort of vulgarity.” When you’re both on the same side you don’t need to be rude to each other.
If ONLY we had some ugly capitalism corrupting the political system we could get something done! I’ve had enough of the ugly face of Socialism running the place into the ground!
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Wanna buya bridge?
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The political tide has turned, charismatic leadership without substance is going from nowhere to oblivion.
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Ah! This bridge is better’n the first.
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1. The Democrats taking the House is a pretty safe bet, though recent court decisions and redistricting efforts make it a probability rather than a near certainty.
2. Taking the Senate is a lot less likely. The Democrats would need to flip multiple seats in pro-Trump Red states, and Senate seats don’t flip as easily as House seats due to them being state-wide rather than split into districts.
3. Even if the Democrats flip both, they can’t impeach their way to power. First, because you need 67% of the votes rather than a simple majority to secure a conviction, meaning you need a lot of votes from the other side of the aisle (which they simply will not get). Second, because the vice president would simply take over (and appoint a new VP to take his place in the line of succession), and they have absolutely nothing to impeach/convict him on since he’s not the decision maker in the current government. All impeaching Trump would result in is President JD Vance having the incumbency advantage in the 2028 election.
IMO, the Democrats would be better off forgetting Trump exists and concentrating on developing their own vision for the future to sell in the 2028 election. Trump is going to be gone in 2.5 years anyway, and even if they did impeach/convict him, it would take at least a year to pull it off. By then, he would only have about a year left on his term.
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FWIW
“UAH v6.1 Global Temperature Update for April, 2026: +0.39 deg. C”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/07/uah-v6-1-global-temperature-update-for-april-2026-0-39-deg-c/
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What is that thing Global Temperature?
At this very moment I am punching my keyboard with totally frozen fingers.
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I am shocked – one of them is confessing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEDszME5hIs
One can not help but to come to conclusion that the whole mountain of self perpetuating Solar wastage is created by design.
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Ah, the propaganda wars! All that Youtube is useful for, people screaming ‘you’ll be shocked’ on both sides of an argument!
At least we get to see things that Govts would not want us to.
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It is an interesting take on how rapidly the solar technology is advancing. And then the waste it is producing.
I like the young fellow who has upgraded his rooftop to 20kW when he fitted the new 40kWh battery. He could now realistically operate off-grid.
This is why the grid is stuffed. Households will always be able to make lower cost solar energy than the grid. The only way back for the grid is to forget the fantasy world of intermittent generators and stick with reliable, low cost coal.
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It’s a shocking waste of resources.
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FWIW
“U.N. TO SANCTION ALBANESE AND E.U. PRESIDENT OVER CLIMATE MISINFORMATION”
https://richardsonpost.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/image-8.png
https://richardsonpost.com.au/cliff-reece/42193/u-n-to-sanction-albanese-and-e-u-president-over-climate-misinformation/
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We can only hope the UN runs out of money sooner rather than later. Thank you POTUS Trump.
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FWIW
“Two different perspectives on technology, and both are thought-provoking”
“First, an article in American Intelligence addresses artificial intelligence in the agricultural sector. (American Intelligence provides very few details about itself or those behind it. I did a search using Supergrok, which provided these details, if you’re interested.)”
And
“I’m not a Luddite. I think automation and technology can serve us well, if properly managed, and hold out great hope for the future. However, we can’t embrace them blindly unless we also account for those who will be displaced by them. How are we going to cope with them in our increasingly digital society? How are they going to adapt, particularly if there’s no work available for them to earn a living while they and their families adapt?
That dilemma was discussed last year at the Nexus Conference 2025, ‘Apocalypse Now: The Revelation of our Time’. It was held under the auspices of the Nexus Institute, which describes its mission like this:
As an independent non-profit foundation, the Nexus Institute brings together the world’s foremost intellectuals, artists, scientists and politicians, and encourages them to discuss the questions that really matter. How are we to live? How can we shape our future? Can we learn from our past? Which values and ideas are important, and why?”
More at
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2026/05/two-different-perspectives-on.html
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“Furthermore, what will it do to nations that cannot afford to grow their own food even today, but also cannot afford to automate their agriculture? Will there be seeds they can grow, or will even that be absorbed into techno-agriculture? What about the illegal aliens who used to flood across our borders to work on American farms? Now they’ll be stuck in their own countries, without work, and possibly without local food either.”
It doesn’t take much thinking to realise the illegal immigrant farm workers will return to their own countries, taking the lessons on farming they have learned with them. With this technology transfer they can become successful farmers at home and make sure there is an abundance of local food.
I don’t mind if they stop AI and all this electronics invention, I have absolutely no use at all for a fridge or a car that talks to me, but it means stopping our progress forward as well. If they had stopped at the discovery of oil we would still have all those starving out-of-work blacksmiths employed…
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FWIW
“Starmergeddon MORE Projections POLLS CLOSED”
And a lesson in there for “Elbow & Co”
“One thing to savour today.
All that sucking up by Starmer and Labour to the Muslim vote fell apart.
They’ve defected to the Greens and Independents.”
https://x.com/AllisonPearson/status/2052312179529920540
More at
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/starmergeddon-n3814681
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Temperatures stubbornly wont go back down
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Of course not, but its completely CO2 unrelated. When they go back down is when you should worry, as the snow falls and never melts..
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except they wont because [CO2] keeps going up though things could override that affect like we are hit by a huge rock or AMOC stops or something
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Down to where?
Or is it what?
As for me I prefer stubborn warm to stubborn cold.
This past one was the most stubborn of my Earthly experience.
This Spring is stubbornly cool as well.
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Down to where certain people keep saying they will go (KP as an example).
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No, and so they shouldn’t. https://science.nasa.gov/climate-change/faq/what-is-the-greenhouse-effect/ “Part of what makes Earth so amenable is its natural greenhouse effect, which maintains an average temperature of 15 °C (59 °F)” . “The actual average global temperature in 2025 was estimated to be 15.08 °C” https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2025-was-one-of-warmest-years-record. So what is the problem? We are supposed to be at 15°C and we are at 15°C.
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NASA is a government shill don’t you know. The nice neat number 15 is also a degree above pre-industrial so well done for finding a source that matches your rhetoric.
These disagree
https://berkeleyearth.org/global-temperature-report-for-2025/
https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-confirms-2025-was-one-of-warmest-years-record
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/global-climate-202513
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That recent spike in temperature wasn’t caused by CO2, as you well know.
Putting the Hunga Tonga blip aside, only a super El Nino could force temps higher at this point in time.
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Write the paper and get it published LG
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That would be a complete waste of time, its a closed shop.
But I am practising to be an online tutor in Atmospheric Science and Political Economy.
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Can’t see a super El Nino happening any time soon, so I’m forecasting that temps will fall below the AGW trajectory.
https://classic.nullschool.net/#current/ocean/surface/currents/overlay=sea_surface_temp_anomaly/orthographic=-129.89,-1.27,530/loc=-126.500,-16.809
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Ah yes. The climate catastrophe shills of Berkeley, NOAA and WMO with their snouts in the trough. Fortunately for the more rational of us, the NASA reference to 15 c dates back long before the current administration and was also quoted during the Biden administration. So inferring that the figure is deliberate misinformation to please good old Trumty Dumpty is complete nonsense. And just to show that you are not the only one who can find sources to match your rhetoric:
https://niwa.co.nz/atmosphere/what-greenhouse-effect. The presence of “greenhouse” gases in the atmosphere, however, changes the radiation balance. Heat radiation (infra-red) emitted by the Earth is concentrated at long wavelengths and is strongly absorbed by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapour, carbon dioxide and methane. As a result, the surface temperature of the globe is around 15 °C on average, 33 °C warmer than it would be if there were no atmosphere. This is called the natural greenhouse effect.
https://usa.oceana.org/our-work-climate-energy-climate-change-learn-act-the-greenhouse-effect/ A small component of the heat, however, is trapped by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and is returned to the Earth’s surface. This process is called the greenhouse effect. Under normal conditions, the greenhouse effect is positive as it allows the planet to maintain an optimal temperature for life to exist at around 15 C (59 F). Without the greenhouse effect, the earth’s average temperature could be as low as -18 C (0 F).
https://forliance.com/news-and-insights/knowledge-base/greenhouse-effect The greenhouse effect is a natural physical process in which certain gases in the atmosphere trap and re-radiate heat, warming the Earth. Without this mechanism, the Earth’s average temperature would be about -18°C instead of +15°C.
https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Earth_Temperature_without_GHGs. Without the influence of the greenhouse effect on our planet, the average surface temperature would be 255 Kelvin – which can also be expressed as -18°C or 0°F.[1] If this were the case, water on Earth would freeze and life as we know it would not exist. This is a significant temperature drop in comparison to the approximately 15°C average temperature on the Earth with the greenhouse effect
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FWIW
“The Long Goodbye to Most Successful Rocket of All Time”
“Elon Musk’s SpaceX began making moves on the ground that could eventually lead to the retirement of the company’s venerable Falcon 9 reusable launch vehicle, which changed the world. Pause before we even get started to ponder that roughly 145 launches this year could mark the beginning of a long goodbye.
As of this month, Falcon 9 has flown 624 orbital missions with about 621 full mission successes since 2015, for an industry-leading success rate and a launch cadence that entire nation-states can only dream of matching. And SpaceX did it while providing massively reduced costs to its customers — that includes you, American taxpayer — and pioneering operational reusability at scale.”
More at
https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/05/07/the-long-goodbye-to-most-successful-rocket-of-all-time-n4952594
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The success of SpaceX is just stunning, more so when you look at their innovation! Most countries can’t hit a barge at sea with a missile, yet Musk now routinely lands boosters on one every couple of days.
Apparently Starship has new engines, more powerful and more efficient. He could put ground-based ISPs out of business with Starlink.
Hard to imagine, but buying a Falcon 9 now will be like buying a 1929 Speed-Six Bentley in 1939.. In 50years you own a game-changing classic vehicle.
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For anyone interested I wrote a two part article on SpaceX.
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/SC/2025/July/SpaceX
https://www.siliconchip.com.au/Issue/SC/2025/August/SpaceX%2C+Part+2
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FWIW
“ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME THAT THERE WERE NO RISKS: Large study finds a strong link between depression and cannabis use.”
https://instapundit.com/795142/#disqus_thread
Another “safe and effective”?
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Marijuana was safe and effective when it was grown naturally and had a 4% THC content. Modern strains can push as high as 90% THC concentration. The weed boomers were smoking back in the 1960s and Gen Xers and even older millennials were smoking in the 1990s is not the same stuff being sold in weed dispensaries today. A single joint today contains as much THC as an ounce of weed back in the day. It’s like the difference between drinking a beer and drinking 190 proof moonshine. You can slowly sip on beers all day and maintain a slight buzz without getting drunk, but if you try that with grain alcohol you are going to wind up face down in a ditch covered in vomit and urine. That’s what heavy marijuana users are doing to themselves with modern strains of weed.
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FWIW – more EV scene
“Porsche’s China Collapse Is a Warning to Every Foreign Brand That Built Their Future on China.
For years, foreign luxury brands treated China like an infinite growth machine. Now Porsche is learning the hard way that dependence on the China market can quickly become a strategic trap.
Porsche’s latest numbers are stunning.
Q1 China sales collapsed 21% year-over-year to just 7,519 vehicles. Even more shocking: compared to its 2023 peak, Porsche’s quarterly sales in China have fallen more than 60% in only three years.”
https://x.com/Ken_LoveTW/status/2052274826178609358
And
“China’s Electric Vehicle Industry Is Imploding | BYD Caught in Massive Fraud Scheme.
In this video, I expose the shocking truth behind China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) industry collapse — and how BYD, once hailed as the “China Tesla,” is now caught in a web of fake sales,”
https://instapundit.com/795280/#disqus_thread
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Netherlands bans oil and meat ads
Amsterdam has banned all public advertisements for meat and fossil fuels since May 1 in a world first as it aims to discourage public spending on goods linked to greenhouse gas emissions, according to reports.
The ban also affects fish products and long-haul air travel and cruises, the CBS reported.
https://dailycaller.com/2026/05/05/amsterdam-ban-meat-fossil-fuel-public-advertisements-the-netherlands/
Holiday in the Netherlands, walk everywhere and eat bugs in the dark. It’s fun!
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But red light districts 👍🏼
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And cannabis cafes.
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Let them eat insects and freeze in the dark.
I’m not sure the Saracen replacement population will be so obliging.
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While we’re at it:
Denmark limits elderly to 80 grams of meat a week
An eco-warrior politician has sparked outrage in Denmark after she defended guidelines limiting residents of government-run nursing homes to just 2.8 ounces of beef a week — which is less than one Big Mac.
Birgitte Kehler Holst of the left-wing green Danish party The Alternative was also accused of saying old people in nursing homes should be “punished” by restricting their meat intake in comments made in a meeting of Copenhagen’s City Council on April 30.
She was speaking against plans to exclude nursing home residents from guidelines in the Danish capital that restrict meals at government-run sites to just 2.8 ounces (80 grams) of beef, lamb, or veal per week.
https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/world-news/danish-pol-defends-guidelines-limiting-nursing-home-residents-to-2-8oz-of-beef-a-week/
These people are sick twisted individuals.
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Trust China?
Have we ever been able to do that?
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Oil storage tanks in the United States will run empty “somewhere in the July 4 period
https://x.com/business/status/2052018862128832571
June is going to be a wild ride.
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Dear Albowen
Please take my $1.47 charging station contribution from my $275 energy bill reduction, whenever you get around to doing that.
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Lol! You can’t beat a Govt for screwing you! So we all pay for EV chargers with a special tax, starting at $1.50 so not noticeable, but has anyone ever heard of a tax that didn’t keep going up?
How come we never got charged a special tax to build petrol stations?
Why don’t they just take it out of the EVs registration costs and put those up to cover it?
Why don’t they put it on top of the charging cost for EVs, they are the ones using it?
There will never be a clearer example of a product being politically forced onto people who don’t want it!!
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This tax starting at $1.47 is probably already missing the plus 10% GST. It’s possible the starting point is already higher than the publicly floated proposal.
$1.47 + 10% = $1.62. Its a possibility, after all the only time politicians don’t tell the truth is when their lips are moving.
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Nurseries urged to report ‘racist toddlers’ to police
Welsh nurseries have been advised to report children for “racist incidents” in guidance backed by the Labour Government.
The taxpayer-funded guidance for childminders aims to make nurseries and play groups “anti-racist” environments.
Childcare workers are advised to call police if a “racist incident” occurs that could be deemed a hate crime.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/05/nurseries-urged-report-racist-toddlers-hate-crimes-police/
Is your 4yo a racist? Dob he/she/it into the police today!
Where will it end..
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And what happens to these “racist” toddlers?
Re-education camp?
Electric shock therapy?
Compulsory gender reassignment?
Compulsory covid jab?
Execution?
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“The toolkit suggests that a risk assessment could be undertaken by leaders to protect “global majority” staff against the threat of racism, which it says has been heightened by a “changing political context” and “racist demonstrations taking place across the UK”.”
“Global Majority”?
That’s a new one for me as methinks I’m not in it.
I keep noticing the morally superior Includers keep inventing novel exclusive language that excludes me.
I was born a majority culture oppressor, and now I’m a minority oppressor?
But then again, I am guilty of the immutable sin of whiteness.
Which prevents trans black wheelchair fashion models from success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo9IY7LX19Y
I keep thinking the peak crazy has finally occurred from which the drawback can begin.
And keep getting disappointed.
And recalling my poor father that fought a war against people that utilized blaming of a certain ethnicity for the ills of society to pave their path to authoritarian power.
He and I both thought he and his generation had won the fight*.
Maybe not.
*(They even had famous trials, where UN sorts of types supposedly codified such notions as crimes. Now those same UN types are drumming up animosity towards a different ethnic group which they apparently now label a ‘global minority’ … for their path, paved with the golden bricks of good intentions, to authoritarian power )
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This is quite sobering perspective on where Australia is heading:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whKtRWAMMbM
You need to go 40 minutes in to get the conversation about the progressive 18 to 35 year old females who will vote Green or Labor.
A lot more needs to be done on getting the radical left out of academia and schools that are shaping the young minds.
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An hour of my life watching a clown on TV to get info that you could summarise in 5 lines? Come on Rick, give us a break, tell us the important bits!
How many real people would sit there for an hour of their day listening to some guy they’ve never met talk about something that, at the end, doesn’t interest them or teach them anything useful? I reckon most of the ‘views’ on Youtube are bots.
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Gotta love all the youtube videos that promise to explain something in a few minutes, but before they get started they have to cover the entire history of the topic.
30 minutes could be 1 minute if they tried.
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That’s why I rarely bother with them. Life’s too short.
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I indicated you could ditch the first 40 minutes. There was about 5 minutes that gave me concern for where Australia is headed.
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You did try. 🙂
The video is even broken up into chapters with that part at 38:36 titled Gen Z Voter Demographics. (about 3 mins.)
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You did. Mine was a more general comment to JCII about the tendency of youtube offerings to rabbit on boringly at length before getting to the point.
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Oh, my goodness, just fancy that:
‘He created the problem’: Energy Minister Chris Bowen blamed by former Snowy Hydro boss Paul Broad for cost blowouts
https://www.skynews.com.au/business/energy/he-created-the-problem-energy-minister-chris-bowen-blamed-by-former-snowy-hydro-boss-paul-broad-for-cost-blowouts/news-story/e05065b29f253674bab48a7c8d645ad0?amp
“When (Mr Bowen) got there (during) the back end of COVID, his then chair of Snowy Hydro went off to Italy and renegotiated the contract away from an incentive-based contract to a cost-plus contract,” he told The Kenny Report.
“So in my view, he created the problem rather than solved it. He created a problem that we’re going to see now when a cost goes through the roof.”
He claimed the energy minister took a leading role with the project which contributed to the cost rises.
“Chris and the people in Snowy at the time – I suspect under Chris Bowen’s instructions, because … the whole place seems to run out of his office (and) under his instructions – ended up with a cost-plus contract, which leads to significant increase in costs,” Mr Broad said.
Obviously Mr Broad is now going to be on the receiving end of an ALP personal attack and ordure bucket. But Shirley this has some political legs.
One would hope to see Team Angus briefly take their eyes off of ON and load the ammunition before Bowen’s winged monkeys defuse it.
One might not bet on that, though.
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Why would anyone (customer, i.e. the taxpayer) change an existing incentive-based contract to cost plus?
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Paul Broad had enough common sense to get out – but perhaps not enough to get in in the first place ! He should leave the country to save himself from more grief.
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They’ve just scrapped the inland rail for going only 10times over budget, why haven’t they dumped Snowy11 already!
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FWIW
Chiefio winding down
“A Different Kind of Dance – (whisky involved…)”
And Oz gets a mention in comments
“If you have never seen the Australian dance movie “Strictly Ballroom” see it. I have, and it is special in many ways. Think of “Mad Max” on a dance floor… Why they put it at the bottom, at #20, I can’t say. But at least it is on the list.”
https://chiefio.wordpress.com/2026/05/06/a-different-kind-of-dance-whisky-involved/
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The first [non dancers’] face in that movie was my SIL.
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That post referenced #23
I had forgotten how good that movie was and how much an actor Pat was. She broke my brother’s balls.
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FWIW
“Alarmist Fussing at NYT Climate Reporting”
Concludes
“Credit Trump with a sea change in the whole climate/energy issue. The Progressive Left is playing defense. And nerves are fraying in the face of pragmatism and the mere appearance of two-sided reporting given the changed political mainstream.”
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/08/alarmist-fussing-at-nyt-climate-reporting/
And
“Two Bets On The Future Of Wind Energy: Who Is Right?”
Concludes
“So, dear readers, you can place your bets on whether it is the U.S. or China that is making the right bet on the future of wind energy. My bet is that within about a decade, China will be taking multi hundreds of billions of dollars, if not trillions of dollars, of write-offs on its wind energy investments. Or, given that this is China and no loss of face for the leaders is ever allowed, it will be propping the industry up with ever increasing subsidies as its economy gets eaten away from within.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/05/07/two-bets-on-the-future-of-wind-energy-who-is-right/
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Jo
Story tip in comments at that second one
https://edmhdotme.wpcomstaging.com/a-few-graphs-say-it-all-for-renewables/
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FWIW
“THE PANDEMIC AGREEMENT FAILS AGAIN”
“Finalization of the much-heralded Pandemic Agreement, the flagship of the World Health Organization’s pandemic agenda, has just been postponed again after another failure to resolve disagreements. Despite heavy pressure from the WHO and European Union in yet another meeting, in Geneva, Switzerland, a large bloc of African states are refusing to sign on to what they consider a clear colonialist agenda. Which of course it is, aimed at putting Covid-era wealth transfers on a more permanent footing.”
https://richardsonpost.com.au/david-bell/42207/the-pandemic-agreement-fails-again/
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FWIW
UK polling
“Beege MORE: Based on exit polling projections, this is looking to be a wipeout. Reform projected now to gain 1580 council seats, while Labour is projected to lose almost 1600 and the Tories 631.”
“https://x.com/PolitlcsUK/status/2052441372083294646
https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2026/05/07/starmergeddon-n3814681
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