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Post by bug on Jul 19, 2022 17:05:52 GMT 10
That's why you don't let yourself become dependent on a dictatorship. Australia would do well to take notice.
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Post by spatial on Jul 19, 2022 18:04:12 GMT 10
That's why you don't let yourself become dependent on a dictatorship. Australia would do well to take notice. It is insanity, let's ban all oil, coal, and farming, manufacturing but buy the products from even bigger polluters...
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Post by bushdoc2 on Jul 20, 2022 7:09:06 GMT 10
Yeah it really is interesting how many people prefer being led than to be the ones to lead. Yet if you ask them they'll say the exact opposite. The past two years have shown very clearly how willing to accept authoritarian rule most people are. Andrews could have kept going. Could have kept tightening the screws. Most would not have opposed him an he knows it. So does every other wannabe dictator. The laws he has put in place are permanent and require no external approval. The ability to lockdown, restrict movement and detain citizens can be done by decree in Victoria now. I've experienced the non-willingness to lead personally so many times. Most will complain fiercely about leaders, be they political, family, business etc. But almost invariably the whinger is not willing to step up and lead, or even offer any real opposition other than complaining. It's no surprise that business leaders of even moderate 'rank' are so highly paid. There are so few people who have the combination of wanting to lead and being even remotely good at it. Many people want to be in charge of what others created, but never take responsibility.
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Post by rastus on Aug 1, 2022 15:14:06 GMT 10
Why create when you can allocate? That is a question as old as womankind.
(Apparently it is sexist to use "mankind" these days, so don't read too much into it)
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Post by spatial on Aug 2, 2022 17:58:49 GMT 10
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Post by Stealth on Aug 2, 2022 21:53:54 GMT 10
That is a question as old as womankind. (Apparently it is sexist to use "mankind" these days, so don't read too much into it) Did that add anything constructive to the conversation? I feel like not, but it's so hard to know with all these emotional female struggles that I have when I'm not in the kitchen cooking my man a roast dinner 🙄🤣.
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Post by spatial on Aug 3, 2022 16:35:24 GMT 10
For those that think the stock markets only go up.
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Post by rastus on Aug 4, 2022 12:14:49 GMT 10
LOL Stealth, you read too much into it.
BTW folks, that visit to Taiwan isn't over like the news tends to suggest. Taiwan is under an effective blockade now with Chinese "exercises" directly off all it's major ports - and the retaliation has only just begun. Taiwan says they only have gas stored for 11 days but a lot longer for oil and coal. Even a short interruption of a week will cause a lot of logistical headaches in the tech sector though.
It is almost like someone is going around deliberately creating disruptions... if there is trouble next in the Persian Gulf then we are really SOL.
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Post by malewithatail on Aug 4, 2022 13:47:04 GMT 10
rastus, got your solar power up and running ? Also a gasifier for turning wood into a burnable fuel for a generator, or even vehicle, and of course, lots diesel stored for the tractor. And ammo.....Luckily we are heading into summer, but the northern hemisphere are going to be in a world of pain with gas shortages. Our hot water is solar, boosted by the wood stove and with the electric booster connected through the excess solar relay to give it a tickle up when the main battery's are full. A hot shower at the end of the day is very rewarding and sets 'modern' civilization aside from the stone age.
The eyes are the mirror of the soul......
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Post by Stealth on Aug 4, 2022 14:43:11 GMT 10
LOL Stealth, you read too much into it. Bit hard not to read exactly as it was intended. It's not the first time you've made a a comment about a group that you have issues with (pronoun comments) with absolutely no provocation or relevance to the discussion in progress. Not having a go. Just consider that you might actually be offending valued members with the random unprovoked mud-slinging, and it's worth keeping jabs about social issues groups to threads that are specifically discussing those topics. 😉
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Post by rastus on Aug 4, 2022 15:03:43 GMT 10
Our "shed" is now off grid with solar, but the house is on-grid solar. A gasifier setup would be ideal but I expect them to start eyeing wood burning soon, just like they are going to stop LPG use here in VIC.
Whilst we are rural (without neighbours in sight), we aren't remote enough for chimney smoke to go unnoticed to someone looking.
Of course wood burning doesn't release any carbon that wasn't recently captured by trees, but the city folk who make the rules don't (want to) understand this. They run on feelings and if they can see smoke then it will make them feel very angry.
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Post by frostbite on Aug 4, 2022 16:14:34 GMT 10
When my grand daughter was 6 months old I bought her a vecro patch of a yellow school bus with the words: the wheels on the bus go fu$k yourself".
She will be raised to believe that government is here to serve you, not to rule you, and that they can shove any bull$hit laws or social conditioning where the sun don't shine. Can't burn wood to keep warm? Bwahaha
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Post by rastus on Aug 4, 2022 16:34:50 GMT 10
I fully agree that our government still serves the people...
who attend Davos summits.
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Post by malewithatail on Aug 4, 2022 17:56:29 GMT 10
Its all renewables and has come from the sun, wood, gas, oil, petrol even nuclear, whats the problem with these green idiots ?
The lab called, your brain is ready.
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Post by Stealth on Aug 4, 2022 19:25:16 GMT 10
She will be raised to believe that government is here to serve you, not to rule you Damn straight. I live in hope that eventually we'll have a more transparent system but I won't let that hope lead me to holding my breath. I'm stupid... I ain't sticking forks in powerpoints stupid. 🤣
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Post by spatial on Aug 5, 2022 14:30:30 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Aug 5, 2022 16:28:02 GMT 10
Too many straws in the milkshake and not enough rain. We seem to have traded resilience as a species for unfettered growth and any little blip in the weather/climate seems to have compounding effects.
The issue with cooling water for power plants seems to go unnoticed by many. During the last drought in south east USA they were curtailing output to use less water from their drying rivers.
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Post by bug on Aug 6, 2022 12:38:02 GMT 10
Too many straws in the milkshake and not enough rain. We seem to have traded resilience as a species for unfettered growth and any little blip in the weather/climate seems to have compounding effects. The issue with cooling water for power plants seems to go unnoticed by many. During the last drought in south east USA they were curtailing output to use less water from their drying rivers. This is a massive problem in the south west. When the colorado river water allocations were done back in the early 20th century, they'd had 30 years of above average rainfall. The water to feed those allocations no longer exists. The river now often does not flow all the way to the ocean. 40 million people depend on it.
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Post by spatial on Aug 16, 2022 12:37:22 GMT 10
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Post by bug on Aug 16, 2022 13:29:05 GMT 10
Silliness? Surely not. Going into massive debt to give money to billionaires, sacking healthy people then claiming a labour shortage, these are things that help an economy don't they?
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