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I generally don’t open videos on this site. There is enough to read without them.

Beware the where wolf.

Zulu time was experienced by Jack Hawkins and Michael Caine.

The Berlin Wall was a very cost-effective measure that did exactly what it was designed to do. I wasn't around for the Great Wall of China, Hadrian's Wall, or the Walls of Babylon, but I suspect that each made a political statement and kept out the barbarians as designed for quite a while.

The opinions here are bouncing around in an echo chamber. With the benefit of hindsight, I consider Biden's term to be far, far worse than Trump's first term. Based on actions and outcomes, not on what they said or claimed. I am hopeful (though not confident) that Trump will fix a lot of problems in the USA and in global relations. Most Trump critics focus on what he says, not what actually happens. He is full of BS and bluff, but it is an effective strategy for change. I think he is far more cunning than given credit for. By contrast Biden and his people are hypocritical dishonest low-life oligarchs and have now shown their true colours.

Mutual respect would fix most of the problem.

In the multiverse, you never die like those around you. There is always a split between the moment of your passing and the moment that you don't. You just go down the road less travelled.

Wow, I guess those who are going to wait and see, with some hope of positive change, are keeping their heads down. Like we do about the myth of climate change.

He is what the world needs right now.

Here’s a true story from around here. The publican was down on bikers, and generally told them he was booked out for lunch when they arrived. A club of bikie barristers were refused service and so they sorted him out. The next licensee encouraged bikers and has done very well.

Portland was recently named most affordable town. They have had big closures and a threat hangs over the aluminium smelter, but it is a lovely place if you can handle the wind and cloud. Our local pub is on its second Indian family and gets half a dozen patrons on a good night. They only open on Thursdays to Sundays. One local left his change on the bar and the barman took it.

Some pubs and restaurants are closing here in central Victoria. They can't get staff. People have less disposable income. The once thriving Hepburn Springs is half shut down. Radio Springs hotel, very popular, is closing due to lack of staff. Many businesses have been bought by folks from India who do not know how to run them, and they gradually fade away. Some pubs, like Redesdale, seem to be doing well because they have made a name as a weekend lunch venue. Restaurants in Kyneton are struggling. I don’t know about the border areas.

You might be like Lazarus. Once brought back, he was condemned to walk the earth forever. Or so one story goes.

I went the chemo route. Still a bit buggered eight years later but happy to be here.

But it isn't a battle, you just have to take each day as it comes.

In his final address to the nation as president, Joe Biden called for the creation of a new Constitutional amendment to demolish the concept of presidential “immunity” from criminal prosecution. But OK for your family!

Or hold their hose.

What he said. You apply the exponent first.

And there I was thinking he used voice to text.

Maybe she was chewing a lemon.

AI rendering of a motorbike?

A lot of people put their most precious possessions in the car, then had to abandon it to burn when they got stuck in the traffic.

You can't use an ASIC as it is not recognised by any authority as a valid identification document.

A dark side of the electric vehicle boom. BYD, Tesla, Ford and Volkswagen all buy nickel from Indonesia, where environmental and human rights concerns are growing. Tesla, BYD and VW purchase huge amounts of Nickel from Indonesia, which currently produces about 50% of world output and is aiming for 75% by 2040. A massive amount of coal is used to power nickel smelting. At three of the biggest nickel industrial parks – Obi Island, Morowali and Weda Bay – the country has planned to double the nickel industry's current power usage. The amount being invested in renewable energy projects to power the nickel industry is just a fraction of the investment in coal. The fallacy of using coal to power the 'green vehicle' revolution is not lost on Shennum. "At Weda Bay Industrial Park, once it's fully operational, there will be 12 new captive coal plants that didn't exist five years ago," she says. "That's 3.8 gigawatts of coal capacity, or roughly what is burned in all of Spain every year, just at this one industrial park in Indonesia." https://www.choice.com.au/transport/cars/eco-friendly/articles/a-dark-side-of-the-ev-boom?utm_medium=email&utm_term=N%2FA&utm_source=Dynamics-365-CIJ&utm_content=INSIDER_090125&utm_campaign=INSIDER_090125

Our town has no mail delivery. This will become more common in future as mail becomes more expensive to post.