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My weight has a lot of useless kilograms so perhaps my height makes up for it in smart metres.

Hurricanes Trends in landfalling Atlantic/western Pacific hurricanes have been stable or decreasing since 1950. There is also no global trend in overall hurricane frequency since reliable records began in the 1970s. The apparent increase in the number of hurricanes since the 19th century has been due to changes in observation practices over the years, rather than an actual increase. Data show no long-term trends in US landfalling hurricanes since the mid-19th century, when systematic records began, either in terms of frequency or intensity. Similarly, after allowing for the fact that many storms were not spotted prior to the satellite era, there are no such trends in Atlantic hurricanes either. There is growing evidence that wind speeds of the most powerful hurricanes may now be overestimated in comparison to pre-satellite era ones, because of changing methods of measurement. The increase in Atlantic hurricanes in the last fifty years is not part of a long-term trend but is linked to a recovery from a deep minimum in hurricane activity in the 1970s, associated with the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. See The 2024 Hurricane Season (pdf)

So far I believe it has been criminals that they had previously been monitoring and any associates found with them.

They will only deport enough to deter further arrivals. Probably half a million at most.

I think Trump is most of the things that Ovtave said. But I also think he is so far achieving a lot and may be very good for aamerica and even for the world. I hope he is going to take Putin on and force himself to back down in Ukraine.

I am intrigued that "half" the Americans think Trump is worth having but on this forum we only have Trump haters. I wonder what the statistic is for Australians.

We celebrated Australia Day with our Tiger Snake. It is about 1.5 metres long, quite fat and lives under our deck. I think it is the one that got our dog a couple of months ago. It comes out at night I suppose, anyway it came out early evening yesterday while my wife was walking past and gave her a bit of a wake up. The Flick inspector wanted to go under the deck last month but I talked him out of it. I'm glad I don't live in North America, I would be terrified of bears.

Just checking for anagrams: Lone Skum Sunk Mole Sulk Omen

One of our daughters failed to get into vet science and was very disappointed. After a couple of years she got into environmental science as had since had a highly successful 20-year career doing what she loves. Good on your daughter for sticking to her choice, but I reckon it would have worked out well anyway.

I have visited the sites of several large nugget finds in Victoria and they are quite ordinary, usually with no other large gold nearby, though there may have been back in the day.

Once he gets the full array into orbit, he will call them down.

Who is Elon Musk? Where did he come from? Don't accept the story in the media! An alien traveller marooned on planet earth would do the following: Use his superior technical knowledge to make innovations that generated lots of money. Gain control of the media so he could manage the story about himself and limit any leaks about the truth. Build space communication devices that could send a distress signal and, when needed, call down a mother ship. Build political connections to suppress information about alien objects in the sky. Develop rockets that could, eventually, carry him back to the mother ship. This is not a movie script. It is happening.

Shutting down discussion? It is like good Germans in 1941 saying "we have heard about these things, but we cannot discuss them, because there will be a knock at the door".

I know they are rolled and stamped out of pulp. No resemblance to a potato.

My wife wants to throw ours out. At Clark Rubber the other day I was told that they are ideal for cutting foam rubber. So I think it is on its way to the workshop.

I find it hard to believe that an electric can opener or electric carving knife is no longer a must-have item. Being conservative means you want things to stay the same.

I recently threw out my mother's diaries and the tape recorder I was given for my sixteenth birthday. I am getting there slowly but am a hoarder by nature.

The ABC has an article about the Aboriginal man who died in a home invasion while armed with a machete. The article says nothing about the the fear of the other man defending his young family. It goes on at length about the feelings and anger of the dead man's family that the innocent party will not be prosecuted, with photos of the dead man's family. This is a million miles from balanced reporting.

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.