nomadpete

He didn't ask A.I. how this car would look if it was made in USA without materials that trump has tariffed out of availability.

Of course. I was only jesting. I am surprised that car makers (well, piston engined cars) persist in having a coolant temperature gauge, when with modern technology it should be a simple matter to monitor oil temp. As well as actual oil pressure.

Life is a game. Whoever dies with the most toys, wins.

What's a album? A long time ago we had a family album - it had a cover.

Can't you just pull the wire off the sensor?

They couldn't use that one - it wouldn't hold the weight of those two!

Still nothing more than old man Bjelke Petersen "Feeding the chooks" As usual the only cert for a win in the election is....... The Merdoks !

Further to that thought, does little donny know he is putting a tafiff on imported aloomium that comes from an american company in Australia? (Edit) Correction. Boyne Island smelters are mostly Canadian owned - Rio Tinto. Still foreign owned (even tho they speak our language)

Well it's an American owned smelter. I hope you don't think they leave the profits here. If it was an Australian owned enterprise, that would be value adding, to our benefit. If we then made stuff here from it, that would be forward thinking.

Here is a Monty Python view..... From 5 years ago. https://youtu.be/nT5JBrKC5M0?si=5mLccTu1gZOzlVMb

As noted on ABC news:- Where is the long term vision for Australia? Where are the long term plans behind policies? I look at the success of China, and before that, the economic rise of Japan. Both of these have ridden on the back of long term vision and plans for their economic futures. We have consistently failed to be consistent.

Erratic. Score:- Billionaires 1 Small business NIL Local industry NIL

I liked the way he brought science into the description. Plus stuff like 'everyone knows that air is 21%oxygen, 78% nitrogen & 1% gunsmoke' Well, he is a mercan.

Not as painful as Passing Another Fox

Well this is about a car part that isn't actually extinct. But there is so much disinformation about EGR systems that many people are amputating this part of their vehicles. Here's an entertaining look at how EGR's work.

Australia's consumer electricity is NOT the dearest in the world. "When looking at OECD countries, Australia sits 15th most expensive out of 38 countries for household electricity, according to the Global Petrol Prices website." https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/experts-warn-of-problematic-power-price-comparisons/ Sure, we aren't the cheapest, either. The cheapest is to make a plan similar to taking out a mortgage to buy a house. The mortgage is cheaper than rent when calculated over that time. For power, buy solar panels and a battery, disconnect from the grid, and over the span of your mortgage, your power will have cost a fraction compared to grid electricity. Present costs are amortised in about 7 years. That's the break even point. After that, your power costs nothing.

Your question begs a clarification. How do you define "the real ones"? I rather thought you were referring to our cultural evolution over the last couple of hundred years.

Me too! That one's HER toy. The only time I'm allowed to touch it is to service it.

What defines 'real ones'? In 2023 Born in Australia = 18,473,240 Foreign Born = 8,175,640 Is that about 44% of the population? It was 30% back in 2019. We have one of the most diverse ethnicity profiles in the world. But I cannot use that statistic to make any conclusion about 'work hard for good money'. (Which is not at all related to country of origin)

Could be improved. I think the bed would be better under a wing.

Partly depends on where you live. Some places still have recyclers who will sell S/H steel but none in Tasmania do. So in Tas, the only option is new and it is priced like it has a high gold content.

That's how capitalist globalisation works.

In spite of the rain that all sounds positive to me.just wish I could summons up that sort of energy!

This thread seems pretty quiet lately. Has Poo-ten slowed down? Is it a sign of ukraine starting to wear out the Russian effort?

That's only celebrating a positive thing for the shark. I think the thread is supposed to be celebrating positives for peoples.