nomadpete

When it comes to trying to reason "WHY", I find myself agreeing to everyone's comments. I'm sure they all apply to some extent at least. I am looking for a major factor that would have appealed to the majority of voters. The 77 million that Marty mentioned. I suspect the common cord that DJT struck was the almost universal distrust that everyone shares for the faceless bureaucracy that regulates everybody. Hollywood has been promoting this for ever. Anecdotes abound. Sure there are bureaucratic Departments that need reinventing. Top heavy departments can hold back the country. But Nobody gets up and says what a good job a good bureaucracy did about something. Nobody says how bad things get when we don't have regulation. Along comes DJT running rough shod over 'official process'. Drain the swamp! Throw out the rules! Hurrah! Average punters do know he is erratic but overlook that because just maybe he might make changes - the Dems only offered 'more of the same-old'.

Yeah, in the good old days, individuality and creativity was acceptable. When I learned to drive (the process has only taken 65 years so far), you could develop your own bad habits. I was a city boy so my skills were learned in Sydney traffic, starting out unlicenced in a unregistered Lloyd Hartnett. Motor cycle licence? - pay $15 at MRD, and off you go. Still alive after 3 months? Return to MRD and collect your licence. These days a learner MUST suffer 100 hours of logged under tuition from mum or dad. It takes that long to embed all mum and dad's bad habits. I'm proud to say I got my own bad habits my own way.

I hear a lot of O's are made by hand.

The way things are going, you might get to find out sooner rather than later 😞

Beating your own drum

Is that called progress? Or an endless subroutine loop.

There will always be ways around any proposed legislation, no matter how well intentioned. Maybe we could hand the control of social media over to Artificial Intelligence. It could detect the intention behind everything that any individual writes. Then censure, block or prosecute the perpretator. I don't trust the government to protect me. Problem solved!

My summary - Yes, aorta do sumfin abart et! You can't legislate common sense, but it can be taught. Legislation hampers everyone, but always opens other doors for those intent on causing harm. Should we ban telephones next, to stop the harm caused by scammers?

My random thought/gripe of today. The Guardian republished a letter from Bernie Sanders. It was written in 2022, before our beloved South Aftican Elon's recent bromance. It is about billionaires (who rarely pay personal tax) running profitable space businesses subsidised by the taxpayers. Worth a read. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/22/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk-billionaires-bernie-sanders Should I start a new thread for 'I like Musk....'

I never went to Dee Y. I never used D Y D X in my life after school. And in my book an 'independent variable' IS an unknown quantity. Especially if it comes from a politician. Am I comparing apples with oranges?

Gee thanks. Now I get to hyperanalyse my morning jug boiling procedure. I don't like doing exercises when there might be more interesting things to occupy my time. I make my wife a cup of tea every morning. My day is more pleasant when my wife is happy. And I pretend that I have a regular exercise plan.

Must be something motivating about boiling jugs. While I wait for the jug to boil, I do 35 squats. That's my benchmark. It gets my knee joints movable for the day.

Don't worry, someone will stand him back up and nail his feet to the perch.

BTW, maybe somebody should tell Mr T that USA is only a minor part of america. If he wants to 'Make America Great Again', the MAGA team must help Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Patagonia etc,..... and goodness me.... Mexico!

I just want Van Diemens Land to secede from the Commonwealth and declare itself independant. Then I can forget about the mainland federal government altogether. And we would have one less level of incompetance.

Would you rather just rely on 'X' Everyone knows 'x' is an unknown quantity. I hope they still teach that in schools.

The rich and famous are often globe trotting. It means little. The everyday people are not globally mobile. Many ar only vaguely aware that 'other places' exist and probably still think 'everywhere else' is much worse than Great USA. Like the masses everywhere, they are passengers on the politicians national train ride.

Great. Whose facts? What about alternative facts? Who would fund the 'official' factchecking department? Rather a can of worms, I think.

Is this bill coming from copying DJT's claim that he's going to protect women whether they like it or not? The Australian government is going to protect us whether we like it or not? Sounds like a hastily invented bill that should not be rushed through at the last sitting moment.

Elon is late to the party with a rather odd motorcycle. Would you call it a electric cafe racer? It doesn't look practical, nor appealing in any way to me.

So. Tell me. What can we do about this?

The ruskies only need to step back to the limit of British-made Storm Shadow missiles and the US equivalents.

Ukraine initially claimed it was an ICBM. Apparently not. I was thinking that the russians could have used long range missiles (with bigger payloads?) Which could be launched from locations safely out of range of Ukrainian weapons. What range does a 'intermediate' missile have?

Ironing.... Ironing.... Aaah, I remember my mum had an iron. But I can't remember seeing her using it. I guess I'm just one of those scruffy modern dressers.

Russia has not used any ICBMs until now. They clearly don't mind openly targetting Ukrainian civillians. They clearly don't care how many Russians die in a 'meat grinder'. They have plenty of ICBMs. But they witheld them until now. Had they used these in the early stages of the invasion, even with conventional warheads, it would all be over years ago. Have they simply been using the war to taunt the USA and NATO? I mean, as well as trying to reinvent the old USSR?