Litespeed

Sometimes I buy fish but prefer to catch it. Catching a large Dhu fish is a wild time.

To see our parents problems and history for that matter requires insight, perspective and the ability to see others with respect and understanding of circumstances. The Trump's and Murdoch's have this only as a regressive gene and has never been expressed. The ego gene however is even stronger than the delusional gene, both inversely proportional to the emotional intelligence and empathy genes. And that's before we talk about the home environment, another rocket powered ego expander. The day the Fake carrot top wears orange prison clothes will be a great day. Sadly nutjob Trumpists will try and break him out.

Sadly, Liz Cheney is an outlier for her genetics. She missed the greedy psychopathic drive of her father and got the intelligence and compassion of the postman. The Trump's are a great example of inbreeding causing collapse of genetic viability. If he was a Roman Emperor, Donald would be Caligula. The Murdoch's are similar but the old man is Dark lord Palpatine from Starwars. Both are evil in intent. Only one is Batshit crazy.

Ah, the wonders to surprise a sailor on the East coast- the ship wreck coast. Here at Port Stephens, the heads look tame and suitable but when the massive volume of water from the huge system for tidal movement and wind disagree, it gets exciting. ☠️🥳🫡🤮. Having cruised out to discover calm turning to cavernous 20ft drops over the swell, much swearing was heard. The carefully secured crockery, and hot coffee became missiles inside the cabin. I love the fun, but in hindsight my brother didn't appreciate my hysterical laughter. All the good and bad pilots look for in the sky, its all there waiting. Unlike flying, catching local wildlife on water is a bonus, it's called fishing. Catching crabs is always exciting at first. But fishers get to eat them with a partner. Pilots get to report to the medical clinic and ring the hostesses. When I fish 🎏 seeing wildlife, gives me a warm inner glow. And the potential fresh meal. When I fly and see wildlife Infront of me, my chest tightens, my balls freeze solid and remember I forgot the parachute. You eat them, rather than explain the huge whole in the windscreen and mayday call. Much easier to clean blood from filleting on the deck than the cockpit. But the sea whilst a sexy siren, will fuck you up if you turn your back and ignore her.

Goes to show, we are not our parent's

Your right she is actually a really great human and the opposite to her father.

That because you have reached a higher level of intelligence and have been rewarded.

I meant a genetic topical cream, apply it, no more hair there. Want hair, apply the antidote cream. Haven't you guys heard, the cost of people having haircuts is to blame for the inflation and interest rates. We should get a $200 billion grant to investigate it. Forget social housing and community. I am sure Peter Dutton will love the idea.

Lovely, nothing like a Tesla lollypop or the Cyber Ute monstrosity.

Designed by a guy, who knew a guy, that knew a guy that makes pizza in the Bronx. When shitfaced one night, he got out the crayons. He figured, like non authentic pizza, you just add more shit to make it better. That is the super hot curry of noxious roadkill in the car world. Overpowering, an assault on the senses, know to cause instant nausea. May cause blindness. Unsafe to experience even at distance. All added features are included to cover up the taste of it. Actually, it is brilliant art though, nothing says more to me about America as a post modernist art installation than that car. In years to come the alien history professors will use it as fundamental turning point for the self extinction of humans. Good design is that serious.

Yes but that's a nice looking car. Just like a women, some are worth the effort and pain 😜

I think the point I was trying to make is really good design can be both attractive, efficient and inexpensive. The real cost of great design centre to a car maker is miniscule. Almost the marketing postage budget. That is the inherent beauty of great design, it's not just a make product and sell it. It must make you want to buy it, we are emotive animals. Now one wants to be seen in a ugly suit or dress, nor a fugly car. Will you buy the car that looks like a bad acid dream or the pretty one? What about resale? Great design still looks attractive and relevant decades later, the rest are just the result of a lack of imagination and laughed at before crushing. Also if the manufacturer thinks good design is a optional expense, what do they think of quality, safety, reliability? They all cost far more and are easy targets for savings.

Check out the small electric commuter two seaters that are cheap and cheerful in Europe esp France. Registered like scooters and driven by 14 to 100 year Olds. Some can fit 3 in a car space on the kerb. Most of us don't need a two tonne car. The explosion in vehicle weight and size is ridiculous . The tax system actually subsidies any wanker with a ABN to get a huge SUV or ute they don't need. We have become like America where a giant ute is the best seller for 40 years strait;(f series ford). Look at the average vehicles weight today in it's probably 1800 kg. Years ago that got you a V12 BMW limousine. Now it's just a family hack SUV. Want a new Land Crusher, it's more than 2.5 ton but add five adults, full luggage and full fuel and accessories ie fridge, rack etc Now it's legally overloaded. It's a sick joke on us and the planet.

Yep awesome 😎. I have seen a old bloke 70 ish cruise past standing on a electric surfboard with foils. Amazing, 20 knots, no wake at all visible, dead silent and not effected by swell. The smile on his dial was priceless.

Spot on, energy management is everything on a sailboat, add in weather, navigation, check lists and such. Sailing is more like gliding, the air is both what moves or kills you. Just like flying, with sailing or distance cruising by motor, nature does not give a damn of your existence and is actively trying to kill you. Any failure can be fatal, you can't just pull to the roadside and stop. I had my mooring serviced today, a recent big South East low storm hit 75 knots through the passage, I was onboard and fine, others no so much. My mooring right in the fastest part of the channel never moved. I did however worry for others only to see destroyed boats the next day. I love the natural world but it will kill and doesn't love you back.

How dare you say such things, I am just a long haired Chihuahua and know how to control myself in any situation. I can even show proof... I can even admit when I take on a job to big, it was all cool till I needed a ladder.

A nice design, a perfect example of not be done by a engineering draftsmen.

Given the behaviours of the few women in the LNP, they appear to be disqualified then. As would any One Nation or Palmer Party hack be. So Canberra contenders come from the independents, Greens or Labour. None are clearly a psychopathic Penny Wong or Tanya Pibersek? sen Barbara Pocock? Neither have the ego to want the job, that's why we got Albo instead. That alone makes a great candidate. Alternatively, I am prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice and identify as female, if I get the whole world to run. You can call me Shirley

Yep, that bunch that speak in tongues aka nut jobs or pentacostals or happy clappers. They believe anything goes to make money is Devine, as only they are his children and all others evil. Only they are deserving and to be rich brings you closer to heaven. The exact same church's that gave us Scott Morrison. No wonder the World's fucked

Tesla's look look a half sucked lolly. Some new designs really have looks a blind man would grimace at. All offending designers should be sent to Italy for a few years of training or taken out back and dealt with. Years ago, no manufacture worth a damn would dare not having a Italian based design team or at least educate them there. Even the English knew this was essential or you bought the design talent from a Italian styling house. Hence the 1960/7o's Triumphs used Italian styling and were attractive. I am not saying every Italian design is pretty but they realise design is a Artform not a drawing board.

That is all too true. Today a mere four months after a bald shave for the entire head, ears included. I arrived for maintenance, my long grey curling hair and beard had exploded and was a three layer polar insulation suit. Sadly like a eskimo in a desert my hairy qualities don't suit our climate. I have Little body hair but a head that grows hair like Samson. The sooner a topical baldness cream is invented the better. Coming from a sheep farming family I know shearing when I see it, today I was shawn and happy for it. But it only cost a fair $30 including beard. She is not constantly busy and only worth opening till noon each day. Next door is the dog grooming salon, busy every weekday, customers lined up in the morning. A dog averages $80. They also do doggie daycare/playdates, what people will do for dogs at great expense is astonishing, a very first world problem. I love a well groomed pooch but it really makes me think about our priorities in society. But then I remember the modern politco capitalist system and it's all clear as mud. It's a mad mad world.

You old barsteed I dropped ten years today by getting a haircut and big beard cut, hard to see the grey when you remove it. Is your moniker from owning a spacesailor?

And fair enough, I can't afford a new car and don't even have one, but independence is key. Cheap old ev's will happen but we are ten years behind the rest of the world. Just like anything in life, it's not intially accessible to all nor relevant. I am optimistic and look forward to a electric future.

$15,000 seems extremely expensive and should be 1/3 of that cost for the size. But I am amazed you have such incredibly low power bills. I have lived in a Sydney Mcmansion that gulped $5000 a year to keep cool and warm as needed. And we tried to be economical. The big savings come from having a home or communal storage system. An ideal use for used car batteries from wrecks or swapping for newer and cheaper packs. Why send energy into the grid and get a tiny fraction of its value and then buy it back at 10 times the price or more? It's the economic model that's failing not the technology . We all tend to live in homes that cost a millions dollars, drive car and consume lots of energy which can cost a family a easy $200 a week just in energy and fuel for the commute of two cars and the average energy inefficient home. Some spend far more than that. We happily go into ridiculous debt to invest in a house but won't invest a tiny percentage in removing our fuel and other energy costs. The solar and battery can also give free charge for your car and your car can act as a battery for the house. It's a circular economy with low losses, not the 100% economic loss of the current system. Everyone can be a micro energy baron. And master of his/her destiny and not rely on market forces and political whims. Just like any gold boom or new tech industry, beware of wooden nickels and tooth fairies. Keep in mind for equivalent specs ,it's a fraction of the cost per Kw/h for storage if you put wheels on it. And you get a free car at the same time, that shows how when applied the economics can work, fundamentally a complete home energy/transport system can be very cheap compared to the norm. Think outside the box, nature and physics does not make strait lines.

ItI like the idea but as we tend to be a fully owned subsidiary of the capitalist military industrial complex I am not optimistic. Your completely correct, the Security counsel is a joke of dictatorial regimes, votes or not, they control and the rest cop it. The Veto power entrenched hegemony of the winner, we may believe the US is democratic but that is a illusion. Just look at the reality of now dead Henry Kissinger, one of the most dictatorial idealouges and mass murderers in history. No one voted for him ever. But he dominated policy even in his old age, no one has created more coups , assassinations of democratic leaders and regime changes, nor created more wars. That's quite a legacy, that compares to Stalin and Hitler. Democracy is a wonderful idea but is generally an illusion.