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That's because some governments, like Norway, had the foresight to create a sovereign wealth fund and not just give away their resources to mining companies, the way we do

I know. I was being facetious

Good. Maybe in future wars, countries can just have their robots battle it out and not harm any humans. The side who keeps the most toys wins.

Slightly off topic (sorry Jerry) but involving car electrics... The other day I pulled into a parking space at the supermarket next to a car with a young mum and her kid. As I got out she tried to start her car and it did that slow laboured turnover which tells you you're not going anywhere. So I offered a jump start, she accepted and we hooked up the jumper cables. However it made no difference! Checked the cables were on properly, gave the clamps a twist to ensure connection, still nothing. We're scratching our heads when a young bloke and his girlfriend walked over and offered to help. The girlfriend told us he's a mechanic. He disconnected the negative cable on her battery and clamped it to the engine itself (starter motor housing I think). Tried again, it started straight away. So there you go - apparently you get a better earth from the engine than from the battery terminal!

Trump was fooled into this war by Netanyahu's hard sell. He's a useful idiot for both Netanyahu and Putin.

South Australians are strange. They pronounce Lego as "lay-go".

Teardrop shaped cars help. Apparently the Hyundai Ioniq 6 has a drag coefficient of 0.21Cd.

Yes, that's excellent news. Trump will be pissed off too which is an added bonus. Orban was strongly supported by both Putin and Trump, so you know he's an arsehole.

I believe "shah mat" was anglicised to "Checkmate" for chess.

I believe the Southern Baptist church split from the northern over their views on slavery, ie they were all for it. So I think their views on anything would be suspect.

I like this, from the article... "unveiled Buddharoid, a humanoid robot monk" Sounds like something you can get a cream for.

There's a few other spawn that are just as bad as their old man.

Scary thing is, the weaponry doesn't even need to be explosive. You drop a small crowbar from orbit and it will kill a tank quite effectively.

The whole family must have legs like roosters. Is that the reason everyone refers to Trump as a "cock"?

He's a high profile person. Victoria Cross recipient. His uniform displayed in the War Memorial. I agree he's innocent until proven guilty, but he did lose a recent libel suit, because the allegations were judged highly likely to be true. So it's perhaps not surprising that these events are newsworthy.

Soooo... If it turns out that BRS did, in fact, kill unarmed civilians, you would be ok with that GON?

Oh, sorry GON, I wasn't talking about you. Talking about Tony Abbott, Pauline Hanson and Gina Reinhardt, all of whom are totally supporting him before the trial even starts.

Have you noticed it's only the really conservative right-wingers who are making pre-emptive statements of support for BRS? Don't they trust the Australian legal system?

I think that's called having a nonsensical worldview then building fairy castle assumptions to support it.

Yes but that was one cherry-picked stat. If you think that a politician should be across all available data about climate change, as well as their day job, you must think they're superhuman. If this garbage article is even real, it's nothing more than a planned "gotcha" by a right wing shock jock, who incidentally is being charged with 44 counts of indecent assault.

Not really. A politician is not a scientist. You don't need to know how a tyre is manufactured to drive a car.

If in doubt, search the purported event and see if anything comes up on respected sites - Reuters, ABC, BBC, Washington Post etc. If it doesn't, don't bother.

My son was telling me today that on whatever socials he uses, while there's a lot of people celebrating the Artemis mission, there's a few idiots saying it's all faked. Just like the original moon trips. Some people, you wonder how they remember to breathe.

Yeah, it's all good until that ride ends up at the vet for that little operation...

Peter, that's about the most stupid thing you've posted. There's so many things wrong with that it's just laughable.