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Remember Bob Marley and the Wailers. They had a thing about Zion and were always singing about it. Whether it was just a Bob Marley thing or across all Rastafarians, I don't know.

On the subject of customising browsers, I always prefer the dark theme. I find it a lot easier on the eyes. The green 'JS' icon on the URL toolbar is called Javascript Switcher, one of the add-ons you can get for Firefox to toggle Javascript on and off without having to do it in browser settings. Very handy for getting around paywall sites and getting rid of annoying advertising pop-ups. Javascript switcher is good as it disables Javascript only on the website in which you disable it. You can go back to other tabs and they are not affected. If you leave Javascript disabled on a site, it remembers and will be disabled in future browser sessions. Some other Javascript switcher add-ons are not so good as they disable Javascript globally across all sites you visit which can be annoying, but Javascript Switcher only disables individual sites you select. I wouldn't be without it.

My grandfather used to buy cartons of apples and use the individual paper apple wrappers as bum fodder. The paper was a green colour and the texture of modern day baking paper. Very scratchy. But to celebrate the positives, it was better than a stick.

Trump acts like a complete moron a lot of the time, but I can't see how a moron could attain so much power. I think he has deep seated personality disorders and mental health issues, but I'm not sold on the stupidity part. I think he's smart enough to know if he acts like moron, morons will follow him (and vote for him). It's as if he's banking on morons outnumbering non morons come election time. When you see how his followers carry on at his rallies and public appearances, it's obviously a cult following. They don't care about the content of what he's saying. All they want is the weird stuff - the facial gestures, the idiotic dance, the strange incoherent sounds of his voice and the continual playing of the imaginary squeezebox accordion. All he has to do is make a weird sound or gesture and people cheer like crazy. It's scary stuff.

The lock should go through both the rack and the handle.

I finally worked out the update problems I've been having with Firefox browser. For a long time it hasn't been able to update via the browser update notification, so the only way I've been able to do it is to download the new version from the Mozilla website and install it. The only problem with that is that it wiped the new version back to default settings which creates a lot of work to re-customise it. I've now figured that part out. When you launch the new setup, there's a check box checked by default to reset to default settings and delete all add-ons. All you have to do is make sure to uncheck that box before proceeding. I hadn't updated for a long time because of that issue, but it turned out I should have gone to Specsavers.

A bit more on the perpetrator. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/joel-cauchi-wasn-t-right-reservations-raised-about-killer-before-bondi-junction-attack-20240414-p5fjnh.html

They say he grew up in Toowoomba. As far as being a migrant, I don't know whether his parents migrated or not. It's a Maltese name but there's also a lot in France by that name. Some people on social media jumped the gun with some BS that it was an Islamic terror attack, which then unleashed a multitude of anti-Muslim posts. The ironic thing is that the only male killed was an immigrant Pakistani Muslim security guard. He died trying to protect people.

Speaking of shit carters, I remember seeing them when I was a kid. My mother's parents retired to the Gold Coast and the dunny men used to come and get the drum full of dark ends from the thunderbox in the back yard. There was no sewerage connections back then, maybe a few septic tanks. The dunny men used to hoist the drum up on to their shoulder where they wore a type of leather apron to stop the cans rubbing into their shoulder. What a shit of a job. My grandmother used to leave some tall bottles of beer out for them at Christmas.

The version I grew up knowing was 'flat as a larrikin's hat'. I don't know how that one started. Maybe larrikins had flat hats back in the day.

I remember Scotty from Marketing's foray into TikTok during his dying days as PM. Very cringeworthy.

It's such a large platform and for politicians, governments and organisations, it reaches a huge audience. Unfortunately none of the other alternatives that hoped to take over from Xcrement were able to gain a significant footprint. I think everyone was hoping some other platform would take over the mantle, but alas, not so. It seems to be so big and entrenched as a major information site that it's hard to escape. It's really gone downhill since that nutcase has been running it, but there isn't much in the way of competition. I had a look at Mastadon but thought it was a clunky piece of work; I don't think it will catch on in a big way.

I wouldn't have picked that. I thought he looked a bit like Donald Sutherland in the photo.

My nephew was injured in Japan and had to spend a week on a U.S. carrier as they had hospital facilities. I think from memory it was the Carl Vinson. He got the opportunity to watch a lot of FA-18 launches and traps while he was recovering.

I wonder how the two lots get on when the Marines are on carrier deployment.

During peacetime, the Coast Guard operates under the Department of Homeland Security. During wartime, it can be transferred to the Department of Navy. Both the USN and the USMC are part of the Department of Navy. All three branches finish flight training as Naval Aviators and are issued the Naval Aviator badge, so there's a lot of commonality between Navy, Marines and Coast Guard. Best not to insult any of them.

Coast Guard and the Marine Corps use the term Naval Aviator as well.

I saw a short clip on Xcrement of a crew member filming a carrier launch. I'd never given it a thought before that they film every launch and landing. A few years ago I watched a documentary about operations on the USS Carl Vinson, and they mentioned that all carrier aviators are continually rated on performance with every landing scrutinised. If they don't maintain a certain rating, they are shipped out.

The smarter ones would buy it along with some other items. As far as not buying one and just grabbing one off the shelf and stating in the supermarket, it probably wouldn't be such a smart move by the perp. It's a restricted space area and easy to get blocked in an aisle.

Always the possibility of someone testing an AI Bot on forums.

Don't feed the troll.

Nev, as you say, there's no easy fix for the mental health problem. There's also no easy fix for the problem of knives being used as a weapon. There's already a ban on carrying them in public, concealed or not, without lawful excuse. As far as concealment goes, it wouldn't be workable to funnel shopping centre patrons through airport type security. Even if they did that, the perpetrator could enter the centre through security then go to the supermarket and obtain a kitchen carving knife.

Crikey, that's one hell of a URL.

Could it be an LED balloon light? https://www.temu.com/ul/kuiper/un9.html?subj=goods-un&_bg_fs=1&_p_jump_id=894&_x_vst_scene=adg&goods_id=601099540248782&sku_id=17592316137379&adg_ctx=a-618407fd~c-ee284d4b~f-6a894d11&_x_ads_sub_channel=shopping&_p_rfs=1&_x_ns_prz_type=-1&_x_ns_sku_id=17592316137379&mrk_rec=1&_x_ads_channel=google&_x_gmc_account=710728018&_x_login_type=Google&_x_ads_account=2720833615&_x_ads_set=20881259031&_x_ads_id=157084827757&_x_ads_creative_id=685503037149&_x_ns_source=g&_x_ns_gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgZn775S-hQMVQ6RmAh1znwPLEAQYAyABEgLvE_D_BwE&_x_ns_placement=&_x_ns_match_type=&_x_ns_ad_position=&_x_ns_product_id=710728018-17592316137379&_x_ns_target=&_x_ns_devicemodel=&_x_ns_wbraid=Cj4KCAjwt-OwBhAqEi4AM9Mc22mlywXzVzZmCxR0Sa9Bj2rouLgFnBeWO9MwQjUZV84pVg3EfWH-0FUmGgJArA&_x_ns_gbraid=0AAAAAo4mICHUJl-Mx1R4jk-6QBthiNsda&_x_ns_targetid=pla-2266977884815&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIgZn775S-hQMVQ6RmAh1znwPLEAQYAyABEgLvE_D_BwE

It doesn't worry me as long as they leave our chooks and curtains alone.