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Random thought: The BOM is warning that this heatwave might lead to thunderstorms, but because it is so hot, any rain might evaporate before reaching the ground. This could lead to fires developing due to dry lightning. Here's my thought. I've watched some videos of trees being struck by lightning. Those trees appeared to be live, healthy trees, obviously full of sap, making them good conductors of electricity. I can see a few dead, dried out trees along the road beside my place. I wonder if those dried out trees would not be conductors of lightning. Another thing that I thought of in relation to this heatwave is that eucalyptus trees emit oil into the atmosphere. I wonder if that combustable oil in the air would ignite in the presence of a ligntning bolt and set off a bushfire.

Exercising his Right of Assembly, Right to Freedom of Movement. Right to Express an Opinion.

Thast's what you get for buying on-line.

If Trump is champion at one thing, it must be texting. It is frequently reported that he has sent an enormous number of texts in a short time. I seem to recall 45 texts in one hour. Some are re-tweets, but often they are a few lines, which must take time to create. I still think that he's not creating his longer texts. The grammar and syntax are too correct for a person who we see having trouble forming coherent sentences.

A rare-earth mineral is a mineral that contains one or more rare-earth elements as major metal constituents. The rare-earth elements (REE), also called rare-earth metals, or rare earths, are a set of 17 nearly indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals. The 15 lanthanides (any of the 14 metallic chemical elements with atomic numbers 57–70, from lanthanum through ytterbium) along with scandium and yttrium, are usually included as rare earths. Rare-earth minerals are rare because rare-earth elements have unique geochemical properties that prevent them from easily forming minerals, and are therefore not normally found in deposits large or concentrated enough for mining. This is the reason they are called "rare earths". The term "rare-earth" is a misnomer, because they are not actually scarce.

All the hoo-ha has been about getting rid of anti-semetism. However, I think that it has promoted anti-Islamism. Which ever way you look at it, it has promoted 'anti the other mob' hysteria. What about all the other ethnic or religious mobs that are not the same as one's own. Will the Protestant -v- Catholic wars start up?

The reason that question is asked is because alcohol stays in the mouth for a little while after consumed. The question is asked to ensure that there is no alcohol in the mouth which would result in a positive screening test, but a later analytical test would show a negative result. You have to remember that the roadside test is only a screeing test. A person is only arrested for the purposes of undergoing an analyitcal test using a breath analysis machine if the screening test has indicated that "there may be present in the bloood the prescibed concentration of alcohol". Here's one that happened when I was doing RBT on a Sunday morning. I tested a bloke and the screening device showed an inordinatgely high result. The bloke showed no signes of intoxication, and was astounded at the result. He said he had not been drinking, and then said that he had used mouthwash after cleaninghis teeth a short time before. (He was going to the newsagent to ge the Sunday papers.) I held him at the site for about 15 miunutes and asked him to wash his mouth out with water. I tested him agasin and got a negative result. We both learned about mouth alcohol from that.

Actually, the RBT stop is an "arrest". However reliquishing the right not to be arrested at random is something we do for the greater good. It is a means of protecting ourselves from injury caused by an intoxicated person, and is a means of contributing to the protection of others. For the vast majority of people, being stopped eventually becomes a mnor inconvenience for a few minutes. However, I know that any interaction with police that one does not initiate triggers fear because of all the adverse propaganda we have been fed that police will go looking for some offence not related to RBT. I know I get scared when I'm pulled in.

I thought it was Santa who knew if you had been naughty or nice.

If you think about those production figures, and then extend your thinking to all other types of manufactured products, you might link the destruction of the environment to what those figures indicate - over production. Forget about the environmental effects of obtaining raw materials to make all that stuff. How can the world's population use all that is produced. Just think about the amount of household packaging you have to get rid of each week. Walk through a shopping centre and look at all the clothing shops. Most of what you see is never sold. In fact, look at any shop in a shopping centre. Even supermarkets toss out great amounts of unsold products, and I don't mean only out-of-date foodstuffs.

You don't need to go out into the Wilderness to stay warm. Over the next few days most of the southern part of teh continent will suffer temperatures into the mid-40s. And not a single sign of rain to follow.

Really! Although it is not the most eloquent phrase in the English language, it has become the common expletive in modern speech. Expletives are words or phrases that add emphasis, but the term most commonly refers to swear words, profanity, or curses used when angry, in pain, or excited. Remember when uttering 'bloody' resulted in a threat to have one's mouth washed out with soap? Until recently it was a difficult word to trace its etymology in usage, in part because it was omitted as taboo by the editors of the original OED when the "F" entries were compiled (1893-97). Johnson also had excluded the word, and fuck wasn't in a single English language dictionary from 1795 to 1965. It is ridiculous that this word is censored when used in the various forms of public media. Who does it offend? I'll tell you. The Bible Bashers of America.

OIne of the things I wanted to draw attention to was that China is so far ahead of the rest of the world in solar panel technology.

Bloody Hell! Here's another bit of AI slop using the image of the woman I spoke of in a previous post. The content of the attached video is very dangerous.

Crawling back to original topic. This video gives an example of how AI can be used in a positive way to enhance a hobby. It is interesting that the creator is recommending that in this example AI is only used when a commecially made item is not available.

He's definitely in the age group from which most of these posts relate to.

I think that it would now be an offence to view this old Two Ronnies skit.

In the lexicon of parents with young children, "LEGO" means "lounge room landmine"

I have to disagree with you here. As much as I dislike our biased media, it is not its job to tell people the details of new laws. That is the job of the lawmakers. The politicians have to delegate the task to the Public Service which understands the intricacacies of the legislation and develop educational material which presents a citizen's rights and responsibilities under the law in a simple way. The answer that citizens want to know is, "What is hate speech?"

In this day and age, the maxim that 'ignorance of the Law is no excuse' is not an acceptable element of a prosecution. Why? Simply because the volume of Laws/Regulations which have been enacted to enable our society to operate. Do you know every single Law/Regulation pertaining to the operation of a motor vehicle? More than likely, not. In the past fortnight Laws/Regulations have been made in two areas relating to firearms and "hate speech". Assuming that they have been assented to by the Crown, they are enforceable. But can you quote them, or even have no 'ignorance' of them? If we must know, in detail, what these laws and regulations cover, then it is incumbent on the governments which made them to provide the necessary information to all persons who would have to comply with them. Maybe a campaign should be started to force our lawmakers to set up the facilities to provide that information.

Sydney's new Fish Market site has just opened and as well as solving many problems associated with the supply of sea food, the building itself demonstrates that when included in the planning stage of buildings, solar panels can provide the electricity and at the same time contribute to the aesthetics of the building.

Photo B. Enlarge it and you can see that the spout is undone and away from the fitting.

Actually, not so well communicated. The person whom the video I posted was alleged to be is a well known MSM commentator. I've watched many vidoes in which it is known that the video is not AI created. From those experiences, I was able to pick that it was not her actual personage that was doing the reporting. Combine that with the obvious falsity of the story let you know that it is AI slop. The woman has had her immage and voice stolen by someone making clickbait.

It is amazing to see the temperature environments that humans have adapted to and live in. It's a process called acclimatisation. Just think about the local environment you live in and compare it to the evironment of another of our members. I once was aclimatised to the colder environment of the NSW Southern Highlands. When I lived in Sydney after that, I didn't need extra heating for my bed because I did not feel cold in Sydney. This summer I have lived through temperatures in the high 30s, but the humidity has been about 18%. I could not handle 30 degrees on the Queensland coast because of the humidity. People who live in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere can handle temperatures that we in the mid-latitudes would not care to contemplate, and vicky-versa.