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Except for china and Nth Korea, can't think of one country not under the control of a religious adherent. There's NZ, Jacinta grew up as a mormon, not sure if she still practises though.

Bit different to that place, but all run by the same type of nutters. Spent time in a religious boys home, they are all the same in my opinion, draconian, abusive and macabre. The USA is a perfect example of a religious society, hypocritical, violent racist and completely deranged.

Another nail in the coffin of sanity, we now have another deranged devout christian lawyer running NSW. No matter what happens, we seem to go from bad to worse when it comes to political leaders. Listening to this bloke is frightening as he has no idea and can only think religiously, which means another nail in the coffin of a viable future. When you hear an ideologue claim their beliefs will have no bearing on their directions and decisions, you know there s nothing but disaster ahead.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/half-us-killings-police-unreported-study/story?id=80303407 "A new study on fatal police violence shows more than half of killings by police were left unreported in the last 40 years, and that Black Americans were estimated to be 3.5 times more likely to die from police violence than white Americans." You could almost bet that this is just a small part of the US cop brutality, they are renowned for their abuse of people and torturous jail systems. Their privatised jails have abysmal records of abuse and violence within them, along with virtually starving inmates to keep their profits up.

This article was in the news today, it supports what I've been saying for decades and is finally being recognised by some. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-07/the-myth-of-sustainable-development/100504448 "Sustainable development is a priority for anyone genuinely concerned about the environment. Unless we as a society rethink our use of global resources, life, as we know it, will one day cease to exist." This is why I say, our society as we know it will be finished by 2031. It's impossible to keep up the current economic growth along with population growth and diminishing environments and still be sustainable. You can't keep growing economically or sustainably with consumption growth, resources are finite, as is the environment and ecological chains. Our rate of destruction of life and resources condemns us to a final solution, extinction of our societies and technology, and may also be the end of humanity as we know it.

I'm immune compromised, from my understanding, it depends on the vaccine type. When I had my first astra zenica jab a week or more ago, they made me stay in the clinic for half an hour, contacted me a some hours later and the next morning to check I hadn't had an adverse reaction. At the time was feeling awful, but they explained the type of reactions I may get and they were right, took me a few days to get back to normal and the first couple of day had no energy at all. Now I feel fine and the clinic rang me this morning to see how I was and if I wanted to come in for an assessment, which I didn't. They told me they wouldn't give me the pfizer jab as immune compromised people seem to react badly to it, will see how I go with the next jab in December.

Have owned cruisers exclusively since 1997 when got my current 91 1hdt and it had 145000klm on the clock. It went 764000 before rebuilding the engine early this year, adding a 3 inch straight through, inter cooler and beefed up turbo. Could have brought a new one but this old thing does everything I need and has a range of well over 2000klms. It runs on veggie oil and saved me tens of thousands in fuel costs, I got a shock the other week, when my oil processing centrifuge system decided it had enough after 15 years of operation and the winch to lift the oil drums decided to come to a halt. Took me over a week to pull it all apart, then discovered the winch was chocked up with oil and possum poo. Which meant had to buy some fuel for a trip, which came to close to $100. The shock of that purchase hurried me up, was a relief to be able to drive to Hobart and back last week and it cost me the price of 1.5lt of diesel. Just need to win lotto so buy an Ev and save even more money.

This is an interesting article, of course it comes from the daily mail, but find a lot of their articles to be closer to the truth than most main stream deceptive rags. Not forgetting they sensationalise things a bit to much. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10062775/US-Chinese-scientists-planning-create-brand-new-coronavirus-leaked-proposals-show.html "US and Chinese scientists were planning to create a new coronavirus before the pandemic erupted, leaked proposals show. Last month, a grant application submitted to the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) revealed that an international team of scientists had planned to mix genetic data of similar strains to create a new virus. The grant application was made in 2018 and leaked to Drastic, the pandemic origins analysis group."

That's true, but until ideology was bred into humanity, creation stories revolved around nature, which is closer to the facts than a mythical god of war trying to be classed as peaceful and loving whilst the world is inundated with religious conflict and suppression. Then humanity mutated a gene via their changing diets into an ideological gene, which threw reality out the window and replaced it with fantasy land belief systems and that continues today much more dramatically. As the human diet has become more and more denatured and heavily polluted with chemicals, that ideological gene has developed to the point where fantasy is the norm and reality is abnormal in the eyes and minds of ideological humanity. Anti-vaxxers only know one life style, junk food and the mirror in their heads reflecting only their views. They are incapable of discerning anything beyond their chemical induced fear. To boil it down, anti-vaxxers are the forefront of the denialist era and their chemically deluded brains can't cope with the reality that is unwinding their ideological viewpoint. I doubt very few are willing or even capable of accepting what is happening around the planet, of course they say they do. But the facts are if people actually accepted what is happening and put it all together, they would change dramatically, but their ideological programming is so strong, reality when it hits them, its to far down the track for it to be of help. That's why so many anti-vaxxers on their death bed finally accept reality as they die and it makes no difference whatsoever to their outcome. It's only going to get worse, I've seen it growing in the attitudes of people in our venues, you can put as many wholesome natural tasty foods on the menu as you want, for those with health problems which 99% are lifestyle and diet related. But they will still buy the deep fried dairy and chemically saturated meals, their ideological programming refuses to accept that its the reality of their approach to life that is killing them and not something outside their control as they claim.

The woke cancel culture is one which wants to remove every reference to the past they don't accept today and demand a morality they themselves are not prepared to adhere to, which to me is self centered self righteousness, or self entitlement without the knowledge and experience. That's my interpretation, which is dividing the sexes world wide and we see those results daily. It's also a sign of the collapse of human society into a war of attrition and the final days of life as we know it. That goes for many in every developed society today, not just the USA and it's mostly the young who are in this deep denial of their own reality. You've got to be kidding, the OT is nothing but despotic abuse, war, genocide, incest, murder and invasion all in the name of yahweh. There's nothing moralistic or true in any of it and as for the NT, not much different, just the use of one character as the supposed whipping boy for the expression of violence, who by the way never existed. There has never been one historical time where religion has shown any form of compassion, or supposed moral fortitude, it's all power and control and it's the major reason for the sociological condition of humanity today, sick.

I understand the fear these people have, not that I agree with them. They seem to see it as a slow move to a totalitarian world regime and that to them it looks like a police state. We know that's not the case, hopefully, but it could look that way to some, because there is very little freedom for the majority. Then we have the fact they could have solved it long ago with very little disruption to society and what was to put all quarantine facilitates outside CBD's, you can't get a better starting point for viral distribution than in the heart of major CBD's and using totally untrained security staff. Off course that's no reason to not become vaccinated, people are dying and people are being long term effected. The politically correct culture has created the self righteous woke cancel culture, what's next is anyone's guess, but it will be interesting.

I'm lucky, the top part of my place where they houses etc are, is a bit sandy no matter how much it rains it never gets muddy. But at our main gate, where I've filled the gully in and the area surrounding it, which is all clay and soil, has become a quagmire. We've had a lot of rain this year, much more than last year and we have also been experiencing wetter summers over the last 3 years. I keep a weather record from 4 different spots on the property, it's interesting to see how weather effects different environment areas and how it has changed over the last 20+ years. To keep from going troppo, cut wood just about every day instead of when we are travelling, cut the entire years wood a couple of weeks before we leave. Today decided to cut down a tree near our gate, normally this is a straight forward job and 9 out of 10 times it drops where it's supposed to. Today no wind this morning, sunny, warm and almost out of wood after 4 days of almost non stop rain, decided to drop a tree near the main gate. Because there is a lot of water sodden soil around it, decided to drop it in a position so wouldn't be cutting and carrying in mud. Made my cuts, the wedge dropped out, cut down the other side and as it was getting really close to the cutout, watching the saw gap for it to open. But it wasn't moving, gave it push, but to big and solid to push and couldn't cut anymore as it would drop into the saw blade and could fall in any direction. So moved the tractor to a really safe place and headed back for the big guns, started to backhoe and it had a flat front tyre, pumped it up and headed to the tree. Lifted the loader bucket up and slowly moved towards, got about 1m away and before could push it, it fell exactly where I had planned. Lesson in this, don't use a 16inch chainsaw to cut down an over 1m diameter tree, it can be done but you have to be so accurate. Should have used the 21inch husky, that would have got it easily. The most scary part of cutting trees, is the couple of seconds from when it starts to move, to when the direction of fall is determined. If you cut it right it will never fall back on you, unless you grossly underestimate where the distribution of branch weight is, you use that to your advantage.

Can understand that, they are uncannily accurate and have seen it myself at times. I worked with my ex's father, he was a bricklayer, I the builder and we always got on even after the divorce. My marriage lasted 25 years, her mother hated me from the start, to lower class in her pommy mind and an Australian. She came from a pig farm and it showed. Had no idea when my ex left, had an inkling when learnt what had been said between her and women friends when the kids were small. But dismissed it over the years because our relationship was so good, I thought. Then one day she walked out and that was it.

They all do it, it could have something to do with me walking down the drive which is tree lined so lots of shadows broken by sunlight and they only see in what I would call, dull colours. Maybe the shading changes could throw them off, or they can't really focus under those conditions from a 100m away. Wind blowing the shadows of the trees around, sun angles, cloud cover, a bush background and the colour of my clothes. But I'm just guessing, don't have a clue.

A race track😁

You can't get a disability pension for chronic alcoholism, but you may be able to get a pension for the associated health problems. Think you'll find they get free medical treatment and the chance to dry out, there is no lump sum payout unless it can be proven the accident was caused by someone else. Have heard those complaints frequently, coming from women who on pension day, buy their fortnight supply of ciggies, head to the pub and spend the rest on grog and alcohol. Then head to the local welfare place to get vouchers to buy cheap junk food for the family. As for real pensioners smoking drinking and gambling their pensions, That's their right and there are few who can afford to do that, they have pretty strict regimes when it come to those pursuits from what I've seen over the decades of pouring beer. Most come in pension day and spend the same amount each time, then you don't see them until the next time, or they come in to meet someone or have a day before pension day lunch, which includes cheap drinks. As others have said, the pension is to low, it should be at least the minimum wage, service personal should get more and active service personal should get much more. Politicians should get SFA and stripped of all their assets, to pay for the billions they waste or give away to vested interests.

Must be one of the only people who don't drink coffee, love the smell of roasting coffee, but the taste is awful. Rarely get visitors, could count them in one hand in the more than 20 years been here. When they do come, offer them water or a herbal tea, have to go into the garden and pick some. Fresh herbal tea is an excellent pick me up, but rarely have any, only drink water 99% of the time. The other 10% would be a Guinness or local black beer and that only happens when I catch up with my long term muso mates for a party once a year, sadly it's been a couple of years since the last one and think I've recovered and ready for the next one.

Thanks everyone, had some pretty challenging things happen in my life, but this has thrown me for a loop and I can't even fly. As for dogs, mine realise something is wrong and they are very quiet and sympathetic, unlike how they are normally. Put part of that down to the lose of their friend Argus and the distress his paddock mate Myrtle is undergoing, so this place is a bit down at the moment and just when I feel better another wave of regret flows through me. To make matters worse., we've had almost constant rain for the last 3 days and it doesn't look like letting up for days, only been able to sharpen the chainsaws, bit to wet to cut. The dogs don't like going out in the rain and even though they can just walk out the door, they remain waiting for the rain to stop. As for their ability to discern the character of people, many times I rely upon my dogs to give me an indication of what the person is like when I first meet them. Most times the dogs are playful and gentle with new people, but there are times when they have no interest in getting close to some, they have been inclined to growl some times and down the track, they are vindicated by the actions of that particular person. Because dogs see so differently to us in perspective and colour, at a distance unless they can catch your scent, they may become defensive. My number 1, sometimes gets embarrassed when he is lying somewhere and sees me coming dressed differently and gives a warning bark, only to suddenly realise he's made a mistake and instantly goes into grovel mode. Something that always gives me a laugh.

My son was 41, I brought him up not his mother, but he drifted to her in his 20's and cut off contact with most of the family. Never knew the reason why, but his mother is one of those twisted bitter souls who wanted everything but was never satisfied, so she runs everyone down who she disagrees with. I've had nothing to do with her for 30 years and it seems my daughter only found out through a mutual friend, families, not been the best experience in my life that's for sure. The effect is much more than I expected, not as strong as I thought psychologically.

Just to add to this, found out yesterday, my youngest son died the same day my horse did and no one told me until my brother rang and offered condolences. That's what you get when dealing with ex's, even though she left me for what she assumed was better pastures, she hates me because I didn't try to get her back and all the assets she took, she sold and is now broke and alone. Seems the women in my life keep in touch and never tell the blokes anything, my brother found out from my sister who found out from her daughter, who found out from one of my daughters. Life is pathetic sometimes.

It's a drug saturated world now, no such thing as clean foods unless you go organic, it's all chemicalised and when you add the air and chemicals in urban water. It's not wonder anger is becoming the norm on roads and in the streets, since the pandemic, life on the roads of Tas have returned to how it once was before the chinese tourists invaded and turned the roads into dangerous trips.

Same here, only worn a mask to enter an airport once and not been any form of lock down where I live and the rest of Tas only had the NW locked down for a few weeks, then no need.

I've got 3 pools, no maintenance whatsoever, flow through cleaning and no need for chemicals, plus stocked with trout.😁

It will happen, the timing is the big thing and if there happens to be some from of nuclear war, then the associated EMF's will wipe out every server within the shock area. We still have paper copies of most things, keep telling others involved that the day will come when there is no power and the business has to be ready for it. In linux, you can make a clone of your system so if it crashes or the computer fails, you just put in the disc and load the entire system without losing anything. Have a number of hard discs which store the same stuff, have discovered over time HDD, SSD and cd/dvd deteriorates and you can lose lots of stuff. Still have a large collection of vinyl and if I ever buy recorded music try to get vinyl, it seems to be back in vogue. My son in law is into vinyl and he always goes through my albums, looking for things he hasn't heard, which is most of my collection as it contains loads of music that never got very far, but is really cool. He drools over my beatles collection of un played 1st releases and a couple of masters, keeps telling me to sell them, but told him waiting for them to be worth $1 million, which will never happen. Typewriters helped me learn to communicate, my hand writing is the pits and even I have trouble reading what I write, so would have t print my words and even then it's still crap. When I got my hands on a little typewriter at a tip and was able to get it going, my world changed. With a dictionary beside me, could actually write stuff that made sense.

Use the regen braking and you'd probably get most of it back, my friend drives on regen and gets lots of extra klms that way. I go to Hobart regularly, for business and shopping, my neighbour sometimes comes along and always asks if she can come rallying with me to Hobart.