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Australia
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The AUKUS Inquiry's NPC presentation was excellent.
Worth watching ...
youtube.com/watch?v=1zSLKY-W…
This is my heartfelt thought for the day - and there are a lot of heartless commenters who think that whacking the NDIS is a good thing ...
teapaw.org/LanderPeterjohn/status…
As a first speech following mid-term loss, this is bizarre.
youtube.com/watch?v=dc7sxxYl…
PENNY WONG. Whenever she winds up for a verbose reply, you know you are about to be lied to.
That is her "tell".
Grumble for the day:
MyId sent an email to my wwife telling her to use it or lose it. Her normal sign-in is by using her email address.
Error message was "no such email in our records"
Nope - not a typos problem.
MyId has its head firmly up its bum.
To Mr Shoebridge:
Do you oppose PHON's call to abolish the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water?
On the one hand, it is an enormously expensive ($5.5 billion) bureaucracy that is headed in the wrong direction.
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It is amazing how rapidly my IT 3 R's rule has become the norm in non-IT contexts - Rubbish Ramifies Rapidly.
Contrary to this one example below, Australia is not one off the highest country's interest rate level in the world.
It is one off in the OECD.
sbs.com.au/news/article/afte…
Thought for the evening ...
If the Australian govt has learned nothing about how Denmark was treated re Greenland, then we are too stupid to deserve being a sovereign nation.
I see that wear and tear on the spare wheel restraining strap on BYD's Shark 6 is causing the recall of 32,000 vehicles for remediation. Some will cast this as "Chinese EV bad", but when the details are examined, it speaks volumes in favour of their support infrastructure.
My thought for the evening ...
Australia's public hospitals are magnificent.
The administration sometimes is a bit lacking and the analyst in me shudders at the number of silos of butted my head against -
- but the frontline staff - doctors, nurses, orderlies - are wonderful.
Penny Wong just said, in Parliament, that Australia's alliance with the USA increases our sovereignty !!!
I can calmly accept that some people believe that the alliance inproves our security ... disagree with but not be surprised.
But increased sovereignty ???
That's insane.
The problem is that neither the US nationally nor Trump personally is anything remotely resembling a democracy.
The former is run by lobbyists
The latter is just a despot - a dictator.
That combination is in absolutely no position to tell others how to behave in a democratic way.
Catch up phase? There are already enough dwellings.
In occupied dwellings, we currently have 30 mill bedrooms for 27 mill people. In UNOCCUPIED dwellings, we have another 4 mill bedrooms.
We do NOT have a housing shortage.
We have a housing supply shortage.
There has been a flood of "See, we anti-vaxxers were right" postings since Fauci started being (unsuccessfully) questioned.
Which is odd - because there is nothing in Rand Paul's attack that relates to vaccination dangers.
Lander PeterJohn retweeted
如今的中共国人就像太监，一遇到别人指出他们活的很憋屈还不反抗时，他们就要大吼：“你懂什么？这是皇帝为我们指导的新太监思想😡😡😡你根本不了解太监制度的优越性！”
Been thinking about my mother. Wonderful woman - but had no idea about the difference between a million and a billion. Both were just "equally" very big numbers.
It occurs to me that most Aussies duffer from this problem to a greater or lesser degree.
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So I decided to make those big numbers real.
I'll do round number approximations.
AUKUS is set to cost us $300 billion.
Our population is 30 million
We have 3 people per familly
AUKUS will cost YOU $30,000.
Eat those numbers.