Morning.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning.

hey there neutrino!

A pinch and a punch?
HB all those horses out there.

It is 9 degrees heading for a top of 16 and there is very light precipitation occurring.

monkey skipper said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning.

hey there neutrino!

Morning monkey skipper.

Tau.Neutrino said:

monkey skipper said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning.

hey there neutrino!

Morning monkey skipper.

G’day to you both.

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

monkey skipper said:

hey there neutrino!

Morning monkey skipper.

G’day to you both.

I think my daughter has a hang over….the night after her birthday celebrations…

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

monkey skipper said:

hey there neutrino!

Morning monkey skipper.

G’day to you both.

Morning RB, your pictures look good.

monkey skipper said:

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Morning monkey skipper.

G’day to you both.

I think my daughter has a hang over….the night after her birthday celebrations…

Shout at her, HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

roughbarked said:

G’day to you both.

I think my daughter has a hang over….the night after her birthday celebrations…

Shout at her, HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

And check among your CDs for any brass band music you can put on to cheer her up.

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

monkey skipper said:

I think my daughter has a hang over….the night after her birthday celebrations…

Shout at her, HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

And check among your CDs for any brass band music you can put on to cheer her up.

There could be family violence brewing if one did that.

roughbarked said:

captain_spalding said:

roughbarked said:

Shout at her, HOW WAS YOUR BIRTHDAY?

And check among your CDs for any brass band music you can put on to cheer her up.

There could be family violence brewing if one did that.

Nah…. but she would tell me ….to f*(%^ off toot sweet …I… imagine…. :D

Morning pilgrims, another lovely winters morning.

I reckon, done by wild pigs. No indications of wombats here.

roughbarked said:

I reckon, done by wild pigs. No indications of wombats here.

Well, it could have been goats but there was no smell of goats.

roughbarked said:

roughbarked said:

I reckon, done by wild pigs. No indications of wombats here.

Well, it could have been goats but there was no smell of goats.

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees and overcast. No wind. Forecast is for 13 and showers.

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees and overcast. No wind. Forecast is for 13 and showers.

Rainfall
0.4mm

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees and overcast. No wind. Forecast is for 13 and showers.

Rainfall
0.4mm

We had a good rain yesterday. Probably between 10 and 15mm.

buffy said:

roughbarked said:

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees and overcast. No wind. Forecast is for 13 and showers.

Rainfall
0.4mm

We had a good rain yesterday. Probably between 10 and 15mm.

Though we have had slightly better than average to this time of year it is still not wet enough to last unless the forecast wetter spring actually happens. There was barely a trickle of water coming out of the hills and nil frogs to be heard. When winter spring is actually the only time you’ll hear them in the hills unless there is a downpour in summer. Maybe I was early, as the Caladenias haven’t started yet.

And a 50m visibility fog has rolled in. Bruna and I are going for a walk in the fog.

buffy said:

And a 50m visibility fog has rolled in. Bruna and I are going for a walk in the fog.

I like walking through fogs.

Tau.Neutrino said:

buffy said:

And a 50m visibility fog has rolled in. Bruna and I are going for a walk in the fog.

I like walking through fogs.

Yesterday was clear.

Today, overcast and slightly drippy.

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

buffy said:

And a 50m visibility fog has rolled in. Bruna and I are going for a walk in the fog.

I like walking through fogs.

Yesterday was clear.

Today, overcast and slightly drippy.

So clear if looks like your there.

Indigofera was bursting.

World’s first unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge displayed in Venice
https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/

Tau.Neutrino said:

World’s first unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge displayed in Venice
https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/

Glorified step ladder.

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

World’s first unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge displayed in Venice
https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/

Glorified step ladder.

Here’s another one

MX3D gets go-ahead for 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam
https://newatlas.com/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-amsterdam/37999/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body

The robots will begin printing the bridge on one side of the canal and will create rail-supports as they go

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

World’s first unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge displayed in Venice
https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/

Glorified step ladder.

Here’s another one

MX3D gets go-ahead for 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam
https://newatlas.com/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-amsterdam/37999/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body

The robots will begin printing the bridge on one side of the canal and will create rail-supports as they go

Surely they start from both sides and meet in the middle?

roughbarked said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

Glorified step ladder.

Here’s another one

MX3D gets go-ahead for 3D-printed bridge in Amsterdam
https://newatlas.com/mx3d-3d-printed-bridge-amsterdam/37999/?itm_source=newatlas&itm_medium=article-body

The robots will begin printing the bridge on one side of the canal and will create rail-supports as they go

Surely they start from both sides and meet in the middle?

The robots print their own supports, so I guess they can go from one side to the other.

roughbarked said:

nice I feel like going bush walking after lockdown.

roughbarked said:

When you are walking around in there, keep your eye out for fossils.

Tau.Neutrino said:

roughbarked said:

nice I feel like going bush walking after lockdown.

At a guess I’d say there were dagonfly nymphs attached to the rock.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

When you are walking around in there, keep your eye out for fossils.

They’ll likely be more than 400mya?

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

When you are walking around in there, keep your eye out for fossils.

They’ll likely be more than 400mya?

3D-printed concrete Fibonacci House built by the numbers
https://newatlas.com/tiny-houses/twente-fibonacci-house/

Anyway, got swmbo out and about. Still clambering on rocks, which is quite an acheivement.

Not as many as this but there has been a couple of small flocks getting about the village of late.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh1CRMn4XWI

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

When you are walking around in there, keep your eye out for fossils.

They’ll likely be more than 400mya?

Fossils are rare in the NSW Devonian Sandstones, but when found tend to be amazing. Particularly the armoured fish.

Michael V said:

roughbarked said:

Michael V said:

When you are walking around in there, keep your eye out for fossils.

They’ll likely be more than 400mya?

Fossils are rare in the NSW Devonian Sandstones, but when found tend to be amazing. Particularly the armoured fish.

Thanks, I’ll keep an eye out.

Pi hack breathes digital life into 50-year-old analog camera
https://newatlas.com/photography/befinitiv-raspberry-pi-cosina-3d-printed-film-digital-camera/

Leica launches its first smartphone, the Leitz Phone 1
https://newatlas.com/mobile-technology/leica-leitz-phone-1/

Stripped-back style rises up in the 2021 Minimalist Photography Awards
https://newatlas.com/photography/winners-gallery-2021-minimalist-photography-awards/

Stylish smartphone snaps in the 2021 iPhone Photography Awards
https://newatlas.com/photography/iphone-photography-awards-2021-winner-gallery/

hot coals transfer, this fire’s going, added plenty diesel after had a little flame, I was cold you know

started to make roaring rocket engine type sounds so shut the door, then I still wasn’t happy with how quickly was happening so opened door just out of the door latch, then it started making buzz bomb sounds bouncing the air through a vibrating door, so shut the door again

yeah you want heat quick on a cold morn that’s what it takes, some rocket engine experiments

roughbarked said:

nice lizard, wouldn’t be out this time of year would it

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Presently 2 degrees and overcast. No wind. Forecast is for 13 and showers.

chill morn, clear skies, maybe rain again tomorrow….have me a look-see

thunder and lightning maybe tomorrow, 90% 5-10mm, not too windy, 27km/h maybe

Selection of New Atlas articles

Putting a gravitational wave detector on the Moon could find new physics
Astronomers snap image of moon-forming disk surrounding an alien world
Event Horizon Telescope snaps close-up of supermassive black hole jets
New particle discovered at CERN is a long-lived double charmer
Neuroscientists discover how taking breaks while learning improves memory
Chinese giant CATL launches a commercial salt-based battery for EVs
Metallic water created for the first time in golden experiment
US FAA expands air traffic control to include commercial space tourism
Joby sets new record with 154.6-mile eVTOL flight
Radically different Transwing eVTOL design offers some huge advantages
First “flat and flush” on-street EV charge points installed in London

transition said:

hot coals transfer, this fire’s going, added plenty diesel after had a little flame, I was cold you know

started to make roaring rocket engine type sounds so shut the door, then I still wasn’t happy with how quickly was happening so opened door just out of the door latch, then it started making buzz bomb sounds bouncing the air through a vibrating door, so shut the door again

yeah you want heat quick on a cold morn that’s what it takes, some rocket engine experiments

Acacia wood. Hot and fast.

Tau.Neutrino said:

World’s first unreinforced 3D-printed concrete bridge displayed in Venice
https://newatlas.com/3d-printing/worlds-first-3d-printed-concrete-bridge-eth-zaha-hadid/

Hmmm.

According to TATE:
Roman engineers were the first and until the industrial revolution the only ones to construct bridges with concrete, which they called opus caementicium. The outside was usually covered with brick or ashlar, as in the Alcántara Bridge.

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Oh, and apparently there is to be an opposition leadership spill in Vic but the distancing rules are preventing them meeting. Just scanning news headlines.

buffy said:

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Oh, and apparently there is to be an opposition leadership spill in Vic but the distancing rules are preventing them meeting. Just scanning news headlines.

If you feel like seeing what we’ve got…

https://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/mornings/michael-obrien/13465552

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

Morning all
This is Katter country. Both Federal & State and their voices are loud & often.

buffy said:

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Oh, and apparently there is to be an opposition leadership spill in Vic but the distancing rules are preventing them meeting. Just scanning news headlines.

So even pandemics can have good effects :)

Considering NSW Labor have just been through a change of leader (which I do vaguely recall hearing something about), it seems quite extraordinary how little we hear from them.

Maybe they are following the “shut up and let the Libs talk themselves out of government” approach.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

These days, the opposition only needs a voice at election times when they can reveal a list of the stupid things the ruling party have said.

Morning people.

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

buffy said:

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Oh, and apparently there is to be an opposition leadership spill in Vic but the distancing rules are preventing them meeting. Just scanning news headlines.

So even pandemics can have good effects :)

Considering NSW Labor have just been through a change of leader (which I do vaguely recall hearing something about), it seems quite extraordinary how little we hear from them.

Maybe they are following the “shut up and let the Libs talk themselves out of government” approach.

You mean the enough rope strategy?

This seems to summarize the general feeling etc in Victoria. We seem to be mostly happy with Dan, and the Opposition seems to be unable to make up its mind what it thinks.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-24/victorian-government-retains-confidence-despite-lockdowns/100318930

I’m off outside to mess about with firewood again.

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Tau.Neutrino said:

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Talking of Gladys the Terrible:

It occurred to me this morning that the number of times I have heard a NSW state opposition politician speaking about anything, over the last say 6 months, is very close to zero.

Surely that’s a bad thing.

What’s it like in the other states. Do the opposition people have a voice?

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Ive noticed that too.

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

Oh, and apparently there is to be an opposition leadership spill in Vic but the distancing rules are preventing them meeting. Just scanning news headlines.

So even pandemics can have good effects :)

Considering NSW Labor have just been through a change of leader (which I do vaguely recall hearing something about), it seems quite extraordinary how little we hear from them.

Maybe they are following the “shut up and let the Libs talk themselves out of government” approach.

You mean the enough rope strategy?

I guess that’s the same thing.

Gladys seems to be able to survive any amount of rope though.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

buffy said:

The Victorian Opposition leader (O’Brien) is usually given time on the news to say something. He only ever follows the line of saying Dan Andrews should do the opposite to what he is doing. Never, ever have I heard any constructive suggestions.

Ive noticed that too.

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

So even pandemics can have good effects :)

Considering NSW Labor have just been through a change of leader (which I do vaguely recall hearing something about), it seems quite extraordinary how little we hear from them.

Maybe they are following the “shut up and let the Libs talk themselves out of government” approach.

You mean the enough rope strategy?

I guess that’s the same thing.

Gladys seems to be able to survive any amount of rope though.

Gladys the Terrible has federal support and a mostly friendly media. When NSW is still in lockdown in the leadup to Christmas, we’ll see her popularity erode significantly.

Dark Orange said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Ive noticed that too.

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

I wonder how things would go if they only were allowed to give suggestions or improvements.

Imagine no put downs, ever.

Dark Orange said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

buffy said:

You mean the enough rope strategy?

I guess that’s the same thing.

Gladys seems to be able to survive any amount of rope though.

Gladys the Terrible has federal support and a mostly friendly media. When NSW is still in lockdown in the leadup to Christmas, we’ll see her popularity erode significantly.

She will offer financial support to online shoppers around Xmas time and her popularity will climb again to unprecedented levels.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Dark Orange said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Ive noticed that too.

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

I wonder how things would go if they only were allowed to give suggestions or improvements.

Imagine no put downs, ever.

It is not forbidden to be constructive. A fact pollies seem to ignore.

roughbarked said:

he’s angry

Dark Orange said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Ive noticed that too.

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

And today the opposition is the Greens.

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Dark Orange said:

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

I wonder how things would go if they only were allowed to give suggestions or improvements.

Imagine no put downs, ever.

It is not forbidden to be constructive. A fact pollies seem to ignore.

Going with the flow is too much for them to be in agreement, its like they must find fault in something and then blame or punish.

sarahs mum said:

Dark Orange said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Ive noticed that too.

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

And today the opposition is the Greens.

Not quite.
The Greens propose many alternatives. The fact that all of these proposals are unworkable seems to have escaped their notice.

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

Being covering in white would cool him down a bit.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

Thanks Arts.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

turns out some forums think that it is to regulate temperature.. funny thing is I gave a talk on beards at the zoo on Wednesday and didn’t find that in the academic research I was looking at for the talk.. urban myth or not academic enough to research.

Tamb said:

sarahs mum said:

Dark Orange said:

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

And today the opposition is the Greens.

Not quite.
The Greens propose many alternatives. The fact that all of these proposals are unworkable seems to have escaped their notice.

But when Labor and liberal vote together and the only the Greens oppose…then the Greens are the opposition.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

What colour are they when not angry?

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

What colour are they when not angry?

More like this one (At least in FNQ)

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

What colour are they when not angry?

how many possibilities are there of a response type

run away
stay still
piss off
eat me

Morning Sundays. :)

20.8C & 48% indoors
26.5C & 47% outdoors

1013 hPa and falling.

It’s a nup day. Cloud? Nup. Wind? Nup. Moolies? Nup.

Poifect day. :)

Headed for 28C.

Woodie said:

Morning Sundays. :)

20.8C & 48% indoors
26.5C & 47% outdoors

1013 hPa and falling.

It’s a nup day. Cloud? Nup. Wind? Nup. Moolies? Nup.

Poifect day. :)

Headed for 28C.

Rainy and windy here. Slept rather badly, got woken up every half hour or so as each squall hit. Some very strong wind gusts that rattled the flyscreens on the windows. Wheelie bins blowing down the street and such.

Tamb said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

Thanks Arts.

Yes, thanks Arts. An interesting fact for me for today.

Well, that’s half a dozen builders barrows of firewood put into the barrow, walked 50m uphill, stacked into the shed. Shame I started out with the heavy metal tub barrow. So much easier with the lighter plastic tub and wide wheel!

buffy said:

Well, that’s half a dozen builders barrows of firewood put into the barrow, walked 50m uphill, stacked into the shed. Shame I started out with the heavy metal tub barrow. So much easier with the lighter plastic tub and wide wheel!

Good exercise, Ms Buffy. The sorta thing that warms ya up. No need to light the fire then. :)

Woodie said:

buffy said:

Well, that’s half a dozen builders barrows of firewood put into the barrow, walked 50m uphill, stacked into the shed. Shame I started out with the heavy metal tub barrow. So much easier with the lighter plastic tub and wide wheel!

Good exercise, Ms Buffy. The sorta thing that warms ya up. No need to light the fire then. :)

Mr buffy already lit it earlier…

Woodie said:

buffy said:

Well, that’s half a dozen builders barrows of firewood put into the barrow, walked 50m uphill, stacked into the shed. Shame I started out with the heavy metal tub barrow. So much easier with the lighter plastic tub and wide wheel!

Good exercise, Ms Buffy. The sorta thing that warms ya up. No need to light the fire then. :)

Wood warms you thrice.

buffy said:

Woodie said:

buffy said:

Well, that’s half a dozen builders barrows of firewood put into the barrow, walked 50m uphill, stacked into the shed. Shame I started out with the heavy metal tub barrow. So much easier with the lighter plastic tub and wide wheel!

Good exercise, Ms Buffy. The sorta thing that warms ya up. No need to light the fire then. :)

Mr buffy already lit it earlier…

We haven’t had a Winter. Went from warm & wet to cool & dry. July 12mm rain v average of 23mm.

transition said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

What colour are they when not angry?

how many possibilities are there of a response type

run away
stay still
piss off
eat me

just reading wiki, not sure how useful anger, the concept of what it is between humans applied other animals might be, it sort of works of some examples I can imagine, but doesn’t properly of many examples

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anger

occurs to me that avoiding provoking it (of humans for the moment) is probably a substantial part of behavior controls, of various scales just two people through to large groups, or between large groups.

Or even of a single individual human there is the possibility of an example being angry with itself. Conjure for a moment your nutcracker ancestor bangs his fingers with a rock, or walks into a low hanging tree limb

which leaves me with the proposition of what would be the outcome of there being no such thing, nothing like it, no possibility of provoking hostility, you’d be minus all behaviors that involve avoiding provoking it

so i’m thinking there are warning responses about provoking hostility, that emulate higher levels of hostility, warn about its intensification (potential)

now I have in a mind a certain president that is having a couple, or possibly three, new ‘doomsday’ planes built, totally absurd to be advertising the fact, primitive really

David Speers a couple of days ago. I like this bit:

“When the western Sydney focus group was asked this week if they thought the Prime Minister had a plan, the only response was laughter. Morrison needs to turn that into confidence and hope.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-29/scott-morrison-in-trouble-with-voters/100331514

transition said:

roughbarked said:

nice lizard, wouldn’t be out this time of year would it

Well it was and clearly tuned in to soak up warmth.

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

he’s angry

No he was simply soaking up some rays. He can look angrier than that.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

roughbarked said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Nope. I walked past him several times before I went to get the camera. He/she was getting a bit of sun and the dark colour is to absorb more of it.

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

he’s angry

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

Yes they do change colours for various reasons.

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

He didn’t like being disturbed to have his photo taken.

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

and a method of using the first bit of sun to une up the system.

Arts said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

turns out some forums think that it is to regulate temperature.. funny thing is I gave a talk on beards at the zoo on Wednesday and didn’t find that in the academic research I was looking at for the talk.. urban myth or not academic enough to research.

Stress is also part of the colour change thing. When weakened or stressed they can almost turn coompletely pale.
This one was banging on the window, trying to escape another that was obviously chasing it off.

Tau.Neutrino said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

What colour are they when not angry?

Tamb said:

Tau.Neutrino said:

Dark Orange said:

I think it was Keating who claimed “We are the Opposition, so we oppose. It’s what we do.”

I wonder how things would go if they only were allowed to give suggestions or improvements.

Imagine no put downs, ever.

It is not forbidden to be constructive. A fact pollies seem to ignore.

imagine constructing dedicated and fit for purpose quarantine facilities

Buuilt in solar panels.

They aren’t afraid of me. Not unless I get too close with the camera.

These are 2” tree tubes.

roughbarked said:

They aren’t afraid of me. Not unless I get too close with the camera.

These are 2” tree tubes.

Anyway, starting to eat ‘sparagus.

Logan Martin from Logan is the first Gold Medallist in BMX Freestyle. Go Aussie!

Michael V said:

Logan Martin from Logan is the first Gold Medallist in BMX Freestyle. Go Aussie!

Oi Oi Oi.

Michael V said:

Logan Martin from Logan is the first Gold Medallist in BMX Freestyle. Go Aussie!

It looked like some fun.
I might have enjoyed doing that 5 decades ago.

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

Logan Martin from Logan is the first Gold Medallist in BMX Freestyle. Go Aussie!

It looked like some fun.
I might have enjoyed doing that 5 decades ago.

Five? More closer to six for me.

sarahs mum said:

Michael V said:

Logan Martin from Logan is the first Gold Medallist in BMX Freestyle. Go Aussie!

It looked like some fun.
I might have enjoyed doing that 5 decades ago.

Scary tricks. Not for me.

Heading for -3 here tonight.

Hey car…

Saw this go by on Facebook. Posted by DA’s uncle.

Joe Bugden shared an event.
Yesterday at 12:08 ·
As part of Hobart’s new Winter Light Festival, on Thursday 12th August in the Peacock Theatre at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, C-Silk String Quartet will be performing three string quartets by three Tasmanian composers. I am thrilled to have my String Quartet # 1 on the program, along with String Quartet # 1 by Leigh Hobba and String Quartet # 1 by Heath Brown.
You can read more about this performance at https://www.salarts.org.au/…/the-string-quartets-1…/
and tickets are for sale on line at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/780610

sarahs mum said:

Hey car…

Saw this go by on Facebook. Posted by DA’s uncle.

Joe Bugden shared an event.
Yesterday at 12:08 ·
As part of Hobart’s new Winter Light Festival, on Thursday 12th August in the Peacock Theatre at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, C-Silk String Quartet will be performing three string quartets by three Tasmanian composers. I am thrilled to have my String Quartet # 1 on the program, along with String Quartet # 1 by Leigh Hobba and String Quartet # 1 by Heath Brown.
You can read more about this performance at https://www.salarts.org.au/…/the-string-quartets-1…/
and tickets are for sale on line at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/780610

Well done Joe.

sarahs mum said:

Hey car…

Saw this go by on Facebook. Posted by DA’s uncle.

Joe Bugden shared an event.
Yesterday at 12:08 ·
As part of Hobart’s new Winter Light Festival, on Thursday 12th August in the Peacock Theatre at Salamanca Arts Centre in Hobart, C-Silk String Quartet will be performing three string quartets by three Tasmanian composers. I am thrilled to have my String Quartet # 1 on the program, along with String Quartet # 1 by Leigh Hobba and String Quartet # 1 by Heath Brown.
You can read more about this performance at https://www.salarts.org.au/…/the-string-quartets-1…/
and tickets are for sale on line at https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/780610

Hey Joe, where you goin’ with that fiddle in your hands…

‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ – Wayne Brookes

When there is a good reason you don’t make it on the podium…

Dark Orange said:

When there is a good reason you don’t make it on the podium…

LOL

sarahs mum said:

‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ – Wayne Brookes

I would probably have given the clock a slightly dark oil glaze as a final layer.

Dark Orange said:

When there is a good reason you don’t make it on the podium…

LOL

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ – Wayne Brookes

I would probably have given the clock a slightly dark oil glaze as a final layer.

Colour looks about right for hickory:

roughbarked said:

Arts said:

Tamb said:

Do you think the solid black might be a seasonal thing to get maximum warming during the cold months?

no, it’s a stress response, asserting dominance or anger.. sometimes illness..

and a method of using the first bit of sun to une up the system.

the bellowed throat tells me pissed offedness… the information out in forums is very random.. so I generally don’t apply them to academic talks.. it’s the same with most of the herp forums.. everyone has their opinions – which makes it difficult for newbies to get access to good solid information on animal husbandry..

Peak Warming Man said:

Dark Orange said:

When there is a good reason you don’t make it on the podium…

LOL

The Japanese aren’t all that fond of the Chinese.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

‘Hickory, Dickory, Dock’ – Wayne Brookes

I would probably have given the clock a slightly dark oil glaze as a final layer.

Me too. I do like the curtains.

9.8mm rain, more tomorrow

total for july was……lady’s doing the math……70.7mm…double checking now..

yep probably right

and hello august

House inspection this Thursday. GP on the 10th.

For Women Scotland – feminist critics of the Scottish government’s plans to reform the Gender Recognition Act.

https://forwomen.scot/about/

Time to phone the brother and thank him for that painting.

transition said:

9.8mm rain, more tomorrow

total for july was……lady’s doing the math……70.7mm…double checking now..

yep probably right

and hello august

I just mentioned most of that 9.8mm was in july, so she’s rejigging the figures, lucky it isn’t space shuttle orbit reentry calculations

nearly 80mm for july we’ll say, 80.5mm was the number, but may have had .5 after midnight

transition said:

transition said:

9.8mm rain, more tomorrow

total for july was……lady’s doing the math……70.7mm…double checking now..

yep probably right

and hello august

I just mentioned most of that 9.8mm was in july, so she’s rejigging the figures, lucky it isn’t space shuttle orbit reentry calculations

nearly 80mm for july we’ll say, 80.5mm was the number, but may have had .5 after midnight

By rights it’s all free anyway, there shouldn’t be any GST payable.

Dark Orange said:

When there is a good reason you don’t make it on the podium…

His teammate was a bit of a dick though.

Bubblecar said:

transition said:

transition said:

9.8mm rain, more tomorrow

total for july was……lady’s doing the math……70.7mm…double checking now..

yep probably right

and hello august

I just mentioned most of that 9.8mm was in july, so she’s rejigging the figures, lucky it isn’t space shuttle orbit reentry calculations

nearly 80mm for july we’ll say, 80.5mm was the number, but may have had .5 after midnight

By rights it’s all free anyway, there shouldn’t be any GST payable.

i’ve stopped being hysterical about it now, the imprecision, the inexactness

Eh oop

Back in Perth, treated to a hail storm.

Not a frequent event, I think this is the 2nd time I’ve seen one here in 7 years.

dv said:

Back in Perth, treated to a hail storm.

Not a frequent event, I think this is the 2nd time I’ve seen one here in 7 years.

bit like that today innit?

dv said:

Back in Perth, treated to a hail storm.

Not a frequent event, I think this is the 2nd time I’ve seen one here in 7 years.

Where ya been?

dv said:

Eh oop

hello again.

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

dv said:

Eh oop

Eh oop, or ay oop: thought to be derived from the Norse (Viking invaders and all that) term ‘se up’ meaning ‘watch out’.

Got butter streusel fingers mix in the oven. It’s a very odd method for making it. It’s also extremely rich. Which is why it has to be cut into small fingers when it is cold. I’ve got it marked in the recipe book and it hasn’t got a sticky note to say DON’T MAKE THIS AGAIN, so it must have worked when I did it sometime in the past.

Woodie said:

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

Are they allowed to play now?

Woodie said:

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

Yes.

In my tipping comp I’m level with one other. He picked the Dons.

captain_spalding said:

Woodie said:

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

Are they allowed to play now?

They moved it from Brisbane to Melbourne.

Bubblecar said:

By rights it’s all free anyway, there shouldn’t be any GST payable.

Could be FBT involved.

Woodie said:

captain_spalding said:

Woodie said:

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

Are they allowed to play now?

They moved it from Brisbane to Melbourne.

I hope they’re being quarantined when off the field, and the opposing team, too.

We have the bad germs up here, y’know.

I wonder what Boris was congratulating me about. Probably just about being awesome.

Helping my son with his homework, which is about migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. They are using various resources about the procedures for asylum-seekers in Australia. The resources are from 2008 and God DAMN are they out of date.

dv said:

Back in Perth, treated to a hail storm.

Not a frequent event, I think this is the 2nd time I’ve seen one here in 7 years.

Apparent temp here in Dunsy is -4, up from a chilly -7 at 10 this morning. Had hail several times during the night, and a few times today. Glad it’s a Sunday and I don’t have to be out in it.

dv said:

Helping my son with his homework, which is about migrants, asylum-seekers and refugees. They are using various resources about the procedures for asylum-seekers in Australia. The resources are from 2008 and God DAMN are they out of date.

Something should be done about that.

I had to throw out my carbon dioxide detector. All that beeping was giving me a headache and making me dizzy.

Sun is out, hail has melted

btm said:

I had to throw out my carbon dioxide detector. All that beeping was giving me a headache and making me dizzy.

LOLOL

btm said:

I had to throw out my carbon dioxide detector. All that beeping was giving me a headache and making me dizzy.

Now you’ll be able to sleep.

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

sibeen said:

Woodie said:

CAR’N SWANNIES!!!

Yes.

In my tipping comp I’m level with one other. He picked the Dons.

They very nearly made a meal out of it, Woodie.

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

good.

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

huzzah!

FMD Swannies…… make it hard for yaselves.

But YAYAYAYAYAYAY FOR SWANNIES!!!

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

Did they say why?

Bubblecar said:

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

Did they say why?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html#comments

Its just for a week

JudgeMental said:

Bubblecar said:

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

Did they say why?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html#comments

Jolly good. Up yours Rupert, and your running dogs.

“The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said residents in affected regions should take action, including closing curtains and blinds in the event of lightning and preparing to use sandbags in case of flooding.”

What is the rationale for closing curtains and blinds against lightning? Against stuff being flung by high wind, I get. But lightning?

From: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/strong-winds-bring-down-trees-in-perth-cold-front-moves-wa-coast/100340836

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

Blimey, when your bullshit quotient gets high enough for Youtube to give you the ki-bosh…

Food report: Mr buffy is cook. A couple of little midloin lamb chops each rubbed with Xinjiang spice mix. Accompanied by peas and corn. Not sure if there is potato.

buffy said:

“The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said residents in affected regions should take action, including closing curtains and blinds in the event of lightning and preparing to use sandbags in case of flooding.”

What is the rationale for closing curtains and blinds against lightning? Against stuff being flung by high wind, I get. But lightning?

From: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/strong-winds-bring-down-trees-in-perth-cold-front-moves-wa-coast/100340836

Slight, better-than-nothing protection against flying glass fragments from windows shattered by nearby strikes.

buffy said:

Food report: Mr buffy is cook. A couple of little midloin lamb chops each rubbed with Xinjiang spice mix. Accompanied by peas and corn. Not sure if there is potato.

No

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

“The Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) said residents in affected regions should take action, including closing curtains and blinds in the event of lightning and preparing to use sandbags in case of flooding.”

What is the rationale for closing curtains and blinds against lightning? Against stuff being flung by high wind, I get. But lightning?

From: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-01/strong-winds-bring-down-trees-in-perth-cold-front-moves-wa-coast/100340836

Slight, better-than-nothing protection against flying glass fragments from windows shattered by nearby strikes.

I’ve never heard of lightning shattering a window. I presume you mean nearby trees?

kryten said:

buffy said:

Food report: Mr buffy is cook. A couple of little midloin lamb chops each rubbed with Xinjiang spice mix. Accompanied by peas and corn. Not sure if there is potato.

No

Why ‘no’?

Because it’s not in the ‘asian motif’?

They’d have used spuds if they had them.

Beethoven and Mozart would have happily used electric guitars in their compositions, if they’d existed then.

Lightning got this tree. Brown stringlybark is impressive when it’s blown out.

……….

And one with Willi for perspective.

buffy said:

Lightning got this tree. Brown stringlybark is impressive when it’s blown out.

……….

And one with Willi for perspective.

The tree is still alive, many years on.

JudgeMental said:

Bubblecar said:

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

Did they say why?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html#comments

could someone post it please?

buffy said:

I’ve never heard of lightning shattering a window. I presume you mean nearby trees?

You get a very close lightning strike, and it’s essentially an explosion. Lightning can heat the air to 28,000 deg C/ 50,000 deg F (at least 5 times otter than the Sun’s surface).

The air heats and expands very rapidly indeed, just like high explosive. The pressure wave can easily shatter window panes, if close by.

If the lightning hits a tree, it instantly vapourises the water present, and the tree explodes under the pressure of the instantly-generated steam. Big chunks fly around. Farewell windows.

So you see, the robins that Mary Poppins sings to in the movie Mary Poppins appear to be American robins, quite unlikely the rounder robins she’d be likely to encounter in a garden in London.

sarahs mum said:

JudgeMental said:

Bubblecar said:

Did they say why?

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html#comments

could someone post it please?

Sky News Australia has been suspended from uploading content to YouTube for a week after the video and livestreaming platform claimed the media organisation breached its COVID-19 misinformation standards.

In a statement issued to Nine newspapers on Sunday afternoon, a YouTube spokesperson said the website had taken steps against Sky, including removing videos from the media outlet’s online channel and issuing a “strike” against it, causing it to be temporarily suspended from uploading content.

“We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.

“We apply our policies equally for everyone regardless of uploader, and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system, removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia’s channel.”

YouTube has not said what videos published by Sky it removed, but the platform doesn’t allow content medical misinformation about COVID-19 “that poses a serious risk of egregious harm in contradiction with local and global health authorities’ guidance about COVID-19 treatment, prevention, transmission, and social distancing.”

The one-week suspension by YouTube follows a review of content for compliance with YouTube’s policies on COVID-19 which are subject to change in response to global or local health authority guidance on the virus.

A Sky News Australia spokesperson said it acknowledges YouTube’s right to enforce its policies and looks forward to continuing to publish its news and analysis content back to its 1.85 million YouTube subscribers shortly.

“We support broad discussion and debate on a wide range of topics and perspectives which is vital to any democracy,” the spokesperson said.

“We take our commitment to meeting editorial and community expectations seriously.”

The spokesperson said Sky News expressly rejects that any host has ever denied the existence of COVID-19, and no such videos were ever published or removed.

The action taken by YouTube follows strong criticism of veteran broadcaster Alan Jones’ ongoing COVID-19 commentary on Sky News, on which he is a presenter. However, it is unknown whether his segments were the cause of or contributed to the suspension.

Sydney radio host Ray Hadley last week said his former colleague at 2GB (owned by Nine, the publisher of this masthead) “needs to be called out” for his commentary, which included sympathy for anti-lockdown protesters, calling NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant a “village idiot”, and suggesting a 38-year-old woman who died from COVID-19 was killed by something else.

“His performance during this has allowed conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxers like his old mate Pete Evans who he does podcasts with occasionally, to gain support from a minority in the community who think the virus is nothing more than a dose of the flu,” Hadley said.

On July 13, Hadley said Jones was “dead wrong” and was “doing himself, Sky News, and the Australian public, a great disservice” after Jones cited UK data to suggest the Delta strain of COVID-19 is far less dangerous than the original virus.

Rather than acknowledging the low case fatality rate in the UK is due to nearly two-thirds of the adult population being fully vaccinated, Jones and his guest Craig Kelly cited debunked statistics to suggest vaccinated people are more likely to die from COVID-19.

Sky News later posted a correction to the July 12 broadcast and removed the video from all platforms.

with Jenny Noyes

sarahs mum said:

Ian said:

YOUTUBE SUSPENDS SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA ACCOUNT

good.

dv said:

So you see, the robins that Mary Poppins sings to in the movie Mary Poppins appear to be American robins, quite unlikely the rounder robins she’d be likely to encounter in a garden in London.

At least they weren’t fat pigeons

dv said:

So you see, the robins that Mary Poppins sings to in the movie Mary Poppins appear to be American robins, quite unlikely the rounder robins she’d be likely to encounter in a garden in London.

They had to do that.

Otherwise, American cinemas would have resounded to young voices calling out HEY, MA, LOOKIT, THAT AIN’T NO ROBIN! I AIN’T SEEN NO ROBIN LIKE THAT! WHAT KINDA GYP MOVIE IS THIS ANYHOW?

Okay assume meme brace position

dv said:

Okay assume meme brace position

INCOMING!!

dv said:

Okay assume meme brace position

There are no atheists in fox holes!

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

dv said:

Okay assume meme brace position

There are no atheists in fox holes!

Oh, i can testify, brother. Yea, verily, i can testify.

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

I’ve never heard of lightning shattering a window. I presume you mean nearby trees?

You get a very close lightning strike, and it’s essentially an explosion. Lightning can heat the air to 28,000 deg C/ 50,000 deg F (at least 5 times otter than the Sun’s surface).

The air heats and expands very rapidly indeed, just like high explosive. The pressure wave can easily shatter window panes, if close by.

If the lightning hits a tree, it instantly vapourises the water present, and the tree explodes under the pressure of the instantly-generated steam. Big chunks fly around. Farewell windows.

I had a paper round when I was a kid; one morning while I was out delivering papers during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the ground about a metre in front of me. The thunder/pressure wave was strong enough to throw me backwards off my bike, and temporarily deafened me (I still have tinnitus from it.) None of the windows in the nearby houses shattered, though. About half a minute later another bolt struck the ground across the road. I went back to the paper shop and quit the job.

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

dv said:

Okay assume meme brace position

There are no atheists in fox holes!

is it because the god botherers are taking up all the spots?

btm said:

captain_spalding said:

buffy said:

I’ve never heard of lightning shattering a window. I presume you mean nearby trees?

You get a very close lightning strike, and it’s essentially an explosion. Lightning can heat the air to 28,000 deg C/ 50,000 deg F (at least 5 times otter than the Sun’s surface).

The air heats and expands very rapidly indeed, just like high explosive. The pressure wave can easily shatter window panes, if close by.

If the lightning hits a tree, it instantly vapourises the water present, and the tree explodes under the pressure of the instantly-generated steam. Big chunks fly around. Farewell windows.

I had a paper round when I was a kid; one morning while I was out delivering papers during a thunderstorm a bolt of lightning struck the ground about a metre in front of me. The thunder/pressure wave was strong enough to throw me backwards off my bike, and temporarily deafened me (I still have tinnitus from it.) None of the windows in the nearby houses shattered, though. About half a minute later another bolt struck the ground across the road. I went back to the paper shop and quit the job.

God has funny ways of telling you that you’re destined for other things, doesn’t He?

JudgeMental said:

sarahs mum said:

JudgeMental said:

https://www.smh.com.au/national/sky-news-australia-suspended-and-handed-a-strike-from-youtube-20210801-p58ev1.html#comments

could someone post it please?

Sky News Australia has been suspended from uploading content to YouTube for a week after the video and livestreaming platform claimed the media organisation breached its COVID-19 misinformation standards.

In a statement issued to Nine newspapers on Sunday afternoon, a YouTube spokesperson said the website had taken steps against Sky, including removing videos from the media outlet’s online channel and issuing a “strike” against it, causing it to be temporarily suspended from uploading content.

“We have clear and established COVID-19 medical misinformation policies based on local and global health authority guidance, to prevent the spread of COVID-19 misinformation that could cause real-world harm,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement.

“We apply our policies equally for everyone regardless of uploader, and in accordance with these policies and our long-standing strikes system, removed videos from and issued a strike to Sky News Australia’s channel.”

YouTube has not said what videos published by Sky it removed, but the platform doesn’t allow content medical misinformation about COVID-19 “that poses a serious risk of egregious harm in contradiction with local and global health authorities’ guidance about COVID-19 treatment, prevention, transmission, and social distancing.”

The one-week suspension by YouTube follows a review of content for compliance with YouTube’s policies on COVID-19 which are subject to change in response to global or local health authority guidance on the virus.

A Sky News Australia spokesperson said it acknowledges YouTube’s right to enforce its policies and looks forward to continuing to publish its news and analysis content back to its 1.85 million YouTube subscribers shortly.

“We support broad discussion and debate on a wide range of topics and perspectives which is vital to any democracy,” the spokesperson said.

“We take our commitment to meeting editorial and community expectations seriously.”

The spokesperson said Sky News expressly rejects that any host has ever denied the existence of COVID-19, and no such videos were ever published or removed.

The action taken by YouTube follows strong criticism of veteran broadcaster Alan Jones’ ongoing COVID-19 commentary on Sky News, on which he is a presenter. However, it is unknown whether his segments were the cause of or contributed to the suspension.

Sydney radio host Ray Hadley last week said his former colleague at 2GB (owned by Nine, the publisher of this masthead) “needs to be called out” for his commentary, which included sympathy for anti-lockdown protesters, calling NSW Chief Health Officer Kerry Chant a “village idiot”, and suggesting a 38-year-old woman who died from COVID-19 was killed by something else.

“His performance during this has allowed conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxers like his old mate Pete Evans who he does podcasts with occasionally, to gain support from a minority in the community who think the virus is nothing more than a dose of the flu,” Hadley said.

On July 13, Hadley said Jones was “dead wrong” and was “doing himself, Sky News, and the Australian public, a great disservice” after Jones cited UK data to suggest the Delta strain of COVID-19 is far less dangerous than the original virus.

Rather than acknowledging the low case fatality rate in the UK is due to nearly two-thirds of the adult population being fully vaccinated, Jones and his guest Craig Kelly cited debunked statistics to suggest vaccinated people are more likely to die from COVID-19.

Sky News later posted a correction to the July 12 broadcast and removed the video from all platforms.

with Jenny Noyes

thank you.

Makes sense. My first thought was that it was about the anti Biden stuff. sky news on youtube doesn’t seem to be for the Australian audience.

Sm I take it there was good news about the funiculi funicula?

dv said:

Sm I take it there was good news about the funiculi funicula?

Not funi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKBX3fsaQ8&ab_channel=vlogbrothers

I like these brothers!

dv said:

Sm I take it there was good news about the funiculi funicula?

There were 21 reasons not to approve given to council. 9 voted against. 3 voted for. One of the ‘fors’ tried to have the vote postponed for some reason and failed. Rumours are that the MWCC people will appeal. Some people say that the state govt will push it as a state importance type matter even though the state have said before it isn’t going to do that.

It ain’t over yet but that was a good round.

sarahs mum said:

dv said:

Sm I take it there was good news about the funiculi funicula?

There were 21 reasons not to approve given to council. 9 voted against. 3 voted for. One of the ‘fors’ tried to have the vote postponed for some reason and failed. Rumours are that the MWCC people will appeal. Some people say that the state govt will push it as a state importance type matter even though the state have said before it isn’t going to do that.

It ain’t over yet but that was a good round.

One of the pylons is supposed to go onto the Organ pipes. The geological survey about that was incomplete. they implied that if they couldn’t get the pylon there they would ust shuffle the plans around until they found a plan that would match where they could seat a pylon.

Quite a few people commented that they had done a lot more work on geological survey to build their house.

captain_spalding said:

kryten said:

buffy said:

Food report: Mr buffy is cook. A couple of little midloin lamb chops each rubbed with Xinjiang spice mix. Accompanied by peas and corn. Not sure if there is potato.

No

Why ‘no’?

Because it’s not in the ‘asian motif’?

They’d have used spuds if they had them.

Beethoven and Mozart would have happily used electric guitars in their compositions, if they’d existed then.

Classical guitars existed in those days. Beethoven composed very little for it and Mozart, nothing.

So I can’t see them composing for electric guitar, which is normally used for much cruder music than classical guitar.

sarahs mum said:

Quite a few people commented that they had done a lot more work on geological survey to build their house.

Yes, but they’re going to live in their houses.

Whereas the cable car people are only going to hold onto it until they can flog it to some other outfit.

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Bailey.

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

George Bailey is an awful lot better cricketer than me.

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Bailey.

Bailey…Bailey….

Nope, i’ve got nothing.

Drinks-cart-pusher extraordinaire, perhaps?

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

George Bailey is an awful lot better cricketer than me.

Long John Silver would be a better cricketer than me, but i’ve still never heard of Bailey, G.

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Bailey.

Bailey…Bailey….

Nope, i’ve got nothing.

Drinks-cart-pusher extraordinaire, perhaps?

Mostly played ODIs and T20s for Australia. Was vice captain of ODI team for a while and captained the odd game. Only played a handful of test matches on and off.

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Rumpole’s little boy.

party_pants said:

captain_spalding said:

party_pants said:

Bailey.

Bailey…Bailey….

Nope, i’ve got nothing.

Drinks-cart-pusher extraordinaire, perhaps?

Mostly played ODIs and T20s for Australia. Was vice captain of ODI team for a while and captained the odd game. Only played a handful of test matches on and off.

mind you, I wouldn’t call him a cricketing “great”.

ABC News:

‘Brisbane woman who flew to Rockhampton tests positive to COVID-19
Queensland Health is tracing the contacts of a Brisbane woman who made a return trip to Rockhampton while infectious with COVID-19.’

Hey, Anastacia (or whoever’s in charge right now) wanna do something useful about the COVID spread?

SHUT DOWN THE F***ING AIRPORT!

captain_spalding said:

Michael V said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

George Bailey is an awful lot better cricketer than me.

Long John Silver would be a better cricketer than me, but i’ve still never heard of Bailey, G.

I certainly have.

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Rumpole’s little boy.

LOL

Michael V said:

Kingy said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Rumpole’s little boy.

LOL

I was watching an episode of that some years ago, and one of his young lady clients told a joke at a very posh dinner.

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Why do they use cats eyes when marking the centre of the roads?

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Because if they used cats arses, they’d need twice as many cats.

shakes fist at pp

Freo buggered up my tipping.

sibeen said:

shakes fist at pp

Freo buggered up my tipping.

Yeah, I emailed them late last week and told them to win, just to stuff up your tipping.

Sue me :p

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Don’t knock the Baileys. There are Baileys on both sides of my family.

buffy said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Don’t knock the Baileys. There are Baileys on both sides of my family.

But the Georges are not amongst them. The Georges were Gills.

party_pants said:

sibeen said:

shakes fist at pp

Freo buggered up my tipping.

Yeah, I emailed them late last week and told them to win, just to stuff up your tipping.

Sue me :p

I tipped, ‘em, Mr Panty Parts. :) SIxfa so far in me tips this week.

buffy said:

captain_spalding said:

ABC News:

‘George Bailey appointed Cricket Australia’s chief selector
By Bailey Kenzie
Tasmanian cricket great George Bailey joins four other Tasmanians with key roles in the sport’s national governing body.’

George who?

Don’t knock the Baileys. There are Baileys on both sides of my family.

You mean ‘don’t knock the bails’.

It’s a cricket term.

The New York Times
3 hrs ·
“Our lungs are burning, our future is burning.”
Firefighters in Turkey struggled to contain dozens of wildfires raging for a fourth day on Saturday, as fast-spreading blazes forced popular holiday resorts and dozens of rural areas along the Mediterranean coast to be evacuated.

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

Looks like a decent shower of rain would give you an indoor swimming pool in every room.

Those cars on the right are only about 1 metre from a buoyancy test.

Just heard what sounded like a distant explosion.

Wondering if it’ll be in the local news tomorrow.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

Looks like a decent shower of rain would give you an indoor swimming pool in every room.

Those cars on the right are only about 1 metre from a buoyancy test.

It’s in flood. I reckon the caravan park is under.

Okay I’ve caught up on memes I guess.

And now…politics

sarahs mum said:

It’s in flood. I reckon the caravan park is under.

That’s the thing about a house like that: every time it rained heavily, you’d be cakking your daks about flooding.

Just like a nice house in a glorious bushland setting: a couple of dry months, and you get panicky if you think you can smell wood smoke.

dv said:

Okay I’ve caught up on memes I guess.

And now…politics

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

It’s in flood. I reckon the caravan park is under.

That’s the thing about a house like that: every time it rained heavily, you’d be cakking your daks about flooding.

Just like a nice house in a glorious bushland setting: a couple of dry months, and you get panicky if you think you can smell wood smoke.

I live in B.

When I was dreaming about the old mill it was in shoddy nick. Its now fully renovated and probably way out of my price range.

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

It’s in flood. I reckon the caravan park is under.

That’s the thing about a house like that: every time it rained heavily, you’d be cakking your daks about flooding.

Just like a nice house in a glorious bushland setting: a couple of dry months, and you get panicky if you think you can smell wood smoke.

I live in B.

When I was dreaming about the old mill it was in shoddy nick. Its now fully renovated and probably way out of my price range.

My dad was a fireman.

He had much to say about homes in ‘glorious bushland settings’.

Very little of it could be repeated in polite company.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

captain_spalding said:

That’s the thing about a house like that: every time it rained heavily, you’d be cakking your daks about flooding.

Just like a nice house in a glorious bushland setting: a couple of dry months, and you get panicky if you think you can smell wood smoke.

I live in B.

When I was dreaming about the old mill it was in shoddy nick. Its now fully renovated and probably way out of my price range.

My dad was a fireman.

He had much to say about homes in ‘glorious bushland settings’.

Very little of it could be repeated in polite company.

It’s all I have.

captain_spalding said:

sarahs mum said:

It’s in flood. I reckon the caravan park is under.

That’s the thing about a house like that: every time it rained heavily, you’d be cakking your daks about flooding.

Just like a nice house in a glorious bushland setting: a couple of dry months, and you get panicky if you think you can smell wood smoke.

I’m in this post, and I don’t like it.

• I no longer live in the bush, but the smell of bushfire smoke makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up.

One of the people in the local govt here wants to clear all the bush within 50m away from any homes so that they do not get burnt down in a fire. That would turn this area into a desert.

As a fireperson, I would prefer that the people that live here just build homes that are fireproof, and leave the bush alone.

One of the locals that asked me about it, and thought that I fought bushfires to save the trees.

No, I told him, I don’t give a fuck about the trees, they have evolved to burn regularly, but your house hasn’t. How’s your insurance.

dv said:

Unsure what I am looking at.

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

sarahs mum and bubblecar are going to have an unpleasant couple of days starting from tomorrow evening. It wasn’t pleasant here, and there is nothing I can do to improve it for you, sorry.

http://satview.bom.gov.au/

sarahs mum said:

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

Very interesting.

Kingy said:

sarahs mum and bubblecar are going to have an unpleasant couple of days starting from tomorrow evening. It wasn’t pleasant here, and there is nothing I can do to improve it for you, sorry.

http://satview.bom.gov.au/

I was thinking it didn’t look that bad.

sarahs mum said:

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

Can we just enjoy Doggerland and its lost artifacts for what it is, without invoking myths or science fiction?

The Rev Dodgson said:

sarahs mum said:

Doggerland: Lost ‘Atlantis’ of the North Sea gives up its ancient secrets

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/01/doggerland-lost-atlantis-of-the-north-sea-gives-up-its-ancient-secrets

Very interesting.

Even though it is called the Dogger Banks I had to be prompted into thinking it was a plain.

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

bump for car.

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Deloraine.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

I remember dreaming about buying the old water mill on the left of this pic.

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Perhaps you should go look at your river tomorrow… with a camera.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Deloraine.

Ah, didn’t recognise it :)

Probably because it’s flooded but I also don’t recall that foreground building on the left.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Where’s that then?

Deloraine.

Ah, didn’t recognise it :)

Probably because it’s flooded but I also don’t recall that foreground building on the left.

that’s the old mill that has been renovated.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

Deloraine.

Ah, didn’t recognise it :)

Probably because it’s flooded but I also don’t recall that foreground building on the left.

that’s the old mill that has been renovated.

And it’s usually further away from the river.

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Ah, didn’t recognise it :)

Probably because it’s flooded but I also don’t recall that foreground building on the left.

that’s the old mill that has been renovated.

And it’s usually further away from the river.

I remember Bowerbank and this Havery’s Roller Mill:

https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-tas-deloraine-132522274

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

that’s the old mill that has been renovated.

And it’s usually further away from the river.

I remember Bowerbank and this Havery’s Roller Mill:

https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-tas-deloraine-132522274

Harvey’s

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Perhaps you should go look at your river tomorrow… with a camera.

I’ll see. But I’ve got lots of housework on the schedule (inspection on Thursday).

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

sarahs mum said:

that’s the old mill that has been renovated.

And it’s usually further away from the river.

I remember Bowerbank and this Havery’s Roller Mill:

https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-tas-deloraine-132522274

no. not that one.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

bump for car.

Where’s that then?

Deloraine.

Had a great meal there at a pub in the main street opposite the Telstra exchange, that was probably about 10 years ago.

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

And it’s usually further away from the river.

I remember Bowerbank and this Havery’s Roller Mill:

https://www.realestate.com.au/sold/property-house-tas-deloraine-132522274

no. not that one.

I remember the one you’re talking about, just don’t remember it looking like that.

sarahs mum said:

Yes it’s next to the weir, which I certainly remember.

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

Bubblecar said:

Where’s that then?

Deloraine.

Had a great meal there at a pub in the main street opposite the Telstra exchange, that was probably about 10 years ago.

Checking the googles it was the Empire Hotel.

sibeen said:

sibeen said:

sarahs mum said:

Deloraine.

Had a great meal there at a pub in the main street opposite the Telstra exchange, that was probably about 10 years ago.

Checking the googles it was the Empire Hotel.

we used to drink and eat at the one closer to the river. but that was 30 years ago.

sarahs mum said:

sibeen said:

sibeen said:

Had a great meal there at a pub in the main street opposite the Telstra exchange, that was probably about 10 years ago.

Checking the googles it was the Empire Hotel.

we used to drink and eat at the one closer to the river. but that was 30 years ago.

sarahs mum said:

sibeen said:

sibeen said:

Had a great meal there at a pub in the main street opposite the Telstra exchange, that was probably about 10 years ago.

Checking the googles it was the Empire Hotel.

we used to drink and eat at the one closer to the river. but that was 30 years ago.

The Empire was pretty grotty for most of the time I lived down that way, whereas the Deloraine Hotel was more genteel.

But I imagine they’re all under more tourist-savvy management these days.

Bubblecar said:

sarahs mum said:

sibeen said:

Checking the googles it was the Empire Hotel.

we used to drink and eat at the one closer to the river. but that was 30 years ago.

The Empire was pretty grotty for most of the time I lived down that way, whereas the Deloraine Hotel was more genteel.

But I imagine they’re all under more tourist-savvy management these days.

It was 10 years ago and I think it had only been recently done up. A very, very good steak + mushroom sauce from memory.

and good morning all. It is hovering around zero so there will be fosts and frogs out.
Might go for my constitutional walk.

Good morning Holidayers. Two degrees and light high cloud at the moment. No wind to speak of. Our forecast for today is for 15, late showers and becoming windy.

buffy said:

Good morning Holidayers. Two degrees and light high cloud at the moment. No wind to speak of. Our forecast for today is for 15, late showers and becoming windy.

1.0°C here. Mostly sunny. Areas of fog and frost this morning. High chance of showers this evening. The chance of a thunderstorm in the W later tonight. Winds NE 15 to 25 km/h. Daytime maximum temperatures between 15 and 18.

Well we had the frost but the fog is away in the hollows.

Man was supposed to be isolating and went to Leagues club got into a brawl and glassed another.

roughbarked said:

Man was supposed to be isolating and went to Leagues club got into a brawl and got glassed by another.

Didn’t read the headline properly? Can’t read the story because I’m not signing my life away to read the local news.

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

The Rev Dodgson said:

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

Interesting. There was a documentary made a while ago about what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared. One of the things covered was dogs, and the long-term outcome guesses was that they would all end up dingo-like. IIRC, their characteristics such as body size were perfect for survival in the wild.

The only other thing I remember from this doco is dams. They would all be destroyed within a short time, as there is a worm that blocks the pipes within them. Keeping these worms in-check is one of the maintenance requirements to ensure these structures remain stable.

The Rev Dodgson said:

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

I mean yeah. Dogs without humans are called wolves.

4 deg C and quite still.

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

I mean yeah. Dogs without humans are called wolves.

No, wolves have never lived as domesticated animals with humans, whereas dingos once did (or so I recall reading once).

Speedy said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

Interesting. There was a documentary made a while ago about what would happen if humans suddenly disappeared. One of the things covered was dogs, and the long-term outcome guesses was that they would all end up dingo-like. IIRC, their characteristics such as body size were perfect for survival in the wild.

The only other thing I remember from this doco is dams. They would all be destroyed within a short time, as there is a worm that blocks the pipes within them. Keeping these worms in-check is one of the maintenance requirements to ensure these structures remain stable.

The article did describe what dogs would end up looking like, which was pretty much what dingos look like.

Interesting about the dams, although whether caused dams to collapse in the short term would depend on how they handled water spilling over the top.

sky darkish in that direction>, just coming overtop now, end of sunshine

possibly hear thunder, certainly hear a red wattle bird, barking out there

and kettle’s boiling, situational forces at work i’d better make myself a coffee

Courtesy of Hackaday – frangible nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozobt_d-Qns&ab_channel=NewMexicoMuseumofSpaceHistory

The Rev Dodgson said:

dv said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

I just finished reading a New Scientist article about how dogs would survive if there were no humans.

It didn’t mention the word “dingo “ once.

I mean yeah. Dogs without humans are called wolves.

No, wolves have never lived as domesticated animals with humans, whereas dingos once did (or so I recall reading once).

not read the wiki page for long time now, re dingos, quite interesting..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dingo

Dark Orange said:

Courtesy of Hackaday – frangible nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozobt_d-Qns&ab_channel=NewMexicoMuseumofSpaceHistory

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

Morning pilgrims and collectors.
Got nothing.

Peak Warming Man said:

Morning pilgrims and collectors.
Got nothing.

Hang on, yes I have.
The internet very slow, I put it down to the punters all working from home.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dark Orange said:

Courtesy of Hackaday – frangible nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozobt_d-Qns&ab_channel=NewMexicoMuseumofSpaceHistory

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

Yes. “Brittle” = able to be broken into pieces, this definition is designed to be broken into pieces.

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dark Orange said:

Courtesy of Hackaday – frangible nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozobt_d-Qns&ab_channel=NewMexicoMuseumofSpaceHistory

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

The internet is brittle today.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Dark Orange said:

Courtesy of Hackaday – frangible nuts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozobt_d-Qns&ab_channel=NewMexicoMuseumofSpaceHistory

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

Bastard.

Peak Warming Man said:

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

Bastard.

braggart bastard, got enough download speed for 23 internet connections, doesn’t surprise me everyone else’s is slow/er

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

Show-off!

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

Witty Rejoinder said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

Does “frangible” mean anything different to “brittle”?

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

I bet your mashing option 1 there too arn’t ya?

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

sibeen said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The internet is brittle today.

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

I bet your mashing option 1 there too arn’t ya?

Well, yes. In general I’m normally sitting at well over 500 Mbps download. It’s an outrage.

sibeen said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

sibeen said:

Yep, certainly slower than normal.

I bet your mashing option 1 there too arn’t ya?

Well, yes. In general I’m normally sitting at well over 500 Mbps download. It’s an outrage.

Which telco you with?

Witty Rejoinder said:

sibeen said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

I bet your mashing option 1 there too arn’t ya?

Well, yes. In general I’m normally sitting at well over 500 Mbps download. It’s an outrage.

Which telco you with?

Clearly they are taking internet away from other areas to give where its needed most

Peak Warming Man said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

Is that next to your statue of Neville?

Witty Rejoinder said:

sibeen said:

Trevtaowillgetyounowhere said:

I bet your mashing option 1 there too arn’t ya?

Well, yes. In general I’m normally sitting at well over 500 Mbps download. It’s an outrage.

Which telco you with?

Aussiebroadband

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Cancelled?? Ekka Thoomp!!!!!!

Peak Warming Man said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

I’d get that seen too, if I was you. Just ask Bubblecar. He has personal experiences of these things. Surgery may be your only option.

Woodie said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

I’d get that seen too, if I was you. Just ask Bubblecar. He has personal experiences of these things. Surgery may be your only option.

Air strike.

Napalm.

500 lb glide bombs.

Arts said:

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

To the question – no.

As to being a similar winter to the 80s I suspect it is just the variability of weather.

Arts said:

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

dunno, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven’t been this high since three million years ago maybe

“Mr Walker has been charged with common assault after an altercation with a 39-year-old man at a restaurant on Palmer St on Friday night.
The Mundingburra MP is due to appear in court on August 16 and has been banned from the city’s Safe Night Precinct until August 11.
It’s the second time this year the first-term MP has been involved in a scrap on a night out in Townsville after he was knocked out on his birthday in January.”

LOL

Peak Warming Man said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Peak Warming Man said:

The Ekka’s been cancelled.

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

But is it the biggest aspidistra in the world?

(For the younger folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Aspidistra_in_the_World)

raining properly, the clouds are delivering

What has been refused:
The use/development of the land for the purpose of Cableway and Associated Facilities,
Infrastructure and Works for the following reasons.

1. The proposed Transport Depot and Distribution use (the cableway) is not consistent
with the values of Wellington Park identified in section 8.2 and section S2.1 of the
Wellington Park Management Plan 2013 (as amended October 2015) in that it will
diminish the Park’s tourism, recreational, cultural and landscape values as a result of its
scale, mechanisation and emissions.

2. The proposed Food Services use is not consistent with the values of Wellington Park
identified in section 8.2 and section S2.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan
2013 (as amended October 2015) in that it will diminish the Park’s tourism, recreational
and landscape values as a result of its scale, nature and intensity.

3. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criterion with
respect to clause 28.3.1, A1 or P1 of the Hobart Interim Planning Scheme 2015 as the
proposed hours of operation will have an unreasonable impact on the residential
amenity of land in the residential zones as a result of noise and other emissions.

4. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criterion with
respect to clause 28.3.2, A1 or P1 of the Hobart Interim Planning Scheme 2015 as the
proposed noise emissions have the potential to cause environmental harm within the
Environmental Living and General Residential zones on McRobies Road.

5. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criterion with
respect to clause E5.6.4, A1 or P1 of the Hobart Interim Planning Scheme 2015 as the
proposed sight distances for the access road on to McRobies Road is inadequate and
does not ensure safe movement of vehicles entering the existing roundabout.

6. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution with respect to clause E7.7.1 A3
as the stormwater from the pinnacle centre will be primarily drained to ground and in a
storm event the flows will be greater than pre­existing runoff and there is no
corresponding performance criterion.

7. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to clause E10.7.1, A1 or P1 of the Hobart Interim Planning Scheme 2015 as the
proposed access road from McRobies Road to the boundary of Wellington Park
involves the removal of high priority biodiversity values and the mitigation strategies and
management measures to retain and improve the remaining high priority biodiversity
values are not sufficient as required by subclause ©(iii).

8. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to clause E10.7.1, A1 or P1 of the Hobart Interim Planning Scheme 2015 as the
proposed access road from McRobies Road to the boundary of Wellington Park
involves the removal of high priority biodiversity values and special circumstances have
not been demonstrated as required by subclause ©(iv).

9. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 2, P2.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal, due to the clearance associated with the
base station, associated bushfire hazard areas and towers 1 and 2, does not avoid or
sufficiently remedy the loss of swift parrot habitat values and therefore results in a long­
term impact on vegetation values.

10. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 2, P2.2 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal, due to the clearance associated with the
base station, associated bushfire hazard areas and towers 1 and 2, does not avoid or
sufficiently remedy the loss of swift parrot habitat values and therefore results in a long­
term impact on vegetation values.

11. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 2, P2.3 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal does not avoid or sufficiently remedy
adverse impacts on the geoheritage values of geoconservation sites: Organ Pipes
Columnar Jointing and Wellington Range Periglacial Terrain as listed under the
Tasmanian Geoconservation Database.

12. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 5, P5.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal is not designed and sited to minimise or
remedy the loss of visual values and impacts on visual character of the affected area
that arise from the proposed cableway (including towers).

13. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 5, P5.2 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal does not harmonise with the visual
landscape and natural qualities of the site in terms of appearance and proportions.

14. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section 8.5.7, Issue 6, P6.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal will generate noise emissions that will
have an adverse effect on the quiet enjoyment of the natural and cultural values of
kunanyi/Mount Wellington and which are insufficiently remedied.

15. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 2, P2.3 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal does not avoid or sufficiently remedy
adverse impacts on the geoheritage values of geoconservation sites: Organ Pipes
Columnar Jointing and Wellington Range Periglacial Terrain as listed under the
Tasmanian Geoconservation Database.

16. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 5, P5.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal does not sufficiently mitigate or remedy
the loss of visual values and impacts on visual character of the affected area that arise
from the proposed pinnacle centre.

17. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 6, P6.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal is not supported by a geotechnical land
instability report that sufficiently considers all risks to life and property that will be
triggered by the development of the pinnacle centre.

18. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 9, P9.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the pinnacle centre will visually intrude into the
landscape in relation to local and natural features and views from the Pinnacle area and
elsewhere in the Park.

19. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 9, P9.2 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the pinnacle centre will cause visual intrusion.
20. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 10, P10.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the pinnacle centre will diminish the values of the site
and has not been designed or sited sufficiently to remedy or mitigate the loss of visual
values.

21. The proposal does not meet the acceptable solution or performance criteria with
respect to section S2.6, Issue 11, P11.1 of the Wellington Park Management Plan 2013
(as amended October 2015) as the proposal will generate noise emissions that will
have an adverse effect on the quiet enjoyment of the natural and cultural values of
kunanyi/Mount Wellington and which are insufficiently remedied.

transition said:

raining properly, the clouds are delivering

Ah…the wind is getting up here, although at the moment it is still sunny. I’ve just got a couple of small things to do outside and by then I guess that rain will get to us too.

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

Witty Rejoinder said:

Are you left high and dry with a gargantuan pumpkin?

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

But is it the biggest aspidistra in the world?

(For the younger folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Aspidistra_in_the_World)

Buffy’s got it.

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

Peak Warming Man said:

buffy said:

Peak Warming Man said:

No it’s my aspidistra, it’s huge at the moment.

But is it the biggest aspidistra in the world?

(For the younger folk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Biggest_Aspidistra_in_the_World)

Buffy’s got it.

I’ve listened to some old fashioned radio in my time, including Peter Evans. My mother listened to Blue Hills every lunchtime, so if we were home, we all listened to Blue Hills at lunchtime.

buffy said:

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

good. :)

buffy said:

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

:)

Peak Warming Man said:

“Mr Walker has been charged with common assault after an altercation with a 39-year-old man at a restaurant on Palmer St on Friday night.
The Mundingburra MP is due to appear in court on August 16 and has been banned from the city’s Safe Night Precinct until August 11.
It’s the second time this year the first-term MP has been involved in a scrap on a night out in Townsville after he was knocked out on his birthday in January.”

LOL

Keep it classy, Townsville.

buffy said:

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

The Portal has since been replaced with Online Services since then. It is much better than the old portal, but you need to log in using MyGovID (which is different from a MyGov account).

Speedy said:

buffy said:

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

The Portal has since been replaced with Online Services since then. It is much better than the old portal, but you need to log in using MyGovID (which is different from a MyGov account).

I don’t do that stuff. The accountant does it all. We had audit insurance in place too, which we’ve had for years.

buffy said:

Speedy said:

buffy said:

And…the accountant just phoned. We can pick up all my tax paperwork for the 2018-19 year, the tax office has decided our paperwork is exemplary. They wasted their time and ours. I’m suspicious enough to think maybe they found they owed us, so they just closed up the audit… We never got the company’s last tax refund of $23(!) because by the time it was all done the company was closed down and the ATO would not have been able to put it into a company bank account. The accountant thinks it’s worth checking the company ATO portal to see if it is still there – and asking for it to be sent if it is. The accountant is pretty fed up with the auditor really.

The Portal has since been replaced with Online Services since then. It is much better than the old portal, but you need to log in using MyGovID (which is different from a MyGov account).

I don’t do that stuff. The accountant does it all. We had audit insurance in place too, which we’ve had for years.

Even better :)

transition said:

Arts said:

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

dunno, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven’t been this high since three million years ago maybe

I think Arts’ water management friend is indulging in a little confirmation bias.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-02/world-champ-sifan-hassan-falls-gets-up-and-wins-1-500-heat/100342682

There must be a hole in that track. People keep falling over.

The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

Arts said:

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

dunno, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven’t been this high since three million years ago maybe

I think Arts’ water management friend is indulging in a little confirmation bias.

yeah well a little self-comfort, whatever bias, comforting bias, whatever works, is probably needed, we all optimize reality, seems potentially too much work to maximize it

And I think this is brilliant.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-02/high-jump-friends-choose-double-olympic-gold-over-jump-off/100341790

The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

Arts said:

Speaking of Perth Winter.. my water management friend who is currently doing her masters tells me that this winter weather is ‘typical’ of a Perth winter in the 80’s. she said climate change has a lot to answer for..
this got me thinking about how last year we didn’t do much (the earth was healing) and if the effects of that could have had such a dramatic effect on the weather this year to take us back to 80’s weather patterns.. is it that simple? can the earth heal so dramatically so quickly?

dunno, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven’t been this high since three million years ago maybe

I think Arts’ water management friend is indulging in a little confirmation bias.

I would agree with arts friend re this winter seems to be like what it was in the old days. and speaking to other WAliens it seems to be common. Plus we know the SW of WA has less rainfall on average now compared to a few decades ago.

i don’t thinks arts comment holds water myself and is just a result of weather.

transition said:

The Rev Dodgson said:

transition said:

dunno, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels haven’t been this high since three million years ago maybe

I think Arts’ water management friend is indulging in a little confirmation bias.

yeah well a little self-comfort, whatever bias, comforting bias, whatever works, is probably needed, we all optimize reality, seems potentially too much work to maximize it

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide
been reading that^ in between other things