Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "BBC News" channel.

  1. Actually in Australia you do need authorization to stage protests. That way police can block off streets and let people have their march and have their speakers talk without interference. Off course people can just ignore that and do what ever they like, but then they also can't complain when they get chucked in the slammer.
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  2.  @iron4517  WTF are you talking about? You can't even write a sensible sentence. I haven't justified ANYTHING. All I have done is explain HOW part of the law in Australia works. Where are you from? What country do you live in? What level of education do you have?
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  3.  @bounty1402  No it doesn't mean that at all. Why TF do people like you have to take EVERY ANSWER and blow it out of proportion and some stupid hyperbole? Why can't people like you ever just accept an answer without being stupid idiotic smartasses? Its effing idiots like you that are the reason we can never get anything done because you hijack or sidetrack every discussion with stupid some out of proportion remark.
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  4. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  5.  @lluow  Yeah but if no one points out any FACTS lets their BS go undisputed then their BS eventually becomes fact. George Orwell made that clear decades ago. One of the tings trolls rely on is having their crap go unchallenged. Its what Trump and many others have relied on. They only go on networks that never challenge them. Its like the quote “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
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  6. Actually Afghanistan has always had places of good agriculture. Its always had valleys where crops were productive. Afghanistan's problem is simple - its been the punching bag of superpowers since the 1980s.
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  7. I'm Australian and worked with a young engineer who had served in Afghanistan in the mid 2000s. When this subject came up he simply told me that ALL foreign forces were told NOT to burn poppy crops as it would cause too much economic hardship. This isn't a Taliban thing. This was going on long before the Taliban took control the first time. It continued under the occupation and this is just a continuation. This is what happens to a poor country when the world treats it like crap and offers NOTHING.
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  8. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  9. You can substitute London for almost ANY city in the world these days. Sydney Australia is out of water and yet has had floods in recent years and then there's the fires. Southern California is out of water and then there's the fires. There's floods in Belgium, Germany, India and China all in the same week. Most of the ignorant masses don't equate that 1degC temperature rise across the entire planet as increasing the rate of evaporation across the entire planet. And mother earth has substantial surface area - just over half a billion square kilometers most of which is water. That's a lot more water being sucked up into the sky which then has to fall somewhere.
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  10. I'm Australian but went to college in America and there is an undercurrent in American culture that "does not trust anyone in authority." Its been reinforced time and again by corrupt politicians on both sides of the fence AND by big business (as in Wall St., Big Pharma and the MIC). Plus its been compounded in recent years by a relentless barrage of political and religious extremism combined with a failing education system. Americans do have legitimate reasons to not trust those in power because they keep proving they can't be trusted. In some ways its an incredible tragedy to watch a once great nation slide into the state its in all through greed. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  11. I'm Australian so have an outside view on this. The single most telling single item in this fiasco was Nigel Farage running away from what he'd gotten. He was the single biggest voice that the rest of the world heard on the subject. There was that moment the day after when he declared (with some of his fans in the street) "We have our country back!" The next day he resigned and when questioned about the negotiations he said that's for others. I don't think he didn't expect to win but more importantly that showed HE HAD NO PLAN. His claim to fame was Euro bashing so that vote took away his pulpit to preach from. So he ran before he was exposed to the mess he made. SO YOU ALL KNOW Nigel Farage was recently here in Australia on a speaking tour stirring up contention. Most of all he was asking people to pay to listen to how amazing he is. I honestly don't know if Brexit was the right or wrong thing to do. What I'm certain of is that shite stirring sack of crap Nigel Farage can stay the FARK OUT OF MY COUNTRY.
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  12. Its what EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war does. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  13. As an Australian you can't imagine how angry we are getting with the Murdoch Media as some of them are still claiming this is normal and there are still millions of our people listening to them and believing them. In late 2017 early 2018 I was in Saskatchewan Canada for work and experienced the coldest temperatures I have ever experienced. For a couple of days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures on the planet were where I was. Later that year they had record high temperatures. My degree is in aerospace engineering and what most people do not understand is that when you have more energy in a system (any system) BOTH the highs and lows become more extreme. Climate scientists have been trying to explain this for decades. Unfortunately the media has trouble with anything to do with science.
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  14.  @stuartsimister5042  NO. Do I trust politicians? NO Do I trust idiotic clowns with no grasp of reality? *EVEN LESS than politicians." Its one thing to not trust one group of selfish clowns but that doesn't mean turning to and trusting a complete pack of idiots. How stupid can people be to ignore a clown but trust an idiot.
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  15.  @relevantinfor6682  I'll take advice from people who actually read their comments. I suspect you meant "They are a hypocritical government..."
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  16. I'm Australian and a British Journalist looked into the methods that America used. The documentary he made was done more than 10 years ago when there were issues over the lethal injections. It was also at a time when there were a number of ugly murders around the world and people were asking if capital punishment should be brought back. So this was a timely documentary in a number of ways, but most of all - what method. In the end when all the methods were looked at the cleanest and quickest was carbon dioxide. I remember the Lake Nyos disaster in 1986 when 1,700 people died from carbon dioxide asphyxiation remember how quick it was. Most of the bodies only took a few staggered steps before falling over. I'm an engineer and one of the things people are warned about across many industries are what we call "confined spaces." These are places where other gases can pool and the oxygen level is too low to support human consciousness. It can be incredibly dangerous. One of the major risks in confined spaces is carbon dioxide especially in open pits because CO2 is heavier than air and it can pool in the pit. Its well documented how quickly people succumb and pass out in such conditions. So its well known that if you flood a room with carbon dioxide almost any human or animal will past out within seconds and die shortly after with little or no trauma. In fact its well documented that if anything people have a moment of euphoria before passing out from carbon dioxide. WHAT HORRIFIED ME about that documentary wasn't the fact they found a quick way to simply turn off a human life but the RESPONSE of the chief medical officer they presented their findings to. He simply dismissed the idea of using Carbon Dioxide and how its far less likely to be traumatic. He said "Its a punishment its NOT meant to be pleasant."
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  17. You forgot to mention: - the seizure of dozens of small islands across a vast area of the ocean. - the deal with the Taliban. - the deals with other dubious regimes across Africa for access to resources. - and lets not forget everyone's favorite sabre rattler North Korea that the Chinese push at the rest of Asia.
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  18.  @2PMisTimeless  What I don't like in this BBC report is the inference it started AFTER America & Co. left when its been going on for decades. When the Mujahedeen were buying weapons to fight the Russians they used money from Opium. Other than the one personal experience a workmate who served there told me I have seen other reports over the years. One of them I remember reported that half the problem was that poor Afghans were being given loans to plant opium crops from drug gangs. If the crop got burnt then they wouldn't be able to pay their debt to the drug gang. The Afghan problems were a giant mess of idiotic mistakes made worse by ignorance of the tribal allegiance's and the existence of the drug trade. Complex problems are rarely solved by pointing a finger and SIMPLISTICALLY proclaiming "That's it. That's the cause. That's the problem."
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  19. Unfortunately he does have a brain and its a functioning brain. Its just running on Elon Musk's latest AI software.
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  20. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 5-10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  21. Its reminiscent OF EVERY COUNTRY that's had to fight a major war. Go and look at what the Brits and Americans did in WW2 - we still have the films and posters that plastered the streets with. Just the other day I heard somebody make references to Rosie the Riveter which was part of a campaign getting women to help build the bombers, ships and other stuff in WW2.
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  22. I didn't hear anything about either in this report?????? I'm Australian and I can tell you from our experiences that if power lines are not properly kept clear of trees they can start fires. We had a very bad fire in Western Australia a number of years ago that was started by power lines sparking and setting fire to trees. Don't forget most of our trees are eucalyptus and their sap (which is mainly eucalyptus oil) is highly flammable. The major fires we had in 2019 were mainly started by lightning strikes. Our right wing media (owned by Rupert Murdoch) claimed it was from arson but later inquiries found that was 100% FALSE. Not one of those fires in 2019 was proven in any way that it was arson. The lasers stuff is simply idiotic garbage.
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  23.  @Sonturist  As I said I am an aerospace engineer and the short answer on anyone escaping to space is NO. And its as simple as NOBODY has solved the life support problem. Its the same reason why we don't have a moon base. The only way a moon base works or a Mars colony or giant Jeff Bezos space stations work is if we can solve the problem of a self sustaining life support system. We know what one looks like. Its called Spaceship Earth and its even solar powered. We just don't know how to replicate it and until we do there will be NO Moon base, NO Mars Colony and NO giant space stations.
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  24.  @tomfrench7146  Are you trying to be logical on social media? Good luck to ya mate. I'm Australian and we have had an incredible outcome that has saved 1000s of people when we compare what we've managed to most other developed nations. We are almost back to normal and we have a tiny minority of stupid selfish radicals (with extreme emphasis on selfish) howling and screaming because they just want something to howl and scream about. Almost all of our outbreaks have come from people breaking the rules. There's this shitty attitude among a small but significant chunk of our society who think that rules DON'T apply to them and that ANY RULE put on them is some sort of criminal conspiracy.
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  25. Yeah and what percentage of those are there. What we do know for sure is that vaccinated people are less likely to get infected and if they do the chances of getting seriously ill are lower. That's clear you idiot. Wake the F--K up and stop being so stupid.
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  26. I absolutely support your sentiment but this will be just another useless talk fest where politicians avoid responsibility and activists disenfranchise people with stupid childish displays of self gratification. Until we can get the money out of politics the billionaires will have control of the politicians.
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  27.  @drewking250  If you really want to freak out then work out how many nuclear detonations it takes to heat the planet up just 1 degree. FYI - I did aerospace engineering and we once had a NASA guy do a special lecture on planetary sciences. He'd done a research project where they tried to work out what it would take to make Mars habitable. Their conclusion was "its effectively impossible" planets simply don't take being forcibly changed. That was 30 years ago so I did an upgrade a while back regarding what we have now effectively managed to do. The surface area of the Earth is just over 510,000,000 km^2 and if you take just the first 1km of the earths atmosphere you pretty much have 1/2 a billion cubic kilometers of air. Its pretty straight forward to calculate how much energy it takes to heat that from say 20 to 21 deg. C and yeah its a big number with lots of zeros. Its just as easy to divide that number by the published energy release from something like the Hiroshima bomb. So its pretty easy to estimate how many Hiroshimas you need to let off to heat the planet up by a degree. Its a very scary number and makes no sense until you realise that up in the sky is a mega huge nuclear fusion reactor beaming energy at us and all you need to do is trap a bit extra for a century to start making some very serious changes. This is why Venus although only being just a little bit closer (in astronomical terms) is also massively hotter. Heads up if you do that calculation don't go trying to explain the number to average people. They can't comprehend the answer let alone understand what it means. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  28. I'm Australian and even though I have never been to Brazil I find it an extraordinary country that's been working hard to develop. I did aerospace engineering and I wish we had a company like Embraer, which is a great success story. There were many comparisons between the Olympics we held in Sydney and those In Rio. I thought overall Brazil did a great job of hosting them. We have held a number of such games and had some practice at it so for a first time effort it was great. But its clear Brazil also is going through some growing pains, particularly with the wealth gap. Do you know that most of the Western world NOW has a severe wealth gap that's causing all sorts of trouble. If there is one thing I'd advise Brazil is don't be so eager to repeat our mistakes - learn from them. And I'd say the same to most of Africa, Asia, and the rest of the developing world. Keep your head up. Take care an Stay Safe
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  29. I might be Australian but I went to college at U. Illinois. One summer I drove to California, which included driving across Iowa, Nebraska and then across the rest to SF. So I know how far you are talking about and that's barely comprehensible that the smoke has travelled that far. We've had some bad fires in recent years but these seem to be worse and its only the start of summer.
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  30. From Australia 🙋‍♂🙋 Oh and we just got a news flash over the Star Trek sub-space communicator. The Klingon High command has asked "nuq jatlh?" Which sort of translates to "what said?" which basically means the Klingons are asking WTF? The Romulans are yet to say anything, but are smirking as if they know something. Meanwhile the Vulcans have gone into a catatonic state after someone asked to explain Trump's logic.
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  31. If you want to complain the complain about how other nations with similar systematic issues have not been banned. Drug cheating at the Olympics has been going on for decades. If Russia feels bad about getting caught then don't - you got caught wear it. BUT Russia has every right to scream about other nations cheating particularly China and America. I'm Australian but went to college in America in the late 80s on a sports scholarship for swimming. At the 92 Barcelona Olympics a girl from my club in California was cheated out of a gold by the Chinese and it was obvious they were cheating. FINA (the swimming governing body) were only checking swimmers they new had been tested before they went to Barcelona. That included a lot of people from various countries who were at college in America making it look like the testing was random. The British worked it out because one of their swimmers was at the University of Iowa which was a college I raced against. At the 2000 Sydney Olympics the husband of Marion Jones (who was later caught as part of the BALCO scandal) CJ Hunter was caught multiple times and yet still turned up in Sydney expecting to compete. It was later found out that the US Track & Field team had amassed around 150 failed tests prior to arriving in Sydney. Australia had a runner who finished 4th in 2 successive Olympics. Both times the 3 Americans in front of him were caught at competitions after the Olympics. The infamous Seoul Olympics 100m final where Ben Johnson was caught was a disgrace as every other Athlete in that final was either suspected or actually caught at later events. That included Carl Lewis. America has a terrible record of cheating in track and field. If Russia should be angry its should be because they are the only country punished like this.
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  32. Its actually what we should have expected. Since European settlement there's almost not a single part of Australia that hasn't flooded at some time. Even some of our desert areas have flooded. When our droughts break its usually in a big way, but this is something bigger than expected. 2 weeks ago it was as dry as dry could be. A bush fire would have been massive. What's surprised people is just how much fell in an insanely short time.
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  33. I'm Australian, but went to college in America (late 80s). I did engineering but a bunch of friends were pre-law. They used to drag me into hypothetical discussions. I think they did it because I could say things out of left field and then they would then argue then back. So I got a weird introduction to the US Constitution. All these years later I know consider the US Constitution one of the truly brilliant achievements in human history. Its NOT PERFECT and has a major flaw in that with enough money it can be taken advantage of, but at its core its brilliant. It guarantees you have the right to chose what you believe. It guarantees that you have the right to confront your government over a grievance. It guarantees you and your neighbors can decide how you will provide your community with security. It guarantees the government just can't invade your privacy because it feels like it. It guarantees you will be fairly treated by the court system. Yes it doesn't do these things perfectly and there are some real maggots taking advantage of the system, but you at least have these things written in concrete.
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  34. I remember a story from when the Taliban first came to attention (a couple of years BEFORE the 9/11 attacks). It told of how they tried, convicted, gang raped, and executed a woman for being a nurse. In their view a woman with a job outside the home was a harlot and blasphemer deserving of the harshest penalty. Anyone who funds, supports or assists those kinds of people doesn't deserve much in the way of anything except the harsh hand of justice. What I would like to hear about is how the Taliban got funded this time. This many guns and bullets cost a lot of money - where did it come from?
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  35.  @charsibaba6960  Thanks - it just blows my mind how ignorant and stupid so many people are these days. The saddest joke about Afghanistan's opium trade is that it was part of the story to the 1987 James Bond film "Living Daylights" Look at the 5th & 6th paragraphs of the plot summary. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Living_Daylights#Plot I find this story perplexing because the BBC is usually a lot better with how it presents information. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️
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  36. That's such a stupid meaningless comment considering the subject. What are you claiming you wont change your mind about?
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  37. Its proof yet again that no matter what your tribe, culture, nation or political system - there is no greater threat to any society than its own fanatics.
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  38. They all do it. And then a year or 2 later, when everyone thinks they've moved on, they get even by knifing a few people in the back. Its called modern politics.
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  39.  @hugoepcastro  Have a look through some of the other comments. The ignorance and stupidity of so many people made this the disaster it is and that same ignorance and stupidity is going to drag this out for longer than necessary killing a lot more people as it happens. What angers me is that a lot of good people have already been hurt or died and a lot more are going to be hurt or die because of the SELFISH ignorance and stupidity of people who should just shut up. Its just a shame COVID doesn't selectively attack dumb people or it would have been a blessing.
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  40.  @gamers-xh3uc  And WTF is your point? This is the first step in any engineering project. Get an estimate of what its going to take. It doesn't have to be hyper accurate but it needs to highlight the basics of the task. I'll give you another example: Right now here in Australia there's a huge argument over nuclear power and the Australian Liberals have identified 7 sites BUT THEY ARE CLAIMING they don't have the costs yet. I happen to know those sites because I have been trying to get people's attention about our power sector ever since I had a small consulting job back in 2016. If we were to choose European EPR2 Reactors we'd need 1 reactor at each of 4 sites and 2 reactors at the 3 other sites. Based on Hinckley Point C an EPR 2 costs AU$35 Billion so 10 reactors is AU$350 Billion and it takes about that long to have an estimate on the costs. If we were to choose American AP1000 Reactors we'd need 14 reactors across those sites to generate a similar amount of power. Based on Vogtle AP1000s cost AU$26 Billion and those 14 reactors would cost AU$364 Billion and that's about how long it takes to get a second estimate. Sorry mate but engineers have to do estimates all the time.
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  41.  @jeromemanoharan7427  I have heard there are issue with Brazils stadiums but didn't want to comment on that as I don't know those issues like I know the others. My understanding is they are very similar to Athens issues. They just don't have the money to keep them. I'm Australian but went to college in America on a sports scholarship so I know what sorts of facilities American cities like LA & Atlanta have. I went to U. Illinois and I know Chicago could hold the Olympics in a heartbeat. Chicago just has that many stadiums as well as several large universities with their dorms. That was LA's huge advantage. They had UCLA and USC and all their facilities. Then they had the Rose Bowl and LA Coliseum and several others. Their biggest expense was paint and painters
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  42. AEROSPACE ENGINEER HERE: and that's a damn good answer Below is the same answer I gave elsewhere. The difference is your only looking at dealing with what goes into the atmosphere each year, when there's already a massive amount in the atmosphere that needs removing. I'm Australian but did my degree in America (late 80s) and one Friday we had a NASA engineer do a special lecture on Terraforming Mars. We were kind of excited as at that time (despite the Challenger accident) we believed we'd be building the next space station in the 90s, back to the moon early on the 2000s and off to Mars in the 2010s. We were shattered when he started with: "Sorry its impossible and here's why!" He then went and explained how you need think when considering an entire planet. You don't need to be an engineer or geologist or atmospheric scientist just BASIC MATH WILL DO. Once you understand the actual scope of dealing with a planetary issue things like this are irrelevant. For example there's currently around 2.5 Trillion tons of excess Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere and by current estimates it will go past 3.5 Trillion tons by the mid 2030s. So to do a quick time estimate you simply divide 3.5 Trillion by 35,000 and get 100,000,000 years. So if you want to get that 3.5 Trillion tons out in something like 10 years you need about 10,000,000 of these plants built. If you want to do it 20 years then its 5,000,000 plants. As to the costs its even easier to estimate At $1,000 per ton 3.5 Trillion tons will cost $3.5 QUADRILLION tons to remove. 1/10th of $3.5 Quadrillion is $0.35 Quadrillion. So at $300 per ton its (3/10ths) which is $1.05 QUADRILLION And at $400 per ton its (4/10ths) which is $1.4 QUADRILLION So its reasonably easy to estimate that this method will cost between $1 and $1.5 QUADRILLION and that's provided we can find 5-10,000,000 SUITABLE locations and get enough materials to build those 10,000,000 plants. Then there's the small task of how do we power it, because power might be reasonably cheap in Iceland where they have enormous natural resources but what about the other 9,999 plants where are they going, how are they being powered and who's paying? By the way if every person on the planet planted 1,000 trees (seedlings) at a cost of $5 per tree. That would be 8 Trillion Trees and if each tree is capable on capturing 1-2tons of Carbon and sequestering it in the wood. Then we'd only need about 1 in 4 trees (~2.5 trillion) to reach maturity to capture that 3.5 Trillion of Carbon Dioxide. Yeah that would cost about $40 Trillion on basic costs which is a staggering amount of money until you consider the alternative is $1-$1.5 QUADRILLION, which is 25 times the cost at the low end. Best of all Trees don't need electricity they just need water and sun light and maybe some fertilizer. Once established their maintenance and upkeep costs are almost zero. If you plant trees that produce food and of building materials then even better.
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  43.  @neworder736  WTF does that mean? Do you even know how to write English?
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  44.  @onepeace1274  Like any crop Poppies don't grow everywhere, but like coca it seems to be grown in poorer countries. As for the rest of your argument just go away with the stupidity. I'm tired of worthless morons throwing their hands in their howling "just let them all do it" Very rarely is that a worthwhile point and you case ITS NOT.
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  45.  Seiki  Well I'm Australian and briefly worked in China and I never saw a Muslin restaurant ANYWHERE. As for the labor camps. The western world ahs a history of bad behavior INCLUDING labor camps. So we know what it is we can see in the photographs. This isn't about avoiding our past and our bad behavior its about pointing out a RACIST GENOCIDAL PLAN. Nobody likes having their bad shit thrown back at them, but every so often you need reminding that what you have done or are still doing IS WRONG.
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  46.  @jonnyhatter35  About 18 months ago I saw a vid here on YT about a British environmentalist who was taking a trip to Greenland with his grandchildren. He said in the 1990s they weren't pushing things as hard they could because they thought climate change would not be a problem in their lifetimes. Greenland is now where they thought his grandchildren would have to deal with it. Its not simply years ahead of where they thought its decades ahead. One of the biggest issues was China's growth and use of coal. There coal use is now MORE than what the entire planet was burning the early 1970s. BUT what is not in the data is the amount of coal that was simply burned in the ground. What most people DO NOT realise is that as soon as you expose black coal to air (oxygen) it begins to react and form CO2. If you aren't careful it simply ignites and starts burning. For over 20 years the Chinese were burning as much coal in the ground as they were in power stations. That's why its gotten so bad so fast. We are now starting to suffer the consequences of stalling any action that Exxon, Charles Koch and others have pushed since the 1980s.
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  47. Yeah that bit is a bit stupid. Trump tore up NAFTA in a heartbeat screwing the Canadians and Mexicans. I was in Canada when that happened and it makes me wonder how we can trust the Yanks going forward. Most of them are fine its the nutters that worry me. Then there was that little lie about WMDs where they dragged us into a war. As for the Brits we have totally forgotten that back in the 1970s they totally FUBARd us when they joined the Common Market. Before that they abandoned us in WW2 while they demanded we help them. Before that they sacrificed a generation of Australians on the beaches of Gallipoli and the fields of Flanders. They also used us for nuclear testing in the 1950s and have refused to clean up the test sites. Why anyone thinks they can trust either the Brits or the Yanks long term is kind of ignoring history.
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  48. Simplest and most accurate statement on this disaster. But there is one huge question NOBODY seems to be asking. Where did they get the money? Guns and bullets cost money. Lots and lots of money. Where did it come from and where did they buy that many guns and that many bullets?
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  49. You are right about flying to hubs but only 1/2 right about Concorde. Yes its was fuel hungry but then going fast in anything is a fuel consumption issue. If you use basic high school science class then you'd know from kinetic energy that going twice as fast requires 4 times the energy because its a squared law. Drag is also a velocity squared function so going twice as fast means 4 times the drag. It does get more complicated at supersonic speed but going those speeds is very fuel hungry. On the other hand Concorde ran very profitably and for many years was British Airways most profitable division. There's a great documentary made after they retired Concorde that was made with a lot of BA Concorde pilots. Its actually a great case study in effective market analysis. After BA realised Concorde was losing money they told the pilots they were going to shut it down. The pilots said it shouldn't be losing money because the planes were basically full for every flight. The BA board challenged the pilots and said if they could get it to make money they could keep flying. So the pilots checked the ticket records and found that the most frequent users were a bunch of bankers in New York, London and Paris. They found out that these guys were doing work where people still had to meet and sign contract papers. So for them being able to zip across the Atlantic sign some papers and zip back was brilliant. When the pilots asked the bankers what they thought the tickets were worth they got a monster shock - none of the bankers knew because their travel was always done by their secretaries. So they asked these bankers what a ticket was worth to them in terms of their time and got an even bigger shock because it was $1000s more than the actual ticket price. So the pilots upped the ticket price to what the bankers believed they were worth. People kept flying Concorde and they made heaps of money. The pilots kept the board to their word and the pilots ran the Concorde division for years and kept it very profitable. What hurt Concorde in the end was Osama Bin Laden because something like 100 of Concorde's most frequent flyers died in the 9/11 attack because they worked in the World Trade Center.
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  50. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  51. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  52. I absolutely agree with your sentiment, what she did met the "depraved indifference" clause of US Law. My problem is with how Donald Trump has behaved with these 3 recent executions. I don't have a problem with any nation or state executions for crimes they mandate for crimes beyond what society will tolerate. I do have a problem when any state steps outside that mandate. Because once that happens, justice takes a backseat to politics and executing people for political gai is one of the most disgusting things ANY NATION does and it is done way to often. In my home state of Victoria Australia the last man executed WAS DONE for political purposes. It was well understood that Ronald Ryan did not shoot and kill George Hodson. The ballistics proved it and the main witness lied, and both those points were understood at the time. Henry Bolte the State Premier at the time faced an election and told people that the hanging would help get him re-elected and it did. You can look up Brandon Bernard, Alfred Bourgeois & Lisa Montgomery and all their crimes were depraved. I don't have a problem with their trials, their sentences or the outcomes. In Montgomery's case a few have pointed out she went with clamps and others tools that showed she at some level knew what she was doing. Was she mentally ill? Absolutely - no sane person does what she did. My problem is Donald Trump who lost his mandate to make these decisions. For 130 years American Presidents had delayed all federal executions after the election. Once the election is held the American people have spoken and handed the mandate onto the next President. Americans are very quick to speak about "the will of the people" and on November 4 2020 the American people spoke and Donald Trump lost his mandate. Lets not forget one other thing. As Donald Trump sent these 3 to the chamber, he pardoned the Blackwater 4 who killed 14 people and injured 17 others in the Nisour Square Massacre. That included a 9 year old boy. That crime also met the requirements (at least in part) for depraved indifference. But the Blackwater 4 had Erik Prince as their boss. Erik Prince is the brother of Betsy De Vos, Donald Trump's Education Secretary. Donald Trump executed 3 and let go 4 others all for political gain and that stinks.
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  53.  @tosspot1305  Thanks. There's a great military quote and I think its by an American General or Colonel (I cant find it at the moment) about killing. The gist of it is that taking a life is the most serious thing anyone can do and it should NOT be taken lightly. If we look at Trump these last 4 years - what has he taken seriously that wasn't in his own self interest? Emsie76 who started this is 100% right - the focus should be on Bobby-Jo and her child. But in what way does a self centered liar like Donald care about that child, when he just let 4 men go free who murdered 14 including a 9 year old. And that's before we get the other things he did last week.
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  54.  @7yep4336dfgvvh  Get your facts right sunshine. The Viet Cong were never funded by the US. They were communists fighting against the South Vietnamese regime that was supported by America. I think you go you groups muddled up on that one. As for the Taliban. Certainly the US funded the mujahedeen and supported them against the Russians back in the 1980s. Osama Bin Laden joined the mujahedeen which was where he gained popularity. His greatest aid to that was an almost direct line to the White House courtesy of his brother's business relationship with George W Bush whose father George H Bush was POTUS at the time. That was how the mujahedeen got their hands on US made Stinger AA missiles to shoot down all those Russian helicopters Osama and others then linked up with Al Qaeda after the Russians left and he had issues develop back in Saudi with the Saudi king. Al Qaeda's origins go back long before Osama joined them. They were active in places like Morocco and Egypt years before. The Taliban came later and formed with money and support from Pakistan. I can guarantee you the Americans knew about that Pakistani support for the Taliban. A few years ago I worked with a young Pakistani engineer. We were discussing this one day and he told me I didn't know shite. His father was in the Pakistani government and he showed me photos on his phone of him, his family and US diplomats having dinner at his house. He then told me how his father had him sit in on several meetings as part of getting experience. And that's as much as I can tell anyone. So I can pretty much guarantee the Americans knew about the Pakistani support for the Taliban. But as for America directly or indirectly funding the Taliban I doubt anyone actually knows.
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  55.  @godmakesallthingsnew2626  What a load of ignorant idiotic garbage. Go ahead ignore reality its your people who are dying.
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  56.  @mohwe1007  never forget that what you think you said might NOT be how others see it and especially how others might hijack it its what makes any references to Hitler or religion especially dangerous because its so easy for people to read it the wrong way or use it the wrong way from what you intended Social media has only made the problem worse. It didn't democratise information it democratised misinformation.
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  57.  @rpg9392  I have just listening to this -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYby-07rEKU No point in giving to your relatives but the first few minutes should interest you.
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  58. I'm Australian and you just described the issue we have had with Indonesia. Why do you think we started our zero tolerance policy? For sure its ugly, and possibly one of the ugliest things we've ever done. But the people smuggling had to be stopped. They were using the oldest and most worn out fishing boats to do the job, which made it insanely dangerous. Most of the boats were barely able to stay afloat. The boat owners never cared if we burned them afterwards. The Indonesian fishermen used their old boats to make money to buy new boats. They weren't the worst people involved. The worst were a handful of Pakistani middlemen who made millions. They ripped off everyone. They ripped off the people they smuggled. They ripped off the Indonesian fishermen. They never cared who go hurt in the process. For sure our policy was ruthless (and still is) but if we didn't they would still be putting people in very dangerous boats and people would still be dying.
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  59.  @michaelj6486  You're not even Australian are you? That much is obvious because of how IGNORANT you are. Nobody's been coerced with some bullshit law, because no bullshit law actually exists. Its just a bunch of anti-vaxxer clowns and other radicals who'll protest anything. It doesn't matter what government the rest of us elect the same pack of clowns turn up and protest. FK-WITS like you have no idea what you're talking about and the rest of us are getting tired of your crap, your stupid arguments and your idiotic claims.
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  60.  @davidadiwego4608  Your second comment is as ignorant as your first. 2 Comments and twice you attack simple basic UNARGUABLE SCIENCE. Like all your kind all you can do is bullshit and lie. YOU"RE DISGUSTING.
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  61.  @hugoepcastro  No probs. You sounded like you could do with some encouragement. We got very, very lucky in Australia. When it arrived we were just about to have our grand prix and start our football seasons. They all got cancelled or postponed and that saved us. At one point we let our guard down and 700 died in 1 outbreak. If we had not got lucky that could easily have been 20,000 or more.
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  62.  @somersoguilty4225  Yeah in what way? The easiest way to tell a social media moron is they just make claims. No facts, no evidence they just switch the brain off and say shite - like you.
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  63. And you can expect the Murdoch's people in Australia will start denying it has anything to do with climate change from tomorrow. We had a once in 100 year bushfires as we experience a once in a 100 year drought and now a once in 100 year flood. Rupert Murdoch's a once in 100year piece of crap.
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  64.  @Aa-ron01  Actually it is important on calling out bullshit when its bullshit. Whether your dumbing it down or not you do need to factual. The denier clowns out there jump on anything and everything they can. Anything that they can scream and yell about they do. If you look into any of the crazy claims made about stuff these days there's 3 types of people making them. Flat Earth, Moon Hoax, Climate denial you name the crazy and there's 3 basic types. 1: The delusional true believer who simply can't be convinced of reality. 2: The gullible ones who for whatever reason will simply listen to what ever is convenient. 3: The snake oils salesman, who knows he's selling snake oil but just doesn't care because he's only interested in making money off of the delusional and the gullible. I know there is nothing to be done with the delusional ones. But you know we can save the gullible form the snakes., but to do that we have to keep with facts because the snakes rely on doubt. The most powerful thing they have is doubt. because once they get you to doubt then they can spin the narrative into what they want. Look at any of Rupert Murdoch's people some of them are extraordinary at it. Trump's another master of it. So you have to call bullshit out when its there to be called out. Otherwise Murdoch and the rest of the billionaires will kill us all as they make money.
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  65. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  66.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Don't go down that fraudulent election crap or there's no chance of any rational discussion. I was a swimmer which is how I got my scholarship and I know people who went to LA, Barcelona, Seoul and Atlanta. As far as 2032 the rest all pulled out. We won by default. The size of America the size of American capability is one thing Australian's never seem to understand unless they have spent time in America. I wasn't there for 1 semester I was there 3-1/2 years and did a lot of travelling in the summers. I went to school in Illinois and if you take the populations of Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin you have almost the same population as the whole of Australia. California and Texas have bigger populations than Australia and yet we have almost the same land area as mainland US. American's don't get how much open space we have and Australians don't get how many people America has.
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  67.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Good points. I'm actually from Melbourne but am currently living in Brisbane. Your dead right way too many people go for holidays and visit places and then think they know those places. It took better than 2 years for me to start understanding America and even then I sort of only understood parts of the mid-west. I'd say America's education system still has parts that are as good as any and a few better than everyone else BUT across a broad spectrum its clearly sliding. BUT then I also look at Australia and can see the signs of the same. I did engineering and the skills I see young engineers graduating with these days are 2nd if not 3rd class to what I graduated with. And its mainly in the very basic skills which surprises many people. Their ability with computers is staggering but their math skills are shite.
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  68.  @jeromemanoharan7427  Both my parents where high school teachers. Most of the social circle consisted of other teachers and a couple of my friends are also high school teachers. I'm pretty well informed on the subject and that information covers most of the last 50+ years. The problem with certain technologies is they make people lazy. Just as Microsoft word has made spelling a lazy subject for many people, AutoCAD has done the same in engineering most notably in mechanical engineering and to a lesser extent in civil and electrical. The problem in engineering is that if you can't draw its very hard to communicate your design. Technical drawing is to engineers what grammar is to a writer or journalist.
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  69.  @jeromemanoharan7427  SQRT(1) <> 1???? That's bound to be interesting to a math theorist/geek. As an engineer I'm fundamentally an applied mathematician as in I take already proven math and apply it to real world problems.
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  70. Ukraine can't become a NATO member because in the NATO charter there's a clause that states new members CAN'T have borders in dispute. That's why Putin started the breakaway regions - Crimea & Donetsk (in Ukraine), Transnistria (in Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh (in Azerbaijan),... etc. It prevents those countries joining NATO. I'm Australian and I know this how come most of the news service don't mention it.
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  71. On one hand we should give people a round of applause for wanting a better life for their family. On the other hand nobody has the right to simply enter another country without a valid reason. In very basic legal terms its called trespass. I don't like anybody who thinks they are simply entitled to cross these borders and walk into other countries and demand anything. Yes in those cases where they are fleeing persecution we should help, but too often it gets ignored that these people do what they do for economic reasons. The developed world did not develop overnight, it took generations of hard work making many mistakes along the way. Should we do a better job of helping other countries develop? Absolutely, we would NOT have these issues if these countries were more developed and worth these people staying there and if there is one thing these people can hold against the developed world its been our continued support for corrupt and or failed regimes. For that we do have responsibility.
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  72. Lest face reality anything other than total compliance upsets the CCP. China invades Tibet - The CCP says mind your own business. China kills 1000s after the Tiananmen Square protests - The CCP says mind your own business. China takes over 100s of small islands across the ocean - The CCP says mind your own business. China locks up an entire cultural group and starts a program of cultural genocide - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese steal every bit of technology it can - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese people forge, copy and fake 1000s of products violating copyright - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese burn more coal than the entire planet did in the 1970s accelerating climate change - The CCP says mind your own business. The Chinese promise to allow Hong Kong to go on as a democratic society and then DOESN'T - The CCP says mind your own business. Australia does a deal for submarines and China complains. Message to China - MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
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  73. They have hit the same problem that has hit many Western societies - the cost of raising a family and the cost of education.
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  74. AUSTRALIAN HERE with an observation. Britain has 1st past the post and Australia has a preferential voting system. In our system all those votes from down the list would have been switched to their secondary preferences. This is how this might have gone with our system. I suspect all the Reform UK who are all 100% Brexiteers would have put Liz Truss as their second preference. So on that her vote would go to 21,175. I have no doubt the Greens would vote Labor (as they do here) taking their vote to 13,685 The real question is what the Independents & Lib Dems would do. In Australia the sorts of people who vote for minor parties at #1 tend to be swing voters with their preferences. They typically give preferences to the existing government if its doing well and against if its not. With this clearly being a protest vote AWAY from the previous election where Liz Truss got 26,195 votes I'd expect those people would have also voted Labor on their preferences making Labor's vote 22,585. So under a preferential system I'd expect the same result but with a bigger margin. Another question that could be asked is what happens if you have something like Australia's compulsory voting system. You only had 59% turnout in this seat meaning about 30,000 didn't vote at all. In Australia those people tend to do some interesting things. If they are unmotivated they do what's called donkey voting and either they just put 1,2,3,4,.... down the list or do something so that no vote is counted at all. My brother used to add his football team to the list and vote for them and of course such votes don't count. But one of the massive benefits of compulsory voting is that when our governments screw up (and they do) these people tend to do massive protest votes. So in this case I'd expect MOST of those people to vote Labor as a way of flipping the finger at Liz Truss and this would have been a massacre not a narrow loss. FYI - There was an American political analyst in Australia during one of our elections and she said that if America switched from first past the post to preferential AND made voting compulsory then it would re-shape America for the best. Preferential but NOT compulsory has been tried in a couple of states with significant changes. Her main reason for wanting both is that it prevents parties from having a "culture war" mentality because they have to engage with the general population not just those motivated to vote. And if you put that into the context of where America has gone in the last couple of years I think she had a valid point.
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  75. That's an idiotic statement the deserves all the scorn on the world when THE REAL REASON WAS COST The French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracudas and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered equivalent - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? It was like asking someone to by a Renault or Peugeot for $75,000 after selling the same car with an upgraded engine $20,000. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  76. It wasn't so much Air France but Airbus who held the rights to the engines and airframe maintenance. They refused to keep the planes serviceable. It was done to help sales of planes like the A380. There was a really good documentary made just after the retirement of Concorde made with the British Pilots who flew it. It went into all sorts of things about the running of the British Airways Concorde division.
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  77. The first victim of war is always the truth. Hitler lied when he invaded Poland. Saddam Hussein lied when he invaded Kuwait. George Busch lied when he invaded Iraq. Its always the same stack of crap. They aren't invading they are liberating. Putin calls it a "special military operation" to defend and protect.... The invasion of Iraq was called "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and it was good that at least 170,000 innocent Iraqi civilians got their freedom in the form of a grave. These people are always claiming they are bringing freedom as they put body after body in the ground.
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  78. You're 100% right. But with AI and more powerful algorithms ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  79. Also I read a sci-fi book a number of years ago (sorry forgot the title and author) but as humanity started to explore the wider galaxy all they cam across were commercial AIs. The premise was that any society that could develop an economy and technology would eventually hand over financial & commercial control to their AIs which could just do everything in the commercial space so fast that no sentient species could match them. The problem gets exacerbated when they just keep producing more and more powerful AIs to out compete the other AIs. Eventually the original sentient species was no longer in the equations and simply died out. So no matter where the humans looked they kept encountering these AIs hell bent of dominating economically and then wiping out anything that was sub-par and that meant sentient species because robots don't need food or water and can work 24/7. The algorithms are already winning its just a matter of time before they rule over everything. Robert Mercer the American Billionaire who has a PhD in computer science has a Gold Club hedge fund that in a bad year makes around 39% and in better years makes around 80%. Do you think he's doing that with a slide rule and graph paper?
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  80.  @onepeace1274  Well moron if your going to be IDIOTIC about a subject like this then don't whine about being called a moron. I only thing ANYONE needs to understand about your opinion is what it says about YOU. The world has 2 pandemics these days COVID and self absorbed smart asses who think they're clever. One of them has caused several million deaths the other will probably cause several billion more in the next decade.
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  81. I believe you are describing the rats leaving the sinking ship.
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  82. I'm Australian and mainly of Anglo-Saxon descent. The crazy thing about the Anglo-Saxons is that neither the Angles or Saxons are from Britain. The Angles are from Denmark and the Saxons from Saxony which is in Germany. I went snowboarding in Hokaido a few years back and they sell t-shirts there "Hokiado - its a dialect." One of the hotel clerks (who spoke excellent English) explained it to me one day. He said he's instantly recognized by his accent in Tokyo. He told me it was similar for the people form the far south like Okinawa. It was interesting to learn first hand that Japan has distinct cultural regions.
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  83.  Yee Tian  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  84.  @stevenpeng3  Well its pretty clear from your name where you are from. And how the hell do dare make that comparison. There are many Americans and British people screaming about the middle east situation. And how does that compare or excuse forcing people into labor camps or having women forcibly sterilized. Go have a hard look at yourself in a mirror and ask yourself some honest questions and see if you tell any honest answers.
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  85.  Yee Tian  Well being from Canada should make you appreciate having choices and a government that can be held accountable. I'm Australian and there is growing anger over Chinese influence peddling here and across the Southern Pacific. We went to bolster our laws with foreign money in our politics after we'd finally had enough of the Americans, British, Israeli, Saudi and Chinese money in our politics. BUT only China complained and only China threatened us with sanctions. Anytime we speak China waves a finger at us and tells us to mind our own business and then they come down here and try and bribe our leaders. Trust me many many Australians are getting tired of China's hypocrisy. To be fair we've had enough of the hypocrisy of others as well and that includes our own leaders. If you really are in Canada you should be furious over the Fentanyl crisis that has devastated parts of Canada. I was there in 2017 when it was raging so I know it all comes from China and can only be exported out of China with the CCP letting it happen. There are many things abut Trump that were so bad and so flawed that its hard to start listing them. But one of his catastrophic failures was HOW he dealt with China. What he should have done was slap them with a CARBON TAX and used it to hammer them. Europe, Australia and others would have followed suit and then we might have a chance to save the planet. The CCP, GOP, British Tories and others better learn real fast that we all live on this planet and if it dies we die.
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  86.  @shamanahaboolist  I think you need to do some research and check some facts. FENTANYL - is just one of several SYNTHETIC Opioids opiate and a lot of it is made in Chinese labs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid#Synthetic_opioids The majority of Illegal Opium until recent decades came from the Golden triangle which is in SE Asia. The majority of legally produced opiates for medications come from highly regulated farms in a number of places around the world.
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  87.  @shamanahaboolist  Are you this ignorant or that uneducated? Opium has been smoked throughout Asia for centuries and they have had addiction issues FOR CENTURIES. Opiates as an addictive issue is NOT just a Western issue and NEVER WAS. The current issue with Opiate addiction in places like America with the massive over prescription of drugs like Oxycontin is nothing but the result of greed. They (the manufacturers) claimed Oxycontin (Oxycodone) was NOT addictive. That was a lie from the start. Its an opiate and all opiates are addictive. It has to be very carefully used for pain control and instead the Sackler family wanted to make money. Just go and learn what facts are before you make yourself look any more stupid than you've already done.
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  88.  @shamanahaboolist  Well DUH. You mention the opium wars. Funny you know about the historical use of opium which which goes back a long time before the Opium Wars. Opium was already used in Chinese society BEFORE the Westerners arrived. How ignorant are you? So you're in the UK are you. Well then you should have gotten a better education than your ignorance shows. Or are you another one of these people who's immigrated to a Western country and then complains that you haven't been showered in gold. If Western society is so bad compared to wherever you came from then go back and have a better life. And what do you actually mean by pharmaceutical distribution? For all anyone knows your just a delivery driver. If you had any real expertise you would have said so. And considering your ignorance I doubt you're anything more than a delivery driver, or warehouse clerk.
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  89.  @andresviveros3994  Your forgetting all the outcry for the Rohinga Muslims. And there's plenty of people in the west who are critical of Israel and its behavior. Yu have to remember that the Israel-Palestinian issue is super complex and has been a mess since they formation of Israel. People like you either forget or ignore that the British who controlled Palestine were part of the original 2 state plan back in the late 1940s. That plan was NOT rejected by the world it was rejected by the Arab League. The reason there isn't an Independent Palestinian nation isn't because of the Americans, British or anybody else. Its because the Arab League voted against it. Go check your history. Its not to say that since that time the West hasn't favored Israel because that would be stupid. What I find that Israel (and their supporters) should be condemned for is the basic way they see and treat Palestinians. They are people and like all people they deserve some basic rights. After all that is what the Israeli people have demanded for 70+ years - basic human rights. You can't demand basic human rights and then deny others of those same basic rights.
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  90.  @SS-tr6ei  Careful there are some seriously nasty, ugly and racist pro-CCP trolls hunting on some of these pages. Notably the anti-BBC pages. When I mean racist I mean proper genuine racist.
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  91.  Seiki  I can tell very simply why Australia is about to break a lot of contracts with China. We've caught them repeatedly interfering in our country. They are not the only ones to have done so. We had Britain doing it for many years. But then they joined the EU and told us to get lost. It almost bankrupted our economy. We have had the Americans since and the Japanese to a lesser extent. When we finally had enough of foreign money in our politics and went to tighten our Laws ONLY 1 COUNTRY PROTESTED - CHINA. The Chinese view of foreign affairs is we do what we like we do what we want and fuck the rest of the planet. Its not that far from the American or British or Russian policies of the past, but the fact is we don't live in the past we live in the here and now. When I was there I rode the maglev in from Shanghai Airport and rode the Fast Train back. China is NOT a developing nation it is a DEVELOPED NATION and can start acting responsibly as a developed nation. And the first step in that is they STOP interfering in other countries. The 2nd step is they stop the staggering environmental damage they are doing in that they burn half the worlds coal supply. The then STOP selling coal technology ad other damaging technologies to developing nations. The world cannot afford China or the way China does business. The Uighurs are just indicative of the Chinese Communist Party's view of itself and the world wont tolerate that much longer just as it wont tolerate American bullshit or any other bullshit either. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  92. As an outsider (Australian) what's utterly staggering is that her leading economic idea is tax cuts for rich people WHICH HAS NOT WORKED ANYWHERE in times like these. We are all coming out of a pandemic that beat the crap out of everyone. Putting the people who got through it best IN FRONT of those who were hit hardest is so utterly ignorant of reality. Before she became PM there were those who described her as a clueless Margret Thatcher wannabe who's changes her mind as often as Donald Trump lies. I thought they were exaggerating.
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  93.  @ReadyPlayerDog  That's something Dr. Michael Osterholm (director of CIDRAP) brought up in his weekly podcast recently. He said there are 3 basic types in this discussion. 1: Those who are vaccinated and those who will get vaccinated when they can. 2: Those who for any of several reasons are hesitant, but might get vaccinated. 3: The anti-vaxxers who simply wont get vaccinated. He pointed out that there should be no rules of exclusion. CIDRAP is on the campus of the U. of Minnesota and they were going to ban unvaccinated students. He argued AGAINST that as it would only alienate people and might push people from group 1 to 2 and 2 to 3. We want as many vaccinated as possible. That wont happen if we alienate people. Here's the link to his podcasts -> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI7n04W1HWAPMrI4_41StSg
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  94.  @frankdux5693  That's another very sad fact of our world these days. I can't blame the anti-vaxxers for their not trusting government authority or the medical industry. Both have done stupid and idiotic things BUT believing in other even more stupid and more idiotic garbage isn't a viable response. People claiming that Hilary Clinton couldn't be trusted was fair BUT then trusting someone like Donald Trump is just ridiculous. Anti-vaxxers claiming we can't trust doctors and then complaining when they can't get medical attention is just as stupid.
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  95. This is where the Greens put pragmatic stupidity before common sense. In this respect they are no better than any other party that puts ideology before reality. Its NOT going to hurt the planet to run those nuclear stations for another year (or 2 or 3) while they get through the current situation. This is the sort of pragmatic stupidity that people got fed up with the main stream parties and why people turned to the Greens. Its not a German thing either, I'm Australian and our Greens are just as stupid. I love that they want to protect the environment, but I am an engineer and we just can't simply turn of power stations OF ANY SORT. Across the world right now we are trapped between these 2 packs of clowns who just wont let anyone get on with anything. We have an energy crisis because we stopped building power stations as our population grew. All the 2 sides did was act like 5 year olds saying NO to everything.
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  96.  @donkeypoison  Hey everyone look at this another example of Russian trollbot naming - "donkeypoison".
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  97.  @donkeypoison  1) I doubt your a real person and therefore a bot. 2) your a troll and therefore a trollbot
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  98.  @donkeypoison  Good description of a troll - NOW GO LOOK IN A MIRROR.
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  99.  @sonicblue7real357  Your on the right line, but its solar energy that the planet turns into thermal energy not potential energy. The fascinating part is the 100,000 year Milankovitch cycles which is the long term cycles of ice ages where CO2 and Water vapour play major parts. The CO2 lets solar energy in but then keeps in the Earths thermal energy and warms the plant. Water vapour does 2 things. Like CO2 it helps hold in thermal energy but when there's enough in the atmosphere it forms a think cloud that reflects solar energy and stops the planet getting any warmer. But also at the point it slows the Earth cooling Its that property of water that throws the Earth into ice ages. As it builds up it helps warm the Earth after an ice age but at certain point it ends that and stops the Earth warming further. Eventually it cools enough and all that water falls as snow and rain in a massive way because there's not enough to keep the Earth warm the Earth dumps even more thermal energy off into space and we get an ice age. Right now we are at the top of the Milankovitch cycle and instead of the Earth having a warm humid patch before cooling into the next ice age we are overdriving the cycle. That's why the modelling gives 2 scenarios. We COULD either go into thermal runaway and end up like Venus or a massive thermal dump and end up like Mars. My bet is we'll end up with something in between, but its going to be wild with lots of wild weather. More thermal energy in the atmosphere means everything is running harder. Look at Texas last year and I have been there. Most of its a hot arid environment and yet it snowed so badly children froze to death in the beds. Australia was always picked as one of the most vulnerable nations. For the last few years its been stinking hot with some of the worst droughts ever and some of the worst bushfire seasons ever. This year its floods, floods and more floods. Our Snow season looks to be the best in decades. What worries me is this much water will cause huge amounts of growth in our forests so that when the next dry comes there will be huge amounts of fuel to burn. At some point in the next few years we will burn from one end to the other and just like they are doing now the deniers will claim its all natural.
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  100.  @AmericatheBeautiful-p4z  I'd try and explain the reasons why people like you are so ignorant and wrong and stupid but its not worth it. But for anyone else interested here's some basic engineering and a bit of math. There's an oddish subject in aerospace I call planetary mechanics. I was introduced to it by a NASA engineer who visited our university one day. He'd done a project on what it would take to terraform Mars. He explained you just start with something basic like how much air do you need and what would you need to heat it up to a reasonable temperature considering Mars is cold. -60C on Mars is a warm day. Planetary mechanics is just the basic mechanics of what's needed (nuts and bolts). Its not the complex gas & water cycles that change and shift with seasons or the effects of the planets rotation and inclination or any of the other time related things. I call that stuff planetary dynamics as it involves things that move and change and cycle with time. To keep the math practical and get a basic estimate of what the task is, we do an approximation. I use the idea of a 1km think layer of breathable air because it makes the math understandable. I approximate the volume but just covering the planet in 1km cubes of air. Yes there's gaps between the cubes but its just an approximation and its within 1%. I also ignore things like gravity, solar wind, etc, BECAUSE I am just trying to demonstrate the size of the task. The surface of Mars is 144,000,000 km. That equates to 144,000,000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 cubic meters of air and at 1.2kg for a cubic meter of air, that's 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air. To raise that much air from -60 to +20 ℃ engineers use the basic equation: E = Cp x M x ΔT Energy Required (kilojoules) = 1.006 kJ/kg.C x mass of air in kg x temperature difference in ℃ We then get 13,906,944,000,000,000,000,000 Joules of energy required. So how much energy is that? It's the equivalent of 220,745,143 Hiroshima bombs which had 63 Terajoules of energy. Its also equivalent to about 64,683 Tzar Bombs the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. Lets not forget we still need to find or create that 172,800,000,000,000,000 kilograms of air and work out how to keep it attached to Mars because Mars only has 1/3rd of Earths gravity. Then there's the task of making the gas and water cycles work. This is why aerospace engineers don't talk about this stuff much because once you realise the basic scope of terraforming the numbers get so massive so quickly the scope confuses people. Half the problem is the idiocy of Hollywood. Remember the film Aliens? The one with the giant nuclear reactor that would convert the asteroid into a liveable planet in about 20 years. BULLSH1T If they had a few 1000 of those reactors running for a couple of centuries they might start to make a difference. Simple rule if it involves Hollywood and technology its 99.9% scientifically FALSE, WRONG or plain BULLSH1T. Don't get me wrong I still love sci-fi, its just I know what's fiction and what's NOT. If you have time and do want to learn about energy systems then I recommend the Illinois Energyprof channel here on YouTube. I can't say its exciting but it is informative. Disclaimer: I did my degree at U. Illinois, but have never met David Ruzic. I graduated before his time there.
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  101.  @jonnyhatter35  Lats year here in Australia were were gripped with drought. This year we have been flooded flooded and flooded. We have been flooded so many times this year people can no longer get flood insurance and we are considering abandoning certain towns or parts of towns. When the first bog flood hit the climate deniers said here we are back to normal after a drought. After the 2nd flood they said not to worry, We told to explain the 3rd flood they couldn't. By the time of the 4th and 5th floods they didn't dare speak. we've had 2 more floods since and we aren't even through winter yet or the spring rains. When I look around the world I see things like drought in Germany and England. In Australia we might not know much about the weather in Germany but we sure as shite know about English weather and I have never heard of an English drought before.
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  102.  @jonnyhatter35  I first found out about the inground coal fires about 12 years ago when I saw a German documentary on it. Because the Germans have a long history with coal mining they have a long history of dealing with fires in coal mines. The Chinese hired a specialist German company to help them out. The Germans produced a film about it and it was aired here in Australia. But if you want to check the data go and look for the IEA Key data reports that come out every 2 years (even numbered). The IEA (International Energy Agency) is just a data collection and reporting organisation. They are the main source for energy data for researchers. Their reports are free. What people forget is their high school science class: C+O2 -> CO2 and that works for tons as well as atoms. Remember a C has an atomic mass of 12 and oxygen 16 add it up and 1 ton of C makes 2.67 tons of CO2. So 3 Giga tons of coal makes 11 Giga tons of CO2 and if you're burning that much also in ground fires that's 22,000,000,000,000 tons CO2 EACH YEAR for about 25 years. And the whole time Western economists told how how great it was that we made everything in China because cheaper goods were good for consumers. Now you know why its accelerating and why we are in twice as much trouble as we thought..
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  103.  @jonnyhatter35  No problems mate. Here's a slightly longer version of the subject. I did aerospace engineering and back in college we had an alum who worked at NASA visit and do a special lecture one Friday. He'd just done a project where they assessed the viability of terraforming Mars. He introduced us to what I call planetary mechanics - the basics numbers of what you need to do. The making it all work as a functioning atmosphere is what I call planetary dynamics because that's about dynamic systems as things that move rather than just the basic numbers. So in planetary mechanics you look at things like size of the planet and how much air you need if you want a breathable atmosphere. The numbers are massive because planets are massive. If we go to an air conditioning company they'll ask how many cubic meters the house or building has and we'd be talking maybe a few hundred or a few 1000 for an office block. The quick way to estimate that is to look at the floor space of your house and multiply by 2.5 because most rooms are about 2.5 meters heigh. So if your apartment has 200m2 of floorspace you have about 500m3 of volume. For an office block with 5,000m2 its about 12,500m3. But the Earth has 500,000 square kilometers of floor space that's 500,000,000,000 square meters. So just for the first kilometer of air around us its 500,000,000,000,000m3 (500 trillion). At about 1.2kg/m3 that's about 600 billion metric tons of air. That's just the first kilometer above sea level and there's a lot more above that. Its one of the main reasons its so hard for engineers and scientists to communicate what we've actually done to our planet. The numbers are so large most people can't get their heads around it. How do you get average citizens to consider 600billion tons of air when for their basic daily life air weighs nothing? I can do this because I met the right guy back when who introduced this subject.
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  104.  @jonnyhatter35  Its one of the things i keep telling people who think Elon Musk is just going to whip them off to Mars. Once you get your head around just the basic numbers of how much stuff you need you then get into the stuff to make it work. At that point you start trying to handle so many concepts simultaneously it just blows brain cells away. Complex problem solving is one of the things aerospace engineers have to be trained in because you need that skill to do things like send a probe off to Pluto and think of all the things that might happen, consider their effects and then solve those problems without creating new problems.
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  105.  @LK-pc4sq  Yeah telling me something I don't know. I'm Australian but went to college in Illinois, but in late 2017 I was working in Saskatchewan and experienced a similar event. For about 3 days 14 of the 15 coldest temperatures recorded on the planet were in Alberta and Saskatchewan. At one point it was colder than the actual North Pole. Instead of being home experiencing nice sunny +30-40C days I was indoors while outside its was -30 or lower with windchills as bad as -50. The only person I knew who went outside was the police officer who lived across the street who came to check I was Ok.
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  106. I wouldn't call her a Russian Spy because she's T00 STUPlD and T00 lGN0RANT to be a spy.
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  107. ITS NOT IF BUT WHEN
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  108.  @stephiewino626  WTF does that even mean? Damn Bill Gates and others for making computers too easy for morons to use.
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  109.  @stephiewino626  Better than being an ignorant moron who can't think, who can't reason and is of no use to society. 👍😉
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  110.  @louisehogan8192  Can people like you just GET OFF the drugs you are on and stop being to idiotically stupid. I clicked your link only it took only a minute to see some of the most idiotic and moronic garbage ever produced. I don't blame anyone for mistrusting governments or the media they both deserve scorn and ridicule, but turning to stuff that is so patently stupid isn't a solution. You have a brain so start using it.
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  111.  @louisehogan8192  Seriously, like so many you are so ignorant of the Bible its scary. Try reading and thinking and people might think you're not an idiot.
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  112.  @louisehogan8192  When you are BEING STUPID and directing people to moronic conspiracy garbage DON'T DARE quote Jesus back at people or you will get reminded of all the times he spoke about hubris, arrogance and the people he will reject. I am not judging YOU as a person I am judging your stupid BEHAVIOR and YES there is a difference. Since you want to quote from the sermon on the mount try reading Mathew chapter 7 (all of it) most Bible thumpers never dare touch it, but I strongly recommend you take note of verses 15-23 and pay attention about "false prophets." God gave you a brain feel free to use it.
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  113.  @louisehogan8192  Go back and read your second comment - you brought up the "Christians" thing at the same time you brought up idiotic conspiracy garbage. Don't preach to people about reading the bible when you clearly don't understand it. Jesus never said reading was good enough he said "truth would set you free" and truth requires understanding. John 8:32
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  114.  @louisehogan8192  Are you serious MIND RENEWAL Do you not understand just how idiotic that sounds. JUST STOP - people like you have no idea who Jesus was or what he is now or what future has been promised. Its why he warned about the people who teach garbage. You shouldn't claim what you're claiming when you're the one who sent everybody a link to a pathetic conspiracy channel. Jesus warned about LIARS and channels like that one are nothing but LIES and DECEIT.
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  115. Do you still celebrate Christmas or Easter? Do you claim the universe is 6000 years old?
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  116.  @hautecouture2228  That's the idiotic reasoning of a clown and the sort of exaggerated garbage that's dragging society into the gutter of stupidity. If you give someone a mismatched kidney they'll die. Even people who get kidneys that are matched can still have them fail if they don't take care. Its an idiotic stance. Either show some brain function or STFU
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  117. @Cat 4100 Someone else linked it to me a while back and I still find it amazing every time I read it. Remember he lived when Mussolini, Hitler and Stalin were in power. So he saw something in America at that time that could compare to those people. What it says is that people like Trump have been around in Western Society for at least 80 years.
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  118. I'm Australian and we just won the 2032 games. NO ONE ELSE BID and nobody is asking why? We have plenty of idiots celebrating and making it out to be a good thing. Some of those idiots a have even started the lies. The worst is the claim that 80% of the venues are already built. That's just idiotic garbage. I am currently in Brisbane. I have lived here previously and there is NO WAY they even 25% of the venues and those they do have will need major upgrades before 2032. If Japan is a massive financial failure it only joins the financial failures of others. As a kid I watched the 1976 Montreal games. To the best of my knowledge they have never recovered the costs. 1980 in Moscow was a success because they had cheap labor which also gave Seoul in 1988 an advantage. LA & Atlanta were held in cities with massive sports facilities and massive universities with huge dorms they could use for the athletes village. Barcelona already had a couple of major stadiums. London already had all those football stadiums and the rest of the facilities. Beijing like Seoul and Moscow just had all that cheap labor to build what ever they wanted. Brisbane has 2 main stadiums the Gabba (oval shaped) at 42,000 and Suncorp (rectangular) at 52,500. Neither of those are up to Olympic standard which needs to be around the 80,000 mark. Brisbane held the 1982 Commonwealth games and did a great job. Every since they felt that justified they could host the Olympics. Brisbanites TOTALLY ignore all the extra sports the Olympics have and all the extra athletes and support staff and the extra media. They are planning to spend $1Billion upgrading the Gabba from 42,000 to 50,000 and don't get that's a joke by Olympic Standards. PLUS there's the lesson of Sydney they have already forgotten. It still hasn't been paid for and will most likely NEVER recoup the money spent. Why did one else bid for 2032? Because they were awake.
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  119.  @connorw360  Just FK-off with that crap. The subject here is the Olympics not some garbage that's totally unrelated.
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  120.  @kethughes8266  Well Vietnam was a police action!! Politicians always have an "alternative label." I even once heard that Bill Clinton called it "Oral validation of instructions given by the Commander in Chief."
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  121.  @kethughes8266  I'm Australian and had a thorough education in British Politics via 3 seasons of Yes Minister and 2 seasons of Yes Prime Minister. Go look up - Officially Official or Sir Humphrey Appleby on the Proper Function of Government and its follow up The Rhodesia Solution
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  122.  @kethughes8266  Also look up Yes, Prime Minister - The need to know
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  123.  @kethughes8266  And even better Sir Humphrey explains Brexit
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  124.  @cratarata2278  Thanks so much for the sentiment. I am not in that area but those that are will appreciate it.
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  125.  @alanhigh8125  So what the F∪CK are you so scared of you need to sleep with a semi-auto? I get the security system and all that. I can even understand people owning a gun as I own one. But sleeping with it. WTF is that about?
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  126. ​ @seanarmstrong8255  Yeah charters of any type are usually profitable because you simply look at the actual costs and then add a percentage and that works for anything - planes, boats, cars,... On fuel Concorde was always thirsty but then so has every other plane in history when it flew supersonic. Its one of the reasons why the generations of jet fighters after the 1970s got slower on their top end speed. I remember an engineer who worked on the F111 who said that with full tanks off an air refueling with no external load to add any extra drag that it had enough fuel for about 4-1/2 minutes at full speed. One day when I was at my glider club in 87 one of the tow pilots mentioned that one of the Concorde pilots had just logged his 10,000th hour as pilot in command at supersonic speed. At that moment he had more time as PIC at supersonic than the entire USAF had logged in all its known history. The SR-71 time was unknown at that stage because it was still pretty secret but it was still estimated at only a few 1000 hours. People don't realise that even though there's F15, F16, F18,.... pilots with 1,000s of hours they have only an hour at most at supersonic with most of them only minutes. Its simply not something they do a lot of. Its a combination of fuel and much it stresses the airframe and engines. I was checking something recently about the MIG 25 Foxbat which was built to counter the potential of the XB-70 and could go faster than Mach 3. Yes it really could go that fast but it did so much damage to the engines they were tossed at the end of the flight and scrapped. Not rebuilt but scrapped. When you know these things it just makes you realise how special planes like the Concorde and SR71 actually are/were.
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  127.  @seanarmstrong8255  Even crazier is that the Concordes computers were analog. I don't know if you know what that means but the channel Veritasium did a great video on the subject titled "The Most Powerful Computers You've Never Heard Of" The pilots claimed the engine management, auto pilot and flight trim computers were some of the best that any airplane ever had. The real tragedy of Concorde was that when they were taken out of service they had only done about 25-30% of their design lifetime. They should have flown on for many years. Its why a lot of people were pretty upset.
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  128. When the French Government paid the Equivalent of $2Billion Australian for each nuclear powered Barracuda and then DCNS asked Australia to pay $7.5Billion for each of the conventionally powered Barracuda - WHAT DID THEY EXPECT? Bottom line they tried to rip us off and we knew it.
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  129.  @fifty9forty3  silly comment its obvious who "we" are. Typical American you think every thing is about you. "we" is everybody in the Western world who has ignored these issues.
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  130. YES - Its proof yet again that no matter what your tribe, culture, nation or political system, there is no greater threat to any society than its own fanatics. I remember a TV mini-series (many years ago - 1981) about the Siege of Masada. In one scene Peter Strauss playing the Zealot Leader Eleazar Ben Yair meets Peter O'Toole playing the Roman general Lucius Flavius Silva and Eleazar tells him that if he wants to destroy the Jews simply leave them alone and very quickly they will start fighting among themselves. Look at America right now. We might not see it that clearly because the effect took 30+ years to surface but by winning the Cold War and with it the collapse of the Soviet Empire they lost that 1 major threat. Yeah sure China has sort of stepped up as a challenger and there was the war on terror but neither were the same threat Russia was. In the years since without that 1 real challenger the Americans have simply started fighting among themselves. Sure they had rivalries but not since the civil war have there been factions in America that actually believe that other Americans are their worst enemy imaginable. On the flip side who did more damage to Russia than the Communists. Other than how they treated their own people their industries never really developed that much. I'm an aerospace engineer and Soyuz might be old and less technically developed but its reliable. Where they truly screwed up was environmentally and the best example there is the Aral Sea disaster.
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  131.  @mohwe1007  be very careful with a comment like that as at first view it could easily be taken the wrong way because you haven't given any context
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  132.  @ÆthelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333  You're almost right, but it is fairly stupid to say the English people are unrelated to the Anglo Saxons when a significant number of them are descendants of the Angle, Jute and Saxon invasions that happened after the Romans left Britain. The actual British native nations (Bretons, Welsh, Gaels, Picts, Mercians,....etc) are NOT Anglo-Saxons and most had their own languages but they're now all related through generations of inter-breeding. The odd ones in that mix are the Normans who aren't actually French at all but the descendants of "Northmen" who settled along the coast of France after the French King got tired of them rampaging and pillaging every summer. William the Conqueror is a direct descent of Rollo the Viking, reputed to be the brother of Ragnar Lodbrok. Ragnar might not might not have existed but Rollo certainly did. You should check your history a little better.
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  133. The problem is that out of the 99% who want to live in peace massive chunks let themselves be suckered into following narcissistic clowns that belong to or are controlled by the 1% who lead them over cliffs like lemmings despite it being obvious they are being lead over a cliff. Do you really think that deep down anybody truly believes people like Trump, Putin, Xi, Kim, Biden or any of the rest of them are really going to save humanity? Its maybe the most tragic aspect of humanity, our collective willingness to follow idiotic leadership over the cliff edge believing we will somehow magically fly away before crashing into the rocks below.
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  134. Did I just here at 8:34 that they were surprised. You mean there's been ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. This entire disaster started with a failure of intelligence services with the 9/11 attacks and its now finishing with ANOTHER FAILURE of Intelligence services. Joe "the mission hasn't failed YET" Biden - yeah way for America to go from Bill "can't keep his dick in has pants" Clinton to George "just let Dick make the decisions" Bush to Barrack "don't make any decisions at all" Obama to Donnie "how's my golf score" Trump to this. Maybe in 2024 somebody with a functioning brain will run for POTUS. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♀️
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  135.  @asafcassuto9152  Did you ever see or hear about the boxing match between Mike Tyson and Michael Spinks??? This is a lot like that moment just before Tyson threw that short right that still scares people 35 years and 1 day later. Everyone who was watching saw it coming including Michael Spinks and there was NOTHING anyone could do.
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  136.  @thhanh1003  You are absolutely right. In engineering we have process/technique called Root Cause Analysis (RCA). So what's the ROOT CAUSE of why we have over 60million displaced (maybe more) people on this planet. Could it be the bat crap psycho leaders that many developed nations SUPPORTED as they raped their countries for last few decades? It might just be a thought but maybe if we hadn't been so skull FKD to keep trashing the developed world as we sent them our TV and movies bragging about how good we had it mixed with the reality of how crap they had it that we shouldn't have been surprised when 10s of millions just showed up one day asking to have a better life JUST AS WE ADVERTISED I know its a pretty silly idea.
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  137.  YutubeSucksVersion2  WTF are you blabbing on about?
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  138.  @michaelj6486  Sorry dickhead but don't because you don't know my situation which is actually similar to your wife's. I've had to remain in partial isolation, out of work waiting until I could get medical clarification. I have had multiple instances of Deep Vein Thrombosis including earlier this year. Due to circumstances I got caught out of Victoria where I am from. So it's cost me a lot of my own money to stay semi-isolated. I have only recently been cleared and got my first jab thankfully without any complications and am due for my 2nd. So I totally understand your wife's predicament and I find it totally egregious that she has NOT been treated fairly. On her treatment you and me are in 100% agreement. I am also against mandates and that is based on the EXPERT advice Dr. Michael Osterholm gave earlier this year. He's the Director of The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy located within the University of Minnesota. He's the guy Joe Rogan interviewed early on and almost everything he's said has come true. He has DECADES of experience with pandemic response. He's totally pro-vaccine and totally against mandates, because in his experience (over decades) is that they DON'T WORK. When the U. of Minnesota went to install a mandate for returning students he was the one who argued against it. His simply stated that the actual issue is there are 3 types of people when it comes to vaccines not 2. 1: The person who will get vaccinated for the simple reason they don't want to get sick. 2: The anti-vaxxer who, for some ideological reason, will never willingly take a shot. 3: The hesitant, who for some reason (medical, social or other) is not yet decided on if they will or wont get vaccinated. The first group aren't a problem and you can't do anything with the 2nd. The problem with mandates is that you risk pushing the 3rd group AWAY form getting vaccinated. Which as Dr. Osterholm pointed out has happened time and time again. He gave examples of parts of Africa. Mandates drive people away from getting vaccinated and that's a disaster for getting the vaccine rate high enough that those who cannot legitimately get vaccinated are not a problem. He did clarify that there are certain high risk environments where you do need mandates. Air travel being one because you have people packed in a plane with a very high infection risk and they are moving from one place to another. So I have had publicly available EXPERT advice on the subject of mandates for most of this year. I have no time at all for SELFISH CLOWNS and their utter garbage about conspiracies and the fact their stupidity is why governments feel the need to lockdown and mandate vaccinations. But there are always people who think the rules don't apply to them and they FK things up for everyone.
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  139.  @MrChrist741  Never forget that not only do politicians abuse their power but there are others in EVERY society that has ever existed who think that the rules don't apply to them. They are willing to cause any amount of havoc, destruction and chaos so long as they feel its what they want to do at that moment. They have no hesitancy in causing other distress or harm. We tend to call these people narcissists. Sometimes they are in government, or the administration of government, but mostly they are lose in society.
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  140.  @joebuck4496  Well why don't you try and explain why its absurd. I'm effing tire of childish idiots like you making giant claims and BACKING NOTHING UP. Saying you don't like something ISN'T PROOF of anything.
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  141.  @evgenigenov3433  I totally get your point, but I think you need to go an see a doctor you trust. I am sorry about your job as I said to Michael J that is totally unfair. As I also said to Michael J I have had multiple instances of DVTs most recently earlier this year. Recently I finally had the chance to sit down with a doctor and we went over it. I wont tell you the discussion, because I am not a medical professional and this is social media where there are trolls and clowns, but I have had my first jab and am due for my second. If you have heart problems then you must have a doctor. Go and see them. if they don't care then go and see a doctor who does. But whatever you do DO NOT TAKE anybody's social media advice on what to take or not take. For you this could be very serious so GO AND SEE YOUR DOCTOR. Best wishes and good luck.
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  142.  @evgenigenov3433  Not certain what country your in but that is sad when you think there is no way to trust any doctor let alone everyone else. I do understand the feeling however. It certainly seems like we can't trust anyone these days. I blame our governments for most of that. Sure they are people and people are not perfect but when they lie and lie and lie and break promise after promise and when they screw us and help their friends what else are we meant to feel. I do hope your situation gets better and you can find a doctor who will just simply care. You've made me realise that I have been lucky to have had the doctors I have had. Best wishes from Australia.
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  143.  @joebuck4496  WTF do you mean by "you people" and what generation do you think I'm part of. If you stop gaslighting people for a moment you'll stop looking and sounding like an arrogant clown with no clue.
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  144.  @joebuck4496  Other people have pointed out that prior notice of a protest or march gives police and authorities the opportunity to block off side streets and take other measures to allow protests to happen without incident. Don't forget moron the worst things happen when 2 opposing sides clash. Its a lot easier for police to keep them separated when they know what's going on. Plus what don't know is that in Australia (and I am certain other places have the same) we have people who are basically professional protesters and they turn up at almost any opportunity looking to cause trouble. These are the people that turn protests into riots. Even crazier is that they come from both ends of politics. Some are far right and some are far left. The only thing they have in common is a propensity for violence, chaos and destruction. So your whole claim of absurdity is absurd and you clearly have no idea of what happens in Australia.
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  145.  @lobbyskids2  There's nothing there I don't disagree with exit the premise that our governments work for us. That's the basic essence of democracy. Government of the people, by the people for the people. That's unfortunately changing and in some countries the change to plutocracy is almost complete. I've been watching a lot of Scottish political economist Mark Blyth the past few years. He's coined the term Angrynomics which is the state of anger of a population that no longer feels the economy works in their favor. Just recently one of the other panelists he was talking to pointed out that its becoming (and in some cases become) "Government of the corporation, by the corporation for the corporation." That change is effectively complete in America and damn near close in Australia, where the giant dump trucks in mines have more voting rights than humans. Do I think people should be protesting the plutocracy? FARK YEAH! But there's no way that anything will change while protests just end up as out of control riots.
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  146.  @joebuck4496  I haven't moved the goal post you've just realised how stupid you've been making a claim about something being "absolute" Like some many people on social media you left your brain behind and now its trying to catch up. Take a few deep breaths it usually helps as the brain does require oxygen.
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  147.  @johnhess9443  So your the one who wants to play the rational game are you. Are you Australian? Have you ever been here? Have you seen our results for handling COVID? Are you aware that a few weeks ago there was a violent protest at one of our Union offices where both radical leftists and radical anti-vaxxers attacked the offices of a LEFTIST UNION? Yeah morons we had RADICAL LEFISTS attacking a leftist union for supporting mandates on work sites so they could get their people back to work. Have you or any other of these idiots heard any of that? NO OFF COURSE YOUR NOT? But then why let facts get in the road of social media shitfuckery.
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  148.  N.O.S.T.I.A  As I just explained to another clown. If a tiny minority of clowns would just stop being dumb stupid selfish idiots and either get vaccinated or stop being stupid we'd already be out of this mess. But some people just don't think reality or rules apply to them and the rest of us have to bow to whatever they want. And idiots like you don't care about the facts because you are too selfish and too stupid to consider the rest of us.
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  149.  N.O.S.T.I.A  Nobody needs to ever fear a gutless moron who can't think or reason. The only thing that equal to the stupidity of a radical right winger is a radical left winger. Those of us with brains KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU ARE. And for the record the rest of humanity is tired of all your kind.
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  150.  @TexTheMaster  Most developed nations have the right to protest or at least publicly state their grievances. I'm Australian but went to college in America. I did engineering but a bunch of my frat brothers were pre-law and they dragged me into a lot of discussions on the US Amendments because I had different perspectives on various things. I have also spent time in Canada for work. It gets into interesting areas where you draw the line between what's best for society and what rights you give every individual. I think the US constitution is BOTH brilliant and tragic. Its brilliant because it enshrines some very basic rights for every person in America irrespective if they are a US citizen or not. Its tragic because its allowed some incredibly selfish people to dominate society with their wants at incredible cost to everyone else. Right now in Australia (like other places) we are trying to find a way to deal with a very selfish minority who just don't care about the rest of us.
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  151.  -VXLKRYEx-  WTF is that meant to mean? "based redpilled"????? Here's 2 words Dunning Kruger.
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  152.  @oktc68  Great comment but the trolls will be coming. They don't care that we could have done with COVID months ago if they had just done what was needed. Unfortunately pandering to idiots who have no concept of being responsible is going to destroy western society.
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  153.  -VXLKRYEx-  Yeah sure zoomer boy. Actually a Gen-X. We think of you lot as Gen-Y or Gen-Z because we actually learnt to spell and understand that thing called the alphabet. Maybe you're Gen-Y or as I like to call them Gen-WHY didn't their parents use birth control or Gen-WHY don't they tell us AGAIN how tech savvy they are with the tech that we developed. Maybe you're Gen-Z or as I like to call them Gen-Zero grasp of reality, Gen-Zero brain function or Gen-ZERO relationships cos they are too busy watching internet porn.
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  154.  -VXLKRYEx-  Can you read? Gen-X zoomer boy Gen-X. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Were you born stupid or did you take special classes?
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  155. @Miki Miki You r first sentence made sense - it should not have been let out of Wuhan. EVERYTHIGN after that point is just rambling conspiracy garbage. *About the only thing anyone can say with certainty is that a lot of scumbags like Big Pharma, Government, conspiracy promoters, religious freaks and ESPECIALLY CONSPIRACY FREEAKS are all taking advantage of this disaster.*
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  156.  @romariocoffie4702  I honestly don't know how stupid and smug a person can be and think they are right while being so stupidly wrong. Your words - "Protests are by the people for the people regardless how the state feels about it and any need to suppress a non violent protest because you don’t “approve” of it is definition of facism" 1: It is idiotic to ever claim that any protest is actually for anything other than the people protesting. The utter arrogance of anyone to claim they represent the "good of the public" is beyond being ridiculous. That's what dictators claim when they say "we are making sacrifices for a everyone's good" as they haul people away. Anytime a minority claims to represent the majority it can be called man many things DEMOCRACY is NOT one of them. NONE OF THESE PROTESTERS REPRESENT THE MAJORITY - they are a minority and the rest of us are tired of their selfish crap. 2: These protests were NOT non-violent. How blind to basic facts are you? GET YOUR BASIC FACTS RIGHT BEFORE LECTURING ANYBODY Because like so many I'm FK-ING over morns claiming stupid things.
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  157.  @romariocoffie4702  Which one of your 5 moronic brainless idiotic comments do you want answered? The smug idiotic one you started with. The ignorant of reality second one The bullshit deflection I never said that crap even though I suggested it third one The I'm not smug your smug answer of a 3 year old 4th one Or the utterly I made no points in the first place but I want to you answer my amazing claim of "AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA" 5th one. Go back to school and get educated on how to be a child. That way you can move on from the kindergarten level temper tantrum.
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  158.  @romariocoffie4702  I'm not attacking your ideas I AM ATTACKING YOUR IDIOITC LIES. Like all you conspiracy clowns your just plain simple LIARS
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  159.  Gmmonica godsgotthis  Try ranting a whole lot less and people might want to have a conversation with you.
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  160. Yep we have been through the neo-con era to be followed by the neo-liberal era to arrive at the neo-feudalism era.
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  161.  @mimihuang968  Dude it has little to do with corporations and a WHOLE LOT OF the top 1% dominating the rest of society. That's been going on for 1000s and 1000s of years. The only thing that ever seems to change is the LABEL the top 1% put on themselves.
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  162.  @davidadiwego4608  Putting it mildly FK-off. Take your attitude and simply FK-off. Take your ignorance of the reality of what's happening and FK-off. Don't you dare talk about intellectual dishonesty when your playing statistical misdirection games. NASA Says Climate Change is real -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ NOAA Says Climate Change is real -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide Even the Pentagon says Climate Change its real -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF YOU'RE A DISGUSTING LIAR - just FK-off.
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  163.  @colinhubble6667  Good answer.
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  164. Imagine how much those of us who have ever been FKD over by HR don't care. Imagine all the people who Elon Musk has treated like crap and how much they don't care. Imagine all the people who have been hurt by misinformation posted on Twitter and how much they don't care. Imagine all the people who have been abused by Elon Musk fans whenever they have questioned what he says and HOW MUCH THEY DON'T CARE.
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  165. Another Australian here. I was amazed at that map they showed at the start considering what we have had in our news over recent years. There's not only the student issue but the issue of ex-pat Chinese and their money.
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  166. Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the New York Times, April 9, 1944 “The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
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  167.  @Ne0dymm  YO SHIT-4-BRAINS WHO CAN'T SPELL where do people get arrested for praying in their own home? and where do they get arrested for hurting peoples feelings internet or anywhere else?
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  168.  Davidson  Yeah in what way am I being foolish. Like s few others in this thread we can see the morons because all they do is make claims without anything to back it up. Trolls like you ought to just stay of the internet all together.
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  169.  @paulkoon4624  Wake up - geriatric and obese people are some of the most susceptible for a whole range of ailments. But just like other diseases can strike at the fittest in society so can COVID - AND IT HAS. There have been plenty of younger people who got it and some of them died. Al lot of the medical people who died weren't obese of geriatric. Come on these FACTs are old news.
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  170.  @gunsack2427  Seriously how are people as ignorant of reality as people like you are? They can only burn off when its safe to do so or have you forgotten the times when they risked it and instead of burning off the fuel load they started major blazes. They are engaging the Aboriginal elders in helping land control you ignorant clown. EFFING reality deniers like you should just STFU, we've had enough of your crap. When everybody can no longer deny what's happening is gonna get ugly for people like you. Enjoy your ignorance for the moment, it wont last.
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  171.  @Aa-ron01  Do you understand even the basics of climate change, because a lot of people don't. Its pretty simple if you heat up the planet you evaporate more water and sooner or later it will fall out of the sky. Basically it turbocharges the weather. In a nutshell the side of the earth the faces the sun is getting energy pumped into/onto it by a monstrous nuclear furnace. The other side of the planet is dumping excess energy off into space. We are still getting the same amount from the sun on one side but not dumping as much on the other as a result the entire planet has slowly heated up. When its hotter there's more evaporation. If you have more evaporation you have more clouds and eventually you have these events with huge amounts of rain and snow. It was always called climate change by the scientific community it was journalists who called it global warming because that was easier for them to type. Your remark on vegetation is half right. Vegetation doesn't absorb surface water what it does is allow it to be absorbed. The problem with soil (particularly Australian soils) is that when it dries out it switches from water absorbing to water repelling and if you dry it right out its hard to get it back to water absorbing. What vegetation does is help keep moisture in the soil. So it keeps the soil in a water absorbing state so that when it rains the water can soak into the soil. If its dried out then rain can simply run off the land into the creeks and rivers taking topsoil with it. Its one reason why our environmental scientists (not the greenie tree hugging clowns) have been telling us for a while that we have to stop simply clearing land for pasture as we have done. They've now got the evidence that keeping 20% of native trees and vegetation makes our land more productive as it helps maintain the moisture in the soil. Trying to convince people that's true is the next problem.
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  172.  @gunsack2427  Look just farq-off with your ignorance. They have started engaging the aboriginal elders. And that still doesn't get round the problem that the season for back burning is getting shorter. I grew up in country Victoria and half my family are farmers so I know about working the land moron.
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  173.  @mim0381  What they mean by once in a century is the amount of rain that's falling and how fast its coming down. Its not the pattern of flood and drought that's unusual its the severity of those patterns. If you heat up the planet you get more evaporation and if you get more evaporation you'll get more rain and more snow and bigger storm systems. Its called the water cycle and heating up the planet drives that cycle harder. Its like putting your foot on the accelerator - more air & fuel makes the engine run harder and faster. And when you hit the tree it hurts more. This is why scientists always called it climate change not global warming. It was journalists who re-labelled it global warming and caused a lot of the confusion.
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  174.  @wolfiestreet6899  Well that's a complete pile of bullshit. We have fairly accurate records in some places going back 100s of years. One of the "so called" scandals was when they adjusted the data to take into account the time of day that people took temperature measurements. The Murdoch press tried to blow the whole of climate science up over that and failed. Plus with research into tree rings, soil layers and ice cores they have very accurate data going back several million years. So that's an absolute bullshit claim on your behalf.
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  175.  @gunsack2427  Seriously farq-off we've had that bullshit claim again and again and again. For the 50,000th time climate isn't about what the weather was last week or last year its how its changed over many years and decades. HOW MANY TIMES DO WE HAVE TO EXPLAIN THESE THINGS TO YOU PEOPLE? Do you not understand that we have had enough of the denial industry? The tobacco companies knew back in the 1950s that tobacco caused cancer. The actual tobacco companies had done the research themselves so that they knew what the claims would be. Exon did the research into climate change back in the 1970s & 80s just the same. Phillip Morris uses a lobbying think tank in Washington called the Heritage Foundation to do the PR work for tobacco. The same Heritage Foundation is the leader in climate change denial often using the same paid hacks to lie about it as they did with tobacco. You clowns scream and yell conspiracy all the time yet you can't see the obvious one right there in front of you. The entire climate change denial is EXACTLY the same as tobacco denial. Its about protecting a bunch of rich people and their investments. And by the way not only does NASA say it s real as well as NOAA so doe the US Military. NASA -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ NOAA -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide Pentagon -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  176.  @stefanbroughton2292  If you don't want to be called a brainless moron then don't preach garbage. The scientific community NEVER called it global warming that was what journalists called it. And its not something that was started in the 1970s. the first waring came in the late 1890s (yeah 120years ago). The Ozone hole is healing it is NOT yet healed and wont be for decades. China does NOT produce CFCs in any great quantity. They got caught and got shut down on that. The science is in and its done and Murdoch's bullshit artists and other liars can claim all they like - IT WONT CHANGE THE FACTS. The can claim NASA is wrong, but sorry its real -> https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ The can claim NOAA is wrong, but sorry its real -> https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide But I am yet to see any climate change denier even comment on the Pentagon report that says climate change is real and that its going to cost billions extra to maintain their bases -> https://media.defense.gov/2019/Jan/29/2002084200/-1/-1/F1/CLIMATE-CHANGE-REPORT-2019.PDF
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  177. ​ @ldm3027  EVERY CLAIM YOU MADE IS BULLSHlT - 100% BULLSHlT Where do you get this $100/ton from? IN THE VIDEO Douglas Chan COO Climeworks who have built this plant is STATING $300-400 a ton (5:00). Then you say there's 40bn tons a year in emissions and half gets absorbed by the natural environment. That leaves 20bn ADDITIONAL per year. You claim that removing 10bn tons will cost $1tr a year and that we'll have to pay that for 100+ years. What about the remaining 10bn tons of additional CO2 in the atmosphere? WHAT TF ARE WE MEANT TO DO ABOUT THAT? So not only do you make numbers up that you can't justify you then can't do basic math either. I suggest in future you don't argue with an engineer who can actually do math.
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  178.  @kausthubh  There's plenty of open unforested space space. I'm Australian we have several million square kilometers for starters. North Africa has massive amounts of open space and YES I damn well know how hard that will be. But that can also be mitigated with tree selection and planting arrangements. There's some pretty amazing videos here on YouTube on re-wilding and how they are reclaiming lots of open space. One of the really important things that has come out of that is variety. If you try and to it via monoculture it will be a disaster. HERE'S the inescapable fact. We have to get 3.5 Trillion tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere and do it fast. There's a clown down the list here (idm3027) who's pulling numbers out of his butt like it will only cost $100 a ton by DAC. IF THATS TRUE and lets not forget that Douglas Chan COO Climeworks is claiming they hope to get it down from $1000/ton to $3-400/ton, then at $100/ton its still going to cost $350 TRILLION. WHERE TF DOES ANYONE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO GET THAT $350 TRILLION? Then there's the actual energy costs. In how many places would we need new power stations to drive that AND WHO'S going to pay for those power stations. Then that's that whole problem of the environmental cost of all the materials required to build all those plants. I started with a degree in aerospace but have spent 30+ years working in industrial control systems and automation. I have spent time in both manufacturing and mining and I KNOW how much energy those industries consume. Do you know there's mor energy used in making a car than it consumes in its lifetime? people forget it take energy to dig all those materials out of the ground and process it into stuff that you can makes bits out of so you can assemble those bits into a car. Its the same for most manufactured goods. In fact a great way to help save the planet is to STOP manufacturing crap products and instead manufacture everything with better quality to last longer. It would massively reduce energy consumption. The other thing is to triple glaze all those glass towers we've build over the last century. mark Blyth the political economist at Brown U. mentioned an engineering report that said if America just triple glazed all its office blocks and skyscrapers the saving in energy would help America get most of the way to meeting the Paris Accords. Architects might be good for designing aesthetically nice buildings but they don't know a damn thing about energy efficiency.
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  179.  @RobertGonzalez-j1v  Do the math its not that hard. At $1000 per ton removing 2.5 Trillion tons costs $2.5 Quadrillion BUT wait by the mid 2030s it will be 3.5 Trillion tons and by the early 2040s 4.5 Trilllion tons. This guy said they could get it down to $300 per ton. So what even if he got it down to $100 per ton then its still gonna cost $350 Trillion for the basics and 100s of $Trillions after that. The combined wealth of the planet cannot afford that. Being able to use basic arithmetic to get a simple estimate is a necessary skill for an engineer. Here in Australia right now there's calls to go nuclear and 7 sites have been identified. I know those sites and I know I can put an EPR 2 at 4 of those sites and 2 EPR 2s at the other 3 and that's 10 in total. Based of the costs at Hinkley Point C each reactor will be AU$48 Billion each. 10 x 48 = 480 So AU$480 Billion becomes your starting estimate and that simply asks the people pushing that idea to explain where they are going to get $480 Billion from? Because if these sorts of people pushing these sorts of solutions can't answer the basic cost questions then what's the point of discussing anything further?
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  180.  @freshdelicecookingtutorial6585  They are NOT invading its basic trespass as in being on someone else's property without permission or a valid or a legal reason. And what so many of the supporters of "economic refugees" don't get is that economic hardship might be understandable, but its NOT a legal reason for entering another country. Lack of food, lack of shelter, threats of violence, etc. are legal reasons, but NOT economics.
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  181.  @nm5310  1) What previous comment??? 2) On what do you base the claim? (your words) "all populations are vast majority women and children (65-85%)" No doubt that might be true for some countries but NOT ALL. 3) In Australia many of the arrivals we have had have been unattached men and YES we have seen that as problematic and YES we don't discuss it openly enough. We also get a lot of families. That boat that sank off Greece had over 100 children on board. So there were some families on the boat.
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  182.  @nm5310  I don't mind the longness of that comment at all. I've read through it several times and I agree with all of it. I was really surprised by the number of displaced people. Last I heard was a few years back and they put it around 60 million and growing. So I expected it to be higher but 108 million is where the world needs to STOP and start thinking. You've actually described WHY Australia came down so hard on the boat people issue. The vast majority of those arriving were unaccompanied men. It was kept quite but there were several very ugly incidents in Australia with unaccompanied men coming from cultures where women are seen as property. They simply had no idea of how Western liberal societies operate. Your final paragraph goes right to the core of why Australia reacted as it did. These people had access to enough money to pay the people smugglers. We traced some of that funding back to people already in Australia and that infuriated people. There were millions of dollars leaving the country every week and most of it wasn't helping anyone because it was ending up in the hands of a couple of Pakistani mobsters. The other thing that infuriated people was the money spent on legal claims which was funded by Australia. The concept of "NO - your claim does not meet the criteria." means NOTHING to certain people. You might know it better or explain it better but there is a certain psychology where people define themselves by the attention they get from helping people. My mother made a comment about Mother Terresa many years ago. She said (paraphrasing) "Mother Terresa is a hypocrite. She fights against government funded contraception programs because it would mean fewer orphans for her to take care of and get attention." There's a condition called "Munchausen by proxy" where people seek attention for the illness of others. I think this is something similar where certain people like the attention they get from fighting causes. I think Nigel Farage did that with Brexit. I don't think he cared about it at all except that it got him a lot of attention. We have people in Australia who define their existence on fighting certain causes to the death. I met a lawyer at a social event about 20 years ago when there were a lot of boat people arriving out of Southern China. They explained part of the problem was that they destroyed any and all documentation they had. It makes it almost impossible to identify who they are or where they are from and evaluate their claims, but that never deterred the lawyers supporting their claims and filing claim after claim after claim. We now call these people undocumented arrivals and they are still a problem. Those lawyers actually made the situation WORSE not better and it lead to the "Pacific Solution" that we get condemned for. A significant event was the Tampa Affair, and there's a Wikipedia page on it that's fairly accurate. What's not there is that Australia flipped it back on the international community to asses the 400+ claims which were done under UN supervision. Initially the UN only passed about 20 of the 400+ but over time that number increased but it cost heaps to work out who people were. An odd personal story out of that time. A friend of my father is married to a German and her family in Europe called her up and asked what sort of disgusting racist nation was she was living in. Around 2010 her family were in Australia and all they wanted to know was how did Australia mange to shut down the people smuggling. The answer is unfortunately harsh - we had to be as ruthless as the people smugglers. We simply made it a rule that unless there are exceptional circumstances if you arrive in Australia via a people smuggler we will not let you settle in Australia. It has the tragic outcome that people we should take in miss out and a lot of it stems from how the lawyers behaved that got us so frustrated that we reacted the way we did.
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  183.  @Lennybird91  Fair call and this is NOT uncommon and many countries have done it. Some of the North Korean stuff is insane. But have a look at some of the political spin news stories coming out of America these days. The other day I saw a vid panning Ted Cruz on a staged stunt he did at a bar. I'm Australian and we do it at times. Just recently the American LCS Ship the Canberra had its commissioning ceremony here in Australia as its named after our capital city. I saw a news item where an Australian Navy officer stood there and talked about how impressive the ship was and how it displayed our ongoing links to America and how firm they were. All gee golly gosh stuff. Just days before that happened I watched a review of the LCS Independence class on the YT Channel "Sub Brief" and he pointed out the many issues with the Independence-class and also pointed out how the Canberra was the first ship in US Navy history to have its decommissioning date set BEFORE its commissioning ceremony. So yeah Putin's stuff is super cringeworthy and totally staged BUT WE ALL DO SIMILAR. Its just that we are better at disguising it.
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  184.  @ABanRocks  You make an incredibly valid point and its been repeated all through history. if you look at some of last century's list of maniacs - Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot,... and then go back thought history you have to wonder WHY-TF anyone follows these clowns AND YET THEY DO.
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  185.  @Baddy187  Don't play the superior culture crap moron IT IGNORES 1000s of years of history. We can start pointing out all the barbarity that Europe has endured for the last 2000 years. I'm of Anglo-Saxon descent, should we discuss the great tradition of hang, drawing and quartering. Do you know that for most of the last 1000 years executioners were not valued on how quick they could lop of a head. Most were valued for how long they could make an execution last. Our ancestors used to work 6 days and go to church Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon was usually spent being entertained by the executions. DON'T EVER PLAY THE SUPERIOR CULTURE CARD its stupid and ignorant and it totally ignores historical fact. As for Afghanistan. My bet is you younger and don't remember the 1970s or 80s when it was the most modern society in the Islamic world until the civil war that the Russians jumped into. It might not have been as modern or developed as the West but for certain its been a disaster since. SO STOP BEING IGNORANT, STUPID AND RACIST
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  186. I'm Australian and we have similar issues with our corporations that have been privatised. I have heard stories from other places. I'm an engineer and started looking into economics and why they do what they do. It came from frustration of clowns with economics degrees interfering in projects. One of the best people to explain what's wrong with economics is a Brit by the name of Gary Stevenson. He's from a working class background but rose through to become Citibank's top trader in the world. He is one of a group of maverick economists, across the world, now trying to enlighten people to how economists think and operate and why things like this are going on. Because economics has a common curriculum across the developed world the problems are very common no matter where you look. Almost all the text books economic students have are published by Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... or they are written by people who went to Harvard, Yale, Oxford, LSE,... Its one of the huge issues that's resulting in this stuff and why people like Gary are speaking out. He has a channel here on YT called GarysEconomics: https://www.youtube.com/@GarysEconomics
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  187. @left_blank Probably the thumb drive they show plugging in. They probably need to go and put money on it first.
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  188. It could be worse. She could have been like the Brits who recently complained that climate change was upsetting panelists. It was compared to the film "Don't look up!"
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  189. You've just told the same story other countries have been telling for decades. I remember a news story on Indonesia a few years ago and they had received $30 Billion from the IMF and over $20 Billion has simply disappeared. The building of monuments for politicians to hand their names on is a giant issue everywhere. the Chinese are just getting in on a game the rest of the world has been playing for decades. I'm an Australian engineer and in the engineering game there is nothing better than an egotistical clown wanting to put their name on a monument using ither people's money. We have cases of it here in Australia. They tore down the Sydney football stadium instead of renovating it. By the time the site was levelled they had worked out the rebuild costs and it was so over the planned budget its now just a flat wasted area. Another of our cities, Brisbane has won the 3032 Olympics. They actually didn't win everyone else pulled out when they realised the costs. But our idiots pushed on and so far their planning is ridiculous. We've had programs like 60 minutes tell these same Chinese stories about things in the Pacific. And its the same sorts of similar stories. They find an idiot wanting to put their name on a monument.
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  190. I'm an aerospace engineer and that is THE MOST ANNOYING aspect of technological journalism right now. They are so technically ILLTERATE its staggering they have a job at all. I don't know what they teach in journalism course now days, but it DOES NOT INCLUDE "how to learn about your subject and not BE IGNORANT and report garbage."
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  191.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  Interesting comments. What was the article you pointed out - that comment seems to have been deleted. The really big issue I see is that we are tying ourselves even harder to America and the problem there is they showed with Trump there is a significant part of their population who will screw anyone in a heartbeat. I was actually working in Canada when Trump tore up NAFTA and hit them with tariffs. There was simply no warning. Trump just did something that would rate with his base. The Canadians might not ever trust them again after that and we should be very careful. I actually went to college in America on a sports scholarship. I love the place and the people BUT when it comes to politics they are so tribal and its almost impossible to get them to see how destructive that is.
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  192.  @LouisTsuiful  2 words princess BULL SHIT. Its staggering how ignorant some people are. The PLAN might have a lot of ships but it doesn't have the raw fire power of the USN. 2 Aircraft Carriers versus 11 7 Ballistic missile submarines versus 14 and another 4 missile subs 12 Nuclear powered attack submarines versus 50 Forget the 60 conventional attack subs out in the Pacific they are worthless. The USN has 70 Arleigh Burke destroyers backed up by 22 Ticonderoga cruisers. If the PLAN only tried to take on 1/2 of the USN it would still be a massacre. The open ocean is where America's real strength is not the hills and deserts of the Middle East.
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  193.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  So briefly what was that article about. Most likely the YouTube algorithm didn't like the link.
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  194.  @francois-xavieresperance5007  That's fairly blunt across a whole field of issues. The pacific is almost lost as it is to China. Australia, America and others have been very slack and taken for granted all those small island states would always be in our camp. China turned up a decade ago and started funding projects as part of "belt & road." They are no so entrenched its almost impossible to get them out, because so many of those nations now OWE China for the loans (as in the debts). China now has an economic strangle hold on quite a few of them. We found that out very rudely when they all blasted off at Australia over climate change. China was a guest at that conference and it was obvious they were pulling strings to test out their influence. What's truly scary is that the West has totally ignored what China was doing. We all forget that the UN general Assembly is like the US Senate. Every country gets 1 vote irrespective of population size. So 1.4 Billion Chinamen get 1 vote while all those small Pacific nations get over a dozen with barley a million people. What I expect is that China will eventually go for economic sanctions on America and we are going to be stunned on how many nations vote with them. It will only be then will people realise what "belt & road" actually is. I've been trying to tell people for a while how scary this is. They actually learnt this from the Japanese who manipulated the international whaling commission in the same way. Plus to add into that are the immense issues China is going to face over the next 20years. First with its skewed demographics that have resulted form the 1 child policy. Second form its idiotic construction of ghost cities which has sponged up a staggering amount of cash. Third from all the wealthy Chinese who are getting their money out of China as fast as they can. Fourth that massive army they have produces no food or products to sell they are just 1 enormous sponge on resources. If you take a look at the Soviet collapse one of its major factors was the massive military it had in terms of people. Military personnel produce nothing but costs that the rest of society has to provide. Because America's military is more technology bases it doesn't have as many people as some think. Plus because of how America works its military produces a lot of economic turnover which Russia's never did and China's does not do. Plus all those foreign companies that have factories in China can now chase even cheaper labor in India and Africa.
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  195.  @neworder736  What are the words for arrogant, ignorant and dickhead in your language? I'd like to be able to tell you "Don't ever be so arrogant or ignorant or that much of a dickhead to think you know how to speak another persons language" and not be misunderstood.
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  196. @qwertyuiop123 That's EVERY COUNTRY that's every invaded or colonised some other place.
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  197.  @ypatel1070  This is a complex problem and simple solutions won't do much. The plenty of ways to put it but curing symptoms wont cure the disease.
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  198.  @ypatel1070  I didn't mean that the starvation was complex I meant the overall situation. The starvation is the result of other more complex things and is therefore more like a symptom. We can send food, medicine and other supplies but wont fix the underlying causes. Blocking the money is the immediate underlying the cause. Getting them food and supplies NOW is a priority. Sorting out the money is a necessity or this will just keep happening.
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  199. I don't know why this is so surprising. In Australia we've been through this already and found our forces committed a number of crimes including a number of illegal killings. We've had to admit that having people in that environment for all that time just built up pressure to the point where some of them cracked. Its like nobody learnt the lessons from Vietnam.
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  200. Its actually what we should have expected. Since European settlement there's almost not a single part of Australia that hasn't flooded at some time. Even some of our desert areas have flooded. When our droughts break its usually in a big way, but this is something bigger than expected. 2 weeks ago it was as dry as dry could be. A bush fire would have been massive. What's surprised people is just how much fell in an insanely short time.
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  201. What TF is that meant to mean? Are you claiming anybody who gets vaccinated is a dumb ass loser???
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