Comments by "Matthew Nirenberg" (@matthewnirenberg) on "Neil McCoy-Ward" channel.

  1. The only solution as there isn't any way to stop it politically: Use plate blockers to avoid the cameras reading your plates (RC ones are available online). Don't pay their fines. Rip the cameras down every time they get put up.
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  2. All that'll achieve is a complete and utter prohibition on all travel. If such a ban were implemented, it'd apply to all private aircraft (even small bush planes) and all boats (no matter how small). Private yachts aren't the problem, remember that all sailing catamarans that are bluewater (ocean) rated (required or its illegal to leave national boundaries) are considered yachts under law. Sailing catamarans aren't harming the environment and remain in service (albeit usually with multiple owners) for 30+yrs. As for limiting the rich to only one home with not more than five bedrooms, two issues arise: 1. What is they have a large family (say 8-14 kids), why can't everyone have a bedroom 2. What is rich? I ask this because the definition of "rich" always has an ever reducing threshold. Once the real rich leave a country, the "rich" get defined as rich; this repeats until the person earning $80,000 before tax is defined as "rich". What's wrong with someone being able to own more than one home or a private yacht? Jealously is very unbecoming and only ever a destructive thing. Jealously and this "the rich this, the rich that" is exactly the bullshit that's single-handedly destroyed Australia and made the place unlivable. My family aren't rich (pre-tax income $85,000) but because the definition of "rich" keeps dropping, we suddenly got categorised as "rich" simply because we own our own home (3 bedroom, 1.5 bathroom (bathroom + toilet room)), regardless that three generations are living in it as thanks to housing being sold to foreign businesses, housing is both unavailable and unaffordable for locals. Its a well established fact that banning things doesn't work within a country. Banning foreign businesses from coming in and buying everything so they can exploit the visa system would dramatically help.
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  3.  @ianbardon8581  That's actually impossible - you won't be able to buy anything, nor will you be able to attend any govt office or hospital. You also won't be able to pay your taxes which will result in the govt taking everything from you by force. That's the problem. If it isn't stopped by the govt now, it can't be stopped later.
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  4.  @luismanzanos7058  That's the biggest lie I've ever heard, you like the government claim that but in the last 20yrs its never once been proven true anywhere in the world. The same few engineers who made the robots/automation maintain it whilst the people who were made redundant lose their jobs and have nothing. The problem is that 10 people can product 1000 robots in a month by using automation themselves and they can service every robot/automation required as very little, if any is required. Servers can be fixed remotely and its extremely rare that hardware needs changing. Robots that are used in automation don't need physical servicing more than once a year. Simply put a few servers can put everyone in an office out of a job - especially now that ChatGPT works extremely well and that machine learning is so cheap and accurate. Entire manufacturing facilities can be automated with a few servers, a few pick and place robots and PLC's. I know - I've literally done this as a Control Engineer. 1000 people were made permanently redundant by the company as there weren't any jobs to move those people to. What and where are these millions of jobs that you claim get produced? You need to quit lying to yourself and to everyone else - there are no new jobs as modern technology can made 99.95% of people redundant.
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  5. At least you get to retire. In Australia, anyone born after 1975 will basically work till they die as the retirement age keeps getting pushed up 5yrs or 10yrs depending on which party is in power. What annoys me is that women get to retire 15yrs before men - what sexist BS - it should be the same for men and women. Oh yeah, anyone born after 1975 will also likely never see their retirement money (Superannuation) as they'd have to otherwise qualify for a pension and then their super would be made available as if it were a pension. Note that Superannuation is a decent chunk of what would otherwise be your wage - its literally your money but the govt want to take it and use it because "there's better things to spend it on than holding it as superannuation". Also, said Superannuation is capped at $1.5 million for anyone born after 1975 - simply put either due to the normal mandatory contributions and/or as a result of inflation, once that amount is reached the money that would otherwise go to your Superannuation goes directly to 'General Revenues' for the govt to waste how they want - you're not allowed to keep it as your wage.
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  6. Just make sure that the guaranteed amount is per account, not per combined accounts. Some banks will look at all accounts in your name and consider them as one when it comes to the guaranteed amount.
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  7. Hate to say it but they can do it literally over night. Most people are already used to tapping their card to pay and as such very few places still accept cash, ATM's are disappearing - they last few years helped as they justified it over "spreading the thing" concerns. How they will likely do it over a weekend: * Close the banks on a Friday morning citing "IT issues", dump the banks databases to CSV files (more reliable and compatible than SQL dumps across many versions of SQL, plus reordering CSV is easy and the CSV handlers run much faster being an older simpler technology) and import them into a govt controlled ledger. * Announce to the public over the weekend that all welfare is going 100% digital and that in order to do so, all money will be going digital. * Reassure everyone that their money will be converted at a rate of 1-to-1 and to not worry. * Announce exchange points to convert remaining cash and bank notes into CBDC. * Lastly they'd push out an update to their "Service [State name or Country name]" app (i.e. Service NSW, Service Vic, etc.) with the CBDC part enabled. This app and its equivalents are already used for digital licences, welfare, public healthcare status and for electronic payments in the "Digital Wallet" section. All the CBDC code is already in the govt apps which is why they're so large, all that's not visible is the button to access the functionality but that will appear either though an update or if the app can reach a specific predetermined server (the latter is more likely as that would avoid having to have an update successfully roll out to millions of people). The point is they won't give you a choice, just like the last few years, they'll just do what they want to. Those who resist will be locked out of the system and likely locked up in one of the many "quarantine" facilities they built or in the prisons they've also built over the last few years and are continuing to build. They don't care about pretending to keep capitalism, in Australia they've literally said that they're "rebuilding capitalism" by replacing it with socialism as they claim that "socialism has conquered capitalism" and that "the future has never been brighter but we need socialism to succeed". They're more evil than people give them credit for. The time to act, be it leave, protest, lobby or fight is now, not tomorrow. If you don't like the way things are going, don't wait for others to do something because they will wait until its too late. Educate those around you about it, show them evidence from official sources to support what you're saying. If that fails or if you just don't want to fight it, leave to "greener pastures". In terms of Australia and Canada, both countries are completely lost to the mindless sheep who think socialism is great - it always ends in failed communism; anyone in Australia, New Zealand or Canada who has a brain will leave to "live to fight another day" because there's no way to fight when the majority want things to continue the way they're going. Change only occurs when the majority want it. There's no point staying and being self-destructive by trying to fight and going broke and then not having the option to leave. As the old saying goes "its better to leave a day too soon, than a a day too late; leave early and you can always return, leave late and you'll perish".
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  8.  @tasrykens  Plate blockers cover the entire number plate or change it to a different one (if you have one that holds two plates). Note that in most countries in the world, plate blockers are illegal to use but not to own, they are however the only solution to stop cameras reading your number plates where this kind of tyranny is concerned.
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  9.  @sdrc92126  Time is the issue but I'd love to hear how you're gonna walk across oceans or how you think someone in Australia is going to walk across oceans...
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  10.  @sdrc92126  if you studied the ice cores we're finishing the current ice age. The next one is 500,000yrs away. Hence we need boats and planes.
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  11.  @MajorSam4321  your ignorance to reality is amazing. All you'd achieve is to make your own life as a common person harder. The rich would move away and continue life whilst you lose everything as the jobs and tax money disappears. If you actually read my comments fully instead of glancing at them your realise that all you'll achieve is that you get considered to be the "rich" and that your ability to leave a country would be gone.
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  12.  @bunberrier  Generally only Mechanical Engineers who are Control certified are allowed to do that however the issue isn't in getting qualified - the issue is that there is already more than enough qualified engineers who can maintain and service automation. It only takes one or two people to service an entire facility as the equipment is extremely reliable, centrally controlled by servers and physical maintenance is extremely rare and parts are easily replaced. Automation has only ever destroyed jobs and reduced the overall number of people needed. It only takes two people to automate an entire office with servers and those same two people can automate an entire manufacturing facility with CNC equipment, pick and place robots, automatic conveyors and PLC's. That's literally over 1000 people made redundant at a single facility. The govt and morons claim that its creating new jobs yet I haven't seen a single new job created as a result of automation taking jobs away.
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  13.  @tonylam9548  Spot on. I would also add that for people who want to both travel the world and who want a more affordable alternative to a home, sailing catamarans are a great option (~$200k second hand). They're considered a yacht under law as they have to be bluewater rated to be used internationally yet most people in this thread seem to ignore the fact that what they want to do will only hurt them. Sadly these people are a product of a crap education system as they don't understand business, finance, economics or the consequences of high taxation and anti-rich laws.
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  14.  @blaqbastion1501  My point is that in reality the unintended consequences will cover any bluewater vessel as the laws only screw we normal people. I only mentioned it as most people don't realise that a yacht is any bluewater rated vessel and thus any ban or tax would apply to more than just the rich on luxury / mega yachts as politicians loosely / poorly word everything.
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  15. Except that it can't. The problem which exists and is unlike any time before in history is that the debt is absolutely global. No one country can afford to forgive the debt as doing so would destroy them and every other country that trades with them. We're literally in a MAD (mutually assured destruction) situation at the moment, everything to too tightly interwoven. This is exactly why the world is closing and becoming more insular, why every country wants to do everything itself. Only when countries are 100% self-sufficient and don't need the rest of the world, can they forgive the debt without destroying themselves.
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  16. Then you have to start again from $0 because they'll likely bring in a 99% exit tax to stop people from leaving.
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  17. You're 100% correct about CO2, I've been saying the same ever since they started claiming it was bad. Farmers add nitrogen to the soil via multiple means to improve soil fertility. One method is to pump nitrogen into a sealed mixer that contains soil under pressure, the easiest way is to add nitrogen rich fertiliser to the soil or to mix pelletised nitrogen into the ground and add water to trigger the pellets to release nitrogen. The Vostok Ice cores showed that high CO2 levels caused plants to have approximately 5x more biomass and the planet to have more breathable air and cooler global temperatures. The same ice cores also showed that high methane levels caused the exact opposite. They also showed that global temperature fluctuations were caused by the sun (the biggest thing that effects our planets temperature) and that during the middle ages the planet was on average 10-15 degrees Celsius hotter than currently but with 2x the plant biomass. There's a reason that they quit talking about the ice cores around the time they start this climate hysteria - the ice cores prove the climate hysteria to be false. Its all about control, power and global depopulation - all to be carried out by unelected nutty "elites" from the WEF. The whole "CO2 bad, Nitrogen bad" crap is to justify global depopulation as less CO2 = smaller plants which means less breathable air, more dust and pollution and fewer people. Remember the Georgia Guidestones' point "Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature." - according to the MSM we're at 8+ billion, approx 7.5 billion too many according to the elites. We are the carbon they want to reduce.
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  18. When you look at not just the interest rates but also the exchange rate, the national debt, the inflation and the cost of living and the stagnation of wages, we're actually much worse off than people were during the great depression. The govt just don't want to admit they screwed up because they're to narcissistic and would rather act like everything is normal.
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  19.  @ddake9810  You're still choosing to ignore the truth that the economy is completely stuffed and you still want to blame the "youth" as if they're to blame - its those who are 50+ who caused the shit-show, who pushed the commie welfare crap and socialist crap as teachers and politicians. I have zero debt (always avoided it and never had it), have lived on a tight budget since I was 6yrs old (that's when my education in finance, savings and investments began as per family tradition that goes back centuries in Italy) and rely on no one other than myself. I've worked for basically nothing and only got a good wage when I was able to be self-employed. I will most definitely tell you about high prices - the cost of living has tripled since 2020 - yeah the same food items I've always eaten have tripled in cost. That's solely thanks to the govt, all the climate taxes and the ""2020 thing" has caused shipping to be expensive and cause shortages" BS that the govt keep lying about along with the govt forever letting the utility companies continuously increase the "service charges". The govt do this because it means more GST for the govt - the govt love high prices. I only eat at home unless invited to an event, my phone is 8yrs old and I've never just bought products for the sake of it. The people who pushed the prices so high are 100% the govt. People pay the high prices because they have zero choice. You either buy whats available or you go without. Want to grow food? Guess what - most people don't have backyards and are very limited as to what they can grow. Unless you have a farm you won't be having any animals/livestock of any kind due to lack of space and govt regulations. You claim that people are impatient - nope, people still have to eat - the basics have tripled in cost whilst wages continue to remain stagnant as they've been for the last 20yrs! As for your comments about houses - yes the prices are insane but the govt love that as it means they get more in Stamp Duty, GST, Capital Gains and Council Rates. During the "2020 thing" more houses were sold than ever before, the buyers were all foreign investors. Locals have been priced out for the last decade. Sadly building more is NOT the solution as that only results in the loss of farmland as the cities infinitely sprawl onto prime farmland - they never expand into the desert-like crappy farmland, and more foreign investors. The only solution is to ban foreigners from owning homes and only letting citizens own homes - this is why Europe is still affordable for citizens. House prices by law can't reduce. The under-quoting laws go as far as making it illegal for anyone to sell a property for anything less than the current average market value. This was done intentionally by the govt as all they care about is tax revenue, they never look at the long term picture. The only way house prices could reduce would be if for many years (5-10) every house sold for 5-10% less than they're worth - this would push prices down but would still result in govt investigations as to why the properties sold for less than they're worth and owners could be hit with penalties. Also, its 100% illegal to build your own house yourself, the govt requires you to use licenced builders for all of it. DIY has been long banned. Think I'm full of shit, come to Australia and see it for yourself. Its also the same in Canada, New Zealand and the UK.
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  20. Because they aren't AI - they're a simply script that looks for errors using basic metrics like selected language, word length and what characters exist in the correct order. AI is entirely different. Please get educated on what AI is before assuming its everything.
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  21. The richest people in the world live in Europe and their money is held as Euros. Also, given that Central and Eastern Europe are increasing their manufacturing, advanced manufacturing, mining of precious metals (offshore deposits), recycling of metals and minerals, and, farming, there is little need for the 3rd world (BRICS). Its actually the 3rd world who actually need Europe. Given that they need Europe, they will have to pay on the terms that Europe sets which will be to pay in Euros or bullion. The idea that Europe needs the 3rd world and will be forced to pay in bullion is laughable at best. I see the Euro becoming the new world reserve currency once the US dollar completely collapses in the very near future.
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  22. They don't care. They already do both. They ban what they can and the things they don't think can be banned outright, they price people out of then ban. They don't need to learn anything. What rock have you been sleeping under? They've been doing this for 50yrs!
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  23. Sounds like dangerous equipment that needs repair urgently. Properly installed gas appliances that aren't leaking and that are operating properly don't affect asthma, nor do they smell.
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  24. France could easily fix this by rounding up every single illegal they let in and deporting them back to the 3rd world where they belong. France intentionally chooses to let this happen. Its disgusting and sad. I also find it disgusting that they walled off the Eiffel Tower and that you can no longer freely walk under it - thankfully I got to see it when you could still walk freely under it. France is truly destroyed along with Western Europe. Just shows why certain people (i.e. scum) should be kept in the 3rd world only.
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  25. Bullshit. Electricity does more environmental harm and causes more fires than gas.
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  26.  @evolutionxbox  How the f*** is it even possible? Houses are limited to 63A on normal power, getting three phase installed will cost over $100,000 as they have to dig up the road to install it underground by law - it will also take up to a year for them to install it. How are you going to run 4-6 pots, the oven and the microwave (all electric) when an induction cooktop pulls 32A with two high "burners" on, the oven pulls 20A and the microwave pulls 20A whilst the TV, computers, a NAS, network and lights are running? That's basically 100A required! That's why I use a gas stove and a gas oven. If they ban gas, I'll just use a woodstove and oven for "cultural reasons" or just BBQ with a cooking firepit everyday.
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  27.  @Qwijebo  You're clearly watching old videos - they've come a hell of a long way since. Look for videos from 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2023. They can't be knocked over, they can do most things humans can and they can operate a door knob (used to be hard if not impossible for robots). There's even videos of these humanoid robots using firearms whilst walking and running (if you see a "Boston Dynamics" watermark its real).
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  28. And use what? Electricity is dirty and there is no such thing as "green energy" where a grid is involved. What good is an electric cooktop? You need a flame for proper cooking, plus how else are you going to cook when the power is out? In Australia, old homes are permitted 80Amps of power from the street until any work needs to be done at the switchboard (where meter is installed) at which point the new 63A restriction applies, new homes are only permitted 63A. Electric cooktops run at 32A with only two high "burners" (read: elements) running. How the hell does one run at the same time, 4-6 pots, the stove and the microwave on electricity? You can't. This is why gas stoves and ovens are essential. Most houses commonly use 40A just for the computers, networking and TV's, etc. collectively. Sure some places permit you to get three phase power to your house but that can take up to a year to be installed and the install will cost over $100,000 as they'll have to dig up the road and your property as three phase must be installed underground in Australia. Oh and Climate Change isn't real. Sure the climate changes but if you look at the last 60,000 yrs of temperature data, we're in one of the coolest periods ever. The 1200-1600 was on average 10-15 degrees Celsius hotter than current times.
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  29.  @jesseh998  Sounds like you didn't read, or that you skimmed over my comment. I explain why its not possible to use electric cooktops in place of gas. If you actually read my comment you'd know that even if people wanted to use electric, its impossible as suitable power isn't an option and having three phase installed is unaffordable ($100,000+). Its a fact that you can't run 4 - 6 pots on high (96A), an electric oven on high (20A), a microwave on high (20A) plus your normal home equipment/appliances (TV, audio, computer, network, lights, rangehood, etc.) without three phase power.
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  30.  @djf8619  Literally the only places this won't happen are the tax havens. If you own a house your best bet would be to sell up and throw most of that money into CBI in the Caribbean (one of the full member OECS countries - this way you can then move to St. Kitts & Nevis or Antigua & Barbuda where they have 0% PIT). The tax havens will remain untouched as that's where the "elites" live and keep their money.
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  31.  @beefy0978  Like in Nigeria, they'll give you a card that has everything stored on it in a chip (wafer card). That way you're still subject to their tyranny and terror but they don't need to give you a phone or internet. Want to buy food - scan the card, want to walk somewhere - scan the card at the checkpoint, etc. In Nigeria they call it a "Health Card"...
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  32.  @MadHeadzOz  I'm not making assumptions. The definition of "rich" reduces every bloody year. Its 7 people and yeah two earning a collective $85,000 before tax - for reasons I won't go into here, none of us qualify for any welfare, plus there's plenty more in need of it than us so it's never even been a thought even though we're all citizens since birth. I'm not spinning any story, I'm stating the facts of my life. I'm not whinging about it but mentioning it as too few people understand how politics of envy and the "the rich are bad" mentality only affects we the average person, never the actual rich. As for knowing how these bans would work - its easy, just look at the EU. They did it but guess who is exempt? The rich. The other point I was trying to make regarding boats is that bans will only affect the average person, the rich will always get around it or simply move somewhere else. I agree with you that the majority of aussie's are absolutely braindead when it comes to politics - I hate how they vote because of one policy without knowing the entire party platform; unfortunately that's the problem of them not giving a damn and having mandatory voting with fines for failing to vote. Most people have no clue about budgets or not spending all their money because they never get taught finance and budgeting at school. They also don't get taught how to do their taxes - they simply get told to go and pay an accountant even though their tax is generally extremely simple. Yes, people need to be responsible for themselves but over the last 30yrs the majority have found it easier to just blame everyone else than have any self responsibility.
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  33. Except you can't stockpile medicine - medicine requires prescriptions. Not to mention that most 'western' countries now limit how much medication you can have at a time; the days of being able to get more than 3 months worth of medicine and have a 6 month holiday away from civilization (main cities, or an overseas trip) is basically over. These restrictions were introduced in 2020 and still remain as the regime (sorry... govt) doesn't want people having medicine.
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  34.  @davidgoodnow269  Honestly, I'm not surprised to hear 600 rejections. Most businesses aren't hiring people as companies use job postings as free advertising. Most job boards won't charge a business (beyond the initial posting fee) until they find someone for the job. The job ad keeps the business name around. As for your suggestion of "strengthening" qualifications - that's only going to make it harder. Most businesses want the person with the least skills except for the exact skills the job requires. For example, in Australia, if a business wanted to hire someone for hydraulics and pneumatics, they wouldn't hire someone with a Diploma, Advanced Diploma or Degree in Engineering. They'd hire the person with the Cert 4 in Engineering (Fluid Power) as that person is only qualified in hydraulic and pneumatics and thus the business only has to pay the govt mandated award-based wage for a holder of a cert 4. This wage is significantly less than a higher qualified person. As for "how you can help a business by having skills you perceive them to want" - that doesn't help because most businesses don't want skilled people. They want an exact fit who they can pay peanuts to OR they want no-one because they have someone internally but are required to advertise the job under law OR because they're using the job posting as free advertising. Ever had a business tell you that you were overqualified or "we don't care what other things you could contribute, we only care about the job requirements"? That's the reality and that's why I recommend those struggling to get jobs to look overseas and if possible land a job where your skills and qualifications are recognised, get that work visa through the company and move where you're wanted. USA, UK, CAN, AU & NZ don't want people working and only care about regulating everyone out of work.
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  35. Woah! Sorry, can't let facts get in the way of the WEF & UN's agenda. Its like all the BS over the last few years about the 'thing'. Control the narrative 100%, don't permit any questioning, gaslight everyone and only saw that the govt way is wonderful. Congrats on realising that you live in a dictatorship!
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  36. Only problem is that outside the USA getting licenced for those jobs is at a minimum 10yrs of nothing but training and work experience only to find the rules have changed and you no longer qualify to get the licence without yet another course (speaking from experience with this exact problem). The govt want to keep you in education and not have you actually doing anything. Licensure is the barrier to entry, even for the qualified! There are already huge shortages of these people with licences - its only going to get worse. Note that in most countries, the giant multi-nationals (EATON, APC, etc.) are all specially exempt from most professional licencing as they are allowed to do in-house training for their staff who install their products but everyone else must jump through the govt hoops which keep getting harder.
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  37.  @markdonnelly6921  That's interesting, I was always under the impression that to be a plumber or electrician, licencing was required.
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  38. If you listen to the UN, the WEF, etc. They plan on mass global depopulation. Remember you are the carbon they want to reduce. Also note that the UN are champions of "World Hunger" as they claim it makes people productive.
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  39. Bullshit - its illegal immigration, large welfare states and high taxes that cause it. The rich leave because why should they lose over half of what they work for because the regime wants it as 'taxes'? You're a filthy commie scumbag who needs to get off your arse and actually work. I'm not anywhere near rich but I sure as hell am leaving CANZUK & CUNA because why should I lose 50% of what I work for as 'taxes' so you can do nothing. If every illegal and 3rd worlder was rounded up by the military and deported to Africa/Middle East (where they came from), the UK would suddenly become wonderful - housing would be affordable, crime would almost entirely vanish, the welfare bill would decimate and taxes could be reduced which would encourage businesses to return (jobs would return). I know that what I'm saying is true and that everything you say is lies because CANZUK & CUNA only became how they are when they let all the illegals in.
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  40. Whilst your history is correct, you have to look at the current reality - i.e. you have to momentarily put history aside. The most important thing that currently exists is the stopping (or defeat) of Russia in Ukraine. If Russia takes Ukraine (yeah Russia wants the whole country), then the Baltics, Poland and most of Europe east of Germany will be invaded and destroyed. Putin is doing the same thing Hitler did, the old "just one more country" or "just one more territory". Remember, Russia invaded and illegally occupies two parts of Georgia, they illegally invaded and currently run Kazakhstan, they attacked and control large parts of Mongolia, they illegally took Crimea and most recently invaded Ukraine. Oh then there's the "refugee" warfare Russia is committing against the EU by intentionally flying illegal immigrants "refugees" into Russia, then to Belarus in the hopes of overrunning the borders of the EU - note that these illegals are paying approximately $25,000USD to Russia so they can "get into the EU". Putin has said in multiple recent interviews that he wants to rebuild the Tsarist Empire as his legacy. That means the abolition of most free countries (incl. Poland) in Europe. If Ukraine falls, he gains all the equipment and supplies that Ukraine has - this would mean instead of Russia having to use crappy old barely operable equipment, they'd have actually usable equipment. Simply put, stop Russia, then worry about any problems you have with Ukraine. Now is not the time to dredge up history and create tensions between two countries (Poland and Ukraine), now is the time to stop Russia and then and only then worry about these historical issues. Trust me when I say, I know what my family suffered in Nazi Occupied Poland and parts of what is now Ukraine, so I understand how you feel.
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  41.  @RhaniYago  Trains are being outlawed as well, just indirectly. As air travel ends, trains and vehicles will be taxed to 'fund the welfare' for those who lost everything when air travel ends. The result is trains will cost a fortune and take you basically no where. Trains don't cross the oceans, boats are being banned, people are going to be stuck where they are.
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  42. Won't work. Look at Australia & New Zealand during the plandemic. Only supermarkets were open during lockdowns, there was no buying from a farmer. To those who say "grow your own", look at all the new "Biosecurity" acts that were brought into law at the State level during the lockdowns - these acts make it illegal to grow your own produce in most cases and where they do permit you to grow your own, you must buy seeds as harvesting seeds from your first produce and replanting has been made illegal under "Biosecurity" laws as they claim its a disease risk even though we know that to be rubbish. Oh, also note that unless your neighbours truly respect your privacy, you run the risk of being ratted out by your neighbours for having a veggie patch as there are 14 "tip" lines for dobbing in people over literally anything - its like East Germany and the Soviet Union. One of my friends had a jealous neighbour (wanted a heap of veggies for free - note that sharing produce is illegal under local laws) report her veggie patch as being "quantities exceeding reasonable personal use" (even though she always uses it all herself) and that she was "illegally distributing produce without the relevant licence" (she never did this) and the govt came and destroyed the entire veggie patch in her backyard, telling her she should be grateful they didn't get her arrested and charged and that next time won't be just a warning.
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  43. AI - it'll never be banned. Its like Australia's encryption ban - yes it exists on paper but can't be enforced as the laws of mathematics make it impossible to comply with and not using encryption just isn't an option. As long as people can write programs, scripts, etc. AI can be easily created - the hard part is training it with datasets but those can be rented, bought or created. As for BRICS - Argentina have just stepped out of that so its already falling apart. South Africa is a crime-riddled black supremacist failed state of literally no value to anyone. Oil is less of an issue as synthetic oil is easily created very cheaply. Only 10% of the world are aligned against the "west" and those 10% of the world will simply go without and fail. China is a failed state surviving only by tyranny and murder - their mistake was communism and then giving out loans that'll never be repaid to places that don't have anything worth taking as payment (why do you think the "west" want CBDC's - its not just control, its to get out of debt). Simply put - a death cult religion of ragheads getting together is just a group that need to be destroyed - sadly the "west" are too soft to do this once and for all. Everyone else on the planet can get along except them - it still amazes me that they have been let into the "west" as they only exist to destroy and take over. Even India know this and are only part of BRICS as a way to get rich quickly by doing short term export - their goal is to eliminate Pakistan and Bangladesh and retake the lands that rightfully belong to India - ragheads in India are already fleeing India because no one cares what happens to them.
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  44. All part of their plan for tyranny and communism!
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  45.  @norawheeler2555  They will be replaced - it is all but inevitable. The AI datasets that the general public see are antiquated and toys at best. The more a dataset is improved though training an AI, the faster it learns. A simple block of code which tells the AI to mark anything its unsure of as "needing human verification" will result in rapid improvement as the AI will note what the human verified the thing as and never make that mistake again. The AI will also use that newly verified knowledge to train itself to recognised what that thing is. This self learning results in rapid improvement. I have seen first hand an AI that can do pathology reporting faster and more accurately than any human. The dataset is still being trained using the methodology mentioned in the above paragraph. Also, consider the following: Even when AI is wrong and needs the help of a human, its the same as when automation needs fixing by a human. How many humans are actually required? Only a mere handful. There is no need for billions of people (millions of which are already highly qualified experts). Also note that there are already numerous AI's that can rewrite their own code and fix their own problems - sometimes one AI can fix another when they're able to intercommunicate. The point is one person can maintain hundreds of automated manufacturing plants / assembly lines and hundreds of thousands of servers / computers. Ever wonder how many people big businesses employ in IT - its usually 10 at most and they maintain thousands of servers and thousands of workstations - all through unified centralised management software where they can make the change once and have it occur on all selected systems. This is the problem that AI is creating - it is making people redundant and eliminating many, many jobs. Currently there are no viable solutions and AI isn't going to be prohibited, hence the crappy situation in the world.
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  46.  @ianxyoutube  Rubbish. Minimum wage means nothing as it hasn't been a livable wage for anyone since 1998. You really sound like an employer who wants the equivalent of a highly qualified engineer with decades of experience who's wage is $250,000 but you want them to work for $45,000. Simply put that's what most jobs are after, they want the world but refuse to pay accordingly. I don't know anyone who'd work for less than the industry rates yet every job listing is well below the industry rates. The reality is people know what wages should be (yeah everyone talks about wages these days) and many can see better options abroad. You claim to have lived in a dozen countries and reckon they're all the same - clearly they were all high tax, high regulation countries. There's plenty of countries with low or no tax and fair regulations where its easy to make heaps of money. You're saying everyone is whinging simply for pointing out truths yet you expect them to stay and work themselves to death for nothing. Are you worried about losing govt handouts when the taxpayers leave?
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  47.  @ianxyoutube  Its got nothing to do with being entitled. Its called a wage that reflects your qualifications and experience if that's what the job requires -which most actually do. Only fools work a job for less than the industry average rate for that type and level of job. Its simple, they want skills, then they need to offer a fair rate - otherwise they won't get the skills made available. Good luck starting "at the bottom" - clearly you no longer understand how the world works. The days of being the janitor and "working your way up" are long gone. Laws, regulations, the legal requirement for qualifications and vast experience have made that old way impossible. No one is "learning on the job", they are required to be qualified, experienced, professionally licenced and insured. That requires a heap of time, effort and money, thus the wage needs to enable and reflect that. No one expects to be fresh out of uni and be paid the wage of a senior engineer, they expect the industry average entry wage of $64,000 (BEng(Mech) - theory/design/scientific) or $80,000 (AdvDip EngTech(Mech) - practial side of things/CNC operation, etc.) and to build from there with time and experience. Yet companies want to pay less than that, knowing full well that anything less is effectively slave labour and actually illegal. The only place where the old "work up from the bottom" system still exists is some parts of the USA and the entire 3rd world. You can thank all the "won't someone think of the children" and "everything in life must be 100% safe" people for the excessive over regulation and excessively expensive professional licencing, insurance and over-the-top experience requirements that are required in basically 90% of industries these days. Here's a fun fact about wages in the EU - they're significantly higher than in the UK and the cost of living is much lower than in the UK.
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  48. The same reason the plandemic worked so well. To paraphrase Yuri Bezmenov: "Its easy to convince fools that lies are true, its impossible to convince them that they've been lied to, no matter the evidence you show them. Only when the govt boot is against their neck and its too late, will they realize that they were lied to and that they enabled such tyranny to exist."
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  49. Except that heat pumps don't work especially once everyone in a small area has one. The problem is that the politicians and the lefties have zero clue about engineering or about why those of us who are engineers say things won't work, but they push on ahead like they know better. Its typical. The end of the world and life as we know it is upon us. This is our fall of Rome. There won't be anything left. This is a perfect example of why the lefties and masses (one in the same) should be ignored.
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  50. The real problem you have is that your equipment is dangerously defective. Properly running gas appliances do NOT affect asthma and aren't dangerous. As for benzene causing cancer - that's utter BS. Sure it'll increase the chance of cancer by ~0.0000015% but so will using a mobile phone. The act of sitting up in bed in the morning can cause a heart attack, going outside will put you at risk of getting run over. Life is dangerous and everything can cause cancer, don't let the fear of cancer or harm stop you from living life.
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