@RennickGBR I was talking about this yesterday, not the increase in fees, but the lack of apprentices, and here you are today announcing a policy to help correct it.
@RennickGBR@TheKouk That is such a good rebuke there Gerard. I would add also that some of the countries biggest "trainers and educators" would be mining and agriculture.
David Pocock pauses, overcome with emotion, while detailing UN’s horrific findings against Israel
“IDF has now killed 20,000 Palestinian children”
“…deliberately shot at children’s limbs…as a twisted game of target practice”😔
Barbaric & sickening. This is our ally?
The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.
The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.
Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.
If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.
$70k on a plaque for Jacinta Allan
$130k on a Daniel Andrew’s statute
$13 million on 40 machete bins
$20 million on telling you to pump up your tyres
$500 million on the voice to parliament
Yes, Dave, you’re finally realising the government doesn’t give a fuck about you.
A farmer dies in April 2026.
His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847.
The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle.
On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify.
In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable.
The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft.
The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let.
A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up.
The Treasury collects £140,000.
The land never produces British food again.
Conspiracy theorists are right again.
Sunscreens in Australia contain potential endocrine disruptors and other chemicals which could impact fertility and mood. These chemicals are found in kids' and baby sunscreens.
Many of us have been saying this for years
Three judges today said a man can be a woman and fined a real woman $20,000 for hurting the feelings of a man who thinks he's a woman.
Sall Grover has committed a crime by excluding a biological male, Roxanne Tickle, from her women only smartphone app, Giggle for Girls.
This should never have happened.
The Sex Discrimination Act was amended in 2013 to protect an amorphous concept called gender identity.
It was put forward by Julia Gillard's then Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus, at the behest of the same-sex marriage lobby.
It’s just typical of how out of control our bureaucracy and lawmakers have become.
“Australia faces a glut of old solar panels polluting the environment by leaching toxic chemicals into landfill with no viable reuse or recycling solutions available, the government's own Department of Climate Change and Energy has warned.
The looming environmental crisis has sparked alarm among local councils and regional communities, which have accused the Albanese government of putting money into the rollout of renewable energy but not the decommissioning end of the process.
Australia, the world's largest per capita adopter of solar power thanks in large part to Labor government subsidies, now faces its “first significant wave of end-of-life rooftop solar systems" but can't process all the “hazardous" waste that would come from this, the department said.
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So much for clean and renewable energy.
Compare solar panels to carbon dioxide which is renewed naturally by plant life for free.
The fact that so many people are brainwashed by the renewable scam just goes to show how powerful propaganda is.
If you spend $1 million everyday it will take you 2,740 years to reach $1 trillion.
The U.S. national debt is now $34.7 trillion and rising by $1 trillion every 100 days.
EVERY…100…DAYS!
“Shane Warne’s son Jackson believes that “forced” Covid vaccines killed his father at the age of 52.
Warne died of the Thai island of Koh Samui in 2022 of a heart attack with a post-mortem confirming that the cricket legend had died of natural causes.
However, speaking on the 2 Worlds Collidepodcast Jackson, 26, said he believes that Covid vaccinations had a part to play his father’s death.
“I definitely think it was involved and I don’t even think saying that is controversial anymore,” Jackson said.
“Even if Dad had underlying health issues, I think this brought it straight to the surface, and that’s one thing I’ve always struggled with, because my first impression (was to) instantly blame the government.”
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The government is to blame.
They knew about it because I told them the vaccines were killing people and they ignored me.
The only to hold these politicians too account for Covid is to vote the major parties out of government.
Sign up to https://t.co/PeAaJW2pjF today if you want to help put the politicians responsible for Covid vaccine injuries and deaths behind bars.
With friends like these who needs enemies?
One minute Trump wants to save the Iranians, next minute he wants to bomb them.
Now he wants blockade the Gulf after claiming it wasn’t his problem.
And on cue the Liberal party via Jane Hume back him up by wanting to get our military involved.
Playing with our prosperity is not on.
How about Trump just does a deal.
The average oil tanker carries 2 million barrels of oil.
This means that Iran wants to charge a $1 for each barrel of oil that passes through the Gulf of Hormuz.
Since Trump and Netanyahu started bombing Iran the price of oil has jumped by circa $40-$50 barrel and could go much higher yet.
While it would have been better to not bomb Iran and leave the Gulf of Hormuz open, paying an extra $1 per barrel to keep the peace and get oil back to $60 is a much better option than starting a protracted war and paying much more for oil.
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“The president is once again playing loose with the fortunes of financial markets and the global economy as he struggles to find a way out of the war that he and Israel started.
The market reaction was swift, with oil prices immediately jumping more than 8 per cent and natural gas prices as much as 17 per cent in early Asian trading on Monday morning, and share markets down.”
V
“Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume has called on the government to assist the US in its partial blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, saying the reopening the shipping channel is in the national interest.”
V
“Iran's energy exports union, said the country would look to impose a tariff equivalent to $1 per barrel. That could amount to as much as $2 million for every oil tanker passing through the strait, according to shipping industry experts and economists.
Still, those additional costs alone wouldn't significantly influence overall global oil prices, ………the marginal cost of oil production in many Persian Gulf states is roughly $20 per barrel.”
Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.
That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.
Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”
The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.
That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.
But the education system still runs on its logic.
A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.
Neither is being served. Both are being processed.
Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”
AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.
One at a time. Every time.
It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.
It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.
A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.
The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.
No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.
Because the math doesn’t work.
AI doesn’t have that constraint.
Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”
The brain isn’t broken. The format is.
Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.
That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.
Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”
Four years. Six figures of debt.
And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.
The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.
Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”
The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.
Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.
The question isn’t whether the old model survives.
It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.
@WolfdenApp@TRBHorseRacing Was going to ask what the team condition was but realised it's possibly prior to the 8 length romp on the h8 so we would not know wet credentials. Great to hear what you all think. At the stage of careers where they all have upside.
OMG Tucker Carlson literally cooked Trump and Piers Morgan brutally:
- Tucker Carlson: How many Shiite terror attacks have there been in the United States in my lifetime?
- Let me do the math
- Zero
- So don't tell me that the greatest threat we face is Iran. That's a lie
@PhilGould15 So far after 4.3 rounds of the comp we have the sharks, eels, phins and now storm who can't win the gf thanks to the concede 50 points rule. 😅
Firstly, you assume I use Ai to write my opinions. I don’t.
I certainly use Ai
for a lot of things, including research.
Anyone who is not using Ai, or learning the benefits of Ai technology, is missing out. Ai will have greater influence on our future than anything previously created throughout history.
I read up a lot about climate stuff. I don’t profess to be an expert. But neither are those who abuse me for my opinion. For what is worth, here’s my explanation.
The basic philosophy of climate change is the Earth has a heat-trapping blanket of air around it. Climate change activists claim that burning fuel like petrol, coal and gas, are making that blanket thicker. A thicker blanket means the planet gets warmer. They argue that man-made CO2 creates a warmer planet, which causes more severe climate events. The climate argument is that the longer we keep thickening the blanket, the harder it becomes to fix. That’s the theory.
They exaggerate the speed at which this will be a factor. The vast majority of catastrophic predictions over the past 50 years have simply not occurred. Not even close.
My own children, smart kids, all now in their 20s, educated in Australian schools, were at one time completely convinced, (and panicking), that the planet would end within a decade unless man stop producing CO2. They would get very upset with me, because I would say that this is not going to happen, certainly not in such a ridiculously short time frame they were fearing. Younger people have been educated to think this way.
People are making a fortune, governments are being elected, purely on the fear-mongering premise that humans are changing the climate and the planet is in jeopardy.
Fact - CO2 makes up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human produced CO2 is only a fraction of that small number. Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming a drop of ink for changing the colour of your swimming pool.
The Sun drives our climate far more powerfully than any gas. Exposure to the Sun warms oceans. Warmer oceans release CO2 naturally. Therefore, CO2 may well be a consequence of warming, not the cause.
History backs this up. Earth had warming and cooling cycles long before humans existed.
More CO2 actually makes for a healthier planet. Plants grow faster. Forests and crops thrive. This is happening now. It’s been proven. A slightly warmer, CO2 rich planet, makes for a healthier planet.
Humans think in terms of human survival, rather than accepting the planet has always changed, adapted, and renewed across its 4.5 billion year history.
Human existence is in jeopardy in the longer term. Not the health of the planet. The planet will survive much longer than the human race. It will not be global warming that kills the human race. The human race will self destruct long before any climate event removes them.
Human philosophy for changing the climate, is actually leading to economic harm and quality of life deterioration. The costs are greater than the proposed cures. They want to dedicate trillions of dollars and cripple our energy systems chasing Net Zero - a target with no scientific guarantee it will change the climate one degree.
The idea that human industrial policy can influence global temperature, is arguably as arrogant as the belief that humans are powerful enough to destroy the planet in the first place.
I’m all for reducing pollution, cleaning up our environment, protecting our water supplies. That’s common sense. I’m against the economic and social damage we are inflicting on ourselves through ridiculous energy policies, which will have zero effect on the climate in the long run.
That’s my opinion. It seems to upset climate change believers. I don’t care. Not for one minute do I think my opinion matters, or that it will change anything. But I do think the world thinking is slowly turning back the other way. I’m hoping so, anyway.
Firstly, you assume I use Ai to write my opinions. I don’t.
I certainly use Ai
for a lot of things, including research.
Anyone who is not using Ai, or learning the benefits of Ai technology, is missing out. Ai will have greater influence on our future than anything previously created throughout history.
I read up a lot about climate stuff. I don’t profess to be an expert. But neither are those who abuse me for my opinion. For what is worth, here’s my explanation.
The basic philosophy of climate change is the Earth has a heat-trapping blanket of air around it. Climate change activists claim that burning fuel like petrol, coal and gas, are making that blanket thicker. A thicker blanket means the planet gets warmer. They argue that man-made CO2 creates a warmer planet, which causes more severe climate events. The climate argument is that the longer we keep thickening the blanket, the harder it becomes to fix. That’s the theory.
They exaggerate the speed at which this will be a factor. The vast majority of catastrophic predictions over the past 50 years have simply not occurred. Not even close.
My own children, smart kids, all now in their 20s, educated in Australian schools, were at one time completely convinced, (and panicking), that the planet would end within a decade unless man stop producing CO2. They would get very upset with me, because I would say that this is not going to happen, certainly not in such a ridiculously short time frame they were fearing. Younger people have been educated to think this way.
People are making a fortune, governments are being elected, purely on the fear-mongering premise that humans are changing the climate and the planet is in jeopardy.
Fact - CO2 makes up less than 0.04% of the atmosphere. Human produced CO2 is only a fraction of that small number. Blaming CO2 for global warming is like blaming a drop of ink for changing the colour of your swimming pool.
The Sun drives our climate far more powerfully than any gas. Exposure to the Sun warms oceans. Warmer oceans release CO2 naturally. Therefore, CO2 may well be a consequence of warming, not the cause.
History backs this up. Earth had warming and cooling cycles long before humans existed.
More CO2 actually makes for a healthier planet. Plants grow faster. Forests and crops thrive. This is happening now. It’s been proven. A slightly warmer, CO2 rich planet, makes for a healthier planet.
Humans think in terms of human survival, rather than accepting the planet has always changed, adapted, and renewed across its 4.5 billion year history.
Human existence is in jeopardy in the longer term. Not the health of the planet. The planet will survive much longer than the human race. It will not be global warming that kills the human race. The human race will self destruct long before any climate event removes them.
Human philosophy for changing the climate, is actually leading to economic harm and quality of life deterioration. The costs are greater than the proposed cures. They want to dedicate trillions of dollars and cripple our energy systems chasing Net Zero - a target with no scientific guarantee it will change the climate one degree.
The idea that human industrial policy can influence global temperature, is arguably as arrogant as the belief that humans are powerful enough to destroy the planet in the first place.
I’m all for reducing pollution, cleaning up our environment, protecting our water supplies. That’s common sense. I’m against the economic and social damage we are inflicting on ourselves through ridiculous energy policies, which will have zero effect on the climate in the long run.
That’s my opinion. It seems to upset climate change believers. I don’t care. Not for one minute do I think my opinion matters, or that it will change anything. But I do think the world thinking is slowly turning back the other way. I’m hoping so, anyway.