Tim

I like pointing out hypocrisy when i see it.Older,wiser but open to new ideas.Politics,Clean energy,Harm Reduction,Vape,4.20. No DM.Parody account.

[Mal Peters @peters_malcolm]

Australia sends 192 strong delegation to COP31.
Australian.

There is no justification past 20.
The ALP are on a wild spendathon.
Public money free for all.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@TomANelson It’s caused mostly by the US,China & India & they didn’t come either so it’s just a talk fest.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@LyrebirdDream @AlboMP Add in all the oil Norway export Greg.
Schedule 2 emissions are counted now.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@Mon4Kooyong Is there a massive recycling programme starting.?

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

Wie teuer wird Netto-Null bis 2050 für Deutschland – und was bringt es?

Kosten: 1 Billion (1.000.000.000.000) Euro

Die Erde wird sich im Jahr 2100 nur 0,00641°C weniger erwärmen

Jeder ausgegebene Euro bringt nur 14 Cent Klimanutzen

https://t.co/QniRIm1K5Y

[Tim @Tim71645]

@vonderleyen The largest emitters China,India & the USA didn’t show up.
Not sure if it can be done alone.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@PDNWmedia Australia is the example of what not to do.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@negativevortex_ It’s Climate 200 policy.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@UNGeneva @antonioguterres @turkiyecop31 The largest emitters in the world didn’t even show up.

[Malcolm Roberts 🇦🇺 @MRobertsQLD]

During an Estimates session, I asked Minister Watt:

"Minister, do you consider the government's very high tobacco duty is the reason otherwise law-abiding citizens are prepared to buy illegal tobacco, for generally a third of the legal price?"

Minister Watt responded with a flat "No" and said there was "absolutely no evidence to suggest that argument."

While the Labor government insists that massive excise hikes have "no impact" on the underground market, the reality tells a different story.

Data from the ABS and ATO show that as legal sales drastically decrease, the black market is booming, costing the budget billions and handing massive profits to organised crime and criminal gangs.

One Nation’s plan to fix it:

▶️​ Cut the tobacco excise by 75% to bring legal prices down to a realistic level.
▶️​ Implement a 3-year price freeze on tax indexation.
▶️​ Starve the black market, pulling the rug out from under the criminal gangs.

When government policy creates a multi-billion dollar criminal market, burying your head in the sand isn't a strategy.

https://t.co/bZ6sn4DRT0

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Just because things aren’t working out today doesn’t mean your story is finished.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@teamleafie @vocnederland Same in Australia we are so far behind the rest of the world.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Robert Louis Stevenson spent twelve days in 1878 beating a donkey across the mountains of southern France, and when he finally sold her he cried in the coach.

He was 27, broke, and sick in love with a married American woman across the Atlantic, and he decided the cure was a walk. A hundred and twenty miles over the Cévennes, sleeping out, carrying his own bed. In the village of Le Monastier he bought a donkey to carry it from an old man called Father Adam, for 65 francs and a glass of brandy. She was small, the colour of a mouse, not much bigger than a dog. He named her Modestine. Father Adam wept when she left.

Modestine had her own views on the schedule.

She walked at a pace Stevenson said there was no word mean enough for, as much slower than a walk as a walk is slower than a run. The pack slid off her back at every hill, because he had loaded it like a man who had never loaded a donkey. He hit her with a stick until his arm hurt. A local peasant took pity on him, cut a goad with a sharp point on the end and taught him the secret word of the Cévennes donkey drivers, which is "Proot!" She trotted. For a while. Then she went back to the speed of a donkey who has seen the next hill and knows what it is.

So the man who was about to write Treasure Island spent a fortnight prodding a mouse-coloured jenny up the south of France, shouting Proot at her, and losing.

At Saint-Jean-du-Gard he sold her for 35 francs, thirty less than he paid, because he was in a hurry to catch the coach. It was only once he was sitting next to the driver that it hit him. Up to that moment, he wrote, he had thought he hated her. For twelve days they had walked together over rock and bog, she had carried everything he owned, and she had been the only one of the two who knew how fast a mountain should be climbed.

He wept.

The book came out the next year. The route is now a long-distance footpath named after him, and people come from all over the world to walk it, and at Le Monastier the farms will hire you a donkey to carry your bags.

They call it slow travel. There are guidebooks about it.

Modestine called it walking, and got hit with a stick for it.

Nobody has improved on the speed since.

[Tim @Tim71645]

The negative for govts is that they lose all their tax money,as it all goes to the BM.
Over 80% is illegal sales in Australia & govt was banking over $10B a year in taxes but most is now gone to the BM.
That might hold them off a bit but to tax safer alternatives like vapes & pouch’s just promotes smoking again.
There’s no exit ramp.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Dolph Lundgren and Grace Jones arriving at the trendy Area nightclub in New York City during a "Confinement"-themed party in 1984...

Before Dolph Lundgren rose to global fame as the villain Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (1985), he worked as a bodyguard and companion for singer, model, and actress Grace Jones after they met in Sydney, Australia in 1983.

In 1983, Dolph Lundgren—then a 26-year-old Swedish engineering student with a Fulbright scholarship to MIT and a martial arts background—was working part-time as a bouncer at a Sydney nightclub. Avant-garde music icon and supermodel Grace Jones spotted him, hired him on the spot as her personal bodyguard, and the two quickly became lovers. Dolph Lundgren abandoned his plans to attend MIT and followed Grace Jones to New York City. They plunged into Manhattan's high-society art and club scene, hanging out with figures like Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, and Iman.

. . .

Grace Jones actively helped shape Dolph Lundgren's early career, introducing him to industry contacts, landing him modeling gigs, and securing him an uncredited KGB operative role in the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985). Grace Jones helped coach and prepare Dolph Lundgren for his audition as the Russian boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV (1985). The role turned him into an overnight global action star. At the Rocky IV premiere in Westwood, Dolph Lundgren noticed the public spotlight pivot rapidly from Grace Jones over to him.

. . .

Their nearly four-year relationship was marked by intense high-energy lifestyles, heavy partying, and erratic episodes. [Dolph Lundgren later recalled how exhausting the pace was, including Grace Jones bringing multiple guests home for late-night gatherings.

After they split up and Dolph Lundgren moved to Los Angeles, the breakup turned dramatic. Grace Jones famously burned a pile of his designer clothes (including a Versace leather jacket) in a fireplace, and on separate occasions showed up at his home or film sets carrying a firearm. On one occasion, film producers even asked Dolph Lundgren to come talk down an armed and delayed Grace Jones on a movie set.

Despite the chaotic end—which Grace Jones later detailed in her memoir I'll Never Write My Memoirs—Dolph Lundgren chose not to press charges, later reflecting that he had helped guide her through a difficult period of substance struggles.

#drthehistories

[Mark Kretschmann @mark_k]

AI Seinfeld is better than the real thing!

In this episode, George meets a beautiful Chinese spy
😂

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The dog exists because Ice Age hunters could not live on lean meat.

Wolves and people wanted the same animals, and for a long time nobody could explain why a band of hunters would feed a rival through a winter. In 2021 a team of Finnish researchers did the sums for the coldest stretch of the last Ice Age and found the answer in the human liver.

By late winter a reindeer or a horse has burned through its fat and is nearly all muscle. A person can only clear so much protein. Push it much past a third of what you eat and you get sick, then weak, then worse, however full your stomach is. So a hunting band took what it needed, the marrow, the brain, the tongue, every scrap of fat, and was left sitting on a heap of lean meat it could not safely finish.

A wolf can live on lean meat for months.

The surplus went to the pups by the fire. Nobody was competing for it. A few thousand winters of that and you have a dog.

So the oldest friendship on earth rests on one fact about your metabolism: you are the fat-eater in the partnership. Your ancestors dealt with the skinless chicken breast twenty thousand years ago by throwing it to the wolf.

Today the lean cut is on your plate with a health sticker on it, and his descendant gets a brown biscuit made of maize.

He was better fed in the Ice Age. So were you.

[Tim @Tim71645]

@LandlMichael No chance unfortunately