Trying to slowly simplify complicated things. I figure if i can understand it, maybe anyone can. Husband and father of two, conservative but also libertarian
@Alokkumarzz He missed that the similarity between election repulsion and magnetic repulsion can be matched by the similarity between magnitude polar attraction and chemical bonding/ matter cohesion (or even gravitational attraction, however that opens another can of worms)
A home theater installer has calibrated over 3,000 TVs in 12 years from $400 budget sets to $15,000 flagship OLEDs in custom media rooms.
He walks into people's homes, looks at their TV for 5 seconds, and can tell them exactly what's wrong.
He told me: "Almost every TV I see is running in the same mode Best Buy uses under fluorescent showroom lights. The motion smoothing is on. The sharpness is cranked. The eco dimmer is cutting brightness by 30–40%. And the TV is taking a screenshot of the screen every few seconds and selling the viewing data to advertisers. People are watching a $1,500 panel the same way it looked on the store shelf and that's the worst possible way to watch it."
He said a properly calibrated TV doesn't look "better." It looks like a completely different television.
He changed 9 settings on my TV in 15 minutes.
The soap opera effect disappeared. The colors became natural. Skin tones stopped looking plastic.
Dark scenes became visible. The TV stopped spying on me. And a movie finally looked like a movie instead of a daytime talk show.
"TV manufacturers ship every set optimized for a showroom, not a living room. Then they bury the settings that fix it inside 6 menus nobody opens."
Here are the 9 things he changed:
Joe Rogan: "Why do you have to give them hormones to make them a girl?"
Guest: "I'm sorry can you expand on the question?"
Joe Rogan: "It's a simple question."
It makes you want to weep for Australia.
Here we have Tasmania’s largest farm — Rushy Lagoon, a massive 22,000-hectare of prime, productive, irrigated land that has been a powerhouse of beef and dairy production in northeast Tasmania for decades.
And now it’s being deliberately shut down for dodgy “carbon credits” — worthless pieces of paper peddled by grifters, spivs, and rent-seeking parasites in the name of Net Zero so they can profit while the nation suffers.
Just when you think it can’t get any worse — congratulations, Australia — our taxpayers are being forced to fund this insanity with $69 million.
That’s right. Chris Bowen’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation is pumping $69 million of our money into the deal to become a minor shareholder in the destruction of productive farmland.
Think about the level of this insanity. $69 million of Australian taxpayers money is being used to help a foreign company buy Australian farmland and shut it down.
It’s no different from Luddites buying a factory and smashing the productive machines with sledge hammers.
At this is happening the exact moment Australia’s productivity is collapsing and living standards are in freefall, Labor’s priority is closing down real, productive agriculture.
This is economic sabotage.
With this decision today, Australia is a poorer, weaker nation.
Productive land is taken out of commission, food production is hit - so we’ll pay higher prices at supermarket and taxpayers foot the bill so the carbon credit scam industry can flourish.
I weep for what Labor and Anthony Albanese are doing to Australia.
They are vandalising our productive economy, enriching their mates, and driving us into decline — all while lying that this is “progress.”
Enough.
Australia deserves better than this destructive, ideologically deranged government. If they are not voted out at the next election, the Australia we‘ve known and loved will be gone forever.
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The anti-Australia Institute loves holding up Norway as the nation we should copy.
They might actually have a point for once: Norway has firmly rejected mass migration and proudly celebrates its traditions and heritage — including its Viking past.
Now imagine if the same leftists and cultural Marxists who’ve infested Australia had managed to infiltrate Norway instead.
They’d immediately demand the Christian cross be stripped from the national team’s shirt and the national flag to reflected the "new diversity".
The celebrated ‘Viking Row’ would be labelled "toxic masculinity," and anyone participating would be shamed for displaying "cultural insensitivity."
So instead of Norwegians roaring with pride during their Viking Row, they’d be forced to grovel through some pathetic sorry apology statement — condemning their ancestors for “terrorising and plundering European towns, stealing valuables, and capturing slaves” — while wallowing in manufactured guilt.
All designed to ensure young Norwegians are taught to despise their nation’s history.
So yes, let’s learn from Norway and celebrate with pride Australia’s history, culture and traditions.
The year is 1949.
The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.
The year is 1956.
Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.
The year is 1966.
A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.
The year is 1979.
Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.
The year is 1985.
Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.
The year is 1992.
There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.
Now it is today.
Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.
So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.
Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.
It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.
Is this a skit? No, this is unfortunately the state of affairs in this country.
Albo was on ABC today stating that since China & India ban dual citizenship, he’s letting their citizens into Australia’s First Home Buyer scheme, no need to commit to Australia or give up their passports. “They love their home countries.”
So Aussie taxpayers help them buy houses here. They can sell (no CGT), take the cash home, or just walk away and we foot the bill.
Already 50k+ non-citizens in. No means test. They can own 10 homes back home. We pay their $60k mortgage insurance.
"If you'd just shut up for a second I can explain it to you". I think most of us can empathise with Matt Canavan's frustration as Pat Conroy spews a torrent of lies and Labor talking points 😂