💧John Elgin

Off-grid Leneva VIC, Ag 4D, pro-regional/anti-city centric politics, we need high speed electric rail, renewables only, SciFi, ❤️Dolomites IT. Only my opinions

[💧John Elgin @johnelgin]

Convention on rivers is polluters must test up&down stream of discharge/factory. CO2/petro pollution is free to discharge & micro/plastics externalities are cost free. No boundaries. Major Corps are socialising their costs on the world. Are they the biggest socialists? #auspol

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@Ryandally08 Which policy will ON follow or articulate their approach, or is that a blank cheque they are being offered?

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@elonmusk Strait!

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@elonmusk He's your boy, bought and paid for. But, oh yes, poor Western Culture, so very poor. Poor us.

The mess we have created IS Western Culture. Own it. You more than anybody helped create it!

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@elonmusk Poor "Western Culture", oh so poor, poor, poor. The biggest hoarder distracting from his hoarding by creating non existing division, from the class that rules and owns the world, mostly. The poor West. Give me a break. Step up, don't punch down!

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@elonmusk Says the biggest "robber baron" hoarder in history. The lessons of southern Africa are doomed to be repeated with one's head in the sand

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@DavidPocock This is where "let the market decide", fails, and proper planning and management, a Govt role, guardrails, is important. Not nothing, not hope it will be alright. No business relies on hope

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@RonniSalt @batteries9484 Sussan was mostly there for the grift, like most of them #pigsatthetrough. She did advance the cause of the smarter sex (for a short while at the LNP. RIP)

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@RonniSalt All but one, "unrepresentative swill"? MAGA grift wins again

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@RonniSalt @tdclancy @PollyWi92611992 Am sure much of what the great Ronni is correct, you have collectively recalibrated what was probably a failing career. Never heard of him until now. Angertainment wins again

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@GreeneLouiseAus I don't know Charlie Pickering, so, perhaps that's the objective? Clicks?

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@elonmusk Pre IPO hype? How much wealth will be enough? And when will you spend it for the benefit of the only proven home we have? Great success brings greater responsibility

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@tomaspueyo Lets discuss Christian doing versus Muslim opinion polls shall we? And shall we follow the money? Lets look at the destruction wrought in the ME over the last 30 years alone, for what purpose and legitimate reason and result? Would that not harden one's views if you were Muslim?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

TUCKER TO 🇮🇱 NEWS: “Why did Trump let Netanyahu push him into a war that’s bad for 🇺🇸?… You should pause before using the phrase ‘terror regime’ since your country just murdered thousands of kids in Gaza… 🇮🇱 is not a democracy, many can’t vote… 🇮🇱 does not represent all Jews.”

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Our political class are effectively traitors, lickspittle to the lobby class. Developed country my arse

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia has exactly zero kilometres of High Speed Rail (HSR) — since the first foreign Bullet train was built 62 years ago.

Sixty-two years ago.

Since then, these countries currently operate high-speed rail systems:
•Austria
•Belgium
•China
•Finland
•France
•Germany
•Indonesia
•Italy
•Japan
•Morocco
•Netherlands
•Poland
•Russia
•Saudi Arabia
•South Korea
•Spain
•Sweden
•Switzerland
•Taiwan
•Turkey (Türkiye)
•United Kingdom
•United States
•Uzbekistan

👉 But not Australia — it’s because the wealth of the country is being removed by foreign mining companies, and siphoned off to pay for US military weapons.

Meanwhile back in the leading HSR country:

“In the 18 years since 2008, China has built 48,000 km of new HSR.

“China built the entire Beijing-Shanghai line (1,318 km) in just over three years.

“97% of Chinese cities with a population over 500,000 is now connected to the HSR network.”

👉 Back in Australia, despite early planning the total kilometres of High Speed Rail is precisely zero, zip, nada, and fuck all.

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@KarinArcus_ok Perhaps understanding that Jesus is a prophet in Islam/the Koran needs to be understood, hence the shared respect, as well as history, and biology...regardless of ideology

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@aaronsmith @nate_nugent @AustralianLabor MAGA cultists come in many shapes as you know Aaron and the echo chamber has deafened this one. The protest vote may help but the grift will remain steadfast with ON, but alas the cosy duopoly are not the solution

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@elonmusk Beautiful words. I wonder how you are going on that, objectively, today, and given your military/meddling record, globally?

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@RonniSalt @claudetozer The "party of protest" legitimating plausible deniability to the truth of what you say. Obfuscation on steroids. What does the Fourth Estate do...?

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@mrjoeaston @AFL Amusing, if it wasn't so very sad.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet."

Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution.

Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer.

The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss.

The wool is then:
- Naturally flame-retardant
- Naturally antibacterial
- Moisture-wicking
- Biodegradable
- Renewable, annually
- Carbon-storing while in use

The replacement, in performance fabrics:
- Polyester
- Polyamide
- Acrylic
- Polypropylene
- All petroleum-derived
- All shedding microplastics on every wash
- All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce
- All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years

A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals.

A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years.

The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic.

The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer.

The polymer also has not been asked.

Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made.

Brian is selling it at a loss.

The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical.

Reject plastic. Wear wool.

Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.