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Not really a random thought, but for want of a better place to post - there's often a catch with things. I use D size oxy/ acetylene bottles which I rent from BOC (formerly CIG) at a rental cost of $187 p.a. for the two bottles. Someone suggested getting them from Bunnings as they don't charge yearly rental. The catch is they hold a deposit of $200 per bottle, so you have to give Bunnings over $600 to walk out the door with 2 D size bottles, that's including the gas refill cost. After having the bottles for two years you would break even compared to renting them from BOC and be ahead after that. It's no cheap solution.

And that, M'Lord, is proof positive of AI slop.

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There's some interesting stuff in that short documentary, but quite a few strange things as well. When the narrator was talking about the quarries in the Qld. channel country mining stone on an industrial scale and traded across the continent, they showed this photo with no explanation of what Tehran and Dubai had to do with it.

On the positive side with that WLA, the price is right and most of it is there to bring it back to original. Just a matter of finding a front wheel and guard and a few small bits, sell that seat to a hooligan and get rid of a lot of chrome.

Marty, another thing to consider is what the starting point is. That WLA Harley may or may not have started out as a complete bike, but even if it was built up from parts, the majority of it is there to turn it into a proper WLA instead of a clown bike. With hot rods, it's not good to chop up a classic car which sometimes happens, but with a lot of hot rods, probably most, there's often very little of the original car present. A lot start out as an old rusted body found in a paddock and the finished product only has part of that body with the rest being a custom chassis, add-on engine, transmission and the rest of it. So no, I couldn't say the same for any hot rod. With a found body that's in poor condition, to bring it back to original involves a lot of time and money tracking down original parts. That's where the hot rodders come in, using that body basically as the decoration on top of a custom build.

Just to clarify, when I mentioned engraved stone, I mean stones and pieces of stone, not wall art engravings.

Even with the rare chance they were shards of engraved stone and not pottery, they didn't engrave stone for decoration like that. They did as a form of writing or messaging with engraved stone message sticks but it usually consisted of a series of lines. Similar with a couple of other type of stone artifacts that are best not mentioned out of respect for cultural sensitivity.

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Thanks ome, I found it and it's total BS, probably put there for a bit of dramatic effect.

Very close to the start there is an image of pottery shards and at teh bottom of the photo is a graduated straight edge (ruler).

I'm missing something here, have rewatched it and still can't find the mentioned pottery images.

The original star hubs are running out. They are 85 years old. Nev

The USA has considered the Americas its domain since the collapse of the Spanish and Portugese empires. The Monroe Doctrine is a United States foreign policy position that opposes any foreign interference in the Western Hemisphere. Originally concerned with European colonialism, it holds that any intervention in the political affairs of the Americas by foreign powers is a potentially hostile act against the United States. The doctrine was central to American grand strategy in the 20th century. President James Monroe first articulated the doctrine on December 2, 1823, during his seventh annual State of the Union Address to Congress.

Yeah, Nah, Maybe. I recognise the voice. It's not an AI voice. I can accept the 65,000 years for primitive tools as I think it aligns with 'out of Africa' findings. I reject the pottery images for a couple of reasons. If these dated back 65,000 years, and were the efforts of first arrivals, then since we know that trade routes existed throughout the continent later on, that tehnology would have been widespread well before European arrival. Further, the decoration and apparent quality of the pottery is too advanced in for 65,000 years ago. Has pottery of that quality been located elsewhere in Africa/Eurasia and dated back that far? There are well-know fish traps on the Darling River near Brewarrina that are accepted as being very ancient. The photo in the video is not of those traps. I think it's AI. A stone circle with apparent astronomical links has been discovered in Victoria. I don't recall if a date of construction has been assigned to it.

You could say the same for any hot rod.

It's somebody's idea of desirable. Why even THINK of having a Law against it.? It's only a consumable and they are not rare or very quick. . USA is a bit hooked on chrome. It will Probably run OK for years. Nev

For instance, what about the hemispheric vision of the US aiming to control the two America's (nth & sth), China controlling Asia, and Putin and the EU dividing up Europe. So the west news don't care that Putin is grabbing what he can, and the new paradigm is that the US will use on Canada, Mexico, Greenland, etc. And the biggest tech oligarcs are hoping to stay in the background above the old world leaders, because they own the Operating Systems that run the world economy.

Some of our political observations transcend the Trump/Putin/Xi stories because they affect global stuff.

Agreed Fugly neither beast nor fowl.

I saw this bit of sacrilege on marketplace. I know it's horses for courses, but I can't figure out who in their right mind would do this to a WLA. There's not too many worse sights on the planet than a standard Harley springer front end that's been chromed. And I won't even start on the chaincase, or the funny front wheel, or the frilly seat. There should be laws against it. If you want to build a chopper, build a chopper, but a chromed bobber is neither here nor there, just a waste of a good classic bike from where I look at it.

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Nothing but power outages today, they're back! Started 8:30 this morning, and the third and last one (I hope), finished just now. The first one was a notified outage, the other two weren't. Since I had no electricity, I took the opportunity to drive all the way to town to inquire at my bank about not being able to get a code for online banking. The guy I spoke to, probably a supervisor, had no idea there are areas out here without mobile coverage, I had to fill him in on what it's like out here. He busied himself working out what I could do. After a while, he came back and said "Ring this branch when you need a code, and a female (her name was provided) will give you one". Quite a step backwards if you ask me.