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Right there is the problem. As soon as you start measuring temperatures in Reaumurs, the climate goes to hell in a handbasket.

Jerry, you mean there's still hope for MAGA diehards?? 😄

Point of interest from the above newspaper item. In 1718 the remperature was recorded as 38 degrees Reaumur. The Réaumur scale is an obsolete temperature measurement system introduced in 1730 by French naturalist René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur. It sets the freezing point of water at 0° Ré and the boiling point at 80° Ré. 1 Re = 1.25C and 1 Re = 2.25 F

So PMC, everything is OK. Just keep on adding CO2? Nev

Think I'd like to be More capable than a jellyfish. thanks. Lots of them are a sign there's something wrong with the ecosystem. Nev

That car issue qualifies as a Legitimate GRIPE. . Nev

If you are planning to install a battery to store your solar or a complete solar panels/battery system, consider becoming a VPP (virtual power plant). I did & got an additional subsidy on my 18.4 kWh battery of $676.00. I joined Amber as the VPP Manager at a cost of $25.00 a month. Instead of getting just a few cents/kWh when the sun is shining & the rates are low, the system charges the battery till its full & sells the energy when the price is high. My average is 18.2c/kWh. All my costs are at wholesale rates so I pay the same to buy power as the Energy retailers. In Summer when there is too much solar in the grid the sale price goes negative. When that happens & my battery is full, the system curtails the solar production so none is exported. When there is a grid failure somewhere like a power station partial shutdown the spot price can go to $10.00/kWh or even more. When that happens the system will export energy at its maximum rate. In an hour I can be credited more than a couple of months electricity cost while helping to stabilise the grid.

We do get a fair bit of forum ipsum around here

Lorem ipsum are the first words of extracts from the writings of Cicero. The extracts were selected at random simply to be used when printers were laying out the design of pages.

I have a gripe - and it's nothing to do with language - although my language may coarsen shortly if I don't get some satisfaction. SWMBO's 2012 Camry has crapped itself. Well, not completely DOA - but it recently developed a lag in upshift and a nasty associated shudder and vibration in the drivetrain that became very concerning. Some internet-thingy AI-assisted research tells me that Toyota had/has some huge problems with the Aisin U760E transmission as fitted to 2012-2014 Camrys and RAV4's. It appears the PCM (Powertrain Control Module - we no longer have simple ECU's, they are integrated PCM's now) was badly programmed originally, to allow the torque converter lock-up clutch to lock up at relatively low speed - say around 30-35kmh. This was done to assist in improved fuel economy and to allow Toyota to brag about that improved fuel economy. I must comment that the Camry IS very economical on fuel. However, the problem is that allowing the lock-up clutch in the TC to engage at such low speed (it used to be around 60kmh before they TC locked up), it overloads the lock-up clutch. This results in lock-up clutch burnout, shudder and a severe lag in upshifting. Eventually, the transmission can be destroyed if it gets bad enough. The cure is a reprogramming of the TCM and a complete TC replacement. Now, here's where it gets interesting. Toyota recognised they had a problem with this transmission, way back about 2014. So they agreed to come good with free repairs and replacements, under an "Extended Warranty" that was to run for 8 years or 150,000 miles (this was primarily an American problem - strangely enough, I can find no mention of the problem in Australia). Toyota produced over 940,000 vehicles with this transmission. They replaced around 100,000 TC's for free, it appears. So we dropped the Camry off at the local Toyota dealer Wednesday morning, and they examined it and immediately identified the problem as the faulty TC/programming problem. The TC is shot, and in need of total replacement. That's major surgery, of course - either the engine comes out, or the transmission is dropped out. The cost is going to be substantial. The Camry is 14 yrs old and has done just 120,000kms. On the first day, things went very quiet. I got a call from the dealer at 4:20PM, telling me what the problem was, and they had sent in a claim to Toyota head office for the repair to be a warranty claim, whereby Toyota will cover the TC replacement cost. I might add, a new TC has to be flown in from Japan. Today is Friday and still dead silence. I rang the dealer and asked where we were at. He says they're still waiting on a response from Toyota as to whether they will cover the repair. I guess they're consulting with their lawyers to see how vindictive we could be. We've been loyal Toyota owners for nearly 40 years, and we buy them for their reliability and resale. But right now, my loyalty is wavering. This is not a good look, Mr Toyota. I know the car is well out of warranty, but I never expected to be doing a transmission overhaul at 120,000kms, either. What is worse, the dealer hasn't laid a spanner on it in 3 days. He's waiting, and I'm waiting. I don't know why it should take so long to consider a warranty claim, Toyota must have developed into a huge paper and responsibility-shuffling bureaucracy. At least, the dealer has offered us a loan car.

Probably Not. Local slang can be deliberate as an identifier and confusing to the Uninitiated.. Without looking at People it's harder to get the Meaning/intention as accurate. Communication is an ART. Nev

The thing with naming is it can be difficult to avoid repetition and have something interesting. Many businesses make up words. There was a time when once a week for work I would stay in a cheap motel. The chain of motels was called Formule One. No I did not misspell that. All these years later it sticks in my mind. Sometimes a business name will be a portmanteau. If a business or gallery uses perhaps some ancient Viking word from a language that is no longer spoken, is that really problematic?

It's Lorem ipsum (lat) a non sensical fill in word. We generally just use a swear word to fill in till our Brain thinks of something. People who swear a lot don't have to think as fast . Nev

Plenty of Latin derived talk talk around. Churches use it and doctors used to write Prescriptions in it. Pidgin is used in PNG as a bastardised language.. ( I may have the spelling wrong) it uses words Like Buggarup for Broken. A Binatang (mosquito) IS a small Plane A Balus is a large one.. and so on. Nev

All I can add to this discussion is lorum ipsum.

So would the same apply to perhaps names derived from very early English. Perhaps place names in a language is no longer speaks. What would be an alternate name for these galleries? It just seems a bit boring and stuffy for everything to have English names. I guess we will just have to disagree on this.

Marty-d. Hypothetical situation. They don't talk. They communicate on their I Phone. OME You are requiring they Comply with our ways, or else. . Is that fair? Sentences are structured as we are used to. Nev

If you can find me a Gadigal person who can translate those words, or put them in a sentence, then I'll be more receptive. As it stands I reckon it's another example of PC. And there's not much water to be seen from there.

Most governments will rely on that excise for revenue. This assistance can't go on forever. We still have our triple "A" rating, That has a direct effect on what government borrowing costs. it's normal to borrow for Infrastructure same as it's normal to borrow for business or sell shares to fund it's initial and expansion costs. Nev.

English is not actually a static language either. If you don't believe me, try listening to a group of 13yo's talking and see how much you understand...

It's logical for them to assign another word/name for any NEW Object or Phenomenon they observe as all peoples have done. Nev.

Surely after white settlement Aborigines developed words for new things introduced by settlers. Prior to settlement I imagine that Aborigines had never seen a horse or camel but I imagine just like any language it develops new words for new things. Often perhaps in this case the word may be the same as English or perhaps similar. In the case of Naala Badu it supposedly means "seeing waters" which refers to the view. This seems relevant to the location. Am I missing something here?

Who said about night, but batteries would take care of that storage is the big Game changer. Quick response. Nev