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Another couple from America are Jay and Pamela. They have their own TV series on Foxtel. Both were born with Osteogenesis Imperfecta Type 3. Both were expected to live only a few weeks, definitely less than a year. He is now 31, she is 33. They met on social media, and are now married. He is transgender, born female. He was in hospital recently, and she got her drivers license while he was there. Below is their wedding photo, with their dog, Cheddar.

How is DATA verified? If it isn't , what use is it? Why would we need so many centres anyhow? Justify? Nev

Enthusiasm: a strong feeling of active excitement, interest, or eager involvement in a subject, activity, or cause. Hope is a feeling of desire that a particular thing will happen. So, share my hope.

Sorry but I don't share your enthusiam. I think that date will be when the real pandora's box will open. The flow chart of Distopian possibilities starts branching before that, but gets bizarre after that date.

Another unanswered question.... Are 'data centres' just big server centres needed to cope with the enormous increase in internet traffic? Sure, a A.I. request from me is not much traffic, but does the A.I. server then propagate a lot of worldwide traffic searching before it compiles it's answer?

Mark this date on your calendar - 3rd November 2026. That is the day we hope sanity will start its comeback in the USA.

Another two-edged sword, perhaps? It is clear that the use of AI in problem solving which produces beneficial results for Mankind is the good side, but most of the population is being flooded with slop that does nothing to benefit Mankind, only to benefit snake oil merchants. It is pretty clear that these data centres consume electricity at phenominal rates. Rates that the present generating system cannot match without depriving other users of electricty of that power. Some of these data cenres have had to install jet turbine powered generating units to meet demand in areas where the established grid cannot meet all the demands on it. Definitely. Electrical circuits produce heat. When you have stacks of server units in a building, their combined heat generation becomes a problem because too much heat causes failures in the circuitry. We know about cooling problems with nuclear power stations, and I suppose we should recognise the heat associated with those generating units that burn stuff to create steam - and the steam releases heat, too, when it has been used. Another hearalded benefit is employment. That's a crock. The only time there is massive employment is during construction. Once the centre is built, only a handful of people is required to monitor the running and attend to maintenance needs. Just look at the large infrastructure projects arond the place. As soon as they are completed, the workforce moves on. In fact, most of that workforce has arrived in an area solely to do the work. Few locals gain from these projects.

State and local governments are racing to entice data centres without any thought for the environment, or power costs for the rest of the population for that matter. Because a few dollars in rates and a couple of security guard jobs are far more important than all the downsides.

Actor Tim Curry passed away on August 25 aged 80. Starred in The Rocky Horror movie.

Weell. Not that anyone would ever do this.... but hypothetically if they did.... If I was powerful and wanted to tank the dollar and get rich off it, here is exactly what I would do.I would hire a Treasury Secretary who already made $3.5 billion crashing another country's currency. I would put my guy in charge of the agency that approves bank charters. I would install a crypto czar with $200M in crypto holdings and give him an ethics waiver so nobody could challenge it.Then I would sign an executive order banning the government from ever creating a digital dollar so there was no competition.Then I would have my family launch their own private digital dollar. My family takes 75% of net profits. I would grow it to $4.6 billion in circulation and route a $2 billion Abu Dhabi sovereign fund deal through it to prove it works.Then I would get Congress to pass a law requiring every stablecoin in the country to hold short-term Treasury bills. Now every dollar of my digital currency is a forced buyer of government debt. Brookings projects $2.3 trillion in captive demand by 2030.Then I would have my OCC guy grant my family's company a federal bank charter. Now I can issue my digital dollar with federal authority.Then I would have my Treasury Secretary weaken the actual dollar. Bond buybacks that suppress yields but tank the currency. Build a $950 billion war chest for more. Let the debt hit $40 trillion. Dollar index drops to 99. Gold goes to highest point ever.Then I would kill the Corporate Transparency Act and delete the FinCEN beneficial ownership database. That was the one law that required every shell company in America to report who actually owns it. Without it, nobody can trace who is buying my stablecoin, who is routing money through it, or where the profits land.Then I would let the loop run. Weaker dollar drives demand for "stable" digital alternatives. The law I passed forces those alternatives to buy T-bills. That funds the government's debt. My family takes profit on every transaction. Foreign central banks walking away from Treasuries get replaced by legally mandated stablecoin reserves my family controls.Then I would use sanctions to start cutting countries off from the dollar system entirely. And when those countries need a new way to transact in dollars, the only federally chartered private digital dollar in existence is mine. They can buy it through shell companies nobody can trace because I deleted the ownership database.I just built a toll booth on the global financial system. I take a cut every time someone uses the dollar. And I made it so nobody can see who is paying.And every single step I just described has already happened.So what does that mean for you and I?The reason the United States can borrow at low rates and keep your mortgage and your car payment and your import prices stable is because foreign central banks hold trillions in dollar reserves. That system has always been public. The benefit went to everyone. Lower borrowing costs, cheaper goods , and the single biggest economic advantage any country has ever had.What I just described is the privatization of that function. The entity buying the debt is no longer a central bank acting in the public interest. It is a private company taking 75% of net profits for one family. The reserve function used to generate a public benefit. Now it generates a private fee.Your purchasing power shrinks every time the dollar weakens. Your 401k buys less in real terms. Everything you import costs more. And every time the dollar drops, demand for the private digital alternative goes up. The one the president's family owns. The one that by law must buy government debt.You absorb the cost of a weakening dollar. His family collects the profit. That is the trade.The enforcement mechanism to stop a sitting president from doing this? There isn't one. Former White House ethics lawyer Richard Painter says it would be a violation for literally any other federal employee, but not the president.Nobody voted for this. No one was asked. There was no debate. There is no enforcement mechanism. There is no one investigating it. The Senate tried and it was blocked.This is the largest conflict of interest in American history happening in broad daylight while everyone argues about something else.So what do you do? Share this. Make it impossible to ignore. Send it to your representative, your senator, every journalist you follow. We make them answer for it. Because the only thing protecting this scheme right now is the fact that not enough people understand it yet. But that would never happen, would it?

If you look closely, you see the artist used Sidchrome spanners. So it has a high Australian material content.

Gee thanks brains trust. I was hoping somebody, anybody, might have heard/read/seen some useful info. Maybe there isn't anything out there. So..... it's like the war of Iran.... there is no plan.

I am sure Iran will happily purse Chump himself, but apparently, there is now a bounty of his son, Baron.. so he has succeeded in drawing his own kid into the line of fire: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/barron-trump-threat-iran-bounty-war-b3038679.html I bet whichever of his wives is Baron's mum is ecstatic at the idea.

Think of all that GST they can reclaim without a penny of revenue?

Now that's art I can appreciate.

Suuuure.

An amazing statue dedicated to Australian motorcyclist Kenny Blake. Located in Strathalbyn, South Australia. "Surely it is one of the most amazing and continuous tributes to a mate ever known. They come from afar to cheer this bloke, a motorcycling legend who won 11 Australian motorcycling titles. Some say he would have been at least the equal to Australia’s more recent champions Wayne Gardner, Mick Doohan and Casey Stoner had he not been forced to race on a shoe-string budget."

Whilst paying the CEO's million$ per annum

Did they think you just had a happy end to your car trip? Lucky you!

I call my wife’s chai latte “Squirrel nut juice” bloody stuff is terrible. she does not like that name. Her cousins looked at me strange when I got to their place and explained the mess on my shirt as nut juice. Her over full cup had splattered all over me in the car whilst holding it.

one thing for sure..they wont declare any taxable income for the work processed, magically they will all run at a loss.

As with everything, ultimately the consumer and more broadly, the general population ends up carrying the costs

Just went for a walk, could see about 500MWs of wind on a couple of ridges. Not one was moving let alone turning. Thank god for Victoria's brown coal. Check out electrictymaps. Even Tassie has been running gas in the last month or so. https://wattclarity.com.au/articles/2026/08/20aug-tamarvalley-switchedoff/

There is no emoticon for.... admiration of their spirit

Yes, I forgot the most important question.... WHO PAYS for this infrastructure, and who owns it, and who pays its maintenance and who pays for constant upgrades.