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Thanks Grumpy, I was wondering what they were. Didn't look close enough.

Correct.

60. Nev

Jerry for Pres! Jerry for Pres! Oh, wait, don't we already have some Jerryatric's in government?

He can name his end of it. But it still doesn't win his tariff tantrum with the Canuks

I actually don't disagree with some of the sentiment above. But picking on immigrants is not going to solve the problem. In fact, foreign corporations welfare - so to be clear - lining the pockets of foreign shareholders - using things like tax breaks, grants, subsidies, and funds transfer (legal avoidance of tax). That is a lot to research, so I thought I would use some water and get AI to do it. Here is the summary - and its confidence in each number (a nice trick - I wished people would use this when quoting facts - maybe AI has some advantages): For transparency, I included my response and its initial response. And here is a link to its hole answer https://chatgpt.com/share/6a907746-4178-83eb-a04f-be64bfef4444 We have to take the second line of the summary above out of the equation because that includes pensioners and longer term immigrants, and to properly account for that, we would have to measure the input into the economy and deduct that from the $30 - $40bn per year. For the sake of argument though, let's assume that it is the same as recently arrived immigrants, at around $3bn a year. So, the total in welfare attributable to immigrants is say $6bn a year. The confidence in that figure is low. So lets more than triple it to $10bn a year. That should be more than what it is, but since some here have expressed a dissatisfaction with lefties cooking the books, lets err on the side of caution. Lets only take the bottom line (pardon the pun) as all of government assistance to foreign firms and assume the second from the bottom like is for some reason singling out the commonwealth portion. It is a reasonable range guess. On the low side, it is below the adjustment for error in the immigration cost, and on the high side, it exceeds it. I would guess there are far fewer foreign corporations, so the amount paid per "head" will be a lot higher. Of course, if we assume the numbers provided are near accurate, which in their own words are of low confidence, corporate welfare is costing between 4 and 7 times immigrant welfare - every year. That adds up. Of course, you could argue that corporate welfare provides jobs. Yes it does, but why give it to foreign corporations? Why not give it to Aussie owned corporations and use it to build up Aussie industry and Aussie assets? Also, welfare to immigrants is spent locally. There is none sent back as profits to foreign peoiple (yes, some immigrants do send money to their families from their homeland - but they will by far mostly be those working and not given "handouts"). Thinking about it.. I do agree with the meme. Get the immigrant corporations out and get Aussie ones in their place.

The rear tyre is made of worn out piston rings - very clever.

Trump renames Lake Ontario Lake America. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/19XA3YFS3W/

Correct. Sorry for the delay, I've been a bit distracted. Here's something a little different.

Love that movie. Saw a very good stage production of it too.

One winter's evening we found an straggly cat at our door. 
She was a sorry sight indeed. 
Starving and dirty, she smelled terribly and all her fur all matted in lumps. 
We felt so sorry for her so we put her in a carrier and took 
her to the vet. 
 We didn't know what to call her so we named her 'Pussycat.'

 The vet decided to keep her for a day or so. 
He said he would let us know 
when we could come and get her.

 My husband (the complainer) said, 
'OK, but don't forget to wash her, she stinks.' 
He reminded the vet that it was his WIFE (me) that wanted the dirty cat, not him.

 My husband and my Vet have never seen eye to eye. The vet calls my husband 
'El-Cheap-O', and my husband calls the vet 'El-Charge-O'.
 
They love to hate each other and constantly 'snipe' at one another, with my 
husband getting in the last word on this particular occasion.
 
 The next day my husband had an appointment with his doctor, 
who is located in the same building, next door to the vet.

 The MD's waiting room and office was full of people waiting to see the 
doctor. 
A side door opened and the vet leaned in - he had obviously
seen my husband arrive.

 He looked straight at my husband and in a loud voice said,

'Your wife's pussy doesn't stink any more. We washed and shaved it, and
now she smells like a rose. Oh, and, by the way, I think she's pregnant.
 God only knows who the father is!' Then he closed the door.


BTW, if you really want to stop the rent takers of the economy, start using cash for as many purchases as possible. Every card transaction - and I do mean every one - results with some going to one of two payments companies in the US. Even our dear eftpos has to pay a fee.

Although largely correct, my understanding of stablecoin is that it has to be backed by a liquid asset to derive its value. In other words, we would treat it as a derivative financial instrument when pricing it. I am not sure how the inversion of the dollar value would send the stablecoin up in value. It effectively becomes a proxy for directly buying US Treasuries in this case. There is no mandate for a stable coin to buy anything.. but on issuing more of the currency the stablecoin can do one of two things.. not buy any, which will dilute the value of the already issued coin as well as that of the newly issued coin, or top up their reserves of whatever is backing the stablecoin - in this case US Treasuries. These holding represent hedges against the loss of value of the coin against the currency they are stabilised against. Importantly, they don't have to buy up new US Treasuries (or whatever currency they are stabilised against), and they don't have to buy the debt - they can hold cash reserves - though that is far more expensive. I am nto sure about the retail market, but any intitutional interest in a properly hedged stablecoin as a result of a decrease in the demand of the asset backing it would not lead to an increase in demand.. In fact, it would go the other way. In the above case, if they saw the dollar dropping, they would probably take short positions in that coin (note, assuming this is not speculative) because even if it took a while for the hype of the retail investors in the coin to wear down, the coin would drop to its actual value... Also, for the coin to remain a stablecoin, as it dfoes not have cash as a hedge, it would likely have to buy more US Treasuries to maintain its stable status, and that could squeeze its finances and eventually cause it to break from the claim of stablecoin, which would then kill demand and value as it becomes another meme coin after that, or go into massive debt to hold its value. If the dollar stayed long term depressed, either way, the coin will eventually go with it from a retail investor perspective. That is my favourite. Errr.. Yes they did.. They knew tariffs were coming, and from his first stint in office, they knew he was going to be a lying, corrupt con artist. The fact this bit was not in his policy did not mean he wasn't going to try to use the presidency to disproportionately enrich himself corruptly. It could have been any myriad of ways to do it.. And yes, you just had to listen to his policy speeches (rallies) and realise he was all about tanking the US economy through increased debt and tariffs, and being a dictator. It seems that people are really no smarter than any other animal - you offer them a morsel of bait with a giant hook in it, they will not see the hook and just take the bait, hook, line, and sinker (in fact, some animals seem smarter as when they see the hook, they nibble at the bait but not take the hook). And then they will start thrashing about trying to get off the hook as they are drawn to the usually inevitable conclusion. In the aftermath of the initial policy implementations, it was educating to see how many people who voted for Chump say they didn't vote for the policies he implemented - the very same policies he was very clear about implementing before the election... Teachers voted for slashes to the education budget, government workers voted for DOGE, undocumented immigrant families voted for ICE.. those on SNAP having it withdrawn, and the list goes on. It was absolutely mind boggling when they would turn up on youtube and MSM and say they didn't vote for that... What they thought for some reason is it wouldn't happen to them.. when it was clear it would. And the funny thing was they often said they would still vote for him... They are getting exactly what they voted for.

Although to smaller extents, there are a few more countries I could think of that could fit that bill.

This video is incredible. I didn't know where to put it. It is brilliant. So accurate. I hope you can view it. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1366620815311013

That's truly amazing. The more you look at it the more you see.

80 doesn't seem to be a good number for celebrities this month

I's not 'data' in the sense of the sort answers your get if you carried out a number of tests or experiments and then analysed that data to see if it enabled you to predict a future event. AI, in one of its applications can do that, but what the Common Man sees is the results of loading an AI program with massive amounts of existing published stuff and then when AI is asked a question, it searches all that stuff to recall what it hs been fed. It will produce the results, but it is up to the human who asked the question to examine what has been provided and see it it makes sense, i.e. to verify the response. Because there is so much information floating around the Internet. Just consider how much information a lot of people have in the form of photographs on their mobiles. Even this site has masses of information that AI could possible access and add to its store of information.

I look forward to suffering such delightful political boredom.

We live in hope, but may die in despair.

But what are we going to talk about if sanity happens and everything goes back to normal?

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.