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We live in an age of a privatised democracy.

Yes.. and some never progress beyind the furst curve peak...

It is often a case of not knowing what you don't know. I spent most of my working life teaching music, and I have had more than one of these students, four lessons in, and they believe they are close to knowing it all, whereas those who have been learning longer tend to appreciate how much they have yet to learn.

Labor's seat count has climbed to 91.. Flip.. I think even the most pessimistic ALP members must have a beaming smile. On the indies, for Goldstein, they are calling a loss to Zoe Daniels and a win to Tim Wilson (Lib), but I can't see, on the numbers here, how it is not too close to call at the moment, unless these numbers severly lag the vote count: In Kooyong, AEC officials noticed a counting error, which increases Monique Ryan's lead over Wendy Hamer: If we look at Goldstein, around 7% less of the vote is counted, and the margin is the same as Kooyong, yet, they have called Goldstein, but still hve Kooyong in doubt.. Seems they both are still in doubt... unless the & count is lagging well behind the actual percent count in Goldstein..

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias where individuals with low ability in a specific area overestimate their competence. In pre-PC days, wasn't that called the Peter Principle?

Call me a MAGA maniac, but he gets my vote.

In a real democracy, we all would get to vote on who gets a seat on the mars ship.

The Dunning-Krueger (sp?) effect.. Cut a long story short (very unusual for me), inherited a team where one of the members seems to acutely and chronically suffer from this effect. What an absolute pain to deal with and a huge time-waster. Yet, this team member thinks they are the best on my team. F! Sometimes the US system of at-will employees (i.e can leave or be fired at will) has its advantages.

I think that we should give Elon our whole-hearted support. Provided that he is on the first rocket to Mars.

Elon's Push for Mars is all BULL. Better to look after this Joint. Nev

Could be. As OT said, it worked on Dutton. He opposed both the Apology and the Voice. They might well have thought he deserved a bit of bone pointing.

Click on it to open, click again to enlarge, if you're using a laptop. If you're using a phone you probably can't read most things on it.

THAT was an eyesight test wasn't it?

Well, that bone-pointing certainly worked on Peter Dutton! I really want to see/hear what GON uses for installing a curse on someone/some party. I could cheerfully use that on some a***holes who've robbed me blind. 😄

Don't forget the impact of constant advertising that constantly tells you how inadequate you are, unless you have the latest consumer item/beauty treatment/advanced job/biggest house/latest electronic gizmo/etc, etc.........

The deal to buy the Qatari 747 hasn't actually been put in place. The biggest problem (for the Big Orange Baby Tantrum Thrower), is that by the time the selected company modifies the Qatari 747 to meet the Presidential aircraft requirements, the new one being built by Boeing will be ready. Of course, the simple answer for Donny is to ensure he gets a 3rd term, so he can take delivery of his new Presidential transport - that probably is being held up, because of the constant Presidential demands for more and more gold plating. https://simpleflying.com/qatari-boeing-747-new-trump-air-force-one/

No. It's lack of good information. Too much Fear and Hate and Lack of respect for others. Nev

You can only be cursed if your culture teaches you that you CAN be cursed. If you are not of that culture, curses don't work. Look at Christianity. If you say that you are a Christian but don't follow it tenets then you will be cursed with Hell fire. Do you think that a Hindu would take any notice of that?

Assuming it is a real story..

Ever wondered why there is a mental health pandemic?

How would you know? They have their equivalent of witch doctors, called "Kadaitcha" men. Cursing people is their specialty.

Disarmament of Israel was tried ! . So they made their own , and better, than most other arms of the time . spacesailor