pmccarthy

This discussion is impenetrable.

Told you it was political!

Nothing wrong with reducing usage, I agree. But setting impossible targets does no one any good. Unfortunately any debate quickly gets political. For example, I see more good science and common sense in the discussions of Peta Credlin and Malcolm Roberts than any of the current government. That makes me impossible to talk to, I guess.

I would argue that CSIRO is driven by politics and economics. As are the many large companies who had embraced "woke" causes and are now having to back down and get in touch with the real world.

I would argue that public opinion may be, but science is certainly not. The consequences of "stop oil" are horrendous, but it will not happen because it cannot happen.

Hence the term butt ugly.

It’s easy to give up drinking. I've done it dozens of times. Did it again about a fortnite ago. I'm thinking of giving up again now.

I went to see the Holden museum in Echuca today. It was my final visit, as the museum is closing and the cars will be auctioned off. But they will go to good homes, and we will perhaps see them on the roads and at car shows in future.

First Person View (FPV) drones have changed warfare in Ukraine. They may end the world as we know it! Military technology leaks out into civil society. Bad actors get access to high-powered rifles and machine guns. It will be even easier to get hold of FPV drones in future. You can send them 10, 20 or more km from anywhere to attack someone you don't like. Perhaps a business rival or political opponent. If the military payloads (explosives) are hard to come by, there are plenty of ways to make your own. Society will descend into chaos, and it will be impossible to police the menace. This problem is just around the corner.

If you have equipment that you can't use in case the enemy gets it then what's the point?

Yeah Bing drives me mad. It does AI crap that I dont ask for.

Our PM?

I have been watching colourised movies of New York and London Circa 1900. Big electric buses in 1900, electric taxi cabs in 1898, posties on powered scooters in 1900. Not what I expected.

I have seen a few videos of idiots trying to drive through flooded causeways and stalling. Lots of people lined up and cheering them on, encouraging them to have a go. Even a Tesla with water up to the windows. I don’t know which part of the UK.

Was it mushrooms?

We inherited a shit world in the 1960s. I expected to die in a nuclear war, or in Vietnam.

The perfect dashboard

"Because both tapes do very similar jobs, the correct name to use is often confused because "duck" and "duct" are homophones." Before we had gay dating sites, we had homophones.

Gerasimov appeared yesterday in a video.

My grandmother married a returned soldier in 1919. He jumped out of the hospital window a week later. Then she married another returned soldier, my grandfather, who was born in Wingen. She said he had been Wingen ever since.

Better than teasing other parts of the body.

He was given one million dollars for handing over the chopper. Perhaps he was carrying it in diamonds.

There is a public building in Burke with the same system.

My 1985 Jaguar has a trip computer. It still works and calculates average fuel consumption, speed etc. 39 years old.

So you haven’t done 100 miles either!