nomadpete

In spite of all the stuff going on so far, It's gone beyond just a case of 'What has tRump done now?'.... Quoted from Pearls & Wisdom: "a group of 36 senior neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, general psychiatrists and mental health professionals experienced in the diagnosis of cognitive disorders and evaluation of dangerousness, who had signed an earlier statement in 2024, issued an update on 30 April of this year. They cited examples of Trump’s “marked deterioration in cognitive functioning, evidenced by disorganised and tangential speech, rambling digressions, factual confusions, unexplained sudden changes of course in strategic matters, both national and international, episodes of apparent somnolence during crucial public proceeding. Grandiose and delusional beliefs, including assertions of infallibility…claims that his decision-making authority is unlimited – with no need to consider domestic and international laws and constrained only by his ‘own morality’. Severely impaired judgment and impulse control…Significant loss of self-control (disinhibition) and getting stuck on the same thoughts or actions, unable to let go or move on (perseveration), including seemingly compulsive, manic-like late-night communications – e.g., 150 social media posts in one night.” They conclude: “it is our expert opinion that Donald J. Trump is mentally unfit to be the President of the United States, and that steps to remove him from office must be undertaken with the greatest urgency”. And this bloke has 24/7/365 access to instantly start launching numerous preplanned nuclear ATTACKS. https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/07/for-president-trump-starting-nuclear-war-as-easy-as-sending-a-tweet/

How do you writ up the insurance claim?

A Random thought...

I hope he hasn't fallen off his bike..... err, trike.

I put this here partly tongue-in-cheek. But Don't you think a V12 range extender on a 500hp hypercar, sounds like a monster? https://www.motortrend.com/news/evtol-range-extender-hypercar-motor-diesel-v12

So, seventytwo virgins, eh? That's a hellava lotta goats!

The first thing they'd do is start sending friendly emails to random blokes......

It was a Chinese build. Tipper back. Single cyl, shaft drive to a short conventional diff. The frame was 2"box downtubes. Really tough. But also very dead.

Meanwhile, in USA, it is reported: "Virginia hosts the world’s largest concentration of these facilities, and PJM’s independent market monitor found data centers drove 63% of last year’s capacity price increases across the regional grid. That cost doesn’t stay abstract. It lands on every ratepayer in the territory — a pattern familiar to those who’ve followed tech scandals where costs are quietly shifted onto ordinary people." I suspect Australia will follow the American funding model.

Just to put the supply and demand influence on pricing, we should include data centres. These things require grid reinforcement and generation increases far above population requirements. They now affect wholesale prices. A single hyperscale data center can consume over 100 megawatts — comparable to the usage of tens of thousands of homes. Australia already hosts 154 data centers across 77 cities, operated by 58 distinct operators. And plan for many more. https://www.datacenters.world/countries/australia

Something like this?

I missed out Now I feel neglected. What am I doing wrong?

This mught fit a thread called "How crazy is this crazy world" The infamous Male Supremacist Tate bros (I invented that term) got a private jet flight from Romania (I think?) to USA. Now have been arrested in Miami for extradition to face charges in Blighty. LONDON – Influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been arrested in Miami after British authorities issued 38 new charges against them, including allegations of rape and sex trafficking. Is this the image of alpha males in 2026?

Anyone else feel this is a big issue? https://heatherdelaneyreese.substack.com/p/welcome-to-donald-trumps-surveillance?publication_id=5445372&post_id=205718531&isFreemail=true&r=tosdr&triedRedirect=true Excerpt: Today the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression filed a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C., on behalf of a man named David Streever. He is a 45-year-old who lives in Rochester, New York. His wife, the Reverend Hilary Streever, is an Episcopal priest. On January 26, after watching federal agents shoot and kill two American citizens in Minneapolis and then watching this administration call those citizens terrorists, David Streever did what Americans have done since the founding of this country. He wrote a letter to the person in charge. He sent a three-paragraph email to then-acting ICE Director Todd Lyons. The subject line read “What’s next.” He called Lyons a “monstrous human being.” He compared him to a Nazi. He wrote that Lyons would be tormented by his own conscience. He sent it to the government email address. It was raw, it was angry, and it was protected speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Five months passed. Nothing happened. And then, while David Streever was on vacation in Finland with his seven-year-old daughter, visiting a children’s theme park called Moomin World, his doorbell camera back home in Rochester picked up something unusual. Two federal agents in blue jackets were standing on his front porch, stepping past children’s toys to ring the bell. They were from Homeland Security Investigations, HSI, the unit built to investigate transnational organized crime, drug trafficking, human trafficking, cybercrime, and terrorism. The unit with access to cell phone location data, credit card transactions, surveillance cameras, and administrative subpoenas to every major tech company in the country. That is the unit they sent to David Streever’s house. For an email. His wife arrived home still wearing her clergy collar. One of the agents handed her a document. It was printed on official federal stationery from ICE and DHS. Across the top, in underlined capital letters, it read: “WARNING NOTICE.” Below that: “YOU MAY BE IN VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAW.” It instructed Streever to “promptly remove and/or discontinue” his “behavior” and warned that the notice would be “taken into consideration” if he continued to be involved in “criminal activities.” His wife told the agents her husband was out of the country with their daughter and would be home Friday. But they did not wait. Just hours after Streever and his daughter landed at JFK International Airport, a third HSI agent tracked him to the airport hotel where they were staying for the night. The agent left a business card at the front desk. His wife had not told the agents which hotel he would be at. They found him anyway. “Like many Americans, I was deeply upset after the shootings in Minnesota and I felt compelled to do something,” Streever said in a statement. “Writing an email to the head of ICE seemed like the least I could do to express my sense of outrage. I never dreamed it would lead to a knock on my door by federal officers or descending on my hotel in the dark of night.” FIRE’s senior attorney, Adam Steinbaugh, put it plainly: “If someone is really threatening a government official, you don’t wait five months to act on it. The fact that authorities didn’t respond immediately shows that David presented no threat. This pursuit is designed to intimidate lawful speech, pure and simple.”

Ben fighting gravity all my life. So far it's a nil all draw. But it's gaining on me.