nomadpete

Yes. I think the donkey has yellow hair.

The frightening side of this is the alleged memo that outlines the scope of electronic searches. I believe there are phrases such as "anti American" and any content that is called "counter to accepted American family values" and not favoring christian values, etc. And authorising automated electronic trawling of phones, social media accounts and emails - over the past 5 years! Remember also that Australian telcos are required to store all our internet activity. And we have intelligence sharing agreements with USA. So glad that I have no intention to visit USA

He must have a really great paper run!

Troppo is no problem this far south. Cabin fever takes it's toll in winter though. And winter comes about 3 times a year.

I do wonder whether tRump has managed to get all the foil off his FIFI Peace medal, before he ate the chocolate.....

We had a lovely warm sunny day yesterday. Today was gloomy grey and rainy. Tonight is forecast to snow on Mt Wellington (Hobart). I blame BOM. They are doing this to us just to upset us.

Maybe you should send a stern letter to BOM?

There seems to be some folk in Yew Hess Hay, who seem somewhat disenchanted with the incumbent *resident of the White House. One such kind soul recently suggested their next election preference thus:- "Once again, if a 'Flaming Bag of Dog Poo on my Doorstep, that Someone Left after Ringing my Doorbell and Ran off' is on my ballot, and the only other choice is Trump or some other bullshitter MAGA tool who sees Americans as his enemy, I’ll vote for the bag of shit that doesn’t pretend to be something else." (American eloquence par excellence)

Maybe not today.... But let's see what tomorrow brings.

The Climate Change Debate.... I am pretty sure that there is no debate to be had about Climate Change. It is changing. - That debate is over - Further, it is pretty much universally agreed that anthropogenic climate change is real. - That Debate is over - There seems to still be some relatively minor uncertainty about how much of this climate change is caused by human activity suddenly adding significant amounts of greenhouse gasses. Is that really a debate? The media attention focuses on CO2, mostly from the burning of coal and oils. There is a big fuss over CO2. There is a negative side to that. I think this is distracting the public from noticing the other greenhouse gas emissions and the othe massive global pollution problems. The way I see it, the human animal has evolved to react when an immediate crisis threatens. In the case of the above complex poisoning of our environment, the threat, although ultimately catastrophic, is gradually occuring and seems distant. So we sit at home in a comfy armchair, doomscrolling & watching cat videos.

The new normal?

Statistics prove that people who live longer are more likely to say something stupid than people who don't.

A small point, but the 'underutilised generation' argument doesn't hold much water when we talk about solar power. Sure, underutilised coal power costs money to run. (It's called 'spinning reserve'). Unused solar energy costs nothing to run. So why would it impact the consumer's bills?

I like the concept of having independant power sources. Once I get an EV I won't care who owns all the oil wells. My driving cost is not going to rely on some foreign cartel setting the price of fuel. I won't care about the anti renewable lobby. nor will I care about grid stability. Furthermore, I suspect that quite a lot of others are following this same path.