nomadpete

Yes, it occured to me that he didn't think that comment through. Methinks they are letting too many religious zealots into their government.

Re: The Lula - Bolsonaro situation. A US senator Shane Jett (R) has announced:- "Brazil will be on the path to be Venezuela 2.0. May god destroy the wicked and perverse with hellfire..." Not strong on diplomacy, eh?

MAGATs accept both.

Yep. Just further proof that democracy is failing. All elections are rigged against our most powerful Leaders! Dictators rule! We may as well just let them do so.

I thought the banks might have started this race to the bottom. But it really took hold.

Give her time, she has the lips. The full MAGA transformation might take a while.

Well, I call the recent war in Iran a success. The news has stopped talking about the unreleased Epstein Files. And still no 'lawfare' is happening to any of the accused (in USA anyway)

I recall crawling under the house with a car jack, and slipping a bigger bit of brick under a bearer to get rid of a dip in the floor. When the place was sold, the building inspector didn't look under the house. Building and pest inspections are a big rort. I once paid for a pest inspection that didn't notice big holes in the panelling where the cockroached had eaten through the plasterboard under the kitchen sink. I put it down to inexperience (because I hadn't looked there either). But learnt to do my own thorough inspecting.

I have heard a builder utter the words "Standard Building Practice" when confronted by such facts. But that was a long time ago. Nowadays we have even more standards to choose from.

The fire stopped just short of a big tract of plantation pine. Couple of k the other side of Ranelagh.There were more (paid) Forestry Firefighters on the fireground than Tas Fire Service. We would usually spend a week walking the ground to black out the remnants but much of this ground is inacessible. There will be stumps smouldering for days or weeks that rain can't extinguish. Which means there is a risk that a strong wind might restart the fire. Safe for now though

Not until he gets his new wind farm.

I still missed the connection with A.I. Does A.I. or data centres use 50mm drains? Oops. Just noticed. There is another thread for A.I. Sorry @Jerry

Oh, for a moment you were still talking about the great invention of the velopicede.

Back to 'Crikey it's Wet'. Yesterday the wind dropped, and the fire died down a lot. Maybe the 4 choppers waterbombing helped there. And still a dozen appliances and crews. Then it rained last night. Temps down to ten, humidity up to 80%, nil wind. Crikey it's wet 🙂

Wouldn't be such a problem if we just banned all those crazy motorcars.