kgwilson

Facts don't matter to Trump, they never have. It is all about him and his ego. So long as he is in the headlines, that is all that matters. He has only been there for a month so far, though it feels a lot longer. He seems to think the world revolves around him, however in a couple of years I reckon the chickens will come home to roost. The problem is it will take a lot longer to repair the damage. If every country trading with the US pulled back and left them on their own their economy would wither & die. That won't happen of course but Trumps current strategy is encouraging the rest of the world to think about alternatives.

And he is now blaming Ukraine for Putins invasion. There are no limits to this megalomaniacs depravity.

The water temperature about 15 NM off the coast here at Corindi beach is currently 27 degrees. Normally it would be 24 to 25 degrees at this time of the year so 2 to 3 deg hotter than normal. Local fishers are complaining about no fish anywhere so I reckon they have all gone somewhere cooler. No cyclones yet but they will start forming within the next month or so & may track South & with the warm water could get pretty intense. We'll see.

CATL are now providing between 1 & 2 million km warranties on their EV batteries. The chemistry and longevity is improving all the time and solid state batteries will be available for some Chinese EVs before the end of this year. The MG4 I bought now has a 10 year 250,000 km warranty on both car & battery. In China the MG4 called the Mulan has a lifetime warranty on the battery transferable to new owners. Honda & Toyota have been promising solid state batteries for over 5 years but have not been able to crack the technology while CATL the worlds largest battery manufacturer said nothing & quietly achieved it. There is still a lot of misinformation and disinformation about EV batteries supported by fossil fuel companies & the right wing press though they are slowly losing any credibility they had. While Teslas are great cars I'm glad I didn't buy one purely because of madman Musk who now looks to be a malignant narcissist like his orange mate.

That is 4.826 metres so the record probably still stands. Cardwell only gets rain during the monsoon wet season & very little for the rest of the year.

Albo has had a yarn to Trump & Trump has called him a "very fine man" & is considering tariff exemptions due to the US trade surplus with Australia. Dutton of course won't give Albo any credit. Politics Aarrgghh!

I've said it before, Trump is a Malignant Narcissist, diagnosed by multiple Clinical Psychologists. He is incapable of feeling empathy and will do anything to be front and centre of everything. He couldn't care less about anything else.

Musk was a visionary, a bit like Steve Jobs of Apple. Apple now are the 3rd largest mobile phone maker after Samsung & Xaiomi now that Jobs is dead. He was reputedly an arsehole but developed a following of iphone fans that were almost like disciples. Apple will end up like Nokia, once by far the biggest mobile phone company. iphones have become boring with few new or innovative features and are far too expensive. An iphone 16 looks almost the same as an iphone 11 Now Musk is orchestrating the demise of the company he created with his antics and ultra right wing concepts. He is the richest person on the planet & was given a $US65 Billion salary in 2024 from Tesla. The US justice dept would not approve it even though it was approved by Teslas shareholders & would be one of the reasons he jumped in to bed with Trump The EV industry is far bigger than just Tesla and while in some markets the increases slowed in 2024, world wide the increase in sales was pretty much as expected, championed of course by the Chinese who now produce by far the most EVs and are way ahead in innovation and battery technology as well as almost every part of the support infrastructure from high speed charging, 5 minute battery swap stations etc. Many of the legacy auto makers will not survive even in the medium term. There were 17. 1 million new EVs sold globally in 2024 up from 13.6 million in 2023 & 10.4 million in 2022. About 114,000 EVs were sold in Australia in 2024, still a small percentage of cars sold but a record high.

Trump has now back pedalled & at the 11th hour has delayed the tariffs for a month. The damage though has been done & Canada & Mexico will never have any faith in Trumps government (if they ever had any before) & will be working on strategies to ensure they will never get conned this way again. He is now threatening the EU as well & wants Ukraines rare earths for his continued support. Bully boy tactics only work for a short term until the bully becomes completely ostracized.

That is a complete CON by Microsoft. Any computer running windows 10 will run perfectly well on Windows 11. Microsoft puts a message on the security settings that say the computer does not have the resources to run Windows 11 & if you try to upgrade it won't. BS. I have an old office Dell 9020 with 8GB of RAM & 512GB hard drive & it installed and runs perfectly. There are a number of youtube video instructions on how to install windows 11 on ANY computer. This is just one

It was an unjust war championed by Mcarthyism scare mongering and our politicians grabbed the coat tails of the US system. Our soldiers were the best they could be and politics did not enter their collective conscience. They did their duty and should always be celebrated for it. It was just a very sad and unfortunate turn of events that much of the public finally saw through the lies and deceit and the divisions in our society then meant returning veterans were very badly treated. This is history now and we know the truth but I still feel bad for the returned veterans and utter contempt for the politicians of the day.

The climate has always changed, but over thousands and millions of years. The change that human intervention has caused is over 300 years. It was very subtle in the first 250 years with only a few thinking there was any cause for alarm before 1980. In 1750 the world population was about 791 million. It is now 8.2 Billion. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution we have dug up about 70% of the fuel that took more than 3.2 billion years to establish and BURNED it. The consequences are now being felt at an ever increasing rate. We now have the means to measure everything in detail and establish changes through the ages through analysis of core samples from ice, rock and sediment. The science is irrefutable but some choose to ignore it. This can be a head in the sand attitude, greed, political advantage or just pure ignorance. Take your pick.

As I remember Trumps own description of himself was "A very stable Genius". Well after all he is a Malignant Narcissist.

Colombia turned the US military aircraft away as the deportees were treated as criminals with hand and foot restraints. These people are Colombian citizens and deserve to be treated with respect which is why Petro changed his mind and is sending Colombian aircraft to pick them up. How do you think our government would react if the same thing happened to Australians who found themselves in a similar predicament? They may not have had the appropriate documentation to be in the US but they had jobs, families, homes and lifestyles. There are about 12 million illegal immigrants in the US. If they all get deported who is going to do all the work?

Trump won because he got the most electoral college votes. He also won because he got the most votes of any candidate (the popular vote), but more than 50% of the voters didn't vote for him and only 64% of eligible voters actually voted. According to Trump that is a landslide victory, NOT.