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Marty_d

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  2. Climate change is getting real. This is the new normal.
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    A
  4. If the big fella had been born in the USA instead of Austria, he'd have walked into the white house.
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    D
  6. Jerry I thought your post was thoughtful and logical. (However, anyone knowing me and my atheistic outlook would probably say "yeah, but you would!!")
  7. Jerry I thought your post was thoughtful and logical. (However, anyone knowing me and my atheistic outlook would probably say "yeah, but you would!!")
  8. Solar is even safer.
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    Snap! 😄
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    The one from Engiland.
  11. Very nice. Lot of skill there.
  12. Given I've never heard of a man giving birth, by that logic men should be barred from voting on it too. Good idea!
  13. Not to mention the irony of complaining that Latino's don't "pull out" and have too many babies, while simultaneously dismantling abortion laws and trying to keep women home in the kitchen and bedroom.
  14. It's a tradition bound up with a lot of dodgy history - these days (hopefully) usually entered because of love, but historically more to do with property/money rights, political/social power, shame (eg preggers)... some cultures the parties haven't even met before the wedding. My wife and I are married, reasonably happily - but I do wonder what the future will look like. "Thruples" and polyamory is becoming more widespread as the cultural imperative to have the same partner for life reduces. When you think of it, love and attraction are not limited to one person (even at a time) - so if shame and jealousy were removed then all sorts of combinations are possible.
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    Habit
  16. Was it chere, at the time?
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    Ah, vowels. For some reason I read the question as "syllables".
  18. My DeWalt rattler is now over 15 years old and can still drive batten screws into old timber. Original 18v batteries (I have 5 luckily, thanks to a 2nd hand purchase). Probably used weekly. Yes the cheap stuff can do the job if you want to drill pine occasionally, but for heavy use plastic gears won't cut it.
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  20. We also have the best sunlight in the world and lots of space to have solar arrays. Plus great areas for wind farms and heaps of coastline for pumped hydro backup. This has the advantage of not costing hundreds of billions and producing radioactive waste. If you're saying I'm not using logic, then where is your logic in wanting to spend billions more for the same result? Rather than seeing the Ontario post as simply an attack on the LNP, what is your reasoning for why Vol... (ok, I'll call him Dutton) - is claiming that power bills are cheaper instead of showing the entire cost to the population? Misinformed, in the pocket of the minerals council, or just pushing an ideological line because he hates renewables? Because if it's not one (or all) of those, I'd love to know what it is.
  21. Don't underestimate the power of self delusion. They will make excuses for him no matter what he does.
  22. It's complete rubbish. Either Voldemort knows it's rubbish, in which case he's a liar, or he doesn't know it's rubbish, in which case he's pig-ignorant. Either way he's proved unfit to lead. One of his... "alternative facts" was to point to Ontario as an example of nuclear power giving cheaper power bills than anywhere in Australia. Well, according to a Canadian professor who's an expert in power generation, from Ontario, it's been incredibly expensive and the power bills are highly subsidised by the government, which means by the taxpayer. When asked if other Canadian provinces had cheaper generation, the answer was most of them, the cheapest being the ones using hydro power. (Radio National Breakfast this morning). Solar / wind / storage is THE CHEAPEST form of power, with the added bonus that it's simple, renewable, and doesn't produce radioactive waste, take 20 years and billions of dollars to build. As Jerry said the brown paper bags are changing hands. Never ceases to amaze me that conservative voters don't realise that the ultimate aim of the LNP is to redistribute wealth from the poor to the rich.
  23. If evolution is too complex... who made god?
  24. Hope they did their pre takeoff Czechs.
  25. One explanation is that a lot of Americans feel hopeless - so when Trump says the country is going to hell and immigrants are ruining everything, it doesn't matter that it's all bullshit, it resonates with what they feel. Deep down they know he can't fix anything in their lives, but they don't think Kamala will either, so they'll vote for the one they relate to.
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