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It's another perspective, but I still don't see what that has to do with the intention of Red's post. Maybe I'm just not reading enough into it. I thought it was a straightforward post and couldn't see any hint of support for America's actions against Assange. I'm not debating the issues of Assange's guilt or not or the US deep state thing, or the issue of transparency; all I'm saying is I think his post was misinterpreted and quite wide of the mark at that..

Re-read Red's post and think about it. If Assange had obtained classified Australian military and government documents via illegal hacking and published them, he would have been charged with very serious offences in this country. That's the first point I think Red is making. The second point is that because he has not committed a crime in this country he's being white knighted here. I didn't see anything in Red's post to suggest that Red supports the right of the US to murder civilians and keep it quiet under the threadbare fig leaf of "National Security". I think it's a bit distasteful that you would ask him that. You seem to have completely misinterpreted his post. I think you owe him an apology.

I didn't see anything in Red's comments to indicate that. Marty, you are delving into whataboutism there. It's like arguing that because you don't like Holdens you must naturally like Fords. It's a weak way to argue a point and doesn't stack up.

Opponents of it cited cases of fatalities due to severing of the femoral artery and the victim dying of blood loss.

One figure I read was a Climate Council estimate of 12% of power needs by 2050. I think their estimate is based on one reactor per site. That poses another question - will the seven sites have only one reactor per site or will they eventually have multiple reactors per site.

Growing up as a kid, myself and almost everyone I knew was on a soldier settlement block. It's just a pity they weren't a bit bigger. As time went by it became harder and harder to make a living off those acerages. These days a lot are aggregated.

Here's another one: did you know that the real name of Mister Ed the talking horse was Bamboo Harvester.

60 hours as quoted in the article - 'The 60-hour trek began on June 4, JJ told Yahoo News, when he packed up his 2023 M3 RWD and moved from Melbourne to Magnetic Island in Queensland with his friend Siouxsie joining to help break up the drive.'. That's 2.5 days, not too bad really.

I did away with the 45kg bottles years ago when they brought in the annual rental fee. I use my own 9kg bottles and get a refill from the local hardware store for $25, which is equivalent to $125 for a 45kg bottle. There's no rental and a bottle lasts ten years between testing. It's only viable for someone like me with a low gas usage household; with a higher usage there would be too many bottle turnovers to bother dealing with small bottles.

I wonder how much money I've saved over a lifetime of never having comprehensive car insurance, only compulsory third party insurance. The most expensive car I've ever had cost me $5,000, so none of them were worth insuring. I've had that $5,000 car for ten years now and the only time it's needed repairs was one time with a blown power steering hose. Edit: I've replaced the fan belts as well.

If a vegan didn't like oil it would cut them out of plastic shoes. I wonder if they have synthetic oil based shoes.

I'm not sure how many vegans would be conspiracy theorists. Possibly no more than other groups that make up the conspiracy theory population. One of the biggest groups is the heavy pot smokers. Not all anti-vaxxers are into the conspiracy side of it, but definitely a fair few are. It would be interesting to see how many vegans are anti-vaxxers or how many anti-vaxxers are vegans. The only difference between vegans and vegetarians is that vegans won't eat or wear any animal products, so no dairy, eggs or gelatine products. Some vegans might avoid vaccines because they can contain animal products and the more activist ones possibly would object to animal testing in pharmaceutical products. My next door neighbours are anti-vaxxers and make meat pies for a living, so no vegan connection there.

For anyone with an Xcrement account, this lady has a very accurate take on putler's achievements. https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1802644117341491484

I guess it's whatever floats your boat. Some people like to get involved in military reenactments, but they don't look very serious about it. More of a military enthusiasts get together/fun run by the look of it. Looks like a few serious reenactors with a lot of others just along for the ride.

It's a Quarter Horse. Maybe one day AI will be able to draw a Full Horse.

A lot of old Harleys on a reenactment run: https://www.facebook.com/mavrickmavroux.kuypers/videos/339210275644284

Isn't that the airfield where they used to do runway runs with the Lightning.

Lately I've seen a lot of text to image examples that are getting very photo-realistic. The example below is from a Wiki page and was created with Stable Diffusion using the text prompt "a photograph of an astronaut riding a horse". They say Stable Diffusion can run on most modern computers with a modest GPU with at least 4GB of VRAM.

Not sure if this has been posted before but it's a different rendition of the the AC/DC song Thunderstruck as performed by the band Steve'n'Seagulls. They might look like they're from Tasmania, but they are actually from Finland.

putler has outlined his demands that he says are a prerequisite for peace talks. Those demands are that Ukraine withdraws all troops from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhia, and Kherson oblasts and officially abandons plans to join NATO. He also demanded that the international community recognises the four oblasts as part of Russia and all sanctions on Russia are withdrawn. Someone should tell him he's dreaming.

You have to watch the French. They'll be after our vegemite next.

It was that six shooter that never ran out of bullets that got them.

Apologies for going off on a tangent, but here's an example where an inflexible law as it's written is bent for practical purposes. In reference to cannons registered as firearms for re-enactment use, they are registered as category A firearms, the same category as shotguns and rim fire rifles. When constructing a cannon, legally it's just a piece of metal until the primer hole is drilled through to the chamber. Potentially you can be in possession of a piece of metal pipe and a second later when the drill bit breaks through, you are in possession of an unregistered firearm. In reality, there is leeway given for the gunsmith/licensed armourer building the cannon to take the firearm to the police for inspection and registration.

You wood be mad not to take it at that price.

I dumped Telstra 3 0r 4 years ago and it was one of the best things I've ever done. It was like having a boil lanced. Life is so peaceful without them.