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The Chinese have invested hundreds of billions into solar panel manufacturing, just to ensure they control the solar panel market. The word is, few Chinese solar panel manufacturers are profitable, they are only existing on Chinese Govt support. I don't know where they go from here, the only real solution is an increase in solar panel prices - or refining manufacturing techniques to try and reduce costs. https://www.pv-tech.org/chinas-top-four-solar-manufacturers-suffer-1-54-billion-losses-h1-2025/

Clint Walker aged exceptionally well, and many people commented on how handsome he still looked in his 80's. This is a photo of him in his late 80's. He died at age 90.

I still stand by my opinion, it's not Clint Walker, nor any other famous actor. It's an AI-modified face, designed to suck people into those dozens and dozens of crappy YouTube videos, that all start with, "He hated XXXXXX, and now you know why!!!" The problem is, the "hate" is all fabricated, and much of those videos is fabricated information, all designed to get clicks and likes and subscriptions, so they can make a fortune peddling largely untruthful rubbish.

It must be a grumpy old man thing.

Doesn't look anything like him, IMO. And besides, Hitchcock was a right arsehole, a domineering, super-rich thug, who set out to make womens lives miserable if they didn't submit to his demands and selfish desires. He set out to destroy Tippi Hedrens acting career, and did so, because she rejected him. He said, "actors should be treated like cattle". He would make a good mate for Trump.

O.K., so it's Dhufish I'm talking about, although so many people still call them Jewfish here on the Left coast. The problem I see is that, in commercial fishing, along with the firearm laws, the innocent people are paying the price for the few who have caused trouble. The W.A. Govt has set the fishing limits for commercial fishermen for decades - now they've just whipped the rug out from under them with a total ban - and no consultation. In addition, the State Govt does nothing to allow shark fishing (in fact, it's totally banned), and sharks are proliferating to the detriment of commercial fishing. To top it all off, overseas-based fishing fleets are allowed to plunder our waters, with bugger all chance of being caught. This is not just a W.A. problem, it's a world-wide problem. The commercial fishermen have only just managed to get the Govt to agree to a meeting between themselves and the Govt - but the Govt decision-making has already been carried out. This is not how democracy is supposed to work, IMO.

It's a heavily aged old mans face, reworked by AI. It is not the face of anyone famous.

Good God, it's Shirley MacLaine. She's decrepit, I reckon she hasn't got long to go, before she shuffles off. Maybe it was associating with Andrew Peacock that did her in.

It could've been worse, it could've been Sussan Ley, who can't even pronounce her own name properly - sort of like J D Vance, who doesn't even know what his real name is.

I'm talking about using the Presidential position to give Trump finances a constant leg up.

Shouldn't it be, "More a Leg Up"?

I think I've mentioned this before, but I'm staggered at the number of blokes I worked with in the Vietnam War, who have passed on. This has only been reinforced recently, by entering a FB group for my Squadron, and meeting up with colleagues who contribute to the page - and by finding out from them, about a lot more of our blokes who have died. Quite a few died early, from car accidents, disease and suicide - but most have died between their late 60's and late 70's. Of those who have died, many died from cancer and other nasty diseases. It's quite disturbing. I'm sure ciggys and excessive boozing must have contributed to their relatively short lifespans.

We call the central item in any mens social gathering around a table, "The Table of Truth". 😄