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The amazing thing to me is the supply of Chinese EV's and the way they keep dropping the prices. I'm not sure how much further the price cuts can go. The mind-numbing part is, China's EV production capability is only running at 50% of what they could actually produce, if they were running at full production capacity! https://www.carsguide.com.au/car-news/byd-pushes-chinese-electric-car-brands-to-the-brink-of-oblivion latest-round-of-price-cuts

Personally, I look forward to the day when we can tell the Middle East to shove their oil where the sun doesn't shine. Petrodollars go to finance Middle East weapon expenditure on a huge scale.

I trust someone in the U.S. Administration knows that Iran has thousands of missiles, and is a world leader in missile and drone technology. Just hang around and see what the Iran response is to the "Great Satans" attacks. It will probably be bigger and better than 9/11.

Yeah, but has anyone told Chump that? They all look like Arabs, so they must be Arabs!

Yerah, but those Arabs are pretty sneaky to deal with, when you want to trade something with them. He's gonna have trouble pulling a deal with them, they've got lots of oil, did anyone tell him that?

The latest Trump news is that he is ignoring all his Intelligence community advice and information, that says Iran is not building a nuclear weapon, to say that Iran IS building a nuclear weapon. This is a decision that says Trump has the ability to do what he likes, without consulting anyone, including Congress. If he chooses to join Israel in bombing Fordow, he may find he's only started another American war he can't end. So much for Trumps claim he doesn't start wars. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-21/donald-trump-says-tulsi-gabbard-wrong-on-iran-nuclear-program/105445142

Whitby, because it's only town that doesn't end with a body part in its name.

American singer-songwriter Lou Christie, a 1960s music idol who soared to the top of the charts in the US and UK with songs including "Lightnin’ Strikes", and "Two Faces Have I", has died aged 82. Christie died at home in Pittsburgh after a short illness. He was born Lugee Alfredo Giovanni Sacco in February 1943 in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania. He was known for his stupendous singing voice, that had a four-octave range and a distinctive falsetto. Christie is survived by his beauty queen wife Francesca, who he married in 1971, and their daughter Bianca. Their son Christopher died in a motorbike crash aged 46 in 2014. RIP Lou.

New keyboards are cheap. Personally, I've always preferred and used Logitech keyboards. Operator error is the biggest single problem, use a keyboard that has a good feel to the buttons and one that is tilted upwards slightly at the rear.

Yeah, they only go on to indulge in clever white collar crime, and devious tax evasion.......... 😬

Not sure if this should be in the Trump thread, or in this thread ..... Click on the photo to expand it, if you're having trouble reading it.

Nev, are you using a laptop? If you're passing your hands or fingers over the touch pad while you're typing, it will activate unintended commands. Use a mouse.

SWMBO bought a little (16") battery electric mower off eBay about 5-6 years ago, and she loves it, and it's never given any trouble. Nice and light and highly suitable for our handkerchief-sized lawns. It takes a bit of forethought to ensure the battery is charged prior to using it, you can't just cut the grass on a whim, that's about the only drawback.

GON, are you prepared to fund the massively-increased cost of longer incarceration of criminals? A fair percentage of criminals can be reformed - but yes, some of them certainly deserve long and heavy sentences. Repeat offenders need to have their sentences doubled.

The Middle East is the crucible of all wars, every nation there loves killing off neighbouring tribes, it's the history of the place for thousands of years - it's only been since WW2 that there has been long periods of relative peace (interspersed by short wars, of course, such as the Six Day War). As one lot of dictatorial warmongers is killed off, another dictatorial warmonger, or warmongering group, arises to replace the ones bumped off. Trump would be well-advised to steer clear of any involvement, because there's nothing surer the enemies of America in the Middle East will be hatching another 911 attack on the Great Satan, as of right now.

But don't worry, FB is still tracking you, even though you're not logged in, and can't log in. 😬

Corruption is rife in every State, and it was blatant in earlier decades, but became more hidden as corruption commissions were set up. In W.A., Brian Burke was certainly corrupt and went to jail for it. He was called the "four on the floor" Premier for his mateyness with the scumbags of the "W.A. Inc" era - Alan Bond, Laurie Connell, et al. Former Premier Ray O'Connor was almost certainly as corrupt as they came, but managed to avoid any official scrutiny. Several Police Commissioners in W.A. were almost certainly corrupt, but were "protected" by power groups, possibly Freemasons and others. There was reported to be a "Purple Circle" inside the W.A. Police heirarchy, and at least 2 senior W.A. Police officers are incriminated in unsolved murders - the murder of Shirley Finn, a Madam who was paying Police protection, and the murder of bikie, William "Billy" Grierson at Ora Banda, N of Kalgoorlie.

The Victorian Libs need to stop fighting over who has the steering wheel, and start concentrating on where the car is actually going. While they have major infighting and a lack of policies and direction, they will be forever consigned to the opposition benches as a minor political party with little relevance. The times the Liberals led the country, they had good leaders who sorted out infighting and who knew what the electorate actually wanted, and where their direction was going as regards satisfactory living conditions for the average voter. As a farmer friend said to me many years ago, we need more Statesmen and Stateswomen, not politicians. Statesmen and Stateswomen have a clear vision of what the country needs, and a plan of how to achieve it.

Imagine what we could do if the $380B was kept here, and invested into Australian defence manufacturing. I reckon conventional subs will become obsolete, as tanks have become in this age of drone warfare, and remotely-controlled unmanned mini-subs such as the Huntingdon version will become the norm for underwater stealth activities. They can't get sub crews at the best of times, it's the next best thing to a kamikaze mission during wartime. We have the Australian-designed Ghost Shark mini-sub under development here, the Govt need to wake up and understand that buying war equipment now, for delivery in 20 or 30 years time, is about on a par with ordering a hundred Sopwith Camels in 1919 for use in WW2. We had enough of a problem with obsolete equipment in 1939. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Shark_(submarine) https://www.defensemirror.com/news/33048/Huntington_Ingalls_Unveils_Remus_620_UUV

"Working From Home".

And in the meantime, the U.S. is talking about building a new breed of diesel-powered submarines that are superior to the nuclear ones. Li-ion batteries are providing the impetus to better (and much cheaper) diesel-electric subs.

They're not game to end the NW Shelf gas production, because it's a golden goose for both the W.A. and Federal Govts.

All Americans suffer from some level of paranoia - unreasonable fear of strangers, conspiracy theories, distrust of Govt and Govt-mandated authorities, and distrust in civilian social order without keeping themselves armed to the teeth. I put it down to the amount of lead they've ingested. Lead from IC-engine exhausts, and lead from the copious amounts of armaments they own, and fire off at random. It's well known that lead levels in Americans in general went through the roof in the 1960's and 1970's. Over half of Americans still have unhealthy lead levels in their bodies. So, yes, they are basically insane, and following in the path of the Romans to a decaying and decadent society. https://www.acamh.org/blog/20th-century-lead-exposure-damaged-american-mental-health/

I remember a lot of that section of the M4, from Sept 1988, when I was living with an Auntie in Reading for about a month. I had a little hired Vauxhall, and used to go into London on a lot of days to have a look around. I went straight in via Hammersmith and Earls Court. Vegetation is a bit higher than I recall, and a lot of big new buildings are along the route, that weren't there in 1988! I remember how the traffic flowed smoothly until a few kays out of London, then it all came to a halt with congestion getting into London. The Pommy drivers were pretty courteous, and the road layouts were very well thought out, with turning lanes everywhere, unlike here. I don't know how you do that 160+ miles drive and back on a regular basis, it must take up 6 hrs of your day? I drive 130kms out to my block in the wheatbelt about 3 times a week, it takes me an hour and 20 mins, and no traffic lights once I leave the city, and only one small town on the trip. Road Trains are about the only holdup, there aren't enough passing lanes, further out past the divided carriageway - but most of the Road Trains are doing a pretty good speed, 90-100kmh.

I'd just start a new account. I thought it could be a hacker scam, but it's apparently true that FB is using facial recognition videos. There's no way I'd provide that to a faceless, soulless, ruthless website operator, that only communicates with you when it suits them. https://www.waka.com/2024/11/25/what-the-tech-locked-out-of-your-facebook-account-use-your-face-to-get-back-in/#:~:text=While Meta assures users that,between security and user experience.