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There's not much growth whenour manufactruring base has been exported to low wage countries. We still are up there with the leaders in intellectual property, but that too goes overseas. We don't apply it to create employment here.

Have you ever done any geneological research? Pages and pages of records to go through which takes ages. If AI can do the grunt work, then I'd say that it as a good use for it.

Here is an example of how the AI program Claude is being used by the presenter to confirm family records. It is an example of my point that there are so many uses for AI that most of us have never thought of. However, I would rather read a novel written by a real person than one created from prompts to an AI program.

Unfortunately for some of these people with qualifications gained overseas, our, one might say "racist", professional bodies do not accept them. Threfore, while the immigrant awaits acceptance of their qualifications, they have to do menial tasks. I knew of a radiologist who had to wok as an aged care worker because his qualificatins had not been accepted at the time I knew him. In fact, when I last saw him he was starting a cleaning business. His wife's nursing qualificatins had been accepted and she was in employment.

You are required by law to enrol if you: ■ are 18 years of age or older ■ are an Australian citizen, and ■ have lived at your current address for at least a month. The gain Australian citizenship a person has to have been living here for four years, including one year being a permanent resident. Given the four year wait, a governing Party is not going to be importing supporters given the three year term of parliament. So I say that allegation of vote rigging does not stand up. What annoys me is that is seems a very large number of immigrants, especially from India, do not have teh qualifications or skills the country requires. I will concede that a lot of qualified immigrants cannot use their skills because of our laws that make it hard for qualifications gained overseas to be recognised. I suppose that is why we have foreign students gaining qulaifications here and then applying for residency and eventually citizenship.

Just look at this sh!t show.

Individually we are intelligent beings. Just recall the last time you had to come up with a decision to some problem or task that was facing you. If you were successful, or not, your level of knowledge incerased. But that knowledge will remain inaccessible to the rest of us without a language to use to communicate it from you to us. The first method is the spoken word. After that the problem to be overcome is making a permanent record and that leads to writing. Once somethng is writeen people must learn to interpret your symbols, i.e. that's reading.

James Valentine passed away on 22 April 2026). He was an Australian musician, and radio and television presenter. As a saxophonist he was a member of Jo Jo Zep (1982), Models (1984–87), and Absent Friends (1989–90). Valentine was treated for an oesophageal cancer in March 2024 and was alerted to a tumour in his omentum in June 2025. He died in on 22 April 2026 using voluntary assisted dying.

Jerry, I've been watching some videos in YouTube. Really rivetting stuff - unclogging blocked sewage drains. What amazes me is that the drains come into manholes which just have half-pipe chanels in them. Don't you get a lot of smell from them? Also, in towns it seems that the sewage drains run across properties, picking up from each house as they flow towards the mains. Also the houses seem to have water pipes running all over teh place from the hot water boilers. I understand that the hot water feeds through radiators in rooms, but with all that water to be heated, and then for it to lose its heat, what are heating costs like? Finally, and a bit yucky, those drains always seem to be clogged with what the plumbers call "wipes". The look like handkerchief-sized cloth. Don't they have bum fodder that breaks up in the water as it goes down the pipes?

What makes understanding AI difficult for me is the the very may ways that it is being used. Those many ways make it nearly impossible to say, "This is what AI is". I don't think that I could make a complete list of what one can do with AI. It seems that it is not possible to say what it can't do - apart from tasks invovling human imagination. I suppose one could compare it to a word processing program like Word. Have you ever used all the features that come in that program?

Ther is one big problem with recycling hat is never mentioned: the cost of transporting material for recycling. Today I was talking to the boss of our local recycling station. He told me that he sells his cardboard for recycling for $1000/tonne. However, it costs him $2000/tonne to transport it to the next step in teh recycling (probably packing for transport overseas. I didn't ask). So, he says he will continue to accept cardboard, but he will have to stockpile it until transport costs drop. No doubt the same factors impinge on the glass and plastic recycling. The last time you got your car serviced, or replaced tyres, did you notice the environmental levy added to yoiur bill? I'd really like to know where those tyres are being recycled in Australia. There are rumours of rural properties being leased and used to store tyres for recycling. Often they never seem to leave the properties. What is saddening is that most of us try to do the right thing and make an effort to recycle at least some of the recyclables that we accumulate by living our modern lifestyles. The recycling system seems to fail to meet our high ideals once our additions to the pile are carted away from our doorsteps.

As yet they don't have a a candidate they can throw their weight behind. This video identifies two possible candidates and gives reasons for the favouring of one of them.

Pity the next non-Republican Administration. They will cop the bill for restoring the East Wing.

Why bother developing anthropomorphic weapons when we have seen how effective simpler machines like drones have been in carrying the battle? Am I being over-cynical in thinking that by releasing a story such as the one above, the releasers are creating a diversion from what is really being developed?

I once found what appeared to me to be a stone axe in an area where the type of stone did not exist. However theat type of stone did exist within a few kms of where I found the axe. I wonder if I had reported my find I would have put a stop to the real estate development that occures a few years later.