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That's valve-ist!!!!!

I don't think the fact of being American by birth had much to do with Pope Leo's election, although we will never know of the points made in his favour during enclave. I suppose that if Trump hadn't created the situation withevery other country, Pope Leo would have not had the need to be saying what he has been saying. What I love is that Pope Leo never names names. He leaves it up to us to infer of whom he is speaking.

Is it un-Catholic to pray that someone would drop dead?

This seems to be an unbiased report. https://antonygreen.com.au/sa2026-it-turns-out-the-count-aint-over/

The indigenous people of Victoria seem to be the most aggressive people in relation to demanding rrights based on cultural claims. Is that their interpretaion of "reconcilliation"?

I always enjoy a good pun. Puns are the heart and soul of English comedy.

Apparently the vote has been officially declared and the result will not change. The total number of ballots (about 70????) is said to be insufficiant to change to result. The recount is more or less a debrief session for the Electoral Commission to see what went wrong.

I wonder if inflation actually is an insurmountable problem for the average citizen - the peasant, or if you like, the people like us. It's for sure that things that are imported, the 21st Century consumer goods, would become too expensive, but food can still be produced and bartered for. Things would be really tough, but life would go on as it has done through the many periods of adversity these people have gone through throughout the millenia.

I haven't started my mower for two years.

I thought those small vilalges with high murder rates were only in Midsummer.

I can't see AI doing this sort of job.

Not at my place. Therfe was more moisture on a dead dingo's donger than came from the sky.

I'm so not looking forward to this.

Haven't you know a bloke named English, or his mate French?

Just grap a Net and Yahoo!

We will sill need a doctor to sew up our wounds and set our bones. We will need teachers to show our children how to read and count. We will need plumbers to clear our blockes drains and sparkies to wire in our fuse boxes. Every new technology displaces those who performed the activity the is displaced. Humanity always finds something new to do that the technology hasn't caught up with. We are not looking at disaster. We are seeing new opportunities.

Is it all about nulear capability, or is that the magician's diversion from the real reason - profiting from the oil that the USA has under its own land? This video raises that question. The presenter is pretty level-headed and fair. I suggest that you hear what he says and then form your opinion one way or the other. The idea presented heremakes more sense, based on what we know of the economic behaviour of the USA for over 100 years, than political or military security reasons.

Now I know how the engine govenor in a small engine works.

Sounds like teh AI you describe will put half the population of Asia out of work.

Central West NSW is inded glider heaven.

Yep. Those boundaries are arbitrary at best, but at least they give us a rough idea of where climate types change. Not much in nature is clear cut.

How come, if someone posts a topic tht is not related to politics, the follow-up always seems to fly into politics? Prhaps I should have included in the original post an allegation that the mites were introduced to Australia by the CIA on the orders of Trump.

I've seen clouds forming throughout the day, and then watch them drift away in the late afternoon. After sunset I see lightning downwind where the clouds have gone. Yep. We can draw lines on a map for our information, but the information they give is that there is some sort of boundary between two climate types. That's definitely true, but when you have the Great Dividing Range between you and the ocean, not much moist air gets over those ranges. Even the eatward moving remnants of the tropical air masses coming from the Indian Ocean sweem to pass to the north along the Queensland border.

I can't prove it meterologically, but I think that I live on the boundary of the northern and southern climate regions. That being said, it does rain here enough for agriculture to be profitable. It just hasn't rained sufficuantly for nearly are year. Prior to that rain we had a stinking hot summer and another one since.

A lot of you blokes have griped about the amount of rain you have been getting over the past few months. My gripe is waking up every morning to blue, cloudless skies for months on end. It's not as though I live in a desert, but it would be nice to see a few inches of rain falling over a week or so. We got a downfall a few weeks ago from a passing frontal system. That sprouted plants in the paddock, but since then it has been dry, warmish (low 30s) and wind. The green tinge is truning grey, and there does not appear to be any chance of rain in the offing. I live where once the usual farm raised sheep and grew wheat. OK, new cops like Canola and beans have come in, but that doesn't change the basic fact that it is a crop growing area. I wonder how many farmers will be taking the punt and dry sowing. I expect that teh financial risk is too high when combined with the high fuel prices. Well, I'm not worrying about cropping, but I sure am missing the rain.