Interesting stuff
GreenJam wrote:ahh Alfred, that was entertaining. You were quick to call someone a dumb arse. Pot, kettle... I thought the featherless drongo joke was directed at you
anyway, birds are awesome. And speaking of good bird books, for identification, check out 'What bird is that' by Neville Cayley, great pictures, all hand drawn/painted by Neville
Greenjam. Yeah what a dumb arse i am, totally aimed at me for sure, only human hey. Great book Gj, an oldy but a goody. Most up to date Australian bird book today relevant to current ornithological data including DNA is ‘The Australian Bird Guide’ Revised Edition, 2019, authors, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Jeff Davies, Peter Marsack and Kim Franklin, $50 well spent. Its a great book for assessing ‘GISS’, (General Impression of Size & Shape’) one of the cornerstones of first impressions when you first see a bird. Could talk, plants, birds, invertebrates, fish and anything biological, all day.
If you like bird art, check out the work of William T Cooper from FNQ (recently deceased), his work was recently praised by David Attenborough as the worlds greatest painter of birds.
Missus took this cool shot of one of our feathered Thug Life crew recently
Cool pic , looks like a bit of a shithead .
Gotta love natures pecking order. I didn't realise that pigeons and doves could be aggressive though.
Ironically it was the noisy miners who ended up sorting our strutting top notch out .
Highly under rated bird the noisy miner. Quite useful around here for looking on the under side of foliage for small grubs on my tomato plants etc. Also an excellent bush telegraph for snake sightings etc.
They seem to argue and bitch amongst themselves a lot but when it comes to defending something , their aerial teamwork is quite impressive.
My my who would have thought. I loved revisiting this movie when my kids were young.
https://apple.news/AULcGM_2hRlij57YDopkP2g
Watching Dominic Pair-O-Tay announce that land buy backs are on the cards following the Lismore flood investigation and wondering what that means, if anything at all, for planned retreat on certain stretches of coast.
I saw the other day that Lismore City Council are putting a lot of time and money back into the Lismore CBD.
Doesn't look like they intend to abandon the current CBD and build a new one out of the flood zone. I could be wrong though.
With regards to real estate, not surprisingly there doesn't look like many properties have changed hands since the flood.
Of those that have, houses in the flood zone have basically halved in value, from a pre-flood high of mid $500s down to mid to high $200s.
Fair enough.
But everything out of the flood zone seems to have solidly held its value.
This is off a small sample size though.
Wonder what the state government would offer those in the flood zone in Lismore.
You're right Andy, Lismore CBD is being rebuilt and new businesses are opening up there.
Land buy backs are like for like.
Which means residents need to pay for demolition and removal, then they get a block, which they then need to spend $X on building a new house.
Can't see many people in Union St South Lismore being able to afford to take up that offer, unless the Govt guarantees mortgages .
"Which means residents need to pay for demolition and removal, then they get a block, which they then need to spend $X on building a new house."
Wow, that's essentially meaningless for so many people there.
So they will essentially need, say, a good $300k to start again on a traditional level.
Unless they go for a $100k container home.
100K will barely pay for demolition and removal.
I can’t imagine it’s achievable.
Im confused SF
I found this really interesting. Treasure hunt and possibly the first of the I’ll gotten fortune of a dictator.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-08-20/philippines-imelda-marcos-and-the...
udo wrote:https://www.news.com.au/travel/australian-holidays/mundi-mundi-bash-at-b...
Shame about that ridiculous clickbait headline.
a reckoning is coming...
and,
something is looming...
and, you don't need to be a genius (or a conspiracy nutter) to see it...
https://www.ft.com/content/25451156-434a-4c36-96ef-774d99c89688?segmentI...
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/something-looming-geopolitically-...
I hope those in positions of power know what else is coming...
and have thought how to 'manage the transition' a little more equitably than it appears they have...
but looking at the last few years... i very much doubt it
signs of cracks are already showing..
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.indepen...
https://www.nationalworld.com/news/politics/consumer-strike-dont-pay-uk-...
'“Even if a fraction of those of us who are paying by direct debit stop our payments, it will be enough to put energy companies in serious trouble, and they know this,” Don’t Pay says website.'
Direct debit is like handing over a testicle (to paraphrase Steve Biddulph on mortgages)
Some nice ones at JBay today..
live cam ..
My go to evening surfcam tubeshooter.
A jazzie, coupla bevs, provide your own sountrack.
Watch the waves roll down the point,
Mind surf the empty ones.
Great stuff.
Yesterday in the Illawarra, mining company South32 decided not to pursue an extension to the Dendrobrium mine, meaning it will close in 2030. Bit unexpected as Dendrobrium supplies coking coal for steel (not thermal energy).
Big implications locally and afar. It means the proposed Illawarra hydro and renewable hub will get a serious kick along. How else to power the steel mills? There should be real enviro benefits if potentials are realised. Now is apparently the time to innovate.
It also means, despite the recent spike, the exit from coal is very real and is also coming very fast. Keep in mind just two months ago BHP announced they were exiting Australia's largest thermal mine at Mt Arthur in the Hunter.
Some interesting points in this one, have not come across the interviewee before.
Perhaps they forecast lessening demand Stu?
velocityjohnno wrote:Perhaps they forecast lessening demand Stu?
No doubt, VJ, and if they continue the mine will be a liability on their books. They've looked into the future and deduced it unviable.
For all the talk one way or the other, moments like this signpost where we'll be in ten or fifteen years.
Worth noting that in 2021, China built more wind farms than every single nation combined over the last five years - that includes the European renewable powerhouses.
Also worth exploring these movements if you've got kids wondering about work options. If projections continue, Australia will face a very large skill shortage in metalworkers, and niche fields in the energy sector.
Perhaps should've readied ourselves for this five or ten years ago.
Though I would like to see whole of life EROEI to confirm complex society can continue :)
sypkan wrote:a reckoning is coming...
and,
something is looming...
and, you don't need to be a genius (or a conspiracy nutter) to see it...
All this talk about economic activity and a global recession in the developed world, yet you don't see too much about the looming food crisis and the reckoning that is coming in the developing world. A few stories here and there about China's drought, Ukrainian grain export issues, etc , etc. The way I see it the impact of all these food crises has yet to reach it's peak, which at a wild guess will be one winter season away so say 6 to 9 months.
At the moment there is still a trickle but once that dries up there are some huge populations on this planet that are going to be in some serious strife. And here we are still predicting economic gloom.
If tradies ran the pub
BREAKING: @zdaniel will bring a motion for a judicial inquiry into media concentration & truth of material parliament following Lachlan Murdoch's decision to sue @crikey_news. It's all happening https://t.co/yyxe1sQbeA
— Amber Schultz (@AmberMaySchultz) August 25, 2022
Romance police incoming
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141449/Club-77-Darlinghurst-S...
Romance police incoming. Travis Bickle finally found a safe space.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141449/Club-77-Darlinghurst-S...
Never seen a fox behave like this before, usually run a mile at the sight of humans . Bit weird with all the camera angles toohttps://twitter.com/edrussowx/status/1562102292693876737?s=21&t=j9L8WHDRkla8yHbK9kK7XQ
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:Romance police incoming
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11141449/Club-77-Darlinghurst-S...
Why aren’t the Murdoch’s suing Biden for defamation ? I hope Zoe Daniel gets her motion for an inquiry passed through but somehow I can’t see it happening. Maybe Rudd needs to get in Albo’s ear a bit more . https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/04/joe-biden-rupert-murdoch...
Must be someone else's version of cool...
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/aug/26/melbournes-gertru...
Was going to post that article myself.
I reckon it would be a fantastic street, that is, if you’re into a built-up inner city street with essentially no vegetation whose reason for being is for people to see and be seen while engaging in some pretty hard-core consumerism.
Suckers.
Let ‘em have it and I’ll keep the properly nice streets to myself.
No Andy, it's where it's at, and everybody should move there asap.
Stan Grant is a racist twit who really needs a solid kick in the pants.
Comments below it are pretty funny though. I thought blackface was out of order these days Stan?
This is how the ABC divides us by race. https://t.co/qDoehBvtad
— TheRoadknight (@RoadknightThe) August 26, 2022
Stan Grant is a racist twit who really needs a solid kick in the pants.
Comments below it are pretty funny though. I thought blackface was out of order these days Stan? His outburst at 20 seconds should see him charged with inciting race hate.
This is how the ABC divides us by race. https://t.co/qDoehBvtad
— TheRoadknight (@RoadknightThe) August 26, 2022
DudeSweetDudeSweet wrote:Stan Grant is a racist twit who really needs a solid kick in the pants.
Comments below it are pretty funny though. I thought blackface was out of order these days Stan? His outburst at 20 seconds should see him charged with inciting race hate.
https://twitter.com/RoadknightThe/status/1562978705114566656?s=20&t=7TZn...
DSDS. I’d say you are the only racist twit on this platform, simply can’t help yourself can you. Any or every opportunity to dig the boots into indigenous people. Does it make you feel powerful and important ? We know where you are from, what you do, what your pastimes are, id say you’d be the best fit for a TV ad for BCF (Boating, Camping, Fishing), as the white guy with the gut and an oversized fishing boat, big esky, big everything in fact and that includes your oversized ego. I’d be guessing but i bet you’d drive your 4 four wheel drive on beaches, the one and only last areas of refugia for nesting wader birds. Oh, i forgot, you’d definitely have an enormous Esky to fill with more fish than you need, but you’d catch them anyway to parade as a hero back in your ‘gods own country ‘suburb where you wash your big boat and clean your fish in the gutter and be heralded by your neighbours as a great Australian just doing their thing. You make sick.
Stan Grant makes much more sense than you Blowhard.
thrill has gone
https://www.ladbible.com/news/detroit-slide-belle-isle-park-closed-desig...
"This is one of the best illustrations I’ve seen of why math calculations and engineering is so important.”
udo wrote:https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/politics/aboriginal-land-counci...
This response in the article , allegedly from a supporter of this sensitive eco-development utilising 50,000 years of sensitive eco- development cultural knowledge, sounds more likely to be a classic pisstake:
A second supporter said developing the land would play an important role in the area’s history.
“The story of our land and preserving its history is fundamental to our identity and relationships with its First Nations, native beings and ancient land,” they resident from postcode 2086 said.
“I would be honoured to live in such a cohesive suburb of indigenous spirit and honest history.”
mattlock wrote:Stan Grant makes much more sense than you Blowhard.
So undisguised racism makes sense to you does it? Ugghh….you’re a disgrace bloke.
When Stan Grant , after declaring that the Aussie sporting icon shouldn’t have gotten a job as executive at Sports Australia , aggressively demanded to know what Kieran Perkins was doing to make sure the next person in his job was not another White man, Kieran should’ve slapped the piss out of Grant right on public TV and done all Australians a favour.
Stan Grant acting as if the Australian public would deny Cathy Freeman or Ash Barty a similar role if they wanted it because racism prevents it.
Fuck off Grant you divisive hate-filled , race industry parasite. Bastard is more than happy to try and push Australian race relations backwards into the mud just to grab a controversial sound bite for his dying-in-th-arse TV show.
On your bike cnt.
I watched the whole program. I didn’t see it like that DSDS. I saw grants question more as a direct opportunity.. a wish even for Perkins to present his case for merit v quota. Stan seemed to be challenging the panel to cut the politico babble bullshit (Perkins response) and state their position.
That was my viewpoint anyway. Not defending Stan. Just my view on how I saw the question.
I should have mentioned I was talking in general DSDS.
Not about the particular soundbyte you posted which nevertheless probably needs to be taken within context.
You sure are a nasty piece of work Blowhard.
well that's pretty much game over...
when 'nature' - the world's most prestigious science journal - gives up on objectivity for political ideology the world is officially cooked...
https://www.google.com/amp/s/quillette.com/2022/08/28/the-fall-of-nature...
at least they acted like they were objective throughout corona...
now they're pretty much admitting... 'no more acting - we're ideologically driven'
I honestly cannot believe it!
Yep, read that too in disbelief.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/28/amazon-activists-mourn-dea...
Well done humans... :(
Have it cunts