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Blowin started the topic in Friday, 21 Jun 2019 at 8:01am

Have it cunts

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etarip Sunday, 19 Mar 2023 at 8:50pm

This is a great read, making the case for the closest parallel to the current Russia-Ukraine War being the Crimean war of the 1850s, and that Putins goal was to defer EU transition away from fossil fuels. I feel like the author covers a lot of really useful historical parallels, but then doesn’t really nail the link to his conclusion re energy dependency. But it’s a good read for history nerds.
https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/89261

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andy-mac Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 10:26am
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/alby-mangels-travel-documentary-m...

Hero of mine growing up.
What a life well lived...

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GreenJam Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 3:22pm

yeah, me and my brothers absolutely loved his shows, and all those 'gorgeous chicks' he had alongside him at different times. It was fantastic stuff, and it further inspired a growing sense of adventure in me. We'd go on day treks up creek systems, just exploring and looking for some mischief, regularly quoting Alby on the way. Thanks Alby

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etarip Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 7:37pm

Alby Mangel. Legend.
Ahead of his time. Insta-recorded his travels and became an influencer.

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indo-dreaming Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 8:15pm

Imagine how cool it would be if you rocked up to some little island searching for waves and old Alby (now Jim) was living there, fark that would be the dream..

Loved those movies as a kid, Harry Buttler and the Leyland brothers, were cool, but Alby he was the man.

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goofyfoot Monday, 20 Mar 2023 at 8:27pm

Loved watching him when I was a kid.
Sounds like he had a fucken rough childhood. I’m sure his Mum would be stoked with what he achieved.
Legend.

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Optimist Tuesday, 21 Mar 2023 at 4:07pm

I often wondered if Alby was inspired by the 60’s show “adventures in paradise” . It’s a show we were all glued to as kids…

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seeds Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023 at 12:05am

Sorry Optimist
You went down the complete opposite road to Alby.

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seeds Wednesday, 22 Mar 2023 at 12:06am

This has to be a beat up. Look at the photo.
https://apple.news/AJJfuFn9NRBGopuskF_MN1w

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velocityjohnno Friday, 24 Mar 2023 at 5:35pm

Interesting: solar storm, maybe some Aurora Australis for us southerners:

https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Aurora

https://www.sws.bom.gov.au/Solar/1/4

Currently reading KP7, which might get to Victoria. Has been occuring today, maybe to continue into the night.

https://7news.com.au/technology/massive-solar-storm-due-to-hit-earth-spa...

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udo Sunday, 26 Mar 2023 at 2:45pm

Has Surf Aids Byron Bay changed Ownership and are they still operating...
Does anyone know?... Freeride ?

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southernraw Sunday, 26 Mar 2023 at 3:25pm

Yew! Bronte McCaulay just took out her 2nd Surfest.
W.A legend!
Would love to see her get back on tour and see her at Pipe and Chopes.
One of oz's most underrated surfers in my opinion.

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tubeshooter Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023 at 2:25pm

I've seen some crazy dash cam shit but this one's a beauty.
Lucky the boards weren't on the roof.

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Craig Tuesday, 28 Mar 2023 at 2:52pm

Jeezus!

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garyg1412 Wednesday, 29 Mar 2023 at 11:56am

Persistent tyre!!!

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suchas Thursday, 30 Mar 2023 at 9:46pm

Another Bra Boy could be headed down a well worn path to the big house-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11918815/Pro-surfer-alleged-hig...

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southernraw Thursday, 30 Mar 2023 at 10:35pm
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Another Bra Boy could be headed down a well worn path to the big house-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11918815/Pro-surfer-alleged-hig...

Ahh well. It'll give Home and Away a new storyline to work with.

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udo Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 5:16am
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goofyfoot Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 8:40am
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Another Bra Boy could be headed down a well worn path to the big house-
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11918815/Pro-surfer-alleged-hig...

They love it don’t they.

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flollo Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 9:23am

I guess laying the carpet down was way too hard for him

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udo Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 3:13pm

Good onya for having a go mate....but you just exposed your Earnings to Centrelink
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-31/cairns-bin-diver-can-man-warren-z...

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Jelly Flater Friday, 31 Mar 2023 at 10:06pm

From the remnants of the twitter files…

Interesting stuff.

3 mins in - not surprising at all ;)

https://m.

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etarip Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 8:58am

Hmmmmmm….. 2016.

Interesting.

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blackers Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 10:50am

Using old tyres and coffee grounds instead of cooking coal for steel manufacturing. Interesting.
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/sustainability/in-a-world-desperate-t...

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flollo Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 1:21pm
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-01/rooftop-solar-users-feel-bill-hea...

This is a bit of a weird article. It’s starts with a legit problem but then this Maywood guy provides weird solutions:

"[One thing] the government could look at, especially in the transition, because the transition is actually quite a fragile time, would be to reduce power using a combination of smart meters, smartphones and SMS messaging.

"You could ask people to reduce loads and be given an incentive to do that."

Really? Where’s the call-out for infrastructure upgrade? Grid needs a national level implementation + storage solutions now not later. The way it’s going it will require 2-3 governments to even design a program and get it going. And then 3-4 governments to actually make meaningful progress and deliver results. And I don’t think that’s an exaggeration.

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frog Saturday, 1 Apr 2023 at 1:50pm
Jelly Flater wrote:

From the remnants of the twitter files…

Interesting stuff.

3 mins in - not surprising at all ;)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p1GONgRrdKs

Interesting tale of scope creep becoming creepy. It is now in the spotlight and may wither a bit but has momentum and can still thrive in the shadows.

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Distracted Tuesday, 4 Apr 2023 at 5:55am

Political machinations in Russia can be next level. This pro-war military blogger was given a gold statue of himself at a presentation he was giving in St Petersburg. Turns out there was 200gm of dynamite in the statue which was subsequently detonated.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65161095

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basesix Tuesday, 4 Apr 2023 at 6:45am
udo wrote:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-20/alby-mangels-travel-documentary-m...

I remember doing a trip to Yorke Peninsula, we drove past Alby's property for a sticky beak.. a mate who was training to be a bush pilot saw his battered and dinged plane and jumped the fence for a closer look - the scarring was painted on!

We told the old lady who's property we used to stay on, she chuckled and told us about the time Alby and his crew came to stay there to defrag after promoting a film. They asked her several times to tell no-one, to keep their stay secret. They turned up (after driving conspicuously through Warooka for lunch at the Hash House) in full entourage with 'World Safari' emblazoned all over their 4wds and trailers..

The films were a helluva lark, but there's a fair whack of andre rieu in the old dutchman I reckon : )

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 2:11pm

Any of you ever fallen into one of these coniferous death traps? Upside down even worse!

Skier is an absolute legend, and very well prepared too.

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basesix Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 3:06pm

Faaark..!
Yeh, total legend: 'I'm going back up for a sec to get my shovel out, ok?.' !!

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zenagain Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 3:11pm

Not really a problem in Japan but North America, just thinking about that terrifies me. I was forewarned of tree wells on my first ski trip to Canada at the tender age of 19.

A few years ago here I took a little detour through the trees of a resort I‘m very familiar with and basically opened up a crevice that had a thin layer of snow covering it. Did a forward roll, came to a stop and looked back to see what made me fall over. Basically a metre wide crack with blue ice and I couldn't see the bottom.

I still shudder at the thought of falling head first in that.

Broke the cardinal sin by being alone.

People, if you're off-piste, always have a partner.

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blackers Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 4:05pm

Truly terrifying VJ. Trees, can't trust em.

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arcadia Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 4:33pm

It's not only trees, you can often find deep wells round rocks. Over the course of the season, the snow glides very slowly down the slope. This can create deep holes on the downhill side of rock formations.

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 5:28pm

Apparently Rockies are having their greatest season ever for snow, there's footage of avalanches on twitter and stories of resorts closed as of risk.

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velocityjohnno Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 5:40pm

eg

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etarip Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 6:18pm

For the Tabbibi fans:

Again, like the Sy Hersh stories, all ain’t what it seems. So next time someone says, “What about the Titter Files”, point them to this.

More questions about the ‘research’ approach than answers about election interference.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-fo...

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indo-dreaming Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 6:52pm
etarip wrote:

For the Tabbibi fans:

Again, like the Sy Hersh stories, all ain’t what it seems. So next time someone says, “What about the Titter Files”, point them to this.

More questions about the ‘research’ approach than answers about election interference.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-fo...

Hopefully sypkan see's this as its one of his areas of interest and knowledge.

But seriously one kinda croppy blog type article with a video that wont play trying down play one aspect of the twitter files doesn't mean much at all, it all there in black and white, all kinds of crazy shit have been uncovered and cant be re covered up, but most of its been ignored by the main stream media.

Im not a fan of Wikipedia as a source but for those that dont know you can find a basic summary of things here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_Files#:~:text=The%20Twitter%20File...

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etarip Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 6:55pm

Let’s see if Wikipedia article is amended as people check the data. For example:

“The errors that Hasan highlights matter a lot. A key one is Taibbi’s claim that the Election Integrity Partnership flagged 22 million tweets for Twitter to take down in partnership with the government. This is flat out wrong. The EIP, which was focused on studying election interference, flagged less than 3,000 tweets for Twitter to review (2,890 to be exact).
And they were quite clear in their report on how all this worked. EIP was an academic project to track election interference information and how it flowed across social media. The 22 million figure shows up in the report, but it was just a count of how many tweets they tracked in trying to follow how this information spread, not seeking to remove it. And the vast majority of those tweets weren’t even related to the ones they did explicitly create tickets on.
In total, our incident-related tweet data included 5,888,771 tweets and retweets from ticket status IDs directly, 1,094,115 tweets and retweets collected first from ticket URLs, and 14,914,478 from keyword searches, for a total of 21,897,364 tweets.
Tracking how information spreads is… um… not a problem now is it? Is Taibbi really claiming that academics shouldn’t track the flow of information?
Either way, Taibbi overstated the number of tweets that EIP reported by 21,894,474 tweets. In percentage terms, the actual number of reported tweets was 0.013% of the number Taibbi claimed.”

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frog Saturday, 8 Apr 2023 at 11:00pm

The "sneaky yatchie snorkler team" cover story for Nordstream blow up by the spooks was not their best effort.

Awkward.

So the crisis team stepped in to fix things and decided to throw breadcrumb trails in all directions excepting, of course, towards the UK and the US.

A more confusing story is way harder to engage with. Nice job.

The WP fearlessly reveals all.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/04/03/nord-stream-...

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seeds Sunday, 9 Apr 2023 at 9:16pm

Beautiful imagery from up high.
https://www.sbs.com.au/guide/node/18225
Check it on SBS ON DEMAND. Love the outback

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velocityjohnno Tuesday, 11 Apr 2023 at 7:57pm

It appears that the greatest performances at the theatre these days, are actually occurring in the audience:

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2023/apr/10/bodyguard-police-fighting-...

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udo Thursday, 13 Apr 2023 at 3:05pm
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burleigh Thursday, 13 Apr 2023 at 3:10pm
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Are you up to Date with you Booster...?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-13/tetanus-death-nsw-three-cases-syd...

Nah i'm good thanks.

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udo Thursday, 13 Apr 2023 at 3:19pm

Burleigh .. A Farking walking Miracle....

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burleigh Thursday, 13 Apr 2023 at 3:32pm
udo wrote:

Burleigh .. A Farking walking Miracle....

It really is amazing i'm not dead.