Interesting stuff
Hey VJ, saw that ‘the copper market was suspended’ yesterday. Wow, I thought, how do you suspend an international market? Some interesting story there, no doubt. Wonder who got burned?
Ooh, “a major Chinese bank”. Now it gets interesting. ;-)
Just listening to Scott Galloway and Ray Dalio podcast episode in Prof G. My favorite 2 humans. The first 15 mins are brutal. So good, I highly recommend it, many will like it.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/economic-cycles-investing-in-educa...
When developer website talks about wave pools you know something’s going on. A fair bit of detail about the competing proposals and even law suits on the Sunny Coast. Someone from SW could do a bit more research and write an article about it so people could understand what’s going on?
https://www.theurbandeveloper.com/articles/wave-pool-developers-sunshine...
Please Please
Yes yes yes!
WTF!
Must say, your last shot on that hole impressed me, Mr FitzSimons. Very nice work. 😎 pic.twitter.com/fIPB4DLo5P
— Jenny Frecklington-Jones #VotedYes ❤️💛🖤 (@JonesHowdareyou) March 18, 2022
Hahaha no way.
The oldest surfer in the Tweed Coast Pro, Occy, aged 55, just got fourth place in his Rd of 96 heat.
stunet wrote:The oldest surfer in the Tweed Coast Pro, Occy, aged 55, just got fourth place in his Rd of 96 heat.
Was it because of a drop in interference ?
'Senate votes unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent'
The Senate voted Tuesday to end the biannual practice of “spring forward” and “fall back” under a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent — a move that reflects the increasingly popular view that the twice-yearly disruption hurts sleep and poses health and safety risks.
“Today the Senate has finally delivered on something Americans all over the country want — to never have to change their clocks again,” said Sen. Patty Murray.
stunet wrote:'Senate votes unanimously to make daylight saving time permanent'
The Senate voted Tuesday to end the biannual practice of “spring forward” and “fall back” under a bill that would make daylight saving time permanent — a move that reflects the increasingly popular view that the twice-yearly disruption hurts sleep and poses health and safety risks.
“Today the Senate has finally delivered on something Americans all over the country want — to never have to change their clocks again,” said Sen. Patty Murray.
I'm still trying to work this one out. Isn't that just changing your timezone???
Ash Barty has retired. Great interview on her Insta. What a class act. Absolute legend!
Agree. What a champion.
Upthread on the 6th was mentioning the spikes in metals/grains/foodstuffs prices. It was concerning as there are consequences for a great many people. Some of the next link is self inflicted government policy, but note the foodstuffs/basic items/medical equipment shortfalls:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/anger-grows...
Next up, we are getting media warnings that the spike in the (particularly) wheat chart was foreshadowing:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/climate-and-people/ukraine-war...
I can't stress enough how taking supply offline, or for that matter inflation (increase in monetary supply, imo) must be kept neglible enough to not see worldwide spikes in cereals prices.
terrifying vj
and classic supafreak
"In the past five years, a cadre of fact-checkers has marched through the institutions of journalism and installed itself in the U.S. media as a privatized, quasi-governmental regulatory agency. What’s wrong with facts, you say? Fueled by a panic over misinformation, the fact-checking industry is shifting the media’s primary obligation away from pursuing the truth and toward upholding vague notions of public safety, which it gets to define. In the course of this transformation, journalists are being turned into rent-a-cops whose job is to enforce an official consensus that is treated as a civic good by those who benefit from—and pay for—its protection...."
acab
"...The New York Times acknowledged “some harm reduction programs do include sterile pipes—which are used for smoking methamphetamine and fentanyl as well as crack cocaine,” before declaring with utmost seriousness that “nonpartisan fact-checkers have debunked the claim” that the Biden administration “intended to pay for distribution of pipes.”
The episode illuminates one of the central ironies of the boom in narrative regulators. Fact-checking trades on readers’ respect for older journalistic values like objectivity without acknowledging the role of the prestige media in deliberately undermining those values by implicating them in the continuance of racism, sexism, and other toxic bigotries. The result is a familiar yet peculiar double game: If an article points out that a network of bureaucratic and educational activists are inculcating the notion that math is racist, that claim is right-wing hysteria. But when a journalist determines that crack pipes are innocuous, that is fact-checking..."
"...Yet in reality, when it comes to benefiting from state censorship, Democrats and Republicans are not created equal. Another driving force behind the growth of the fact-checking complex is the necessity of enforcing loyalty to progressive ideas that can’t survive on their own. Stripped of their specialized language and social and bureaucratic context, key articles of Progressive Church faith are repulsive to most ordinary voters, regardless of gender or race. That is true of the racialized approach to education that was just roundly rejected by San Francisco parents in recent school board elections. It is also true of calls to defund the police, to teach transgender ideology to kindergarteners, and of approaches to addiction that appear to promote continued drug use. Policies that Biden administration officials would have boasted about in front of an audience of academics and public health administrators sound different—meaning, crazy—to people who have not been socialized to accept professional class bullshit. That’s where the fact-checkers come in with their tin badges and unearned air of authority. They can declare that a story is not merely mistaken or overwrought but dangerously defective—because we, the fact-checkers, paid by the tech giants and NGOs that are in turn funded by a seemingly endless tide of dark money from billionaires who want to be woke, or at least buy a woke insurance policy, said so...."
"...So who is the IFCN again?
The IFCN was launched in 2015 as a division of the Poynter Institute, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based media nonprofit that calls itself a “global leader in journalism” and has become a central hub in the sprawling counter-disinformation complex. Poynter’s funding comes from the triumvirate that undergirds the U.S. nonprofit sector: Silicon Valley tech companies, philanthropic organizations with political agendas, and the U.S. government. The nonprofit sector, as it’s euphemistically called, is an immense, labyrinthine engine of ideological and financial activism that was valued at almost $4 trillion in 2019, the overwhelming majority of which is dedicated to “progressive” causes. The IFCN’s initial funding came from the U.S. State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations..."
4 trillion!!!
but yeh... murdoch and hid piddly billions...
"...So who is the IFCN again?
The IFCN was launched in 2015 as a division of the Poynter Institute, a St. Petersburg, Florida-based media nonprofit that calls itself a “global leader in journalism” and has become a central hub in the sprawling counter-disinformation complex. Poynter’s funding comes from the triumvirate that undergirds the U.S. nonprofit sector: Silicon Valley tech companies, philanthropic organizations with political agendas, and the U.S. government. The nonprofit sector, as it’s euphemistically called, is an immense, labyrinthine engine of ideological and financial activism that was valued at almost $4 trillion in 2019, the overwhelming majority of which is dedicated to “progressive” causes. The IFCN’s initial funding came from the U.S. State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations..."
4 trillion!!!
but yeh... its all murdoch's millions, fox news, and 'cospiracy theorists' spreading 'misinformation'...
sure
"...identifying “dangerous misinformation,” fact checkers were instrumental in the multipronged effort to suppress inquiries into the origins of the global pandemic that has killed nearly 6 million people. In February 2020, The Washington Post chided Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton for promoting a “debunked” “conspiracy theory” that COVID-19 had escaped from a lab. In May 2020, the Post‘s Glenn Kessler, who is a member of the IFCN advisory board, said it was “virtually impossible” for the virus to have come from a lab. Those were the facts ... until a year later, when Kessler published a new article explaining how the “lab-leak theory suddenly became credible.”
How to understand the epistemological process that could lead a seasoned fact-checker to do a 180 on a matter of utmost public importance in less than a year? The simple answer, which has nothing to do with Kessler’s individual character or talents, is that when it really counts, the fact-checker’s role is not to investigate the truth but to uphold the credibility of official sources and their preferred narratives. Kessler’s mind changed at the very moment when the Democratic Party machinery began charting a new course on an issue that was hurting the party at the polls..."
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/invasion-fact-checkers
I’d like to see the fact checkers take on friendly jordies baddest MP , bloody amazing there is still nothing from any media about this story . The silence is deafening.
Ken Oath I’ve been waiting. Nothing. It’s incredible that no one is touching it.
sypkan wrote:".The nonprofit sector, as it’s euphemistically called, is an immense, labyrinthine engine of ideological and financial activism that was valued at almost $4 trillion in 2019, the overwhelming majority of which is dedicated to “progressive” causes.
but yeh... its all murdoch's millions, fox news, and 'cospiracy theorists' spreading 'misinformation'...
sure
Yes, it is a labyrinthine, immense, engine of ideological and financial activism, so that bit is correct. That it is overwhelmingly dedicated to progressive causes is arguable, but I’m just going to come out and call it complete horseshit. Bill and Melinda Gates foundation is almost purely directed towards human health initiatives (if that’s a ‘progressive cause’ you’ve got me, but that’s not what you meant, I suspect). George Soros is certainly a financial wizard, but let’s face it, all the denigration of Soros’s causes is just anti-semitism dressed up as a political argument.
The vast bulk of the private non-profit sector is funded by the Koch brothers and their acolytes (only one left now, nobody upstairs or downstairs wants him). Evil personified, they have been funding think tanks, institutes, euphemistically named ‘research centres’, all to promote untrammelled capitalist, no-holds-barred, bare knuckle bastardry and earth raping. They have spread misinformation about fossil fuels, everything to do with climate change science, funded politicians throughout the US to support inaction on climate change and sought to undermine the authority of elected governments. It’s all documented in books by Jane Mayer - Dark Money, and Nancy Maclean.
Murdoch is a loudspeaker for these anti-government forces, and as a media owner without peer, his ‘millions’ add up to much more than that.
I doubt you can name a few initiatives that made a demonstratively negative effect on society when done in the name of ‘progressive causes’.
I doubt you can name one.
sypkan wrote:"How to understand the epistemological process that could lead a seasoned fact-checker to do a 180 on a matter of utmost public importance in less than a year? The simple answer, which has nothing to do with Kessler’s individual character or talents, is that when it really counts, the fact-checker’s role is not to investigate the truth …
Well, actually that’s not the simple answer. That’s the conspiracy theorist indulgence in sinister forces controlling everything behind the scenes.
The simple answer, the simplest answer, is that perhaps he acquired more verifiable information. When the facts change, perhaps he changes his opinions. What do you do Sypkan?
progressive causes:
"The IFCN’s initial funding came from the U.S. State Department-backed National Endowment for Democracy, the Omidyar Network, Google, Facebook, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and George Soros’ Open Society Foundations..."
in the context of the article, the IFCN is funded by the above. you may wish to dispute whether health is a 'progressive cause', but regardless the gates foundation is funding the IFCN... no vested interest there?
in the context of the above, it was the 'progressives' that reduced everything virus, vaccine and lab leak, into a contentious righteous holy goodness versus rwnj's, 'conspiracy theorists' and 'antivaxxers'
left versus right ...somewhat spuriously... (a lot spuriously actually)
so in that context, fact checkers keeping 'check' on things like virus efficacy and all the rest of it, being funded by gates foundtion is laughable at best
"...George Soros is certainly a financial wizard, but let’s face it, all the denigration of Soros’s causes is just anti-semitism dressed up as a political argument."
well that's a great way to shut down any discussion... that has worked very well... but sorry, its also utter bullshit...
as to koch brothers, yeh yeh yeh... heard it all before... don't dispute any of it.. and two wrongs don't makea right...
and, bullsht is still bullshit...
I don't care who is spreading it, it's dangerously undermining of public confidence, and, thankfully, people acoss the political spectrum are finally calling it out!
"Well, actually that’s not the simple answer. That’s the conspiracy theorist indulgence in sinister forces controlling everything behind the scenes.
'conspiracy theorist'... again... sigh...
seriously dude, you guys really need to drop that little projection tool.. quick smart...
"The simple answer, the simplest answer, is that perhaps he acquired more verifiable information. When the facts change, perhaps he changes his opinions. What do you do Sypkan?"
yeh nah... anyone with the capacity for critical thought (you apparently)
anyone ...that's open minded enough to read a little wider than the 'non progressive' bubbled up sources (not you apparently)
could see there was enough intelligence in the public sphere to at least warrant an inquiry
(an inquiry biden shut down... only to open it up again 24 hours later... after the release of the most inconvenient of articles...)
it wasn't easy, but there was lots of information out there, to think biden and his sycophants weren't privvy to more than the public sphere is, ...well, ...call it whatever you want...
Change of Scenery. I would like to thank Ben, Craig, Stu, Steve and all the regular contributors to Swellnet. I am on my way to helping mum who's Dementia has escalated. Swellnet is awesome. Such good information and dialogue about the passion we all share. Thank you all for being a big part of my life. Happy surfing and happy living, over and out, Kindest Regards from davetherave.
Onya Dave. Best wishes to you and your mum.
Turdeau getting a serve .
🇨🇦🇬🇧|Yesterday, Canada's Prime Minister @JustinTrudeau visited the #EU Parliament to give a speech. I took the opportunity to give him an appropriate "welcome" there. Short, concise and right hitting the bull's eye! #ID pic.twitter.com/qpcQyGTixQ
— Christine Anderson (@AndersonAfDMdEP) March 24, 2022
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Todays' has a surfing related theme
Kerby Brown. Hunt for mutant waves now on RN Abc radio.
Yeah that Conversations with Kerby Brown was bloody good. Hell of a story near the end.
Rabbits68 wrote:Yeah that Conversations with Kerby Brown was bloody good. Hell of a story near the end.
That’ll be tomorrow listening for the drive to work.
goofyfoot wrote:Rabbits68 wrote:Yeah that Conversations with Kerby Brown was bloody good. Hell of a story near the end.
That’ll be tomorrow listening for the drive to work.
Good call GF. Reckon you'll enjoy it.
WTF!? Overnight press release:
"March 31st 2022 Santa Monica.
The World Surf League (WSL), established in 1976, is the global home of surfing. The WSL is dedicated to changing the world through the inspirational power of surfing by creating authentic events, experiences, and storytelling to inspire a growing, global community to live with purpose, originality, and stoke.
The WSL in partnership with Billabong and Hydro Flask are proud to announce, in keeping with the WSL's vision of diversity, inclusivity and gender equality, from 2023 have renamed the contest formerly known as the Billabong Pro Pipeline Masters has changed to the Billabong Pro Pipeline Specialists.
WSL CEO and Chief Strategist Erik Logan said in a recent interview with Metrosource- "The WSL is committed to removing any and all gender specific language from surfing and we feel the time is right to change the word Masters from what is arguably the most prestigious and revered contest in the history of pro surfing. This sends a strong message to the surfing world that surfing and competition is all encompassing and can help to break down the barriers and stereotypes that may dissuade people and in particular our friends in the LGBTQIA+ community from considering a career within our surf fraternity."
Former eleven time World Championship Tour and eight time Pipe Specialist Kelly Slater "I've been truly blessed by the sport of surfing but I have also seen first-hand how hurtful and discriminatory language such as he, him, man, master etc. can be. This can only be a good thing for surfing and a positive step in the right direction if we want to grow the sport and watch it flourish in this changing world." they said.
Two time WCT champion and proud flyer of the rainbow flag on their competition jersey Tyler Wright said "I've been waiting for the day when pro surfing would finally grow up and embrace the fact that surfing and queerness go hand in hand. No longer shall anyone have to hide behind a cloak of toxic masculinity and bravado in order to pursue a career in pro surfing."
The 2023 Billabong Pro Pipe Specialists supported by Hydro Flask waiting period starts January 29th through February 10th 2023.
https://www.worldsurfleague.com/
https://repipespecialists.com/"
Where'd ya get that, Zen? Ain't on the WSL site, nor can it be found via Google (and, wasn't received via press release here either).
April 1st isn’t till tomorrow at WSL HQ.
Gee Ben , didn’t ya know all that was happening….Zens all over it.
Well played zen , good to start the day with a laugh.
Ha ha ha....Zennie thats Gold !
Have it cunts