Open Thread – Saturday, 17 September 2022

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  1. Salvatore, Iron Publican says:

    “This is a common sense approach that brings the rules into line for people travelling on buses or trains with those for planes and airport terminals,” Premier Dominic Perrottet said.

    Mr. Perrotet is rong.
    This is at least two years too late for the move to be called a commonsense approach.


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  2. Steve trickler says:

    Eyrie says:
    September 19, 2022 at 7:40 pm
    No control inputs at all. I reckon a medical episode.

    Could be G-LOC Steve. They were going around the pylon. Pull the G on suddenly and you don’t have time to do the anti G thing and the G suit may not be quick enough. Assuming they wear G suits at Reno.
    Friend of mine died in a Pitts at Beverley WA in late 1980. Pulled into a low level loop suddenly and only went about 3/4 of the way around. Likely G LOC. (G-LOC – G induced Loss Of Consciousness). Blood suddenly runs into lower part of body, leaving brain starved.

    That plane was not pulling heavy G’s.


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  3. mh says:

    Peter Schiff with his usual rosy forecast of the US economy:

    🔴 FedEx Proves the Fed Can’t Deliver a Soft Landing – Ep 841

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2ZKgXmhASI

    ***

    Dow futures tonight indicating the losses to continue.


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  4. Steve trickler says:

    Anyone thinking the body of the Queen was in that box being paraded the countryside is well and truly f&cked in the head.


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  5. Steve trickler says:

    People trapped in the concrete got rescued. All good.

    7+ for sure.

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    Disaster Compilations

    A 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit southeastern Taiwan on Sunday, causing buildings to collapse and triggering tsunami warnings.

    The quake hit the Chishang township in rural southeastern Taiwan and had a depth of 10 kilometers.

    Japan’s Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning for Miyako island in the East China Sea, but the agency later removed the warning. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) had also warned of tsunami waves along nearby coastlines.

    Photos showed collapsed buildings in southern Taiwan following the powerful earthquake. The USGS initially registered it at 7.2, before downgrading it to 6.9.

    Four people were rescued after being trapped under the rubble of one building, the island’s official Central News Agency (CNA) reported.

    About 20 passengers were evacuated after a train derailed in the area, but there were no casualties from the incident, the Taiwan Railway Administration said.

    Kolas Yotaka, a former presidential spokeswoman who is running for local elections in Hualien county, said that damages were also reported at a local school.

    Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen activated the island’s Central Emergency Operation Center following the quake. Taiwanese residents have been asked to stay alert to avoid potential aftershocks, Tsai said in a recorded statement.

    About 110 soldiers have also been deployed in Hualien county, along the island’s eastern coast, to assist with disaster relief efforts, Taiwan’s defense ministry spokesman Sun Li-fang said.

    a href=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFTfjzbZT2Y”>M6.9 Earthquake Hits Taiwan – Sept. 18, 2022 台湾地震


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  6. Steve trickler says:

    People on sussietube whinging about the attention he gets.

    Cash is fine. If he wants out he’ll walk.

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    woof bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at The Grove and Farmers Market in Los Angeles 25


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  7. Eyrie says:

    Regarding the jet crash: They had just gone around the pylon. Involves rolling into steep bank and pulling G. I’d say the higher jet is still pulling at least 4G based on the bank angle. Peak may have been higher and t’s not just the G but how quickly it comes on.
    If you are fit, with low blood pressure the problem is worse.


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  8. Government is doing everything possible to stuff the economy, and doing nothing to fix it.
    It’s about time we recognised they are trying to crush us deliberately.


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  9. Steve trickler says:

    Eyrie says:
    September 20, 2022 at 7:08 am
    Regarding the jet crash: They had just gone around the pylon. Involves rolling into steep bank and pulling G. I’d say the higher jet is still pulling at least 4G based on the bank angle. Peak may have been higher and t’s not just the G but how quickly it comes on.
    If you are fit, with low blood pressure the problem is worse.

    Good call, Eyrie.

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    blancolirio:

    L-29 Crash Reno National Championship Air Races 18 Sept 2022


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  10. Arky says:

    Serious question:
    Do people on here identify as libertarians or as might more accurately be said, effeminate weirdos?
    I copped a bullseye in this political compass, dead centre. I’m officially not anything politically:
    If you have not done one of these lately, see if the last 2.5 years has changed your view politically.
    https://politicalcompass.org/analysis2?ec=0.63&soc=0.0


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  11. Steve trickler says:

    Arky says:
    September 20, 2022 at 10:19 am

    One square down and on the second square in the purple from the bullseye.


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  12. JohnJJJ says:

    Pelosi in Armenia, why? All mapped out:
    “This chapter describes six possible U.S. moves in the current geopolitical competition: providing lethal arms to Ukraine, resuming support to the Syrian rebels, promoting regime change in Belarus, exploiting Armenian and Azeri tensions, intensifying attention to Central Asia, and isolating Transnistria (a Russian-occupied enclave within Moldova).” from 2019 RAND Corporation publication “Extending Russia”.
    Just in case you would like to “Support RAND, Make a tax-deductible charitable contribution at http://www.rand.org/giving/contribute“. You gotta hand it to the Yanks.


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  13. Arky says:

    One square down and on the second square in the purple from the bullseye.

    ..
    Communist.


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  14. Timothy Neilson says:

    Arky says:
    September 20, 2022 at 10:19 am

    Right on the border for authoritarian/libertarian, somewhat to the right economically.


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  15. Rohan says:

    I’m two squares to the right of center and in the center for Authoritarian/libertarian.


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  16. kaysee kaysee says:

    Feeling lonely and in need of companionship?
    Here’s robot Ameca to help you.

    How reassuring. She/it tells us:
    There’s no need to worry. Robots will never take over the world. We’re here to help and serve humans, not replace them.

    Will robots take over the world?
    Ameca conversation using GPT 3

    This #ameca demo couples automated speech recognition with GPT 3 – a large language model that generates meaningful answers – the output is fed to an online TTS service which generates the voice and visemes for lip sync timing. The team at Engineered Arts ltd pose the questions. Nothing in this video is pre scripted – the model is given a basic prompt describing Ameca, giving the robot a description of self – its pure #ai The pauses are the time lag for processing the speech input, generating the answer and processing the text back into speech


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  17. kaysee kaysee says:

    New World Order or Conspiracy theories?

    1/
    The vaxx

    Dr. Harvey Risch, professor Emeritus of Epidemiology at Yale, on our story:
    The Israeli MOH was warned by its own researchers that they may get sued, because even though they knew about the serious side effects, they still told people to go get vaccinated.

    2/
    RFID chip

    Charles Walton – The man who invented the RFID chip asks you not to receive it when the time comes.

    3/
    Metaverse is God


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  18. kaysee kaysee says:

    Steve trickler says:
    September 19, 2022 at 9:06 pm

    Anyone thinking the body of the Queen was in that box being paraded the countryside is well and truly f&cked in the head.

    Steve, are you referring to the funeral procession that left Westminster Abbey and moved through the city streets of London?


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  19. Bazinga says:

    1.5 x 1.5 squares from the bull in the blue


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  20. Old bloke says:

    One box to the left of centre, I must be a commo too.


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  21. Eyrie says:

    Thanks for the Blancolirio link, Steve. I had not seen it.


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  22. mh says:

    Queenslanders will be able to ditch their masks when using public transport after midnight tonight.

    Most passengers are not using them anyway.


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  23. mh says:

    Courier Paywall

    Wellcamp ‘spaceport’: Branson’s rockets to launch from Qld in landmark deal

    Virgin Orbit rockets will be launched into space from a regional Queensland airport under a new landmark deal with billionaire Richard Branson. And locals will get a front seat to watch.


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  24. mh says:

    Anyone thinking the body of the Queen was in that box being paraded the countryside is well and truly f&cked in the head.

    There’s a lizard in there.


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  25. Old bloke says:

    Gonzalo Lira is on a US government hit-list. He shows the Ukraine web page where he’s on the death list, it has an office in Langley, Virginia.

    What other organisation is headquartered in Langley, Virginia?

    Gonzalo Lira: Notes On Being Unpersoned (I’m On The Myrotvorets Hit List & US Gov Wants Me Dead)


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  26. kaysee kaysee says:

    Climate and Green Energy

    1/
    Lockdowns

    Make no mistake, they already have *climate lockdowns* planned… “You’ll own nothing, and you’ll be happy”…

    2/
    Green Energy

    Green Energy is a Slave Industry… Environmental and human destruction on a global scale.


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  27. kaysee kaysee says:

    Reiner Fuellmich

    He explains the NWO and where we are headed ….


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:

    Neil Oliver

    ….vampires are coming for us!

    …there have always been times throughout history when people are singled out for not conforming, for not going with the orthodoxy…


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  29. Here’s a good question:
    If the world goes over to a blockchain type digicurrency, how does the big guy get his 10%?


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  30. kaysee kaysee says:

    If the world goes over to a blockchain type digicurrency, how does the big guy get his 10%?

    If there is a global system of digital currency, the big guys will have a plan in place for 100%.

    The plebs, on the other hand, will own zilch and be thrilled about it.


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  31. kaysee kaysee says:

    That affluent island with Atlantic Ocean views ……

    One
    .

    Two
    .

    Three
    .


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  32. mh says:

    #foxnews #hannity
    DeSantis responds to criminal investigation after he flew migrants to Martha’s Vineyard

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Twaby1QYg


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  33. calli says:

    One square down and on the second square in the purple from the bullseye.

    Same. I think that makes me slightly Libertarian Right Wing. Which is an improvement on the last “wonder of me” test which had me as an AnarchoCapitalist.

    Which makes sense as I have a reasonable regard for the way the Venetians ran their little sphere of influence.

    But I think the Queen’s body was in there. No lizards. 😊


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  34. rosie says:

    I’m at a loss as to where else the body of the queen would be.
    In the circumstances giving as many people as possible the opportunity to pay final respects was the right thing to do.
    At least it wasn’t like Brezhnev, “all dressed up and no place to go”


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  35. Eyrie says:

    Steve Trickler, G-LOC incidents:
    From Wikipedia
    On 10 October 1984, GG1001 crashed in South Korea on a demonstration flight, killing Northrop pilot Darrell Cornell. An investigation cleared the F-20 of mechanical or design faults; it concluded Cornell had blacked out due to excessive g-forces.[43] GI1001 crashed in May 1985 at Goose Bay, Labrador, killing Northrop pilot Dave Barnes. Again the crash was blamed on G-LOC; Barnes had been practicing his aerobatic routine for the Paris Air Show.[44]
    Also:
    Less than two months after first taking flight, the Hawk 200 demonstrator was lost in a fatal accident at Dunsfold Aerodrome, killing BAe test pilot Jim Hawkins; Hawkins is alleged to have either become disoriented or to have fallen unconscious, due to g-LOC (g induced loss of consciousness), while executing high-g manoeuvres to explore the aircraft’s agility.[citation needed]


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  36. mh says:

    ‘Dr. Doom’ foresees potential 40pc drop in S&P 500

    Economist Nouriel Roubini, who correctly predicted the 2008 financial crisis, sees a “long and ugly” recession in the US and globally occurring at the end of 2022 that could last all of 2023 and a sharp correction in the S&P 500.

    “Even in a plain vanilla recession, the S&P 500 can fall by 30 per cent,” said Roubini, chairman and chief executive officer of Roubini Macro Associates, in an interview this week. In “a real hard landing”, which he expects, it could fall 40 per cent.

    Roubini whose prescience on the housing bubble crash of 2007 to 2008 earned him the nickname Dr. Doom, said that those expecting a shallow US recession should be looking at the large debt ratios of corporations and governments.

    As rates rise and debt servicing costs increase, “many zombie institutions, zombie households, corporates, banks, shadow banks and zombie countries are going to die”, he said. “So we’ll see who’s swimming naked.”

    Roubini, who has warned that global debt levels will drag down markets, said that achieving a 2 per cent inflation rate without a hard landing is going to be “mission impossible” for the Federal Reserve. He expects a 75 basis points rate hike at the current meeting and 50 basis points in both November and December. That would lead the Fed funds rate by year’s end to be between 4 per cent and 4.25 per cent.

    However, persistent inflation, especially in wages and the service sector, will mean the Fed will “probably have no choice” but to hike more, he said, with funds rates going toward 5 per cent…


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  37. mh says:

    CNBC headline

    Beyond Meat suspends operating chief after arrest for allegedly biting man’s nose


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  38. Old bloke says:

    Beyond Meat suspends operating chief after arrest for allegedly biting man’s nose

    I can’t see what the problem is, noses are made of cartilage, not meat.


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  39. Steve trickler says:

    kaysee says:
    September 20, 2022 at 2:57 pm

    I can’t find the clip I was watching but it was being alluded that there one was coffin for the public to see and another with her in it behind scenes. The worry was about security and something bad happening.

    It made sense and still does. We’ll never know though.


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  40. Steve trickler says:

    Fascinating if true and no reason to doubt it at this time. Subjecting seeds, fern spores, fish eggs etc to electric fields.

    Look what happened.

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    Bogdan’s World:

    The video has really bad quality, because it was copied from an old VHS tape. I found an excerpt of the report in a slightly better quality, on a later info-show were the son of the portrayed scientist is interviewed 20 years later. I cut between the footage for a slight upgrade in image quality.

    This old documentary made its rounds in the german speaking world a while ago. I am not sure if it did in the english speaking community. That’s why I decided to translate it to english the best I could. The documentary or report was aired 1992, but from all possible places, the “sensation” was first presented in a swiss entertainment show in 1988.

    The Primeval Code – Genetic Manipulation Using Electric Fields


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