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Since the long weekend is nearly over, I am not calling it weekend links. I’ve been saving these up to share with you for a while. What an honest leaving-do speech would sound like | The Economist Coalition senator blasts Liberal Party’s ‘mean girls’ Alan Kohler: Soaring house prices have changed society for the worse … Read more
Someone sent this to me and I thought you should all know.
We need to have a discussion about how we’re going to host and run this site. Key questions: Why is the current server falling over? What are the specs needed? Bandwidth (peak MB per day?) Processing speed/time Memory Storage Who is willing to pay and by what means? Many have expressed reservations about paying with … Read more
The Democrats under Biden seem to believe that America and its government are so powerful that anything that they think and say must be the truth, and that any who disagree are wrong and must be cancelled. To fair there is a lot of disinformation and misinformation out there, but head space is a legally … Read more
So Canada’s state of emergency hasn’t been lifted despite the clearing of the blockcade. https://www.dw.com/en/canada-trudeau-says-emergency-not-over-after-blockades/a-60864769 Here’s Trudeau’s words: “After weeks of dangerous and unlawful activities, after weeks of people being harassed in the neighborhoods, [and] after evidence of increased ideologically motivated violent extremism activity across the country,” local authorities needed “more tools to restore order,” he said. … Read more
Offering counselling in the face of a crisis is about as effective offering a chocolate bar when you house is on fire. https://www.afr.com/policy/health-and-education/are-you-mentally-ill-or-just-very-unhappy-20220210-p59vhh PJW reporting contrived racial diversity on TV being noticed on reddithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl5GJQE4lCk Quite a good piece on the gas cartel at MB this week: https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2022/02/betrayed-and-abused-rex-patrick-is-aussie-gas-roadkill/ No surprise the inflation in the USA is … Read more
As Sweden gets rid of restrictions, others double down. A nice summary of covid restrictions in various places: https://www.northstarmeetingsgroup.com/coronavirus-countries-cities-reopening-COVID-19-new-cases Looks like the Wall St ESG crew are not as powerful as I thought:https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/oil-nears-100-barrel-us-drillers-get-busy-costly-shale-basins-2022-02-08/ If shale oils comes back online in numbers it will keep a lid on oil price hikes, thus limiting inflation. We can … Read more
So Australian Unions sent me an email the other day saying that wages rise only because of union involvment not labour shortages. It linked to this: So I replied: Jim Stanford points out: “Wages are not the automatic outcome of supply and demand forces.” That may be true, but deliberately ignoring supply and demand in … Read more
According to the New Daily “Voters in coal and gas heartlands are ready to cash in on a clean energy future”. Reading on “the coal and gas heartlands of New South Wales and Queensland” is what they’re talking about. I.e. including Sydney and Brisbane. Click bait propaganda again. https://thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2022/02/03/voters-want-clean-energy-future/ I’m all for free electricity from … Read more
A few things came up recently that have led me to this conclusion.
This week we started seeing COVID cases take off again in NSW and VIC as people started moving around and partying fearlessly like they were told to. The hope is that due to the vaccines that hospitalisations won’t take off. It might be too early to call the trend, but the right hand side of … Read more
For the first time in ages a certain website has opened their weekend links to non members. I completely forgot to look here or there until this evening (Saturday). Hope you are having a good weekend, a few links, hurriedly put together below. Most Austrians are aholes and wusses: When inflation gets high, apply numberwang! … Read more