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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

Is Canada in the midst of a coup d’etat?

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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

Miscellaneous links 19/2-20/2

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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

Weekend Links 12/2/22-13/2/22

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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

An email to Australian Unions

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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

Weekend links 5/2/22-6/2/22

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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

Weekend links 17/12-19/12

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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

Open for business this weekend

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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

Weekend Links 3/12-5/12

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South Australia let in COVID from the ponzi states this week, but only to the fully vaccinated. Notice the big yellow bar on the right of the graph. Pass the popcorn! https://thewest.com.au/news/sas-covid-19-cases-jump-dramatically-more-than-one-week-after-borders-open-c-4787196 As we all know, the vaccine isn’t very good at preventing infection. This paper says there is a reduction in the infection rate … Read more