No Oppo Supporters The TAN 83 - yank politics and brand names with a dash of groupthink

[The Mighty]

Yep, natural jungle floor scavengers.

One of the best business ideas I ever heard of was a bloke who lived in the States, small city, maybe 50-60K people, he lived up in the hills a bit out of town on maybe 5-10 acres, nothing extravagant or expensive.

Had a circular system where he took a truckload of eggs down daily to a heap of businesses in the city, they gave him literally ALL their whole food scraps (bar just a couple of things like citrus peel) to take back up the hill every day when he dropped his eggs off.

Then when he got home he just dumped all the waste on the floor of a big barn so it got 3-4ft deep on average, the chooks forage through a huge variety of scraps at their leisure, the pile itself naturally attracts other live bugs for them to feast on. They need no other feed. Their nesting boxes are around the outside edge of the barn, can quickly and easily collect the eggs from outside, the chooks themselves happily free range outside the barn over maybe another fenced acre or so.

He makes a packet out of it, last I heard he had it tuned so now all the waste he gets is from a network of organic growers who supply the businesses he networks in with.

Clever campaigner.

 

[Cam Payner]

 

[Cam Payner]

The man behind the Bummers improvement this year:

 

[Cam Payner]

 

[Groupie_]

ross stephenson is back suckin air hard on 3aw mornings

 

[lllscroatlll]

lllscroatlll are you still house sitting in Sorrento?

nah man, back in my cave in the glorious inner west

 

[lllscroatlll]

the newish flight path is insane, airbus after airbus of campaigners that cant drive or say hello

 

[SunshineBoy]

 

[Hank Heavenly]

Samboy barbecue is hectic

Samboy Atomic Tomato = Easily the best chip variety going around!!!!!!!!

 

[kozi]

Samboy Atomic Tomato = Easily the best chip variety going around!!!!!!!!

Never had it will try next time

addicted to the barbecue that’s all I get

 

[Lacustrus]

In the highlands. Not many people live up there. Lots of visitors in spring/summer for the trout fishing.

Fantastic trout fishing

 

[Hank Heavenly]

Never had it will try next time

addicted to the barbecue that’s all I get

I hardly get it tho, Samboy seemsw pretty hard to fnd these days.

 

[Lacustrus]

Fantastic trout fishing

First day summer central plateau Tassie

 

[richo's dodgy hammy]

I hardly get it tho, Samboy seemsw pretty hard to fnd these days.

I.G.A stores. My local one always has a heap of each flavour.
Maybe not Atomic Tomato though.

 

[Cam Payner]

 

[Rayzorwire]

A world-first study has now shown that the painted lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) can cross the world's second-largest ocean, the Atlantic, covering 4,200 kilometers (2,610 miles) in as few as five to eight days.

The trip, researchers claim, "is among the longest documented for individual insects, and potentially the first verified transatlantic crossing."

Butterflies Can Make Epic Atlantic Ocean Voyages, Shocking Scientists

Some butterflies may be able to journey across entire oceans with the help of the wind.

www.sciencealert.com

 

[Rayzorwire]

The plan to get Joe out there with some strong performances during daytime hours while he's fully switched on and at his best is proving to be yet another masterstroke of political strategy from the Dems...




One of the most striking things about the “should Biden drop out” saga is the extent to which it has been a completely insular affair. Though it is a crucial question that impacts the entire nation, the meaningful conversation is between, on one side, the most high-profile slice of the national political media, the biggest donors to the Democratic Party, and national Democratic elected officials; and, on the other side, the president and a tiny handful of White House advisors.

That’s it. All the rest of us are reduced to fingernail-gnawing spectators in this momentous decision.

The Hole at the Heart of the Democratic Party

Labor needs to fill the vacuum. Or else.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

Even though Julian Assange was finally freed last month, after a 14-year-long ordeal, many myths still endure about the whole affair. One of these is that the case concerning Assange’s alleged rape of two girls in Sweden, in 2010, never went to trial because Assange evaded justice. In reality, Assange, who was then in the UK, made himself available for questioning via several means, by telephone or video conference, or in person in the Australian embassy. But the Swedish authorities insisted on questioning him in Sweden. Assange’s legal team countered that extradition of a suspect simply to question him — not to send him to trial, as he had not been charged — was a disproportionate measure.

This was more than a technicality: Assange feared that if he were extradited to Sweden, the latter’s authorities would extradite him to the US, where he had good reason to believe that he wouldn’t be given a fair trial.
…
Thanks to a FOIA investigation by the Italian journalist Stefania Maurizi, it would later emerge that a crucial role in getting Sweden to pursue this highly unusual line of conduct was played by the UK Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), the principal public agency for conducting criminal prosecutions, then led by one Keir Starmer.

Starmer's role in Assange's persecution

As head of the UK Crown Prosecution Service, the newly elected British PM Keir Starmer played a key role in setting in motion the infernal legal machinery that crushed Assange for 14 years

www.thomasfazi.com

One of the few gloves Biden can kinda land on Trump effectively is that he respects service people more...


Vernon Reffitt got $30,000 to leave the Army in 1992. It was a one-time, lump-sum special separation benefit offered to service members when the U.S. had to reduce its active-duty force.

Now, more than 30 years later, the federal government wants that money back.

In May, the Department of Veterans Affairs began withholding the monthly disability compensation payments that Reffitt had been receiving for three decades until he repays the $30,000. It would take the 62-year-old nearly 15 years to do so.
"That’s wrong," said Reffitt, who lives in Twin City, Georgia. "You can’t just up and take it back."

He got $30K to leave the military when it needed to downsize. Now the government wants that money back.

A federal law has forced thousands of disabled veterans to return the separation incentives they received, throwing many into sudden hardship.

www.nbcnews.com

 

[Rayzorwire]

Just imagine if Linus Pauling had enjoyed the power to force everybody to take his huge vitamin doses. Just imagine if Bill Shockley had possessed the authority to impose his racist eugenics theories on the populace. It’s scary to think of. But they couldn’t do it, because they didn’t have billions of dollars, and run trillion-dollar companies with politicians at their beck and call.

But the current cultists include the wealthiest people in the world, and they are absolutely using their immense power to set rules for the rest of us. If you rely on Apple or Google or some other huge web behemoth—and who doesn’t?—you can’t avoid this constant, bullying manipulation.

The cult is in charge. And it’s like we’re all locked into an EST training session — nobody gets to leave even for bathroom breaks.

There’s now overwhelming evidence of how destructive the new tech can be. Just look at the metrics. The more people are plugged in, the higher are their rates of depression, suicidal tendencies, self-harm, mental illness, and other alarming indicators.

If this is what the tech cults have already delivered, do we really want to give them another 12 months? Do you really want to wait until they deliver the Rapture?

That’s why I can’t ignore this creepiness in the Valley (not anymore). That’s especially true because our leaders—political, business, or otherwise—are letting us down. For whatever reason, they refuse to notice what the creepy billionaires (who by pure coincidence are also huge campaign donors) are up to.

How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?

Tech leaders once gave us coolness, but now it's just Kool-Aid

www.honest-broker.com

Despite the fact that the public funds much of this work, much of it remain behind a paywall, freely accessible only to those with affiliations at institutions that can afford subscriptions (and the rare individual who can pay themselves), thus eliminating most of the citizen-science public. Many of the journals that do offer free-to-read, “open access” papers do so by charging researchers an exorbitant fee to publish.

But as damning as these charges are, they only capture one aspect of the hypocrisy and irrationality in the academic publishing model. Some of this only became apparent to me after I began to see the process from the other side — that is, as an editor at several journals. And this has forced me to conclude that many of the largest, under-appreciated sins of publishing do not arise from the journals themselves, but from the professional ecosystem that defines modern academia. The incentive structure encourages behavior that reinforces the current broken publication model.

The Misplaced Incentives in Academic Publishing

Opinion | Scientists who spend time peer-reviewing manuscripts don’t get rewarded for their efforts. It’s time to change that.

undark.org

At the time, some experts cautioned that more data was needed to bolster this conclusion, and now another team of scientists has delivered compelling new evidence for this hypothesis about the inner core’s rotation rate. Research published June 12 in the journal Nature not only confirms the core slowdown, it supports the 2023 proposal that this core deceleration is part of a decades-long pattern of slowing down and speeding up.

The new findings also confirm that the changes in rotational speed follow a 70-year cycle, said study coauthor Dr. John Vidale, Dean’s Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Southern California’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/05/science/earth-inner-core-rotation-slowdown-cycle-scn/index.html

Researchers Make Breakthrough in Study of Mysterious 2000-Year-Old Computer Found in Shipwreck

Researchers say they've used gravitational wave reserach statistics to solve an Antikythera mechanism mystery.

futurism.com

 

[SunshineBoy]

Samboy Atomic Tomato = Easily the best chip variety going around!!!!!!!!

I’m a salt and vinegar man personally

 

[Rayzorwire]

Really getting into foxes lately...so much variety within a theme...

 

[smasha]

Have a pack of Samboys Chips.
The flavour really hits you.
Washed down with Marchant's Lemonade.
Our State Drink.

No,the old Black Label has me in it's spell.

 

[Hank Heavenly]

I’m a salt and vinegar man personally

I normally waver between standard BBQ or Cheese and Onion given I rarely see the Atomic Tomato at the shops.

I'm not massive on vinegar in the S&V combo

 

[Rayzorwire]

I’m a salt and vinegar man personally

Tough to avoid these in the chip aisle...I channel Groupie_ expounding on machine oils and the urge slowly passes

 

[SunshineBoy]

 

[DickieKnee]

So where are these chicken Cheezels? Not in my local supermarket yet.