Who knew chess was another of those great Australian inventions, mate?

Apparently there’s an epidemic of domestic violence against women in Australia.

“In Australia, a woman has been killed on average every four days so far this year” the guardian informs me.

That’s 92 women a year. But the murder tally in Australia is around 400 a year, so that means over 300 men are being murdered a year. Close to one a day.

I think we should focus on that latter epidemic just in case I catch it.

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless collisions between dust particles, asteroids, and other growing planets.

So there must have been a day where by definition it was dust and gas, and on the next day it was a planet. This, by the same definitions used to rule Pluto in and out, for example.

Back when: “life may be hard but if I’m going to do my best to make things better for my descendents.”

Woke now: “my ancestors were deluded retards.”

There’s something in there, the lack of grace. But still, what point the slogan?

As you dig further you’ll find the usual cohort of “leaders” just looking for a short cut in life, just like the big titted blondes back when.

The cure for madness is solitude, survival or death.

My favourite Australian expression is;

“oh yeah”

It’s dry and certainly not literal, all leaves and no intent.

It occurs to me that ‘slake’ is a rare example of an entropic verb.

You only ever hear of people murdering a Sunday.

Saturday’s for manslaughter ‘cos Friday night was unintentional.

The Spam Act 2003 covers commercial emails and SMS.

Section 16(1) of the Spam Act prohibits the sending of ‘unsolicited commercial electronic messages’.

SMS’s and emails that are not commercial, that is, they don’t offer, advertise or promote goods or services, e.g. messages from political parties, are not commercial and so are not covered by spam rules.

That’s according to the fuckwits that made the act.

Of this day…

“Business forced to close because teens are lazy and entitled.”

I’m presuming said teens just don’t want to buy the product?

Of the day..

“The growing trend of retiring early and dying with zero.”

I think zero is a reference to the beer of choice.

Basically Dr Karl wants us to explain quantum in the context of, or in metaphors consistent with, Newtonian reality. Oxymoron much.

Personally I see entanglement as the price we pay for superposition. Basically two non-Newtonian wrongs make a Newtonian right; they effectively cancel each other out, or can’t exist independently of each other.

I suspect it’s the price we pay for the apparent separate existence of energy and matter. If you make something out of nothing, well you can’t be surprised what you get, can you?

Not surprisingly, whatever it is that exists, it’s all connected in ways that don’t make sense to you, if you’re made of that stuff.

Good luck with the metaphors.

My new favourite headline:

“Why Tanya Plibersek must save the eastern curlew from the wetland-wrecking project at Toondah Harbour”

So much to unpack, so little interest. I think we’ll leave it as a mystery for the ages.

For future reference…

Monopsony: an economic situation where there are many sellers and one buyer. It’s the opposite of a monopoly, which is where there are many buyers and one seller. In fact, a monopsony is sometimes called “a buyer’s monopoly.”

The dead and flattened cat up the road looks suspiciously like a platypus.

Probably how old mate got the idea for the monotreme, some 4,500 years ago.

The International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design (ISCID) was a creationism advocacy organization that described itself as “a cross-disciplinary professional society that investigates complex systems free of external programmatic constraints like materialism, naturalism, or reductionism.”

Or catoplatsymic events, one imagines.

What some call socially progressive others call cancel culture.

The cancel culture moniker works as follows; first, assume there is a state of “pluralistic ignorance” in the community, i.e. people hold different views and perspectives on any issue.

But, because it is only safe to utter one social media-driven accepted “progressive” view, most dissenters act cowardly as though they are alone in their dissent, i.e. they say and do nothing.

You can see why Australia was perfect for the proliferation of so-called cancel culture: high social media use, care factor zero, thinking capacity negative,  schadenfreude towards the victim, and the “thank Christ it wasn’t me” factor.

To be clear, yes I’m imputing that many young Australians are the sort of people that virtually stop to turn left, need a written invitation to change lanes, and stand 10ft back from the bar even if they’re next in line to be served their craft rubbish.

That is, they’re fucking useless. At some deep subconscious level, understanding this, they collectively adopted progressive (cancel) culture to protect themselves.

Therefore, I can’t see this culture going anywhere, anytime soon.

Oddly enough, the definition of it as cancel culture is itself a form of cancel culture. Categorised as a thing by agreeing conservative dissenters, with the aim of naming, shaming and ultimately cancelling cancel/progressive culture and thereby returning society to the 1950s

I’m not sure that can work? It seems like they’re disappearing up their own arseholes. Best to just ignore the whole thing and refuse to be reality shamed.

To err is human.

To arr is pirate.

The pub with no idea.

“Fascism is often spoken of as if it’s a political doctrine. But it’s also a practice of which the most distinctive aspect is an endorsement of lawlessness and violence by the people in the people’s name.”

So they’re saying Rugby League is a form of fascism?

From the first half of the 18th century…

Two robbers disagreed over how to split their loot and asked a court to resolve the dispute. The order from the judge was that they both be hanged.

From the 21st century…

Two soon-to-be victims disagreed over how to split their assets and asked a court to resolve the dispute. The order from the judge was that they both hand over their assets to their attorneys, aka the highwaymen.

What I keep thinking is

1. Solar Panels are non toxic
2. Solar Panels do not have scarce resources in them
3. By the end of life solar panels are carbon positive

So it’s perfectly responsible to landfill them.

The landfill just has to be in the bush because the holes near the city are needed for general rubbish.

Recycling solar panels doesn’t work for three reasons…

1. It relies on dumb govt money to be profitable. And govt changes.
2. The waste and recycling industry is run by actual crooks. Not for me.
3. I don’t fancy adding to the cost and carbon footprint of solar. Bad karma.

My concept is to reuse used solar panels in applications such as artificial reefs, or a giant tourist pyramid in the outback. In a couple of years you could have the world’s largest pyramid, all glistening in the sun.

It’s possible that intelligence is an impediment to hearing.

You know when you genuinely accept a reality because it informs your decisions without imposed thought.

Before then you just sort of know a fact.

And before that you’re just ignorant.

It’s actually a matter of fact that you can’t manufacture or build anything in an Organised Hypo/medio-cracy.

Good luck converting those government owned photons to privately owned electrons, mate.

I’ve never had that before … I just found an ant’s nest in my keyboard.

I am not sure if I prefer to be a high functioning idiot or a low functioning hypocrite.