There once was a gravel barge named “Koala”. It ran into the Centenary Bridge during a flood and was blown to smithereens just so.

Who names a gravel barge “Koala”?

Inaccpossible.

Just no.

A rhythmical hymn…a rythmn

Technically that’s an oxymoron, itself a portmanteaux of oxycetyline and moron. Burn the idiot…

“what time is it, Viv?”

“nine exact clock”

Referring to the well known fable of the frog v. scorpion:

Virtually unknown to mankind, the real take home message is “frog’s gotta frog”.

The focus on the scorpion, that says more about people than it does about frogs.

Mum: “the smartest people don’t know everything”.

Viv: “correct”

Definition: what goes on tour stays on tour.

Australian superannuation tax – you can generally contribute up to $30,000 each financial year to your own pension fund. These contributions are taxed at 15% on the way in. If you earn over $250,000, you may pay an extra 15% tax—then in total, you’ll pay 30% tax on some or all of the contributions.

On the other hand you could set up a charity which has no tax, in fact your contributions to it will be tax deductible on your personal income assessment. The charity would of course to be to help older people live with dignity, and you would be the primary, possibly only, beneficiary.

I suggest this to point out the craziness of our tax system.

Odd, that it’s called artificial intelligence when it’s really synthetic intelligence.

That’ll change when the emphasis shifts from fooling humans to just doing shit that humans can’t do, at all. Next year then.

General Creativity is definitely crack-able. Having practised it all my life, it’s definitely a method, a way of thinking mixed with access to knowledge. No more, no less. The year after.

Having successfully extracted ourselves from the food chain, it looks as though we’re hellbent on getting back into it. Greeds must…

Just listened to a very earnest blog detailing how the Chinese Government could use TikTok to bend the minds of enough people in, say, the US to get their dirty way in, say, Taiwan.

Here’s how it would work:

1. China does what it has always said it would do – take back Taiwan
2. Usually there would be outrage in the Western press which would give the Western pollies the nudge they need to challenge China on the matter.
3. However, China would apparently now use TikTok to massage the opinions of their Western users, thus influencing the political response in the West.

Would it work? Who knows?

There has to come a time where the people simply aren’t important. You don’t care what they think or do, so you don’t bother trying to massage their feeble brains. If you take that thread and pull it, why in the hell would you want the bother of owning Taiwan? It’s just more headaches.

Just stop telling people what to do. Which also includes not telling people what not to do.

That’s what I said.

However….

Firstofly, it’s a paradox of an instruction – an instruction not to follow an instruction. A hypocrition, if you will.

Secondofly, the main problem is when said instructions are enforced with the threat of violence, e.g. law, police, court, gaol, or worse still, social media shaming. They’re just so hard to ignore, even if you vehemently disagree.

Thirdofly, all social and psychological platforms invented by humans are based on the principle of bending the actions and thoughts of the individual to the “collective good”. That is, do and think what we tell you to (follow the instructions), for your own good and everyone else’s good.

The issue we have now is that;

1. The platforms for communicating and enforcing the so-called common good are increasingly complex and open to infestation by bad actors, and
2. The Pareto rule is being ignored. We are now creating and enforcing rules that do not pass any sane risk-benefit analysis, hence
3. Perfectly good and sane people, thusly frustrated, are going over to the dark side.

As we used to say, fuck a duck.

Post found on LinkedIn…

“I make $340,000 per year in San Francisco as a software engineer and it’s utterly unlivable.

Let’s break it down.

After taxes, my take home is approximately $220,000 or $18,400/mo

Rent for 2 bd/2ba apartment in Pacific Heights: $9,500

Cybertruck lease: $1368

Pack and fold laundry service: $200.

Doordash salads: $1680

Dinner and Drinks for Hinge Dates: $2380 (excluding 2-michelin star+)

Skiing: $2650 (average per mo)

New shirt: $20.

Entertainment/Fun Budget: $1802

total: $19,400

Despite working my butt off for 30 hours per week remotely and making $340,000 per year, I am somehow in the position where I’m losing $1,000 per month.

What is wrong with this city? “

Apparently humans eat 205 million chickens per day.

That’s 75 billion per year.

But there’s only ever been one instance of a roast chicken stuffed with salmon and tofu Pad Thai

Lucky duck.

“68% of Australians agree or strongly agree that scientists should communicate their findings to politicians, while 80% believe scientists have a responsibility to communicate about science with the general public.”

The survey reality, by SMS…

“Hi lan, we’re curious: Should experts like Australian scientists communicate their findings to politicians and the general public to help ease the cost of living crisis? Reply Y for yes or N for no. Thanks & regards, the Australian Academy of Sciences”

Stay curious, fuckers.

The road to redemption isn’t paved at all.

So,

if you could buy an extra second of life for a dollar, then a trillionaire could live for an extra 31,546 years.

Almost enough time for love, Elon.

It’s the opposite of what people imagine…

Unless you’re a complete cunt, the more you know someone the less likely you are to be compassionate towards them in any particular set of circumstances.

Translation: if you’re not mad you allocate compassion on a needs basis.

Interpretation: you don’t want to empty the tank unnecessarily.

Interference: overly compassionate people are mad, and bad for you. Under-compassionate people are just straight bad for you. But it has to be measured circumstantially

Resolution: compassion is simply a useful tool, for the recipient and random onlookers, to filter out the mad and bad from their social botherings.

Side note: with kids, you’re best off doing a switch and bait; distraction for compassion. You don’t want to get them hooked on compassion.

Found, an old letter from Viv to me, never delivered at the time;

“to lan, I am Sorry to being BAD. and I am gowing to shove Your Face on the white board if you don’t change my face on the white board. Or i will be bad to you.”

So Musk says “recycling [plastics] is pointless”.

And he is right, mostly.

Chemically, polymers aren’t conducive to being recycled, whichever way you look at it.

The energy used and CO2 emitted is often more than making virgin material from oil.

The material properties of recycled plastics are almost always much worse than the original material, so the recycled product often can’t be used in the same application, or any application of value.

There are exceptions of course, but they don’t have enough volume to shift the needle (except the bullshit needle).

Which brings up another issue; when do you give up on a technology idea and move on?

If we stopped investing silly money into trying to recycle plastics, then we might invest in figuring out how to stop the Asians from dumping their plastic waste into the oceans.

Or we might pull the plug on green hydrogen right now.

But that’s a hard call. If the Chinese can get the electrolysis capex down by 100x, and they probably could eventually, then by that time solar energy will be almost free, and the hydrogen will be cheap, green and useful.

It’s a great fuel for stationary electricity generation. And there’s always a market for that.

And the zealots are working very hard to use it as a mobile fuel or co-fuel where batteries just can’t work for weight reasons.

Summary;

1. Make virgin plastic carbon neutral
2. Introduce good landfill technology to Asia
3. Hand over all hydrogen tech development to the Chinese
4. Stop trying to use electrolysis for any other purpose

In China, the game “Chinese whispers” is called “geese to geese”.

They also have no specific name for a Lazy Susan. It’s just a table, mate.

But then again, in my experience, they’d tell you anything just for the hell of it.

Most male mammals have bones in their penises. It aids sexual reproduction by maintaining stiffness during sexual penetration.

But not humans wherein the rigidity of the erection is provided entirely through blood pressure in the corpora cavernosa.

Richard Hawkins proposed “honest advertising” as the evolutionary explanation for the loss of the baculum in humans. 

The hypothesis is that if erection failure is a sensitive early warning of ill health (physical or mental), females could have gauged the health of a potential mate based on his ability to achieve erection without the support of a baculum.

Extrapolating, that hypothesis assumes that a relationship focused on reproduction starts with test sex.

So what was the church on about eh?

Actually heard outside a pub;

“What was the name of that bloke, he wasn’t too bad.”

“What bloke?”

“You know, the one I was talking to in the kitchen at Chloe’s do the other night. The Asian bloke.”

“Oh yeah, Gupta.”

I hate it when you discover you’ve been wrong all along…

Crockpot says;

“Both “High” and “Low” stabilize at the same temperature; it is just a matter of how long it takes to reach the simmer point.”

Ok then, smart arses, what’s Auto?

Because of food safety laws, newer slow cookers stabilise at a higher temperature than the old ones, making them fast cookers.

Existentialists believe that what distinguishes our existence from that of other beings is that we are self-conscious and exist for ourselves, which means we are free and responsible for who we are and what we do.

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence.

An absurdist believes that one should accept the absurd condition, embrace the little beauty life can offer sometimes, give meaning to this beauty but still keep an ironical distance between the invented meaning and the knowledge of the absurd.

A religionist is a believer in fairy tales. Generally they absorb a lot of specific learning to remain a paid-up member of the club.

A boganist, if queried (which they aren’t), would say they all think too much, and they can all go and get fucked.

Said bogan therefore had no intellectual ballast to throw overboard when needs must.

Imagine living without intellectual ballast? The mind doesn’t boggle.

They’re going overboard trying to figure out how to stop road deaths and injuries in Australia.

The official top causes of accidents are speeding, alcohol and drugs, and inattention/tiredness.

They haven’t thought of competence yet. Sure they’ve upped the requirements for drivers licences. But we still have multitudes of incompetent drivers, enabled by technology to remain on the road (ABS, lane monitoring, etc).

Teach them to drive on dirt in a dune buggy, I say.

Firstofly, secondofly, thirdofly, there’s an gantelope.

[Scene] The shark jumping platform … LinkedIn.

Some MAGA shit stirrer posts a graph showing that Mississippi, arguably the poorest state in the US, is about to pass Germany’s GDP per capita.

Much outrage from the Europeans.

But I did learn  that you’ll live an extra 10 years in Germany as compared to Mississippi.

And that the shit stirrer was having a great time responding to all the outrage.

She spent over £2m on plastic surgery to become more cat like, to please her husband, who loved big cats.

But her husband told Vanity Fair: “She was crazy. I would always find out last. She wans thinking that she could fix her face like a piece of furniture. Skin does not work that b

. But she wouldn’t listen.”

In the divorce she got an8 $1.3bn divorce settlement.

Not so crazy.

The judge stipulated that she couldn’t spend any of the settlement on plastic surgery.

So yeah maybe crazy