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Post by spatial on Mar 11, 2024 18:36:09 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Mar 10, 2024 18:36:25 GMT 10
More craziness. Bit of a long build but this guy has good skills. Floor heating, solar panels etc...
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Post by spatial on Mar 9, 2024 19:05:40 GMT 10
USA 2 Amendment in action.
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Post by spatial on Mar 7, 2024 7:46:14 GMT 10
Economy showing more cracks that cant be plastered over. US banking crisis is not over, social spending is way beyond sustainable. In Aus the same issue are popping up. Housing affordability and availability of dwellings are down down down, all despite gov intervention, Indigenous close the gap targets are dismal. Nurses in every aged care facility not being met, and now major hospitals across the country are retrenching medical staff due to rising costs - despite there being a huge shortage of medial staff. NYCB Announces $1BN Equity Infusion, Fmr Tsy Sec Mnuchin Joins Board"In evaluating this investment, we were mindful of the Bank's credit risk profile. With the over $1 billion of capital invested in the Bank, we believe we now have sufficient capital should reserves need to be increased in the future to be consistent with or above the coverage ratio of NYCB's large bank peers." The $175.3 Trillion Doomsday Clock Is Ticking – That Is The Estimated Unfunded Social Security And Medicare Liabilityopenthebooks.substack.com/p/the-1753-trillion-doomsday-clockWesley Mission to shut two Sydney mental health hospitals after failing to sell services to another providerwww.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/nsw-wesley-mental-health-hospital-closures/103555700In a statement to the ABC, a Wesley Mission spokesman said its board agreed in February that both Kogarah and Ashfield hospitals would close on April 12. "Both hospitals have been running at a loss for some time, despite the best efforts of staff and clinicians to improve their viability," the statement said. A psychiatrist and a psychologist who see patients at the Kogarah facility have told the ABC visiting practitioners have sent a joint-letter to Wesley Mission asking for more time to transition patients to other facilities. "We're gutted. For ourselves but mostly for our patients," one of the doctors said. New data shows the gap is not closingministers.pmc.gov.au/mccarthy/2023/new-data-shows-gap-not-closing#:~:text=However%2C%20overall%20it%20remains%20just,First%20Nations%20adults%20in%20prison. However, overall it remains just four of the nineteen Closing the Gap targets are "on track". 11 targets are "not on track", and four targets can’t assess a trend. We continue to see poor results in the number of First Nations children in out-of-home care and First Nations adults in prison. 'I'm suffering like hell': Victorian hospitals missed 100,000 elective surgeries www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/nsw-wesley-mental-health-hospital-closures/103555700
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Post by spatial on Mar 4, 2024 19:27:03 GMT 10
My ideas for improving the design: Use the coles trollies that have the partition section at the front to divide up your load Weld a mesh tray to the underframe so you can load gear down there as well Weld on a flat bar between the rear wheels so you can stand on it and skate along Maybe a couple of brackets with wingnuts or something so you can secure the rear panel closed to still give you the option of being able to open it up to carry larger items, otherwise, weld it shut. If you want to make a deluxe model, you could rig up some sort of sun shade to give you a little coverage while pushing it Will make a good BBQ grill at destination. The big issue with bug out with just gear on your back, is limited resources. One could take all your gear + 3- 6 month of food, definitely worth the effort to lug it around, Stuff plastic bags everywhere and look like a vagrant. The post was mostly for fun and a bit of light hearted discussion. The annoying European in the vid below, has an interesting method of installing bicycle wheels, some more ideas for your creativity.
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Post by spatial on Mar 4, 2024 19:15:28 GMT 10
I thought this was interesting... Good big of fun, would use marine ply but a bit costly. One have to love British ingenuity. 42s trolley roof top tent.
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Post by spatial on Mar 3, 2024 20:14:57 GMT 10
A bit of fun from my usual gloomy imminent economic disaster. Gone back to watching oddball prepper and survival vids.
If bugging our on foot a trolly of some sort is very useful. He goes shopping with a machete and axe attached to a trolly - if one did this in the great land of OZ you would be arrested and the keys thrown away.
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Post by spatial on Mar 3, 2024 19:58:18 GMT 10
Just gets better and better. Both indoor ranges in Perth temporarily closes lead contamination of surrounding environment, storage issues, range upgrades depending on who you listen to. One has 850 members how many of them are going to be able to meet their yearly attendance requirements. At the local pistol club this morning, 3 member emailed a local member of parliament voicing their concerns. No response from the local member but all 3 had visits from local police for storage checks.Just a coincidence of course. This is getting serious, the other states will follow all the woke doctrine going around.
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Post by spatial on Mar 2, 2024 7:12:46 GMT 10
I can see why folks wonder about the 10 gun thing. Where it occurs my experience has been this: 1. Often more than 1 shooter in a farming family but only 1 licence holder. (I have no idea why) So the 1 licence holder ends up with other family members items on their list. 2. "The best tool for the job" means even a single farmer will likely own a .22 (birds rabbit foxes - at close range) and putting down small livestock), 12 gauge (birds, rabbits, foxes), .410 (snakes around the sheds), small calibre centrefire (foxes, roos and hares at longer ranges) and a .30 cal centrefire (larger ferals that can't be mustered and sold). 3. Accumulated history - A 50 year old farmer today likely still has his/her fathers and grandfathers rifles in their possession. Quite a few .303, 12G and .22's in this category. Also stuff like 8 X 57, 7 X 57, 303/25 and 30/30. And this was the sad part about the Howard era gunlaw changes and buy-backs - a lot of nice, sensible browning semi-auto A5's belonging to previous generations of farmer got outlawed and scrapped. Great tool for shooting foxes flushed from cover under spotlight.
Yip, NO one talking about human hunting requirements. well over the last few years they have been relentless publishing minimum calibre for humane game hunting. So for each class of animal you need the correct caliber. For example shooting roos with .223 is acceptable but if you want to deal with a pig problem you need something more powerful. The premises being the smaller the caliber used the better for cost, noise and safety.. I was considering getting .338 for water buffalo as that is what is recommended, the humble .308 is not up to the task according to minimum humane hunting requirements. .338 are banned from most ranges and would be banned in WA.. newzealandsafaris.com/shot-placement-for-australian-water-buffalo/#:~:text=To%20make%20an%20ethical%20shot,338. To make an ethical shot on an Australian Water Buffalo Bull it is recommended to use a minimum of .375 caliber although some hunters may use a .338. On our Australian Water Buffalo hunts we have seen that the .338 caliber is moving much too quickly to achieve maximum expansion of projectile which should be bonded, or, first shot even a solid but this can be left to the experts to discuss in depth. What can you hunt (includes recommended caliber) This section presents some of the most common species that can be legally hunted in Australia. Most are classified as feral or pest animals and can be hunted any time. www.ssaa.org.au/resources/hunting/what-you-can-hunt/
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Post by spatial on Mar 1, 2024 6:27:05 GMT 10
Another sign things are collapsing at a rapid rate, fire sales at huge discount for commercial real-estate. "Who Could Be Next": Top Canadian Pension Fund Sells Manhattan Office Tower For $1, Sparking Firesale Panicwww.zerohedge.com/markets/who-could-be-next-largest-canadian-pension-fund-sells-manhattan-office-tower-1Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has recently done three deals at deeply discounted prices, selling its interests in a pair of Vancouver towers, and a business park in Southern California, but it was its Manhattan office tower redevelopment project that shocked the industry: the Canadian asset manager sold its stake for just $1. The worry now is that such firesales will set an example for other major investors seeking a way out of the turmoil too, forcing a wholesale crash in the Manhattan real estate market which until now had managed to avoid real price discovery.
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Post by spatial on Feb 28, 2024 22:52:01 GMT 10
There wont be a daisy chain as the elites in China/North Korea/Russia/USA etc are all in it together. Just distracting the people with their arguments. They are all the same. Yes they are all in it together - the are not Gods, the system will collapse and like dominoes will take the rest of them down. Every major empire in history collapsed due to debt. This is where we are... It wont take much - an earthquake another war, bond market route, Chinas real estate etc, etc, etc.. We are one black swan event away from all bank accounts across the world being frozen. USA is currently is a major banking crisis, pumping trillions of dollars to try and keep it afloat. World is primed for meltdown.
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Post by spatial on Feb 28, 2024 9:57:21 GMT 10
Yip since 2008 been spending and borrowing up a storm with infrastructure projects funded by government. Signs of collapse have bene on the way for a long time. - Construction companies going under
- Youth unemployment
- Thailand making cheaper clothing then coming out of china
- Drums of war beating
- No more peasants and cheap labor - declining population - more deaths than births - people in unaffordability cost of living - fearful to have children.
- Housing affordability despite excess of buildings.
- debit ballooning
- ECT etc etc etc
Sounds all to familiar for Aus/USA/Europe - same issue.
This time it is going to be a global issue not just one or two countries brining the world down - it is all going to unravel - big question is who is going to be the first to go (Black swan) to cause the daisy chain.
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Post by spatial on Feb 27, 2024 17:55:21 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Feb 27, 2024 13:09:51 GMT 10
I'm amazed they aren't already in recession. The US has a national auto-immune disease that attacks anyone who tries to make it a better place, whilst defending parasites. They have been printing and borrowing money at a record pace to kick the can down the road. For each $1 borrowed they used to get $1 economic growth, now it is less than 50c worth of economic growth. There is an endgame and it is approaching fast. They were technically in a recession then decided to rework the figures on how things are reported. If calculations were done the same as in the 1970s, USA would be reporting that they are in a deep recession.
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Post by spatial on Feb 25, 2024 7:47:37 GMT 10
Ok, I did not look at the price. Give it a few months there will be cheap Taiwanese knock off .. I have been looking at hatchets, tomahawks lately.
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Post by spatial on Feb 24, 2024 20:10:24 GMT 10
Interesting axe design. The one tool bushcraft idea is ridiculous, but I think this axe could be useful.
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Post by spatial on Feb 23, 2024 18:12:04 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Feb 20, 2024 21:30:07 GMT 10
Panic and desperation, end game is near as worlds largest asset class in collapse. [Chinease property.] tradingeconomics.com/china/loan-prime-rate-5yThe People's Bank of China slashed its reference for mortgages, the 5-year loan prime rate, by 25bps to 3.95% at the February fixing, more than market forecasts of a reduction of 15bps. It was the first rate cut since June 2023 and the largest since that rate was introduced in 2019, as the board ramped up efforts to spur credit demand and reverse a property downturn.
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Post by spatial on Feb 20, 2024 18:39:41 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Feb 20, 2024 18:21:19 GMT 10
"And then from a national security perspective: How far are we from having an ADF that is mostly populated with young people born in india, SE asia, middle east, africa and pacific islands? Can that be made to work in dire combat situations? An ADF that is basically a multi-national mercenary force?" Probably never because of the incredibly low rates at which they join. Announced today unmanned war ship and drones. The Chinese will have them hacked in seconds...
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