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Post by spinifex on Feb 16, 2024 17:04:20 GMT 10
worth the time to absorb and consider ...
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Post by spinifex on Feb 16, 2024 9:51:23 GMT 10
Isn't the current crop of defence ministers working their way towards making the entire defence force a private sector thing made up of nothing but private mercs? Ministers are probably working towards making it a "Safe Space" for vegan, multiracial, gender confused, "respect my dysfunction". pansexual unicorns. Which is the national agenda for everything these days.
As soon as the bar starts getting lowered for entry you can be sure its going to get MUCH worse as an organisation to be in. Bar lowering is happening in so many parts of Australian society in the last 20 years that pretty soon we wont even have an Australian Society. We'll be a divided useless, pointless, rabble that is ripe for external takeover because we wont have a hope in hell of resisting Indonesian pre-schoolers let alone an actual military force. Anyone who's raised a kid in the last 10 years knows what I'm talking about.
Irony: The Woke Sector putting Australia into a situation in which Wokeism can no longer exist.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 15, 2024 16:49:49 GMT 10
I'll flick her an email.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 14, 2024 16:44:00 GMT 10
we avoid coles and woolies to maximum extent. Do most of our shopping through drakes/foodland and sometimes Aldi. We're progressing our food self sufficiency to the point where by the end of the year we'll just be buying dairy products, oil, pasta and rice. Fruit, veg, eggs, dry pulses, red meat and chicken we'll have covered.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 9, 2024 13:32:19 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 9, 2024 13:29:10 GMT 10
And this guy is very interesting too. Worth watching a broad spectrum of his stuff despite his waffley presentation style.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 9, 2024 13:26:02 GMT 10
I like this blokes videos ... he does some weird stuff.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 18:32:49 GMT 10
I look forward to being banned by ProBoards for being anti-woke.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 18:30:07 GMT 10
And to end on an up-note. Gay-boy Rob - showing everyone how entertainment is done well. Modern gay-boys ... watch and learn. Straight guys like Rob.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 18:25:55 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 18:20:36 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 18:18:19 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 17:50:56 GMT 10
Please take the time to verify via google and watch this video. It is an icon of a free speech Australia. F#ck the woke. Be defiant. Stand up for genuine free speech. Note how youtube wont actually allow you to see the subtitles. Bunch of woke a$$holes. And sadly ... this used to be the area of the "left" with which I identify. The current "left" has lost it's connection with freedom of expression and become more oppressive than the "right" it once sought to counterbalance. Well "left" you have lost me. Because enjoying this is now a "right' perogative.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 17:39:33 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 17:33:02 GMT 10
Well ... its time to remember how Australia once was ... a time when we could take the piss out of anything in good faith. An Australia that exists no more thanks to woke culture and the propensity for 0.001% of the population to be offended by any particular thing and demand the people behind it be "cancelled" to avoid further offence.
I give you TISM. A beacon of Democratic expression.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 8:20:56 GMT 10
My only concern with Russia/Ukraine was effect of loss of Russian petroluem to world trade. Turns out they have found viable ways around Western embargoes that have kept global fuel supplies and prices pretty stable.
I reckon Russia had fairly decent military tech in the cold war. Some excellent radar and missile tech. Their tech was cheaper and thus more prolific. Which is what won them ww2. Ukrain was a major world sunflower oil and massive exporter of wheat and grain Druring WW2 Russia had nothing not even a combat rifle, It was US arms supplies and ammo that eventually had the Germans retreating. After WW2 the Russians realising they needed there own arms, had a gov sponsored competition for a combat rifle, yip the AK was born, The designer an unknown guy working by himself was given agov pension with extra $50 a month. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2023/02/the-russia-ukraine-war-and-changes-in-ukraine-corn-and-wheat-supply-impacts-on-global-agricultural-markets.html#:~:text=In%20the%20three%20marketing%20years,fifth%20largest%20wheat%20exporting%20country. Lost Ukrainian agricultural production due to the war is of global significance because Ukraine is a major exporter of grains and oilseeds – especially corn and wheat as discussed in this article but also barley, sunflower and sun oil, and other commodities. (See: farmdoc daily, February 28, 2022) Figures 1 and 2 show how Ukraine’s share of world corn and wheat exports grew between 2000 and 2020 as international trade expanded. In this time, expanding Ukrainian exports captured an increasing share of world trade. In the three marketing years prior to the war (2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21), Ukraine’s exports made up 15% of world corn trade and 10% of world wheat trade. In this period, Ukraine was the world’s fourth largest corn exporting country and the fifth largest wheat exporting country. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47#:~:text=It%20was%20presented%20for%20official,states%20of%20the%20Warsaw%20Pact. Concept Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941 while recuperating from a shoulder wound that he received during the Battle of Bryansk.[5][19] Kalashnikov himself stated..."I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: 'Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men when the Germans have automatics?' So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier. It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov—AK—and it carried the year of its first manufacture, 1947."[20] Yes. USSR was short on arms during 41-42. That changed dramatically from 43. And by 44 every second front line soldier was armed with a 72 round submachine gun, t34-85's were swarming all over the place, every battle was being opened with a heavy rain of artillery and rocket barrage and Yak fighter-bombers were shredding anything that moved during daylight. However ... whilst their weaponry was effective and prolific ... they were still very reliant on US food supplies until well after the war.
As for current Ukraine war impacts ... I can still buy sunflower oil and bread as cheaply as before that war started.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 20:19:31 GMT 10
If she also likes Lamborghinis I have a heck of a deal for you ... it would tick both boxes.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 20:07:34 GMT 10
I grew up with the cold war looming over us. The end is nigh etc. I started prepping of sorts when I was 16 through terror really. I think it's normal for governments to create situations and to create an atmosphere of everything's going to heck to keep us from noticing the bull-crap they pull. The drama with the housing is insane, all caused by gov. bringing in more migrants faster than the builders could build the houses. It's great for them. Climate catastrophy, wars, covid etc, all the same thing, create chaos to frighten people into submission. This is narcissistic behavior 101, which is most likely who they all are. So do I think that WW3 is almost here, nah. It might be, though the boy has shouted wolf too much for myself at this point and there's nothing I can do about it if it were to kick off. I am prepped enough for a while for most things, so done what I can and now I'm just going to go on with life not really giving a shit about what the latest scare tactic is, real or made up. In the end, living my life as well as I can means a lot more. At least then my insurance [preps] covers a life well lived. It is not a cold war, but a hot hot war, causing many deaths, global food and ammunition shortages, strained global trade and relationships. Every country including Aus increasing military spending. During the cold war Russia was way behind the west in technology, and food production and wealth. Had to import most of their food. China and Russia now food secure, US on verge of bankruptcy, very strained internal politics, it all points to expansion of war. There is almost weekly expansion in countries getting involved. My only concern with Russia/Ukraine was effect of loss of Russian petroluem to world trade. Turns out they have found viable ways around Western embargoes that have kept global fuel supplies and prices pretty stable.
I reckon Russia had fairly decent military tech in the cold war. Some excellent radar and missile tech. Their tech was cheaper and thus more prolific. Which is what won them ww2.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:56:16 GMT 10
I now own 3 tractors ... a 1975 and 1982 and a 1992 ... and all the gear to go small scale (10 acre) farming in earnest. Interestingly ... I like the oldest tractor the best. These old ones can be got for $5-9k in good running condition and paired with a disc or chisel cultivator the garden world would be your oyster.
Screw horses ... having owned them I can testify working them in agriculture would be a nightmare for anyone but an experienced expert. They're fair cross-country transport though if you have the feed to sustain them.
Get ye some goats too. Easy care red meat. I'm about to get some Kalahari reds ... mmm ... delicious. We get lots of Hares on the block here too. Also tasty.
About to start a project setting up pallet sized fruit bins for aquaculture ... I'm looking forward to learning an entirely new skill set.
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 19:47:05 GMT 10
The amount of health one has is inversely proportional to the amount of wealth one has..... Um ... no.
The vast majority of obese and unhealthy people are low socio-economic. Due to the food they eat and amount of TV they watch.
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