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Post by Beno on Oct 1, 2021 21:33:06 GMT 10
Inreach is prone to crashing in the best of times. I would not rely on it if shtf.
Radio is the only way to go I think. other than that plan B might be carrier pigeons.
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Post by Beno on Sept 27, 2021 15:37:27 GMT 10
Wharfie scum at it again.
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Post by Beno on Sept 23, 2021 18:45:08 GMT 10
Probably a lot of production capacity going into getting ready for combat with China? Hence US ammo makers "2 years behind"? Nah. The US shooters just burn through ammo playing mall ninja and shooting from 10m away while “advancing” on large stationary targets. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 22, 2021 7:02:18 GMT 10
Ammunition and reloading supplies in a more normal/permissive environment was a once a year trip from the bush to the city for me. That's now not possible in NSW if you are in lockdown. I've got a mate who is locked down that put money on a new rifle three months ago and he is prevented from picking it up because of the 5k issue. Same, i’ve not been to a certain favourite dealer for a while now. It’s a shame because they are the most competitively priced place in the country and often have ammo cheaper than the US. I love the irony there… Norseman maybe old mate can ask if the shop can do a dealer to dealer transfer. It will be a few bucks but better than sitting there waiting for something to turn up and that he already owns. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 17, 2021 18:56:26 GMT 10
I need to read more into the Evergrande situation, it's huge. The fact that the CCP hasn't bailed them out is fascinating. They might be better capitalists than we think! We went full commo bailing out the big end of town during the GFC and covid. We could learn a thing or two if this is in fact real. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 17, 2021 6:34:36 GMT 10
I reckon this is all a smokescreen, never gonna happen.It should have been done years ago, watch this turn into a nothingburger like so many other endeavors our glorious leaders have spun into shit. The lack of detail given suggests something will go wrong. It may not be a nothingburger though. It could end up as a maxijumbo burger with the lot with a side of cholesterol but still ending up tasting like shite. Not to follow up with developing a civil/military nuclear program as well as capacity for development and repairs would be a massive mistake. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 16, 2021 17:08:44 GMT 10
The most bizarre thing is that the French subs were originally designed as nuclear propelled but Australia wanted them in diesel electric at a huge reconfiguration cost. Now we want nukes but are still canning the French subs. There is more to this story.
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Post by Beno on Sept 14, 2021 14:38:08 GMT 10
Yes canning is expensive in Oz. I recall ball lids costing over a dollar each which turned me off it all. I can buy a tin of what ever for less effort and cost. Sad really.
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Post by Beno on Sept 14, 2021 10:52:44 GMT 10
We use compost, made here and a couple of miniature pigs...they turn over the garden beds, eat all the weeds and grass roots, manure the soil and leave gardens ready for planting straight into. They have a trailer made from an old 6 X 4 trailer, with a roof, and ramp etc, which is moved to where we need them. When not being used, they are kept in a series of paddocks behind electric wire and mesh. Of course, a rotatory cultivator is used sometimes as well, but the pigs can break up quite hard soil, and create a wallow where they need it, which waters the sub soil. We feed them a handful of dog food and garden scraps, prunings as well as they grub up all sorts of insects. However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill MWT can you eat those little pigs? What are the pros and cons over larger breeds? I saw a pig running down the road yesterday, looked a bit feral but acted like a bugger that had just got out of its enclosure. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 11, 2021 14:56:44 GMT 10
So when you have a script and the pharmacist offers you a cheaper brand, are you saying that generally you should refuse that? And the super cheap paracetamol and ibuprofen from the supermarket - is that not as good as, say, panadol brand and neurofen brand? The problem is that you don't know 100% - most generics are made in china or India. Most name brands are made in in the EU or US. Now that's a generalisation, but the broad principles are right. All generics are well tested before they are allowed on the market, and it is fair to say that when a generic hits the market in Australia it is likely to be very similar to name brand on the market. The issue is do you trust the ongoing supply lines and quality assurance for stuff manufactured in China or India? Even big electronic suppliers bin a not insignificant portion of manufactured products from the same areas because they aren't upto standard. There are spot checks, but there is not a batch by batch independent QA. It is a let the buyer beware situation. To be fair 99% of the time they are fine - but every doctor in Australia will have cases of switching patients to generics and seeing a deterioration. Far out! |
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Post by Beno on Sept 10, 2021 11:57:38 GMT 10
We buy animal feed wheat in 25 kg bags from the supplier, freeze it for a few days to kill the bugs, then grind it in a whisper mill, (with a backup hand cranked stone mill), and make bread from that, with our own honey and so on. Baked in a standard large bread maker, using solar power from our off grid system. Ive seen the evidence for, I want to see different evidence. What supplier? I've been buying 5kg bags from 2Brothers Foods, but postage is more than tbe product. Any ag store. I would tread carefully. There is a reason it’s animal feed including different withholding periods and chemicals used, acceptible contaminants limits etc. It’s probably negligible but you never know. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 9, 2021 11:38:03 GMT 10
Yep I can do that! Even better would be your loaded rifle under the bed when the dogs are really active, but you wouldn't do that because it is highly illegal and I absolutely do not condone breaking the law! Does anyone know the legality of sleeping with your rifle slung and cradled in your arms with muzzle down between your legs, technically wouldn't that be maintaining safe control of the firearm while being ready for immediate use? That you need to ask a question like this just illustrates the fukking idiocy of our current gun laws! It's your property and you are allowed to hunt so dont see any issue with having your rifle loaded and ready as long as you are "hunting". Staking out a position waiting for a wild dog is hunting in my book, even if that position is in a somewhat comfortable "hide" This is where having a property diary comes into play. Record all pest sightings, tracks, scats, stock losses etc and record all the efforts you apply to solving the problem including being ready to respond quickly to a problem. This is essentially evidence as to why you are doing what you are doing. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 8, 2021 19:54:46 GMT 10
Is it time for baristas, fashion retailers and generally useless industries and enterprises to pick up a tool and start producing “things” that the country will need? I'm sure latte Lenny will survive on instant, First of all, how dare you sir. Good baristas and their produce is all that keeps me from going postal and murdering every entitled git that I come across!🤣 Instant is for when I need to be angry. Lattes are a last resort to bring me back down from my free-poured-straight-from-the-jar instant black coffee rampages at work. I was watching a tiktok yesterday about a guy in an upmarket holiday town in the US. I can't remember exactly where it was, but he was basically saying that the stores there are only open between very specific hours or only a couple of days a week because they can't get anyone to work there. They pay so little that no one could afford to take a service job there and live there themselves. And rich-ass mofos flat out wouldn't work for that little money. So no one to serve means no economy and no one to run the stores/accommodation. The town is on the brink of closing down entirely but no one will take responsibility for the fact that the people that would work there need to be paid enough to LIVE there. Seems like a very apt story for something that could happen here if we're not careful. We can't be paying $4 per day to farm hands or pickers. Farmers have gotten away with it before because of students on working visas and the like. But that's not happening anymore (as proven by all the crops rotting in fields). In fairness, some farmers have had no choice and have had to do that to cover their costs and make a wage because big box stores refuse to pay a decent amount for produce. But the multimillionaire farms that produce massive amounts of our daily bread have literally made it into a business practice, and it's disgusting. As a country, we've let massive businesses take advantage of the migrant working groups or the under-educated for decades. The second their cheap cash cow workers disappear they're in the poo. And it's already been felt. I think we need a primary produce overhaul asap. How does that happen? I dunno. I'm not an economist. But I hope they figure it out soon cause the sun is going down on cheap Chinese plastic. Lol! Love it! let’s get angry while drinkin instant because we need to make things like vehicles, tyres, fuels, appliances, wire, clothing, fertilisers and list is now endless. Ol’ man bun matthew can be retrained, make more money and have a feeling of real accomplishment. Producing stuff is manna for most blokes and probably ladies too. Service industries are so 2019. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 8, 2021 6:59:45 GMT 10
They have to harvest it first and WA supercrop is in strife. Mice are still at play over east reducing quality and quantity. But it’s the big croppers in other countries with much lower yield. hopefully our farmers can take advantage of this without ripping us off at the bakery. harvest labour shortage
Mcgowan is pi$$y cause he can’t bring in foreign labour yet his hard border is excluding critical workers. what a drongo. Brazil has just had a mad cow disease outbreak impacting many buyers like china and vietnam. Build your resilience. If you haven’t started, start small and build up from there. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 7, 2021 18:29:06 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Sept 7, 2021 18:25:47 GMT 10
Is it time for baristas, fashion retailers and generally useless industries and enterprises to pick up a tool and start producing “things” that the country will need? I'm sure latte Lenny will survive on instant,
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Post by Beno on Sept 7, 2021 17:46:22 GMT 10
The stocks are rising because the big end of town are draining the accounts of the masses which is pushing the market higher. That is the only explanation i can come up with. Look at the billionaire space race as an example. This is occurring at a time of immense instability yet the dikwads can compete on who makes the biggest dik looking rocket. It’s a race to see who can be the first trillionaire and most of us are lapping up their products (i-crap, amazon, social media tech) while mum n dad businesses can’t even open their shops let alone compete with the slave labour theses companies are using (deliveroo, uber eats, contractors from overseas who don’t know what labour laws are). The big end of town locked down the competition while they thrive. The rich invest their money and the more they have the more the stocks go up while hundreds of millions are now unemployed or looking for more work.
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Post by Beno on Sept 4, 2021 10:16:16 GMT 10
On a side note. They pay in mining is going up quickly in WA. Many mines are now going live in and much less FIFO. No one wants to love where the mines are and mines are offering serious coin to entice workers. House o cards my friends! WA mines are whole different thing, they are about to lose a heap of people ow after those so called "rape" allegations, as the mines (BP mainly so far) will start a register of "sex offenders" who are banned from working for the companies and will be publicly available. It won't be just anyone who has been sacked for inappropriate sexual behaviour, but anyone can make a complaint (genuine or frivolous) and they get added to the list without notice and recourse to fight the allegations. Wow. i can’t see how a private company can start a sex offenders register and make it public. surely that is litigation paradise for lawyers? But then again the miners run the country. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 4, 2021 10:13:33 GMT 10
I might have to buy my old mans van and do some couriering on the side. My terms or no delivery! Stuff this time sensitive rubbish, ya victoria secret panties can wait another day love….unless….. You would believe how many sex toys get delivered with flat batteries because the Posties have been playing with them. I’d imagine that would be a lot of disappointed customers. i guess the moral to the story is buy backup batteries as well….or delve into the “prepper” stash to power up. |
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Post by Beno on Sept 4, 2021 9:27:23 GMT 10
I might have to buy my old mans van and do some couriering on the side. My terms or no delivery! Stuff this time sensitive rubbish, ya victoria secret panties can wait another day love….unless…..
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