I went to a meat raffle in NZ that ended up in fisticuffs over a dropped lamb carcass. Very serious, drunken, business.
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I went to a meat raffle in NZ that ended up in fisticuffs over a dropped lamb carcass. Very serious, drunken, business.
Whaty what what?!!!?? China wow...
20,000 x 1.5MW charging stations to be built by the end of the year.
The electricity is buffered in batteries to minimise grid impact.
carnewschina.com/2026/03/05/b...
We need to be building a grid for the 21st century. Mechanical gas peaker plants, which requires ~10 minutes to respond to a grid crisis, cannot complete with electronic, grid-scale battery energy storage which responds almost instantly. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 www.utilitydive.com/news/the-phy...
Wrote this in 2019. Didn't think it would happen this fast.
"When it comes to the long-term economics of power generation, it isn’t a fair fight. There is no clear way natural gas can compete with renewables on an economic basis in the coming decades."
Everything you think you know about EV charging is going to become obsolete. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 insideevs.com/news/789094/...
''CGD operators said replacing contracted Qatari volumes with spot LNG priced at more than double the contracted rate could erode CNG's price advantage and result in a permanent shift of customers to electric vehicles."
Look at that.
This is exactly what we discussed on the @energyempire.bsky.social with James Gutman. People are accelerating plans to reduce oil imports to reach Energy Sovereignty.
Good thing Trump keeps Chinese cars out of the country, otherwise we would be able to buy better cars at lower prices www.fastcompany.com/91503415/byd... As Trump always says, "why pay less?"
academia very badly needs people who are neither dogmatically anti-AI nor credulous boosters. the potential is real and the problems are very real. but many critics refuse to even engage with the question of the how and when the things work in the first place.
Glad people are settling on the term "pervert glasses". Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckerberg's pervert glasses.
Scientists sound alarm over Europe's forests as 216,000 hectares at risk - even if warming halts
www.euronews.com/2026/03/05/s...
He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.
Slight diversion…but that headline does a disservice to men and women. The story is about a subset of Gen Z misogynists, not ‘men my age’. Framing misogyny as a generational male trait is part of the problem and risks normalising it, instead of calling it what it is.
Albo's 'transparency bill' was so bad Labor killed it themselves.
( @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social might have helped but can't say too much)
#auspol #FOI
michaelwest.com.au/legislative-...
Albanese has now admitted that Australians were onboard the US nuclear sub that sank an Iranian vessel and left the crew to drown, in a violation of international law. This was always an inevitability of AUKUS. End AUKUS now.
Under a Labor cabinet of majority private school graduates the private school sector is growing faster than ever, with insane levels of public funding for elitist, for profit & religious indoctrination schools.
Labor - for an unfair Australia.
#auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Four days before Australian Red Cross chair Claire Rogers attended the Sydney reception for Herzog, the Red Cross condemned the IDF's killing of Hussein Hassan Hussein Al-Samiri, a Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedic.
Healthcare workers have condemned the Australian Red Cross Society after its chair attended a welcome reception for Israeli President Isaac Herzog.
www.deepcutnews.com/p/healthcare...
When I first reported on this, I kept being asked: "Sure but how bad will it be? Will it really stick around?"
Australians on board US nuclear submarines. Yeah - once a government has decided to purchase and build nuclear submarines (regardless of your view on that), you need to train people to train people. The only thing surprising is the speed of the rollout - unusually competent for the ADF.
naval gazing
Notably a US military station is in Darwin.
Thanks Tim
Okay, so, where should I start? We've got European colonisation, federation, the White Australia policy, the modern information environment, the role of resource extraction, the UK and US, multinational capitalism, the Whitlam dismissal, the Third Way 90s, the Accords, geography...
On a 1,500-kilowatt charger, these batteries added over 500 miles of indicated range in ten minutes.
US leaders regret allowing China to escape poverty and get on a plausible path to prosperity and they intend not to repeat that mistake anywhere else. US national security requires that the global south stay poor and weak forever www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.
I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.
Download advice on feeding newborns to teens
Reminds me of Swift’s Modest Proposal.
