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@borisyeltzin @craigkellyAFEE They have, the tide marks on fort Dennison show its risen 70mm in the time they've been there, which is within natural fluctuation but it has risen

@PeterRowe184 @craigkellyAFEE go measure. it will be the same. the IPCC already played down their fear campaign over the years. the scary predictions were all rubbish.

I wonder how much different it looked a 110 years earlier than the first photo when Captain Cook sailed by ?

@RennickGBR They can be recycled it's just more expensive to do so than it's worth, there should be a requirement for the companies to recycle them at end of life just like mining companies have to repair mining damage.

“Australia faces a glut of old solar panels polluting the environment by leaching toxic chemicals into landfill with no viable reuse or recycling solutions available, the government's own Department of Climate Change and Energy has warned. The looming environmental crisis has sparked alarm among local councils and regional communities, which have accused the Albanese government of putting money into the rollout of renewable energy but not the decommissioning end of the process. Australia, the world's largest per capita adopter of solar power thanks in large part to Labor government subsidies, now faces its “first significant wave of end-of-life rooftop solar systems" but can't process all the “hazardous" waste that would come from this, the department said. •••••••••••••••••• So much for clean and renewable energy. Compare solar panels to carbon dioxide which is renewed naturally by plant life for free. The fact that so many people are brainwashed by the renewable scam just goes to show how powerful propaganda is.

@aboy14695 @rationalaussie @K8050906068853 I've seen the same thing, IQ doesn't seem to correlate with ability anywhere near as much as you'd think, I know guys with 2 digit IQ's who are very capable and guys who are very clearly 125+ who you'd never employ

@rationalaussie @K8050906068853 @PeterRowe184 As someone who works in the field I disagree on this. My boss can look at a plan and place infrastructure perfectly and I can’t. I however am better on the computer than many more experienced and smarter than I. Different things “click” for different people

The bigger question here - and the real problem - is why does it take 5 years to become an electrician? You're seriously gonna tell me the smartest white collar workers (soon to be unemployed) are effectively prohibited from getting employed as a lucrative tradesperson during the final period where human employment even matters, because of regulations? It's insane. A smart person could turbo charge this in 6 months. The West needs fast-track trades programs.

@TimQMLCNorthVic @rationalaussie Most likely worse, to create things you need to have some basis in reality or they won’t work, would you feel safe on an airplane if you knew the guy maintaining it had done that?

@PeterRowe184 @rationalaussie So 47 year old former office workers with a degree and 25 years work experience will exactly be the same as 17 year olds is what you’re saying?

@rationalaussie You also seem very confused at how apprenticeships work, a sparky apprenticeship is 4 years and they can be signed off in 3 if they are really good, you’re not finished after a certain amount of time, you are finished when other tradesmen think you’re good enough

You seem to have entirely missed my point. Intelligence is the ability to effectively and continuously learn. Smart people generalise better than dumber people, meaning they can see far few examples of a problem AND reason over it to reach a solution quicker. Blanket 'X years to get a certificate' courses are ridiculous. All you need is a simulated physical training course that anyone in the country can attempt at any point they want without any formal qualifications and if they pass it they are good to go.

@rationalaussie No matter how smart someone is they’re not going to be able to replace centuries of specialist experience, do you think that your solution to a problem will be better than the 100 iq guy thats been solving those problems for 50 years?

@Tubthumping1 @rationalaussie Those guys are unemployable in the private sector

@PeterRowe184 @rationalaussie Funny how the military doesn't take that long training electricians.

@Teslaconomics Yes but probably not what they're teaching them, I remember teachers in the 90's telling us "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket" and now I do advanced math on my phone daily...

Honest answers only… does school really even matter for kids anymore in the age of AI?

@ItIsHoeMath The settlers in Australia weren’t “genetic trash”, while some were convicts who were mostly transported for “crimes of desperation” a lot were the wealthy sons who were unlikely to inherit, Most payed for transport knowing they could build a more successful life in Australia.

If you ever need to explain “regression to the mean” to an idiot or a midwit, remind them that Britain sent its worst genetic trash to Australia, and Australia became one of the best countries in the world, just like Britain, Canada, and the USA, which also came mostly from British/English origins. No, "regression to the mean" DOES NOT mean that you can increase the IQ of a racial group over time through selection. It means that each group will always trend back towards "the same way they were when you found them." This is because you can't actually select the dumb ones out of the gene pool. You can find two 115-IQ people from an 85-IQ group, and yes, their kids will likely be IQ-100... ...and then they'll live in the same exact fucking place with all the 85-IQ ones, and after a few generations, the IQ boost will be gone.

@OMGTheMess @OzPollies That’s to be expected, we’ve already lost most of the Korea/Vietnam guys and the Iraq/Afganistan guys are too young to die from age related illnesses

Right now in Australia, at 42%, suicide is the leading cause of death for ex-serving males aged under 30 years old. Just completely wrong

@ausstockchick I’m heavily invested in housing solely so my children will have somewhere to live, but I still feel bad about it.

People are quick to criticise people for investing in housing. Every single person in this world is selfish (to an extent). Most people are lazy and selfish. So when someone who isn’t lazy and selfish invests in something to make money, the lazy and selfish people get mad and pretend they care about ethics. #justsaying

@CmonMick @johngoddard Culture and family.

@PeterRowe184 @johngoddard Why would having kids make U stay?

The best part about moving overseas is not having to listen to these fake academics pontificate about how much of my wealth should be stolen.

@cicohipe @RoadknightThe I'm pretty sure the reason is that we have the vast majority of the population doing unproductive make work jobs and parasitising these productive people, there are more people on welfare than there are tradesman, 1 in 5 work for the government...

@PeterRowe184 @RoadknightThe There's a huge problem with it though unfortunately. A country needs a cheap, well skilled labour force to be productive. You're essentially looking at the reason we have a productivity crisis.

With apologies to Willie Nelson: "Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. Let 'em be plumbers and sparkies and such..." Electricians: $282,520 pa Plumbers: $333,781 pa HVAC: $416,637 pa Who'd be a GP at $350,000 - $400,000 pa? heraldsun.com.au/news/national/…

@RoadknightThe Half of that is materials/consumables/vehicles/tools/workshop, 25k of it is gst and 40% of what’s left is income tax, putting it simply the unproductive and parasitic government workers earn more.

@PeterRowe184 I'd be happy to be that poor.

@RoadknightThe Revenue is a very different thing to income, 250k per year per tradesman is pretty standard across most industries and it’s not making anyone rich

No, the article describes them as sole traders. Those running small businesses earn even more. "The national report also underscored the revenue lift that comes with growing a team. "For electrical, the average revenue increases from $282,520 for sole traders to $687,895 for small teams of two-four people, reaching $4,434,140 for larger businesses with more than 13 employees. "Plumbing follows a similar pattern, growing from $333,781 for sole traders to approximately $3.21 million for large teams. "HVAC shows the strongest scale potential, climbing from $416,637 for sole traders to $5.38 million for large teams, while property maintenance businesses grow from $299,866 to $3.33 million as teams scale from sole traders to large teams."

@miiilato That would be your father's fault, I could do all of those things.

18 year olds after 13 years of government education: -can't build a house -can't work on a car -no idea how to farm -economically illiterate -historically iliterate -no idea how our bodies work -no clue about healthy nutrition -is chronically depressed