Ryan Burns

Nobody is a nobody.

The 500 year long Little Ice Age was the coldest period on the planet for 10,000 years. In February 1814 there was a Frost Fair held on the frozen Thames. The ice was so thick that an elephant was paraded on the river near Blackfriars Bridge. The cold was caused by a quiescent Sun - a grand solar minimum. In contrast there was a grand solar maximum in the later half of the 20th century. The most active period of sunspot activity for 11,000 years. It should be of no surprise that the planet has warmed. (Grok created image)

How Aussie small business owners feel trying to make a profit in the current environment

I'm shocked that SBS's Insight program allowed this guy to even speak. Good on ya Ronil 👏

Australia needs Castle Law. No ifs. No buts.

🇺🇸 This Florida homeowner just went full send when 3 armed thieves tried breaking into his house, and he lit them up with an AK-47. All 3 were hit, and police say zero charges under Florida’s self-defense laws.

This time next week (Monday 25th May), I will be sitting in a court room in the NSW Supreme Court because I identified two males in female sport. As a result of three years of lawfare I was found guilty of vilification and ordered to pay $95,000 in damages as well as make contradictory social media posts. I am appealing that decision. Nothing in this world can make me believe they are women. Nothing in this world can make me believe they deserve a place in women's sport. Nothing in this world will give me confidence in the courts after @salltweets lost her federal court appeal. Men are not women. Gaslighting us, penalizing us, threatening us will not change that fact!

A new study analyzed daily temperatures from 992 long-running weather stations across 29 countries covering the years 1899 to 2024. Then it compared those temperatures to cumulative human CO2 emissions. They don't match. From 1899 to 1940, the planet warmed at a rate of 0.022 C per year, even though emissions were low. Then from 1941 to 1982, temperatures cooled, despite CO2 emissions more than tripling. From 1983 to 2024, warming returned, but slower than before, at a rate of 0.017 C per year, even as emissions rose 8.6 times higher than during the earlier warming phase. As the author concludes, "These findings challenge the conventional assumption that human-induced CO2 is the primary driver of global warming."

What is the point of saving? The government will just treat you like a criminal and expropriate your savings upon death. It's your money. You should decide what happens to it. This country needs a massive reduction in taxes and some constitutional restraints on politicians.

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IT'S HAPPENING Sweden just introduced new stricter rules for getting citizenship. ▪️Applicants must have lived at least 8 years in the country. ▪️Must prove one is able to provide for oneself earning at least $2250 a month. ▪️Must prove sufficient Swedish language skills and knowledge about Swedish society. ▪️People must have lived an "orderly and honorable life" both before arriving in Sweden and while living there. Looks like a major U-turn on the open borders.

2026 Federal government budget response.

@AlboMP We're throwing every thing we can at housing, aside from understanding the foundational principles of demand-supply imbalances that drive market pricing. I wonder if New Zealand also built 45 new houses to fix their issues, or if they addressed immigration?

In 2009 Australia’s top marginal tax rate of 45% kicked in at $180k If this had been properly indexed to inflation, today it would kick in around $280k Instead, it hits at $190k This is a dishonest and stealth form of theft We don’t hate these politicians enough !!

Honest Melbourne coffee review ☕

Just absolute drivel coming out of his mouth. It makes you sick in the stomach listening to his lies. He’s taking full 47% tax levels on hard fought gains people have made from re-investing their already highly taxed wages. And this is hitting every young, middle age and old Australian that does well independently. Labor has become a radical socialist regime that thinks it has the right to control, limit and distribute wealth it had no hand in making.

Google is making $62 billion a quarter destroying the websites it NEEDS to survive. This is literally a death spiral that ends with Google killing itself. Let me explain what's going on... Google added AI summaries to the top of every search result in 2024. When you Google something now, the answer sits right there on Google's page. You never have to click anywhere. Google took the information from someone else's website, summarized it, and kept you inside Google's ecosystem. The result: 60% of all Google searches now end without a single click to any website. Small publishers lost 60% of their traffic in one year. Medium publishers lost 47%. Even the biggest names in media, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Business Insider, all saw traffic fall between 22% and 55%. The Axios CEO called it "a referral extinction event for the ad-supported web." Google's response to all of this was to tell publishers they can "opt out" of having their content summarized. But opting out also REMOVES your description from normal search results. So the choice Google gives you is let us steal your content for free, or become invisible on the internet. That's extortion. The Washington Post laid off another round of journalists this year because of it. Stereogum, one of the most respected music publications on the internet, had to BEG readers for donations. Business Insider cut 21% of its staff. Dozens of smaller publishers have shut down entirely. The people who actually CREATE the information Google summarizes are going bankrupt while Google posts record revenue. But here's where this gets interesting and where everyone stops thinking: Google's AI summaries are only as good as the content they summarize. If the publishers who write the original articles, run the original investigations, and create the original data go out of business, there is nothing left for Google to summarize. The AI starts recycling old information, the answers get stale, the quality drops, and users start noticing that Google's summaries are increasingly wrong, outdated, or useless. Google is essentially strip-mining the internet for short-term revenue. They are extracting all the value from content creators without paying for it, driving those creators out of business, and then wondering why the quality of their own product is declining. This is exactly what Napster did to the music industry in the early 2000s: Made content free, creators went broke, and quality collapsed. It took a decade to rebuild. Google is doing the same thing to the entire internet at 100x the scale. Rolling Stone, Variety, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, and Billboard are now suing Google for antitrust violations. Chegg, the education platform, lost 49% of its traffic and is suing too. The UK's competition authority just ordered Google to let publishers opt out without being punished. The DOJ already ruled Google is an illegal monopoly. And Google's defense in court is genuinely unbelievable. They argue that publishers CHOOSE to let Google index their content and can leave anytime they want. That's like saying you choose to pay protection money to the mob because technically you could close your business and move to another city. Google controls 90% of search. Leaving Google means leaving the internet. Meanwhile Google is investing billions in custom AI chips to make these summaries cheaper at scale. Every quarter the problem gets worse. The internet as we've known it for 25 years ran on a simple deal: Publishers make content. Google sends traffic. Advertisers pay for the traffic. Everyone wins. But Google just BROKE that deal and kept all the money.

@clairlemon @GrayConnolly Really? Red-pilled? Given your support for the COVID response, one might easily accuse you of being colourblind.

@GrayConnolly Redpilled from birth, Gray

I suspect, like most Catholic conservatives, I have never really had a major ideological awakening (and hope never to, really) so I found this ⁦@clairlemon⁩ piece to be both bracing and necessary reading about when reality mugs you … bravo Claire

@GrayConnolly @clairlemon Her “anti-big state” stance here sits awkwardly against her enthusiastic support for the big-state COVID response - lockdowns, mandates, coercion, and all - for what, in hindsight, was a vastly overblown threat for most people.

@HairyCooIII @alisterberkeley @GeoffWilsonWAM @cjoye Don't worry about the rich partners They have already made their money and can invest globally They already have assets Worry about yourself As you try to build your asset base, the government will take about half of what you get from investing