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@MarkoMatvikov Can’t believe the median house price of sleepy Adelaide has surpassed Melbourne which was constantly touted as the most liveable city in the world year after year. We want affordable housing for young people in Australia but not for the reasons Melbourne is getting cheaper…

Constant hardcore violence, teenage prostitution, open drugs and stolen goods market, retailers shutting down. Every person in this video indicates this entrenched crime has become completely normalised. When did Melbourne become San Francisco?

There is not a single week without a German company announcing mass layoffs or closures. Germany is in the deepest structural crisis since WWII. Government spending masks the real magnitude It can’t continue forever, governments need taxes from the real economy to keep spending

Wind and solar may succeed at a smaller, localised scale. But scaling them to power an entire modern civilisation is a fundamentally different challenge. It was never going to work. They don't provide crucial baseload power, and traditional industrial grids were not built to accommodate their erratic delivery. Decades of government incentives, feed-in tariffs and tax credits have heavily subsidised their rollout across wealthy Western nations. But it's an exercise resembling hopeless love. These desperate initiatives have ignored the fundamental mismatch between intermittent generation and existing grid architecture. A complete rebuild of the global grid carries an estimated price tag of $21 trillion — a task made harder by decades of underinvestment in basic transmission infrastructure and heavy-duty storage. Traditional power grids rely on synchronous generation — massive spinning turbines in coal, gas, nuclear or hydro plants. This physical rotating mass provides natural mechanical inertia, keeping grid frequency locked at a stable 50 or 60 Hz. In sharp contrast, wind and solar just can't plug in. They rely on inverter-based technology, which gives zero inherent inertia. While engineers try to patch this stability gap with complex synthetic controls and giant spinning flywheels, it adds layer upon layer of extra cost and friction. Meanwhile, the colossal scale of battery storage required to bridge multi-day lulls in wind and sunlight — the dreaded Dunkelflaute — runs into an immediate brick wall. It creates yawning bottlenecks in copper, lithium and cobalt mining, compounded by soaring production costs. Crucially, the system can't even build itself. It just hasn't got the muscle. Mining the quartz, smelting the silicon, forging the structural steel and transporting massive turbine blades - all demands high-density, uninterrupted process heat and power. In an ironic twist, this energy is supplied almost exclusively by coal, oil and gas. The gridlock this creates is almost farcical. Because wind and solar remain weather-dependent, grids must keep fast-ramping gas peakers or idling coal plants on standby. They are burning fuel in the background to step in the instant the wind drops or clouds roll over. Great business plan.

Elon Musk: "At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people… a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue."

This is wild. Can someone please explain why the average worker in Spain takes five weeks of sick leave, in France four weeks, while in Italy just three days? Could certain systems simply incentivize people to abuse them?

@MarkoMatvikov It’s Big Government and Taxes or bust

The Labor conference was a massive echo chamber. Aspiration? Any reasonable interpretation of this would be low cost of living combined with high economic opportunity to build a better life through self determination. Instead, we’ve got record high taxes, record high business insolvencies, record high homelessness, growing wealth disparity and declining living standards. It’s clear the electorate doesn’t see Labor as aspirational - that’s exactly why Labor keeps insisting it is. But saying it doesn’t make it so - the truth is the opposite, just like most things this government says compared to what they do.

@AllenbasterAxel … but experts concede she has a few good points lol

Project FEAR

Post a travel pic. No explanation, just a pic from a trip you took.

The ABC has lost its way. Nothing will make my blood boil faster than someone trying to tell that the ABC has charter that they must not be bias by law. It's inherent bias is known by all now...and just simply accepted as yeah that's the ABC with its supporters declaring '....but it's better than all the others!' The most insidious bias of the ABC comes not from lies or factual falsehoods, it comes from building narratives around omission and silences, they just don't report on things that they don't agree with or don't want to promote in a positive way. Last week on Insiders, Tony Abbott was slandered as a white supremacist. Former PM, and head of the Liberal Party, barely any pushback just a normal talking point for Sunday morning. His main crime seems to be simply being that he is white Christian family man. I never voted him and I'm non-religious but it's astonishing to me the hate directed his way. That's not what I want from the pay with my tax money at the ABC. I understand it was another time but I used to go to my grandparents' house and we would all crowd around the TV as kids and watch non woke Dr Who, ABC news then some British genuinely funny British comedy. Now we have some rage bait on where I can barely contain myself. I used to listen ABC radio religiously but no more. It was always left leaning, but it was interesting and intellectual looking to engage with its audience. The ABC used to be gentile in its outlook, nobody got into bitter argument about politics and society with their brother-in-law after watching Pot Black. A segment of the population enjoys and wants to watch the ABC. OK, then they can pay for it. It no longer needs to be subsidized as a media outlet when there is a deluge of choices and content out there to imbibe. SBS can go to, you can all its stuff elsewhere without the progressive leftist lecturing. Also, forget about telling we need Australian perspectives or content or reliable news(ABC is not reliable and its full of bias), there is so much Australian content out there now you can never get through it. So I want my 1.2 billion dollars a year clawed back and spent on hospitals and schools. Maybe we can keep some countryside service for remote areas but if you really want to watch it, you pay for it-not me.

I take a hard stance on violent criminals and terrorists - with protection of the innocent as my priority. But for our public broadcaster to air fantasising the mutilating torture of a businesswoman? Despicable. I almost never watch Sky News and often defend the ABC. And I consider myself relentlessly centrist. But keep going with this and soon you’ll be asking ‘what radicalised you?’

This is actually worse than people are making it out to be. This is *reproducibility* not replicability, meaning they took the authors’ own data and redid the analysis. 0% of education papers even did their math right.

45 million Chinese starved to death in four years so Mao could hit steel quotas. He forced farmers to melt their tools and cookware in backyard furnaces while the crops sat unharvested, and local officials inflated the harvest numbers to save their own skins, so the state seized grain based on pure fiction and left the villages to die. The largest famine in human history followed directly from central planning that treated human lives as disposable inputs. Intentions and “hehe whoopsies” become irrelevant once the body count reaches the genocidal scale that communism produces every time it gains power. TLDR: anyone defending Mao/ism after 45 million corpses because “muh intentions” is literally a genocidal imbecile.

When you hear ‘small business is the backbone of the economy’, it isn’t an exaggeration. It’s where most of our innovation and productivity growth comes from - often first to adapt to changing conditions, solve complex problems and buckle down when inflation runs hot. It’s where most young people get their first job and work alongside owners who are often still on the tools - and where many learn the skills and confidence to eventually start businesses of their own. Historically, small business has accounted for about 98% of all Australian business and employs around 40% of the private sector workforce - which accounts for roughly 70% of all jobs. So when small business struggles, the whole economy feels it - and when they go down, the alarm bells should sound. And Australia has about 10% fewer small businesses per person today than pre-covid.

Eight people sealed themselves in a glass dome to prove humanity could feed itself on plants, and spent two years starving in front of the world's press. Biosphere 2 cost a hundred and fifty million dollars. Three acres of Arizona desert under sealed glass, eight crew, door shut on 26 September 1991, nothing in or out for two years. The farm inside was worked intensively and by any agronomic measure it was superb, out-producing the most efficient smallholder farming on earth by a wide margin. It produced 83 per cent of what they needed. Which left Roy Walford, the crew doctor, in a sealed box with seven hungry colleagues and his own life's work. Walford was a UCLA pathologist who had spent thirty years arguing that severe calorie restriction extends lifespan. He had doubled it in mice. And here was reality handing him his own hypothesis with the door welded shut. So he called it a health programme. The menu became vegetables, half a glass of goat's milk a day, and meat or fish about once a week. The men lost close to a fifth of their body weight, the women about a tenth. And the markers Walford cared about behaved impeccably: blood pressure, glucose, cholesterol and triglycerides all down at least twenty per cent, into ranges any doctor would frame. He published it in PNAS in 1992. The bloodwork was magnificent. The people were falling apart. Jane Poynter wrote the book afterwards. Fatigue, depression, mental fog, and a preoccupation with food that ate the entire interior life of the crew. They stole from each other. They split into two factions that stopped speaking. The ecological research the building had been constructed for was largely abandoned by people who no longer had the headroom for anything past the next meal. The ants and cockroaches, by contrast, were thriving. The air was leaving too. Oxygen started at 20.9 per cent and kept dropping and nobody knew where it was going. Columbia eventually worked it out: the concrete was quietly eating it. So oxygen had to be pumped in from outside, which is an interesting result for a sealed world. Walford's verdict on the mutiny is the whole thing in one sentence. He said afterwards that any other physician aboard would have panicked and declared they were starving, but that he knew they were on a programme of health enhancement. He knew. Seven other people, visibly wasting, were simply mistaken. He came out in 1993, developed ALS, blamed the conditions inside, and died in 2004 aged 79 after years on 1,600 calories a day in pursuit of a longer life. The mice got double. He did not make it to average for an American professor. Every argument you have heard this decade was already in that building. Grow it locally. Take the animals out. Eat less. Watch the numbers improve. Eight of the most motivated humans alive, handed three acres of the best-managed farmland on the planet and no meat, could not feed themselves. The press reported the fighting as a personality clash.

The most loyal Democrats in America are broke ass postgrads who spent six figures on degrees and still make less than a union electrician. People with postgraduate degrees pulling in $30,000-60,000 vote Democrat at 70%, harder than every other income and education combo in the country. Thomas Sowell clocked these overcredentialed specimens years ago when he called them “intellectuals”, the ones whose entire currency is ideas instead of results. A business owner or a farmer goes under when their ideas fail, while these people just get more grants, more peer approval, and another invitation to the same conference. That is the actual base. The group that never has to live with the bill when everything they pushed turns to sewage. Reality has a permanent anti-left bias because these people never have to pay for being wrong.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp on Zohran Mandani voters: “The average Ivy League grad voting for this mayor is annoyed their education is not that valuable—and that the person who knows how to drill for oil has a more valuable profession.” “That annoys the fuck out of these people.”

My father was in the labor party and my family back in the day were old style labor voters, drinkers, smokers and gamblers. My sister voted Labor/ greens all her life suddenly says she is considering voting ON- could have knocked me over with a feather. These are only anecdotes, not a tsunami of evidence but there are leaks in the dam.

My neighbour said his mum - who’s always voted Labor or Greens - can’t find it in her conscience to do so at the Vic election in November. A good sign that even rusted on voters have finally had enough of the corruption - and an indictment on those who still remain loyal to them.

@OMGTheMess Since covid I haven’t watched legacy news, subsidy is the only way they survive

The Australian Labor government (under Minister Anika Wells) created the Journalism Assistance Fund as part of the broader News Media Assistance Program. It provides $67.6 million over three years (2025–26 to 2027–28) to subsidize journalist wages at eligible news outlets producing “core news content” distributed digitally.

@Sriash99 He jumped

I still don't know how he flew like that. Enzo tried to stop, but there was a contact. But I don't know if the contact was big enough for getting flipped in air.

Reminder: the Crusades were a response to over 400 years of Islamic aggression against Christians and Europe. 632: Muhammad dies. 635: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Damascus. 636: Muslims conquer the Christian city of Antioch. 637: Muslims conquer the Holy Land. 639: Muslims conquer the first Christian country Armenia. 641: Muslims conquer the Coptic Christian country of Egypt. 650: Muslim armies reach southern Italy and Cyprus, taking thousands of captives as "slaves" and "concubines." 711: Muslims invade Spain, and by 715, they have occupied most of it. 717: Muslims besiege Constantinople but are repelled. 730: Muslims invade France, only to be stopped by Charles Martel at the Battle of Tours. 792: The ruler of Al-Andalus calls for the invasion of France, and Muslim armies are assembled to attack it again, but they are repelled. 827: Muslims invade Sicily and Italy, persecuting monks. Sicily remains under Islamic rule until 1092. 846: Muslims invade Rome and force the Pope to pay tribute. 848: A third invasion of France occurs, and they are repelled for a third time. 909: Muslims occupy Sardinia. 937: The Church of the Holy Sepulcher is burned down by Muslims, and more churches in Jerusalem are destroyed. 1009: Destruction of the Church of the Resurrection in Jerusalem. 1012: Beginning of al-Hakim’s oppressive decrees against Christians. 1071: Turkish Muslims attack the Byzantines and occupy much of Anatolia. 1094: Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos asks Western Christendom for help against the Muslim Turkish invasions. 1095: Pope Urban II finally declares the First Crusade.

The purpose of art was once not to shock or transgress, but to elevate the soul.