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@SHEEPSLIVE Yes it's all symbolic, "lest this cup pass from me" is referring to Jesus submitting to Gods will "nevertheless not my will but thine be done."
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DID CHRIST
LEAVE THE LAST SUPPER
WITHOUT FINISHING IT?
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@BladeoftheS That's 300 billion tonnes of fertiliser, not scrap buried in landfill.
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One Wind Turbine, the largest in the world, produces the same electricity as burning 750,000 tonnes of coal.
By 2050 wind turbines will have produced the same energy as burning 300 BILLION tons of coal.
A figure nearly 10,000 times yours.
Peter Clack@PeterDClack
The world will have to deal with 43 million tons of decommissioned wind turbine blades by Net Zero in 2050. To put that in perspective, it’s the equivalent weight of 215,000 locomotives. These blades are made of high-strength composites designed to survive decades of brutal weather, and they are notoriously difficult to recycle. They were built to last, but they weren't built to disappear. Every turbine standing today will likely be decommissioned and replaced at least once before 2050. Without a cost-effective way to recycle fibre-reinforced polymers, the majority of these massive blades are destined for eternity - buried forever in turbine graveyards. China, Europe, and the US will account for the vast majority of this waste, creating a mountainous industrial heartache that many Net Zero models simply haven't priced in. But 43 million tons of purely composite blade waste every 20 years is a colossal physical reality.
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@kimmonismus Yes while they exported all their dirty business to China so we could feel good about buying their solar panels.
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OECD countries have moved past a structural peak in fossil fuel electricity, with generation down 19% since 2007 as wind and solar more than covered both demand growth and fossil decline.
Expanding storage capacity is particularly helpful for storing solar energy. Solar power is the future, affordable, readily available, and easily scalable.
However, nuclear energy also has significant benefits.
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@abcampbell @barnes_law Food becomes more nutritious and we lose less top soil.
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what happens to yields when farmers don’t use fertilizer?
Tarric Brooker aka Avid Commentator 🇦🇺@AvidCommentator
Around 70% of American farmers are unable to afford all the required fertilizer for 2026. Graphic: American Farm Bureau Foundation
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@7NewsBrisbane @lynlinking @mhammond7 This is wacko cooker thinking, Queensland and Australia need to switch to renewable energy ASAP to reduce the reliance old fashioned fossil fuels which are also causing catastrophic global warming.
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The Premier wants to see tanks and refineries all the way down the Queensland coast in a fresh effort to shore up the state's fuel security. The industry warns the plan would take years, cost billions, and not get off the ground without public money. @mhammond7
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@NoahRevoy @JoakimMarias The number of fathers alienated from their children proves it's higher than we think. Not to mention that females are placed on a pedestal being all good and caring whilst men are violent animals.
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Masculine psychopathy is generally visible and easy to recognize, because men’s primary tool of dominance is violence.
Women’s psychopathy is more difficult to see, because their primary tool of dominance is manipulation. Manipulation is subtle by nature. It is designed to deceive and to wear down the resistance of the target.
Because of that, we likely underestimate the number of female psychopaths and the broader manipulative tendencies present in women.
I wrote an entire book on how to protect yourself from manipulation, which can be used by both men and women. If you search for my name on Amazon, you will find it.
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The absolute and total feminization of institutions, especially those of education, has led to extremely feminized thinking about research.
These researchers, some of whom are physically women and the rest of whom are (mostly) spiritual women, cannot bring themselves to face the real nature of mankind.
There are many reasons for this, and they are all connected. Here are two of them.
To face the real nature of humanity, you must accept that violence is golden, as Jack Donovan (@mr_jackdonovan) said, and is the primary social tool by which society functions. We are either cooperating to protect ourselves from violence, cooperating to commit violence, or some combination of the two.
Violence (and politics) is the primary job of men, which brings up the second point. Men are indispensable. We are the backbone of civilization, and civilizations cannot exist without us being men. That means more than just having an X and a Y chromosome, but acting in a masculine way, being dominant, strong, courageous, and willing to fight for ourselves and those we care about.
This is something women cannot do, and it makes them dependent on men for survival.
That terrifies the effeminate male, who cannot participate in that and therefore has no place in that hierarchy, neither as a masculine man nor as a feminine woman.
It also terrifies the unwanted women, who cannot find their place with a man to protect them.
Institutions tend to collect these people the way a poorly run company collects debts, until the weight of it all crushes the institution and reveals it for what it is.
Dwarkesh Patel@dwarkesh_sp
David Reich on how much ancient DNA evidence has overturned so much consensus thinking how ancient cultures spread. "It wasn't peaceful, it wasn't friendly, it wasn't nice. Some of our archaeologist co-authors were just really distressed."
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@RennickGBR @Transurban made more profit than CBA but they're in bed with @AustralianLabor so it's ok that we pay for their roads and get charged tolls for the convenience.
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“Australia's three largest foreign owned energy companies reaped combined profits of nearly $5bn in 2025, new disclosures reveal.
Chevron, the nation's largest LNG producer banked a $US1.8bn profit for the year to December 31, while ExxonMobil delivered a $1.66bn profit, up from $1.35bn, due to higher gas prices.
Energy giant Shell posted a net profit of $US261m for the same 12-month period, a steep fall from $US1.58bn the prior year. Shell also revealed a $US665m writedown on its Prelude floating offshore LNG project in Western Australia.”
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It’s time to put some context around how offshore gas companies are taxed.
Return on Equity is the key metric used in business to determine if a project is viable for a given level of risk.
The Wheatstone Project cost $34 billion and the Gorgon Gas Field cost $54 billion dollars to build.
Banks who make over $40 billion a year pay Australians nothing for their banking licence.
If the gas companies had of invested $88 billion in a 5% term deposit they could have made $4.4 billion for doing nothing.
As it turns out they made an extra 1.5% by risking $88 billion on a high risk project.
Unlike a term deposit, their capital isn’t guaranteed so they will need to also earn the $88 billion back, over and above the 5% per annum to justify their investment.
Of the $88 billion invested in those two projects, billions of dollars would have been paid in wages and contracting fees.
The real question should be, were those wages and contracts paid to Australian residents who paid tax here in Australia or was the money paid directly offshore, escaping our taxation system.
People First will crack down on transfer pricing by increasing withholding taxes, not just on gas companies but all companies to ensure profits derived in Australia stay in Australia.
We will also charge a royalty of 10% not 25% to ensure the viability of gas exploration.
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@TSLAFanMtl Name one car which has lost 33% of it's fuel tank? Drop in a bottle of injector cleaner and you're back to factory power output.
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This thirst-trap headline makes a positive sound like a negative.
Car drives like 3x more miles than the average car does in its life - still drives well with no mechanical issues - and still has 2/3 of its original battery's useable range. If anything, this is a testament to EV durability and longevity.
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TAXING TRUSTS – IS THE WASHING MACHINE CYCLE SET TO END?
· John Howard thought about it a quarter of a century ago
· Joe Hockey spoke out in favour of doing it a decade and a half ago
· Labor went to an election with a policy of doing it a decade ago
· Treasury has long wanted it to happen
I have been sceptical the coming budget would tackle some long overdue reforms
But the signs are getting better
The government has announced a serious stab at tackling the NDIS, announcing changes that aren’t hugely different to those it campaigned strongly against in 2019
And now there’s a gathering drumbeat that the government may finally tax trusts as companies
Yes, there are good reasons for trusts to exist. But they also create options to lower tax in ways that are simply not open to the vast bulk of Australians
In particular, they allow (1) people to split incomes within families, and they allow (2) people to keep moving money between trusts and companies (in a signature move called ‘the washing machine’, much loved by tax accountants)
That creates striking unfairness across Australians
No, there is no perfect way to level this particular playing field. But be wary of stories that point out the ways in which a minimum rate of tax on trusts could be unfair.
There will certainly be such cases. But there’ll be way more times where such a move fixes longstanding unfairness
And that sounds good to me …
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@harald_murphy @TeslaAUNZ @Tesla EV drivers scare me more thanthe usual crowd who forgo regular maintenance. The only way those tyres have lasted 50K's would be a super hard compound with no traction.
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Super impressed at the resilience of these Hankook iON evo AS tyres which have travelled over 56,000kms on my @TeslaAUNZ @Tesla New Model Y (including two laps of Australia).
No wheel alignments, no tyre rotations.
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I enjoyed the crunch of sand and grit when tightening the ring compressor.
It’ll either run 5mins or 50years idk tho 😂
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One year since the election, we've been focused every day on helping with the cost of living.
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🇦🇺 Australia’s energy security won’t be solved by drilling more holes.
It’ll be solved by needing less of the stuff in the first place. 🌏 Our destination hasn’t changed — but excuses for delay get less and less credible. Check out my comments in @theaustralian today. #CAE2026
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@peter_tulip @AntipodeanMacro Everyone who could left Melbourne for QLD because Victoria is a 3rd world shithole.
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Melbourne used to be the 2nd most expensive housing market in the country.
It's been overtaken by Brisbane, Perth and Canberra.
Now Melbourne dwelling prices are below average.
Because it has been building lots of homes.
Chart by @AntipodeanMacro
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Building new oil refineries and wells in Australia doesn't make Oil magically appear. we only have 10-15 yrs of reserves left.
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