Opinion Dominion

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Monday, October 02, 2023

Oppenheimer finally viewed

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I'll be kind and first list the good points:  yes, I think the acting is fine, and Cillian Murphy is aged very realistically in the mult...
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A vegetarian recipe noted

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Eggplants are very cheap at the moment, and I don't know why, but I seem to be enjoying them more and more lately, especially as baking ...
Friday, September 29, 2023

A completely unnecessary complication

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The (rather dull, but harmless I guess) nerd Lex Fridman was all super excited earlier today about this: My reaction, which only took about ...
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Bones and bananas

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Two somewhat surprising videos from Youtube today: The first - I don't recall seeing this surprising ceremony from Madagascar before - w...
Thursday, September 28, 2023

Fanciful suggestion

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As reported in The Guardian, Noel Pearson claims this: Government ministers have spoken about the voice’s potential to bring together advic...
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Antimatter not as exotic as it might have been

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At the New York Times, a report on a physics experiment that shows antimatter is affected by gravity the same way as normal matter:  In sci...
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Panpsychism discussed

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There's not much worth reading at Scientific American, I reckon, but I did enjoy this column about a recent meeting of science-y types d...
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Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Unexpected news day

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First, Dan Andrews resigns.   The guy drove Right wingers absolutely nuts - maybe it was his air of general unflappability - but it was kind...
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Noted

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 I don't really know this person - seems to be a relatively centrist farmer and rural advocate?   Seems to have put many tweets against ...
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Monday, September 25, 2023

Onion humour

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I don't feel the need to comment on Russell Brand - a search of the blog will show I've been disliking him for many years.  But this...

Bad polls, for some...

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Interesting couple of tweets:  

Let's admire Singapore, again

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I'm pretty sure Australia pioneered this mosquito control technique , and Singapore has taken it on board in a major way. Their mosquit...
Sunday, September 24, 2023

So my Pezzullo cynicism was well founded

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In a rare change for a Sunday night, I actually watched 60 Minutes because I saw on X Twitter that a major story about Pezzullo actively try...
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Friday, September 22, 2023

This sounds ripe for satire, but no one would be game to try

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This lengthy article in The Guardian about a huge amount of infighting going on at Melbourne University on the issue of aboriginal studies a...
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Funny, tragic, or both?

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 Or, as Charlie Pickering says:
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TV news/breakfast TV impressions

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I think watching a bit of breakfast TV, and also the commercial weekend news, gives a good idea of what the media thinks their audience is t...
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Thursday, September 21, 2023

Yet again, the ABC seems to struggle to find remote Indigenous who want the Voice

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The ABC has put up a story that looks at one pretty remote community and its problems with creating jobs: Coming to work is voluntary and t...

What a stretch

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Hope for a more progressive future from the South East Asian Muslim countries fades further, with this surprising example: An Indonesian c...

A story somewhat short on solutions

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Here, I'll gift link to an article at the New York Times l ooking at the economic problems of Ghana in particular, but it makes it clea...
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The sooner Musk leaves for Mars, the better

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Have a read of this appalling story of Musk joining in on some completely unwarranted outrage farming on an old story, and how it affects t...
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