Opinion Dominion
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Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Family support that may be impossible where it's most needed?
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I must have grumbled here before about the constant stream of complaint about the high rate of indigenous child family removal by child safe...
Today's depressing read on the future of Gaza
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Last month , I posted about the depressing fact that no one seemed to have any good ideas regarding the future governance of Gaza - just a b...
Rogan's absurd nuttiness continues
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More on Australian universities and the overseas student issue
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Remember, I like universities and don't have any issue with them being attractive to overseas students. But they will harm their reputa...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
The Guardian goes there...
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I mean, if it was the Daily Mail, I would have more doubts, but when it's The Guardian deciding to run a series on this issue: Australia...
Hank says things I wish more people would say
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The guy has always seemed basically likeable, but how I wish more people would be as blunt as this about crypto:
Monday, July 29, 2024
The old Olympics
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An article like this probably gets published every modern Olympics, but this version had a couple of details I don't recall reading bef...
The best doctors on Youtube
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These two Canadian doctors (both orthopaedic surgeons, but they get guest specialists on to talk about other subjects) are easily the most l...
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Musk and Twitter
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If my experience of using Twitter is any guide, there's no doubt that Musk uses it to push unwanted Right wing, and Republican, views on...
Friday, July 26, 2024
Fingers crossed for Paris
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I'm getting the impression that there are people on both sides of politics who want to put the boot into Paris and its Olympics: on th...
It's something of a "good news" day
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* From the Washington Post : A federal judge in Florida threw out a bankruptcy case filed by the Gateway Pundit, ruling that the site, whi...
Some good dementia news for a change
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I'm getting to the age where dementia protection news grabs my attention. From The Guardian: Researchers have raised hopes for delayin...
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Trump is giving me bad dreams
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I've been waking up and remembering bits of a lot of dreams lately, and some have been very strange. As I've said before, a little r...
On the nature of the current autocracies
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Over at NPR, there's a discussion of a new book by Anne Applebaum called Autocracy, Inc., The Dictators Who Want to Rule the World. S...
I'm no ballistics expert, but...
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...I'm pretty sure that if even a tiny edge of an AR15 bullet hit your ear tip, it would do more damage than a mere scratch that doesn...
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It's good to be King
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Well, does this mean the monarchy (sort of?) pays for itself ?: LONDON — The British royal family will be receiving a 53 percent raise, wor...
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
The "new technology vs redundancy before it's even deployed" issue in developing new energy sources
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I see that Sabine Hossenfelder and others have videos out about the latest cost blowout, and delays, in the ITER project that is only a res...
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Against Peter Thiel
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Oh my, Twitter (unfortunately) still throws up links worth reading - such as this 2022 essay on Substack by John Ganz entitled "The En...
Elon's on the copium train
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So Elon is in the "I create my own reality" world of MAGA now. I could have sworn that the reality is the opposite of what he ...
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On the question of anyone "debating" Trump
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I don't really know why it isn't the Democrats saying something like this: "We don't see any point in a further 'debate...
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