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Robert
censored? - maybe. The clip caught my attention as I think I have some very similar ebike batteries which I've had cause to open up for repair - being unimpressed by the cells used which suffered from gassing / swelling. From my limited understanding of the chemistry they look to have quite an unstable formulation of electrolyte smeg + separators internally. Maybe this link works?
While the X experience up here is different under Musk ownership, it's still got noticeable, less overt curation going on which sometimes gets quite farcical showing, I feel - the pawprints of state actors - a number of weekend warrior squaddies of 77th Brigade openly have Twitter as a day job and political content is awash with promoted (but not overt advertising labelled) content - it's better but I still have a cynical take and cross reference more than other places.
The UK's disabled car provision scheme is getting a bumpy ride. https://x.com/Artemisfornow/status/1940473554983698838
I'm told by some sensitive souls I swear too much - so I reckon I'm due a free Bentley
Largely (mostly) ignored in the MSM - especially the BBC
https://x.com/jk_rowling/status/1940456032662179871
tomo
tomo,
No "battery in lift" tweet for me. Censored from delicate Aussie eyes?
I am a little sceptical of battery explosion videos. I doubt it's the same one you're talking about, but there was one a while back with a guy in a lift, the security cam footage showed a veritable furnace, then more footage of the lift arriving at a floor, and people turning up in surgical scrubs to take away his charred remains. Seemed all a bit too neatly arranged, and (like with the footage from Gaza), I got the whiff of a director's chair, clapper board, props dept., etc., waiting behind the camera. There's good money to be made if your video goes viral.
Read for a while at the link to Raja's X stuff. Interesting, but was soon confused, then realised that the dates were all over the place. Anyhow, I do wish him success in the quest. The wheels of justice have turned very slowly. Still an open question whether they'll *keep* turning.
Any prosecutions at the Post Office yet?
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A Californian expat in Australia telling the rest of the World what to do is not all that worrying. It just demonstrates her position as a clown. The problem would be if the World started obeying her.
On a related theme, a comment at Jo Nova's today linked to this official Western Australian announcement, which I hadn't seen before. Is there any footage from anywhere in the world that better encapsulates the mentality of the times of COVID?
Robert Swan
coincidence
https://x.com/wolsned/status/1940420483381629211
tomo
Some of these AI things are quite entertaining
https://i.ibb.co/rGNbF4Hs/miliband-minor.jpg
tomo
hey, 'straylyah
sort it out will you please?
https://x.com/NationFirstAust/status/1940237393925480780
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I urge everyone to read Rajah's X feed
https://x.com/recusant_raja
tomo
Oh dahhleenk, it's a twajjedy
https://x.com/latimeralder/status/1940295662500991413
tomo
Jeroen Vleggaar at Huygens Optics rarely disappoints - I found him early and a new video from him always brightens up my day.
tomo
The whoah! page is still up for me
Guy gets into a lift carrying an ebike battery - worst catastrophic battery pack fail I've seen (and I've now seen a lot)
The bussing in of crowds... They even have high power public address kit to make crowd noises - I've been there, seen it - been wtf'd or something - a 10% crowd crammed into a small section of a stadium - the cameras even had hard stops to avoid panning to empty stands, a crowd track playing out over a 20kW distributed PA. Sarkozy's dwarfs though - that were class...
Back in the Hilary-Trump election I recall being actually astonished when cell phone footage of a Clinton appearance in Florida surfaced after I'd seen the closely cropped MSM version - similar MO - crowd sounds and "big audience!" related hammy body gestures from Hilary from a large farm trailer ("stump").... to an actually empty small town sports field.
As for The Obamassiah - there was something really off about him early on that got my attention and not in a good way - the BBC were plugging him bigly well before the POTUS run, an anointed one imho... There were genuine moments - but there were a lot of fawning, overly grand media pieces that could only be attributed to personality cult cultivation by folk external to his immediate entorage. The genuine moments weren't spontaneous but the result of a lot of support from the MSM (yes, I know that's a bit mangled logic)
The weekend's Glastonbury gobby thickoe bonehead joose + whitey bad kerfuffle continues with MSM gits and Internet commentators repeating the description of the perps as "PUNK" performers - I note that king punk Johnny Rotten isn't being prominently consulted about the matter.
tomo
tomo,
Thanks, yes, that link works for me. It was part of the one I was sceptical about (the previous one went on to ambos arriving to wheel away the remains). The initial part looks genuine enough, but when venting gives way to an explosion that fills the lift with flame and apparently takes out the camera, that doesn't seem so believable, and makes for pretty easy splicing of footage. When the door opens lower down, where has the smoke gone?
Admittedly my scepticism might stray towards cynicism, which could explain why I have never felt drawn towards Twitter — pre- or post-Musk's takeover.
If you get that Bentley, don't plan on it including the crystal decanters. Those numbers average out to about £1000 per car. Might get you some Bentley roller skates!
But the whole notion of being given a car because you have Tourettes, or dyslexia, ... it's just absurd. One reason the renewables boondoggle is losing steam (so to speak) in Australia is that we have an even bigger boondoggle in the NDIS (National Disability Insurance Scheme). Much the same nonsense as that UK stuff.
And in another show of solidarity between our countries, I can call "snap" on the paedophile business too. The Victorian case has the bureaucrats baffled because the fellow had a valid "working with children" certificate. It's almost like credentials can't be trusted!