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Comment:Trump's not so bad: the nuclear holocaust edition
Date published: 11:59 am, September 15th, 2021Given Biden's political resemblance to a potted plant, it seems that by 2020 they had realised what a mistake that was.
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Comment:Trump's not so bad: the nuclear holocaust edition
Date published: 11:56 am, September 15th, 2021Doomscrolling news and opinion sites now isn't anywhere near the timesuck it used to be.
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Comment:Open mike 15/09/2021
Date published: 11:53 am, September 15th, 2021You'd probably need to do the actual test on the actual car configured exactly the sameas you normally drive to get a definitive answer. It's well known some apparently minor things can make big differences. Such as if you choose the wankmobile 21" wheels ...
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Comment:Open mike 15/09/2021
Date published: 11:26 am, September 15th, 2021I'm fairly sure a bunch of the latest non-hybrid engines also use the Atkinson cycle idea with their variable valve timing. It's just taken a while to catch on, partly because the shorter effective compression stroke also effectively turns it into a ...
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Comment:Open mike 15/09/2021
Date published: 10:51 am, September 15th, 2021There won't be any left soon . A few of them survive. And sometimes end up even more problematic than they were before. eg Joe Rogan. I gotta say though, it's a truly bizarre political and marketing strategy to promote things that make one's audience more ...
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Comment:Open mike 15/09/2021
Date published: 10:41 am, September 15th, 2021A lot of the fuel economy improvements come from using an Atkinson cycle engine. The longer power stroke compared to the shorter effective compression stroke extracts more of the energy of the burnt fuel, which means a petrol engine can get similar levels ...
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Comment:Open mike 15/09/2021
Date published: 9:41 am, September 15th, 2021There's a lot more to it than just air drag. There's all the auxiliaries on the engine, rolling resistance of tyres and powertrain components, efficiency map of the engine etc etc. In general, minimum fuel use per distance happens when the car is in its ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 7:00 am, September 15th, 2021I suggest doing some research on what that "western observers with the Syrian UN ambassador" thing really was. Propagandists are very skilled at creating facades and illusions of false legitimacy.
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Comment:Daily review 14/09/2021
Date published: 8:40 pm, September 14th, 2021There's some gems amongst all the garbage, fer sure.
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Comment:Delta Covid - the battle so far
Date published: 8:37 pm, September 14th, 2021Y'know, us lib'ruls do a lot of handwringing about how qonservatives do so much better at messaging than we do. But's it's undeniable we do a much better job of hiding all the radio hosts that die from the vaccine than they do of hiding their radio hosts ...
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Comment:Daily review 14/09/2021
Date published: 8:28 pm, September 14th, 2021It's a trap! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqYyE2JNMfg
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 3:53 pm, September 14th, 2021You know it, brutha.
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 11:05 am, September 14th, 2021Gee, mozzie, that might indeed be an interesting little morsel of information. Howzabout you go look for it and let us know what you find? Go on, the exercise of finding actual facts will be good for you.
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Comment:Delta Covid - the battle so far
Date published: 10:09 am, September 14th, 2021A thought on how Delta has changed the game: Before Delta, the high real world effectiveness of vaccines and low transmissibility of pre-Delta strains meant there was a real hope of a post-pandemic world without covid. Delta's high transmissibility and the...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 9:44 am, September 14th, 2021All the more reason for those currently unvaccinated to rattle their dags and get jabbed. So when they get it, their infection is much more likely to be mild or asymptomatic. By the numbers, we have about 360,000 people that have booked for their first jab...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 9:10 am, September 14th, 2021Correct, vaccines alone won't beat this. But Israel isn't the argument to show that. Israel isn't actually highly vaccinated. Lots of places have much higher vaccination rates than Israel. The simple fact is real-world vaccine effectiveness is low enough ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 8:38 am, September 14th, 2021Seymour's already ahead of that game and running with it. It really is an issue that could flip people's minds and votes if people start to feel their actual rights are being unreasonably restricted because Labour are pandering to idiots that have ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 8:08 am, September 14th, 2021Fact: the young immigrants that are most of the people I work with are fully vaccinated now because they went as walk-ins to vaccination clinics in lower socioeconomic suburbs that had lots of resource thrown at them that wasn't being accepted by the ...
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Comment:Open mike 14/09/2021
Date published: 7:29 am, September 14th, 2021This extra week (at least) of level 4 sux weeks-unwashed balls. I'm an introvert, I actually enjoy lots of alone time, and it still grates. I really feel for the extroverts right now. It really is time to start differentiating on the basis of vaccination ...
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Comment:Open mike 13/09/2021
Date published: 1:13 pm, September 13th, 2021At this stage, still on the track that was announced mid-August. https://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/300403541/vaccine-passports-this-year-pm-says-no-change-to-2022-border-opening https://www.scribd.com/document/519808209/Reconnecting-New-Zealanders-to-the...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 6:58 pm, September 12th, 2021I'm not dismissing concerns about the health of children. However, I am unapologetic about dismissing the evidence-free beliefs in stories fabricated by grifters and the feels and reckons of ignorants that are contradicted by the actual facts and evidence.
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 6:28 pm, September 12th, 2021Link that works: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/unraveling-the-mystery-of-why-children-are-better-protected-from-covid-than-adults/ tl;dr Kids' perma-snotty noses actually contain a first response system to viruses that are new to them, that ...
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Comment:Is this the post Covid world?
Date published: 2:50 pm, September 12th, 2021Yeah. So the more we can do to prevent them from being infected, the lower that risk becomes. Yet more reason to get vaccination rates as high as we possibly can. It's also worth continuing to keep in mind Delta came came to us before there was any ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 2:28 pm, September 12th, 2021A few comments on the study referenced by the Guardian piece before the likely rebuttals start coming out in a few days as actual experts respond to it: It's a dumpster dive in VAERS of the type that VAERS is explicitly not designed for and actual experts ...
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Comment:Is this the post Covid world?
Date published: 2:12 pm, September 12th, 2021It's not the genuine "can nots" that people have no patience for, it's those that choose not to. Genuine adult "can nots" are very very few, and there will be little objection to exempting them from mandates. However, there will be extra opprobrium for ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 12:52 pm, September 12th, 2021Nah, not really. A lot of Donnie One-Term's supporters are middle-finger voters that previously never had anyone they were enthusiastic about. Shrub's opinions won't matter in the slightest to them. As for traditional Repugs, they'll rationalise it away as...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 11:22 am, September 12th, 2021It's not so much the ones falling through the cracks; when there's attention to spare from just focusing on pushing the maximum numbers through right now, a lot more attention can go to that outreach. The bigger problem is the outright anti-vax churches, ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 11:03 am, September 12th, 2021We really don't have much time to sit back and wait for indefinite rounds of more data gathering for 5 to 11 year olds. The pressure to open back up and end the use of lockdowns will become too much for the government to stand against very soon after we ...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 10:56 am, September 12th, 2021Of the Pasifika churches in New Zealand, it appears that Samoan churches have in fact been quietly getting on with organising vaccination events etc. Here's just a couple of examples: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2021/05/coronavirus-church-...
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Comment:Open mike 12/09/2021
Date published: 8:26 am, September 12th, 2021Here's a simple easy to read explainer of what's happening to extend the Pfizer vaccine to 5 - 11 year olds. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/09/10/fdas-dr-peter-marks-explains-authorizing-covid-vaccines-children/8276288002/ It's looking ...
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Comment:Is this the post Covid world?
Date published: 5:56 pm, September 11th, 2021I'd be astonished if our local military refusers got any traction with their legal efforts. That customs worker dismissed for refusing got delivered a pretty hard smackdown, which seems to be getting viewed as somewhat of a green light for employers in ...
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