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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: Trumpled (Alternative Leading)
Quote from: Lods – on
This is a classic.. :D  :D

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-bizarrely-celebrates-republican-primary-wins-as-victory-over-democrats/ar-AA28trYQ

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“MAGA CANDIDATES WON EVERYTHING LAST NIGHT IN ARIZONA, A COMPLETE SWEEP!!! I WON ARIZONA 18 MONTHS AGO. THE DUMOCRATS ARE DUMBFOUNDED. AFTER DECADES, ARIZONA IS BECOMING A REPUBLICAN STATE. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!” Trump wrote.

Problem was it was a Republican Primary.
Republican v Republican ;D

Time to implement the Jesaulenko/Fevola amendment ;)
MAGA agree, they won! :o
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
Quote from: Lods – on
Cheats will cheat whatever the nationality.
One of the things that made it tough to cheat was the ability to detect it, tests could be developed to detect anomalies, sporting passports, etc., etc..

It's not going to stay like that, the genome is huge and Darwinian, you won't be able to discern a natural shift from an engineered change, and adding to that they can now identify the advantageous changes like the universe has delivered them a user manual. It's a nexus between two technologies, CRISPR and AI.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: General Discussions
Discussing peptides with @Lods‍ in the track and field thread reminded me of a discussion I recently had with a researcher.

Do you know the fledgling ability to vaccinate against certain strains of dementia existed almost two decades ago, about 30% of cases being potentially resolved? I had to ask why it's never been developed, the answer is the recurring stain on society, capitalism.

For the vaccine to work it has to be administered early, with Alzheimer's that means long long before symptoms appear. But children are not affected, and it seems the big profit follows fear, most won't be diagnosed with the early stages until 40 or 50 and by then it's too late for the vaccine. No disease, no fear, no profit, a vaccine kills the market for the capitalist. The real profit lies with the promise of a cure for people already having the income to spend and who have developed symptoms. So instead the capitalists develop pills that delay or stall the disease development, at thousand$ per dose, that you have to buy again next month, or next year, over and over again until your bank account runs dry!

Damning, isn't it?
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
I wish I had your confidence, but I fear Trump is likely to make someone like JKF Jr the Tsar with Hegseth his deputy, these are people who think winning cost always defeats how you win as long as you win.

Peptides a plenty!

btw., There is no high ground, only a level playing field surrounding a pit of peril.

The reason China jailed that CRISPR babies scientist was for the release of secrets, not for being immoral. (Of course the immoral stance is also a perspective, because gene modified babies resistant to AIDS might actually be the moral decision) A decade from now things are going to be very different in sport, because all the big player countries aren't that different in reality. In the USA it's just the privatised version of China's state run enterprise.

It's being accelerated right now, driven by the AI LLMs, they are providing solutions to problems that would normally take decades to resolve. Just 7 years ago we got Ozempic after a full 20 years of R&D, next year you'll be taking a tablet for the same, a development that historically would have taken decades is now a couple of years. Technically, if safety protocols are abandoned, a couple of months. Do you think the sort of people inclined to do this are going to be slowed by safety?
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Quote from: DJC – on
BYD got caught flogging 2025 EV and hybrid vehicles as 2026 MY and they have now raised their compensation offer from $1100 to $3500.  Given that EVs can lose 15% to 25% of their value in the first year, I'd be holding out for more.
Yes, for EV cars I think the new Mazda 6e might be the pick of the bunch.

No Tesla Tax, no stupid performance over range, an established brand, building on inhouse technology not just assembling, and they are not going to evaporate overnight like the clones.

The only thing I wish they had was a traditional sedan over the hatchback design, I've never been a big fan of hatchbacks.
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The Sports Desk / Re: Track and Field
@Lods‍, do you think a USA team will be clean under a Trump lead regime?

I realise testing is "independant", and that is really the key word, because under influence from political pressure it's failed dramatically in the past.
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 19 2026 Post Game Prognostications Carlton vs Collingwood
Quote from: DJC – on
Like Flynn Riley, Reidy's a work in progress and getting thrown to the wolves as he was on Saturday (and as Riley was the week before) could help his development or shatter his confidence.
At the moment we have the best coach to manage this situation, you can't ask for better.

A lot of Carlton fans must live on a diet of instant soup, they can't wait for anything substantial, and they are obviously childless having thrown the baby out with the bath water!
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Robert Heatley Stand / Re: AFL Rd 20 2026 Pre Game Predictions Carlton vs Gold Coast at Marvel
I've got a problem with Campo's lads, when they arrived they looked pacey relative to our existing jar of treacle, but it's only taken a coule of newbies to show some leg and now they look a bit off the pace.
 
With their run of injuries I'd be giving them more VFL time, they don't look ready to me, they look VFL dominant but not AFL competitve  as silly as that sounds.

Brave footbllers, smart footballers, but what is their AFL trick, can they survive on brains alone? Will they displace Smith or Wilson?

Excluding the big names this season so far Wilson is a win, Byrne a future, Evans gets everything he can out of himself.
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
Quote from: kruddler – on

Rangers became the options because alternatively you were paying 10k more for a vehicle that had less. Thats an expensice badge the toyota were selling.
I think the Landcruisers are still the performance leader, but the price is the killer as @Gointocarlton points out, I think it's about a 30% premium. The new Landcruiser hybrid claims greater performance and load capacity than the traditional, this is typically the reverse of most hybrid models, so I'll be keen to see a genuine independant review.

You can build a car to ace any industry standard test, as Volkswagon proved! ;)
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Blah-Blah Bar / Re: The EV thread
In our area Tritons have become increasingly more popular with tradies, I see them on job sites everywhere. Rangers are now popular with the weekend warriors, they seem to have replaced the Landcruisers and Patrols as the weekend vehicle of choice.