Thankfully in Trump, we have an intelligent, reasonable, diplomatic leader, not prone to excesses and emotive language. I'm sure his latest message will strike a chord with the Iranian leadership and they will understand he wants nothing but the best for their country and a peaceful resolution to the conflict. Nobel peace prize certainty now.
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"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! "Open the F***in' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
I'm heading off to the fact checkers...it can't be real...can it?
Everything I’ve read has said it’s real though some think the punctuation is too good and suspect it’s been ghostwritten.
Yep, I had a good laugh too... but the point remains that the long game is 2027/8 and beyond. As supporters, we're impatient for success ...right now. Yours truly included. With the appointment of Vossy we were meant to make it to the top of the tree... but never really have looked like it. Perhaps a glimmer in 2023... and that's it. And remember that in 2023, the players met without coaches and took charge themselves... with impressive results.
Vossy commented at the 2025 JNM that we "culturally defeat ourselves." As one of the most important leaders at the club, Vossy should ask himself, "How did I participate in, or allow, that?" It happened on your watch, Vossy... after four years at the helm. Mmm... full length mirror time.
To be fair Baggers, there is plenty of documented evidence that Voss has always owned the bad (and the good for that matter). One person IMO who doesnt need a full length mirror is M Voss, he knows better than anyone he is in the firing line. I'd hazard a guess and say no one is working harder than him to turn the ship around. I cant say the same for many other senior figures at the club.
Who are these …”senior figures…” ? And what are they doing and not doing in your opinion ?
I'm not sure what the project was greenlit off the back of, but the amount of things we've learned in the past are still finding new ways of benefitting us today.
Science will find 100's if not 1000's of benefits that will help in unimaginable ways.
Most of the time things like this happen it is to confirm previous suspicions or to help understand specific circumstances.
Whether or not is indulgent probably depends on your relationship to science. Conversely, your relationship to the army and war (or lack of) may lead you to the conclusion that a nations defence is indulgent.
My relationship with science is pretty healthy. My question is twofold.
1. What are its goals?
The progression of science i can see space x doing regarding a take of and landing. Artemis 2 is going up, orbiting the moon and coming back. We've done that before, sure they might be testing something. Not sure, I genuinely dont know the goals.
2. Is it indulgent? In the current climate maybe. The fuel to get it up there when the world is staring at shortages.
Ive had a couple of responses indicating that im not alone in my thought process, and ive not seen a ringing endorsement for it aside from furthering science. Thats good enough for me to have warranted asking the question.
Are you worried about the amount of 91 ron required to achieve the mission ?
Harry needs to raise his knee when someone is backing into the pack to intercept. E holands didn’t make contact when he tried to intercept and had the jump on someone. Young pretty close to having his papers stamped because of the 4 extra players norf had. Evans deliberate OOB
We didn’t lose, we were overwhelmed by weight of numbers…
Generally, alot is attitude. Mid 2023 proved that. We went from an utter rabble to superstars in a week back then, and stayed that way. Essentially, we need to want it badly enough.
Time to make some serious statements at selection. Don't care how big the names are. Cody Walker would need to be the best mid in the draft otherwise I'd overlook him - we need to totally rebuild the centre square group. Florent and Hayward are taking the pi$$
All jokes aside our lack of structures and systems are there for all to see.
the list is in all sorts of trouble. holes everywhere snail pace mid field no key forwards that have any presence and mentally fold like a pack of cards.
One positive is we wont need to worry about changes to father son.
He was sort of cornered into it. If he didn’t he was leaving Australia rudderless and leaderless. As you say Lods, there’s not really a lot he can do and even less he can do right now.
For a sparse and largely unpopulated country like Australia hydrogen in either ICE or Fuel Cell will eventually become the fuel of choice as you can transport, store and pump it largely like traditional fuels. It just won't ever make sense to roll out recharging infrastructure in regional areas it where will barely be used.
Cities are a different issue, and I expect at home off grid overnight charging to become a thing once battery and SolarPV technology get to a sensible point of efficiency and capacity but it's no even close yet. In my own area the power companies have already replaced two substations in the last year due to overload failures at night, prior to that they had replaced one in the last two decades.
My R&D associates tell me retail SolarPV efficiency has to double, while the energy battery storage has to increase in both reliability and longevity while the cost per kilowatt falls. In effect you need each and every "average" house generating and storing about 20kW of clean energy per day in winter. At the moment most home roof space taps out at between 6kW and 10kW maximum in summer, a big sun facing roof might deliver 15kW in summer but the average for a 15kW install is about 11kW.
ps; By average house they mean parents and two children average, two cars, gas stove and water, no boat or pool, for all electric the daily requirement increases to 24kW. My understanding this is also qualified for suburbia, where vehicles might not need travel a full charge range each and every week.
Too often figures get quoted that are for the latest all singing and dancing passive heat design(airtight), double glazed, insulated floor, wall and ceiling dwelling, but that is not even 1% of the Australian market. In my area there are only two completed homes like that out of about 10,000, with a couple more planned, and they cost about 3x a typical build, not really viable is it? At the normal rate of replacement, it will take approximately 50 years to convert 80% of the dwellings. Ironically, in one of those homes, after all the trouble getting the design, approvals and build right, the people love having the windows open which effectively defeats the concept!
Foregoing an “ev road levy” at this point in time is a strategic move to promote a new infrastructure, a time will come to introduce it but now is not the time. Now is to allow the market to pivot from dinosaur juice to electrons, unless you’re beholden to big oil lp… ?
Saw a snippet of a video from the Australian dressing rooms during a World Cup. Warner was saying how he was scared to go for his shots for fear of getting put. Punter immediately jumped in and said how you need to go for your shots without any any fear of getting out from a mistake, back in your skills and training. He said the minute you think like that (scare) you're gone and it gets worse. He went on to talk about how they didnt have the World Cup so there was nothing to lose. Point is, our blokes must have that same mentality, take it on, dont be scared to make mistakes, stay positive and back yourself in. I thought it was a brilliant clip of Ponting, what a leader.
Need some fans to comprehend this mindset because as much as the players understand it the fans pile on the pressure
Quote"Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! "Open the F***in' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
