Stupid World

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Alex Jones' Info Wars business was auctioned off as part of his bankruptcy settlement in favour of the Sandy Hook parents. The successful bidder? The Onion.

Doncha just love it?

[onearmedbandit]

Alex Jones' Info Wars business was auctioned off as part of his bankruptcy settlement in favour of the Sandy Hook parents. The successful bidder? The Onion.

Doncha just love it?

Hahahaha saw that, apparently he's none too happy. Good.

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The YouTube algorithms are sending me clips of economists and others warning about the US economy becoming unstable. It is rocketing along at present. Just fast enough to trigger warnings. In a marginally unstable condition the economy is not in a good state to withstand heavy handed amateurs like Musk or Trump.

[R650R]

The YouTube algorithms are sending me clips of economists and others warning about the US economy becoming unstable. It is rocketing along at present. Just fast enough to trigger warnings. In a marginally unstable condition the economy is not in a good state to withstand heavy handed amateurs like Musk or Trump.

In that case you’ve prob been seeing the BRICS stuff. USA used to be the big dominant economy of the world but there are only 330million people.They are quickly making them selves irrelevant no matter who is in charge when China alone is a 1.4 billion people market but are hooking up with likes of Russia,India and Brazil plus many more.
Very soon America won’t be dictating others economic choices if they want their own economy to stay afloat.
Interesting side note China is using its surplus US dollar holdings to prop up a new digital currency this creating. Clever move as it gives them economic redundancy and helps mai rain a relationship of sorts with USA.

[pete376403]

In that case you’ve prob been seeing the BRICS stuff. USA used to be the big dominant economy of the world but there are only 330million people.They are quickly making them selves irrelevant no matter who is in charge when China alone is a 1.4 billion people market but are hooking up with likes of Russia,India and Brazil plus many more.
Very soon America won’t be dictating others economic choices if they want their own economy to stay afloat.
Interesting side note China is using its surplus US dollar holdings to prop up a new digital currency this creating. Clever move as it gives them economic redundancy and helps mai rain a relationship of sorts with USA.

trump imagines tariffs will hurt China. Last time he tried this with soybeans, repeating events of his first term, Washington then spent tens of billions of dollars to ease the pain on the agriculture sector.https://rollcall.com/2024/11/14/trum...-farm-exports/

Also "Soybeans took the biggest hit — $9.4 billion annualized — and in the absence of U.S. supply Brazil gained about $4 billion in agricultural export to China in 2018. The losses were felt primarily in Midwestern states like Iowa, Illinois and Kansas."

States which overwhelmingly voted for trump.

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trump imagines tariffs will hurt China. Last time he tried this with soybeans, repeating events of his first term, Washington then spent tens of billions of dollars to ease the pain on the agriculture sector.https://rollcall.com/2024/11/14/trum...-farm-exports/

Also "Soybeans took the biggest hit — $9.4 billion annualized — and in the absence of U.S. supply Brazil gained about $4 billion in agricultural export to China in 2018. The losses were felt primarily in Midwestern states like Iowa, Illinois and Kansas."

States which overwhelmingly voted for trump.

Apart from sourcing their requirements from elsewhere thereby causing the US to lose foreign exchange and their farmers to have silos full of produce nobody wanted, the Chinese targeted their responses. For instance they put a tariff on chocolate. The biggest producer of chocolate in the US is in Kentucky and the senior senator from Kentucky was Mitch McConnell, leader of the Senate.

Trump said trade wars were easy to win. He was right. China had an easy win.

[R650R]

https://www.wsj.com/politics/nationa...urges-7fc9370c

America is running low on interceptor missiles. Let’s just make some more… er no it’s not that easy.

It seems the USA manufacturers aren’t keen on building extra production facilities or hiring more staff unless they know there is a long term commitment to buy at higher numbers.

In another article China is implementing export controls in December 1st on dual use materials that can be used in weapons production. China controls 90% of global magnesium and 80% of tungsten. So expect high end motorcycles and anything that is welded to increase in price or be in short supply.

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In another article China is implementing export controls in December 1st on dual use materials that can be used in weapons production. China controls 90% of global magnesium and 80% of tungsten. So expect high end motorcycles and anything that is welded to increase in price or be in short supply.

Neither tungsten nor magnesium should affect road bikes too much.

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A couple of decades ago - and a bit? A then young social worker suggested at a conference that in the event a child was to be registered with a silly name at the Registrar of Births, Oranga Tamariki should be notified. People looked at him as if he had two heads. His idea didn't catch on. Since then though people with silly names have been over represented in the court reports.

Today the IPCA ruled that the shooting of Kaoss Price was unjustified. The officer had a taser and should have used that instead of a gun apparently. One report referred to the shooting as taking place "in Waitara". The photos of the makeshift memorial though show the location as out of town on SH3, the area surrounded by farms. In town it ain't. The situation for a cop facing a gang member nutting off by a country road in the dark is very different to sitting in an office in Wellington conducting a review of the incident. Prosecution was not recommended. All things considered then the result seems fair. Well about as fair as these things get.

When Kaoss was shot his father had to be released from prison to attend the funeral. My thought was that the guy never really had chance. On TV tonight his mum and grandma were interviewed. Mention was made of his kids but not of his wife. Nor of his dad. The press asked if the family will be taking legal action, which plants the idea. Sadly the press didn't then ask how this potential litigation would be funded.

Hopefully that's the end of a tragic incident. Wouldn't bet on it though.

[BMWST?]

I don't feel like I have many more years of riding sadly. But hey at 75 I reckon I've had a great run starting in 1965.
I wave to other bikes still, all the time, but waves back are getting fewer .

Maybe we bought bikes for different reasons back then, (like cheap transport ?)

But if you are honest, NZ racing is fading as well ?

60 years riding for me so far and I consider myself bloody lucky.
Make the most of it fellas' it's been a fun generation to live in.

my first bike was a $650 honda Cl175.It was a year old I think. The only car i could aford was a 650 dollar 1950 s something English Ford

[Grumph]

Neither tungsten nor magnesium should affect road bikes too much.

Tungsten will affect manufacturing. Anything chewed out on CNC equipment likely uses Tungsten Carbide cutting tips.

[onearmedbandit]

Stupid Alex Jones...

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The ICC having issued an arrest warrant for Netanyahu, various shills are crying that it must be anti semitisim. In Israel Netanyahu is facing charges of breach of trust, accepting bribes and fraud. Apparently the Israeli justice system is anti semitic too?

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Y’all may or may not be aware of the antics of Johnny Somali. That’s his alias. He is one of those loathsome cretins who “create content”. For some time he has been travelling outside the US. In Japan he faced charges for breaking various laws in search of his content. He apologised and as far as the judge was aware he was a first time offender so he escaped meaningful punishment. He is banned from entering Japan for five years.

Next he went to Israel where he started out by filming himself making inappropriate comments to and about female IDF/Police personnel. That got him a visit from police.

Currently he is in South Korea where he has broken a raft of laws. This is all available on YouTube. His behaviour in Korea has reached new lows though. Such that Korean YouTubers have been seeking him out to attack him. A former Korean Navy diver decked him in front of Police so was arrested. Public donations to this hero were apparently immediate and generous.

The low point? There are a series of statues in Korea to commemorate the “comfort women.” Women the Japanese took as sex slaves for their troops. One of the statues is of a thirteen year old girl who was used thus. Somali took his shirt off, smeared baby oil on himself and the statue and cavorted about suggestively. Korean people were shouting at him to stop but of course Somali doesn’t understand Korean.

People are adding up the maximum penalties for his various offences and talking about thirty years in the big house. That’s not realistic but the Korean Police are aware of what happened in Japan so a judge is unlikely to be as impressed by another meaningless apology and will be aware that he is far from a first time offender..

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/john...ained-2978443/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxzO4sxjyGI

[R650R]

Whoever knew you could make an insurance claim for stone chips???

Chap in Herald needs a 16k paint job for his Holden after being sprayed by other vehicles at roadworks.I always thought it was just fair wear and tear in our third world road network. I wonder how much the rest of us are paying in premiums for these finicky owners????

No wonder our premiums are so high.