I've some sympathy for one of the jailed JSO activists. Looks like it's her mum should be doing the time.

Thought this item on Forbes cancelling one if its correspondents was a worthwhile read. Free expression of opinion as long as it's an acceptable one.

And further evidence that Australia has more than its fair share of scolds. Canberra has introduced "dob in a driver" procedures where you can send video footage of bad driving to police who can then issue penalties. That's not what depresses me; it's that so many of the commenters are so prissy about it.

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DaveS,

With any luck her cellmate will be one of those new women with appendages.

That would be an opportunity for her to rethink her life choices.

So one of the hopefully soon-to-be-behind-bars loons said this:

"The cost-of-living crisis is part of the cost-of-oil crisis."

She'll soon have time on her hands to do a lot of thinking. Perhaps she'll figure out that the cost-of-net-zero nonsense is also a big part of the cost-of-energy crisis that's been contributing to the cost-of-living crisis.

But she's probably too dim.

I see the JSO Sunflowers splatterers have been warned to prepare themselves for prison. They may be behind bars neatly two years after their escapade. No surprise that it takes so long, but it has me musing on which part of the state has the most ponderous bureaucracy.

I suppose it's pointless playing health, military, education, social services, justice, etc., all against each other to find a winner: the blob is a blob after all.

In other news, here's a medication that should probably be prescribed to even more people than get statins. A lot more beneficial too.

Mailman,

It's a matter of spinning it. How about Big Surprise: Neanderthal Good with Club for the headline?

That article on NASA being too reliant on SpaceX didn't make its argument very well. That SpaceX far outperforms its rivals and thereby gets all the contracts seems a good thing. Yes, if it continues that way, maybe SpaceX will become flabby and complacent, but for the moment they seem to be doing good work.

The article seemed to favour something like the US DoD, where the contracts are round-robined between a handful of equally inefficient contractors. No benefits of competition there.

Comment at JoNova's linked to this item on aluminium-graphene batteries. Sounded wonderful, but I didn't come away convinced. Felt like ChatGPT might have had some hand in the writing. The business of aluminium having three outer electrons compared to lithium's measly one seemed specious. Why not go with fluorine then, it's got seven!

Meanwhile back in the real world, Space X doing Space X things!

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/07/spacex-just-stomped-the-competition-for-a-new-contract-thats-not-great/

This one came out of right field and caught me totally by surprise!!

https://youtu.be/6Rb9b8rYhII?si=jLBGMIDiqfboDZkB

This is a side of OMB that the extreme left wing media NEVER shows (to busy conditioning the left that he is an existential threat to democracy).

Mailman,
Pretty sure the enquiry's conclusion hasn't previously been mentioned here, and I don't think I'd seen anything about it elsewhere around the traps. Taking a squiz at a Guardian letters page on the subject, they give three views, first two idiotic, third one common sense.

One out of three is pretty good for the Guardian.

Thought Nigel Farage's maiden speech to Parliament was worth listening to. Hope it stirs them up, but expectations low.

Don’t think this has been covered but I remember hearing last week that the first reports out of the Covid enquiry were being released and that the enquiry found themselves not guilty of any wrong doing.

There were a couple interviews with the appropriately tearful family members of people who died WITH the Chinese death pox but haven’t seen anything else since???