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▶14 December · 20:51 UTCPeter Dutton’s only policy is ‘Peter Dutton for PM’. Seriously, he has no other policies. Turns out he’s the biggest critic of his own nuclear wet dream as well, have a quick li…▶16 December · 18:35 UTCI wish I got more pleasure watching the reality of Covid come to fruition. Watch this, only very short.▶16 December · 21:15 UTCThought I’d capture some of the corruption and incompetence of council on my way into work today. Video with audio.▶16 December · 21:15 UTCThought I’d capture some of the corruption and incompetence of council on my way into work today. Video with audio.▶21 December · 23:48 UTCAustralia being an unreformed prison colony has always made it infinitely more interesting than all the Queen and country flag-waving shit.▶15 November · 18:47 UTCNormally a 4WD copes with loss of traction to wheels by locking the diff, so that power is then split evenly between the wheel in the air and the one still on the ground. EVs ar…▶24 November · 18:04 UTCMy favourite demonstration of the acceleration of an EV. Look at that banana, stuck to the seat by g forces, under acceleration. It must be embarrassing to still be a petrol hea…▶7 October · 08:52 UTCI think it’s important to hear ordinary Australians speak about their experience of buying EVs. To cut through the fog of misinformation on social media. Like this guy’s 20-seco…▶21 October · 06:31 UTCAnother story from the Industrial Revolution underway in China. China has 45,000 km of high-speed railways. (45 thousand!) Here’s a short clip from inside one of the trains, car…▶25 October · 21:43 UTCGav (from NZ) does some of the best vehicle assessments in the world, certainly some of the most entertaining. This is a short excerpt from his look at the new KIA EV3 (full lin…▶6 September · 08:34 UTCBecause the pollution is invisible, we don’t notice it. Just think of the air quality improvements when we get petrols and diesels off the road.▶12 September · 08:28 UTCDonald Trump’s ‘Eating the Pets’ for trombone wins the internet today.▶19 September · 04:29 UTCThe more I talked to the echidna, the more it walked towards me. They’re usually very shy.▶19 September · 06:26 UTCThis will take less than two minutes of your time. This is Professor Stefan Rahmstorf explaining how 3° of warming which is what we’re easily heading towards, and fast, actually…▶22 September · 00:58 UTCSocial media reviews of things aren’t always that great, a lot of opinion and not a lot of knowledge. But I like watching EV reviews from people who’ve never driven an EV before…▶30 September · 23:21 UTCEVs are going to revolutionise off-road driving too. The problem with 4WDs right now is they need a lot of torque at low speeds. But as I post about a lot, you have to rev the g…▶24 August · 19:20 UTCAs a culture we decided going to gigs was more important than public health. Karma is arriving quickly now.▶14 July · 21:02 UTCCan China please hurry up and take over the world already?▶17 July · 22:20 UTCGood morning Bathurst.▶21 July · 04:18 UTCJust for those interested in batteries and how they work. The Powerwall ran down to 90%, after which it automatically turned the solar inverters back on again and began powering…▶25 July · 09:10 UTCSuch a fundamentally decent man, with a tragic adult life. (He also lost one of the two surviving sons, to brain cancer.) Disgusted me that him being old was seen as being more…▶1 June · 07:06 UTCCars destroyed city life. Barcelona is just one city fighting back. This is what cities used to be like. Now they’re loud, the air is filthy, and vehicles dominate everything. W…▶8 June · 22:13 UTCHow do you like your humans boiled, medium or hard? Soft is already over.▶10 June · 19:08 UTCWhen the kids were younger I remember reading the debates about co-sleeping with young kids. This is what you can expect if you do 🙂▶29 June · 10:02 UTCI bet it’s the first time these words have been used behind the POTUS lectern.▶29 June · 22:46 UTCDogs may not be the best choice for home security. Alex▶13 May · 19:12 UTCThis is Johnny McEntee. One of Trump’s closest acolytes, and likely to be responsible for a purge of thousands of government officials if Trump wins again. Several millennials a…▶13 May · 19:37 UTCThis is Johnny McEntee, one of Trump’s closest fanboy staffers. Responsible for hiring and firing Trump’s staff during his presidency, and predicted to head up ‘Project 2025’ if…▶7 April · 09:09 UTCPublic transport in Finland.▶21 April · 23:54 UTCFlooding in China on the weekend. People will cling to ‘one-off event’ explanations for as long as they can. Until it’s too late.▶7 March · 18:49 UTCI’ve had even a few Australians say to me that Joe Biden is a joke, that he’s ’too old’. Some of these Australians admire Trump. Let’s have a short look at this champion of the…▶19 March · 09:22 UTCSenator Alex Antic. I used to go to barbershops at the age he’s talking about here, and it wasn’t to get product-saturated wanky hairdos while sipping beers, drinking barista co…▶24 March · 19:32 UTCFrom a (glowing) review of the BYD Seal from the UK. But here making the critical point that we in the West outsourced most of our manufacturing to China during the ‘free market…▶31 March · 20:43 UTCAlex I have some song and prop suggestions for your next gig. Throw in some moonshine on the back of the pickup.▶4 February · 05:12 UTCOne possible future for agriculture.▶24 February · 09:29 UTCBeautiful. Can’t remember the name of the digital artist.▶29 February · 09:09 UTCLast day of winter in Texas. They’ll be looking forward to some warmer weather.▶1 January · 19:04 UTCWhile you’re there Dorothy, can you explain what some dub the ‘Jesus Moose’? 😉▶20 January · 02:39 UTCThe Greenland ice cap is losing 30 million TONNES of ice every HOUR. To those who still pretend this is all normal, a tip. It wasn’t losing 30 million tonnes of ice an hour in o…