2020.09.21 Nanga Skrang

All mushrooms are edible, but some are edible only once. - Unverifiable Lithuanian proverb


Show Notes

"Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends!" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champagneformyrealfriends,realpainformyshamfriends

Quote

"Inside of a month I had read every federal decision ever written relating to women's rights, also some state court decisions. That was no great feat, for there were precious few of them." - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

RIP and Infected

965,328 around the world.

204,118 of the Failed Statians.

Gary Ablett Snr https://www.news.com.au/sport/sports-life/gary-ablett-sr-releases-new-video-clarifying-illuminati-claims/news-story/597f000e7a2244f5403dcf77cdea5ea9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Ablett_Sr.#Criminal_offences

Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8chan https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/llhe5nm/166-country-of-liars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché

Addictive tech https://medium.com/startup-grind/nir-eyal-why-you-are-addicted-to-facebook-slack-pinterest-468a86eb562 - Nir Eyal literally WROTE THE BOOK on addictive behaviours) - "The strongest triggers, Nir says, are when we feel "Bored, lonely, confused, fearful, lost or indecisive."

Random seeds https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ep47xa/australians-are-now-receiving-mysterious-packages-full-of-random-seeds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knut_Kloster

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Bader_Ginsburg https://kb.osu.edu/bitstream/handle/1811/71376/OSLJ_V70N4_0805.pdf https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/true-story-case-center-basis-sex-180971110/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awang_anak_Raweng https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iban_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayak_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headhunting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sambas_riots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampit_conflict

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Gore

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momčilo_Krajišnik

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Starkie

Australian rock musician. He was the founding guitarist of Skyhooks in 1973 and joined Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons in 1975. He died on 13 September 2020, aged 72, of complications arising from a fall. His younger brother Bob "Bongo" Starkie, replaced him on guitar in Skyhooks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kerslake

English musician, best known as the longtime drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Uriah Heep and for his work with Ozzy Osbourne in the early 1980s.

BAHFest London 2019 - Ed Thorne: Revamping Dark Sector Physics https://youtu.be/2n3GmaR2e4Y

BAHFest East 2018 - Gregory Maus: Fighting Vampires with Big Data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjtHq286Uv0

Follow-Up

Gas has chosen itself https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/15/government-to-use-529m-funding-to-unlock-more-gas-for-domestic-market https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/03/trouble-with-gas-the-coalition-is-betting-on-the-fossil-fuel-for-recovery-but-the-sums-dont-add-up https://reneweconomy.com.au/scott-morrisons-three-hundred-year-climate-plan-is-a-dark-moment-for-australia-23503/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-16/michael-cannon-brookes-ready-to-take-on-prime-ministers-energy/12668266

Rio Tinto = Riot in two https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/21/rio-tinto-expected-to-destroy-124-more-aboriginal-sites-inquiry-told

Koalas https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/16/property-developer-complained-to-john-barilaro-about-nsw-koala-protection-policy

PM banned https://7news.com.au/sunrise/on-the-show/prime-minister-scott-morrison-responds-after-being-banned-from-entering-queensland--c-1322361

Secrecy and lies https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/sep/20/covidsafe-app-government-refuses-to-release-numbers-citing-public-safety

250,000 cars https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mercedes-benz-daimler-emissions-cheating-1-5-billion-fine/

AAP https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/government-hands-aap-5-million-lifeline-20200918-p55wyy.html

Continuing rortathons: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-21/federal-government-western-sydney-airport-audit-office/12686208

Fucking Angus. CCST? Srsly? https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-09-19/angus-taylor-carbon-capture-storage-gorgon-chevron/12676732?section=analysis

India-China smouldering https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-08/china-and-india-disputed-ladakh-border-tensions-increase/12642608?section=world

When 18th C London tried to drink itself to death https://www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcohol-history/the-gin-craze-britain-1700s/

The Gin Craze - In Our Time https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b084zk6z

Starlink (vs 5G - round one.... FIGHT!)

Things

The confusions of The Left? Or not. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/18/as-conspiracists-cry-freedom-australian-lefties-back-riot-police

A solid-state wind-energy transformer https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5109776

Plane with no moving parts https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2018/nov/22/watch-the-first-plane-with-no-moving-parts-take-flight-video

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster

Whales https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2020-09-12/nt-humpback-whales-in-kakadu-stun-experts/12657898 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/sep/21/dozens-of-pilot-whales-feared-stranded-in-tasmanias-macquarie-harbour

African elephants https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-cause-of-hundreds-of-elephant-deaths-in-botswana-finally-comes-into-focus https://nationalpost.com/pmn/environment-pmn/botswana-says-toxins-in-water-killed-hundreds-of-elephants

Africa round up:

Belarus: after a week of state violence, the people have strucken back: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/20/hackers-leak-data-on-1000-belarusian-police-officers

Games (specifically excluding Chess)

The World Porridge Making Championships https://goldenspurtle.com/

37-0 https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/sep/18/german-football-team-socially-distance-from-opponents-lose-37-0

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