2020.09.21 Nanga Skrang
All mushrooms are edible, but some are edible only once. - Unverifiable Lithuanian proverb
Update your browser or Flash plugin
Download this show
Comment on this episode (below the show notes)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
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/
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:
Mozambique; state security going a bit hard https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/mozambique-committing-abuses-fight-rebels-amnesty-200909175711120.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/mozambique-amnesty-seeks-probe-naked-woman-shot-36-times-200916072010762.html
Libya: GNA boss quits, negotiator sought by UN months after the last one quit due to 'stress' (fair enough), and the spigots have been opened and the spice is flowing again, with Haftar's blessing and presumably to his advantage. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/libya-fayez-al-sarraj-quit-october-200917031244325.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/haftar-announces-conditional-lifting-libya-oil-blockade-200918134841754.html https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/chief-appoint-special-envoy-mediate-libya-conflict-200916090703084.html
Sudan: negotiating in UAE about a deal with Israel, looking to get off the 'state sponsors of terrorism' list. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/09/sudan-leaders-uae-talks-emirati-officials-200921065131443.html https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/aug/26/us-propose-to-remove-sudan-from-terrorism-list-for-330m-compensation
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/
fin
