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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16h

Yet the Fed’s paid thugs are still abducting people off the streets. How is it fair that they get to keep their jobs while so many people who do important work suffer?

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 6d

The (extra) scary bit is the question of what might move us out of the second hole…

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 8d

I feel I should chime in to say I finished it too a few weeks ago (after starting in 2019 and taking a big break for reasons unrelated to the book’s quality). I enjoyed it so much it’s made me seek out other actual books for the first time in years. Brandon Sanderson can thank you for some sales!

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 8d

No, flood the market with fossil fuels and you’ll keep them cheap. You also give up the ability to convince other, mostly poorer, nations to do the same. Leader of a devolving country has much less incentive to shut down their FF production if rich assholes in Aus are still going.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 8d

And if the externalities of fossil fuel use - even not counting climate change change, just particulate pollution and such - were included in the price they world never be anywhere near close to competitive.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 8d

Consumers use fossil fuels because it’s near impossible to live a modern life without doing so. The alternatives exist and are now economically competitive, but governments subsidise FFs to keep prices artificially low - thus there’s buyers for the glut of supply Aus and others produce.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 9d

Basic economics - reduce supply, prices will increase, demand will decrease. Renewables win even more than they would be now if it weren’t for the massive subsidies governments worlds wide give fossil fuels.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 9d

It’s important to can this stuff out then go approve every fossil fuel project the lobbyists ask for anyway.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 9d

It’s not in the slightest bit settled. We were told it would be wonderful, but it’s impoverished the country and robbed us of our freedom. Starmer knows this. Why you’d spend your life trying to become PM, only to do nothing when you achieve that is beyond me.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 10d

Bold choice to go with beardless S1 Riker…

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 10d

Libertarianism is just the dumbest philosophy all round. Conservatives suck but make sense - they’re selfish and want money. Libertarians just think that they’re totally self made while being totally dependent on society for everything and somehow not understanding.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 11d

So we aren’t allowed wind turbines because these idiots think they harm whales (they don’t) yet we have to have shark nets that actually kill whales. Cool.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 13d

There is no level of harm that this government won’t inflict on everyone in order to prove to the racist assholes that they’re inflicting hard on the people those racist assholes don’t like. See also, their crazy devotion to maintaining the Tory’s ridiculous Brexit project.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 15d

And the fossil fuel lobbyists who’ve spent so much money stopping renewables will surely just roll over and accept fusion power…

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

No, but they don’t bother reading anything. They consider their job to be to turn up and let people in to do inspections (having on information on the place being inspected and thus no capacity to answer questions) and picking one of three proforma responses to emails. Job done.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

Real estate agents don’t do any actual work. All they do is rely with one of three standard non-answers, anything else is beyond their job description

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 16d

This is exactly what the party of “fiscal responsibility” and “ending government intervention in people’s lives” should be doing.

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 18d

When will a single journalist all a single one of these idiots this: if not 0, what annual increase in CO2 PPM are you happy with? That single question would severely hamper this stupidity.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

Let’s hope. I would be 0% surprised if there’s a cowardly walk back of that support from someone in the government.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

Sadly, what’s the bet the ABC finds some feeble excuse to fire him now…

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

Is there a specific reason that they don’t? Feels like invasive species removal 101.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

But the Australian people are clamouring for Albo to meet trump, haven’t you listened to the narrative of the mainstream media and the LNP for the last however many months? It’s what ordinary Australians (tm) want!!1!

Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

Regenerative farming could work for cropping, alternating between crops over years to allow soil and biodiversity to recover, but for animal agriculture to use the term is stolen valor.

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 22d

And why international treaties on human rights and the environment are horrible “breaches of national sovereignty” but the WTO setting terms on how nations trade is fine and dandy (see Brexiteers, desperate to take away citizens rights by keeping the EU but happy to render to WTO rules).

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Robert McDougall @sylvanheathcote.bsky.social · 23d

If the question was posed as shown it’s misleading. Getting nuclear subs is one thing, paying $X00 billion to maybe get them in 30 years and forever tie out defence to whatever warmonger is in the White House at the time is quite different. I imagine many more would oppose if they knew the context.

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