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Steve Read

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Living in Sydney, employed at a global IT company. Interested in technology, politics & sailing as well as watching the ongoing global meltdown with morbid facination

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Yep. She’s a change agent and not all do so quietly. Riling people is her point - wish there were more of them in parliament…

02.03.2026 12:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It does kind of leave me wondering where were the RAF Regiment - a single drone got through?

02.03.2026 12:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Also, quite possibly Hezbollah, not Iran…

02.03.2026 12:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Or, to be fair, the war in Sudan which I thought he was going to go to as a difficult, poorly covered war. I guess both of these support his point; so many wars and diminished reporting funding and resources to cover them.

02.03.2026 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My thoughts too. I think another angle is a religious one around expectations that women obey β€˜the head of the household (to some level). For whatever reason, how much agency did these women really have?

01.03.2026 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Possum?

28.02.2026 11:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Madeleine King is the current government’s Ian McFarlane and a stalking horse for fossil fuel interests within Federal government

27.02.2026 21:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Chalmers would be up for it but is being smothered by Albanese’s scaredy-cat approach. He has to be starting to wonder what his Treasurer legacy will be be seen to be - at this point,not much.

27.02.2026 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’m sure he was thinking more β€œso the horses ran free, their manes blowing in the wind through lush green paddocks…” not the more likely scenario of the knackers gun…

25.02.2026 20:45 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The public understand how this will go; for every β€˜good’ outcome, many countering β€˜bad’ ones will arise - profit-driven rejections in healthcare, β€˜sentiment’ analysis to deny you visas, employment etc. cherry-picking for insurances and so on…

25.02.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Inequality and desperation. Exactly the same reasons many turned to Trump in US. Many feel they have no future with our duopoly, so willing to shake it up e.g., ON than continue on in a rigged game… if we don’t tackle equality we will be gone like the US…

24.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for centring Virginia Guiffe.

22.02.2026 08:27 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Returning women and children to other countries seem to have been successfully β€˜deprogrammed’ - we can’t even be bothered to try…

19.02.2026 07:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

May his reputation and legacy crash and burn and he β€œmakes his bed and lies in it” with responses like this. These are women and children, not political chess pieces…

17.02.2026 20:07 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I think Albanese is best understood as only being about the politics - no empathy, no ethics. He is not going to lift a finger if it risks exposing him to to the πŸ‚πŸ’©LNP immigrationβ€˜ campaign’

17.02.2026 12:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The timing is bad for them. No way will Labor relent while the dregs of the LNP try to whip up an immigration/Middle East campaign. It seems not all citizens are equal these days…

16.02.2026 21:05 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Hmm… no responses after 16 hours… kind of telling

16.02.2026 20:58 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah - this was Anaheim, just around the corner from Disneyland

14.02.2026 12:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I traveled to US, Los Angeles for the first time and tried walking - nope that ain’t going to work. Picked up company car the next day, nosed out of the parking lot and immediately get followed by a cop car. Pretty much the definition of stress…

14.02.2026 11:46 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars The companies have launched a pilot program in Atlanta, where β€œduring the rare event a vehicle door is left ajar, preventing the car from departing, nearby Dashers are notified, allowing Waymo to get ...

Here is a little bit of nonsense …

www.404media.co/waymo-is-get...

12.02.2026 21:18 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Members of the public can have a go at Whistler. I heard β€œ you just have to lay there like a sack of spuds” and thought - I’ve found my sport! You do, I think, the bottom 11 bends. It’s pretty scary hitting around 80km/h on the last turn!

12.02.2026 11:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Barbara Pocock is also a hard impactful worker. Both she and David S. working to overturn the MSM portrayal of the Greens…

12.02.2026 11:23 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Constant Convenient Distraction

12.02.2026 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Four interesting points to consider:
1/The cost to space-lift the physical weight of a typical data center
2/ effective cooling - as pointed out
3/ physical maintenance of failed components
4/ lifecycle of AI components- 3-4 years currently?
How does this stack up financially?

11.02.2026 01:26 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Confuses me why Australia would look to pay rather than demand it of the Israeli government? We are a long way down the rabbit hole…

05.02.2026 20:21 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

How would this be any different to us not having any β€˜sovereign’ capacity and the US just based their subs here in Australia following US guidance , policies and priorities?

04.02.2026 20:40 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œan explosive device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of peaceful protesters in Perth”

Umm… it was definitely thrown - the alleged bit was who threw it…

03.02.2026 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This hit hard when watching the program

23.01.2026 11:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

He didn’t just go ahead - Ley asked him not to make any announcements in respect of the day, but he just went ahead anyway…

22.01.2026 11:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

David Shoebridge as well…

21.01.2026 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0