It's certainly been weird to see their silly childish push-back against renewables like solar power. As for wind power though, locally I've heard via some National Party faithful(s) that some wind project are being put in boneheaded areas bundled with very lax governmental permissions, enabling clearing tracks (dirt roads) up to the top of various mountain ridges that no other industry would ever get away with. Boneheaded as there's just as much or more wind on the coast where existing transmission lines already exist.
Popularism is a problem here in Australia as well - who would have thought decreasing / cutting funding (starting around the 1990s) from basic tertiary education and further adult skill education would come back to bite - in particular considering recent state voting, especially the liberals on the bum.
To clarify, the political party is not the current government holding power but the opposition party ... which has slowly become very fractured to the point their putting their hopes on popularism while still aiming to be the best friend of various fat cats with interests to keep on cashing in here.
It's not a new plan either, much of it's origins were purposed when Trump got a lot of butt hurt a few years ago in regard to social media, the opposition were in power and they were very much sycophantic in regard of Trump and intended to bring into law where its citizens having a social media account, details would be vetted for age and real identity.
What's outlined is more a new type of social media area, one that would not lend itself to search engines, and as such ... only really of interest to those who are all about the now ... want to be heard today but please nobody recall or record and look back on any previous missteps -- there's already things similar to that (a popular smart phone app) where if a conservations doesn't go well, they can simply delete their yip-yap and consequent replies and comments from the data archive.
What made the good old net was the wealth of information however fragmented between a lot of different areas of the web, information could be found reasonably quickly, thought at first it relied on users for answers or for them to point to static sites that held questionable information, and later a search engine(s) that did its fucking job as best it could without being hindered by precious interests, copyright issues ... etc
Oh interesting, maybe I shouldn’t have included the examples. They’re just what I happen to be busying myself with. What I winkingly called an anti social site is an experiment to see if people with share their authentic self if there’s no particular “karma” to be gained. I am all for a thousand flowers, including older strains.
Ah, an example of ... sorry I had missed the intent. Yes it would be so nice to be back in the days where common sense ruled and relied less on side loading bs to scrape every user that arrived at a site. I have always enjoyed forums that didn't rank, didn't use likes... etcetera.
I think a lot of people get the impression of DIY repair - but most tractors can be serviced entirely or if not most repairs via a third party mechanic / appropriate workshop.
I have surfed (I used to research stuff for various people) many tractor forums over the years but don't really recall too many details, but ever after a number of years, one of the things that stuck in my mind was one USoA farmer's account of the over the top gouging practices that JD was running with. Basically the newish JD was serviced by a third party mechanic, new parts installed correctly and verified ... but it would not run until they paid $$$$ for a JD tech to drive out to their location, plug in their simple special tool to unlock the system so the tractor could start and get to work.
As far as the product is at the moment, it's not that clear - [1] they're not saying much apart from noise, sounds, or "how it actually works" - I see instead cotton candy pages - the sort of stuff not mentioning the important stuff but rather touting a chorus of AI This sort of site page promoting what sets them apart - might work for some high end cattle managers that don't have a hard or long background in cattle management and more have a business only background. For those who have been in the agriculture industry here in Australia I doubt many would recognise Halter as a brand of product that has something to do with farming cattle as leading; when Gallagher would surely be recognised by the farmers here who have a bit of age on them and around the industry for some time. [To put in context, Gallagher for most cattle folk in Australia would be synonymous in familiarity as IBM or mainframe for most HN readers]
Gallagher does have a virtual fencing system as well, [2], and for any perspective customers, clearly inform in regard to the basics or premise of their e-shepherd system. Noise to prompt ... but eventually if ignored electrical stimulation - yeah that works
Virtual fencing is an untapped market, even if one is not aiming for the whole herd, but just as a representative of the herd, or perhaps the ring leaders and trouble makers.
I'm not sure too many run of the mill cattle farmers in my parts would appreciate the cattle being monitored via AI or even systems that are probably at some point going to be subscription based or require online access to function [3]
I like real fences but I do like the idea of an adjustable virtual fence, virtual drover via a collar, but as someone (in Queensland, Aust.) who has seen the issues with a supposedly unobtrusive NLIS tag, where a small percentage get snagged and pull out, the idea having to chase up a collar which has stopped working or later found the beast has actually managed to lose it somewhere ... replacement costs would need to be low.
What I would like to see is a programmable cattle minding drone solution (flying shepherd) with their own solar power recharging stations - ideally not only mind the herd, but arseholes who've ignored the biosecurity or no entry signage
The rules are less about children being barred directly, and more about stopping social media profiting like they once did when they scraped the personal info of kids, used various algorithms to target the large ad revenue from the teenage market with more though on profits and less to the cost of any mental detriment to kids growing up with an invasive online world.
Sure some under 16 Australian kids will still be using social media, but so will those who will report if the big social media companies are openly ignoring and not complying
While there is a serious real crisis that has yet to materialise when storage of refined oil and petrochemicals from the Middle East's very large and now damaged or destroyed refineries reaches near empty, Australia's Day Two fuel crisis after the US declared war against Iran, was more a product of media hysteria - with a hint of political motivation.
Much like the toilet paper saga from 2020, people like myself wonder why given even if some people stockpile, a shortage regardless of an expectation the overall sale quantity should not change or vary that much over a given period - ie number of weeks. However here toilet paper prices never really came down, and still it seems that only premium toilet paper brands can be depended on to be regularly stocked in stores in my locale.
Obviously there should be an emergency plan for the fuel sector ... but some people are not happy until they see some specified numbers when at most can only be speculation based on limited scenarios - since any such plan has to account for a number of different types of emergencies.
I fear in three to four months when the real fuel crisis begins to hit home ... there'll be a shortage of bicycles new or second hand. :)
To myself it might have been a necessary but bold step the last few decades to try to devise a form of vaccination against it, for the just in case one's unlucky enough to need to be on immunosuppressants or any other condition that might overwhelm one's immune system.
My mother may have developed this condition, in the last few weeks before passing, after being treated for a few months for blood cancer, she had habitually not drunk enough fluid so to ensure less trips where anyone would need to help her get up and go to the toilet. (Chronic dehydration can also cause lesions in the brain.) In the last month unfortunately most of doctors and nurses caring for her did not want to acknowledge or perhaps even aware she was severely dehydrated due to a normal blood pressure (before they were even aware of lesions) - oh I think a slight frame with a small amount of fat, losing 3 to 6 or more cups more than any liquid consumed on a daily basis over three weeks or more - common sense should have pointed out some of her observed conditions were due to something other than PML (lesions confirmed [but not the cause] two and half weeks before her passing) or medications.
It greatly depends on the nurse or doctor and the amount of effort ... and care they are putting into the job. I eventually, as much as I see serious issues with AI, at some point I see Australia following what China is doing in developing an AI doctor - though in Australia it might be more than a mere medical assistant but rather an education tool as well as a wage penalty system for when they do (or try) really fucking stupid BS.
It's certainly been weird to see their silly childish push-back against renewables like solar power. As for wind power though, locally I've heard via some National Party faithful(s) that some wind project are being put in boneheaded areas bundled with very lax governmental permissions, enabling clearing tracks (dirt roads) up to the top of various mountain ridges that no other industry would ever get away with. Boneheaded as there's just as much or more wind on the coast where existing transmission lines already exist.
Popularism is a problem here in Australia as well - who would have thought decreasing / cutting funding (starting around the 1990s) from basic tertiary education and further adult skill education would come back to bite - in particular considering recent state voting, especially the liberals on the bum.
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