I’ll lend you my pick-axe and my spade and you show me how you dig that well.

Actually “From 17 December 2021, there will be no capacity restrictions on businesses that are only permitted to allow fully vaccinated people to attend”

https://www.qld.gov.au/health/conditions/health-alerts/coronavirus-covid-19/current-status/queensland-restrictions-80-percent-vaccination

My prediction is that the QLD government will soon become more tyrannical than Victoria. As soon as there are a few dozen cases absolutely everything in terms of repressive measures will be on the table.

My understanding is that off-grid is a reference to the electricity grid and not other forms of self sufficiency.

We have a substation right next to our apartment block and once there was an outage there on Boxing Day and thankfully the Cyprus state electricity authority which still supplies the electricity on this island brought out a mobile diesel generator quite promptly, connected it into the substation and kept it running while they fixed it, thus putting our lights back on. It was on all night and I recall that was one night when I got absolutely no sleep, despite being grateful for the generator.

Well, you brought a smile to this old wizened but still punching fellow luddite. And long live us!

Do you read an entire post before attempting to rebut it? I seem to find a lot of people now who never bother to read something in its entirety and then come in shooting off their mouth in rebuttal without knowing what in hell they’re really rebutting. Whatever, I guess that’s just another lovely feature of our brave new world.

I personally prefer Luddite. I am a proud, doom and gloom, angry Luddite!

Exactly. As for doom and gloom, why do those of us who read this site bother to come here if not to face doom and gloom? For fucks sake, if we were only worried about a narrative we’d be reading one of those politically correct blogs that stress positivity and how great tech will save us all. Perhaps we’re no longer supposed to face doom and gloom, we’re supposed to embrace wishful thinking and if we wish hard enough, surely our positivity narrative will come to our rescue…

K, if it’s just water vapor then how come it spreads out and hangs around forming clouds? Clouds that do not just disappear but actually stick around and accumulate? I have listened to Dane Wigington for at least 5 years now and he presents a very simple example of why it isn’t merely water vapor – when you go outside in the cold and your breath fogs up in the air, does a cloud form around your head and STAY THERE for hours or days? Nope? Well then, I think you can pretty easily see it isn’t water they’re spraying from the back of those planes. And I’m sorry, but a turbine engine does not produce massive condensation and IF IT DID, turbines would not be used for war planes, would they? Why in the hell would any military plane leave behind it a perfectly trackable contrail? It would not and does not, after all, that would kinda defeat the purpose of stealth, would it not?

But hey, that’s all just loony talk, right? I’m sure if you go out in the cold and try it now you too can make your very own clouds form over your yard….