macroedgo.bsky.social
Contrarian essayist, blogger and thought-leader, ex-scientist, stay-at-home Dad of 20 years.
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Graphics by ChatGPT from my prompts
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and the objections of past players - now earning money through the commercialism in the game and gambling on it - is a sad joke especially when we know the damage done to some of our greatest childhood heroes ...
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until the game is slowed by rule changes defenders will continue to be coached to tackle high and wrestle, frequently contacting the head with power, it really is as simple as that ...
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The NRL needs to accept that they cannot truly meet their duty of care and protect players under the current manic speed game which has become touch football with collisions and wrestling ...
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Actually, I think the overall quality of play this season is the worst I can remember ... and the NRL is full steam ahead to 'opening up more markets' - i.e. spreading talent more thinly across more teams - which under current rules will expose the lack of depth even more ...
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The public reaction to Luigi Mangione's actions shows that without regulation forcing companies to select for compassionate decision-mak(ers/ing) capitalism is unsustainable ...
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Bill Ackmann may regret his support of Trump. Think he and many were so enamoured by attacks on 'wokes' (driven by hate towards groups of 'others') that they did not see how hate and division ultimately hurts all and everything. Billionaires have a lot of privilege to cushion them from stupidity
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macroedgo.com/2021/06/26/t...
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Make everyone 'battlers' - or worse, Xcaps where self-interest is acceptablly expected - and nobody can 'afford' to pay more to support others...
As I said last week, in the past 20 years my wife and I donated to charity 2x what we spent on family cars while buying our home in 2011 with 1 income...
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My family were 4th generation farmers - sugarcane and then bananas ... in difficult times they lobbied for support and understanding from the public including to use non-tariff barriers to trade (biosecurity on Philippine bananas) ... do you think they bought Australian-made? Of course not!
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But many will have turned around and borrowed yet more against that 'equity' for new cars, etc, and so their top line likely rises to the right ...
meanwhile others are homeless while industry super execs took moneybags to grovel to Trump last week instead of investing in residential property ...
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That's why banks accepted low or no deposits and guarantees from 'propertied' parents, so in reality the top line now closely represents the actual mortgage of people who bought post 2000 and have been bamboozled by growth in 'equity' while standing in mortgage quick sand ...
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The 'donations REFORM' proved that Labor prioritises the maintenance of Xcap power over Resetting to a system based on fairness and compassion, for those who didn't already recognise it in their chronic inaction on housing...
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Yes, excellent read ... one @jimchalmers.bsky.social should also digest (young with leadership potential) ... but here's the thing - in Extreme capitalism, where power and influence pays (off), does anyone influential in mainstream left really care about more than their Xcap self-interest ???
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In greater detail on where things went wrong ... And how to get us back on track ...
macroedgo.com/2023/06/23/r...
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In a similar vein I wrote this... very many people truly do still seek that Reset, they have been confused and misled (ie mis-led) along the lines of the essay "What Really Scares The Global Elite" (now I would say "The Xcaps")... Reset is slower but remains inevitable
macroedgo.com/2020/03/30/t...
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Turnbull was correct ... it plays into Xi's hands, but moving away from American leadership is best for humanity in any case ... I don't think China wants to exploit power to dominate others, I think they want a world order where America does not set all the rules ...
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And so I tried again by spelling out the request and it refused again (so I had to edit the original) ....
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Then I tried to adapt to the symbolism to modern day, and even though it originally was 'enthusiastically supportive' about the idea, it ultimately refused to produce an output ... initially it suggested an alternative, which I tried to accept, and then it said it couldn't produe that either ...
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This is the original output after I had asked ChatGPT for ideas on "how a sketch could symbolise the 'reds under the bed' scare in 1950's America."
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From BOM past cyclones page ... by the old scale it was cat 3, but now considered cat 2 like Alfred ... my family abandoned our old sugarcane cutters barracks home and rode out the cyclone in a new brick house of friends, watching roofing iron rip by ... don't be complacent - this is serious ...
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So Alfred may be similar in intensity ... this is an excellent report on the damage it caused ...
www.jcu.edu.au/__data/asset...