Richard Davison @wizardwash

Elon Musk used a joke to perform an autopsy on the American economy. Two economists go for a hike. They find a pile of shit. One pays the other $100 to eat it. They keep walking. Find another pile. The second economist pays $100 back to eat that one. They stop. Neither man gained a dollar. Both ate shit for nothing. But on paper they just generated $200 in GDP. Musk: “That basically would count as a job. This is to illustrate the absurdity of economics.” That is not a punchline. That is the operating system of the federal government. Every time a politician celebrates “record job creation” this is what they are describing. Not output. Not value. Not progress. Motion. The entire bureaucratic machine exists to manufacture friction and then invoice for it. Compliance layers built to justify the next compliance layer. Oversight committees that produce nothing but the need for more oversight. Consulting firms hired to audit the work of other consulting firms. Trillions circulating through systems that have never produced a single thing you can hold in your hands. But the GDP number ticks up. So everyone applauds. The shit gets eaten. The scoreboard moves. Nobody asks what actually got built. This is why Washington treats AI like a five alarm fire. AI does not play the friction game. It does not form a committee. It does not schedule a review. It does not file 400 pages of paperwork no one will ever read. It just solves the problem. And that is the one thing the machine cannot survive. The government does not tax results. It taxes the process. The longer the process, the deeper the cut. AI compresses a ten day workflow into seconds. There is nothing left to bill. Nothing left to tax. Nothing left to skim. So they will spend the next decade warning you that AI threatens the economy. What they will never say is what it actually threatens. The illusion that activity equals progress. The $200 economy where both men ate shit and called it a job. The machines are not coming for your purpose. They are coming to prove that half the economy never had one.

17 years since the start of something special for @will_davison 👏👏 Nice stat from the crew at @V8Sleuth! #RepcoSC #Supercars

Follow the money. If you want to know why the Australian Labor Party is indulging in a childish scare campaign against nuclear energy, follow the money. This pathetic Labor scare campaign is an insult to the intelligence of every Australian. If Labor was truly against nuclear energy on principle, it would cancel any arrangements to purchase nuclear-powered submarines and it would dismantle the nuclear reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney. However, we know Labor has no principles other than doing the bidding of the union thugs who fund them. This appears to be the ultimate reason behind Labor’s anti-nuclear scare campaign. Labor provides billions of dollars of grants, subsidies and incentives to support renewable energy investments. Between them and the Coalition, this has cost taxpayers $29 billion in the past 10 years. Labor enforces regulations and mandates which enforce a guaranteed market for renewable energy. Industry superannuation funds controlled by Labor’s union bosses invest heavily in these renewables projects, and why not? It’s underwritten by taxpayers thanks to Labor, guaranteeing a lucrative return for these union-controlled super funds. These lucrative returns are then used to support the Labor Party with large donations. It was no coincidence that in December 2023, union-controlled industry super funds demanded even more “favourable investment conditions” underwritten by taxpayers for the transition to net zero. These funds included CBUS, chaired by former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan, and AustralianSuper, with close ties to former Labor prime minister Paul Keating. I’ll highlight a few more union affiliations among the current Labor cabinet: • Bill Shorten and the AWU • Tony Burke and the SDA in New South Wales • Don Farrell and the SDA in South Australia • Katy Gallagher and the CPSU • Pat Conroy – the CFMEU and the AMWU • Richard Marles and the ACTU It’s insidious how much unions have infiltrated this Parliament, and how it compromises good government. This is a scam paid for by the Australian taxpayer with subsidies, and by Australian consumers with their record high energy bills. Labor and its union masters don’t want this corrupt gravy train derailed by nuclear energy. That’s why they’ve come out swinging against it, while once again showing their absolute contempt for the intelligence of the Australian people. Fortunately, Australians are smart enough not to fall for Labor’s pathetic scare campaign of three-eyed fish memes. Australians understand that nuclear power is safely used at 450 sites around the world in 32 countries. Australia is the only advanced economy in the world which doesn’t make use of this proven technology, despite having at least a quarter of the planet’s proven uranium reserves. This important natural advantage to Australia is being squandered. It makes absolutely no sense that Australia – one of the world’s most energy-rich countries – is facing energy shortages this winter and has some of the highest energy prices in the world. That is, unless you follow the money trail. Labor and the unions are orchestrating a massive scam on the Australian people, and the price of it will be our economy and our standard of living. This scam and the destruction it is causing must be exposed and stopped. Nuclear energy is a beginning, but uranium is just one of Australia’s natural advantages. We also have abundant reserves of coal and natural gas. All of these natural advantages should be utilised in an independent energy policy that prioritises affordability and reliability over climate change ideology. The Prime Minister’s inability to stand up to unions has been exposed by thugs like John Setka. The Prime Minister’s weakness has been further exposed by Senator Payman, who has escaped any serious sanction for crossing the floor against Labor policy last week. Why are we allowing this union-Labor renewables scam to happen? Is it to arrest climate change by reducing carbon dioxide emissions? Because if it is, that’s not working. Global emissions continue to rise, another indicator of the union-Labor renewables scam. They will rise no matter what Australia does, no matter how many coal mines and power stations we close, no matter how many wind turbines and solar panels pollute the Australian landscape.

Speechless. They say that you need to get to the bottom of the barrel before you start coming up the other side. We certainly are at the bottom of the barrel. Please Please look at your candidates and take an interest in your council elections in future. I certainly will be.

Dale Rodgers @DaleRodgers27

2 years ago

@hrhmackenzie @MerribekCouncil When is the State Government going to toughen up and step in to remove these fools. @JacintaAllanMP toughen up and do your job!!

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Ride the wave of celebrations as the team gets a double podium in New Zealand 🇳🇿😄 #repcosc 🎥 @Fox_Motorsport

FREEMAN DYSON Emeritus Professor, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies (2009) THERE IS NO GLOBAL WARMING, THERE IS ONLY REGIONAL WARMING (AND IT'S A GOOD THING!): "The change that’s now going on is very strongly concentrated in the Arctic. In fact in three respects, it’s not global, which I think is very important. First of all, it is mainly in the Arctic. Secondly, it’s mainly in the winter rather than summer. And thirdly, it’s mainly in the night rather than at the daytime. In all three respects, the warming is happening where it is cold, not where it is hot. The people in Greenland love it. They tell you it’s made their lives a lot easier. They hope it continues. I am not saying none of these consequences are happening. I am just questioning whether they are harmful. There’s a lot made out of the people who died in heat waves. And there is no doubt that we have heat waves and people die. What they don’t say is actually five times as many people die of cold in winters as die of heat in summer. And it is also true that more of the warming happens in winter than in summer. So, if anything, it’s heavily favorable as far as that goes. It certainly saves more lives in winter than it costs in summer. So that kind of argument is never made. And I see a systematic bias in the way things are reported. Anything that looks bad is reported, and anything that looks good is not reported. A lot of these things are not anything to do with human activities. Take the shrinking of glaciers, which certainly has been going on for 300 years and has been well documented. So it certainly wasn’t due to human activities, most of the time. There’s been a very strong warming, in fact, ever since the Little Ice Age, which was most intense in the 17th century. That certainly was not due to human activity. And the most serious of almost all the problems is the rising sea level. But there again, we have no evidence that this is due to climate change. A good deal of evidence says it’s not. I mean, we know that that’s been going on for 12,000 years, and there’s very doubtful arguments as to what’s been happening in the last 50 years and (whether) human activities have been important. It’s not clear whether it’s been accelerating or not. But certainly, most of it is not due to human activities. So it would be a shame if we’ve made huge efforts to stop global warming and the sea continued to rise. That would be a tragedy. Sea level is a real problem, but we should be attacking it directly and not attacking the wrong problem."

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Remembering the incomparable Tony Gaze OAM, DFC and Two Bars who died #OnThisDay 10 years ago. A WWII flying ace and Australia’s first grand prix driver. His motor racing legacy is immense. #Goodwood #F1 #KangarooStable #NeverForgotten (pic taken for me by George Colbeanu)

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Thank you @Auto_Action for a lovely piece on one of the greatest men i have had the privilege of knowing. To me he was Wills step grandfather and family. But to Australia he was one of the greatest.

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3 years ago

Revered ANZAC Tony Gaze, who passed away in 2013, was a decorated WWII Allied fighter pilot, and Australia’s first ever Formula 1 driver. #ANZACday #LestWeForget #TonyGaze #Formula1 #FlyingAce #FighterPilot loom.ly/FFOWhuQ

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Revered ANZAC Tony Gaze, who passed away in 2013, was a decorated WWII Allied fighter pilot, and Australia’s first ever Formula 1 driver. #ANZACday #LestWeForget #TonyGaze #Formula1 #FlyingAce #FighterPilot loom.ly/FFOWhuQ

📣 Hear from your @Bathurst6Hour benchmark driver: @Will_Davison #SpeedSeriesAU #B6HR #StanSportAU

Will Power has extended his Team Penske contract with a multi year extension, which will keep him in IndyCar past the age of 44. loom.ly/U0NqO8k

Making family memories 🕺🏼💃🏼👶🏼 @will_davison @supercars #repcosc

On this day 15 years ago I won my first ever Supercars Race 🙌🏻

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3 years ago

Revered ANZAC Tony Gaze, who passed away in 2013, was a decorated WWII Allied fighter pilot, and Australia’s first ever Formula 1 driver. #ANZACday #LestWeForget #TonyGaze #Formula1 #FlyingAce #FighterPilot loom.ly/FFOWhuQ

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#OnThisDay in ’57, at Caversham, Lex Davison shared this Ferrari 625/F1 with Bill Patterson to win the non-championship #AusGP. #AnorakFact: the extreme energy-sapping heat of the Western Australian summer caused several teams to opt to field relief drivers. Pic: David van Dal.

GEN3 Testing has begun at the SVPRT! Will Davison gives his thoughts on the car so far! #fueltheracingfeeling

Remembering Tony Gaze, born in Melbourne #OnThisDay in 1920. In ’52 he started 3 GPs in an HWM-Alta, & in ’53 he raced an Aston Martin DB3 in several European sports car events, but he’s best known as a decorated WW2 Spitfire ace (pic). He died in 2013, aged 93.

Look who's back! @craiglowndes888 and friends return in 2023, with the same team, a faster car and an ongoing drive to raise vital cash for the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia! STORY 🏁 bit.ly/3uQxE02 #B12hr

Go Eazzzzzzzy @chazmozzie 🤙🏼

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4 years ago

And rubbin', son, is racin' Throwback this epic battle between Davison and Mostert in Adelaide 🤯 #RepcoSC

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