Retired teacher and bookseller. Born 1952. She/her. Living solo if you don't count 3 cats and 3 hens.
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Last Notes npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Never seen one of these symbols before, but we're told it's a severe storm cell with heavy rain and possible large hail, flash flooding etc and I'm right in the middle. Greeeeaaaat! π¬ #Adelaide npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I grow these from seedlings. They seem to be very slow growing and don't flower until the second year. I'm keeping this year's seedlings in pots until they're robust enough to go in the ground. First time I planted them, I lost 9 out of 12 seedlings. I had some gorgeous flowers from the 3 surviving plants last Spring. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Today I'm boosting posts by Australian Mastadonians, so we can get to know each other. I'm a living algorithm. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ It's fundamentally dishonest to claim that everyone else can be that wealthy, too, yet the rich trot out that lie over and over again in the form of "If you just do what I do, you could be just as wealthy." Not so. More rich people means more poor people. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ There are some possible reasons for the D string breaking. One is rough spots on the points where it touches, causing abrasion. Another is tuning the guitar too high, so the string is very tight. This can happen if you don't have a reference such as a tuning fork or electronic tuner to tune correctly with. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ They do? You mean those humpbacks I've seen off the coast of Australia weren't plastic blow- ups? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ In some cases, supply ran out eg whales were over- fished. Whale oil was mainly used for lamps. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Don't they have Big Batteries to soak up the excess? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ If you expect instant compliance because you're the white guy from the big country, 21 hours is too long. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ #BakeryTVShowsAndPlays #HashtagGames npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ How's his Council of Peace going? Haven't heard from them lately. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ No! The widow's best chance was to marry again, but with all the men gone ... npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ 1854 would have been a difficult time to turn up in SA because a huge number of men had departed for the Victorian goldfields, causing a real economic slump. The colony's main income was from wheat, and with farms abandoned there wouldn't have been much work around. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Number of claims has risen due to climate disasters. Some insurance companies may be recovering the costs by raising premiums for everyone rather than only for those in high risk locations. (You never know where the next shower of giant hail or mini-tornado is going to be.) npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ When I was a kid in the 50s they were called "sample bags" and contained small sized samples of a manufacturer's products. Fascinating for kids. The Fauldings bag had tiny bottles of antiseptic, a gauze bandage and tiny tin of plasters. Kept me in supplies for playing dolls hospitals for months! Another bag had miniature tomato sauce, tinned baked beans, spaghetti etc. Sad that today's kids miss out on this. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ What's a non- partisan election??? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ This from " The Driven" is relevant. https://thedriven.io/2026/03/15/ruin-your-weekend-how-scott-morrisons-silly-ev-scare-campaign-backfired-on-australia/ npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The challenge is to get the excess electricity generated during the daytime into the cars. No problem if you're at home during the day, but if your car is parked outside your workplace ...? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I've also got a hiatus hernia. Can be so painful! I have to take small sips of water with food, or it gets stuck. Holding my arms above my head and bumping my heels up and down helps, strangely enough. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Apparently. Maybe someone offered him a job. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The US has certainly been bathing in the cult of heroism: look at its output of film and television that pits "good guys" against "bad guys" where the guy with the greater machismo wins. A diet of this for 100 years is bound to affect the world-view of its citizens. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ "Top gay"? Srsly? A homophobic slur? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Same in Australia. If you listen to the Labor rusted-ons you'd think the Greens were the Devil incarnate. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Gosh. I must be with a different company. The audiologist made sure everything worked together before I left with my new hearing aids. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ In a happy coincidence, this image appeared in my feed directly below your post. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Not enough police violence, perhaps? Compared to Sydney? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ There's an article in ABC's online news. In fact it's top headline. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Well, you would have heard the advice, "Whenever you see 'the economy' mentioned, substitute 'rich people's yachts'." npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Good girl, Summer. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I had a cat who, if it was raining outside the front door of the house, would go and check the back door, because you never know, it might not be raining there. π npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ People like Doctorow, who write fiction (Doctorow writes SF), are often really good observers of human nature and society. So are comedians. They have to be, otherwise we wouldn't recognise ourselves in their writing. I'd trust what a writer of fiction or comedy wrote long before any utterance by a politician. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Article in Australia's national news about "enshittification" but without using that word. @npub1fdrβ¦lvhs npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ You got me with #bloomscrolling. You landed right in my feed. Here's some osteospermum at my place in South Australia. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The Writers Festival management didn't make the decision. It was forced on them by the Festival of Arts board. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ That's what "raising revenue" means. Tax. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ It's about the power to tax people! npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I really thought the Adelaide Writers Festival was way more courageous than that. Al Fattah is an Australian who's been well known as a writer for about 20 years, has appeared on TV, her credentials are well known, this is an insult to her. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Another one that works well is "I stand by what I said." npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Yeah, I think your mistake was being "nice and respectful" to someone who was being verbally aggressive. You don't have to quote your sources in a social conversation. As I say to similar people on social media - it was a comment, not a thesis. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Oh yes, I remember. And we used to press button B to see if any coins fell down. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The baby boom meant there were always kids your own age around to play with. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ ????? I don't know about those. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The convenience comes at a cost, though. We had heaps of time in those days. Somehow having all those labour saving devices have resulted in folks having less time. I don't have kids but I gather they go to far more organised activities than we did. We played in the street - riding bikes and billy carts, marbles, hopscotch, skipping rope, tossing or kicking balls around, climbing trees, building cubby houses out of wooden fruit boxes and hessian potato sacks. My sisters and I were famous for getting a ladder and climbing onto the roof of our house. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Don't tell them about public phones then - lining four pennies up and when the other end answers, slide the pennies into the slot and press button A. π npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Haha! The few times I've tried to correct young people's misconceptions, using examples from my own life experience, I've been told flatly that I was wrong! npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I should add that my mum died in 1961. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I had a cheque account later, but my mum never had one. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ What do you think it's like for someone born in the 1950s? π I learned to write with a pen dipped in an inkwell. I kid you not! The postman came twice a day, there were so many letters! You had to carry around a purse bulging with notes and coins; cash for everything. Paying bills meant a bus trip to the city. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I'm so glad you got this fixed. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Even this Australian can see that's the Golden Gate Bridge. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I suspect that video is fake. The White house may well have produced it, but AI was involved. I've looked carefully at the position of his mouth as he speaks and it doesn't always match the word, eg you dont say "fast" with your tongue between your teeth. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ There's still time. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Same. And I didn't even smoke dope or bare my breasts in public at the time π npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ As a foreigner, I'm guessing that's pumpkin pie. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The federal government is so dumb when it comes to IT. Look at the great clangers of the past - the Census app that crashed the first day. The silly covid app. And now they've allegedly spent over $90 million re-hashing the BOM website. How on earth do you spend 90 mill on a website? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ What's Poorlean done now? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ One can be philosophical, but that doesn't relieve the pain of being ostracized. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Bonfire night was such fun when I was a kid in Australia - making the Guy, collecting wood, those mysterious fireworks wrapped in coloured paper, then the smoke, the noise, the sparks, the glow of the bonfires in your neighbours' back yards, and the rockets they launched whizzing skyward. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I'm having a terrible time getting someone to brace a fence that's tipping over. Perhaps I should try your cookie method. π npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ This is a fanciful and romanticised account of her life. She was a scientist who went to a forest to do research on roe deer. For an unromanticised account, see Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Kossak npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ It wasn't until I heard some original blues from the first half of the 20th century that I realized the Rolling Stones were just ripping off Black American Blues. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Women of our age were taught we should make everyone else feel comfortable all the time. This is what's making you feel bad. You haven't done anything wrong. You simply told the truth. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The bottom line seems to be that you don't want feedback. That's fine. I'll just go on my way. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Nice, but I've visited lighthouses of that era and the lamp emits a beam of light thats concentrated by a lens in one direction, but revolves, so it's seen as a flashing light. Sorry if this seems critical, but the first thing I noticed about your artwork was the diffuse light. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ You might also like ... npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Also, have they ever seen a sheep that's gone unshorn, weighed down by the weight of the wool, so it can hardly move, or gets stuck in the mud at the edge of a damn where it dies of thirst and starvation? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Does Summer get to wear an inflatable costume? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I'm resurrecting the word "atrocious". That is atrocious. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ It's also an issue of being helpless in the face of mega corporations. Fines don't really hurt them, they're just a cost of doing business. No-one gets put in jail, so they just carry on as before, maximising profit by providing the minimum amount of service they can get away with. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ This is one of the reasons for Universal Basic Income. All the expense of determining eleigibility for welfare and chasing people who might be cheating and subsequent legal action would be avoided. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Dear American friends. Don't keep wailing about not having a real Opposition Party. BE ONE! npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I would like the world to understand that people can love their rooster just as much as their dog or cat. Okay roosters crow a few times a day. Well, some dogs bark or whine all day and well into the night, yet we don't dob them in to the council because people love them and it would break their hearts to be separated from them. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Thank you. It's always going to depend on who you ask, though, isn't it? Or who chose the people on the panel? Or who decided who should choose the people on the panel? A very flexible concept. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Who decides what's an " acceptable standard of living?" Acceptable to whom? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I've been trying to remember the name of some drops manufactured by Faulding that were absolute magic for period pain. My mother in law put me onto them in the 70s. They were later withdrawn when someone noticed the main ingredient was opium. π Fauldings said they'd been making them to the same recipe for such a long time, they just hadn't thought about it. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Good lord! I'm so sorry you've had to endure this, both of you. Can you band together with others and hire a good lawyer? No-one should have to live in that "damned if you do and damned if you don't" situation. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ 800,000 like minded people is a party. They don't need anyone's permission. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Angry at being accused of taking a step towards war, Trump takes ... a step towards war. π€ npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Actually, CDs weren't such a bad idea. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ When I had a shop I put a notice where customers at the counter couldn't miss it: "This store has a zero tolerance policy on bullying. Offenders must leave the store." It worked a treat. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Someone (or was it the entire software industry?) forgot the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ But will they all fit in? I hear there are a lot of people in China. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ You didn't think so? I guess, not being the jury, you and I didn't see and hear all the evidence. I did think the defence summing up was pretty weak, and even dropped her in it a couple of times. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ A good pair of uggies is "above rubies". npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ 3. When the algal bloom did enter Gulf St Vincent, it appeared on the western coast, opposite the coast where Pt Stanvac is located, and has only just moved to the eastern coast, where I live, a few km from Pt Stanvac, in the last couple of weeks. It seems to be less concentrated than when it appeared at Waitpinga, but still causing deaths of large and small marine creatures. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ 2. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The article you've quoted is presenting a hypothesis. The language it uses is tentative - "could have", "plausible cause" etc. The information that the bloom started near the Port Stanvac Desalination plant is also speculation. Nobody knows where it started. We only know when humans started to notice it, which was on beaches facing the Southern Ocean, not in the comparatively sheltered waters of Gulf St Vincent where Pt Stanvac is located. The article is written by a commercial interest, note the Pty Ltd at the end of its name. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I don't think the desalination plant can be responsible for algal bloom occurring along 1000 km of coastline. The obvious cause is the unusually high sea temperature. There's no evidence that the desalination plant played any role in South Australia. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Yes. Exactly. It's 50 years since the practice of sorting garbage for recycling became common, and for some reason that's beyond human comprehension, recycling is not yet a public utility like water and sewerage. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Greta is right - there's no making sense of it. I'm literally bewildered by the lack of action. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Doesn't it make you mad when some expert says exactly the same as yourself, but they get it published and headlined? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I'd like to leave this thread now. It started out as a discussion of gender roles and it's turned into a mansplaining extravaganza. Please untag me from further posts. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Seriously, though, how many men take it out on the women in their lives? npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The Lambie effect is that she makes other politicians sound mamby-pamby. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ I don't think that was a "wrong guess" either, based on the evidence. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ The desal plant is too small to have caused the bloom along 1000 km of coast, but locally, wouldn't be helping, I guess. The site of the plant used to be a small oil refinery. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ This article speculates whether saline discharge from a desalination plant might be involved. Ironically the desal plant was built to offset another effect of climate change. (EPA = Environment Protection Agency). npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Yes, we had some cold weather and wild storms but that just blew the foam off the beaches onto the shore (in some places). And now it's in the Coorong, one of our most ecologically and culturally precious sites. πͺ npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ Yeah, I thought that as soon as I saw it. There have been a number of dead or distressed sharks of various species either washed up or seen in the shallows. npub15qecrwgrsmpunfkh8ady3gn9unfsrexa5dv0j6saxyesv96cl7fq85pjnk ChookMother π¦πΊπ¦ A good summary by Australia's national broadcaster here:
