Hi WhiteMouse,
Which images were you referring to?
The 'people getting run over by tanks'?
The majority of things I post come straight into my feed.
Often, there are responses to those posts and I also see those responses but then go back to the first post and continue through my feed.
Sometimes I'll find someone new I haven't followed and I'll look at their posts, probably least of all do I actually go looking for things.
In the case of the tanks, I did search for posts with those keywords.

I get access to a huge amount of content, it's hard to bookmark every significant post I find and rename it to something I can re-find later.
But I see a lot of stuff.

It's not just the individual posts themselves I'm interested in any more than trying to see the bigger picture in all of it.

"You feed your insane hatred with such images."
- I prefer not to look at the really gory senseless stuff but sometimes it comes straight into my feed.
Right now, I could probably find dozens of videos seeing hundreds of Syrians being captured, tortured and executed.
- I've seen a few images briefly, I don't doubt the videos are real.
Should I look properly?
Rather not right now.

Just type in 'Syria Massacre' and it won't take more than 2 minutes to find mass slaughter, and kids and elderly being tortured and executed.

As for the 'tanks running over people purportedly from Israel'
I don't think these videos are fake, maybe some are.
- The actions fit the mindset I've seen from the Israelis posting their own videos themselves.

It's a screwed up world.
It takes special kind of person to invest a billion dollars into Rhinemental and other EU military contractors in Feb 2022 and get over a 10X return in 3 years lobbying to keep the war going the entire time, getting rich at the expense of others lives.
- Pennies on the dollar, conflict = profit.
(Search 'Ukraine graves'?)

http://www.google.com/search?q=rhinemetal+chart

The new German Chancellor formerly worked for Blackrock.

Hi Paul,
"How's it out your way? The cyclone was a bit hairy, but the wind and rain seemed worse last night than Friday night. Lost power for 18 hours yesterday, back on now."

Yes it was a decent gale here Fri night.
I thought it was going to get really bad in the early hours, so set my alarm for 3 am, but when I got up it was a calmer than when I went to bed a few hours earlier. We lost power Saturday morning but I still had mobile service with internet. Today the power came back on early this morning, but for some reason I lost the mobile service entirely - emergency calls only, but that was back up by about 6 or 7 this evening.

We have a lot of flooding and road closures.
The new upgraded section of road between Vicky Pt. High School and Redland Bay was flooded and closed, everyone was going around the back way past my place, but this afternoon all traffic stopped and my road was closed and thought I may have been flooded in on both ends of the road I live on because of the continuing rain, but a housemate ventured out and told me he was able to go around a road closure sign and also the upgraded section to Vicky Pt is back open.

Lots of people still have no power around the local suburbs I think.
I looked on the outages map yesterday and there were dozens of blackouts all over the place

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Dear mhaze,

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You wrote :

« My view is that is that if it doesn't pass the smell test, its corruption. »
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That’s fine with me, mhaze. I have no problem with that. You and I and everybody else are all free to think, smell, feel, etc. whatever we like about events. And those of us who have the privilege of living in the free world, are free to express the opinions and judgements we make about them.

You have every right to express your opinions, especially here on this OLO Forum.

What bothers me is that you express your opinions as though they were facts. You make no distinction between fact and opinion. You wrote, for example :

« The corruption that [has] already been unearthed and the monetary savings already achieved are astounding. »

Money savings were a fact. Corruption was not an established fact (until proven otherwise). It was your opinion.

On the basis of the explanation you now indicate, it would have been more correct to have written :

« The monetary savings already achieved are astounding. My view is that if it doesn't pass the smell test, its corruption. »

I would appreciate it if you would kindly avoid presenting your opinions as facts - at least in your future exchanges with me !

Also, need I add that your sense of smell does not qualify as proof of the validity of your assertions ?

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Hi Again AC,

I think we dodged a bullet to some extent with Cyclone Alfred. The sting seemed to be in the tail with the tropical low that developed after, higher velocity winds and lots more rain. The normal roads were flooded, Wynnum Rd always floods, some egg was up to his car doors, hazarded lights flashing in deep flood water, some people just can't learn. What brought the cyclone our way was the abnormally high sea temperatures this far south 26.5C off the islands, deep water, and 27C in Moreton Bay shallow water, normally this time of the year water temps are cooler down here 24-25C and cyclones heading south will veer east out into the Pacific, not Alfie!

Hi Paul,
Yes its all a bit annoying, and I don't mean the cyclone.
The aftermath of it seems worse than the cyclone itself.
When the cyclone hit first thing next morning (Sat) my power was off, no internet at home but my mobile was fine, no problems.
Sunday comes, power back on, but road is flooded cant go anywhere now no mobile reception.
Today flood recedes so I go to woolies, no food everything gone.
Still no mobile reception.

Had a bloke coming over to do a caravan roadworthy on the old Jayco, he did it I think, but he couldn't call and I didn't know he was out there, he thought I wasn't home, but the caravan is undercover in a large shed of a separate house. Couldn't call him, sent txt but had to duck up to Cleveland, message goes through he says hes on his way, but I didn't get back in time, and now still cant contact him.
He's only around the corner, but I'm sure I'll get back in contact soon enough.
I suppose others have it way worse so I shouldn't complain and everything will be back to normal in a day or so.

Hi AC,

A couple of named and shamed on social media, a servo who was selling a 24 slab of small bottled water for $59, and an egg fruit shop, who upped his eggs to $14 doz, were $8 the day before. Both Woolies and Coles fridges and freezers all off, neither had F&V at all. Coles shelves were about 50% stocked, Woolies almost empty.