That’s gorgeous! looks a bit like some kind of flying insect.

Sorry for the late reply and thanks for the question,

The Australian 2024 national defence strategy says this: “Our Alliance with the US remains fundamental to Australia’s national security. We will continue to deepen and expand our defence engagement with the US, including by pursuing greater scientific, technological and industrial cooperation, as well as enhancing our cooperation under force posture initiatives”

US has these military facilities in Australia (and more secret ones):

“Australian Defence Satellite Communications Station – located near Kojarena 30 km east of Geraldton, Western Australia. Other U.S. bases in Australia are present and this list does not include ADF bases with U.S. access. The U.S. military has access to many ADF training areas, northern Australian RAAF airfields, port facilities in Darwin, Fremantle, Stirling naval base in Perth, and the airfield on the Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean.” Wikipedia

US also has a Rotational U.S. Army, Navy Presence where they bring their submarines and provide financial benefits to many military services they can use (RAAF bases and the assisting in manufacturing of missiles and other weapons). There are 2500 US marines on permanent rotation

According to US gov “The United States is Australia’s defense goods and services partner of choice” and “The U.S. has over $27 billion in active government-to-government sales cases with Australia” most of Australias military equipment comes from the US including their nuclear submarines

Also most aggregiously

“As documented by CIA whistleblower Christopher John Boyce and several authors, including John Pilger,[7][4][6] as well as some Australian politicians,[8] the CIA allegedly backed Governor-General and representative of Queen Elizabeth II in Australia, Kerr, to dismiss Whitlam, due to Whitlam’s perceived left-wing policies[3] including Australian withdrawal from the Vietnam War, as well as his views on Australian sovereignty.[3] His conflict with the CIA is alleged[3] to have come to a head when he discovered several CIA-led operations occurring in Australia and overseas conducted by ASIO and ASIS, leading him to threaten cancellation of the lease on the Pine Gap facility, ending the US-led (nominally joint) operation, which was integral to the CIA’s signals interception operations in the southern hemisphere”

"In a statement to parliament on 3 April 1974, Whitlam said: “The Australian government takes the attitude that there should not be foreign military bases, stations, installations in Australia.”

He was then sacked and replaced by a more agreeing pm by the CIA Wikipedia

There are also numerous traid agreements that leads to Australia relying on US for a lot of its financial security (though it relies on China and Japan as well). And also many Australian companys are US owned/funded

This is all the research I have time to do but there are many, many more examples of American interference and control.

Edit: also America controls most of Australian media including News Corp Australia (owns most newspapers and News Corp is also the controlling shareholder of Foxtel and it owns Sky News in Australia. And much more)

also the American controlled ABC is the most visited site In Australia. And controls a lot of other media

https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/how-much-influence-does-the-murdoch-media-have-in-australia-20201015-p565dk.html

I mean if you chose a bamboo variety that loves it outside but hates it inside then it will be a big challenge to keep them alive inside (most bamboos you see growing outside won’t like it inside)

My Earina Autumnalis orchid flowered I have also got lots of other plants Im proud of, but I’m away from home so this is the only photo I’ve got.

Your terrarium is looking beautiful! I’m planning on making a large cooled terrarium for alpine plants sometime. All my current tereriums are small so it will be quite a challenge.

Feel free to ignore me but:

Alfred “Alfie” Joseph

Bengiman “Bengie” Oliver

Maya Oliver

Persephone “Percy” Elm

• in greek mythology Persephone was taken by hades (in an unwanted arranged marriage of sorts arranged by her father zues) to control the underworld with him, becoming the queen of the underworld. her mother sad to lose her causes winter and apon Persephones return to her mum every year, summer returns.

Also

“The myth of a goddess being abducted and taken to the underworld is probably Pre-Greek in origin. Samuel Noah Kramer, the renowned scholar of ancient Sumer, has posited that the Greek story of the abduction of Persephone may be derived from an ancient Sumerian story in which Ereshkigal, the ancient Sumerian goddess of the underworld, is abducted by Kur, the primeval dragon of Sumerian mythology, and forced to become ruler of the underworld against her own will.” Wikipedia

I also like the name lucida

These are just random names that popped into my head just before sleeping so feel free to ignore or pluck what you like (also I spent way longer thinking about the first names then the last names so I’m not set on my last names)

Wdym Australia last, they are practically controlled by the US already

Its outdoors, it can be to warm inside for these orchids to be happy

Thank you, it’s native to New Zealand. I am growing it on spagnum (spagnum seeweed mix), the spagnum is dried, not killed, so it does not rot easily and may grow again if kept in the right conditions.

The spagnum is also apparently sustainably harvested in New Zealand. however I have my doubts on how sustainable it actually is, so Im trying to grow future batches myself (grows so slow, and im pretty bad at re-aliving it)

Thabk you! I love them to.

Thank you! I was so happy when I saw flowers with the new shoots. I think it loves it there now :)

More on the wild side I love bilberrys! and they are native to the UK. Delicious and great garden decor

Ideally yes, but in the real world this would be infeasible. Things can’t be tailored to one person specifically. there are so many countless factors that could lead to a headstart and it would be impossible to account for all of them.

Instead we find the ones that are the biggest factors and focus on them. Race is a big factor. But race is not the only big factor, and ideally all the biggest factors should be accounted for.

I am confused how your analogy is different to the original one? the original one was also not affected by prior races.

A headstart would never be fair if gone untreated.

that’s why the final results are calculated to eliminate the affect of anyone’s headstart.

I think I must have misunderstood something with your comment. If you dont mind could you explain what I missed?

The analogy would be more accurate if everyone started at a random time, but darker-skinned runners started later on average.

Yes, they started an average hour later meaning when an hour is deducted from the darker skinned People’s times, the results are more fair overall.

And even though for some indivules it is unfair, the starting situation is allready unfair and this alteration is a net positive for fairness.

It is not just skin colour that has effects on the starting time of course.

Don’t worry I wouldn’t have thought you were arguing, I’m glad you asked.

Woman’s rights required huge societal reform, from being a mans property to being one’s own self. I know we aren’t all the way there in terms of woman’s rights, but we have come a long way. (let’s not go backwards now)

I was also thinking that the current capitalistic system is also much better than a system where power is based on bloodline like in many old Monarchy’s but then I realised that if money is power, and money is inherited its not much different.

However one of our main societal reforms is using reason, logic and ethics over the supposed word of god. I have nothing against the notion of god (other than that it is objective truth), what I do take issue with is using God to manipulate people, people who think they must have faith in the word of god for them to be good people.

This puppetering of god by those in power and the blind trust of those below caused thousands of atrocities; the burning of witches, the rape of people, hundreds of conquests in the name of spreading gods word, and so, so many wars.

This again is not fully resolved in many countries. Such as Israel, were blind faith in the twisted words of god, twisted by a corrupt pollitition, has caused tens-of-thousands of innocent deaths.

But for the most part, developed countries have left gods word as secondary advice, and have not tried to manipulate the people by puppeteering their creator.

This is (imo) a crucial step for a more transperant society. Were you don’t feel you are challenging your creators ideals, but just the ideals of a snob in a suit.

Tell me if I’m wrong but I would like to clarify something based on what Rhynoplaz said above that I feel they meant,

to clarify: I believe the CRT and DEI can exist while having nothing to do with historical events.

(P.S. I don’t know how the DEI and CRT work currently, this is my own opinion on a hypothetical best solution. (Open to ideas if I’m wrong))

The DEI and CRTs purpose is not not about putting everything in reverse, giving the darker skinned man a time cut for every future race because of all the 100s of past races he had to wait.

it is simply about the situation now, the current race, the current job application.

the DEI and CRT should ideally only be about removing the bias of the judge for that specific event, so that the final scores represent each person’s actual time, there is not retribution, there is no repayment for past wrongs, it is only about making the current event, the current job market, fair for everyone.

So that when the scores for that specific day are finalized everyones time is what they actually ran.

The CRT finds what makes the specific event unfair, and the DEI fixes it so everyones time is what they actually ran.

It is only removing the current bias in the Official.

Poverty is a completely different (though somewhat related) issue.

Dealing with poverty isnt about removing the bias, it is about rebuilding the very constructs of our society into a place that does not rely on some working 24h to put food on there plate while others sit around ruling those below.

Capitalism does not exist without poverty, if everyone’s rich, nobody is.

The only solution to this while keeping capitalism is to ensure every person has access to their human rights free of charge, but then our rulers would complain that these people living free of charge are lazy and sapping up your precious tax payer dollars that you worked your but off for.

no government organization can fix poverty, the entire current system for every current country is flawed, in order to get rid of poverty we must rebuild these systems from the ground up.

We’ve done it before and made the lives of millions better. and we can do it again.

Edit: changed words in the second and third paragraph referring to the CRT and DEI Ideally have nothing to do with past events. Instead I believe it is fine for the CRT and DEI to learn from historical events and use that learning, but the actual actions will be determined by the current situation not the past. -sorry for the edit I just felt it is more clear what I think like this

I mean when writing an essay you should really be sourcing from the original source not Wikipedia, good thing Wikipedia lists the original source the info came from so you can just use that. (Unlike some websites the teacher said were better then Wikipedia which were just full of unchecked bullshit)

But for everything else Wikipedia is great

Can play games on them to, including clones of pacman, Doom, Super Mario land and pong.

I also have to thank some of my later science teachers for re-sparking my fascination in the scientific world, three of them were excellent teachers and made the class so entertaining you couldn’t not be fascinated.

I would tinker for a bit but definitely not spend any more money on it as it’s not worth the money. Where im from you can often find cheap B&W laser printers on facebook marketplace or another second-hand platform for free or for very cheap.

Laser printers will be much cheaper in the long run so I strongly recommend one. Unfortunately a good colour one is very expensive but old B&W ones like the Brother HL2130 are still great.

Facebook marketplace does suck but sometimes it’s the only/best option, still steals your info tho