Nuffield Scholar (Weather)+General manager of Collaborative farming venture Bulla Burra+ Past President SPAA (Society of Precision Agriculture Australia)
Loxton, South Australia
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Robin Schaefer retweeted
THE WORLD NEEDS TO SEE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN POLAND!
The most important thing to understand about these protests is that WE ARE PROTESTING PEACEFULLY!
Young Poles are standing shoulder to shoulder with older generations, including people who fought against communism and remember what it means to stand up against an authoritarian government.
We are not burning down shops. We are not setting cars on fire. We are not attacking police officers.
We are peacefully defending our Constitution, our democracy, and the rule of law.
Yet, from what we are witnessing, it is the police acting under Donald Tusk’s government who are attacking protesters and, in our view, deliberately escalating the confrontation.
WE ARE PROTESTING PEACEFULLY. WE HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO DO SO.
The world should be watching what is happening in Poland right now!
Robin Schaefer retweeted
What is happening right now at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is, in my view, nothing less than a COUP D’ÉTAT!
Donald Tusk is doing everything in his power to illegally seize control of yet another public institution, acting outside the law and trampling on Poland’s constitutional order.
His ultimate goal is to establish the supremacy of EU law over Polish law, force through the EU Migration Pact, and flood Poland with tens of thousands, potentially hundreds of thousands, of illegal migrants.
He wants Poland to stop being an island of safety, stability and prosperity in Europe. He wants our country to suffer the same economic destruction, social chaos and devastation that we are witnessing in other parts of Europe.
Donald Tusk is acting exclusively in Germany’s interests - NOT in the interests of the Polish people.
Poland is a sovereign nation. We will not surrender our independence, our security or our future!
Listen to what @D_Tarczynski has to say!
Robin Schaefer retweeted
Hate to dox myself a bit but have worked on just about every fighter jet the US has. I have seen some impressive technology over my career but this is a whole other level. I have so many questions and need to know how this works. How much edge compute is needed to make this happen? My first thought is dual processor + 1TB ram. That way it can handle the fuckquintillion process per second. There was zero correction it nailed it 100%.
Robin Schaefer retweeted
Give it a few years to debug and refine, and bingo
Chinese LOVOL GS8239: 🌾
• Engine: 500 HP Weichai Diesel
• Feed Rate: 23 kg/s (Class 8/9 Territory)
• Capacity: ~1,600 bu/hr (Wheat)
• Header: 9m (30 ft)
• System: Axial-Flow Rotary
• Est. Cost: ~$200K–$250K USD (FOB)
Imagine getting a brand new combine with 2 headers for under $500k.
Western Agriculture spent too much time trying to fleece the farmer instead of trying to innovate the farmer.
So I guess Elon could now cut Starlink to Ukraine for breech of contract following Zelensky’s admission they use it for military purposes
Seems like this is not quite correct, starlink can’t be used militarily but the The US military has a counterpart called star shield which has been significantly slowed down…. I think there was a bit of FAFO
Robin Schaefer retweeted
NUMBERS DON'T LIE. 🇺🇸🇷🇺
Before European leaders and NATO allies criticize President Trump over Russian oil, let's look at the numbers.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, NATO allies and European countries have continued buying Russian energy.
🇹🇷 TURKEY (NATO)
• Approximately €103.6 BILLION in cumulative Russian fossil fuel purchases cited in mid-2025 analyses.
🇭🇺 HUNGARY (NATO + EU)
• Imported approximately 4.8 million tonnes of Russian oil in 2024.
• Imported approximately 8.6 billion cubic metres of Russian gas in 2024.
• Russian crude accounted for roughly 86–93% of its oil imports in recent years.
🇸🇰 SLOVAKIA (NATO + EU)
• Remained heavily dependent on Russian crude oil and pipeline gas.
🇫🇷 FRANCE
• Purchased approximately €157 MILLION in Russian LNG in August 2025 alone.
🇪🇺 THE EUROPEAN UNION
• More than €238 BILLION spent on Russian fossil fuels since February 2022, according to the figures cited from CREA's Russia Fossil Tracker.
🇷🇺 RUSSIA
• Approximately €1.16 TRILLION in fossil fuel export revenues worldwide since the invasion began, according to the same tracker estimate.
Now answer this:
If European countries and NATO allies have continued purchasing Russian energy worth BILLIONS, why should the United States be condemned simply for considering its own economic interests?
You don't have to agree with President Trump.
But apply the same standard to everyone.
Numbers matter. Consistency matters.
And hypocrisy deserves to be called out.
The third paragraph is particularly interesting around why privatisation was pushed in Australia & round the world
Can I just put this in perspective and why all the pushback from the oligarchs? If you don’t understand how the system worked before (and most don’t), you can’t appreciate the significance of the change.
Since WW2, the banks and lawyers of the oligarchs were hired as “intelligence agents” in the CIA. The oligarchs would target a country and the CIA would politically and economically conduct warfare against it and if necessary use paramilitary to control the government. This included assassinating the head of state.
Once they were targeted, all facets of economic warfare was used which 100% of the time used US citizens money. That came in the form of IMF, World Bank, USAID, NED, foundations, think tanks etc all funded by you. The oligarchs got mining right concessions for 100 yrs, you got the bill. They gained control of water rights, utilities, entire countries’ telecommunications, etc. This was called privatization. They tried to do it in Russia and Putin threw them out and they’re still trying to start WW3 over it.
So all the world’s wealth was vacuumed up by these oligarchs while we paid the bill to do it. We’ve literally been their tax slaves in a way most ppl can’t visualize while these bastards kidnapped, tortured and murdered anyone in the targeted country that refused to go along peacefully to their county’s wealth being stolen. This, by the way, is true in the US as well. Anyone pointing out any of this over the years was murdered by the CIA’s hired assassins including JFK.
What is being pointed out is that Trump is changing this entire system while also shutting down the covert funding networks, fueled by black market commodities, that paid the assassins. You have to understand where we were to fully appreciate where we’re going. It also explains the turbulence from the oligarchs that had their toys of destruction taken away.
Robin Schaefer retweeted
Roman concrete could repair its own cracks.
Some Roman buildings have stood for 2,000 years, while modern concrete can start to crumble within decades. For a long time, scientists did not fully understand why.
The Romans made their concrete from lime, water and volcanic ash from the area around Pozzuoli, near Naples. The ash reacted with the lime and created a material that grew stronger over time instead of weaker.
In 2023, a team from MIT led by Admir Masic found another piece of the puzzle, small white lumps of lime scattered through the concrete.
Scientists had always thought these lumps were a sign of careless mixing. In fact, they were the repair kit. When a crack forms and rainwater gets in, the lime dissolves and refills the crack with new mineral, sealing it from the inside.
The secret was “hot mixing.” Instead of using slaked lime, the Romans added quicklime directly to the mix. It heated up as it reacted with water and left these lumps behind on purpose.
To test the idea, the team cracked samples of concrete made with the Roman method and let water run through them. Within two weeks, the cracks had sealed completely. In concrete made without the lime lumps, the water kept flowing.
Roman harbour concrete went even further. Pliny the Elder wrote that once it touched the waves, it became a single block of stone that grew stronger every day. In 2017, geologist Marie Jackson showed he was right, seawater slowly grows rare crystals inside the concrete that hold it together.
Robin Schaefer retweeted
🚨 إيلون ماسك يحذر: الباقي 3 سنوات فقط قبل نهاية عصر "العمل مقابل راتب"! ⏳
كسر إيلون ماسك الصمت بتصريح مدوٍّ حول مستقبل سوق العمل والوظائف: الوقت المتبقي لكسب المال من خلال "الجهد البشري" لا يتجاوز 3 سنوات بحد أقصى!
بعد هذه الفترة، سُتؤتمت معظم الوظائف المأجورة، وسينتهي العقد الاجتماعي الذي استمر طوال الـ 200 عام الماضية: "أقرضنا وقتك لمدة 40 عاماً وسنعطيك راتباً"!
📌 أبرز ما جاء في التحذير والتحول التاريخي المرتقب:
انهيار قيمة "الوقت البشري": الراتب يُدفَع مقابل إعارة وقتك.. عندما تصبح الآلة أسرع، أرخص، وأجود في استغلال هذا الوقت، ستنهار قيمة العمل المأجور فجأة!
أكبر حركة نقل ثروة في التاريخ: الفجوة الحالية بين من استوعبوا التحول وبدأوا التحرك، وبين من ينتظرون إعلانه في النشرات الإخبارية، هي الفارق بين النجاة والضياع.
ما العمل خلال هذه السنوات الثلاث الحرجين؟
تحويل وقتك وجهدك فوراً إلى أصول لا يمكن للآلات سلبها منك، وأبرزها:
الأصول الرقمية النادرة (مثل Bitcoin).
الأصول العينية الحقيقية (الأراضي والطاقة).
البنية التحتية وأجهزة الحوسبة.
العلاقات الشبكية القوية (Human Network).
القدرة على إنتاج الغذاء والموارد الأساسية.
في الفترة بين 2035 و2036، لن تكون العبرة بـ "كم تقبض شهرياً؟" بل بـ "ما الذي تمتلكه فعلياً؟".. التحول من مفهوم "الموظف المأجور" إلى "مالك الأصول" لم يعد خياراً جانبياً، بل مسألة بقاء أسرع مما يتخيل الجميع!
It will be interesting to see the impact on diesel here as we go into harvest.
That’s a bombshell 👀
Trump just made a deal with Putin for Russia to supply us with diesel fuel. Not only is that massive for gas prices and the midterms, it’s a great sign for potential deal to end the war in Ukraine, and it confirms that Trump and Putin are on the same page.
This also leads into my overall thesis that control of Greenland/Canada is not just about National Security, but I think the plan is for normalized relations with Russia, and Arctic maritime routes could be the gateway between US and Russian trade, which will reshape the global economy.
Trump might have just made the massive move that will bring down the global price of oil, right before the midterms, and Putin helped him do it.
What a timeline we are on.
Robin Schaefer retweeted
For every gigawatt-thermal of fusion reactor capacity burning deuterium-tritium, you can produce 2 tonnes of gold per year by recycling the 14 MeV neutrons through mercury.
The economics of a gold-breeding fusion reactor are about half revenue from gold, and half from electricity at current prices.
The natural evolution of technology is to move beyond "chemistry' and into "alchemy" - nuclear sciences that involve the transmutation of elements, at energy scales and densities a million times higher than usual material science, chemistry, and molecular interaction scales.
The first companies to approach this will be targeting things like medical isotopes and enriched nuclear fuel, but there's really no limit. If you think we can make energy too cheap to meter, then it becomes feasible to transmute elements at industrial quantities as raw material feedstock into the economy.
Your thesis really should be that reality is programmable down to the atomic level, and that is inevitable where our technology will take us.
The Iran war is about more than most people realise. Susan Kokinda has shared some great insight over the past 6 months
Iran's IRGC wrote a 26-page letter to American voters.
It names the CIA, Israel, the military-industrial complex…
But never once the British.
@SJKokinda on why that's a huge mistake, and what it exposes about Trump's real target 👇