Are we watching an empire collapse in real time?

[T1 Terry]

Designing with the builder sound good, at least you should get what you want.
Get an architect involved, and anything can happen, then the builder has to struggle figuring out how it can be built.

The builder has their own house designer and architect and council approval wizard etc. They have already completed a topographical survey, so they can design the house to fit into the block.
The block is on the high side of the road, overlooking the Murray River, well, a flooded paddock that was once part of a farm that the '56 flood filled with water and after the Murray/Darling Authority artificially raised the river level, it has been a duck, pelican and swan habitat.
Roughly 750 mtrs wide, then the actual bank of the Murray River ..... too shallow for house boats thank goodness, and too many dead trees remains for jet skis and wake boarders with their monstrous wake boats .... where they get the money for them beats me, $300,000 for a play toy you use a few mths a yr ....
But they are far enough away on the river to not be a noise disturbance

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

Sounds interesting, maybe we come and visit sometime.

 

[T1 Terry]

Sounds interesting, maybe we come and visit sometime.

Might have to wait until they build it could be another 18 mths with nothing going wrong in the process .....
Apparently it takes up to 12 mths to get from the ideas settle to the council approval, before they even start moving dirt .....
So, the world isn't allowed to go to crap before our house is built ..... maybe I should send a cartoon picture book letter to Trump and tell him to settle until we have our house built and furnished and we are living in it

T1 Terry

 

[decrep]

No worries, don't think we'll be coming your way until there's enough infrastructure on the Nullabor. Unless I decide to take the surfwagon to Lake George

 

[T1 Terry]

No worries, don't think we'll be coming your way until there's enough infrastructure on the Nullabor. Unless I decide to take the surfwagon to Lake George

You can drive from WA to SA in an EV now, been that way for a while. They have added fish shop frier oil fuelled generators where there isn't grid supply available.
I believe, in conjunction with the AEVA, the govt is upgrading these areas with solar battery storage to help those communities get off diesel generator power as well as provide a fully renewable electric highway across from state to state.

T1 Terry

 

[mGizmo]

Especially because the US aren't going to do anything to improve the situation in Venezuela.

They are hoping that if they take out the leader and make some threats then the country will work out well for them.

It won't, though, as it is dysfunctional.

Some would argue the US is now at least as dysfunctional as Venezuala...

 

[EVsince2016]

I read an article on this more than a decade ago on the BBC, when they did good in-depth articles. It said pretty much the same, with better deeper references to the empires of Rome, Egypt and earlier.

It was more focused on the European Empire and drive for Brexit before it happened. It noted that the UK for going for currency & the US, with £trillions in cash stashed away in British Dependency tax havens. Europe was about to ban tax havens and was going for assets (high speed rail, infrastructure, resources, manufacturing), just the things the UK had off shored to China. The target was actually tax avoidance in the PIG countries, but the UK tax avoidance dwarfed that, so the 0.001% with the £trillions wanted out. Trusts and tax havens are banned in the EU now, everyone has to pay their taxes, so cash rich millionaires are leaving.

The Uk has many parallels to this video. Yes, WW1 and WW2 were a big hit, but the joint covid / Brexit hit was our final full entry into stage 4. Unlike the US though, we can no longer take things by force, so instead, rats are abandoning a sinking ship. We are at the advanced blaming others stage across society, complaining but not doing across all age groups and we live in a country where everything is crumbling. 1980's state asset fire sales and our reliance on cheap foreign labour have run out and the pot is now empty.

We now have excessive ill health, people retiring before their time and younger people unable to work as hard as we did in the past, not having kids or socialising. Far too many have "mental health" issues, real or perceived.

Yes, I know that these issues are starting across other Western countries too but outside the UK, in the EU, things mostly work, I get easy access to healthcare, I do not see potholes, cities are vibrant and people work. Families & well-behaved kids are everywhere bar the dead villages in Spain & Italy for example.

Just don't see this as just a US problem, we are there too, just by different means.

 

[Shrink Proof]

Some would argue the US is now at least as dysfunctional as Venezuela...

Nonsense. No country can outclass the USA when it comes to gun care and health control.

 

[OriginalBigAl]

Whilst they have many problems in allowing an integration into society of many of its peoples , they are way ahead of us into the inclusion of people with mental issues into high ranking governmental positions and unlimited access to automatic weapons . ( as long as they are pale skinned ). Woke ???? Edit. ( oh ! I forgot about Liz Truss )

 

[T1 Terry]

Whilst they have many problems in allowing an integration into society of many of its peoples , they are way ahead of us into the inclusion of people with mental issues into high ranking governmental positions and unlimited access to automatic weapons . ( as long as they are pale skinned ). Woke ???? Edit. ( oh ! I forgot about Liz Truss )

I was watching a you Tube today discussing this sort of thing.
The way Trump surrounded himself with people he though were inferior intellects to him, attacked all the higher learning establishments for fear they would mock him and immediately turns on anyone who questions his genius because he feels threatened.

T1 Terry