nigel99

I’ve had 2 experiences with Aus. 1. I held permanent residency but didn’t realise that if you left the country after 5 years you had to renew it. There is no requirement to renew it if you’re not travelling overseas. At the time I was backwards and forwards to the US. It so happened that the 5 year mark ticked over during the flight back from San Fransisco to Aus. When I got to border control in Aus I was told I didn’t have a valid entry visa. They took me aside and spoke to me, gave me a laptop and told me to renew my visa online. $200 of visa fees and a couple of hours delay I was back on my way. 2. I got Aus citizenship and didn’t bother getting an Aussie passport as Dual citizenship is allowed. Left the country on my Uk passport and then couldn’t get back on the flight home as I didn’t know that despite the immigration system showing I was an Australian citizen I couldn’t enter the country on a UK passport. Aus passports are expensive and I’ve got years left on my Uk one. Spent the night in Hong Kong, went to the embassy and got an emergency passport. All sorted the airline even honoured my ticket. Arguably in both cases I should have known better and clearly my fault. Should I have been detained and sent to Christmas Island (our atrocity that is equivalent to Gitmo, because Aus is constantly in trouble for Human rights violations with immigrants and are far from perfect?). Generally speaking and historically with Western countries, if you get to the border to enter (not exit) without a valid visa you’re turned away. Usually the airline is forced to bear the cost of returning you to point of origin. The US that is no longer the case. You risk being detained for extended periods of time without proper legal representation. Never mind the human aspect that’s costing the US taxpayers money. In the past with the US even if you went to leave the country you were allowed to leave and then blacklisted from future entry, again cost effective and reasonable even if it was an innocent mistake.

That’s hilarious. Pair of shoes :)

From outside the US the stories and messaging are not that rules are being enforced but the nature of it. Typically in Western countries if you accidentally break the law, you’ll get turned back at the border, denied boarding or even allowed to fix the mistake. I’ve had a visa expire on me while I was away, they just put me in a room and told me to do the renewal prior to entry (Aus, who are incredibly harsh). It’s not normal to be detained for weeks for simple stuff and that is the warning.

Just got told by someone involved in private security operations that Tucker is planning a visit to Aus/WA and they are out recruiting people to provide security. If true I really hope his visa is refused. Unfortunately our mini Trumps are looking slightly ahead in Federal elections.

I plan on continuing to go to the Fitz boogie when I can. I love the southern states, and Greenville SC is one of my favourite spots in the US. I’m a tad nervous about travelling to the US in the near future though. But you’re all welcome to visit Aus in the interim!

Quite a few travel warnings have now been issued against travelling to the US. I’ve started getting American Airlines ads for flights between Aus and the US that are lower than the cost of interstate flights here.

Glad you can make sense of his posts, because no joke I can’t. Every post makes me think he’s mastered the art of the weave but with big words.

What surprises me is the living presidents and vice presidents. get them all in a room and on message.

I’m half way across the world and luckily in one of the most remote cities (Perth). I’ve never been a one of the prepar type people, but my kids and I are in the process of buying a couple of hundred acres down south. Sadly I can see the time coming where you need to be able to be largely self sufficient and am lucky enough to have the resources and location to do it. On the plus side if the world returns to sanity we will have a lovely property for hunting and having fun.

I hope I am. It’s not something I enjoy seeing happening.

Unfortunately I think it’s too late for the US and you won’t recover from this. Both sides of the isle and the judiciary dropped the ball many years ago. Other than Bernie and AOC (possibly Waltz), there are no visible leaders actively promoting a viable alternative and drawing attention to the state of things and offering to fight. So the constitution is a meaningless pierce of paper now. I hope I’m proven wrong

One thing Trump has done has to unite the world against him (and sadly the US is largely lumped in with him) and raise nationalism in other countries. I don’t particularly like our attitude towards social media here, but as soon as I’ve got Musk and Co pushing their agenda it’s a firm hell no!

https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1902741232394043416 I think we need a trump bingo for the next dictator move trump makes. I’m guessing declaring April 2nd as a national holiday.

https://youtu.be/7nD2Z-iOfeg?si=FzCzg9WSO-7Uz18K US tech companies wanting to interfere in Aus.

Was very interesting speaking to the Astro physicists. The theory is that you can look back in time, because as the universe expands the light waves “stretch” shifting the frequencies lower. Probably a simplified explanation that was given to me :)

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-18/ska-low-first-image-of-universe-beyond-scientists-expectations/105058286 This is pretty cool. I designed the LNA (low noise amplifier) for the receiver unit. Interestingly my boss at the time designed and patented the ultra low frequency phase noise oscillator that’s used in SKA and the over the horizon radar that Canada just bought.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-19/canada-snuck-past-trump-buy-jorn-defence-radar/105069292 A bit of a win for Australian and Canadian relations

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHGe8MeRRud/?igsh=MTYxNG9kbTd3bmZ6ag== Saw this ad and loved it

My grandfather was the head of an intelligence agency back in the day (Rhodesia), and I know that humanitarian operations were frequently a cover for intelligence gathering. It’s also pretty well known/rumoured that USAID, Voice of America and similar are used by the US government/CIA to infuence foreign governments and spy. With how close to Russia Elon and Trump are I wonder how much of this overt interference in those areas are under the direction of Russia? I genuinely believe the US has sleep walked into a situation where a foreign power has covertly taken/taking control without military force.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHAJTcTp6mN/?igsh=anY4cHJ6dTRjNjZi 9 cops to protect a cyber truck. American priorities. Cars over kids!

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz03gjnxe25o Arlington Cemetery strips content on black and female veterans from website. Tell me again how the US administration isn’t racist? This is fucking disgusting

No shit! My sister was telling me it could cure our uncle’s stage 4 cancer a week ago.

Not being a Tesla/space x follower, the Thai incident is the first time I noticed Musk, I’ve never liked him. I won’t deny he is good at making money, but dunning-Kruger and life experience tells me that someone who claims to be genius level at every aspect of physics and engineering is full of BS.

https://electrek.co/2025/03/13/elon-musk-is-giving-trump-another-100-million-just-after-the-president-did-an-ad-for-tesla/ We are so lucky that Biden/Harris didn’t win! Wonder if things like this give Windsor pause for thought?

Yeah, and it’s s crappy attitude of putting likes over the feelings of others.