Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@social.cleverlibre.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
Interesting! I wonder how many deaths have occurred due to the immune system consequences of measles rather than directly by the disease itself.
This, it seems to me, makes vaccination against this disease all the more indispensable!
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20211112-the-people-with-immune-amnesia
We upgraded recently from ADSL (we were paying for 100Mbps but never saw more than 50Mbps) to one of Luxembourg's peculiarities, broadband delivered via coax cable. In theory that delivers 1Gbps and in the past it has indeed delivered exactly that but lately, after a dispute over their invoicing, the throughput has dropped to around 600Mbps.
However, when we changed over from ADSL to Coax, we needed a new Fritzbox router to suit the new delivery method.
I just had a look on Google maps, the cable salad is still there (just around the corner from where I used to live) but the coffee shop has now morphed into a Pizza joint - probably just as well!
If you are referring to the 'Gollywog' style signage - the Thais as a nation are resolutely racist, being raised to believe that their greatest good fortune in life is to have been born a Thai and that all other races are inferior to them.
Thailand is full of hypocrisy! The local Police 'raided' 'Walking Street' in Pattaya (for those unaware of Pattaya's reputation - it may very well be the world's biggest brothel with an estimated 10,000 - 15,000 working girls, bar-girls, ladyboys and trans-sexuals plying for hire). Walking Street is the very heart of the town's sex-trade - around a kilometre of wall to wall red-light bars, go-go bars, live sex acts and other assorted paid-for sex orientated attractions not to mention dozens of 'girls' offering services on the street itself. The conclusion was that, despite the best efforts of a large number of Policemen, no evidence of prostitution (an offence in Thailand) was found on Walking Street. Everyone who knows Pattaya simply roared with laughter at that utterly ludicrous conclusion!
I suspect that it would be difficult to find a group of more misogynist males than football supporters.
I noticed, in the other place, that people whose profiles I researched with a view to blocking them as I perceived their views to be either asinine, offensive or both, announced that they were supporters of this football team or that, with a truly startling degree of unanimity.
$ millions being spent by right-wing governed states on investigating practically non-existent voter fraud with very, very particular emphasis on Democrat voters and black voters (most likely to vote democrat)
It's the only country I know of where the criminal offence of 'walking down the street whilst being a black man' is punishable by execution on the spot by the police.
You are not looking at the USA from the perspective of people outside it then!
I used to walk past that cable salad most days but I never was tempted to go in for a coffee!
The USA is the most extreme right wing country the world has ever seen!
Paul Brownjohn
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Palestine
Either
1. Palestine is a separate country, according to some mandated division such as the 1967 or 1948 borders, in which case Israel is waging unjust and genocidal war and illegally occupying land
or
2. Israel is the de-facto state in control of the whole area between the Jordan river and the Mediterranean, and it's enacting horriffic and illegal apartheid
In either case, it's a state of affairs that's been going on for years.
In either case, Palestinians are subject to genocide.
Paul Brownjohn
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There is a CURIOUS OMISSION in the coverage of the murder of Brianna Ghey, in both the NYT and Washington Post.
Neither paper's story included any of the transphobic messages Brianna's teenage killers, obscuring the way her trans identity allowed them to dehumanize her and made her more vulnerable than other young people who encountered the pair.
These messages were central to most other stories about this murder, and their omission is glaring. #trans #news
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/nyt-wapo-transphobia-brianna-ghey
Ironically, the fastest broadband I had ever experienced until recently was in a house I rented in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand. Fibre optic cable right to the router on my desk and a potential speed of 1 Gbit/sec although I only paid to have the 200Mbit/sec service. The service was delivered from somewhere in the middle of this lot:
It's the only reason I remember having a trimphone is because that silly twat could figure out which end of the handset to speak into!
I had a contentious planning application in for an extension to my cottage back in the 1980s and the local council's chief planning officer came round to see the situation for himself. Back in those days I had a trimphone (frightfully modern back then) and when the CPO needed to phone the council planning dept. to clarify something, he asked if he could use my phone - then which end of the handset he should talk into!
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
