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
Paul Brownjohn
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It is 50 years since Ireland joined the EU.
My own tiny anecdote on the gap between that country and the one we live in today.
The Irish state was told it couldn’t continue with its official policy of having different pay for men and women.
Eventually it advertised to recruit a Commissioner for Equal Pay, to oversee compliance.
The recruitment ad listed different pay scales for men and women.
@drvolts
That is something France is very good at!
If it's public sector, once the decision is made, the government just do it. Extremely generous compensation for any land needing compulsory purchase and that's it!
The 3rd and probably a 4th runway at Heathrow and a 2nd at Gatwick, would have been built 10 years ago in France.
Paul Brownjohn
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Take your paid time off if you get it--all of it
Take your sick days
Take your holidays in full
Take your weekends and your evenings or whatever time off you get
Life is short, and the workplace will never love you back
#WorkLife
My local for years was the Lamb Inn in Eastbourne. It advertises itself as dating from 1180 but experts think it's several hundred years younger.
In the cellar, archaeologists discovered a medieval privy and just outside the pub is likewise a well with a glass top!
@futurebird
Some pompous, fuck-wittted imbecile tried that on me - he contacted the company that I had retired from, several years earlier!
I would add to that:
beware of the catastrophic effect a 'group by' can have if your query contains cascading Views (or CTEs).
The query optimizer of many DBs is capable of pushing the predicate down through a series of nested Views (or CTEs) but that process is immediately blocked by a 'group by' in the cascade.
Certainly, that was the case with the Oracle optimizer up to version 11
because we say fingernails???
Paul Brownjohn
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“There comes a time when something changes you... No matter the impact... Where the world no longer beats in time with you. You no longer feel amongst the fray.. And the feeling of loneliness is a brandished armor you wear the rest of your life.”
Solange Nicole.
Hampstead 5/2016
Oh we are frightfully enthusiastic about that particular pose in our house as well!
So is that their feeble excuse for invading!
Paul Brownjohn
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👆 That's ok - #Covid disproportionately kills stupid people (#AntiVaxers, #Libertarian #Right_Wing #Tories, #Mask_Deniers et al...) and, overall, reducing the number of stupid people has to be a good thing, right? 😂
Paul Brownjohn
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RT @Midge1415@twitter.com
Another tosser using autism as a slur. Well, feck you, my son is worth at least a hundred of you, you rancid specimen.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Midge1415/status/1608417531072770049
Paul Brownjohn
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When you use a person's disability as a pejorative term, it says far more about you than it does them. Then, to appear to 'choose' one life over another reinforces the idea that you've got some kind of superiority complex going on. That you're somehow better genetically and morally.
Do you know who else did this?
Nazis. Actual nazis did this.
Paul Brownjohn
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I DON'T WANT SELF DRIVING CARS!!!!
✔️ I want boring things like public transit that comes so regularly I don't need to check a schedule.
✔️ I want fast passenger rail so accessible and easy it's preferable to suffering airports.
✔️ I want cities that aren't built around cars-as-default
✔️ I want the country to own it.
Paul Brownjohn
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3/ “ Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity:
Evil can be guarded against. Stupidity cannot. And the world's few evil people have little power without the help of the world's many stupid people. Therefore, stupidity is a far greater threat than evil.”
Ouch
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
