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
It wasn't me that penned that but I would amend it slightly "...scraped it off the sole of my shoe, wrapped in a used condom..."
I think 'strongly suspected that the sub had imploded ' is the right phrase. They detected something that sounded like it could be the sub imploding but...
There's no such thing as certainty in that game. The odds may have been stacked against them coming out alive but...
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OK, one more thing because this is fucking hilarious. Someone vandalised Trump's star on the Walk of Fame 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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I have to repeat myself. Why isn't this on the headline of all newspapers?
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Remember: even if you take away 95% of a billion dollars, you still have $50 million. Isn't that enough for anyone?
Billionaires shouldn't exist.
I have experienced 47°C = 117°F in northern Thailand and I can attest to it being pretty unbearable! Two local building labourers died that particularly hot year from heatstroke. The risk of which most people are unaware is extreme sweating causing both dehydration and electrolyte imbalance. If severe enough, the latter can lead to a heart attack.
A major problem in Thailand is that the only water many people can afford is 'osmotically filtered'; in effect distilled water. Unlike bottled spring water, this contains no dissolved salts to replenish the body's electrolyte levels and is thus positively dangerous!
I think it is safe to say that the preoccupation of anyone who reaches the state of being so extremely rich as the guys on board the sub that was lost, is ego, status or something of that sort, NOT compassion or they would have given most of their enormous wealth away to improve the lives of the needy and starving.
Indeed rising interest rates screw absolutely everything up, in fact! They reduce capital investment and R+D. Norman Lamont's cack-handed handling of Soros manipulating the value of the pound, thus leading to a hitherto never seen, one day rise in interest rates, caused a massive project I was about to run to be cancelled leaving me on the dole - cheers buddy!
It's not only mortgage holders who suffer, credit card interest rates will climb as will the rate on ODs and other bank loans.
Lots of people use credit cards to stay alive these days and those people will feel the pain!
But yes - raising interest rates sucks money out of the economy as does slashing government spending which this govt of clowns will undoubtedly prescribe for the ailing British economy.
If fact the useless wankers will try anything at all, rather than bite the bullet, admit Brexit is a catastrophe and reapply to rejoin the CU and single market if not the EU itself!
This a truly mind-boggling history of Blojob's lies and other misbehavior - unbelievable!!!
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If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you take a man on a luxury fishing vacation, you can own the US Supreme Court.
Who the fuck gets any sort of pleasure or thrill out of watching animals being tortured - I just don't understand!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/Iot1dIWVS5/hunting-the-monkey-torturers
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Our latest story on the Supreme Court:
Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court
https://www.propublica.org/article/samuel-alito-luxury-fishing-trip-paul-singer-scotus-supreme-court
This research could bring about a revolution in the treatment of this awful disease!
I suspect that this will not be the last time mankind discovers the causative connection between a pathogen and a serious disease.
Remember the discovery of the connection between infection with Helicobacter pylori and stomach cancer. That was revolutionary at the time as doctors did not believe bacteria could survive in the extremely acid conditions in the human stomach.
The discovery that the tumorigenic HPV16 & HPV18 viruses were responsible for a substantial proportion of cervical cancer was just as revolutionary and led to the development of extremely effective vaccines targeting these viruses.
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Juneteenth should remind us that human trafficking was legal. Slavery was legal. Jim Crow was legal. The US Govt paying reparations to white enslavers who lost their “property” but not to the formerly enslaved who lost their lives, was legal.
Do not let legality & power be your measure of morality & justice.
I used to live in Thailand where locals getting a tourist visa to visit Schengen countries is fairly straightforward but locals getting a tourist visa to visit the UK was practically impossible. I cannot see a reason for this as, so far as I'm aware, there is no wish on the part of most Thais to move to the UK, especially not illegally by entering via a tourist visa. My conclusion therefore is that the government dept responsible is run by bigoted, racist, fückin arseholes!
In my three years over there, I met dozens of Thais who applied for a UK tourist visa; many were in stable relationships with either Brits or other EU nationals (this was before Britain left the EU) and whilst none that I met were refused a Schengen visa if they applied for one, equally none were granted a UK visa; not one single one!
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
