Bad for the planet

here are just 30 hours left before this month’s last day and the latest weather forecast predicts temperatures over 20 for October.

This latest year has been unseasonably warm in summer and there’s no reason to suspect that will stop given the growing pollution levels and unwillingness to curb emissions.

People who live in already-hot countries will suffer more, but extreme colds are another phenomenon.

I am not seeing much press coverage about climate change anymore.

This has become more mainstream

ODAY in BBC there’s this article about preparing for emergency in case of war or weather calamity. Everybody knows (common sense) that when our government advises us all to stockpile food it mostly has Russia (or Putin) in mind. Since we are in NATO, if Russia was to invade Denmark or Finland or Poland tomorrow, we’d send British planes and troops there to help. At that stage, we’re participants in a war against Russia and then striking out of service or electric grids can be seen as “fair play” (at wartime).

BBC News is trying to be instructive without becoming alarmist.

It was simple at the start

HIS coming October, i.e. next week or this week, I think this site officially turns 24. Why in October? Because I still vaguely remember the day I started it, how it started, and why it began.

I was on a work shift at the time and I entertained the idea of copying a general template of my lecturer’s page (I no longer remember his name), giving some general background about who I was and more basic information. It still looks something like this.

I probably can pin-point the exact day/date of that, but it would require digging into very old E-mail archives, which I believe I still have. Or maybe my Palm PDA archives (todo), which I know I still have.

Focus needs time, not bells

oday turns out to be another lovely (sunny and warm) day, so plans have changed and we’re going out for the day. This year has been a lot more relaxing than prior ones.

I recently increased my E-mail-checking intervals to 3+ days, seeing that no critical mail is missed if I don’t check my inbox for a few days.

Notifications of any kind appeal to “hunger” and hunger relates to impulse, which comes from human instincts. What’s repulsive about this is that companies latched onto this to case inherent addiction, passing casino ‘science’ onto digital systems.

I need to focus on more labour- and thought-intensive tasks, not limited to filing an appeal and studying the EPO corruption in order to run this long and very important series.

I sometimes wished I had adopted this etiquette much sooner.

Seems wrong

oday I saw a new job ad. It turns out that what I wrote last week (Brett Wilson must be broke) is paying a Paralegal or Administer just £28k/annum. In central London. That barely even covers rent there!

In London, based on some basic research, this is like minimum wage. For people who have a degree in law. Incredible.

But then again, Americans wanted something cheap (shoddy) with poor staff retention. They cannot even distinguish between clients anymore! Under sworn oath a year ago they admitted to the judge they had gotten confused.

What sane person with a law degree wish to work for minimum wage for male thugs? No wonder so many people flee this firm.

“Is it even London’s minimum suvivable wage?” a friend has asked me. “It looks much lower than that.”

Maybe they want their staff to share apartment or even share a room.

“Or else force them to sleep in the sauna,” the friend responsed.

Seriously

oday it’s a Monday. People catch up. Courts do too.

Daniel Pocock has taken on Reform UK with some of his latest blog posts going into the rogue politics involved [1, 2]. Yesterday he told me that Reform “administration hearing could be tomorrow” (or today). “A High Court insolvency judge doesn’t have to go out and look for a jury before making a decision. Based on my application for an Administration Order, they could call a hearing as early as tomorrow or Tuesday and make the decision to put Reform into administration the very same day. The opposite is also true: if momentum, witnesses and other creditors fail to show up, the judge could drop the whole thing just as quickly. Another opportunity like this may never come again.”

If Reform UK is asked tough questions, then it’s well overdue.

Dishwashing liquid

month ago I began my search for some dishwashing gel (wash-up liquid) in large quantity because we had run out. A vendor who has that large (“wholesale”) item said he had lost the key to a storage container and therefore would have to break it with help from his nephew or son-in-law. He forgot to bring that today and said he would bring it next Sunday. Last weekend I decided to glue decent old shoes, repairing them as best as I can (about 7 pairs we like). Superglue exposure (by air) is unhealthy, so I needed to do this carefully and quickly. I finished 5 tubes in about 15 minutes.

A month earlier I had a runny nose for 3 days due to work that involved a lot of dust. I then decided not to do a second pass brushing the floor (outside) + roof sides, as health is more important than visuals outdoors.

Over time I’ve met people who prioritised looks/visuals over their personal health. They operated on the wrong assumption/s that if they look good, they will also be healthy. In reality, the opposite is typically true, or health leads to persistent good looks, unlike butchering (‘plastic’ ‘surgery’).

I no longer compromise my health to appease people or to make something look better (temporarily).