Æthelric

You’ll Never Believe Who’s Running the News — Spoiler: It’s Not You!

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Exclusive Interview With the Algorithm That Fired All the Humans [BREAKING NEWS ALERT™] In a shocking revelation that has rocked the media landscape (or at least the corner of the internet that still cares), a man attempting to submit an article to The National Investigator discovered that the entire publication is operated by a single … Read more

Climate it’s all hitting the fan

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“Enjoy life while you can. Because if you’re lucky it’s going to be 20 years before it hits the fan.”
James Ephraim Lovelock CH CBE FRS (26 July 1919 – 26 July 2022)
Lovelock said this in 2008. He’s been pretty correct so far. I think we can safely say it’s starting to hit the fan now. Read more

My New Website

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I’ve had a few websites, mostly constructed in html, but also WordPress  (like this one) and Google blogger.

My latest is an experiment using PDFs.  A few years ago this would have been crazy.  PDFs are far larger than other solutions, but internet speeds have got much faster.  Also most desktop browsers can view PDFs, and some mobile ones (Eg Firefox).  This situation will improve.

Links can also be included in PDFs now.

I’ll use that site for my music and electronic stuff and keep this one for philosophical, comment, and fiction.

Check out my new site at photo-electric.co.uk

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The US election

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Americans were voting as started to write this.   Coincidentally this was the day in the UK where we traditionally burn an effigy of Guy Fawkes who tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament.  The bonfire is usually accompanied by fireworks. In America, folk who try to overturn an election and march on the … Read more

The Earth in Perspective

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Imagine the globe 12 inches in diameter in the middle across the equator in front of you. That’s about football size (or soccer ball size for non UK folk). It will look spherical, although it is about 1/20th of an inch smaller from top to bottom (pole to pole). Read more

The Housing Trap

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How would you feel if the council started to build houses close to yours, at a similar standard to yours, but let out at half of your mortgage payments? 
When you sell your house you will not get what you paid for it. You will be in a state of “negative equity”.  Due to the stupid way our banks work you will find it difficult or impossible to move house. Even if you have to move house for a better paid job to pay your mortgage! Read more

Fining Pieces of Paper

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The government has just fined Southern water £90,000,000 for pouring sewage into the sea.
This is ludicrous beyond belief. Corporations or companies are NOT negligent or dishonest.  They are pieces of paper with writing on. PEOPLE are negligent and dishonest. And in these cases, the people are usually high up the tree, and their crime is almost always not taking their role seriously and ignoring their own staff at the bottom of the organization. Read more