Aethelric 
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
What happens to humanity when technology stops working? Read more
Is “War Zone” a strong word here?
Vladamir Putin and the Russian government are waging war on Ukraine, and civilian deaths are currently running at 188 per month (December 2022)
Jeremy Hunt and the UK government are waging war on the NHS and civilian deaths are estimated to be running at around 2000 per month.
Ukraine is generally accepted as a war zone, so, with civilian casualties over ten time higher in England, than in Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Read more
Cornwall has been under a hosepipe ban since August 2022.
As the latest full month of data was June, I extracted the rainfall for the 12 months up to June for the last 14 years. It is quite obvious that we have had above average rainfall for the last three years….
Eighty per cent of beaches in Cornwall have been given raw sewage alerts after heavy rain in the South-west, according to the pressure group Surfers Against Sewage (SAS).
Earlier this month, Pennon sparked outrage by raising its dividend for the year by 10 per cent to £111.7m, despite South West Water being fined £2.15m in April for illegally dumping sewage into rivers and the sea around Devon and Cornwall. Read more
Our shower switch broke. So I ordered another on Amazon Prime for next day delivery. I got an email saying it had ben dispatched. It didn’t arrive, nor the next day, not the next day. So I tried to contact Amazon. So the artificial idiot says it wasn’t dispatched, yet the carrier picked up the … Read more
There can only be one Universe… Read more
“Only a fraction”. It’s a phrase that is in very common use. What does it mean?
A quarter, an eighth, fifteen sixteenths or maybe seven sevenths? Or is it even vulgar, like twelve tenths?
After a long investigation, taking only a fraction of the time, and using only a fraction of the resources that a prestigious university would use, I have found the answer… Read more
Liz Truss (the benevolent??) has frozen the price cap to £2500 (or more than twice what it was in January). But Liz Truss (the neo-liberal ) has decided that this will be paid for by a loan. Now, who loans the money?
If anyone is wondering how the energy crisis works this may help to make it clear.
There once was a little village miles from anywhere. The little village had 100 houses and two bakers. Each baker made 50 loaves a day, so every house in the village got fresh bread. The loaves were sold for £1 each so each baker got £50 a day in sales. Read more
Is there an afterlife, and are humans different from animals? These two questions are interlinked. My mother, father and all of my late relatives, and all of my late friends, cats, dogs, gerbils, mice and goldfish have an afterlife. They are in my memory and in the memory of others who knew them…. Read more