Observations

Millionaires are two-a-penny now!  Anyone who has saved up enough to buy a house, then has been left one by a parent has a good chance of being a millionaire.  

Can  millionaires actually be quite hard up?  Imagine you have a biggish house in London, that you inherited from your parents.  But you are now retired with only the state pension.  You should really sell the house, but you grew up in it.  It’s full of “your life” It needs repair but you can’t afford it.  But it’s in a desirable area and it’s worth £1million.  Yep. you are a hard up millionaire.

But a billionaire is worth 1000 millionaires. Read more

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

How will AI play out for in the next ten years? White collar worker are going to get hit hard, and quite quickly. Geoffrey Hinton, the Godfather of AI is very concerned. Your world is changing. Read more

Following a resignation by Susan Davy, following her disgraceful record at South west water, it is time for an update.
Well done Ben Mcguire.
Well done Noah Law.

Due to gross mismanagement we can almost certainly expect another hosepipe ban this year, and more beach pollution, but it’s start.

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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

The catastrophe that was the US election. Read more

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

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

Where is AI going?

Is it unique to humanity?

What if it isn’t

Where does that leave us?

(3 minute read)
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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