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"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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Category: Politics

  • End of the week.

    Sunday is the end of the week for me and the beginning of my weekend. Tonight I went for a 14.2km walk because it stopped raining so I thought I may as well take advantage of the good weather given that these days the weather is unpredictable resulting in days of raining without any rest…

  • Relaxing at home.

    Finished the first season of Paradise and funny if there appears to be a good amount of overlap that I see with Silo and Fallout along with a few other dystopian films I’ve watched in the past. It’ll be interesting to see how it developers going into the second season how it develops particularly when…

  • From the school of ‘you learn something new every day’.

    I mentioned earlier about adding a declarative net request filter for websites that you want to allow ads on – I’ve just realised that I made it a whole lot more complex than it is meant to be but I had a good reason. Normally when you click on the extension icon in the toolbar…

  • Back to work tomorrow, learnt something today.

    Well, the wheels are in motion to sort out the ‘impulse buy’ yesterday but in the process of tidying up iCloud I came across ‘Codes’ in ‘Passwords’ then it struck me that I didn’t need to sue third party authentication apps because Apple already has it built in. I feel like such a fool purchasing…

  • Good news to start a new week.

    I like to keep up to date to see what is happening with AdGuard and whether a particular issue has been fixed – the one I’ve wrote about has been the issue of AdGuard and websites that use Cloudflare verification. I’ve download and installed the latest version (Version 5.1.81) and everything is now working as…

  • The cost of Republican Party/Trump tariffs.

    There is a great video that has been uploaded by Gamers Nexus that goes into detail regarding the impact of tariffs on the technology industry: It is worth watching it from start to finish because it goes into details of the costings regarding bringing a product to market and the impact of tariffs. As I’ve…

  • The big day is almost near.

    Busy week and almost Monday, the big day for my A1C blood test, hopefully I’ll get an answer back quickly to see whether all the hard work has paid off. On Thursday I went for a 14.5km walk then on Friday a 8km walk then on Saturday another 8km walk. The walk on Friday was…

  • Watching and waiting for the fall out of US trade and foreign policy.

    I’ve been watching the news regarding Trump’s tariff announcement and once again I ask – how the hell did the US get to the situation where so much power is concentrated in the hands of one man? both parties have allowed more and more power to consolidate in the hands of one person and then…

  • A nice walk tonight.

    Finished work at 8pm tonight, watched a few YouTube videos and then went for an 8km walk – I went for an 11.6km one last night, I was pretty sore so I needed some time to recover but I still feel the need to get out of the house and get some exercise. It’s always…

  • There is a reason why that department exists.

    Well, it appears that the right wing in the United States are bending over backwards to defend getting rid of the department of educate by claiming that the functions of that functions would be divided amounts amount other departments for example the civil rights division would become part of the DOJ, student loans being taken…