"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"
Category: Politics
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Just watching this video over on YouTube and David Frum raised some interesting points particularly regarding the way in which the economy has changed resulting in a large number of people being ‘left behind’. The problem is that when you have underfunded education then combine that with desperation bought about by a failing to non-existent…
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I bought some take away on Saturday night and it didn’t sit well in my stomach – I tried to soldier on the next day at work but I had to take the rest of the day off. I made sure I drank lots of water to ensure I didn’t get dehydrated but after having…
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Well, I’ve finally made my domain name the handle for my BlueSky account. Regarding the BlueSky platform, it is growing at an amazing pace when compared to the first wave of people who experimented with Mastodon but decided to stay on X/Twitter because there isn’t the community there. It appears in the case of BlueSky…
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A new season of Silo has appeared on Apple TV, season 2, watch the first episode of the season and it gives a bit of historical context as the main character moves from one of the other silos as she has memory flashbacks of when she was growing up. Looking forward to more episodes as…
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I really do want Safari to be successful, a counter weight to Google hegemony but I was holding out hope that maybe Safari 18.1 and 18.2 would address the lack luster support for MV3, improving their existing native content blocking API to allow a more feature rich experience for extension developers. It appears that as…
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Even though I had a sense that the election wasn’t going to go in the direction that the Harris campaign and the online echo chamber believed it would I was holding out hope that maybe Harris could pull off an unlikely victory. Even with my low to almost non-existent expectations I still felt that pain…
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I had an early start today in the office starting at 9:30am (I had to get up at 7:30am to get ready to catch the train into Wellington), it was a long day but there were lost of tasty treats for lunch so I was a happy lad all day. For lunch I had a…
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As much as I like using Chrome it is so buggy when its to the spell checker – text boxes where it doesn’t work then suddenly a minute later on the same website the text box magically has spell checking. Don’t get my started on a misspelled word that is phonetically close to what it…
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End of another week, I’m gradually getting back into the groove of being in the office 3 days a week and at home 2 days a week – a change from 2 days at work and 3 days at home. I have to admit the one good thing about going into the office are the…
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AdGuard have released their final version of their AdGuard 5.x series for MV3 (latest version is 5.0.97 at the time of writing (link)). I gave it a try on Chrome (along with the ‘User Rules’ that I currently use on AdGuard for Safari) and it is performing well but I would say that as they…
