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Aha, long after Britain has left the EU, there's still British political mileage in attacking the EU. Former Chancellor, and now front-runner for Boris Johnson’s role, Rishi Sunak has <attacked EU red tape>, and promises a big bonfire thereof. Sure, lol. For 5 years, Brexiters like Sunak have been banging on about “cutting EU redContinue reading "This is what Sunak is reduced to:"

Buy a download <here>; 10% goes to Ukrainian armed forces.

He even made <room for the cat>. All ordinary people, ordinary decent lives shot to hell at the whim of a short-assed insecure land-grabbing psycho thief with a string of failed relationships behind him. All people who want to be leaders are a little mad in the head I think, especially nowadays. I mean, leaderContinue reading "A Russian hero"

John Peel once said that the idea of a top 10 of favourite tunes / songs was meaningless. It was always just whatever 10 you liked at any given time. Of course, there will always be songs by The Fall and Joy Division that are engraved in stone for me by this stage, baetyli ifContinue reading "Imperfect 10"

Brexit is a lie, fuelled by lies.  They even printed their lies on a big red bus.  Boris Johnson came to power on the back of peddling a Brexit lie.  Peddle the lie, get into power; then, faced with the manifest absurdity of the lived reality of your daft Brexit manifesto, slam on the policyContinue reading "Cults (ii)"

Don't get me wrong. The UK's Companies House website is a clean, fast, and well-organised website. However, it suffers from a particularly bad example of cookie officiousness. Say you want to research a company, and you head along to their website. Click once in your Google results to open their page: Click twice to "AcceptContinue reading "When you mix cookie warnings with civil servants:"

“I also think it’s crucial that people are in the office for part of the time otherwise we lose that camaraderie, the bonding that you get from a team of people working on something." Taken from this <article>. "With more people than ever working from home, it's a big challenge for companies to build aContinue reading "Cults (i)"

2010: Audi’s new A8 limo has a screen.  In 2010, it was considered to be ugly and distracting.  Audi went to great lengths to engineer a retractable mechanism that enabled you to hide it (just watch until it retracts, remainder of video is irrelevant): https://youtu.be/3WXE-mifqXg?t=108 2025: Audi’s forthcoming A8 limo has a steering wheel.  ItContinue reading "Retract, retract:"

Offices: <"... Companies now have mobile apps and e-commerce platforms for customers to order anytime, anywhere, instead of before the doors close at five o’clock at the brick-and-mortar shop of days gone by. Why can’t companies think the same way about their employees?"> <"She calls face time “a mirage, the symbolic appearance of working (goingContinue reading "Obsolete things"