Paul Brownjohn @Paulos_the_fog@qoto.org
Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
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Trump cares only about one thing and that is Trump.
#unfit and he has proven it…
I'm a fan of full English - egg(s), bacon, fried bread, grilled (fresh) tomatoes, fried (fresh) mushrooms.
Under no circumstances are chips (fries) or baked beans admitted; EVER!
Failing that, warm, all butter croissants (with butter and/or jam - Philistine I know).
Ultimate luxury - warmed up Indian curry from the night before's take away!
It's almost comical especially as Waltz has an impeccable service record and Private Bone-Spurs is a born again coward who dodged the draft in the Vietnam war and insulted the real life war hero John McCain!
Cheapskates - if you wanted a decent job with the tory scum it would have
cost you at least £250,000!
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I promise, this is not satire:
Elon Musk sues a number of large companies for what he considers the illegal act of not wanting to do business with Elon Musk.
Yeah pre-stressed concrete lintels were commonly used when I was in the bulding trade years ago. One the demolition front, I'm not too sure.
Whjatz I did notice was the somewhat cavalier attitude to site safety on Luxembourg demolition sites!
They had guys hosing down the dust and they were working within the arc of slew of the demolition plant! That would not be allowed in the UK! It was particularly dangerous on the site I witnessed being demolished as large chunks of masonry were being disloged and falling close to the guys with hoses and on each ocassion, a huge cloud of dust was released meaning that the guys manning the hoses became invisible to the operators of the demolition machines but were within the arc of slew of the plant - that is lethally dangerous!
I was intested to see when witnessing the demolition of a building constructed of reinforced concrete, the care with which the drivers of the demolition machines separated the steel rebar and RSJs from the mass concrete. I understand that the rebar then goes to one of the local steel works to be remelted and the concrete is processed on site into aggreagate to make further concrete.
This is in Luxembourg where recycling is quite advanced!
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Kaivan Shroff (by way of Jay Kuo) on how it's entirely possible for us to have multiple identities at the same time.
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Apparently scientists are saying "WhEn A mAn vOTeS fOr a wOMaN he aCtUAllY tRanSiTioNS iNTo a WoMAn!!
Yes, I used to work for the improbably named 'Centre de Traduction des Organes de l'Union Européene', CdT for short.
In that organization, every official language of the EU is supported, spoken and written. We had all kinds of issues relating to languages but most of all with the text search engine provided with an industry standard, very large database. When they updated from one version of their software to another, it completely broke our application and their specialised support team were close to completely useless. Eventually, after I retired, the CdT abandoned that DB for an alternative system!
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Can you imagine taking over as CEO of a company while they have two astronauts stranded up in space because your company has become incompetent at building stuff that works safely?
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Retired software engineer & woodworker.
Anglo-francophone.
Detest tories. Subscribe to green, leftish radical politics but not to any particular political party!.
Love the EU and all it stands for, moreover, I spent the last 10 years of my career working at an EU agency.
Enthusiastic photographer, especially wildlife and most especially butterflies.
Slightly knowledgeable gardener.
Atheist; loathe almost all religions and pity the people deluded enough to follow them. I make exceptions for Buddhism as it isn't really a religion in the strictest sense of the word as it doesn't postulate the existence of any god, and Jainism which is the epitome of peace.
For anyone who is interested, my header photo is of the most stupendous sunset I have ever seen. On the right is the waterfront of Vientiane, the capital of Laos, on the left is Thailand and in the middle, acting as the border between the two countries is the mighty Mekong river.
Joined Nov 2022
