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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Scotland is a truly remarkable country. We are told by the media that post-independence there will be a deficit and this is a bad thing (though very few countries *don't* operate a debt). At the same time, we are told that as a *pre-independent* country if we run a surplus it must be referred to as an ‘underpsend’, and that this also is a bad thing. Scotland is the only country in the world that, according to the media, is in a mess if it is in debt *or* credit. Schrodinger’s Debt.
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Trump's Attempt To Mock Biden's Cognition Backfires When He Gets The Term Wrong
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-clean-fake_n_66728970e4b0a1f905babe1c
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@ChrisMayLA6
👉Apply 1-2% wealth tax on assets £10M+ = £22Bn/yr
👉Equalise capital gains w income tax =£15.2Bn/yr
👉Apply NI to investment income=£8.6Bn/yr
👉End inheritance tax loopholes=£1.4Bn/yr
👉Reform NonDom rules=£3.2Bn/yr
👉4% share buybacks tax=£2 Bn/yr
All above equals an extra £50Bn/yr or £250Bn in 1 Parliament!
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To all of you who are celebrating the fact that if the most recent polls are to be believed, the Tories might be pushed into third place in the election by Reform....
Take a moment to think what it says about our country that Reform's support base is growing.
I hate the Tories as much as anyone, but seeing them replaced by an even more repellent bunch of right wing nut-jobs & their growing support, is not in any way a good thing!
Is the tory promise of additional facilities in addition to or in place of the 40 new promises hospitals that they never fucking built?
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@squared99 I have to assume that everything we think we know about #Hamas is just #IDF propaganda so I just conclude I know nothing about them now.
I do know that if my people had suffered the land loss with murder with impunity at the hands of #Zionists over 100 years that the #Palestinians have I’d probably join a militia
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Today, ANTIFA had a meeting in Normandy
#normandylanding
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So, Israel has been doing its own version of Russia's paid troll farms to spread misinformation and stir up shit in the united states.
That's some grade A villainy, Israel.
It's par for course, for such a terrible country.
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"If you don't like graffiti, look away like you do for genocide"
Seen in València, Spain
I believe there are quite a lot of techies on this instance so:
I have always used Google Chrome to access qoto.org then the other day my running Mastodon instance in that browser shut down for no reason I can think of, and when I tried to log back in to it, Bitdefender resolutely refused to allow me to do that saying that destination page I had requested was riddled with malware and would download all sorts of hideous code on to my machine if I went there!
I run 6 assorted browsers all of which come under the Bitdefender umbrella of protection, so I tried a different browser namely Brave, and qoto.org loaded without protest from my antivirus as indeed it did in all my other browsers; it seems only Chrome is impacted by this issue.
I am wondering therefore if it possible that some malware that redirects requests to go to qoto.org, to a malware site, has installed itself under Chrome on this machine.
Are there any any experts out there who can suggest what this problem might be, particularly if it could be a malware problem!
1st Monday of the month at 12 midday means it's air-raid warning siren day here in Luxembourg.
Yes, they still test them every month here!
I can remember air-raid siren tests being done on air raid warning sirens in Eastbourne, my home town, when I was a kid but certainly not recently.
Do other European countries still have air-raid warning sirens a that are still tested regularly?
For those who buy from Amazon, did you know that their prices vary widely from site to site and here I am talking in extreme cases by as much as by 40%.
Unsurprisingly, given Britain's reputation as "rip off Britain", the UK site ( Amazon.co.uk ) is usually the most expensive and the German site ( Amazon.de ) which conveniently can be accessed in English, is often the cheapest. However, there is a website that will do the job of hunting down the lowest price for you
compares prices across all the European Amazon sites and lets you see what they are charging for a given article on the range of sites!
This is odd!
If I try to log in to qoto.org (the Mastodon instance I use) in Chrome, I get a message from Bitdefender say that it's a dangerous site as the security certificate is not valid but if I navigate to qoto.org from my Brave browser which is also under Bitdefender's protection, it just goes straight there and works normally.
WTF?!?!?
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
