It’s been shown that people will evade even the lowest of low public transport fares. The article deals with Queensland, Australia, where the fare has been lowered to a ridiculous 50c – and still show people not paying the fare or tapping on. I’m going to make a connection: People know value – but their…
. . . that plastics are not a good packaging material for foods. And we’re still doing it. That’s all, actually. I can’t currently spend much time online so articles will be terse for a while, my apologies, see other posts for why. There are and always have been ways of processing and distributing food…
My cancer has been diagnosed – mesothelioma. (aka asbestosis) My prognosis is short. To add to the stress, the landlord has decided to sell our rental as a vacant property so we’re having to move, and we’re in the portion of pensioners referred to in this article. House is a pile of cartons, we’ll be…
Yr Ed is still under a cloud of all manner of carcinogenic contingencies, i.e. it is still not known exactly what I went to have my exploratory surgery, pleurodesis, drainage, and biopsy for. It appears that I might know more by Feb 6th but I’m not pinning any hope there. My biopsy sample bounced around…
I realise that I haven’t been keeping up posts, and this is a wish for the New Year and an explanation. My wish for 2025 is that I’ll live. My wish for 2025 is that we ALL live, have better lives, more climate-change-reversing actions slowing down the catastrophic course the planet’s on, and my wish…
This isn’t a really funny kind of snippet but more of a cautionary tale. It’s why in the Australian medical system you get asked for your details multiple times before any procedure or medication. One thing they definitely ask you before even the most minor of procedures is “Can you confirm what procedure you’re here…
POV: Life has handed you rose-coloured, honey-sweet, lemonade in the form of a perfect mid-spring day. Have I asked you to Share? Boost? Like? Donate? These are some things you can do to help other people find this publication and help me to keep posting more articles for you. The Big Silver Lining Today 26th…
“Following the layoffs, John Deere said it is committed to their workforce.”— https://www.mysuncoast.com/2024/08/01/husband-wife-get-laid-off-john-deere-same-day/ You can’t make this sort of shit up. Unless you’re a spin-doctor for JD. How can a company say things like that after laying thousands off? Something so patently untrue and cynical? Because we let them. Please – go read that link,…
Any of my readers ever work in Tech Support? As you may guess, yeah, I did. Things often went in funny directions… Caller: “I need help setting up my email program” (Yes this was back in dialup Internet days and things like Hotmail or Gmail didn’t exist yet.) Me (helping out at a helpdesk): “What’s…
I’m sorry for not having been here as much, dispiace, désolé, lypámai, und es tut mir leid. Firstly as always – please share, reskeet, boost, and like this article, short as it is. It really does help, as does a donation. So what’s happened? Mostly it’s been really annoying and debilitating illness (various, both of…