Talking to a friend in NZ - he says there's been a big influx of Americans, welcomed by tech firms because at the same time a lot of skilled NZers are leaving for Australia. I'm told some of the wealthier tech bros, eg Peter Thiel, are building bunkers in NZ ready for the apocalypse.
My favourite is the one with Moses coming down with the Big Book of Rules, direct from God. Then getting his pals to kill thousands of his followers for not following the Rules, which presumably they've never seen.
Normally I'm not in favour of defederation, but I stepped over to have a look and it's just propaganda and shit. Nothing thoughtful or inviting real discussion.
When I lived in Edinburgh's Old Town in the 90s I had a couple of young guisers come to the door, not trick or treating, but "a penny for the guy"*. I gave them a pound each, they were thrilled.
*The guy is Guy Fawkes, "remember remember the fifth of November".
I do a lot of water sports in the UK and we use VHF radios. Certain frequencies are used by marinas and the like, and nearby boats will be tuned into them. Then there is a frequency used for emergency calls - the coastguard listens on that and answers, and will move your call to another frequency for more details, leaving the mayday one open again.
We mainly use VHF for boat-to-boat comms, or boat-to-shore. The local range is decent - a few miles from our base, depending on atmospheric conditions, obstacles etc. I honestly have no idea if you could use VHF radios between cars though. It's not private for a start - everyone can hear you - and once someone is yammering on the marina frequency no-one else can transmit. So it's just brief messages with protocols.
My friends and neighbours and I all use a variety of messaging services and apps like Spond to organise get-togethers, sporting events, working bees etc etc. I'm in a ridiculous number of WhatsApp groups, all very active, and I see most people in them irl regularly. Without the internet I don't know how we'd cope. It's hard enough herding cats in a group chat, imagine the number of phone calls we'd be making!
I hate the SMS ones, because I don't have a good phone signal in my home, so I have to ruin around trying to get a couple of bars so I can get the effing code. My banking app just uses a fingerprint.
Swimming works for me. I joined a gym at a hotel that has a pool, reasonable price and usually fairly few people. I like to swim lengths, thinking of nothing at all, for half an hour to an hour. Good for general fitness, stamina.
I'm back in NZ from the UK visiting rellies, having some crazy times due to the weather. Nice & hot in Wgtn & Chch, now in Dunedin there's snow on the hills.
Anyway, here's a pic of the Kaikouras I took while sitting at roadworks.
I make a lot of jam and am very careful to sterilise the jars beforehand - wash thoroughly, heat in the oven, dry with clean cloth. Lids with that seal strip are trickier, so after washing and drying, I line them up, pour white vinegar into each, and leave them half an hour. Dry off with paper towels. That way I never get mould on the seal.
I'm guessing you didn't do any of that? The pickles are possibly all right, but... it's a risk I wouldn't take. And I'm still getting through a batch of spicy plum sauce I made in 2015! Never had any mould on it.
Thanks! You're right, it doesn't make sense. But Norway played it smart with their oil wealth, didn't they? Tiny country, and there they are lending money to the US.
Who actually owns this debt? Who is getting the interest payments? It seems like every country runs on some kind of deficit - where is all this money coming from?
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Talking to a friend in NZ - he says there's been a big influx of Americans, welcomed by tech firms because at the same time a lot of skilled NZers are leaving for Australia. I'm told some of the wealthier tech bros, eg Peter Thiel, are building bunkers in NZ ready for the apocalypse.