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International Marmite ambassador. Pirate. Warm Shower. Cat person.
SERIOUSLY though

Oct 2024 – Sanctions & Tarrifs

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This month the EU starts to see Chinese trade Tarrifs on their exported Brandy (don’t laugh – China’s their biggest customer). With threats of similar measures on dairy products.

This in response to the EU raising Tarrifs on Chinese made Electric vehicles. Obviously this flies in the face of the EU’s attempts to cut emissions, but, it seems protectionism is the game.

Impossible to imagine I know, but if we don’t start thinking AS A PLANET, collaborating, helping, sharing, all will be for nothing.

RANTS!

The power of Lobbyists.

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“after industry complaints”

Supermarkets then. Those grabbing, underhand, thieving shits – smothering everything in plastic and then Tesco overcharging in order to proclaim ‘clubcard prices’ are some sort of gift.

FOOD prices, pollution, and Politics – all at the hands of ‘market forces’.

SERIOUSLY though
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A direct quote from Boris Johnson’s book “Unleashed”

Fact Check: PPE was shipped-in from abroad, using Political chums as money spinning go-betweens.

Care Homes in fact received the worst possible treatment, especially when you consider they house the most vulnerable in society.

The ‘cure’ for Covid19 was lead by a professor of Neurosurgery at Pennsylvania University.

The man is a massive tit.

SERIOUSLY though

As PCs did, so now phones

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Fantastic amounts of RAM are now available on some of the cheapest phones, and, just as with PCs over the years, all it’s doing is enabling App makers to produce unnecessarily bloated programs on a phone that runs no faster.

Super fast charging will mean you’re frying that battery to death in a year or two. And what’s with these batteries? 4500, 5000 MilliAmp? The Phone STILL only lasts a day – just as it did with smaller batteries and less crap running in the background, with lighter OS,’s.

Again, as PCs did, phones sport a minimum 128Gb storage, many twice that, some 4 or 8 times that – for what? And if you’re backing up to The Cloud then the storage facility that actually isn’t a cloud needs more capacity, more cooling, soaking up enough power – keeping your cat photos as a small city could use keeping it’s humans warm!

Pissing against the wind.

MUSES, SERIOUSLY though

Ya think????

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66813908

For years and years I’ve resisted joining the Sheep and flashing a loyalty card at any shop. It always seemed to me ‘off’ somehow.

I mean, these systems must cost a pretty penny to run, and those pennies must be added to the prices – so a nonsensical situation to say the least.

Anyone, absolutely anyone entering a Supermarket should be offered the same prices. End of.

And then ‘Which’ reports what you should have known in your gut, the purported ‘savings’ are a lie. They’re liars and cheats the big UK supermarkets.