• 0 Posts
  • 22 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: March 1st, 2024

help-circle
  • We do that but also:

    • decide we cant afford 20k for a waterfall car
    • buy an off the shelf skateboard, that has a 10k per year oracle subscription
    • saw it in two
    • glue on a broom handle so it at least looks like the scooter in agile step 2.
    • mark the project as done.

    Then spend 15k fudging the ‘benefits realisation’ to make it look like a the users were really happy with car that only had two wheels and no engine.





  • I’m sure i read that some places prohibit treated timber going into ground if the chemicals might leech into water courses - New Zealand maybe??

    Very oily wood like Cedar should last ok , but not forever.

    Plywood, I’d be very skeptical about - generally the cheap stuff has no chance if it gets wet. Maybe there’s expensive magical stuff that i can’t afford.

    PVC as suggested or stainless steel ground anchor or concrete fence posts would seem better.

    You could consider trying to bury chicken wire if you need to keep out the burrowing creatures.









  • As of now, I find very few apps beneficial, convenient or time savers - maybe I’m a weirdo luddite. Most apps seem to be for pastimes anyway so saving time seems odd - I prefer to take time to savour my pastimes. I think mp3 player app, and organic maps are the real ones that I actually find useful.

    But refusing GPS/microG and therefore Microsoft Authenticate will become a problem for me quite soon I think. For now a phonecall still works, but I think it’s only a matter of time. Once that goes I might have to quit my job, and will struggle to find one in my field that doesn’t require it, so I guess I’ll have to look for less skilled work or retrain, and I’m far too old for that shit. That’s where it’ll get constraining, when the tentacles of bundling enwrap and bind many other aspects of real society.

    I really hope the EU keeps on at MS for bundling and other market power abuse, it seems so obvious that they’ve effectively ignored the fines from the old Internet Exploder case, and ramped up their misbehaviour regardless.

    Of course the twats where I live are easily radicalised against EU regulations (or any regulations really) , so I’m probably still fucked. But at least someone needs to stand up for consumer rights and competition and keep kicking MS in the balls every time they pull their dick out to fuck consumers. Ideally kick them harder and harder too, ‘punitive damages’ are more than justified due to them being a repeat offender.






  • exactly, democracy needs checking not just because of cronyism, but the fucking morons that keep getting elected by an ever diminishing share of the population. 1997 was the last time turnout was over 70%. In most UK general elections since then, the winner has not beaten abstentions. My ‘protest’ non-vote should count.

    I’d like MP voting power should be scaled down somehow by actual vote share (including abstention), for many votes - maybe not some essential ones - but with the same absolute threshold to pass a vote. You’d probably have to do that at party level to avoid under-representing some constituencies. Hardly anyone trusts these fucks so their power to fuck things up should to be limited to when even more of them agree cross-party.

    As for other layers, I’d quite like some sort of randomly changing jury based tier to rule on some things with cases and evidence presented like in a court. Probably with some sort anonymity layer - where some third party only knows the identities of the jurors.

    Lords should maybe be “qualified expert” level tier - but it’ll always get cronyist to some extent. That said if they’re in as a supposed expert accountant, and they don’t pay tax - they can fuck off. So the need for “expert” credentials could provide a basis for challenge. Certainly my random jury level tier could have the power to kick out lords if their credentials were challenged.