Stupid World

[pritch]

ThatÂ’s been brewing for a long time although Brexit definitely not helping. ThereÂ’s a few other factors in play. In NZ good petrol tanker operators command a higher pay for the obvious ramifications if they hire cabbage drivers.
In UK tanker drivers get paid about same as rest.
Most other driving jobs you get premium high rise luxury cab due to nights away often and can basically live in truck.
DoesnÂ’t help that poms seem real adverse to working weekends and they like their trucks sitting in daytime traffic jams instead of pro night work. I Got paid nearly 50% higher salary when working weekends over there.
Their driver licence test even for cars is tough and they hold trucks to high standard as well.
The two practical tests are 45-60mins long, if you fail itÂ’s three week wait to get retest prob even worse now.

Looking back through this in a few moments of mental down time. Can't help but wonder, did you actually notice the funny/whimsical bit?

[mashman]

COVID-19 pill developers aim to top Merck, Pfizer efforts...

[Viking01]

Who needs Netflix when you have real life drama being played out :

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/...nment-shutdown

[pritch]

We talked about this sort of thing previously but them as don't want to know...
https://www.mediaite.com/news/far-ri...olice-station/

Merck have announced an oral antiviral pill to fight Covid. It's not instead of the vaccine it's as well as...
Merck make Ivermectin. Coincidence? I think not.








Just joking.

[R650R]

1973 vintage fear porn.... think they got there graphs wrong... good ol computer modeling

[mashman]

Oh noes, too much stuff has broken the world. Capitalism works

Inside America's broken supply chain

Covid-19: USPS stops NZ mail service due to 'unavailability of transportation'

[pritch]

The Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp dramas are interesting. If it can be described as 'interesting' when the technical details are over my head. People who do understand are saying they haven't seen this before. The conspiracy theorists think Zuckerberg has organised this himself. They are assisted in formulating this theory by the presence of a whistleblower in the frame.

Below is one explanation for the uninitiated.

[mashman]

Evergrande: Company set to update market on 'major transaction'... that's a lot of debt for one small country, I mean company.

[pritch]

A '60 Minutes' segment on the Facebook whistleblower.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Lx5VmAdZSI

[TheDemonLord]

The Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp dramas are interesting. If it can be described as 'interesting' when the technical details are over my head. People who do understand are saying they haven't seen this before. The conspiracy theorists think Zuckerberg has organised this himself. They are assisted in formulating this theory by the presence of a whistleblower in the frame.

Below is one explanation for the uninitiated.

If that's what they are going with, sounds like BGP routing (that's the method by which you announce to the world which router are authoratative for a Block of IPs).

Dropping BGP routes is great fun.

Ask me how I know....

[R650R]

Dark Winter is coming.... I told you all so

Or maybe a bit of truth got past the fact checkers and went viral so they had to flick the off switch....

The Elite always do trial runs first to gauge reactions....

When Dark Winter comes they will take EVERYTHING. It will be blamed on left/right/white/black/Asian hackers and the only way to stop it again (like as if your worried about being robbed twice when you’ll never own anything again) will be to accept a digital passport.
The old internet will be deleted and you’ll need a govt approved digital key to surf the new web. So they can stop the hackers from stealing the nothing that is leftover it will record every singkecwebpage you visit.
If you try any work around, peer to peer or mini wifi networks you will be a digital terrorist targeted for a real world drone strike.

[pritch]

Dark Winter is coming.... I told you all so

Or maybe a bit of truth got past the fact checkers and went viral so they had to flick the off switch....

The Elite always do trial runs first to gauge reactions....

When Dark Winter comes they will take EVERYTHING. It will be blamed on left/right/white/black/Asian hackers and the only way to stop it again (like as if your worried about being robbed twice when you’ll never own anything again) will be to accept a digital passport.
The old internet will be deleted and you’ll need a govt approved digital key to surf the new web. So they can stop the hackers from stealing the nothing that is leftover it will record every singkecwebpage you visit.
If you try any work around, peer to peer or mini wifi networks you will be a digital terrorist targeted for a real world drone strike.

That's powerful stuff you're smoking there dude.

[husaberg]

That's powerful stuff you're smoking there dude.

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padded walls

[pritch]

Brexit is causing huge problems in the UK. Of course the Govt denies Brexit is the problem and points at Europe. Europe isn't having those problems though. Neither is Northern Ireland.

So they needed several thousand tanker drivers...

[TheDemonLord]

Brexit is causing huge problems in the UK. Of course the Govt denies Brexit is the problem and points at Europe. Europe isn't having those problems though. Neither is Northern Ireland.

So they needed several thousand tanker drivers...

Yep, so what will happen next - in order to attract more local labour, instead of importing cheap overseas labour - they will have to make being a Tanker driver a more attractive option. Either a Higher Wage or better working conditions.

Short term disruption, long term benefit.