Welcome, unwind and relex
Here you go, this is philospher’s stone:
This pine resin was used in ancient greece too. The magic was in the turpentine.
… Thanks Plato for all the hints. I know what you used for your wine stop on your drink too. 🙂 Also, Cleopatra, who was thought to use poison and be from Greece, had this on a piece of her jewellery.
Christmas is hearts and minds.
So many people have been involved in building new houses in Devon. But, as we can’t afford to buy the houses we build this happens:
Investors buy houses, some for holidays and some for renting to higher earners. They get rented and the money floods to elsewhere. This forces the prices up. People that need council housing in full or part-time work on the minimum wage and above cannot get housing.
Other people, say from London, desperate to move as houses are cheaper come here and find there are little to no jobs for them. Plus the locals get upset because they are in the fight for jobs.
My father is cornish but other people don’t like me as they see me as a Londoner not cornish even though I have never lived in London. Also, I couldn’t anyway because it is too expensive. This is Devon but there are cornish here too because they come up from Cornwall to find work. Cornwall is much poorer.
The housing investors (companies and private investors in multiple house purchasing) are forcing the prices up when others cannot afford to buy housing in general.
Other Notes
A lot of people I spoke to on-site had other aspirations in life but just about everyone I observed are hardworking people. Not everyone is on a bad wage in the building trade but competition for work is a difficult thing. Also, so long as the work holds out.
There is the season issue and continuous weeks of rain that causes some delays. This is especially the case for bricklayers. So they charge quite a lot but have to cover for the heavier rain and low temperatures (< 3 deg C) when bricks cannot be laid.
7th Nov 2021 – Revised wording to clearify.
Replacing vehicles with electric ones means using more uranium for nuclear power stations to generate at least some of the terawatts the UK needs. Unfortunately, the world is running out of oil-based fuels like diesel in the next 50 years or so. Diesel is used by uranium mining vehicles. Oops.
I can see how being a world leader is not fun at all.
So the principle here is if you are suspected of anything by police for any reason you will be assumed a terrorist. See code below:
public double ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR = GetRandom();
public double SUSPICION_FACTOR = GetRandom();
public double POLICE_DO_NOT_LIKE_YOU_FACTOR = GetRandom();
public static double GetRandom() => (new Random()).NextDouble();
private void LifeRun()
{
Citizen citizen = new Citizen();
// Loop ends when police decide they don't like citizen, not before pain
do
{
citizen.HasLife = true;
if (citizen.IsHardWorker)
citizen.IsSuspectedForeignNational = true;
// Assumed Anyone
if (citizen.IsSuspectedForeignNational
|| GetRandom() > ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR
|| GetRandom() > SUSPICION_FACTOR
|| GetRandom() > POLICE_DO_NOT_LIKE_YOU_FACTOR)
Suspect(citizen);
} while (Police.ILike(citizen));
// Loops forever
do
{
Police.IsLikeForCitizen = false;
// Note: not OR for rights
citizen.HasLife = Police.IsLikeForCitizen && citizen.HasRights;
if (!citizen.HasLife)
citizen.Die();
} while (true);
}
private void Suspect(Citizen citizen)
{
citizen.HasRights = true;
// If citizen is happy, successful and foreign (i.e. hardworking) OR police just don't like them
if ((citizen.IsHappy && citizen.IsSuccessful && citizen.IsSuspectedForeignNational)
|| Police.IDoNotLike(citizen))
{
citizen.HasRights = false;
ITerrorist terrorist = Police.Investigate(citizen);
Police.Hunt(terrorist);
Police.Torture(terrorist);
if (Police.IsNotTerrorist(terrorist) || ((new Random()).NextDouble() > ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR))
{
// The varies between Western Countries
if (GetRandom() > ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR)
{
ICitizen restrictedCitizen = Police.CutLoose(terrorist);
if (restrictedCitizen.MakeComplaint<Police>(new Police())
&& citizen.HasRights == false
&& citizen.IsIgnored)
{
restrictedCitizen.MakeComplaint<Police>(new Police());
// Assume terrorist
if (GetRandom() > ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR)
{
if (Police.CoverUpAgainst(restrictedCitizen))
{
restrictedCitizen.Knows(new Terrorist<Police>());
}
}
else
Police.Kill(restrictedCitizen);
}
}
else
{
Police.Kill(terrorist);
}
}
else
{
if ((new Random()).NextDouble() > ALLOWABLE_ERROR_FACTOR)
Police.ImprisonOrConvict(terrorist);
else
Police.Kill(terrorist);
}
}
}In the UK according to the office of national statistics, the average rate of pay is £541 (gross /wk).
Based on a 47.5 hr week this is £11.39 /h.
My wage for software including international travel were travelling costs are not included in wage but paid for by the company in 2015 basing on the same hours for compression: £15.38 /h amounting to £730.76 (gross /wk) – note you do pay lots of tax on this.
Can be demanding on the mind and can require extra hours to get things done at no extra pay being a salary based job. Very rewarding if into computing. A really nice job IMHO. It’s a good sign when you look forward to Monday’s. That extra amount allows you to survive.
I should point out that I did not always have that salary. I worked my way up though hardwork on lesser wages from minimum wage back in 1998. Then found myself back on minimum wage difference is that the living costs are far far greater now than then.
Wage in 2019/2020 based on a full week 47.5 hrs (not always a full week so less money often): £8.21 /h amounting to £390 (gross /wk, or £318 net with other random deductions towards insurance) with a £352 /wk average for tax year ending 2020. Which is the minimum wage for that year. Bearing in mind there was not always work as seasons also affected demand.
Out of this you have to buy your own PPE. Also, this job is indoor and outdoor in all weather. Very physically demanding. In some cases, good teamwork can be very uplifting. This job was much more demanding than the software job, physically, mentally and spiritually. (It’s more difficult mentally because I had to try to lie to myself to make myself go in each morning.)
On the plus side, if the managers treated you really really badly you could just walk away, bye bye… Other times you do holiday cover, or extra help, so you are only there for a short time from the outset. Sometimes I would get repeat work at the same places.
A average 1 bedroom flat is aprox. £695 in Devon
Average wage based on £285 net (i.e. after tax) (Based on (318/390) x 352) i.e. net amount allowing for average over year including holiday pay.)
Average per month is ((285×52) / 12) = £1235 /m
Wage net minus accommodation (1235 – 695) = £540
£540 minus all critical bills:
100+50+70+30+20 = £220 /m critical bills
540 – 220 = £320 /m total after accom. and critical bills
Car (to get to difficult places, limited public transport, if any – plus any tools) > no car = dead
24+83+20+173 = £300 /m + insurance
320 – 300 = £20 amount remaining
On top of this, you would have a weekly amount depending on many factors, this is based on ‘Child Maintenance’ alone. £28-£40 / wk (Depends on how many children and how many different mums. Linked to wages.)
Avg 34 /wk ((34*52)/12) = £147 / m (or direct from wages after tax)
In Devon and probably in England in general, you can’t survive on a minimum wage by yourself because accommodation costs too much. You have to have a car to get to work as some places are unreachable without one. In addition to this sometimes people sabotage your vehicle as well – rare but does happen.
We will likely run out of oil by year 2070.
The plan is to use electric vehicles including HGVs. Obviously cars will have to reduce because we cannot make enough power.
Nuclear power is likely to stop due to lack of nuclear materials by year 2100.
There will not be enough energy to power our HGVs.
Without HGVs, we cannot distribute food to the cities or supply the farms with vital fertilizers. We cannot use the factories we used to.
To make electricity we always have to take something out of the environment and we are taking too much.
We will have a technology blackout. Most knowledge is stored on the internet.
There will be a world-wide apocalypse.
Sometimes the way back is the way forward.
Some organisations are saying we may have more uranium available from other areas, for example, the deep sea.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-global-uranium-deposits-last/
The above article is older information and I am still looking over the issues. They suggest a very long period of nuclear power capability.
This may buy us time to respond.
There is still a problem with tritiated water and the breakdown to heavy water. Heavy water is not being broken down to normal water. Heavy water stops mitoses and therefore means humans and animals alike will have survival problems as this gets into the drinking water supply over a long time period.
Nuclear power is a stop-gap while looking for cleaner ways to make electricity.
Computing could be simplified to use extremely low power, much like e-paper devices and monochrome solutions, as colour is a nicety that we made for our pleasure, not as a need. Maybe a tricolour e-paper on a small micro-powered system with very basic functions with the most minimal power consumption to maintain photos and training materials. But why not dithered monochrome for common functions. Maybe we should look to the needs, not the wants.
There may be a need to reduce data on the systems where such data is not really needed. As such would reduce power consumption and the physical resources to maintain it. I have looked at the outlay of my own systems and at present it is minimal.
The difference between old and new technology is we can provide what we had back then with less power.
There is a huge overhead of electricity in manufacturing. This is a difficult thing to overcome as there is much need for a number of products. I.e. Food production. But with a smaller population, there is less volume required.
Does fashion drive wants or needs? “Keeping up with the Joneses.”
Art and culture are important as they can inspire and create ideas. But not all ideas aspire to needs.
I am into technology however, there will come a time when knowledge of how these things work gets lost. Then our technology will break down and then we will be lost.
Keep technology simple and thus usable for the future.
I have worked in technology and science but these do not replace God or Allah and we should not forget the ten commandments brought down by Moses and the teaching of peace and respect from Jesus. Nor dismiss the ideas from Mohammed, which I know little about because I try to follow Christianity.
If we loss our core values we loss ourselves.
I should note that some areas of the world have different views from our main three that are: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This makes other religions as important as our own. This gives us identity but also predictability making it easier to work together in times of need. However, Satanism is following the anti-christ which puts it in direct conflict as an activist group against Christians and Islam, as Jesus is one of the prophets of Islam too.
During our time of need, for spiritual guidance and a place to go to feel safe. All churches in the UK were closed.
Obviously, you can pray to God or Allah where ever you are. However, in Christianity, our churches should not close in a time of need for moral support. This is an act of Satanism that is rife in our communities. Satanism is everything Christianity is not and is against the teachings of Moses, Jesus and Mohammed.
One of the things that form part of the law and our society is the reliability of information and its source.
Who did it come from?
How likely is it to be correct?
How trustworthy is the source?
What if all those things are strong indicators that the source is reliable? But what if the source is from a person that means the other halm. What then?
YOU SUFFER.
Rumours and misinformation is a dangerous weapon used by ill-wishing people and can cause severe damage to companies and to people alike.
Why people don’t question the reliability of information sources is unclear. Individual police are very bad sources of information as they have limited knowledge of areas including law and can be biased. Ex-partners that have personality disorders are also very dangerous, as sometimes they think one thing when the truth is something else.
Like beauty, truth is in the eye of the beholder.
