Gordon
@dracup.com
Occasional IT bloke, occasional caravaner, occasional live music attender, occasional exerciser, occasional negroni drinker.
To be honest, being smarter than Trump is a pretty low bar
May 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
To be honest, being smarter than Trump is a pretty low bar
It's a bit like streaming services. People will subscribe to one or two, but who can afford all of them. I realise decent journalism isn't free and can't survive on ad revenue alone, but there should be a another way. Maybe making free a week after first published or something.
May 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's a bit like streaming services. People will subscribe to one or two, but who can afford all of them. I realise decent journalism isn't free and can't survive on ad revenue alone, but there should be a another way. Maybe making free a week after first published or something.
Great album. Well worth checking out live if you can.
May 6, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Great album. Well worth checking out live if you can.
It's been a pattern since the industrial revolution in Britain when major manufacturing collapsed due to cheaper labour abroad. It will continue as developing nations improve skills and explains China's long term interest in Africa as the logical place for it to outsource.
May 5, 2025 at 11:50 PM
It's been a pattern since the industrial revolution in Britain when major manufacturing collapsed due to cheaper labour abroad. It will continue as developing nations improve skills and explains China's long term interest in Africa as the logical place for it to outsource.
Major failure. They should have stopped counting by now.
May 3, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Major failure. They should have stopped counting by now.
Whilst he probably has the reading ability of a kindergartener, I suspect this is a vanity thing and doesn't want to put on glasses and he's maxed out the font on the printer. 😀
April 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Whilst he probably has the reading ability of a kindergartener, I suspect this is a vanity thing and doesn't want to put on glasses and he's maxed out the font on the printer. 😀
Same reasoning as his takeover of Twitter. He thought be could expand the user base to include MAGA/Right Wing and not alienate the existing base. Same goes for the election ... hold Republican/Democrat core and target the fringes to get a majority. Seems to be a bit of a theme.
April 23, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Same reasoning as his takeover of Twitter. He thought be could expand the user base to include MAGA/Right Wing and not alienate the existing base. Same goes for the election ... hold Republican/Democrat core and target the fringes to get a majority. Seems to be a bit of a theme.
When the bar set for the role is "High functioning alcoholic", and you can't even manage that.
April 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
When the bar set for the role is "High functioning alcoholic", and you can't even manage that.
Ability to recognise yourself as the cause of the issue is narcissism in a nutshell.
April 23, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Ability to recognise yourself as the cause of the issue is narcissism in a nutshell.
... and just a matter of time before turning up with a burner phone will give US border security probable cause to detain you anyway.
April 23, 2025 at 12:14 AM
... and just a matter of time before turning up with a burner phone will give US border security probable cause to detain you anyway.
Straight to DVD I'm thinking
April 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Straight to DVD I'm thinking
Head to Scotland. Plenty of direct flights now. Can promise you a Scottish summer slightly warmer than your winter. The people are nice though.
April 22, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Head to Scotland. Plenty of direct flights now. Can promise you a Scottish summer slightly warmer than your winter. The people are nice though.
"Worst April since 1932 so far" Have a few more of them to go. 😀
April 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
"Worst April since 1932 so far" Have a few more of them to go. 😀
Pretty sure the Dude would approve. Except for the whole going to work thing.
April 18, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Pretty sure the Dude would approve. Except for the whole going to work thing.
This is a great breakdown of the impacts. Sure, Trump wants a shift in manufacturing back to the US, but the decades it will take to build up the small component/material capability within the US will have decimated the economy, and in the meantime, the rest of the world is happy carrying on.
April 5, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This is a great breakdown of the impacts. Sure, Trump wants a shift in manufacturing back to the US, but the decades it will take to build up the small component/material capability within the US will have decimated the economy, and in the meantime, the rest of the world is happy carrying on.
Think you may be flattering the sophistication. Send 5m email, get gets say 40% responses checked for obvious profanity/abuse, link all to the IRS earnings and you have a naughty/nice list sorted by salary for the chopping block. Only way is mass non-response or mass BS response to gum up the works.
February 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Think you may be flattering the sophistication. Send 5m email, get gets say 40% responses checked for obvious profanity/abuse, link all to the IRS earnings and you have a naughty/nice list sorted by salary for the chopping block. Only way is mass non-response or mass BS response to gum up the works.
Here's a better idea. Once the Russians have left Ukraine and Ukraine joins the EU, let the US negotiate a trade agreement with the EU and major powers go back to respecting sovereign borders.
February 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Here's a better idea. Once the Russians have left Ukraine and Ukraine joins the EU, let the US negotiate a trade agreement with the EU and major powers go back to respecting sovereign borders.
The current system is being systematically dismantled. In 4 years it will be irrelevant as there won't be a functioning representative democracy and legislature. Is anyone paying attention?
February 16, 2025 at 4:02 AM
The current system is being systematically dismantled. In 4 years it will be irrelevant as there won't be a functioning representative democracy and legislature. Is anyone paying attention?
By maintaining the line that the 2020 election was rigged, MAGA effectively created the scenario that disputing an election outcome was just normal noise and can be ignored. It's the "The 2024 elections was rigged .... so what, so was the 2020 one". The typical "yes, but what about...." argument.
February 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
By maintaining the line that the 2020 election was rigged, MAGA effectively created the scenario that disputing an election outcome was just normal noise and can be ignored. It's the "The 2024 elections was rigged .... so what, so was the 2020 one". The typical "yes, but what about...." argument.
I give it a month before Trump stops fronting up to the media and all we get is monologue from this minion.
January 30, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I give it a month before Trump stops fronting up to the media and all we get is monologue from this minion.
Selling it to Oracle would only be marginally slower than closing it down immediately.
January 26, 2025 at 5:45 AM
Selling it to Oracle would only be marginally slower than closing it down immediately.
I remember a bit of a fretless base thing going on about then too. Ah, happy days :-)
January 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I remember a bit of a fretless base thing going on about then too. Ah, happy days :-)