Good grief - if the gov based their track and trace on Google location software then I'm not surprised it's still not working. Just got my 'annual review' of where I've been in 2020. Good job my wife isn't alive still, or else she'd be more than a bit concerned that I've spent so much time a few houses down the road and started driving to a supermarket that I've never visited in my life. Scary stuff, as presumably this 'data' is seen as being reliable.
Is it? Don't we (and the US) institute hearings all the time? It just needs to be seen to be public, indisputable - even to gun toting morons (and that's not a jibe at the US police).
All elections have balls ups, miscounts, spoiled ballots, lost ballots.... Things happen as people aren't perfect - but the election in this case has to be seen as 'clean' as without that happening, for ever more there will be disputes over the veracity of American elections. That can't be allowed. You can't have in 'n' years time ...'... I lost like Trump, because of fraud...'.
I watched the situation unfurl last night wrestling with a range of sentiments: anger, fear, contempt, confusion. Above all I wanted analysts to tell me which way this was going and how it would end.
The way I see it is there is a sizeable caucus of well armed, poorly educated, disillusioned and angry people that saw in Trump a person who could fight their cause. Trump and the caucus fed off one another giving each other legitimacy and, through Fox News, they had a mainstream news outlet. Bubbling under the surface is the myriad of bonkers conspiracy theories that poisoned the minds of the gullible.
Trump will be gone in two weeks. The question is whether his standard bearers in the Republican Party will want to chase the voting power of the largely white, poorly educated, aggrieved underdogs. Some will surely be tempted, and Trump plus Donald Jnr will be an ugly background presence licking their wounds.
At this point a tremendous weight of responsibility lies on Biden and Harris. If they can share the wealth of the country more fairly then I believe the edge will be taken off the rage of the underdog. Come the 2024 presidential election I do not think Trump, Trump junior, or a Trump acolyte will be wanted anymore by those on the right. The past four years will then become an extraordinary footnote in history, spoken of as a time when America became diminished and its democracy tarnished.
When I was growing up I had such respect for the USA. It seemed such an exciting place full of light and vibrancy, powerful and innovative. Since then my respect has dwindled by the day. Until the country can learn that socialism is not a force of evil but a way of bringing fairness to all their citizens then I fear the country will not emerge from under a constraining carapace that tells it free enterprise serves its interests best.
I flicked back to see the end of the football, and just caught it on the BBC news. Scary stuff - especially the lack of response and security. I bet there are a few people over here reviewing security procedures around Parliament as we speak.
Trump may be gone (be interesting to see what happens if he refuses to go) in two weeks, but the US can't have his legacy of alleged corrupt ballots. That will become the call to arms - the clarion call - at the next election. That has to quashed now. Proven, without doubt, publicly, that the election was legit - both sides of the house have to accept that without reservation or equivocation.
Hearings are presided over by the judiciary ... the judiciary (including Trump appointees) has already said that there is no evidence of substantial electoral fraud.Ā Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
My sonās now been told to stay at home, Ā Before that 2 people where he works has tested positive so he goes on the net to book a test, Ā āNo test centres in your areaā. Itās 5 minutes walk from his house to the test centre at the rugby club, Ā what a shambles!Ā I darenāt start on just how curmudgeonly I feel today.š¤¬š¤¬š¢š±
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Ā
What the hell? Denmark have made a childrens series about a very unusual man whose appendage is out of control!!Ā Is this for real??Ā Let kids be kids for goodness sake!Ā
Iām not advocating for the programme ... ive not seen it, only read about it ... but I would mention that even kids have āappendagesā ... or around half of them do š and teaching them from a young age that keeping their ā appendageā within their clothes and not let it appear out in public or āmisbehaveā has always been part of responsible parenting. Ā
Whether this programme will be an effective aid in going that remains to be seen.Ā
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Good grief - if the gov based their track and trace on Google location software then I'm not surprised it's still not working. Just got my 'annual review' of where I've been in 2020. Good job my wife isn't alive still, or else she'd be more than a bit concerned that I've spent so much time a few houses down the road and started driving to a supermarket that I've never visited in my life. Scary stuff, as presumably this 'data' is seen as being reliable.
I have all that turned off in my Google account under "My ACTIVITY". I also use a VPN so my IP appears to be on a random basis in Manchester, London, Estonia, Denmark and any other European country. Confuses the hell out of those trying to track your habits.
It seems they cant pinpoint the exact location with a VPN. Netflix told me someone had logged into my computer in Bristol. I tested this and found my IP was located in Manchester at the time I logged in and got an email from Netflix telling me I was in Bristol. The IP range for Manchester is different from that assigned to Bristol so don't know how they come to think I'm there.
Give them nothing, my privacy is sacrosanct . I once had a call asking me if I would take part in a survey. When I asked how much they were paying the line went deadĀ
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The way I see it is there is a sizeable caucus of well armed, poorly educated, disillusioned and angry people that saw in Trump a person who could fight their cause. Trump and the caucus fed off one another giving each other legitimacy and, through Fox News, they had a mainstream news outlet. Bubbling under the surface is the myriad of bonkers conspiracy theories that poisoned the minds of the gullible.
Trump will be gone in two weeks. The question is whether his standard bearers in the Republican Party will want to chase the voting power of the largely white, poorly educated, aggrieved underdogs. Some will surely be tempted, and Trump plus Donald Jnr will be an ugly background presence licking their wounds.
At this point a tremendous weight of responsibility lies on Biden and Harris. If they can share the wealth of the country more fairly then I believe the edge will be taken off the rage of the underdog. Come the 2024 presidential election I do not think Trump, Trump junior, or a Trump acolyte will be wanted anymore by those on the right. The past four years will then become an extraordinary footnote in history, spoken of as a time when America became diminished and its democracy tarnished.
When I was growing up I had such respect for the USA. It seemed such an exciting place full of light and vibrancy, powerful and innovative. Since then my respect has dwindled by the day. Until the country can learn that socialism is not a force of evil but a way of bringing fairness to all their citizens then I fear the country will not emerge from under a constraining carapace that tells it free enterprise serves its interests best.
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I darenāt start on just how curmudgeonly I feel today.š¤¬š¤¬š¢š±
Whether this programme will be an effective aid in going that remains to be seen.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It seems they cant pinpoint the exact location with a VPN. Netflix told me someone had logged into my computer in Bristol. I tested this and found my IP was located in Manchester at the time I logged in and got an email from Netflix telling me I was in Bristol. The IP range for Manchester is different from that assigned to Bristol so don't know how they come to think I'm there.
Give them nothing, my privacy is sacrosanct . I once had a call asking me if I would take part in a survey. When I asked how much they were paying the line went deadĀ
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'