You know, there is this harking back to “when times were better…” that is a constant niggle. It’s usually extremely myopic since those rose-tinted monocles rarely include the complexities of life during said period. And is almost always due to frustration with life nowadays: life for the most part wasn’t better in the past for…
Honestly, some of my friends are probably better off not hearing from me. I don’t intend to drop my friends, but some think it’s better not to send meaningful messages, some think it’s better to send vids or snarky comments or whatever crosses their mind. Some just don’t bother to send anything. All of which…
Last night, after a week’s rest… I finally got out and did some exercise again. It’s not a huge amount… but it’s a start. Just a typical exercise trip. Just 4km in about 18 minutes. Not too bad on a Youbike. I then walked back home from Guandu Park which is about 3.2km. Overall workout…
@kennypaul, yes, I did put them in!
Yes. I saw a bike accident yesterday. Chap on sports bike ploughs straight into a Youbiker. The chap was on the wrong side of the road. Then later on a little kid on a bike with stabilisers veers right across my path and nearly collides with me without stopping. The parent was completely useless in…
The results are in now. 33% of the vote produced a majority of about 85+/-, I reckon. 326 is the majority. LibDems (yes, the ones who allowed the Tories into power in 2010… only to get kicked in teeth by them and then by their supporters in 2015) are now ~71. SNP got clobbered, serves…
AISIELTS.com does its job very well, I think. It is certainly way ahead of what most sites typically do in Taiwan. The horrors I have seen even on high traffic sites are shocking: the people who create them seem to have no idea what users like or do. Govt. sites that break links and don’t…
7 Manipulation Tactics to Know (psychcentral.com) Stage 1 – Make promises they can’t, won’t or don’t want to fulfil! In religion, “We want to help you! We want to save you!” “You need saving!” “Believe in X, and X shall set you free!” Stage 2 – Cut you off from people in your life! “Your…
So you’ll see this spurious ad. Then you realize that it’s a bad actor in the FB system targeting Taiwan users. So you report it as a scam. You report it to FB as a scam. FB typically responds like that, despite all the warning signs. Did a human actually read the site? I doubt….