* Saw a tweet indicating the thickness of Arctic ice at the moment is pointing to a very low figure for ice extent by September. Really looks like it may break the 2012 record - which in a way is not a bad thing, in terms of focussing the public's attention on global warming:
* Remember I posted recently how I had started watching some off beat travel vlogs on Youtube by middle aged English guy "Bald and Bankrupt"? On the weekend, he posted a short video explaining that he had, foolishly by his own admission, travelled to Serbia after the start of COVID 19 and caught it there. Became very ill, was hospitalised, got to watch other patients dying around him, still feels very weak, and remarked how it seems to have even affected the, um, normal operation of his penis (!). The guy is, I think, 45, so it's a cautionary tale of how ill it can make even the relatively young. Oh - I see it seems he took down the video? Or is it back up? Dunno what's going on. Also, it seems he has been popular for a long time - he seems very well known on Reddit.
* If you want one, sort of, good thing that has come out of COVID-19: if you had shares in the Malaysian company Top Glove, the biggest medical glove manufacturer in the world, you would be doing very well:
I'm sort of happy to see a Malaysian company doing well - at the political level, on the other hand, they're still jerks:
Six journalists including five Australians are being interrogated by Malaysian authorities who have accused them of sedition and defamation after the broadcast of a documentary about migrant workers in Kuala Lumpur during Covid-19.
No thats just wonderful. Of course Trump had to commute the sentence. Not everything the President does is wrong and this time he was working in the service of justice. Stone was being subjected to a witch-hunt. Stone wants to appeal the Kangaroo court decision. He may be out of loot and so he may just forget about it. But when these lunatics start weaponising the legal system for their own horrific ends, then its important that the Chief Magistrate of the land steps in and mitigates the damage. The American system is different than ours. The President is not just head of state. He also is said to be Chief Magistrate. So its not corrupt like if Sco Mo steps in to get a drug king-pin off the hook. Its all normal and according to Hoyles.
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I thought it was changing but not so
Homer it would've changed but as you may be aware Malaysia has reverted back to it's kleotocracy because of a misstep by Mahathir.
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