Maybe. My great grandparents escaped from Poland and Russia in the first decade of the twentieth century. I don't know what you'd call it as a geographic area.

I remember, with a small child's view, the seventies. It was really shite. Weak leaders, unions asking the physically impossible, wild inflation (25+% vs a kinda normal 5-7%), strikes and poverty. 'managed decline' was the way it was described in the civil service: the airplane is fucked but we're going for a soft landing. 2020 here is like the seventies writ small. The UK had no choice but to join the EU.

The UK contributes less than 2% to greenhouse gases but our idiots are pushing climate change costs onto us - or maybe it's labelled climate change but the taxes is just trying to keep us the country afloat. What we learned from Mrs T was that 70s style tax burdens don't work. The halving of the tax rates doubled the revenue and suddenly punk became synth and new romantics.

I think the real change was the second wave emancipation of women. House prices went wild because there were now two serious incomes per household to multiply by 4 or 5. People were buying houses on self- certification of income, never making a mortgage payment, and still selling the house at a huge profit. The thing exploded, like in the US, as you'd expect. The government didn't raise interest rates to combat the excess money now in the system and pop-goes-the- weasel.

Selling off the infrastructure was a dream to build wealth for small shareholders, mirroring the US - I have a SEC Series 7 Traders qualification for work - but the Brits are sadly a more disconnected lot. Every budget raids our pensions funds because we don't care about them until the day before we retire. I'm guessing small shareholders are a small minority now.

After the nineties We've had a succession of weak leaders, each tacitly claiming to be the new Mrs T. Boris filled his mates pockets with the cash meant for COVID and locked down the working man.

Now we've got a naive ex-chief prosecutor 'authoritarian' in who is as weak as fuck pandering to every liberal cause you can shake a stick at. Violent prisoners being released, people jailed for sending a tweet; serious honours given out for the mayor of London who has failed by any metric you care to name, but someone has elected him three times in a row. Mind you, the opposition candidate was particularly hopeless this time.

It's all very reminiscent of Neil Kinnock failing miserably to walk unaided on a beach, having being surprised by the presence of water, staging a election victory before the day and losing the general election as a result to a complete twat.

Meanwhile, if climate change was actually important to you all, you'd tackle the major polluters of this world. China also owns Africa for the minerals and large quantities of the US, India lives in abject poverty as the largest population in the world. Not a damn thing was said.

This.

(UK) Government.

It could not be any worse than the most-obvious self-serving pocket-liners of this century.

If you're using Obsidian for free then maybe try the built-in link which you'll find in the built-in options I think. It's a cost option but cheap. I think it eliminates the problems I'm having (below). I'm stubborn.

I'm not having problem with Syncthing, bar dealing with the stupid attempts to deal with deleted files that Android leaves laying around. I have .stignore files with .trashed-* and .trash/ entries on the Linux machine. Still having problems with _ed directories though and Syncthing conflict files when the sync isn't fast enough when I switch between the two.

Sometimes it takes Syncthing a while to work out the best route between the two nodes. Sometimes days. It used to send my packets to the internet before letting them back into the local network. Eventually it found a more direct route between them. I'm not sure but I think it has something to do with local IPv6; I'm talking out of my ass though.

I'm not affiliated to Syncthing or Obsidian besides being a happy user.

I have decent battery life on my Pixel 7 Pro. I have the respect battery save setting on so syncing stops at 20% or so I think.

For navigation, I chose Waze.

There seem to a new wave of navigation apps heading towards us that talk P2P rather than a central server.

My mom was like that. 🤣😂

The publicly available children maintenance service data (UK) suggests that one in three people are calling the wrong person dad (about a third of challenged women claiming child maintenance from a random dude will be shown to be wrong by DNA).

Mum will try to deny it. Then DNA became a thing for pennies. Join an genealogy fb group and support the broken kids looking for their now-dead fathers.

Cries in Gen X.

Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times. -- G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain (The New World )

You mean dead pool like? Eeek.

1. Retail banks.

Because money laundering regulations in the UK (and I believe in the US and Europe) at least have made free use of one's cash pretty difficult:

Designated accounts to transfer cash so that you have at least twice as many transactions to do as necessary. Inability to remove modest amounts of cash from your own account, or even pay it in.

2. Corporate banks operating HFT and dark pools to significantly push up the cost of personal share dealing.

3. Water companies dumping sewage into rivers and failing to fix leaks whilst raising water processing charges and bonuses to the board.

4. BBC and their sponsor-a-paedo TV tax collected by harassing elderly people, guilty until proved innocent. Used to be wonderful, educational and funny. Now useless woke shit.

5. Politics. Come back Guido, all is forgiven. Thieving Boris Johnson handing out multi million pound contracts to supply PPE to his local pub landlord (who have no fucking clue about that sector) and his bunch of duplicitous cronies.

I might have got carried away towards the end. Sorry, not sorry.

😁😂🤣