Also, yep, it looks like I will have to purchase more AI credits, that I am gonna be just a few short. Probably just 4, for now. EUR 9.99 gets me 1000 credits. That’s a lot of videos.
It would be nice if those locals who claim to be entertaining theories along the lines of that I am actually a Martian who is wearing a highly sophisticated suit that makes me look like an earthling but am secretly plotting a coup to overtake Earth – and what not – would keep their nonsense to themselves and go feed ducks in a park instead.
I’m a little concerned about the mental health of some of the people who have been sending me emails recently.
Then again, I can’t be sure that those emails are 100% genuine.
Years ago, I tried to send spoofed mail via my own mailserver at my business address, via my smarterscience.com domain (which I let go of about a decade ago). I wanted to know how easy it was for someone else to do that. And you know what? It was a piece of cake. Yikes.
It’s no longer as easy as it was back then, I am sure, but it’s still pretty easy. It’s gotten a lot better because big companies are now regularly conned out of millions and hundreds of thousands on the basis of hijacked email communications.
Big day today. Labour is not much better than the Conservatives, but a little better is better than no improvement at all. The main question is going to be how many votes Farage will keep from going to Labour in order to try to leave the Conservatives with a majority. (He only pops up at election or referendum time.)
The Dutch news stated that the British are desperate for a stable government at the moment. Yes, and no. In Britain, people generally survive despite the government, not because of it.
(No, the Netherlands certainly is no longer my home country.) (Let’s leave it at that.)
Also, did I really accidentally stumble upon a major fraud scheme? If I assume the sum of EUR 2000 for everyone who it concerns, and assume that it applies to 10% (but it’s already at least 20% in my situation), then that would add up to around EUR 8 million per year. Did I really just uncover a fraud scheme? Can’t believe that. But if not, then what? It’s just baffling.
Also, it looks like I am about to expand on the new business that I started setting up a while back. It’s simmering. Yes, I spent about EUR 300, among other things on setting up a website. It concerns something that I would rather see not pan out than regret not at least having tried. S
See, I just realized that I may have an actual operational umbrella going on all of a sudden. That is a lovely feeling! Is it all coming together now? A collection of ideas that I have had for years that suddenly turn out to fit under one umbrella in combination with this new thing? Hmm. I will put that on paper later today or tomorrow, to see if it’s real or a mere feeling or fantasy.
I had a startup budget and operational budget for one of the components, and reached out to two parties within that context, for training and cooperation purposes. But that’s a component that I would like to outsource and supervise rather than carry out myself. And suddenly, this all feels so very differently. Fascinating. It also all ties in perfectly to diversity and inclusion angles.
Something is happening, for sure.
I feel my chest expand and something warm and reassuring fluttering gently in my chest.
(No, it’s not my heart. It may be the absence of rising stomach acid, which I have been suffering from increasingly since I moved to Portsmouth at the start of 2009. It’s been subsiding after I left, but it’s not fully gone yet and I am certainly not out of the woods yet in many respects.)
(I’d been climbing the walls with far too little to do for so long!!!)
- Many people mistakenly believe that in order to be successful, you need to generate huge amounts of money for it to count. No. You just need to do something that you enjoy doing, that enables you to support you and that adds value to other people’s lives. That’s enough. You don’t need to be rich. That idea is just a recipe for misery.
- Also, whatever you do… avoid small-minded civil servants of the pen-pushing kind. They can throw so many obstructions in your path to spite you and waste a lot of your time.
I remember my boss in Florida telling me that there was a particular guy there, in the admin building, who would leave things sitting in his drawer or on his desk just so that he got a feeling of power out of it. I don’t even remember what that guy was supposed to do, sign off on paperwork on behalf of the university, something like that – but he was the cause of many delays.
