We need more folks like him
Watch this eco-engineer use his hands
Trailblazer from the States making waves for women in England
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/feb/03/emily-hunt-rape-survivor-helps-change-law-voyeurism
How these things go (when people are pestering you)
Around the holidays, there was a lot of interference again, apparently as punishment for a web page in which among other things I talk about stuff that has happened to me here in Portsmouth. (Weeks-long punishment also happened around Easter for writing about stuff done from the the day I picked up the keys to my first flat here. I’m supposed to keep my mouth shut, quietly sit in a corner of a back room and knit hats.)
This time, among other things, two of my SIM cards were suddenly asking for a PUK code, including my Dutch SIM card. I later found that I couldn’t access my account online for that card either, when I thought of asking for a replacement.
Some time later, both cards were working fine again and no longer asking for a PUK code.
So, I have some money – 20 euros – in my Dutch bank account right now so I could ask and pay for a replacement card.
First of all, is it necessary? I don’t know. I did transfer one of my English numbers – the one that I use for 2fa – to a new SIM card last year. Because it is something that I can DO.
Second, would they be willing to send the card to the UK?
Third, if so, would it arrive?
Fourth, if so, might it then already have been tampered with? Because of what’s going on here?
Fifth, would it really make a difference? As it would likely still remain just as easy to interfere with it.
This morning, one of my phones said “Angelina stalking ja” in my typing suggestions.
“Angelina stalking yes”
That phone also keeps telling me that Google feels that there is unusual traffic coming from my phone and then asks me to do one of those visual verification exercises with bridges or fire hydrants. (This has happened before in the past few years.)
It also now keeps insisting on downloading the NOS app when I go to the NOS news site, which it didn’t do before, just like LinkedIn currently insists on logging me in and out automatically, via Google, on my computer, which it didn’t used to do before. LinkedIn also insisted on changing the interface language to Dutch, which it also did not used to do before. These three things may merely be quirks, however.
I didn’t try to order the replacement SIM. Every time I do one of these things, either several more problems crop up or the thing that I was trying to solve still has not been solved or gets done again.
(Such as me adding and upgrading locks. No, folks, candy bars don’t walk into my flat all by themselves, CoQ10 bottles don’t empty themselves all by themselves and monitors sitting somewhere safely don’t move themselves around and rearrange themselves while I am out, just to name a few things.)
I didn’t top up my phone balance on that card either. (It’s zero.) Why bother?
But two of my English banks often won’t let me make a payment without demanding verification in their app. Their ways of verification are rather haphazard, which is of course a good thing. But I often can’t access the apps and I currently don’t have a single phone that isn’t compromised. If I allow that situation to continue, I am asking for problems, am I not?
So I have looked at Apple products, but they tend to be far too pricey for me and when they’re not, because used, they tend to be so old that they are no longer supported.
Should I try to get a fixed landline again, then?
But my landline got fucked with too in the past. It told me that I was at death’s door and that my mailbox was full.
I’d better learn to go sit on the patio and yodel or use smoke signals if I want to communicate with anyone, including my banks.
Continue readingHow otherization and contempt can work out in practice
IT trouble, big time
Two, no, three phones that stopped going online and next, two SIM cards, one of which Dutch, that asked for PUK codes but that were working again a few days later.
That was recently. Over the holidays.
That, apparently, was punishment for my web page about things that were done to me in Portsmouth because I always get punished for when I talk about things being done to me in Portsmouth and because when I went to the public library to use the computers there, someone kept opening that page on the computer that I was on. It wasn’t me who was accessing that page at the time.
I found mysterious rubbish files on one or two of the phones. Have had mysterious rubbish files, before, on my computer’s fixed HDD, the older one. Of naked women’s thighs. I figured they were mine, made with my own phone, and I just deleted the lot. They were filling up deeply hidden directories so fast that my operating system no longer had enough space to run.
I currently have loads of rubbish files filling up at least one of my phones again.
Plus, I not only got a message that my 80 GB data have almost run out, which is pretty NUTS (though I may have a potential explanation for it that would also be a bit nuts; ok let’s assume that), my HDD has been buzzing like crazy and keeps buzzing like crazy, too, and my internet connection keeps breaking up. (I tether. Have to.)
I can’t get fixed broadband here (because just like in Southsea, it appears that my address has disappeared off some of the official address records database, or whatever).
I don’t want broadband via wifi, for obvious reasons.
I can’t report any of this anywhere. There IS no agency where you can report hacking that isn’t done to steal money from you but to pester you and to sometimes cost you money, sometimes even relatively large sums, but not to steal money from you (as far as I can tell).
Even if hacking is done to steal money from you, all you can do is report it on a national website, for the statistics.
(And there’s a lot of weird shit going on in the flat under me, but hey, this is Portsmouth, so it’s likely not related, even though for example hacking activity has come from that flat before.)
There is nowhere I can report this.
But I can talk about it here. That’s all.
Oh, and the lock-picking explains a lot of this too. I can’t take a van load of stuff with me every time I leave the flat, just to keep my stuff safe. Even a police officer has in the past spontaneously volunteered that shortly after I first discovered that my locks were getting picked, let alone that I discovered a few months ago that this had been going on for many more years than I initially was aware of.
“Do not minimize the extent of my having been changed from a vivacious, sensual, happy, loving, athletic, healthy, wealthy, bright, articulate, fairly socially adept human to being melded and moulded to accommodate an autistic adult into exactly the opposite of who I am for the sake of a one-sided relationship.” (works both ways, I bet)
This is from this web page:
https://www.theneurotypical.com/how-to-spot-aspergers.html
Just in case the above-listed web page disappears – such things happens; nothing to do with hacking – I have copied its contents below.
Continue reading“He does not get it.”
What do you mean? Breakfast? His birthday present? The ball in the garden?
The literal interpretation versus the interpretation of “understand”.
3H Club
People with cognitive “deficits”
Seeing the good in people
Tokyo Chicken
What’s wrong with England (and Spectrum 10k)
I just heard about what I think may be a brilliant example of what’s wrong with English thinking and why I feel England is really backward. I purposefully haven’t looked into it yet, and will only in a moment, but it strikes me as perhaps pretty typically English (and class/power-driven if you get what I mean).
I may be wrong. We’ll see.
Spectrum 10K.
It caused so much upheaval that the Wellcome Trust paused the project.
If I summarize it correctly, and I’ll find out in a moment, scientists in England – the birth country of eugenics where Francis Galton (who I think was a cousin of Darwin, you know, the guy who talked about survival of the fittest) came up with it – decided to start collecting the genomes of 10,000 autistic people WITHOUT ANY PRIOR COMMUNICATION WITH THE AUTISTIC COMMUNITY.
These bumbling researchers first need to go talk with the community, said the Wellcome Trust.
(Let me also guess that none of the researchers are autistic themselves. There’s a bigger chance that I am wrong about that – by which I actually mean that there may be a lab tech or lower-level researcher who is autistic, likely not one of the PIs – than that I am wrong about this having something to do with the research project being English.)
Here we go.
There is a Wikipedia page about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_10K
Where was I wrong? There was involvement from UCLA, but it’s UK-wide and led by Simon Baron-Cohen. Apparently, the project was criticized from the start.
(It would be typically English to then decide to forego communication and consultation with the “lowly” folks it concerns, wouldn’t it? Yes, I hate England and its stupid hateful abusive culture. Sorry. I am way beyond being able to still be objective about it, most of the time. Academically, it’s often more about beating itself on the chest, and pissing as many people off as possible than about actually achieving anything, communicating with the public and doing something well. Doing something well is so utterly un-English. It’s often seen as foolish and naive – “daft” – to do something well. No, that’s not just me who says this. The English work ethic sucks, and has sucked for a long time, with exceptional individuals and organizations as always acknowledged and appreciated.) (But I am glad that a lot of groups are currently striking here, with teachers now joining too. How can you have a good work ethic when you’re treated like dirt? When incompetence is rife? When people only get well-paying jobs because of who their dad is or how much money they put in someone’s pockets, not because of whether they are capable. All of that has gotta be part of it.)
This is what the National Autistic Society has written about the project:
https://www.autism.org.uk/what-we-do/news/spectrum-10k
This is what the NHS has written about it:
When I started searching, I initially had the impression that I had been wrong and that the study had first gotten approval, was then paused and later got approval again.
But no, IT IS INDEED CURRENTLY PAUSED FOR COMMUNITY CONSULTATION and this does come after a great deal of upheaval in the community.
In the country that invented eugenics…
That is a despicable, thoroughly unprofessional approach, is it not?
This is also a big failure on the part of the granting organization (the way its grant applications are formulated needs an update too), but as they’re directly involved, perhaps that is no surprise.
https://www.stemcells.cam.ac.uk/people/pi/rowitch
https://www.sanger.ac.uk/person/hurles-matthew/
https://geschwindlab.dgsom.ucla.edu/pages/
Yes, I am angry.
No, I am not autistic.
Yes, England is the pits.
Yes, this is a BACKWARD, almost 19th-century, scientific approach. Exploitative.
But, as an attempt to be a little more objective, let me add that, yes, you sometimes see contemptuous attitudes in other academic research too, not just in England.
Yes, I hate England’s horrible abusiveness.
(Oh, and yes, I turned down a paid PhD position at the University of Southampton, albeit years ago. So you see that I am not quite writing this out of spite. I really hate England’s abusiveness and sad work ethic. I prefer working with the victims of this abusive culture, it seems.)
Yes, I’m known for often being highly critical. But I LOVE it when things are done well and/or brilliantly. And that, sadly, is so utterly un-English. I hate what having been stuck here for so long has done to me, in terms of the inevitable deterioration of my own work standard, for example. I hate it. I hate it.
Now consider this
Four simple little things:
- 450 million wasted on Brexit check facilities that are largely sitting unused and continue to cost the UK tax payer money
- Police forces that are basically misogynystic and racist crime gangs
- Only 350 of the 900 seats filled on the Eurostar these days
- UK businesses relocating to other countries or collapsing because they can no longer export their products or because they have trouble importing what they need
But I’m the one who tends to be seen as learning-disabled, slow, not all there, feeble-minded, senile, delusional about my education and capabilities and god knows what else by the types of folks who achieved the above.
My life is often dominated by immense anger these days. I want my goddamn life back. My European/American, largely immensely non-English and certainly pre-Portsmouth life. My rich, active, purposeful and often joyful life.
I want the full use of e-mail and text and of the full internet back. I want to have the use of telephony at my disposal again.
Here in Portsmouth, that’s considered an outrageous demand from a cranky old woman who has the audacity to refuse to be a damn doormat for English men, refuses to sit in a corner and knit hats – and what not. It’s despicable. It’s utterly despicable.
Ugh!
10:18 The hacking entity is at it again. Can this guy finally drop dead. Goddammit. Stupid sadistic incel baby. Nearly 15 years of relentless abuse from this entity alone (and nearly 20 of bizarre bullshit from random English folks), and it’s all perfectly legal.
It’s. So. Terribly. Abusive.
It’s horrible. It’s really really really horrible. Makes you wish you were dead.
10:51 Keeps at it. (I’m on his network and he has the ability to control everything that I do, and he does shit like move browser pages back and forth and up and down and opening pages that he pulls out of his hat, that weren’t on my screen.)
And it’s all perfectly legal because I am not considered a human being in England so human rights do not apply to me.
I’ve asked the local council repeatedly to tell me what its legal definition of a human being is so that I can figure out what my rights and duties are, if any. I’ve even resorted to civil disobedience in the past. They didn’t get the concept. They had no idea what it was. They seemed to think that it meant that I had a learning disability.
Oh, humans are so smart!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-64387401
Tell you what. PIGEONS seem to get a lot of this too.
I’ve been utterly baffled by the fact that pigeons are able to understand human “come here” gestures. How do they know what it means?
Likely answer: The human species has only been around for a second, whereas many other species have been on the planet much longer and have done a lot of learning.
It’s not just London
Yay for Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving
There are several of these expensive and now unused or largely unused facilities. They cost 450 million pounds.
The local one cost 25 millions pounds, leaving the local council in the lurch for a big chunk of that (8 million) as well as the 2-million-a-year operating costs. It’s just sitting there. Nothing happens at it.
At the one in the photo, in Kent, the occasional Ukrainian pet gets inspected. That’s all.
And traditional wiring of £10 to the UK now costs 15 euro. Receiving £10 from the UK now costs 7 euro.
Air pollution and pesticides not only affecting men’s fertility but their brain cells as well? Or is it syphilis?
Let’s face it, this NOT the result of men thinking that Emily Atack is “easy access” and “up for it”. This comes from men who are seriously unwell.
Yesterday, I read about a man who sent a female friend a photo of his bare behind, with whip tracks on it. She’s struggling financially and the friend thought that she would be up for getting paid in return for doing SM stuff to him. Instead of ASKING HER, he sent her a photo of his bare BUM? That’s nuts and exploitative.
Steekje los.
SM has been around for a long time, on the other hand, but sending a complete stranger – Emily Atack – naked photos of you, that’s seriously unhinged.
It’s a sign of a problem. This is not proper mature adult behaviour. It’s unhinged behaviour. It’s problematic behaviour. It’s got nothing to do with low IQ or learning disabilities. It’s as nuts at jumping off a church tower “just because”. It’s as nuts as teenage TikTok dares that cost some of these teenagers their lives.
Maybe these men all have syphilis and have mistaken Ms Atack for a doctor and want her professional opinion on how serious the situation is.
That’s actually the only explanation that would still make some sense.
This, sadly, is only half “tongue in cheek”. Sending nudes to a stranger IS unhinged behaviour, let’s face it.
The difference between sending Ms Attack nudes and beating her to death is a difference of degree, not in kind.
The month isn’t even over yet.
In addition, we’ve also already had far more shootings in the US this year than there have been days. How many of those shootings came from women?
“Research from 2020 found 76% of girls aged 12-18 had been sent unsolicited nude images of boys or men, commonly known as “dick pics”.”
That’s very worrisome.
I see such things as implicit rape threats, threats of violence. (Rape = violence) Because why else would anyone do something like this?
PS
Syphilis can affect the brain. So maybe all these men who pester Ms Atack do indeed have syphilis.
The rise in hate against women seems to be rampant in the western world. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/23/sexism-in-france-is-alarming-and-getting-worse-says-report
For men who’ve seriously lost the plot and thought they were being cute, here is a simple test to help you.
- Would you send the photo to your grandmother? No? Then don’t send them to any other woman or girl either. Simples.
CNN on why the NHS is falling apart
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/23/uk/uk-nhs-crisis-falling-apart-gbr-intl/index.html
A few points
- In December, 54,000 people in England had to wait more than 12 hours for an emergency admission. The figure was virtually zero before the pandemic, according to data from NHS England.
- The average wait time for an ambulance to attend a “category 2” condition – like a stroke or heart attack – exceeded 90 minutes. The target is 18 minutes.
- There were 1,474 (20%) more excess deaths in the week ending December 30 than the 5-year average.
- Data from November showed there were more than 7 million people on a hospital waiting list in England.
- According to an IFS report, even after adjusting for staff sickness absences, there are 9% more consultants, 15% more junior doctors and 8% more nurses than in 2019.
- Yet the NHS is treating fewer patients than before the pandemic.
- According to analysis by health charity the Health Foundation, average day-to-day health spending in the UK between 2010 and 2019 was £3,005 ($3,715) per person per year – 18% below the EU14 [countries that joined the EU before 2004] average of £3,655 ($4,518).
- During this period, capital expenditure – the amount spent on buildings and equipment – was especially low, according to the Health Foundation analysis. The UK has far fewer MRI and CT scanners per person than the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average, meaning staff often have to wait for equipment to become available.
- Hospital beds are particularly scarce. Over the past 30 years the number of beds in England has more than halved, from around 299,000 in 1987 to 141,000 in 2019, according to analysis by the King’s Fund, an independent think tank.
- Neville, a consultant in a hospital, judges 2008 the “best” he has seen the NHS in more than 30 years of working in it. By that time, the NHS had enjoyed nearly a decade of hugely increased investment. Waiting lists fell substantially.
Update on the racist double arson attack on the Sim family in Bristol
The perpetrator has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
Ovulating once a month can be a real drag
Stuff continues
Three “incorrect password” warnings in a row in the past few days (two for sites, and one for my super user login). Yep, that’s happened often in the past 12 years.
Text messages and e-mails that I spot arriving on my phone and that then disappear, and today, for the first time, a message saying “processing incoming text message” that stuck around for a while.
Clones of things that don’t exist?
Simulacra, that is.
“UK retail sales pick up unexpectedly in December” except, they didn’t…
No, not really.
The ONS numbers were released this morning. UK consumers are still feeling the pressure of inflation.
Retail sales in December were lower than in November.
The pound fell a little in response to these data.
We are all trying to spend less so that we can heat our homes and have showers, but we are also trying to use as little energy (including skipping showers and driving as little) as possible.
Good. Keep it up – that is, down – folks, because overall inflation in the UK is now very slowly going down but it isn’t going away soon yet.
Unfortunately, we also seem to be having the longest cold spell that I have experienced on the balmy south coast since I moved here from Amsterdam. Or am I only imagining that? See also this post.
Pay most attention to food. If you’re well-fed, the cold is generally easier to withstand than if you are depriving yourself of food.
In the meantime, Dyson wants the UK to fill warehouses with goods that won’t sell so that production will be up and we can cause more pollution than we need to. Now that’s what I call “stupid”.
Blackmailed by Bryan? Bryan.snapx, Bryansnelgeld or a similar name?
The pain of hiding your true self
Haven’t watched this yet, so I don’t know if this is any good, but the title will surely ring a bell for many. “TEDxYouth” makes it sound like it is especially suitable for young people.
The Quality of Life (Documentary about Intellectual Disability)
Algorithms and job applications
Algorithms not only help some online traders trade, wrongly or rightly identify people are likely to commit fraud or tax evasion and identify – correctly or incorrectly – health risks and so forth, they can also determine whether you will be invited to an interview when you apply for a job.
Did you know that?
So if you are for example like me, highly educated but living in what may be one of the poorest parts of the country, it can be useful to ask a friend with a better address if you can use theirs for your job applications.
There are all sorts of databases in which addresses are linked to fraud risk etc. Councils use them too.
Also, leave your DOB (and marital status) off your CV. It was already considered irrelevant when I was living in the US in the 1990s.
My home country was still running behind on this, last time I checked. Five or six years ago, it was often impossible to apply without DOB, which was against Dutch law, but I don’t expect much to have changed since.
Including your DOB can lead to discrimination. Having a foreign-sounding name, of course, can too.
If you want a way around that, BYOB.
