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After a great few days in Nuremberg…I really like this city, it’s certainly one of my favourite cities in Germany…we are taking the train again this morning.
Next destination is a new one for me, Dresden.Hopefully the weather will be good enough for some hiking in the ‘Saxon Switzerland ‘.
Since a few days, I have been pulling out damaged letters out of the mailbox. Maybe a corner missing, nothing bad. Yesterday I took out a letter and there were massive holes in it everywhere. Then I grabbed the key and opened the box to see a massive snail, some paper rests and snail poo. How did it get in there? Anyway, I let the culprit loose in the front yard to chomp on what he will, but not my letters. This is something new.
My mom’s complaining about the heat. It’s now been over a week of near or above 40, and it’s very exhausting.
But! My brother got his job back. So, it was a month of needless stress. He’ll start next week.
In what has got to be one of the most misguided policies in British history, the UK government appears to have decided in its infinite wisdom to pass a law that forces people to scan a piece of photo ID to…some kind of AI bot?…to access any kind of age restricted content online (have I got that right? It’s been 5 years since I left the UK). Even if the policy was originally intended as a perfectly well-meaning way of stopping children from accessing inappropriate content – and it’s absolutely not clear at all that it was – in practice, it just seems like another way of harvesting people’s personal data. And as you can imagine, the UK reddit sphere (which very much skews male) has absolutely blown up over this, and an online petition to repeal the law has attracted some of the fastest rates of signature signing of any online petition in British history.
Let this be a lesson to governments around the world: you may take people’s lives, but you’ll take their freedom to access online smut unencumbered out of their cold, dead hands.