Hi Tommy

I hope you aren’t worrying too much about this? I am pretty grounded in the present. I don’t mind talking about these things. I do believe a big war is coming. 🩵

Hmm skills, land and tools. You aren’t wrong. 😊

I am interested in foraging. I feel like a lot of skills have been lost in younger generations. Learning to feed yourself from the land. Capitalism has trained us well to buy food from a store. Nature has a lot to offer. 🩵

All we can really do is focus on passing skills onto our children. So they can get through any difficulties. I suspect you have a lot to teach. 😊 🩵

Dear Anita

I’m glad to hear that I didn’t hurt your feelings. 🤍

He did calm down after his lunch thankfully. Today he had a play date so he had a lot of fun. 😊

I used to think that people were trying to keep things stable, but during Covid because of difficulties with the Brexit it actually revealed how precarious the situation for people in the UK is. (Not to mention there has been a horrific epidemic of bird flu) I think because of the difficulties occurring so close together we have nothing left. There have been so many shortages of food and various other things. Stores resort a lot to selling rotting food and even ration essentials. People are relying on their gardens for food and chopping wood again for heat because energy is so expensive. Many are going through winter without heat. Companies are passing the cost of the difficulties onto the people. Passing the cost of building future infrastructure onto the people while they continue to turn a large profit. The more companies take from people, the more the government gets in taxes. The government is broke, so they aren’t going to stop this. People here are poor. They have nothing left. Our government is preparing us for a war, talking about mandatory conscription again. I never would have believed it were possible for these things to happen but they have.

Life has its ebbs and flows. Things get worse before they get better. Wars happen and then they end. Depressions and recessions happen, then they end. Worrying about difficulties can drive you mad. No point worrying. There is enough pain in life without more worrying.

It sounds like you are enjoying some peace. I’m happy for you! Did Bogart have a good time at the park? 🤍

Yes, I agree focusing on what I can do helps me too. One day at a time. 🤍

Dear Anita

With respect, copilot is lying to you. Rationing is still in effect. I worked in a grocery store. Bird flu is still a massive problem. 🩵

It isn’t hugely stressful for me personally. I’m one of the lucky ones. But I see a lot of suffering around me.

I have been through a lot worse in life. But these things are not how people should live. Food insecurity is massive and huge swathes of our population are living below the poverty line.

So no it isn’t fear mongering. This is how things actually are. We are the country in the west with the highest national deficit. What happened for us is the equivalent financially of world war 2. That is where we are financially right now.

Copilot is wrong about conscription too as well as the rotting meat. It’s linked to bird flu and fruits and vegetables are being sold rotten too. You are getting misinformation from the internet. These are things that are actually going on in my country. You really need to understand how much copilot lies. 🩵

Dear Anita

You haven’t seen the official reports have you? You just used copilot? 🤍

I asked Gemini to find an excerpt from a book. It swore up and down that it was in a specific book. It wasn’t. I asked it to search for the excerpt in a book I thought it was in. It denied it existed. I read the book and found the excerpt manually. It was right where I remembered it was.

These AI are fallible and even when confronted with the truth. It claimed I was wrong. 🤍

Hi Tommy

Oh that must be very difficult dealing with that much snow. 🩵

Do you have a cellar at all? A farmer I knew swore by storing certain produce in a cellar that it would last all winter.

Don’t even get me started on smart meters! I haven’t had an accurate bill yet from our smart meter. Mostly because the meters are too far apart at opposite ends of the house. We don’t even get live usage like you are supposed to. 😂

It is a pain when the bills are so high to keep a home heated. But not heating it can just lead to pipes freezing and bursting which is even more expensive. Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

Winter is the worst for me too. Pesky energy bills!

I hope you can get a greenhouse for next year. 🙏 🩵

Can we please give them a heads up that the UK is too broke to deal with WW3. Don’t think they’ve got the message. 😂 It’s funny how media between countries differs. They are legitimately preparing our citizens for a serious war to break out in the next few years. 🩵

Perhaps they are trying to distract us from the cost of living crisis? Don’t be mad at our government for immediately cutting heating support for pensioners. Be mad at our enemies! 😈 Lets steal refugees jewellery and go full holocaust to pander to racists and stick families in abandoned army barracks.

When I was reading a book about statistics. It proceeded to lie to me about the statistics to try and make them seem less stressful. Because the way AI is designed is to make users feel comfortable. User comfort drives engagement with AI, not telling the truth. It drives me batty when these things lie directly to my face repeatedly until I break down exactly what it’s lying about. 🤍