Gobbledygook
Author: UQ
May 22, 2022
In a business driven by profit, vaccines have a problem. They’re not very profitable — at least not without government subsidies. Pharma companies favor expensive medicines that must be taken repeatedly and generate revenue for years or decades. Vaccines are… (Read more)
Author: UQ
May 22, 2022
On February 11, 2020, public health and infectious disease experts gathered by the hundreds at the World Health Organization’s Geneva mothership. The official pronouncement of a pandemic was still a month out, but the agency’s international brain trust knew enough… (Read more)
Gobbledygook
AstraZeneca, Bill Gates, COVAX, COVID, Covid 19, greed, hypocrisy, Moderna, Oxford vaccine, philanthropy, WHO
Author: UQ
January 15, 2022
When I asked my Swedish friends and colleagues what is Arbetsförmedlingen used for, they couldn’t tell me. In theory Arbetsförmedlingen exists to find people jobs, but in reality they exist to find people jobs in Arbetsförmedlingen. If you wish to… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 8, 2020
I have DELL Laptop Precision 7530 and Latitude 5550. And Docking Stations for these 2. I use now TB18DC docking station and from time to time when I connect my laptop (Precision) to it, my USBs don’t work … keyboard,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
October 5, 2019
Interesting book that many should read at least once. If most of us would apply just one third of principles from this book, amount of assholes in this world would be insanely smaller. “At any rate, I think you will… (Read more)
Author: UQ
August 15, 2019
In this book Mr. Newport is trying to convince us that meaningful work is much better than wasting time on social media, e-mails, video games and other things that most of population practices most of the day. I will put… (Read more)
Author: UQ
July 5, 2019
Sometimes when I sleep I have very disturbing dream. It is about me missing a flight for any random reason like being late, lost or entangled in some bureaucracy or weird situation that I try to resolve but can’t. I… (Read more)
Author: UQ
June 29, 2019
Foundries are very hot. Most of the time they deal with molten metal, and for iron depending on type that happens from 1100 to 1600°C. But if you don’t touch or lick anything it can be fun and interesting place…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
May 17, 2019
Prijatelj puštao muziku u kolima i krenula pesma od Abe “Lay all your love on me” i odmah mi se učinila poznata ta melodija. Friend was playing music in his car and song from ABBA “Lay all your love on… (Read more)
Author: UQ
March 1, 2019
A friend told me this one, that he heard from a friend (of a friend, of a friend….). One night on almost empty highway somewhere around Detroit a car was swerving across three-four lanes. Police got a report about this,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
February 10, 2019
People are stupid and naive. And sometimes when faced with tragic event, or if their whole life was not the best one, people tend to be quite superstitious and easy to trick by different types of prophets, psychics, card readers,… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 15, 2019
I am frequent customer of Taxi Göteborg and most of the time in front of car there is small plastic holder with taxi driver ID. I have noticed that when driver is black, he always looks completely different than whats… (Read more)
Author: UQ
December 9, 2018
One of less creepy features of google maps is possibility to save favorite places, and I like to do that. I usually save with star each place where I was sleeping (if I don’t forget), plus there are few more… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 28, 2018
This is a serious question, and I don’t have answer to it. There is plenty of researches that say they are bad. But we all know how to use them and each of us found some good use for it…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 25, 2018
While visiting Ringkøbing, on the last morning when I started driving out I passed by the shore of Ringkøbing Fjord and stopped the car to take few photos of water. But the really interesting thing happened when I turned to… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 1, 2018
I have bought one pomegranate, and used this opportunity to check how much of it I’ll actually eat. Mass of untouched pomegranate was 626g and mass of waste was 243 g. That means I ate 383g of it (61%) and… (Read more)
Author: UQ
October 28, 2018
There is so much different ways and platforms to get Andy Warhol’s 5 minutes of fame, or 15… Doesn’t matter, because it is 5 or 15 minutes of fame on average – some will have whole lives of fame, most… (Read more)
Author: UQ
September 28, 2018
As all other generalizations this one is also wrong. There is recycling in Sweden, a lot of recycling, but it is not same everywhere. I will describe how it is going on in place where I live at the moment…. (Read more)
Author: UQ
April 28, 2018
Got asked some days ago if pingulingo is delivering what it promises – 2 week program for learning of different foreign languages. I think it doesn’t. First of all, 2 weeks is not enough for anything. Claiming that something could… (Read more)
Author: UQ
February 21, 2018
Very often as one of good things of my job I mentioned possibility or unwritten rule that says if I work during weekend I can take one day of paid vacation more. And it is great, work for the weekend… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 10, 2018
I bought Titan Rower SR890 rowing machine some time ago. Due to work and laziness I didn’t use it so much. Even if it is still new, seat started squeaking. I have ignored it until now, when this squeaking turned… (Read more)
Author: UQ
November 12, 2017
I am almost always nice person. Except when I’m tired, then I’m just a person.
Author: UQ
May 23, 2017
Here is one very boring, short and wrongly recorded video of airplane propeller. It doesn’t look so weird as it could, but still it’s mildly funny. This funny look of propeller is also known as “Progressive Scan Effect”. It happens… (Read more)
Author: UQ
June 7, 2016
What is the perfect size of blog posts? Why care? It actually can affect how much people will read what I write and think about sharing. Some time ago 500 words was perfect, now it is more like 2000+. I… (Read more)
Author: UQ
January 23, 2016
I am not a fan of fat girls. I find them ugly, no matter the face or the soul. Sometimes I think about how should sex look, what would be the possibilities and impossibilities of making love to somebody who… (Read more)
Author: UQ
December 10, 2015
I wonder what would be the taste and texture of smoothie if i would put “cement” instead of “cimet” in blender.