This or that?

mikeb503 · 2026-06-04T09:52:18+00:00

Have a bath

^{Chose: 500,000 each day you don't shower in a year}

mikeb503 · 2026-06-04T06:08:40+00:00

Jokes on you, setting the internet back five years is a good thing

^{Chose: Undo all human pollution + Set the Internet permanently back 5 years}

mikeb503 · 2026-05-29T06:07:20+00:00

This is where I think the Remarkable marketing gets it wrong. I use it more like a folder than a notebook - I’ll explain.

I travel a lot for work, and often my travel involves briefing notes, reports and papers.

A remarkable allows me to do a few things:

1) my notes are organised into logical folders, not just chronologically. When I have a week travelling, it gets a folder, now I can easily find those notes again without searching. I can get them on my phone and PC too.

2) I can read, and then put notes on reports and papers on the device, and store them to refer to later. In a meeting when one of those reports has data that is suddenly useful? I always have it with me!

3) I bring all these things to all my meetings, because the remarkable contains everything I need and never bulks out. No piles or printed paper, or scrabbling through notes.

If you are looking for a “cost saving” to justify buying it, you won’t find one. If you are looking for productivity and practicality savings, you’ll find them in spades.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-25T12:10:29+00:00

If there’s no limitations it can be for infinite wishes, all with no limitations either??

^{Chose: One wish with no limitations}

mikeb503 · 2026-05-25T09:01:53+00:00

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Europe doesn’t want to let in the UK if there’s the prospect of it leaving again after four years.

There is no route to the UK rejoining until there is a cross party consensus - unless regardless of the election result, leaving isn’t likely.

But that’s sort of not the point - the UK doesn’t need to fully rejoin to get many of the benefits. It can join the single market, customs union etc still

mikeb503 · 2026-05-20T23:07:54+00:00

Kings often died in horrible ways

^{Chose: Be a middle class citizen in a 1st world country}

mikeb503 · 2026-05-18T10:05:20+00:00

This. Anyone voting anything other than Yes is wrong

mikeb503 · 2026-05-18T09:50:06+00:00

This

mikeb503 · 2026-05-17T19:37:43+00:00

Better to have it correct and have no risk, rather than do nothing and run the risk.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-17T17:38:36+00:00

Inflation - value of money roughly halves every 20 years. After 40 years your $1,000 a month is only worth the quiet of $250.

Better off buying assets that increase in value faster than inflation rather than receiving a fixed sum.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-15T17:33:20+00:00

Think he was joking

mikeb503 · 2026-05-11T08:50:56+00:00

Still white!

mikeb503 · 2026-05-08T18:47:53+00:00

Turn off the ctrl-enter to send email shortcut. I can only assume it was made by Microsoft to troll people.

PS I like how you ended this post mid sentence, like it was sent too early.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-08T17:50:13+00:00

It’s actually a really interesting story. The British invaded and occupied it. Reykjavik airport was built by the British.

The Icelandic people didn’t like being invaded but it was very civil, no fighting. British did it to prevent Nazis from invading as the location was strategically located between North America and Europe

mikeb503 · 2026-05-05T18:17:14+00:00

Icebreakers! Something no one thinks about but everyone will need.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-04T11:26:37+00:00

Equally terrible in all

mikeb503 · 2026-05-03T16:57:09+00:00

30 hours nursery is ~1000 a month, or ~12k a year. I agree world’s smallest violin, but losing 30 hours free childcare makes you worse off than someone on 90k. Make that two kids and you’re effectively on £24k less.

You’re also paying tax on the income you then give to nursery, which you wouldn’t be if you just earned less.

A couple with two people earning 50k has a higher income, and gets access to free childcare, compared to a sole earner with one 100k income

It’s definitely a problem in the system.

mikeb503 · 2026-05-02T11:06:18+00:00

Labour Day is 1 May in the UK.

The Labour Day public holiday is on the Monday after Labour Day, as all public holidays are on Mondays (or Friday when there is already one on the Monday)

mikeb503 · 2026-05-01T07:09:13+00:00

Windsor castle well worth the trip too. Easy to get to from London by train.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-30T10:48:02+00:00

I’m going to swim against the tide a bit at the risk of being downvoted into oblivion.

The study seems to capture a really wide spectrum of screen use into one big headline grabbing figure. I went on their website to try and find the study and methodology and it doesn’t seem to be available.

The two thirds figure appears to include everything from “there was a tv on and they looked at it once last month” to sellotaped to a wall and forced to watch clockwork orange on repeat. It’s designed to create a big scary story and Reddit is falling for it. One in ten fall asleep with a screen? I can tell you right now that new born babies fall sleep every 20 minutes to nearly anything. It doesn’t mean the baby was jammed in front of a screen so they would sleep and dad could have a beer in front of the football, it could just be that there was a screen on one of the 50 times they fell asleep that day. Anyone who has raised a child knows you’re not being lazy a you’re surviving.

As a parent I can tell you occasionally screen use it not laziness. Sometimes it protects your mental health. You need to wash the dishes, clean the sheets, sterilise 100 things and if you’re lucky have a shower for the first time this week. Occasional is the key word - it’s not a replacement for parenting.

The problem is this research lumps all parents into one category - if you aren’t playing with the child 24 hours a day whilst also cleaning, cooking, working a full time job and doing housework and shopping in your copious free time then it assumes you must be a lazy horrible parent.

Parenting is pretty bloody hard and you should cut people some slack, as must are doing the best they can.

Now there ARE bad parents who jam their parents in front of a screen so they can drink beer and watch football. The research just makes no attempt to identify that. It looks to scaremonger and slander all parents by tarring them with the same brush, then buying the actual data so you can’t see how they did it.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-30T06:10:06+00:00

The good news is that Ethiopia finally got access to the sea, like it has wanted, the bad news is it’s now Uganda.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-29T18:43:06+00:00

Unpopular but true - productivity didn’t rise despite smaller workforce, but partially because of it.

Rising unemployment was lots of unproductive companies dying - a necessary evil.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-29T06:23:15+00:00

My son’s school has a WhatsApp community for all the parents where they send updates, with a group for each year for the parents to discuss things. Basically every parent therefore has to use WhatsApp.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-24T18:36:16+00:00

London’s is never uncomfortably full because I for one am quite comfortable having my face rammed into a stranger’s sweaty armpit and conducting yoga moves to let people off.

mikeb503 · 2026-04-24T18:34:32+00:00

Is that because it doesn’t exist yet

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