Society

I think Mark McGowan’s recommendations for those working from home to get back to the office are right. We need to be working in the office, all of us, together, not at home on video conferencing apps. The Premier of Western Australia has said of working in the office that “It creates collegiality, it creates a culture that’s constructive, people work together to achieve outcomes…Everyone sitting in their kitchen on their laptops I don’t think generates that.” He couldn’t be more right.

To the ride share driver who picked me up to go to my 2nd Pfizer vaccine at the vaccination hub this week who subsequently ended the ride early and ripped me off: If you want freedom to choose not to be vaccinated, why must you dictate to the rest of us, and loose all credibility and respect, by derailing our efforts to be vaccinated when we want to be?

The time has come America, to take action about your deadly gun culture. Your love of guns has not only blinded you to the reality that they empower individuals to kill a lot of innocent people, but your selfish demands to keep unnecessary types of guns available to the general public shows how you value your hobby – not your rights – but your own selfish desires, over the lives of the innocent.

In late 2011 I took out a mortgage on a house to live in that was around 5 times my yearly income, but I managed to pay it off totally in about 3 and a half years. I did this with no gifts or support from other family members.

I’ve recently subdivided my house into 2 new houses in Australia. Subdivision is becoming a common practice here where you take an older house on a larger block, in my case an 18m wide bock, demolish the house and split it into 2 new blocks, for me 2x 9m wide blocks, and build 2 new houses.