Cyril Haearn wrote:Mercalia: I have read 1600 articles in the Guardian on my smartphone in the last few months
Occasionally a begging text appears but no paywall
and?
I thinks its the sister Spectator that does it?
Cyril Haearn wrote:Mercalia: I have read 1600 articles in the Guardian on my smartphone in the last few months
Occasionally a begging text appears but no paywall
Cyril Haearn wrote:Mercalia: I have read 1600 articles in the Guardian on my smartphone in the last few months
Occasionally a begging text appears but no paywall
Cyril Haearn wrote:The Grauniad asking for donations asserted that I had read 1600+
Not every word of every article, I fear
mercalia wrote:One good thing to come from this covid-19 crisis is the collapse of Airbnb which has removed rental properties from the market as they can make more more as Airbnb? I have no sympathy for those with large portfolios of properties that require a constant income from Airbnb lets to pay the mortgages.
How the Covid-19 crisis locked Airbnb out of its own homes
For those who have built up mini (or in some cases not-so-mini) property portfolios that rely on a constant stream of guests churning through Airbnb apartments in Bath, Barcelona or Berlin, the prospect of weeks or months without guests spells financial disaster.
To try and make some income from their empty properties landlords have flooded the rental market with their Airbnb flats. On Edinburgh’s Princes Street, for example, there are 209 Airbnb listings on a road of just 494 homes. Property portal Rightmove said the number of new rentals coming on to the market in the week the UK lockdown started increased by 45% in London, up 55% in Brighton, 62% in Edinburgh and 78% in Bath. It’s a similar story the world over with a 61% increase in Dublin and 41% in Prague
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/04/how-the-covid-19-crisis-locked-airbnb-out-of-its-own-homes?
mercalia wrote:whitebells?
Never seen them before
Vorpal wrote:mercalia wrote:whitebells?
Never seen them before
They are moderately common http://www.britishnatureguide.com/white ... ebell.html
The Guardian (to which I subscribe, a voluntary arrangement, as you point out...) pins its colours to the mast. They believe in the principle of free speech and are committed to making their content available to all & sundry, without the constraint of payment, aka a paywall. I believe that this is a very valuable principle indeed. It is up to individual readers to contribute what they believe is a fair amount. To boast that one continues to read their content avidly, without making any contribution at all, is not something I personally would be particularly comfortable with...Cyril Haearn wrote:Mercalia: I have read 1600 articles in the Guardian on my smartphone in the last few months
Occasionally a begging text appears but no paywall
Stradageek wrote:Vorpal wrote:mercalia wrote:whitebells?
Never seen them before
They are moderately common http://www.britishnatureguide.com/white ... ebell.html
The trick is to find all three types (blue, white and pink) in one location or to find all three shades of valerian (red, pink and white) together.
I worry about why I find such discoveries rewarding, perhaps the handle 'stradaGEEK is a clue?
Or maybe it's just because they are so pretty.
My most memorable sight still has to be catching Venus and Uranus in conjunction in one high power telescope field. The realisation of the vast sizes and distances involved combined with the contrast in brightness and colour actually left me a bit stunned and speechless.