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If you\u2019re under 60, your adult life has been influenced by the personal computer; under 50, the internet; under 40, social media. Duped into mistrusting factual news in place of vested opinion, our attention is numbed and monetised. Algorithms suck us down rabbit holes. Disinformation polarises through crises where we\u2019d once have united for common interest. Fed a constant stream of advertising spam, we\u2019re farmed to spend on worthless trinkets with superficial value to corporations avoiding tax on superfluous profit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To be ethical, it has to be across our business activities. For example, we bank with a 200\u2013year old local government\u2013controlled non\u2013profit savings institution. However, we have customers with financial service provider preferences which take unreasonable fees, and their owners donate to extreme politics we cannot condone. So, we have been recommended by many satisfied customers to use wise.com<\/a> with its ultra\u2013low fees, permitting use, on their side, for credit card payments, as a lesser evil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We also feel a moral responsibility to confront \u2018alternative facts\u2019 \u2013 nonsense; lies; bullshit snowballing like cancer within our community where we have expert access to truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two areas where we continually encounter uneducated gibberish relate to rope lay and breaking strength.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although possible to exist, we\u2019ve never come across jute spinning machinery producing S\u2013twist yarn. It isn\u2019t factored by diameter, but by weight known as Jute Count in imperial pounds per 14,400 yards, regulated by the raw jute drawn slither width and spun twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n