https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62077109
"In Sri Lanka right now, before you've woken up, you're losing.
Power cuts that run late into the sweltering nights steal hours of sleep as the
fans cease; whole families waking up sapped from the months-long trial of
shuffling their lives around daily blackouts after the country went bankrupt
and essentially ran out of fuel.
There are long days to be lived; work days, errands to be run, daily essentials
to be bought at twice the price they had been last month.
All this, you're starting a little more broken than you were last week.
Once you've had breakfast - eating less than you used to, or perhaps nothing at
all - the battle to find transport beckons.
In the cities, fuel queues curl around entire suburbs like gargantuan metal
pythons, growing longer and fatter by the day, choking roads and crushing
livelihoods.
Tuk-tuk drivers with their eight-litre tanks are forced to spend days lining up
before they can run hires again, for 48 hours perhaps, before they are forced
to rejoin the queue, bringing pillows, changes of clothes and water to see them
through the ordeal."
Via Frederick Wilson II.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
