And this is why the song “Fuck the fire department” does not exist.

Good people, doing good people things!

True

This.

Bloody Aussies stole out shitty design.

I’m conflicted.

As an “enemy” of Putin, I have to assume assignation, but no windows? Russia has lots its way, are the classics no longer respected.

Probably from the chemical properties; very unlikely from radiation.

Reading through this. There are plenty of carcinogenic chemicals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, cobalt…

30 days has September, April, June and November; all the rest have 31; except February which has 28, 29 or 1584!

The Shart and the Steal

I use windows at work, I have local admin which removed a lot of friction for a more technical user.

But the difference between my home machines (18 years Linux) and my work machine is friction. Windows makes things hard, it is always a few extra clicks or a stupid reg key change.

E.g. recently wanted my full right click menu back on win11, no nice setting option. Go edit this unnamed registry key, it seemed so janky in a modern os.

I’m a long time Mint user, jumped around a fair few distros but mint works well for me. It is so polished compared to windows, it seems crazy it is the free one.

Windows, nothing I still dislike Microsoft products.

But seriously.
Peanut butter, good quality 100% peanut version changed my mind.

Bandit and Chilli Healer. Final answer.

It is election year…vote like it matters.

Oh yes, we had this on our books… Then the current bunch of cunts (not the good kind); removed it to make more tax money. Absolute idiocy!

We had world leading legislation, but duck the future generations aye.

A big ass-hammer

Optimistic Nihilism, is quite a good philosophical framework.

But I would recommend a mixture of optimistic nihilism and stoicism.

If nothing has any inherent meaning, the things you chose to be meaningful are as valid as any other choice.

It’s not just a metaphor, when people say things like “picture yourself in X”, or “just imagine the audience naked”.

Others can actually see things in their mind.

Which was very quickly followed by, “getting a song stick in your head” means you can actually hear a song over and over in your mind. How annoying.

This seems like some king of super power. I was 40…

With a specific mix of spiteful grumpiness toward windows and a naive optimism, born of youth and abundant nerd resource at university.

That and a stoic acceptance that shit breaks, but it also broke on win 95, 98, XP and especially millennium edition. Which is the timeframe I switched in.

Going full time was fully enabled by reliable virtualization. When I could run a win XP VM and expect no issues in a work day, I was about to ditch windows as my main OS. Over time, I used fewer windows only applications, now I barely need the VM.

You don’t ration Discworld, you reread it every 5 years.

And maybe revisit a favourite or six every other year.

It would be for just a couple minutes.

Narrator: that couple of minutes turned into many hours in the hospital.

Sometimes men don’t fell comfortable expressing themselves with women around.

If a space is toxic, men don’t express themselves there either.

Space where men can properly express their feelings are extremely rare. Between the toxic masculinity and men feeling judged by women and other men.