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Happy Independence Day to the Americanos!
And to properly celebrate the day, the wife and I had breakfast tacos in the morning and tamales for lunch.
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I need an outside opinion on something that has… not annoyed me but let’s say negatively surprised me recently and that the family members I’ve talked about it with haven’t shared my position.
My favourite cousin is getting married in a few months. I don’t know if you’re meant to have favourites amongst cousins, but Chris is definitely it. When I was young and my family moved around a lot, his family were the only ones to come visit us. We’d meet with them (and our grandparents) on caravan holidays and we’d hang out when my family stayed at our grandparents’ in what is now my hometown (where both my parents’ families are from). When we moved here, we remained close. My brother and I would hang out with Chris a lot (and our sister with his sister), throughout our teens. We worked at the same supermarket for years and were in the same D&D group for ages. We don’t hang out as much now but that’s your 30s for you. But we’re firmly in a social circle and I’m on the stag do (as is my brother and my sister’s on the hen do), which, as far as I’m aware, is only going to be six of us (it might be more, but the organising group chat thing is just that many, so unless there’s multiple of those, we’re it).
So I was a bit surprised when the invitations came through this week. My parents have got the service and reception (and presumably the evening do if wanted) while my siblings and I got just the evening do. I can’t help but take it as a bit of snub. It’s not that I particularly care about weddings, but let’s be honest, an evening do invite is decidedly second tier.
When I talked about this with my sister she just said “it’s their wedding, they can invite who they like” because she’s often facile like that. I mean, obviously. It’s not like I’m going to cause a fuss or demand an upgrade. I was just privately expressing surprise, but apparently even doing that is bad. My parents reckon it’s because Chris has a lot of cousins on the other side of his family, which I didn’t actually know (he has mentioned them precisely never), and it was easier to just relegate us all to evening do to save on numbers for the service.
But even setting aside the family connection, going on the stag do, especially one as seemingly small as this, and not getting a full invite is unusual, right?
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You’re right, but it does come down to the money.
And more importantly who is throwing in the money.When there’s arguments, etc., well when somebody feels that one of their personal friends got shafted then they have to win something (shafting somebody else).
(Kinda sorta speaking from experience, but I wasn’t directly involved, so what do I know?)Definitely not trying to get you riled up, just wanted to say you’re right.
I”ve been to a camping wedding, and my brother got married on a boat (small party).
I figure once you go cheap, go real cheap. Put the money into real estate, and it saves from where you have to draw the line.Fuck, going to have more beer and text my best friend and remind him that when we reconnected back in the day I wasn’t even invited to the wedding, just the reception later. He freely admits I should’ve been the Best Man (and none of us have contact with the other guy).
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I sympathize with you, but I’ll give you another perspective: Deciding on the wedding invitation list.
Due to the size of the venue, Christel and I had a limited number of people we could invite. She goes from a much larger family while me circle was much smaller. She had pressures to invite certain people and exclude others. We were also exerting those same pressures on each. It really is a huge pain in the ass and feelings will be hurt.
It sounds like he should have invited you but he may have had limited slots and certain obligations may have forced his hand.
It sucks but enjoy the food and drink to the fullest extent possible at the reception.
The unspoken truth about weddings and receptions for the bridal pair is they suck. The stresses and pressures of preparing and executing them are huge. It’s really hard to enjoy them in the moment. They have their moments but the relief when it’s all over and you’re finally married is immense. That’s when the enjoyment starts.
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Yeah, it has to be said the social minefield around weddings is a pain in the arse. People you’ve either never heard of, met, or both suddenly “have” to be included. It becomes a gigantic pain.
Hell, people can kick off over how they get told of the engagement!
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Yeah, I’d have to concur with the general sentiment here. If money/venue size was no object, most couples would want to invite all of their friends and family to their wedding. But unfortunately the practicalities mean that you have to make difficult choices about who can be included and who can’t, especially when large extended families are involved.
In my own personal experience, this came down to effectively having to organise tiers of my favourite people to decide who could come to the wedding and who couldn’t. Which is a kind of horrible thing to have to do, and inevitably is going to lead to bad feeling from people who feel affronted that they were excluded when others weren’t.
I lost one of my good friends over it, but felt lucky that it wasn’t worse as I know of some people that have had all sorts of blowups and fallout as a result of their wedding choices.
It’s why the first thing I say to friends when I find out that they’re getting married is that I don’t expect an invite as I know how hard it is to make these choices and include everyone. That comes purely from the experience of having done it myself, and hopefully puts their mind at rest in a small way if they do decide that I don’t make the cut.
In short, I would say that an invite to the evening do but not the ceremony should be seen as a positive, as it’s basically saying that they definitely really want you to be involved in their big day, but just can’t ask you to the ceremony/daytime event for cost/space reasons.
I guess that’s the glass-half-full approach but I think it’s the right one to adopt for both your own happiness and theirs.
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My sister had a very prinate wedding, with only the parents and her two children. Then a few weeks later she gave a party that was casual and down to earth, for friends and family, without official invites or anything.
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Yeah, but there’s also cost per person to consider. And there may be a thing of, you know, if he’s having a cousin then she also wants to invite her favourite ones but then they’d have to invite the other cousins, too, because it’d feel too much like a slight not to, and then there’s suddenly twelve more people. I’m with Dave, I’d focus on being invited to the evening do, which is definitely the better part anyway.
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Choose 4 actors and make a masterpiece pic.twitter.com/CY05Zk7Gbs
— Dudja (@TheRealDudja) July 12, 2023
Whichever ones I choose I think my adaptation of Little Women is going to be a disaster.
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Whichever ones I choose I think my adaptation of Little Women is going to be a disaster.
Or possibly the gender-positive masterpiece our times are crying out for.
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Dave wrote:
Whichever ones I choose I think my adaptation of Little Women is going to be a disaster.Or possibly the gender-positive masterpiece our times are crying out for.
Little Wo(ke)Men?
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36 degrees centigrade in Germany and Czechia today…yikes. Thankfully it is a lot cooler here, we’re having a pleasant 24 degrees.
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Speaking of actors.. They joined the writers strike the other day. 160k of them
Obviously, the rich ones like DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence etc. will survive the big holdout
The paycheck to paycheck ones not so much.I get it that it is about pay to be covered for more streaming rights, residuals, and as AI gets more advanced
to have the rights when AI uses your material, voice and likeness.
(Can AI do Goodfellas better than Scorcese or Schindler’s List than Spielberg? Not yet.)Apparently, this will shut down productions, putting a LOT of studio crews out of work now. Some shows are now
postponed to 2026. Imagine a “teenagers” show like “Stranger Things” or “Euphoria” returning then.
The actors barely look 17-18 as it is now, how about 3 years later?
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Obviously, the rich ones like DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence etc. will survive the big holdout
The paycheck to paycheck ones not so much.The really famous ones always do get their very good deals on the movies they take part in though; their participating in a strike like this is mainly for the benefit of the ones barely scraping by, because those are the ones who really need a change in the revenue system when it comes to streaming.
Apparently, this will shut down productions, putting a LOT of studio crews out of work now.
Yeah, it sucks. Let’s just hope the studios give in soon.
Also, this:
TV shows in production and now under threat are second seasons of Andor and The Sandman
Like, really soon.
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Bro brought a notepad and made a 45 minute video about a movie about a toy and is convinced everyone else is triggered https://t.co/gIfZuIo8HW
— Lolo (@LolOverruled) July 24, 2023
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The past few days:
I had to replace the motherboard on my main PC. It all works now and that is good.
The heat wave was something else. Only thing on the mind was to retreat to the nearest AC room and stay away from the humid outside as much as you can. It should be better starting tomorrow as the weather said about some weather front of cool air heading to the city. I hope so.
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There’s a new retro collectables shop opening near me next week. Strangely near me – in the industrial estate about ten minutes walk from my house, rather than anywhere people tend to go shopping. Bit of an odd location except there is a good reason: as well as doing retro games, toys etc it’s also selling retro cars. There appears to be a sales garage adjoining the shop unit. It’s certainly a unique gimmick. I thought it was just talking about scale models when I first saw mention of it on their website.
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On a UK radio show, ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER's money making humour isn't picked up by the presenters. pic.twitter.com/jhIe8fqgPK
— All The Right Movies (@ATRightMovies) August 4, 2023
A real-life version of this:
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Never forget. pic.twitter.com/phswGUK6SB
— No Context Brits (@NoContextBrits) August 14, 2023
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Donald Trump teaches his student, Socrates, about morality and Western philosophy. pic.twitter.com/Iv2C8YRtwQ
— Trump History (@Trump_History45) August 22, 2023
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I am surprised that the FIDE (chess) banned trans women from women’s tournament. It is a board game!
I hear the arguments some women athletes make in sports competitions,
but chess is not about athleticism.FIDE should reconsider.
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It is quite silly.
There’s a culture war going on that deliberately denies a lot of common sense.
Some sports (or even games) that are heavily based on power or endurance are very affected by small margins. Swimmers and cyclists shave chest and leg hair to get an advantage that wins them medals. The more it is based on skill the less it matters. Women have entered snooker and darts tournaments. Fallon Sherrock got a 9 dart finish the other day which is perfection in that sport.
I’m a big rugby fan and a lot is said around whether PEDs are used or not as the athletes are BIG, I don’t think it makes that much difference, you could feed me with steroids and growth hormone and put me in a women’s team and I would probably still be shit because you need passing and kicking skills. In weightlifting that may not be true.
Everything is ‘all or nothing’ in an activists mind so yeah we ban trans women from chess even though it makes no logical sense and the only defence of it is women are thicker than men.
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As stupid decisions go, the FIDE one is really quite sonething.
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I am surprised that the FIDE (chess) banned trans women from women’s tournament. It is a board game!
I hear the arguments some women athletes make in sports competitions,
but chess is not about athleticism.FIDE should reconsider.
The problem is more fundamental than a trans question. The problem is, why is there a women’s tournament? It is a board game!
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I am surprised that the FIDE (chess) banned trans women from women’s tournament. It is a board game!
I hear the arguments some women athletes make in sports competitions,
but chess is not about athleticism.FIDE should reconsider.
The problem is more fundamental than a trans question. The problem is, why is there a women’s tournament? It is a board game!
Because women were getting horrible abuse in the general league. A combination of bullying and physical and sexual harassment.
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Twitter is really getting weird. It’s flooding me with news from India now. I can’t imagine why they think I would be interested.
Did you order dinner from Taste of Bombay again, perhaps?
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Ever since I got the smart TV last Xmas, I’ve been inundated with so many options and channels, like TV in god mode.
I can remember the 70s (right before cable TV wiring became widespread), being dependent on rabbit ears antenna, having to adjust it, only a handful of channels, no remote, had to get up and down to turn the dial, and when the dial wore off, using pliers.
Damn. 😂
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Twitter is really getting weird. It’s flooding me with news from India now. I can’t imagine why they think I would be interested.
Ha I think I solved it. I had a lot of weird bot accounts following me and once I got rid of those and refreshed the “for you” tab, no more Indian content. I think some of these bot accounts had India as their location and therefore the algoritm thought I had something to do with India as well.
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Switzerland retains title of world’s best country
Switzerland has once again claimed the title of the world’s best country, according to the latest U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Countries rankings. This marks Switzerland’s second consecutive year at the pinnacle and its sixth time overall as the No. 1 nation on the list. The rankings, released recently, reaffirm Switzerland’s supremacy, closely followed by Canada at No. 2, Sweden at No. 3, Australia at No. 4, and the United States at No. 5. The United States has slipped one spot compared to its 2022 ranking.
In the 2023 rankings, European countries dominate the top tier, securing 16 of the top 25 spots. Notable shifts include Germany, which has fallen five spots since 2022, and Australia and New Zealand, both climbing three places year over year. The Middle East is represented by the United Arab Emirates, while Asia boasts Japan, Singapore, China, and South Korea within the top 25.
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Nice link about Switzerland there. I would have liked it more for it to get into more of what makes it #1 ie, infrastructure, economy, social programs.
I always used to ask in the Politics thread: Why can’t some of those cool social programs that work well in some European countries be at the very least implemented in the US on a small scale?
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NYC has been getting a huge influx of migrants who have been transferred from Texas (thanks Greg Abbot).
It’s been putting a strain on the city resources to provide housing, food, etc.Now the city is starting to put them in Staten Island, and the neighbors are complaining “Not in my backyard!” “They are illegal!” etc.
And now because of the strain, the mayor has called for all city agencies to cut their budgets by 15% by next Spring.
It’s a mess…
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Al, you commie, that’d be socialism!
More seriously, right-wing politicians have used the term as a spectre for years in US politics. Despite that, there’s a good amount of evidence that enough of the population do want things like better health care provision which the politicians ignore in favour of culture wars.
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This would be Miqque’s birthday today
RIP
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Nice link about Switzerland there. I would have liked it more for it to get into more of what makes it #1 ie, infrastructure, economy, social programs.
I always used to ask in the Politics thread: Why can’t some of those cool social programs that work well in some European countries be at the very least implemented in the US on a small scale?
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NYC has been getting a huge influx of migrants who have been transferred from Texas (thanks Greg Abbot).
It’s been putting a strain on the city resources to provide housing, food, etc.Now the city is starting to put them in Staten Island, and the neighbors are complaining “Not in my backyard!” “They are illegal!” etc.
And now because of the strain, the mayor has called for all city agencies to cut their budgets by 15% by next Spring.
It’s a mess…
Texas has always had more illegal migrants than New York. So good on them for sending some to New York really.
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You’re way off on this Arjan.
US states arbitrarily dumping people onto other states to look after, with little to no warning, isn’t on.
There needs to be other ways of addressing immigration? Probably but what Abbott did isn’t it.
If Texas can’t handle its responsibilities then it should ask for help. Then again, this is a state that somehow gets away with running an occasionally non-functioning power grid in winter.
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I have a new electric razor, and the instructions say that I should clean it by holding it under a running tap.
And I can’t do it. My rational mind knows that it’s safe, but the irrational part is just screaming, “You idiot, it’s electric, don’t put it under the tap!!!”
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I have a new electric razor, and the instructions say that I should clean it by holding it under a running tap.
Did you see where the instructions tell you to unplug the razor from the outlet first? Just checking…
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You’re way off on this Arjan.
US states arbitrarily dumping people onto other states to look after, with little to no warning, isn’t on.
There needs to be other ways of addressing immigration? Probably but what Abbott did isn’t it.
If Texas can’t handle its responsibilities then it should ask for help. Then again, this is a state that somehow gets away with running an occasionally non-functioning power grid in winter.
Exactly. This is nothing but racist politics. This is something that was done during Segregation in the South and is absolutely abhorrent.
These are the actions of fascist bigots.
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I watch a detective series called Brokenwood Mysteries. It’s set in a small town in New Zealand populated by “quirky” characters who murder each other with alarming regularity. Not the greatest thing ever on TV, but an enjoyable example of the cosy village mystery genre if you’re into that kind of thing.
The town’s forensic examiner is Gina, a Russian woman (played by a New Zealand actor). Her main function is to exasperate the detectives by making wacky statements to show how even after nine seasons she still doesn’t “get” western culture.
Ok, that just context. Here’s the amusing observation: In three out of the four current season episodes I’ve seen so far, they’ve dressed Gina in bright blue and yellow. The first time I saw it I thought it was an amusing random thing, the second and third times it was looking suspiciously deliberate…
My pet theory is that a Ukrainian emigrant works in the wardrobe department. But whatever the reason, it’s become my favourite bit of minor trolling recently.
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Since yesterday my twitter is filled with tweets about Musk, Tesla, SpaceX etc. Like all these tweets are basically just ads for Musk.
I get multiple very suspect ads with Musk in them promising me $1ook if I am not a millionaire off their crypto scheme in 3 weeks. Twitter is a complete shithole right now, he can’t even control ads that misrepresent him (and I have reported them and they keep coming). I spent a decade never seeing Musk’s genuine posts because I wasn’t interested, now that nonsense appears every day.
A large chunk of comics Twitter has left for Bluesky, it is still ‘invite only’ but they are trading invites quite briskly.
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The rain from Hurricane Ophelia devastated NYC today.
The videos of the flooding… the subway crippled the city.————–
Although I don’t follow her on Instagram, the news had a video of Britney Spears
spinning and doing dance moves with knives. The police and health counselors had to stop by.
She is no longer under legal control from her father, but given everything she has
gone through for superstardom… ie. Years of this huge whirlwind of albums, live concerts, appearances,
media coverage, paparazzi over who she is dating etc. just took its toll.I just hope she works it all through.
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The rain from Hurricane Ophelia devastated NYC today.
The videos of the flooding… the subway crippled the city.————–
Although I don’t follow her on Instagram, the news had a video of Britney Spears
spinning and doing dance moves with knives. The police and health counselors had to stop by.
She is no longer under legal control from her father, but given everything she has
gone through for superstardom… ie. Years of this huge whirlwind of albums, live concerts, appearances,
media coverage, paparazzi over who she is dating etc. just took its toll.I just hope she works it all through.
Sadly, I don’t think Britney will have a happy ending. I believe the people currently around her see her as a source of money and will do whatever it takes to bleed her dry. And once she’s gone, they will continue to exploit her memory, assets, and children for financial gain. I really don’t think she has anyone around her who genuinely cares about her wellbeing.
Britney is a tragedy in progress.
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Britney has always been mentally unwell. She just needs a good therapist. Or a spiritual consellor, or anyone who can be there for her and talk her through her trouble.
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Very much so. But like Todd says, it’s probably very hard for her to have access to anyone who doesn’t just want to exploit her. That’s really the root of the problems, too – she’s been exploited since childhood.
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I’m listening to a pretty dumb Dutch podcast and they’re using English words all the damn time, even when there’s a good Dutch alternative. Like they use “creation” when there is a perfectly good Dutch word “schepping” which expresses the exact same thing.
Ironically some of the best spoken Dutch I heard in podcasts lately was by a Turkish born Dutchman, Ugur Umit Ungor. He’s a renowned scholar on the subject of genocide who did meaningful work researching the crimes in the Syrian civil war.
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So I was away on vacation a while (9 or 10 days away from wi-fi, but I’ve got data and not too far away from civilization), and just a thought about my devices.
– Samsung Galazy S23 Ultra (regular mobile)
– Samsung Galaxy Note 8 (no card, wi-fi only and back-up, and Spider Solitaire re-started at level zero on transfer to new phone so path to level 1000 is at 889
– Samsung Galaxy tablet S7FEThere’ a spot below the 49th parallel called “Point Roberts” which is a part of Washington State U.S., yet only available access is to drive there through Canada (British Columbia could not deprive access if an American wants to go to Point Roberts, or Alaska).
Yet the proximity to the Tsawwassen Ferry Terminal (went to Galiano Island) and where they’ve drawn the border has the ferries going through American waters for a bit and therefore “what Canadian resident contract did I sign with phone company? (multiple options with 90% of us living within an hours drive of the U.S. — numbers freshly pulled from ass, but close)A paused YouTube video during that has cost me a one-day roaming fee of $15.99, which pissed me off for happening, and also for “when in fuck did they raise the price from $8.99?”
Whatever. Visions of hours waiting for customer service has me saying not worth it, yet it is worth it to many who can barely afford food.
I remembered to use “airplane mode” on return trip.Everyone says that your phone can be used as a “mobile hotspot” for other devices, well unless you know what you’re doing beforehand, it’s confusing as fuck. Then I remember signing last contract and something about “adding a device for $10 a month” and I figured to just leave it alone, and told a friend in same situation, who agreed.
But really, what do they care where the data goes? From your phone to a tablet is 10 bucks a month ($120 a year?), which you know will go up every year.
Pure greed. Assholes.My DC Universe Infinite app had all my downloads on my tablet (still does, no time limit), so that was good.
A friend that downloaded Netflix movies (or Disney+?) accidentally downloaded links to the movies he wanted, which were no good without wi-fi (but seriously, why would you download a link? Stupid and should have been made clearer).Even though I should have enough data, I didn’t let any app update.
But thank fuck I did! Every device had many “Play Store” and “Galaxy Store” updates to protect me when I got home (main phone had over 30!). 10 days away has me unprotected like a newborn.
Thankfully they are thinking of me and the security of my phone and my privacy!
And then I notice that Spider Solitaire game has a fresh set of ads.
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Of course, EU members get roaming at the same price as local services so it wasn’t a big deal for me, but might have been for other service users depending.
Yeah, good thing we’re well out of that here!
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That kind of thing used to happen (probably does again post-Brexit actually) to people on a certain bit of the south coast of England, if they got too close to France. Their phone would pick up a French network and they’d be hit with a roaming fee.
Regulation of the phone fees and just stopping additional fees when you’re abroad inside the EU really is one of the cooler regulations that’ve come from the EU.
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Everyone says that your phone can be used as a “mobile hotspot” for other devices, well unless you know what you’re doing beforehand, it’s confusing as fuck.
On a modern phone, it’s really not. Admittedly I work in IT, but not in consumer electronics, and I didn’t even own a smartphone until two years ago. I looked in settings and there’s a button saying “mobile hotspot”. I tapped it, and it just worked. I have a harder time programming my VCR (or whatever the kids call it these days).
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my VCR (or whatever the kids call it these days).
I think the kids call it “that weird old machine that people used before streaming”.
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I think the kids call it “that weird old machine that people used before streaming”.
Nah, that’d be the DVD player.
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I think the kids call it “that weird old machine that people used before streaming”.
Nah, that’d be the DVD player.
Nah, we know Meadows is a Betamax man who never got over losing the VHS war.
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This is awesome, a digital repository of most issues of the Whole Earth Catalogue and other journals from Whole Earth Publishing, these were an early source of how-to guides, primers and other DIY/proto-hacker culture articles in the 70s with semi-regular revivals over the next 20-odd years.
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This is awesome
I imagine Miqque Loveland owned (and probably contributed to) every one of those books. Personally, I had a copy of that Spring 1970 book, but was too naive to understand what it was. Thanks for the nostalgic trip, Lorcan.
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On the note of archiving awesome old magazines, did I ever link this collection of issues of Anything that Moves, the fantastic Bay Area bisexual magazine?
https://anythingthatmovesarchive.carrd.co
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This genuinely is like a scene from The Day Today.
I know I post this every year but it never stops being funny – Michael Buerk plays Chris Morris to Ian McCaskill's Peter O'Hanraha-hanrahan in the aftermath of 1987's Great Storm pic.twitter.com/WetzmFYrFz
— Neil Miles (@neilsmiles) October 16, 2023
Ian, you’re lying in a weather grave. Do you know what it says on the headstone?
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https://www.huckmag.com/article/conkers-unlikely-contact-sport-london-peckham-championship
Conkers in Peckham sounds rough.
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I used to think flat earthers couldn’t be serious and were just winding us up.
Then I thought they were serious and it was a huge failure in our education system.
Now I think they are just so lacking in basic common sense and powers of observation, I wonder how they are still alive.
I made the mistake of wandering into a flat earth facebook group and saw the statement “Water does not curve, so… (blah blah nonesense conclusion)”.
Nevermind the nonsense conclusion, look at the assertation: water does not curve. If you have lived to adulthood and not seen a drop of water, there is something seriously wrong. If you have a seen a drop of water and still assert that water does not curve, you are basically unfit to function in this world. Seriously. How are you still alive if you are that clueless?
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Well, I fucked up.
November 1st, and I let myself get cornered.
Someone shows me this video of a woman breaking through the ice, yadda yadda yadda, and now I’ve already heard Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas”It’ only the day after Halloween! Some people have no shame!
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Tuesday Flaco Update, Part III: With confirming details, we are more confident now that Flaco was on a Fifth Avenue building across from the Central Park Reservoir today and likely has flown back into the park this evening.
— Manhattan Bird Alert (@BirdCentralPark) November 15, 2023
I like that people are fascinated with this Eurasian eagle owl in New York, but I hope the attention doesn’t upset him. I saw one of these in the wild, such majestic creatures.
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The New Zealand Kereru (wood pigeons) eat so much fruit that it ferments inside them, as they get drunk, they fall from trees pic.twitter.com/ufjwEuzmqS
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) November 28, 2023
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Giving new meaning to never get high on your own supply
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Back in the day on MW, we used to relate our Xmas hauls. It was some gift cards for the lcs, sweaters, a few video games (like me 😊)
Personally, I don’t mind an envelope of cash or a big gift card for Amazon or so.
It gives you more agency to get what you want, yet the complaint is that since it’s not a specific gift, it’s not personal and lazy.To each their own.
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Toys and stuff are awesome for kids, but honestly when you don’t have a lot of money as an adult cash could be the best present.
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Toys and stuff are awesome for kids, but honestly when you don’t have a lot of money as an adult cash could be the best present.
And you don’t exactly “regift” cash 🤣
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I’ll be honest, I’m at the point in my life where the whole gift giving thing is a stressful burden. I don’t want anything as I can buy whatever I want and buying for others is such a pain in the ass.
Christel and I don’t exchange gifts anymore, even for our birthdays. We will take each other out to a nice dinner, but then we will do that throughout the year.
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