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  • Mine has buttons to set seats, you still have to do the mirror. It is wild how different my wife's settings are to mine.

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    Thursday complaints
  • Yesterday (Thursday) I spent the day shifting stuff out of the garage (about to be knocked down) into a self store. The room we've got there is up some steps.

    After a long day, I dropped a heavy thing on my foot. Felt like a fool, and also in amazing pain. Took my sock off there sat on/in the car boot to have a look (gross is all I'll say). That's all my race training postponed for a week at least (supposed to be Triathloning).

    Then had to hulk the rest of the stuff up the stairs and finish up, because it was just me! Luckily that was the last car load.

    Learned my lesson, next time I'm bringing a friend. And possibly steel capped boots.

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    What if the length of a term was proportional to the amount you won by in the election?
  • Short sightedness in politics is already painful for all of us.

    Nobody's tackling climate change, nobody's building anything fairer for younger generations, especially in places without enough housing (and what there is owned by older generations).

    I won't list all the problems this would make worse, but for example, do you really want a government with only 6 months to do 2-3 extreme populist things, hoping to dredge up enough support to get a larger mandate next time?

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    How do you name your pets?
  • Took a while to settle on our cat's name.

    First of all I tried Linux commands (sudo was the one that stuck for a while, given how the cat dominated the dog.)

    That fell out of favour though, and then we had kids and needed a proper name for her.

    And then they printed a Magic Card called Generous Stray:

    https://cards.scryfall.io/large/front/3/2/3289db66-231f-4370-aca6-644d75bee293.jpg

    Reminded me so much of my cat, it had to be done. Therefore:

    Genny.

    Kids can say it - yes. Sounds normal - yes. Cat doesn't respond to it - of course. Really weird story - well, I think so.

    My wife just called the dog Bella by the way, perhaps she should name the next cat.

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  • I actually use a dice (D6, 50:50 choice usually) to decide between two options sometimes.

    The idea is to fool my brain into revealing what it really wants. Like, if I can't decide, I'll assign each choice odds or evens, then roll.

    If I'm OK with the result, then it decided for me no problem. Maybe I didn't care, maybe I preferred what I rolled.

    If I don't like it, then RNG just showed me what I really wanted – now I can go with the other option.

    Reduces decision fatigue, and speeds up my life. I've been teaching it to my kids (although their favourite RNG is the Chwazi app.)

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    Capitalism is the paywall of life
  • I recommend Kaon's Wonderland (novel).

    They literally build a solar panel that blocks the sun, so they can charge people for the heat and light.

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    We never wash our belts, although they are the first thing we touch when leaving the toilet, even before we wash our hands
  • Only place I use cash for is the Fish and Chip shop. They did have contactless during covid, but the transaction fees from the bank are a big % if most of your custom is small orders, so they bite those for online orders and it's cash only in the shop.

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    We never wash our belts, although they are the first thing we touch when leaving the toilet, even before we wash our hands
  • Hell, half the trousers I buy come with a belt. (It's a problem for vegan trouser-customers actually, as many of the free belts are crappy cheap leather, meaning you can't buy the otherwise cruelty free trousers.)

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    Is it normal to not say hello or good morning to your colleagues when you come into the office?
  • Most of the places I've worked, yes.

    Sometimes though, only in your team. (E.g. walking through a big open plan area, don't interrupt 15 people on your way past to say hello).

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    Look, I'm lazy, okay?
  • Ctrl+R

    Then type any part of the command (filename, search string, etc)

    Ctrl+R again to cycle through the matches.

    (Best feature in bash)

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