Septic tanks exist, yo.

Source: I live in a forest

Yeah, some of my favourite books revolve around the crazy fantastical idea of having people in charge who are intelligent, competent, and have working morals.

Reading is an escape from reality.

See also: following the rules too precisely.

Not sure about sounding, but yes the L flag is the coolest <3

My current car is an old heap called “Adventure Car” which earned it’s moniker after I did a bunch of off-roading with it, expecting to kill it and then get something newer … it not only didn’t break but is still going strong 5 years later.

Many of my previous cars haven’t had names, but all my motorbikes have.

Good list

Handguns are not legally available to civilians in the UK, rifles are limited to bolt action, shotguns to 3 round magazine at max, and there’s few places to practice.

I know Americans all want to be Rambo, but the solution is community led direct action like the group features here are doing.

Flats above shops are usually cheap, people who live in them often don’t have a lot of choices in where they live.

I got training on a new piece of scheduling software last week (over Teams of course, can’t be having any of that pesky human interaction!). The first slide of the presentation was a really really bad AI picture, which turned out to be a sign of the quality of the new software.

Don’t forget all the lovely coerced rape sex, objectification, and depicting people with facial flaws as evil!

You can have a bit of homophobia too, as a treat.

In the UK it’s not unusual for people to live in small apartments above shops like that, and in a terrace fire can spread very quickly.

Fire doesn’t obey orders and isn’t selective of it’s path, and stepping from property damage into intentionally risking the lives of innocent people is a very dark path to follow.

Yup, and it’s on what was a mid-line laptop from 3 years ago. Only just started recently.

At home I use a thinkpad that I got 2nd hand 10 years back, and it feels like warp speed by comparison.

TBF yellow us pretty awesome

Indeed, I don’t have admin rights for anything outside of IP address changes at work.

I just thought of another bug bear, start menu lag on mouse clicks is a very odd problem, I don’t remember anything like that, even on the first release of Windows 95 which I ran on a laptop with 25MHz and 8 Mb of ram.

Fair enough, I use 10 and 11 at work and hate it … I used to like 7, using the control panel, search, default paths and stuff seemed a lot more intuitive.

That’s why I stick with Linux at home, it feels a lot more like Windows used to, lol

What’s been your favourite version of Windows?

Absolutely this, I had one assigned therapist/* who really turned my life around and it was all because she’d been through the meat grinder when she was younger too.

Threads (1984), not super gory but really fucked up when you know it’s basis. It hasn’t aged well, but as a piece of history is worth watching IMO.

I had waking-up-screaming nightmares about the ending for about 6 months, but then it hit close to part of my trauma, and I watched it where it’s set.

Also, System Addict by 5 Star was 1985 IIRC

About 1600km, and fuck no. Hit the ground running when I was 16 and never called anywhere home again.