There’s a massive difference between noticing someone isn’t smiling, and doing something to make them happy and smile Vs just telling them to smile.

Agreed

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Everyone is different, and that’s ok. It might be worth considering however. I know for me, the negativity will linger until I express it. Having another person around also acts as an emotional regulator. Their emotional reaction to your stories acts to restabilise your own.

Negativity and negative thoughts often grow in the shadows. By pushing straight into them, you can often resolve and disperse them. They exist to make you confront something. Once you’ve done that, their existence is no longer required, and it’s easier to let them go.

A few drinks, or some ice-cream traditionally helps this process.

As I said, everyone is different, so what works for others, might now work for you. It’s worth considering however, if it can help free up the good memories.

I’ve found it helpful for lancing the feelings of loss and pain from otherwise positive memories. I want those memories, and I don’t want them poisoned by the negative feelings. By going through them I can decouple them from the loss and express that. It also lets me vent it in a controlled way.

The extreme masochists begin to back slowly away in alarm.

Most don’t blame women, it’s mostly the loudmouths online that do that. There are a huge number of men suffering in silence. They often know it’s them, but don’t know how to start fixing it.

I help out with a charity focused on men’s mental health. It’s both depressing how many men suffer, and great to watch them “find their tribe” and start resolving it.

That would make sense. Unfortunately, first class is at the front, and that boards first. It sort of flows from there.

I’ve also seen enough people abusing the overhead lockers to completely break back to front boarding. They get on and just stick their bag in the first available space, before heading back. Now, when the people at the front board, their bag space is taken up already. They now have to fight to the back, on landing to get their bags.

The fuse is in the plug itself. It goes with the cable. That’s the point of it! 🤣 It lets you down rate your cables from the breaker rating.

The fuses aren’t to protect the circuit, they protect the end and intermediate devices. The breakers protect the actual circuit.

E.g. you’ve got a thin flex for a low power lamp. You don’t have to worry about a short allowing 40A to flow down a 2A cable.

Fuses mean protection is localised. If the socket is good for 13A, but the cable is only safe to 5A, you can fuse at 3A or 5A, and know it’s safe.

This is partially useful for extension leads. We don’t have to worry about overloading a multiway extension. If we do, it will pop a 10p fuse, rather than cause a house fire.

For safety, the BS1363 (UK, type G) is by far the best.

• It’s fused. (Seriously why the hell aren’t all plugs fused!)

• Live and neutral can’t be reversed.

• Holes are gated (so no kids sticking spoons in).

• High capacity, 240V at 13A gives 3kW of power.

It’s only real downside is its size.

It has several modes. The most basic is speech to text, pattern match, then implement. It also has text to speak for feedback. No actual AI in the loop.

It’s also capable of tying to AI models in various ways. It’s mainly intended for question answering. Either general, or about your data.

I personally don’t trust a non-deterministic AI having direct control of my house, so the split is useful.

It also needs to fail gracefully. A smart switch needs to fail to a dumb switch, not “no switch”.

Home assistant is capable of it. Unfortunately it’s not yet overly user friendly about it, but it’s getting better rapidly.

It can, actually be done. It’s just inefficient and requires too much trust.

You either do a general broadcast of power. This is incredibly inefficient, at any real range. To get power to the edges, the power near the transmitter will likely be enough to cook your cat.

The other method is directed. You basically put out a power beam that improves efficiency. Unfortunately, you also now have a directable energy weapon in your living room. I wouldn’t trust something capable of cooking my brain, while I’m sat on the sofa, if it gets hacked.

Neither are likely viable for general use, though both could be useful under certain conditions.

I’ve been impressed by my Ulefone 27T. It’s an armoured brick with a 10,000mAh battery. Waterproof, with IR and headphone jack. It also has a thermal camera.

Back tracking is FAR harder, ego wise.

Part of the goal isn’t to reverse it, but to slow further slips down the slope. They will remember the hassle it caused this time, and decide that it’s not worth trying for an easy life from the religious nutjobs, if the gamers will kick up more of a stink.

The goal is to stop them building up any momentum. If the credit companies get used to flexing their power like this, and steam gets used to folding to it, then things will escalate.

Right now it’s porn games. Who the hell would defend them. But it won’t end there. You honestly don’t think they would go after games that mock religion, or are trans positive?

The original tends to have a certain magic that makes it work so well. Whenever you remake something there’s the risk that the magic is diluted, or lost completely. It’s extremely rare to add more of what makes it work. Sequels often suffer the same problems.

Basically it’s not that remakes are inherently worse, they tend to be more average. It’s just that studios don’t remake poor shows. So we tend to see a lot more of the decline.

For maximum disruption, phone, then email. If they don’t respond in a timely manner (or it’s boilerplate bs), another phone call to “clarify” things.

Just remember, the grunts on the phone aren’t your enemy. Your goal is to maximise the amount of time you swallow, not to upset them. They could often be allies in hiding.

We don’t have to truly break them. We just have to be more annoying than the religious nutjobs.