One of the things that often confuses Americans when they visit the UK is our lack of window screens. All the Imperialist Yankee media I consumed as a kid had a delightful array of screen doors and windows. But here in rainy old England, there's never been much call for them. Mosquitos are rare. Our bugs tend not to be large and terrifying. Our summers are rarely …
@RickiTarr "Money doesn't buy happiness" used to apply specifically to rich people who can't stop chasing more money, to the exclusion of everything else.
That it's been weaponised against working people struggling to get by in the United States speaks to the mentality that seems to get pushed over there. 🤨
Humans don't have to rabidly chase their own self-interest to the exclusion of other people. They can collaborate for mutual benefit, and usually do when they're given the opportunity.
@nixCraft because technically you can use any modern spreadsheet program to perform the same functions as a personal database (eg. filtering tables, generating reports, organising data, searching for records, etc)
It's a good thing that people don't have to learn Microsoft Access or LibreOffice Base to do that imho. 🙂
This idea that using spreadsheets as a database is a "noob" thing to do probably should have went away about 10-15 years ago.
What cracks me up is when you go to a restaurant, and they ask if you've been there before, and then they say, "Well, we do things a little different here", and then it's exactly like every other restaurant, but more expensive.
@RickiTarr then you go to somewhere that does do things differently, and they do something ridiculous like putting your steak in a mason jar and giving you a ladle to eat it with.
@craiggrannell@bardi personally I’m hoping it turns out to be a “hoisted by own petard” moment for the Tories, where a large contingent of their voters who routinely ignore government advice and flip their lid about mild inconveniences also forget their photo ID, and are so aggrieved by the experience that they never vote for the Tories again.
@quixoticgeek@cstross I was kind of amused when they asked "should we pay for a CDN?" Err... if you run a high traffic website that uses a lot of images & JavaScript, yes! Why are you still on Cloudflare's free plan?!
There’s been more than a few newspaper articles with him “looking concerned”, and one newspaper made him look like he was shakily taking a drink of water to calm his nerves, when he was probably just taking a sip at an earlier press conference. 😂
They did something similar to Penny Mordaunt when she tried to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister. Every photo was in a swim suit or had a really weird facial expression.
@MadeyeTheCarnaptious@fkamiah17 It might have been the BBC! Annoyingly I couldn't remember which news outlet it was. See the placeholder image for this video. 👀
@RickiTarr tbh there's probably zero chance that anybody's pronouncing the Old English correctly because those sentences are probably a rough approximation of what used to be a runic alphabet with letters that made entirely different noises.
Just look at this original copy of Beowulf, which was apparently written around the year 1000. It's completely illegible! 😂
UK millennials: if someone handed you a wooden recorder, could you play a song?
(Bonus points in comments if you can tell me which one. This Q brought to you by my confident assertion in group chat that even after 25+ years, I could still smash out Lord of the Dance)