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pavsmith

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An autonomous anarcho syndicalist collective of the Borg. I am 3 of several...

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andypiper, to random
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In other news, Priority Pass is essentially worthless to me at this point, since everyone apparently has lounge access on offer via bank accounts as a free add on to other memberships, so there’s never any room. First world problems, but meh.

pavsmith,
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@andypiper mrs. smith and i have lifetime access to One World first lounges... does that help?

pavsmith,
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@andypiper indeed the same on Celebrity cruises. hard to cope...

pavsmith, to random
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it's an odd thing. give kids sparkling water and see what happens. my completely uninformed opinion, based upon being a fizzy water addict, is that kids will drink it because it is "interesting" in the mouth. also carbonators are cheap!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/17/air-up-scent-flavoured-water-bottle-becomes-latest-playground-craze

stefan, (edited ) to fediverse
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I'm prototyping a fediverse sharing button. Anyone interested in giving it a try?

Feature highlights:

  • shows a logo of supported fediverse software
  • lets you share selected text
  • remembers the last fediverse domain used

Demo: https://fediverse-share-button.stefanbohacek.dev/
Download: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-share-button/

pavsmith,
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@stefan what's it for?

sldrant, to random
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Belfast SSE arena now has amazon powered automatic magic till, where you pay a contactless £10 holding fee on the way in, take your drinks and walk out.
Only problem is it charged me a total of £40 for two drinks, instead of £13.80
Honestly not sure how to correct this as I've no receipts and not sure they do either. Have challenged the charge via my bank, will see how that goes. Otherwise it's small claims court I guess.
I wonder how often it makes mistakes, and how many people notice

pavsmith,
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@sldrant my immediate reaction is that sounds infinitely scammable. people reaching past you, tagging behind you. the fact that your was so high is really alarming. can you get a receipt from amazon for the charge?

pavsmith, to random
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what the very hell is going on out in hursley??? what have you ibmers been up to??? https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/target-area/065FAG006

sldrant, to random
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Found a new toy in lidl. Gave in... £170

Will see how it gets on. So far it has already chopped/snagged the boundary wire which isn't a great start

pavsmith,
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@sldrant any pets?

pavsmith,
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@sldrant do love chickens (chooks, really...) as they keep all sorts of pests out of your garden/lawn/etc. also produce heart attack inducingly large amounts of eggs.

pavsmith,
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@sldrant yes, utterly terrified of humans after about 6 minutes. and they eat most anything! dumb as rocks, though, mainly a small pellet sitting on a brainstem.

pavsmith, to random
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there are 20 forms of ID valid for today's council elections. i have zero of them! luckily i can't vote anyway!

pavsmith, to random
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it's not a "cost of living crisis", it never has been. it is a result of austerity since 2010 with support for lower income people and families slashed in favour of reducing deficits. as a result people have become increasingly poor with record numbers of families in poverty and about 3.8 million people officially "destitute". that's fucking 1 in 17 people in the fucking UK!!! walk down the street and count every 17th person.

this is a total failure of government. it is not the sole responsibility of individuals to ensure they're affluent. it is a deal between the government and the people to ensure that citizens aren't left stricken. the tories have failed on this basic requirement.

honestly, if you're mulling voting tory at the next election, i beseech you to look at your fellow citizens and repudiate the tories and their policies.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/26/cost-of-living-crisis-uk-prices

pavsmith, to random
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y'know, the government could process the asylum claims of these refugees and sort out the backlog instead of, it seems, trying to incarcerate them all forever.

has it evaded the govt that some people are honest to goodness refugees? yeah, it has.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/17/asylum-seekers-moved-out-wethersfield-essex-safety-risks

GayOldTime, to gay
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You're allowed to eat gay chocolates only when wearing a butterfly mask. No exceptions.
#vintageAd #gay #chocolate

pavsmith,
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@GayOldTime since 1959 in oz... unaware that there has ever been a dress code for eating them, but feel quite free to enhance your bling!

pavsmith, to random
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out on the balcony earlier and thinking what a beautiful, clear evening it is. then thought:

What were the skies like when I was young?

They were long and clear and there were lots of stars at night.

I could always see the Milky Way. haven't seen it for decades. what happened?

pavsmith,
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@sldrant i lived upcountry victoria in a tiny town. winters were the best. incredibly cold, clear days and nights. it was a big thick ribbon across the sky. must ask the brother, who lives in some kind of "stranger, you're trespassin' on my dirt farm" location if it is still good.

gutenberg_org, to books
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in 1724.

Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig.

Bach's large choral composition in two parts on German text, written to be performed in a Lutheran service on Good Friday, is based on the Passion, as told in two chapters from the Gospel of John (John 18 and John 19) in the translation by Martin Luther, with two short interpolations from the Gospel of Matthew.

Books about Bach at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Johann+Sebastian+Bach+&submit_search=Go%21

pavsmith,
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@gutenberg_org found, and added to the playlist for later!

pavsmith, to random
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will employers simply say "no"? don't trust staff to actually work whilst at home. "i'm paying a fortune for this office and so it needs to be used!" (despite the financial equation not changing at all).

still, the "financial markets miracle" that was Canary Wharf is being sold off for apartment development.

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2024/apr/06/enhanced-right-to-ask-for-flexible-working-comes-into-force

pavsmith,
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@sldrant agreed. more thinking that going into the office i get so much less work done. mostly because i am sat on my backside moving rather than the same in front of my laptop working. all my meetings are online now, including all customer contact. yesterday, 3 customer people in 3 different countries. this never happened before!

pavsmith, to random
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so, the UK leaves the ECHR. can you see this on an EU trade site except "...Russia, Belarus, and the UK"?

pavsmith,
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@sldrant oh, gods... good point, if messy politically. i suspect NI would still be where it kinda is now, a weird twilight zone, but in this case i would definitely see NI in the ECHR because... everything NI.

however, yes, UK would basically cease to exist and become GB right up until the point Scotland finally decides to rebuild Hadrian's Wall and quietly slope off. I'd be very much in favour of Hampshire becoming part of Scotland in that case.

well, apart from Eastleigh, but mostly only because that would annoy @jtonline

my chaos monkey wants to see Scotland leave GB, apply for EU membership, and have it massively fast tracked. what they would do to stop the "mexicans" trying to flee north of the border to a "better life" i have no idea.

it's all gone so very well, hasn't it.

pwaring, to random
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Don't think I'll ever buy something that needs assembly from Argos again. Part was missing when I opened the box.

  1. Online order of spare parts: Not available for this item (it doesn't have a part number).

  2. Online chat: We can't do anything, call the store.

  3. Call store: Always busy so you get redirected to the overflow call centre... who can't do anything.

  4. Visit store: TODO

IKEA OTOH: 6 digit code for each part, order online, posted immediately free of charge, no quibble.

pavsmith,
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@sldrant @pwaring mrs. smith v.fond of Ikea and for the most part it is genius. i can't recall ever having a missing part, or even more annoyingly, a part left over.

the latter known as the "small screw syndrome". you put something together and it works perfectly, but you have a single screw left over. do not try to fit this screw, it will render whatever you built useless and broken. just throw it away. (source: Douglas Adams, i believe...)

pavsmith, to random
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watched "3 Body Problem" yesterday. aliens pose an existential threat to earth in 400 years. "the world comes together in an unprecedented alliance" to prepare for their arrival.

casting a sideways glance at the existential threat of climate change. somewhat closer than that.

pavsmith, to random
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people can be extremely judgmental on people with no kids. or the very quiet and meaningful "oh, is there something wrong...?" nah, you know, the reasons are entirely private and almost certainly not what you think. if you persist i may not be polite.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/30/what-is-it-about-us-dinks-dual-income-no-kids-so-many-people-dislike

pavsmith, to random
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ha! just watched The Avengers s3 e5 "The Bird Who Knew Too Much". the bird, the main protagonist in the show, in question's name was:

"My name is Twitter. Edgar Twitter."

did make me snap my head around!

ben, to random
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Do UK Driving licences still come in Manual/Automatic?

I assume that passing a test in (most*) EVs would limit you to a Automatic license?

  • I believe there is a Toyota with fake gearbox...
pavsmith,
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@sldrant @ben truly! fascinating! goodness, when i did my test it hadn't rained for months!!! fail rates in Oz were high, but never prejudicial. it did tend to inform the next test, though. what constituted "evidence"? take it from someone that does this for a living. predicting, or subsequently knowing, when and where it rains is bloody hard work (read: impossible).

oh, and i eventually did emergency driver training. now that was a WILD test. put an ambulance into a full 360 spin and bring it out safely and forwards... yup. all done on a runway as there were some... spectacular fails! they're basically impossible to tip!

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