Had me in the first half, “European parliament bans lawmakers from…” had me wondering what fresh hell this was heading into, before the “using AI tools” gave me back a shred of hope for the future

Hey baby, are you a school? Coz I want to shoot kids in you

I think if you use them pretty hard, Leatherman becomes more reasonable, as I’ve used their lifetime warranty twice in five years, and will probably have this thing for another decade or two. No other multitool I’ve owned has stood up to how I use them, so their price is really justified for a get-out-of-the-shit tool for my use case. That said, I bought an Amazon one with extremely similar functionality for my mate’s kid recently for about £20, and it’s really impressive. For most people I guess that would last long enough to make the warranty a non-issue, and it will definitely do 9/10ths of what a Leatherman will

Hah, yep, that sailed straight over my head! That’s a dense boost…

Yeah, I got one of these for my camera gear, but have found hundreds of other uses for it

Nah not really, but it comes with a belt pouch though. It’s a little bit bigger than say a boost or a double decker or whatever, and it’s definitely heavy, but not spiky or awkward to keep in a pocket

My leatherman was a little over a ton, and is probably my most used tool. It’s my first line of problem solving in almost all situations

One of my mates got his plums snipped in his 20s, still doesn’t regret it. Another of my mates spent his whole life saying he wasn’t going to have kids, and seriously considered the snip, but was grateful he didn’t when he met the now mother of his kids in his mid 40s. Life’s weird, and only (and sometimes not even) you can really know your own mind

Mlem on my phone, I get on pretty well with it

Mint, thank you! It stops doing it for a while, then decided it needs to warn you every time god a while, and so on. It’ll be great not to have that!

iPhones will do this even when you’re connected to an external device. Like I’m using you as a source, I want high signal-to-noise ratio, not constant nannying nonsense

Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.

I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something

A role model for any child

Du Bois from Disco Elysium?

No, fuck off, how very dare you suggest such a thing you horrid bastard you, just you wait, I’m going to punch you in the elbow and knock over your second-favourite house plant for insinuating such lies

Came here to say that, he called it decades ago. Advertisers, marketers, and developers, all of them parasites

I reckon we’d be doing even better if it was total renewables, we lean toward wind power more than most, what with being an island and all

The rest of the world should take this approach. If everyone just plain ignored and ghosts the US’s emissaries it would be pretty funny.

I suppose that they’re using all the available resources to build drones for the conflict, but I’d definitely choose a Ukrainian FPV drone over a DJI or other Chinese drone if they were commercially available, both to support the Ukrainian economy and to buy within Europe