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I’ve never even looked at it. Vine was pretty cool but then it died, Periscope was neat, but I dunno, something about Tiktok feels predatory, how addictive it is (from what I’ve seen of others using it).

Plus while they’re all as bad as each other, I still trust China less than Microsoft with my stuff, so yeah. I’m just not interested in it and don’t really see the appeal for myself. But I see why it’s popular and it’s not like, terrible, as a concept.

You call that a smash? Stop sensationalising, come now.

A car gently tapped a thing during a turn and came to a stop.

Interesting, I’d never trust any USB cable to push anywhere near 100 watts anyway haha good god, the most I ever do is maybe 20w at 5v.

I’ll keep that in mind when buying cables in the future though this is very useful info!

I’ve not heard anyone take umbridge with calling Russians “orcs” or “ruskies” yet, to be fair, not with calling our German and Japanese enemies during WWII Jerry or Japs respectively. Jap is just a handy shortened single syllable way of saying Japanese. For another example of this in peace time, people from Great Britain get called Brits. It’s not a race thing, just a slang thing.

The war slangs aren’t terms we’d use today of course, as they’re no longer our enemies and such slang carries the unspoken “We call them this because they’re our enemy and they don’t get to decide what we call them” connotation, but for the moment in 2024, Russia and North Korea are the enemy of Ukraine, so they’re fair game.

I see your point though, but I don’t believe this is a race thing at all, not in my eyes anyway, I think it’s just a “They’re the enemy and we need a simple, easy and quick to pronounce slang nickname for them that is functionality useful, watch also sometimes shows our current hatred of them as our mortal enemy and as a way to help unite us against a foe, in the case of ‘orcs’ for example”.

But yeah, if people are using these terms to be racist or whatever, screw those guys, they suck.

I don’t feel comfortable sharing any personal opinions at work. The workplace is somewhere one should arrive, work, go home, not somewhere to share opinions and in doing so make potential enemies or risk your position.

Why do I care if my colleagues know my opinion on X or Y? It changes nothing about my life or theirs, we’re not even friends, just colleagues, or work friends at best.

Anyway yeah, that’s just my thoughts :-)

He’s a modern day Nazi leader, what do you expect him to say?

Yes mate! I checked mate, you’re right mate!

What if this whole thing was a ruse and they’re keeping them up there because they know they’re dangerous aliens wearing human skin?

But if they realise that we know this they’ll send a signal to their mother ship and kill us all.

So we’re holding them up there while we come up with a plan…

They wanna ruin AI like they ruined their Chocolate after they got bought out by that shite company Kraft?

Cadburys tastes like crap now the same way American chocolate does, such a bloody shame too :-(

WhatsApp? The instant messenger boomers use on their phones?

Damn, who saw that coming.

Gosh you’re right, I’m so special and kind and humble, I deserve to be recognised for how extremely humble I am ♥️

In seriousness, I have good days and bad days, sometimes I’m grumpy or pretty my anger about a bag thing happening to people get the better of me and go into my words, but I do care about everyone, I do want a better world and an end to bigotry, fascism, racism, techno-feudalism, late stage capitalism, and if I could own my own house this lifetime that’d be great too, for my family’s sake…

I’m just so angry at the state of things, so disenfranchised, so fed up, and places like this are where I actually see all of the articles and posts about this awful stuff, not to mention actually running in to bootlickers and scummy people. It’s hard not to get grumpy and angry while I’m here :-(

I might take a break from this stuff next year, I’m not sure yet. Staying informed feels important, but at the same time feels futile and damaging to my mental health, so I might just let myself be ignorant for a while, you know?

Anyway, thanks for the kind words :-)

Uh, what?

What makes you think Christmas is for kids? Just because they enjoy it? Shall we ban movies, video games, etc for adults too?

I’ve never heard someone suggest that adults shouldn’t enjoy their hard earned holidays, and spread joy with gifts and such to each other, because they’re no longer 12 or whatever.

What makes you think my and my family and friends enjoyment of Christmas is less important than slightly reducing how much money some shop might make for a few weeks?

I’ll keep enjoying the small joys of life, thanks. Kids can sod off.

I’m sure it’ll be back up soon don’t worry :-)

Instead of some crappy website like Forbes, why not get all the information directly from the source.

https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON546

The summary at the top is the only part that needs reading, though the rest is informative too.

Basically, they don’t know what it is yet, though given the malnourished, somewhat cut off, poor region with spotty healthcare at best, this could be one or multiple illnesses that we already know about, which have all struck a weak population at a bad time.

So, no need to panic just yet. They’re sending various test samples off to be checked out, but the road out of the region takes 48 hours to drive due to rainy season issues, so it’s a bit slow going.

All in all, this is likely no big deal, but certainly worth keeping an eye on just to be safe. These sorts of things happen all the time, basically, but before COVID nobody really cared.

Why is it that almost everyone’s comment makes this about the USA in one way or another? And in general, why do people always try to make everything about that country.

You’d think they were the centre of the world, with the way people go on.

Real encrypted apps, …or just the ones their own government can use to spy on them?

Any exercise is better than none :-)

We all have varied, busy lives that never fit the neat structured exercise plans we read about, or make for ourselves. Sometimes we only find 15 minutes free in a day for some quick exercise. And if that’s the only time we have available that day, then that’s enough.

Ideally you’ll find time for more structured exercise at least once a week, but don’t beat yourself up if you struggle with your schedule, you’re only human, just do what you can, that already puts you ahead of most people <3

I mean yeah, Virgin has been pretty solid in that regard for the 20 years I’ve used them, and their service has been solid too.

I’d be wary of switching to another company that doesn’t have such a good proven track record, though due to prices I’m considering swapping to Brsk for a bit to see how they hold up, given that they have symmetric gigabit fibre to the house with static IP for a very nice low price.

If you’re using Twitter as a news source what are you even doing in the first place?

Go to the news outlets directly, the BBC, whoever.

Why not? Are my posts not good enough for you Mr Bluesky?