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How odd. This Portuguese listening comprehension exercise has a person in who's invented a folk etymology for the English word "vintage". They've decided that rather than being < French vendage and ultimately Latin vinum + demo, it is related to the word for twenty (vinte in Portuguese, vingt in French, viginti in Latin) and thus vintage clothes are ones which are 20 years old.



Just getting started on the OU Contract Law module. It's talked about some software terms and conditions being contractual. I wonder how EULAs work as contracts for software you bought in a box from a shop. How is there consideration? Is it "reused" from the purchase contract with the retailer somehow?


If you see this post... Quote post a bridge.
(If you can be bothered emulating a quote post). This is the Bridge of Sighs in Oxford, presumably so called in despair at how much less good it is than Cambridgeโ€™s queer.party/@sparrowsion/11335โ€ฆ


If you see this post... Quote post a bridge.
(If you can be bothered emulating a quote post)

Had to go back to 2019 to find a picture of a bridge in my collection, but it's a very fine bridge (Penmaenpool)

Re: mastodon.social/@womump/113358โ€ฆ from @womump (although I saw @xanna 's first but wasn't in a position to get at my photos then)




I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah

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@meatlotion
On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity

@KenSwe @goatsarah




If you have a choice between littering an open tin of train gin or carrying it in contravention of TfL byelaws, which should you do?

Where is the boundary at Paddington between the applicability of TfLโ€™s railway byelaws and anyone elseโ€™s?

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@Adam @Ben Evans It didnโ€™t actually occur to me at the time that drinking the contents would change the nature of the container.
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@kittylyst I am not a lawyer, but I'd assume that the defining feature of a container of alcohol is that it's got alcohol in it. If it was the printing on the label then it would be legal to drink your gin so long as you put it in a milk bottle or whatever first.


I canโ€™t take all my belongings with me when leaving the train! Most of them are at home!

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Reminds me of those signs at Moto services which tell me that alcohol may not be consumed inside or outside the premises.
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@pseudomonas That's a good point, I suspect they do! I'm no expert, but there must be something you put into a car that's alcohol based.
@Adam
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@chiffchaff @pseudomonas Petrol is (normally) 10% ethanol these days -- that's what the E replacing octane is about (IIRC)
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@chiffchaff @pseudomonas As well as the ethanol in petrol, screenwash is usually diluted propan-2-ol (IPA) with a bit of detergent.
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Careless. I hope you at least brought along a dog to be carried.


Me: I think Iโ€™ll make a post to this Reddit community. What are their submission rules?

The community blurb: Please consult our rules wiki before posting.

Reddit mods need an intervention.



Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.

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Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in โ€œthese guys can do salad without toast.โ€

I expect coeliacs in France just โ€ฆ die?

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@ajlanes @zoe Cinderford (near the forest of dean) has a GF chip shop! 40 mins drive from home but we make occasional pilgrimages, or stop there if we are in the area anyway!



Thing is, Keith, literally nobody voted for you to do David Cameron cosplay for five years.

So maybe what you need to cut is not imaginary โ€œred tapeโ€, but โ€œthe crapโ€, and start doing your job?

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Neurodivergent people can read and listen to podcasts too, you know. This sort of thing makes us profoundly angry.

My father was not a โ€œsuper heroโ€. He was my first bully.

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@melivia In my experience that's just how people with neuro-typically personality dysorder cope. If they need to call them self supper heroes to actually treat their child as human, I am happy to support them.
@Seph




Now the total fucking loon has made a taxi without windows. Wonder if the vomit from the inevitable motion sickness is also cleaned automatically?

Headlines when this thing hits the streets: โ€œRobovans are making people travel sick. How come nobody predicted this?โ€

Iโ€™m predicting it, here and now. techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/roboโ€ฆ

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fortunately they'll never be implemented, so we won't need to find out.
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Looking at the interior photos, it appears to have one way glass?

I'm liking the Art Deco aesthetic. I'm liking this /much more/ than the damn Cybertruck. It's immensely impractical, and I'm not sure it'll ship in this form, but I think this is actually pretty cool.

I'd have one as a prop.
Just not from Tesla.



What I really like about the Greater Anglia trains that do the run from Cambridge North to Liverpool Street? The seat back trays have little grooves in for your phone or tablet (or here, Kindle).



โ€œNon passibus aequisโ€ was my motherโ€™s favourite phrase from Virgilโ€™s Aeneid. Literally โ€œnot with equal pacesโ€, it describes Aeneasโ€™ son Iulus as he escapes Troy with his father, and immediately brings the scene to life. Who hasnโ€™t seen a parent hurrying with a small child, after all?

Thought brought to you by a section of Travis Baldreeโ€™s โ€œBookshops and Bonedustโ€ where our protagonistโ€™s dwarf friend is walking โ€œtwo strides to every one of Vivโ€™sโ€



Cis gay โ€œfeminist alliesโ€ be like, โ€œif trans women are women, why havenโ€™t they made me a sandwich yet?โ€
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@Rusty Bertrand @Sarah Brown The scare quotes are there for a reason. The people being criticised here are neither feminist nor allies.


Using an USB aquarium aerator pump, duct tape and some sodium hydroxide solution, I have reversed climate change in this jar to 1980 levels. Now I just need money to build one the size of Madagascar. Where the angel investors at?

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Kind of reassuring to know my feelings on this aren't as much of an outlier as politicians want me to think.



Praia de Faro, iPhone 16 pro, pro raw, processed in Lightroom on phone.


Us: Ok, Labour, to stop Reform doing an AfD or a Marine La Pen, all you need to do is not be Tories. So what did you do?

Labour: <inaudible>

Us: What

Labour: Be Tories โ€ฆ

Fucksake

in reply to Sarah Brown

yes.. well

except that Reform / UKIP/ Brexit Party already did something much worse than the AfD.

They converted the Tories into Reform, and they had been in power for 14yrs, until recently.

So the UK challenge is really very different. Much more advanced on the shit arc.



UK Pol, transphobia, far right
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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

Sensitive content

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UK Pol, transphobia, far right

@John_Loader That you havenโ€™t noticed it doesnโ€™t mean it isnโ€™t there. It just means you havenโ€™t noticed it.

But then it isnโ€™t aimed at you, is it?




Well that's terrifying. Facebook has decided I'm the target market for COBOL courses.


.io domains might be destined to be toast, but .ai (Anguilla) is probably safe, judging by this frankly bizarre story. thenational.scot/news/17509999โ€ฆ

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An interesting question arising from todayโ€™s deal to hand the Chagos islands back to Mauritius is: what happens to the .io ccTLD with the dissolution of the British Indian Ocean Territory? Presumably it passes to Mauritius, but do they keep it or scrap it, or change how the registry works?
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The only instance of an in-use ccTLD being withdrawn that I found in IANAs reports was .TP:

iana.org/reports/2015/tp-reporโ€ฆ

In that case, Portuguese Timor stopped existing in 2002, new registrations were stopped in 2005, and the domain was finally withdrawn in 2015.

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@Ben Harris Their current procedure seems to be documented at iana.org/help/cctld-retirement and is pretty clear cut that if BIOT dies so does .io โ€œAny preferences to retain the domain, or otherwise delay transition to the maximum extent possible, will not be considered a factor in any analysisโ€


Long ago

Deep in a swamp far from Mexico

Lived an old psychopath, Dandolo!

Rich was he!

Stole from the Egyptian dynasty

Corpse of St Mark, Allegedly.

Ordered ships to be made

Diverted the fourth crusade, Dandolo!

Adding on to the total

Sacking Constantinople, Dandolo!

And when they ships got there

Theyโ€™d come from St Markโ€™s Square

Byzantium beware!

Youโ€™re so fucked!

Long ago

Dealing the Romans a killer blow

Toppled the empire, did Dandolo!

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Hey guys, did you hear about that time J D Vance got stuck on an escalator for six hours when the power failed?


When politicians say they stand behind Israel's right to self-defence I wonder whether Lebanon or Gaza also have that right.


Netanyahu should be headed to Milosevic's old cell in the Hague.

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This is a triumph. I'm making a note here, huge success.


Someone mentioned Ikea which reminded me of a strange dream I had the other day. Sweden had changed their flag and anthem for some reason and there were riots about it. (Inexplicably riots you had to queue at the post office to enter)



Latest spam email: Your next getaway, Milan!

I'm sorry, but I have recently been contemplating my sexiness quotient and I very much regret to inform you ...

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@Kathryn Karnage The first one hurts. The second, well, poor pussy! Poor pussy cat!


Stansted is quiet. I guess everyone is done with their holibobs.


Oi, Bezos you absolute melon. Itโ€™s Thursday and Iโ€™m about to get on a plane. Where the fuck is Ep 7?
in reply to Sarah Brown

hee! Tomorrow I'll be TGVing to Marseille.

And if it's Ryanair, don't let the penny pinching buggers gouge you too much!

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@ajlanes @Nikkileah I typically use Jet2 from Leeds. The last time I used Ryan Air it was horrible. I didnโ€™t even fit between the seats. Its made for short arses. And I wouldnโ€™t touch easyjet with a barge pole!
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Right. Itโ€™s dropped and, miracles of miracles, the 5g is working inside Stansted.
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