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 Cambridgeโs queer.party/@sparrowsion/11335โฆ
he has a point though, I mean if you wait until "the right time, financially", you'll put it off indefinitely - unless you already have a bank account large enough for you never to worry anyway.
There's never a good time financially to have children, people shouldn't have children because they can afford it, people should have children because they want children. Your worth infinitely increases with each child you have, even if your bank balance doesn't ๐
@JessTheUnstill @fifilamoura Some of us wouldnโt even take on a(n already-born) cat until we felt able to do all that. The idea of subjecting a human child to unready parents who donโt want them fiercely is unconscionable.
@MeaTLoTioN @Kenneth M Sweeney Heโs a walking coronary event who has driven away everyone who ever loved him and who could stage an intervention, and now represents everything he used to claim to hate.
Yes, he has a lot of money, but I expect he is utterly miserable.
He does not understand the point of life, and drifts further from it every day.
@meatlotion On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
@meatlotion On the contrary, one does not amass such wealth without also becoming a total asswipe. Financial success requires killing one's own humanity
@Ben Evans This then means I have unlawfully consumed alcohol and still have an open container of alcohol. Granted the gin may make me care less at this point whether an empty open container of alcohol is still an open container of alcohol.
@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.
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS from Miradouro da Cordoama near Cape st Vincent, iPhone 16 pro, fusion camera, ProRaw, processed in Adobe Lightroom. 10 second exposure.
Had to book an AirBNB with a microwave in France because searching for a restaurant that can cater to coeliacs in Brittany resulted in โthese guys can do salad without toast.โ
@zoe things were better for a bit when GF was a trendy diet, but it's veganism's turn now! Which would be nice for me (a vegetarian) except it's all "fake meat" type vegan food, and as a LIFELONG vegetarian, that's a bit gross from my perspective ๐ my wife and I are in a dark time for easy food!
@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!
@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.
Elon Musk unveiled a prototype of Tesla's Robovan on Thursday night during the company's We, Robot event in Los Angeles. The Robovan will be an electric,
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.
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).
โNon passibus aequisโ was my motherโs favourite phrase from Virgilโs Aeneid. Literally โnot with equal pacesโ, it describes Aeneasโ son Iulus as he escapes Troy with his father, and immediately brings the scene to life. Who hasnโt seen a parent hurrying with a small child, after all?
Thought brought to you by a section of Travis Baldreeโs โBookshops and Bonedustโ where our protagonistโs dwarf friend is walking โtwo strides to every one of Vivโsโ
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?
Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I don’t find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
It’s easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that it’s too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other
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Just had a purge of most of the Lib Dem groups I was still a member of. I donโt find I have the stomach for the moral cowardice and rank hypocrisy any more.
In particular, the party is unwilling to do anything about its growing transphobia problem because it would be financially inconvenient for them, so they rely on cherry picked interpretations of a contentious and unsettled part of UK equalities law to give them plausible deniability.
The reality is that the people in a position to do something about the anti trans genocidal maniacs amongst their ranks are never going to suffer any personal issues from tolerating them, and lack the will and the moral courage to do what needs to be done.
Itโs easier not to.
This is not unique to them. The far right is on the rise across the western democracies because weak and hypocritical cowards have decided that itโs too hard to do anything about it, and the less they do, the more they get entrenched and the harder it gets.
And, of course, those making the high level decisions to look the other way are pretty much never the ones in the firing line themselves.
I donโt pretend I have the power to stop this. I spent a long time trying in my own little corner of the world and got nowhere.
But I donโt have to watch them tell themselves comforting stories about why doing nothing is the only course of action they could have taken, because it makes me want to heave.
.io domains might be destined to be toast, but .ai (Anguilla) is probably safe, judging by this frankly bizarre story. thenational.scot/news/17509999โฆ
An interesting question arising from todayโs 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?
@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 โAny preferences to retain the domain, or otherwise delay transition to the maximum extent possible, will not be considered a factor in any analysisโ
This tipped me over the edge to finally order the @molly0xfff shirt: store.mollywhite.net/products/โฆ which I've had open in a tab for weeks, awaiting just the right excuse.
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)
@ajlanes @Nikkileah I typically use Jet2 from Leeds. The last time I used Ryan Air it was horrible. I didnโt even fit between the seats. Its made for short arses. And I wouldnโt touch easyjet with a barge pole!
MeaTLoTioN
in reply to Sarah Brown • • •he has a point though, I mean if you wait until "the right time, financially", you'll put it off indefinitely - unless you already have a bank account large enough for you never to worry anyway.
There's never a good time financially to have children, people shouldn't have children because they can afford it, people should have children because they want children. Your worth infinitely increases with each child you have, even if your bank balance doesn't ๐
MeaTLoTioN
Unknown parent • • •@KenSwe he can't be _that_ dysfunctional if he is/was the richest guy on the planet.
I agree that he does come out with utter drivel sometimes, but that's not all the time, nor everything he says.
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Unknown parent • • •Sarah Brown
in reply to MeaTLoTioN • •@MeaTLoTioN @Kenneth M Sweeney Heโs a walking coronary event who has driven away everyone who ever loved him and who could stage an intervention, and now represents everything he used to claim to hate.
Yes, he has a lot of money, but I expect he is utterly miserable.
He does not understand the point of life, and drifts further from it every day.
SallyStrange
in reply to MeaTLoTioN • • •@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
SallyStrange
in reply to MeaTLoTioN • • •@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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