I prefer to take advice my on child rearing from people whose kids still speak to them.
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Me: I think I’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.
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ok. That's very cool.
I regret I have but one like to give.
Thank you for sharing
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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 “these guys can do salad without toast.”
I expect coeliacs in France just … die?
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 “red tape”, but “the crap”, 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 “super hero”. He was my first bully.
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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: “Robovans are making people travel sick. How come nobody predicted this?”
I’m predicting it, here and now. techcrunch.com/2024/10/10/robo…
Elon Musk unveils the Robovan: the biggest surprise from Tesla's We, Robot event | TechCrunch
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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.
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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 …
Fucksake
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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.
@John_Loader That you haven’t noticed it doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It just means you haven’t noticed it.
But then it isn’t aimed at you, is it?
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
They’d come from St Mark’s Square
Byzantium beware!
You’re so fucked!
Long ago
Dealing the Romans a killer blow
Toppled the empire, did Dandolo!
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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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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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Apropos of having just dealt with an irritating personal problem of the feminine nature, I find myself thinking back to the start of The Last Of Us.
Guys, did you even think to TRY Fluconazole?
As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.
But I was led to believe that were I to “get on in life”, I would need to speak Standard Southern British English.
As I believed this, I willingly embraced it and now I mostly do speak SSBE.
But I’m somewhat bitter about needing to, even if I did willingly embrace it at the time because, as I was taught, I thought my own dialect was “unsophisticated”.
It wasn’t; it was just different, but in the 70s and 80s even local celebrities who made it big on the national stage were encouraged to drift linguistically towards London, and if they didn’t, that acted as a barrier.
It’s less the case now, but with the benefit of hindsight I do feel a bit resentful about it.
As times have changed, and as I don’t feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.
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And the rest of us thinks that most English accents are cool. Funny world huh?
(Emphasis on most. There’s some bad ones out there.)
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Me hearties
It appears that there may be an issue with Google Chrome not starting for some users of Mac OS Sequoia.
I have found a workaround. In the Finder, open the Applications folder, locate Chrome, drag it to the bin, then empty the bin.
Fixed
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Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?
Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.
Update: Tried texting one.
Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!
Thank god!
Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).
And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!
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Upgraded to iOS 18?
Check the calendar month view our. Try pinch zooming. Thank me later.
Any idea what we can do to mitigate remote contacts using animated GIFs for their avatars and causing zombie worker jobs because PHP can’t handle the format? It started as a small issue, but more and more people (especially on lemmy) seem to be using these avatars and it’s causing a significant administration headache where I have to find out which contact is responsible by manually searching the SQL database and then server blocking them.
If Update Contact failed gracefully it would be less of an issue, but it doesn’t. I’m sure I can’t be the only one seeing this?
@Sarah Brown @Steffen K9 🐰 @Hypolite Petovan Maybe it is something Alpine Linux specific. I Am also using Alpine and I also had this error all the time. Either the one you posted (gd-webp cannot allocate..) or another one. Currently I only see this one, but very often :
Fatal Error (E_ERROR): Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 96485376 bytes)
I tried to allow more memory, up to 2048M.. it didn't help.. (now I am using 512M again) I don't know why this happens. But I understand it is not nice, having the admin log section full of it. 😕
What PHP version and memory_limit do you use? ( I use PHP 8.3.10 and 512M)
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Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Descendant forced to accept terms.
Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved violently.
Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.
Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Civil war resolved through decapitation.
Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.
Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles
Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)
Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.
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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.
We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.
We are not the same.
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BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.
In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.
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NEW! Force femmed immigrants in YOUR neighbourhood eating YOUR cat!
Trump watches some very weird porn.
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Apple: “And our new iPhone 16 has hardware ray tracing for unparalleled mobile gaming performance”
Mobile gaming:
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My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...YouTube
@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.
Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.
But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.
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Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?
I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
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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 😅
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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 He’s 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.
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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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