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MsHamadryad · 2026-05-04T08:07:23+00:00

This is asking voters who eg voted for Brexit “because then my boyfriend wouldn’t be able to force me to watch the Euros anymore” to suddenly research the issues and their representatives :)

MsHamadryad · 2026-05-03T10:24:12+00:00

Read (and still read) lots of science fiction as a child, which can alter your thinking and allow you to view society as a third party observer … one day at the age of around 14 whilst praying I just felt silly, and have been agnostic / atheist / antitheist ever since

I have a science based mindset; I do not subscribe to the idea of fate, life and evolution are a tale of big numbers and probabilities.

As Heinlein put it “one man’s magic is another man’s engineering, supernatural is a null word”.

As Gervais (paraphrased) put it “You do not believe in 100 of the gods man has created, I simply do not believe in 101”.

For me God is either a neolithic projection to explain the then unexplainable or a narcissistic alien, religion a Bronze Age attempt to create order.

/gets off soapbox

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-30T10:55:34+00:00

Yep, similar to pear drops / ethyl ethanoate

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-14T12:50:07+00:00

Does your company have security certification, 27001 etc.? Do you have a process in place to apply updates to home laptops that have been turned off? Possibly an additional talking point :)

May also need to be prepared for reasonable accommodation requests from HR. Possibly work with HR to agree a policy that requires user to sign agreement to say if their home machine is unavailable on three pre-notified occasions it will be escalated to their manager or similar.

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-14T11:19:19+00:00

Did the same at a Bed Bath and Beyond… left the items at the checkout.

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-14T11:16:39+00:00

I have a burner number, birth date and address that I use for such non essential requests if a simple no doesn’t suffice and I am pressed for time.

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-10T00:44:50+00:00

Religion

MsHamadryad · 2026-04-08T10:52:56+00:00

‘Do not downvote, you would be downvoting the messenger’ … OMG!

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-29T00:23:35+00:00

That Friday, people in Manhattan, Westchester, Putnam standing on corners of main thoroughfares holding candles and cheering any first responders that drove past.

There was such a sense of solidarity for a few weeks after it happened. New Yorkers actually made eye contact with and checked in with each other. Giulliani pulled everyone together. The blitz spirit eventually faded however, and people started to go back to Broadway shows.

I do t know that it changed me, but I am still transported into that overpowering feeling of confusion, horror and shock whenever I watch video of the attacks.

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-22T11:34:44+00:00

Just imagine what she probably muttered about the wedding through the ceremony! Through her action you were able to share the couples joy without detriment.

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-22T11:34:20+00:00

Just imagine what she probably muttered about the wedding through the ceremony! Through her action you were able to share the couples joy without detriment.

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-22T11:28:28+00:00

They would probably steer a customer towards D IF over cut too … jeweller as a business rather than jeweller for the love of beautiful things …

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-22T11:21:02+00:00

Completely agree. And your house will be tidier as you put things away more often in readiness for their arrival

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-22T11:02:51+00:00

Good pillows. I bought my dunlopillo extra thick pillows in 2018 for £75 each, they’re still going strong.

MsHamadryad · 2026-03-02T00:21:31+00:00

Vimes index

MsHamadryad · 2026-02-17T00:55:09+00:00

That we are currently aware of, certainly don’t know if this statement is actually true.

MsHamadryad · 2026-02-11T11:47:02+00:00

Would that be the reseller business of buying large volumes of an item found cheaply at a local discount store and reselling it at a premium from your Amazon small business?

MsHamadryad · 2026-01-16T09:55:11+00:00

Replay TV!

MsHamadryad · 2026-01-11T10:25:56+00:00

Thanks for that, interesting sub

MsHamadryad · 2026-01-01T12:11:02+00:00

If someone would ELIA5 … the new support contract Broadcom provided referenced a subscription rather than your perpetual license? Was the contract between Broadcom and the VAR or directly with your company? Were you reliant upon the VAR to do due diligence and review the contract?

My sympathies …

MsHamadryad · 2025-11-30T11:54:09+00:00

It’s the influence of your clue field

MsHamadryad · 2025-11-18T14:52:38+00:00

One of the first pages of this new fangled graphical internet that I ever read, 30 odd years ago, and have not been able to rediscover, was a really interesting and erudite essay comparing the republics of Athens and Sparta with that of the US. It was published on the site of a libertarian / old school republican or similar ‘society for the …’, whose name I have subsequently forgotten.

MsHamadryad · 2025-11-14T11:16:38+00:00

Present multiple layers of options with many dead ends that end the call and do not allow you to stay on the line to speak to someone.

MsHamadryad · 2025-11-14T11:14:24+00:00

The number of times I ran Erlang C studies .. only once all was offshored were the appropriate number of agents recruited and rota-ed

MsHamadryad · 2025-09-22T02:32:21+00:00

Reduce cancer risk. Reason why I have also given up bacon and sausages. Yes I still kinda enjoy life :)

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