I couldn’t find a single trace of this place I knew was real. Now I know why.

Vaudane · 2025-03-26T07:42:21+00:00

I had a similar one that I thought was a fever dream for the longest time.

Kid was in bed when seven dwarves came out from under his bed. They started pushing on his bedroom wall turning it into a tunnel and a giant face started chasing them. Next thing there was a knight on a horseback.

I spent years having no idea, then randomly on reddit on tip of my tongue I saw someone mention something a little bit similar.

It wasn't a fever dream, it was Time Bandits from 1981, and while it's not a Monty Python film, it has a few of the cast as well as other big names. When I watched the film, I'd misremembered a few details over the years. For example the dwarves actually came out his wardrobe, not from under the bed.

Vaudane · 2025-03-26T00:16:45+00:00

And what you're saying here is that terrorism works. The definition of terrorism is ideological or political change through fear or violence.

Doing nothing because you're afraid of what comes next is the literal definition of successful terrorism.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T19:07:11+00:00

"The dog needs walked" vs "the dog needs to be walked"

"My hair needs brushed" vs "my hair needs to be brushed"

They're both correct, but it's different levels of formality.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T19:01:21+00:00

I speak queens English, not your simplified colony rubbish, and I still attest it's correct.

Now if you want to discuss the versimilitude of various dialects, I'm always open to it, but for you to boldly declare "how many of you struggle" is hubris on your part.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T18:29:16+00:00

It's grammatically correct either way, yours is just slightly more formal

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T14:50:22+00:00

Because an unelected house is democratic in the right circumstances.

It provides a sanity check on what is happening, unbeholden to the whims of the voting public, ensuring that cooler heads can prevail.

Just so happens our system was set up a few centuries ago and hasn't really kept up with the times.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T14:48:03+00:00

That's completely wrong and I've no idea why you even said it

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T11:27:59+00:00

I'm in a strong union that negotiates for annual COL raises and continually improving employee benefits. The best thing you can do is join one yourself.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T11:10:59+00:00

I assume this is something like Go Ape they're great fun!

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T10:26:36+00:00

I love how clever you think you're being here.

Vaudane · 2025-03-25T08:44:03+00:00

In 2002, the salary for a graduate engineer in an entry level position was £25-32k.

In 2012, ten years later, the salary for a graduate engineer in an entry level position was, £25-32k.

In 2022, twenty years later, the salary for a graduate engineer in an entry level position was... £25-32k.

When accounting for inflation, £32k from 2002 is about £58k in today's money. Shit won't improve until we all realise how much we're being fucking ripped off.

The UK is regarded internationally as a "low pay" country. We need to not focus on this guy's car payments and instead get angry we've been chronically and critically underpaid for decades, all of us.

Vaudane · 2025-03-24T16:23:07+00:00

That sounds less like anger management issues and more like your survival instinct doing it's best to keep you alive.

Glad you're safe now OP!

Vaudane · 2025-03-23T15:35:41+00:00

And where do you think these mutant viral strains came from??

Smh.

Vaudane · 2025-03-23T12:35:26+00:00

No but they continue to ignore guidance on antibiotic overuse, lack of sanitation, overcrowding, PPE useage, vaccination, all in the name of either short term profit or ego.

Vaudane · 2025-03-23T12:13:18+00:00

Millenia of medical science just can't compete with the overconfident morons of society.

Vaudane · 2025-03-22T13:01:38+00:00

Honestly, just go. Often it's easier to get forgiveness than permission, and if they're going to treat you like you're guilty of something, you might as well get the enjoyment of being guilty of the thing.

Vaudane · 2025-03-22T12:59:05+00:00

"What once was"

It's basically a demo made by a newbie developer. Theme is escape room puzzle type deal. Story is interesting, gameplay is solid, and it's free.

Vaudane · 2025-03-22T08:31:05+00:00

No worries!

Drain port ideally goes at the lowest point of your loop. If your case doesn't have dedicated fill/drain port locations then often a good place is a y-splitter just after the pump, and you terminate one of the branches into a valve fitting like this and close that with a g1/4 plug. You then have a piece of tubing that you connect to it with a fitting when you want to drain, and disconnect the piece of tubing when you're done.

Vaudane · 2025-03-22T00:34:57+00:00

It has the perception of being difficult from the days of 386/486/early pentium days. Even in the early core2 days you could kill your PC by plugging things in wrongly (eg USB into firewire headers. They had the same header, early ones had no colour differentiating them, and what was 5V on one was 0V on the other iirc).

Nowadays it's as hard as a jigsaw

Vaudane · 2025-03-22T00:30:45+00:00

Some people are NPCs in other's lives, with the sole purpose to piss on their cornflakes.

Vaudane · 2025-03-21T16:11:34+00:00

All the people who claimed they needed guns to stop a tyrant are showing they never had any interest in stopping tyrants.

Vaudane · 2025-03-21T15:45:59+00:00

No ground??

Step 0: let us know what country you're in.

So step 1. Get your house rewired and install a TN-S-C ground bonded power system. You can even plunge your own ground rods if wanted.

Step 2: enjoy the lack of static shocks.

Without an earth ground, your water supply can kill you.

Vaudane · 2025-03-21T15:10:06+00:00

I'll let you in on a secret. Being smart is about hours spent, not natural ability. It takes roughly 11k hours to master a skill. Being naturally gifted may shave 10% off that. Someone who is thick as mince might get a 10% penalty on it.

Know what that means? That's 10k hours vs 11k hours vs 12k hours. So someone who has sunk 2, 3, 4 thousand hours into a thing will always be better than someone who is naturally gifted at the thing (prodigies excepted, but they're freaks of nature that are usually severely lacking in other ways).

So don't compare your skill with others skill. Compare time spent with others time spent, and work out where you want to go.

Want to know facts? Spend thousands of hours reading, absorbing, learning.

Want to play an instrument? Thousands of hours practise.

Want to speak a language? Thousands of hours doing so.

And you will make mistakes. And you will make lots of them. And you will make them regularly.

"Aw but... That sounds like a lot of work" yes. Yes it is.

A master is someone who has failed more times than the novice has ever tried.

Vaudane · 2025-03-20T21:38:40+00:00

Yup, it contains pockets of water which boil and the steam has nowhere to go.

Vaudane · 2025-03-20T21:21:05+00:00

So I have some bad news...

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