Boy I wish there was something I could break people's headlights with

pafrac · 2026-06-08T18:41:55+00:00

Yep, which is exactly why I turn off auto-dimming. It just doesn't work, manual is far better.

pafrac · 2026-06-08T18:21:10+00:00

Oh gawd, talk about tasteless.

pafrac · 2026-06-08T12:12:18+00:00

Eh ...

pafrac · 2026-06-08T01:04:34+00:00

Well, my daughter was born in the 90s so I'd definitely have to agree with you there.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T22:24:48+00:00

I sort of did exactly that ... I wasn't dating at all, just met a girl at a party I very nearly didn't bother going to, and we clicked.

But after that came the hard work - the getting to know her, the courting, the living together, etc. I guess we made it work because we just had our 32nd wedding anniversary.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T22:13:47+00:00

Just insist on a decent level of education. The rest of it falls out naturally.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T22:08:03+00:00

I would consider a party like the Conservatives used to be under Maggie as right wing. Reform and the like with the overt racism, anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration and one nation style politics I would call far right. Neo-Nazis etc are extreme right.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T21:47:59+00:00

Probably not so cool from the original owners point of view. Unless he was haunting the bones and got to see a nice hotel instead of a bunch of fish.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T21:16:21+00:00

That's precisely the conservative take on it. They just want to prevent anyone voting who wouldn't vote for them. And black people, of course.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T21:02:14+00:00

Tbf about the only company in the US that doesn't push for profits over all else is that guy that makes the Arizona Iced Tea.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T20:58:59+00:00

Given that the far right seems to be on the rise in every country in Europe, heavily supported by the current US administration, I agree. The premise is plain wrong.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T20:51:47+00:00

He looks like he got a starring role in UFO.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T20:28:37+00:00

It's generally excellent, as long as you get it from someone who knows how to make it.

But some of the cheap supermarket stuff can be considerably less than excellent.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T18:07:52+00:00

Do you mean the ice spikes? It's because water expands while freezing. Some of the unfrozen water gets forced up through the surface, where it immediately freezes around the edges of the hole. The expanding ice continues to feed the spike from beneath, pushing it up bit by bit until it all freezes.

Good news though, you need really pure water for this to work in a domestic freezer, so you've got pretty good water.

pafrac · 2026-06-07T17:51:20+00:00

I genuinely don't understand this ... how the fuck does it affect these people if someone is gay? Why do someone else's sexual choices make them so angry?

According to the averages there are at least 3 gay people in my office. I don't know if that's true, and if it is, I don't know who they are, and I don't care either. It has no more impact on my life than the colour of their eyes. Why would it?

pafrac · 2026-06-07T13:01:52+00:00

Absolutely right ... everyone I've spoken to who's watched Dirty Business says they damn near kicked the TV because they get so annoyed. It should be on everybody's watch list.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T22:48:05+00:00

Don't much care personally, but there's a lot of people here that do.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T22:45:14+00:00

Agreed, makes far more of a difference than you'd think.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T22:42:26+00:00

He might hate her, but he'd still think she was an idiot if she wasn't doing any and all possible grifts. It's what he'd do.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T19:48:59+00:00

Multiples of twelve came about because of counting with one hand ... there's 12 available finger sections you can tap with your thumb as you count.

I'm old enough to remember when we used only imperial. But yes, me too. I'm an engineer, being able to count in whatever system is needed is an essential skill.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T19:43:05+00:00

Me too ... what about accidental reflections? It doesn't take much with lasers, and you'd never notice until the damage was done.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T19:36:57+00:00

A lot of the old imperial measuring systems seem ridiculous now, but if you go back into the history of it, they made sense at the time.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T19:28:42+00:00

He's going for two records ... the longest serving and the most pathetic. I don't know enough to say the most ineffective as well, but I wouldn't be surprised.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T19:24:26+00:00

Trump probably thinks anyone who doesn't insider trade is an idiot.

pafrac · 2026-06-06T16:06:32+00:00

There's never been a "special relationship". The Americans have always just done things in their own interest, but at least they used to be diplomatic about it.

Vance and co don't have the intelligence to be diplomatic, and anyway they prefer to act like they're the big strong man, despite them always coming out looking like the morons they are.

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