I specifically looked online before replacing my last one – it didn’t just beep, it screamed at the top of its lungs.

Now a happy owner of a silent LG microwave. (You hold two buttons simultaneously to put it in silent mode)

The mechanics are similar. All the conscious guards I’ve put against anxiety are down and they start creeping in…

that one dude who wore the hoodie and had the stroke and then turned out to be fucking insane

I hate this timeline. Living across the Pacific, I actually know about Fetterman.

An Australian shouldn’t know the names of so many American politicians. But it’s hard when y’all are trying to out-crazy each other every second day.

I couldn’t even name our current speaker of the house, yet I can identify Mike Johnson whenever his mug shows up in the news. This is truly the dumbest timeline.

It’s hilarious that they say

Swiss made nail clipper with two functions

Followed by not mentioning what the other function is…

Forget the alpha male; this is the year of alpha-gal.

I miss r/beholdthemasterrace from the other place. Someone should create a community on the fedi.

Except this time the regulatory body was also affected

DOGE fired about 30 members of the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in February, and many of them were part of a department that assesses the risks of self-driving cars

Yes. IIRC it’s based on latest LTS kernel with Google patches. So it’s been “year of the Linux phone” for a while now.

It’s unfortunate that the slop they put on top of it is such a privacy nightmare. PostmarketOS is trying to change that and supports Plasma, Gnome, etc. But it’s early days yet and still rough around the edges from what I’ve been reading.

Eh, it can work with artificial light. I’ll just convert my gaming room to a grow house.

It’s supposed to be a temporary fix until proper maintenance can be done … The amount is probably surprising but not necessarily concerning.

Exactly what I always say about my code.

The was an article the other day about a surge in pizza shop activities around the Pentagon hours before the attack.

Also a gay bar nearby reporting unusually low patronage that night.

I’m going to have to kindly disagree on some points about manuals.

1. Manuals are still popular in Europe and many parts of the world, on all levels of cars.
2. I have a friend with a cheap(ish) Suzuki Swift that comes with manual transmission and adaptive cruise. Yeah it won’t change your gears, but still makes interstate trips much more comfortable.

I myself now prefer to drive auto, after moving to a city known for its traffic jam, and I am inherently lazy. So that’s one good argument from me.

Another is that if you injure one of your foot, there’s a 50% you can still drive your auto. Which was really handy that one time I dislocated my left ankle. In a manual, that chance is 0%.

Decades ago I had the pleasure of marking student essays. We humans have mastered writing vague, repetitive slop long before we taught machines to do so…

How very French of them…

And the person has waay too many benches to last ten lifetimes. And yet, instead of using the benches to help people needing benches to sleep on, they choose to use it to trip kids.

Huh. I always thought homonyms need to both sound the same (homophone) and spelt the same (homograph). But a quick search showed they could be either.

My whole life has been a lie.

Huh. I actually had to look this up, and you’re right; they are largely monogamous and share parenting responsibilities.

My sincerest apologies. Say hi to them when you get home.

Apologies for the very personal question, but were you homeschooled by a pigeon?

I love English. Where “fuck it” (let’s do it) and “fuck this” (walk away) have completely opposite meanings.

Hello, fellow old person 🤝