Beautiful.

It is?! Must look into that. Still my favourite game of all time.

Sold. Just picked it up for €1.49. Thanks for the tip and the link.

If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?

This sounds like the kind of grassroots activity I might be interested in.

You really have to hand it to the British. They’re great at stuff like this.

Nice bit of Wensleydale with a protest, eh?

Yeah I didn’t feel like I was likely to suffer any crime at any point was what I meant. I’m fairly well travelled and have definitely not felt that everywhere I’ve been.

I found the authoritarianism quite stifling. All the cameras almost literally everywhere you look. Passport to go on high speed rail yada yada.

Crazy stuff. I’ve spent a decent chunk of time in China and always felt safe.

Subh Milis (Sweet jam). It’s a short and powerful Irish poem reminding parents to be kind to their kids.

English translation below. Can’t seem to get the formatting correct on mobile…

Bhí subh milis ar bháscrann an doras

ach mhúch mé an corraí

ionaim a d’éirigh

mar smaoinigh mé ar an lá

a bheadh an bháscrann glan

agus an lámh beag – ar iarraidh…”

There was jam on the door handle

But I quelled the anger

That rose inside me

Because I thought of the day

That the handle would be clean

And the little hand - longed for

You need to politically hang by your heels in Milan for this.

Well that’s a new one for me but entirely visceral. :)

Just a smidge.

Dearest American friends,

I’m happy for you. Given your tax system this seems like a really positive step forward.

I hope it makes your lives better.

this actually affects the entire world.

Yeah I’m sitting there the far side of the Atlantic and I can say with absolute certainty that this affects me. For the better like.

My mother called me in to watch it live on TV. Pure chance that I was in her house. I never watch live TV. We both said that we were watching history.

OOOOhhhh it’s a snaaake!

The whole flippin’ world will be watching that live.

34 times no less.

I happened to be in my mother’s house when she called me to look at it live and there was zero mention on CNN of whether or not he would serve time over it. Sentencing in July.

Anyone know likelihood of jail time?

L

Dubya was definitely way smarter than the media portrayed him at the time. He did very well in the debate against Gore.

I read that the whole “fool me once” gaffe was down to him not wanting to be have a sound bite of him saying “shame on me”, copped it mid sentence then tried to cobble his way out of it. Not sure how true or accurate that is but it is at least plausible.

Execrable was a new one for me.

Essentially means hateful for anyone else wondering.

Some newer phones allow you to stop charging at 80% which will essentially extend the life of your battery for as many years as you want it.

Settings->battery->stop charging at 80%

I get a full day out of 80% and I’m nearly always near a charging source so I use it and haven’t found any issues with it.

I am pretty sure this only showed up in Android 14 for me. OnePlus phone.